{"id":26966,"date":"2025-08-31T18:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattshorroraddiction.com\/?p=26966"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:01:30","slug":"killer-crocodile-2-in-the-cut-road-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/?p=26966","title":{"rendered":"Killer Crocodile 2, In the Cut, Road Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Killer Crocodile 2<\/strong> – 1990, Italy\/US, 87m. Director: Giannetto De Rossi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Cut<\/strong> – 2003, US, 119m. Director: Jane Campion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Road Games<\/strong> – 1981, Australia, 101m. Director: Richard Franklin.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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KILLER CROCODILE<\/em><\/strong> 2<\/em><\/strong> (1990)<\/em> Another man-eating crocodile invades the waters near the Caribbean in this ludicrous follow-up that manages to be entertaining despite its many detractors. A wind surfer is bitten in half while her boyfriend helplessly watches\u2014an actor of which has the emotional range of a rock. A boatload of orphans are swallowed up in quick succession. A stuck-up reporter (Debra Karr) comes face-to-face with the croc while doing an investigation on economical corruption. Anthony Crenna’s big game hunter (who successfully defeated the crocodile’s mother in the first film) returns to give this sequel some continuity amidst the high body count. Karr is inadvertently saved by the croc when it decapitates a rapist who tries to attack her on his motorboat. After a duel of man vs. reptile, Crenna shoves dynamite down the croc’s throat and blows the devil to smithereens in a scene that makes the special effects in Jaws: the Revenge<\/em> seem good by comparison. In short, if you enjoyed Killer Crocodile <\/em>you’ll probably enjoy Killer Crocodile 2<\/em>. Filmed mostly in the Dominican Republic. C<\/strong>+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IN THE CUT<\/em><\/strong> (2003) <\/em>This adaptation of Susanna Moore’s controversial novel might have the prestige of being written and directed by Oscar-winner Jane Campion (The Piano<\/em>), but at its core In the Cut<\/em> is nothing more than a low-grade exploitation film featuring more gratuitous sex and violence than most horror movies of the time. Rom-com queen Meg Ryan gives an unorthodox performance as a sexually frustrated teacher whose life is put in danger when she believes the homicide detective (Mark Ruffalo) she’s having sex with might be a serial killer. Ryan sheds her cookie-cutter image (and clothes) by giving a good performance, but her character is stuck in an aimless screenplay (co-written by Moore) that never develops its characters beyond women being needy victims and men being aggressive jerks. A handsome but disingenuous slasher movie made for the arthouse crowd. C <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ROAD GAMES<\/em><\/strong> (1981)<\/em> A truck driver is pursued by a serial killer in this animated homage to Hitchcock’s Rear Window<\/em>. The trucker in question, Quid (Stacey Keach), inadvertently stumbles upon the murderer’s antics while driving through the backroads of Western Australia\u2014the perfect barren landscape for the maniac to dispose of his victims, who he chops into pieces and buries in garbage bags. Quid not only puts himself in danger, but also a young hitchhiker (Jamie Lee Curtis) who joins in on his cat-and-mouse games. Richard Franklin directs with confidence and an eye firmly placed on suspense over gore\u2014a key component that landed him the directing gig for Psycho II<\/em>. The film’s tense climax (in which Quid desperately tries to save Curtis from the killer’s clutches while simultaneously dragging a trapped cop under his moving rig) works because the filmmakers took care in writing thoughtful and likable characters, especially Keach’s Quid who could’ve easily been misrepresented by a lesser actor. Slick and enjoyable. Curtis apparently replaced another actress at the last minute. B<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Killer Crocodile 2 – 1990, Italy\/US, 87m. Director: Giannetto De Rossi In the Cut – 2003, US, 119m. Director: Jane Campion. Road Games – 1981, Australia, 101m. Director: Richard Franklin. KILLER CROCODILE 2 (1990) Another man-eating crocodile invades the waters near the Caribbean in this ludicrous follow-up that manages to be entertaining despite its many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capsule-reviews"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}