Russ Fischer is the CHUD utility player. Part editor, part fixer, part monkey butler. Still in Atlanta after a wholly unexpected run of 5 years and counting. He's hoping to see 11 Colonels Attack! one of these days and is not so secretly waiting for Jeremy Davies to come through on his intention to unite the efforts of Werner Herzog and Lars von Trier.
By Russ Fischer
Published on 05/16/2008
Stuart Gordon's weirdo satire gets an inoffensive red-band spin.
STUCK IN RED-BAND LAND
I didn't see Stuck when I had a chance to last year, so I don't know if the popular conception suggesting the movie isn't all that hot is accurate or not. I certainly want to like it. Stuart Gordon has had his share of misses in recent years (though some, like Dagon, are almost fun enough for redemption) but he's responsible for enough horror cornerstones that he still gets the benefit of the doubt.
That said, the most horrifying thing in this red-band trailer (hosted on Bloody Disgusting's YouTube channel) is Mena Suvari's cornrows. In fact, there's not much worth the red band. Maybe it's just the lack of resolution; I'm sure in QuickTime the makeup on Stephen Rea would appear significantly more nasty. Stuck, for the unaware, is based on the freakish story of a nurse who hit a man with her car, then drove home and parked in the garage with the guy stuck in her windshield. But you know that -- it's all in the trailer. I'm not so sure about the Pulp Fiction vibe this clip is giving off, but I do like Suvari's final line to Rea. "Why are you doing this to me?" sums up just how awful some of us really are.