Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Looney Tunes short, the 1939 Pied Piper Porky starring Porky Pig directed by Bob Clampett.
The humor in this short is more adult in nature, as cartoons were shown in a cinema to a variety of audiences. There are inside jokes that the grown ups would have appreciated, plus plenty of slapstick to amuse the kids.
The staff of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour are getting ready for the start of summer Fridays. As you well know we love mash-up videos. so here's an unlikely pair for the wonderful Bill McClintock - Donna Summer and The Police
Bill has one of the most limber minds on the Intraweb.
We’ve selected another entry from the excellent reference book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, edited by Steven Jay Schneider. Today’s film is the 1990 drama Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer directed by John McNaughton and starring Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, and Tracy Arnold.
The film was shot in 1985 but had difficulty finding a film distributor. It premiered at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1986 and played at other festivals throughout the late 1980s. Following successful showings during which it attracted both controversy and positive critical attention, the film was rated X by the MPAA, further increasing its reputation for controversy. It was subsequently picked up for a limited release in 1990 in an unrated version.
Although the MPAA initially gave the film an X rating, this movie, along with Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, and Pedro Almodóvar's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, were the main reasons for the creation of the NC-17 rating (an adults-only film, which is non-pornographic).
Please find a comfortable chair, dim the lights, and join us here at the ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour as we watch this horror movie: Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Michael Rooker remained in character for the duration of the shoot, even off-set. He didn't associate or socialize with any of the cast or crew during the month-long shoot, and John McNaughton made sure Rooker was the only person on set to have a private dressing room. According to Costume Designer Patricia Hart, she and Rooker would travel to the set together each day, and she never knew from one minute to the next if she was talking to Michael or to Henry, as sometimes he would speak about his childhood and background, not as Michael Rooker, but as Henry. Indeed, so in-character did Rooker remain, that during the shoot, his wife discovered she was pregnant, but she waited until filming had stopped before she told him
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