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All movies seen on 07/01/2014

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Gila! (2012)

Directed by Jim Wynorski

Horror

Overview

A giant lizard terrorizes a rural mid west community with a group of heroic young people led by Chase Winstead attempting to destroy the creature.

Length 92 minutes

Actors

Brian Gross | Terence Knox | Jesse Janzen | Christina DeRosa | Kelli Maroney | Madeline Voges | Rich Komenich | Gerard Pauwels | Dave Haney | Ellen Kingston | Jenna Ruiz | Don Sullivan | Bryan Patrick McCulley | Julie McCullough | Bruce Munson | Adrienne Atkins | Chase Adams | Bone Ramsey | Vinnie Van Dolsen | Tom Sparx | Callie-Nycole Burk | Robert Hay Smith | Michael Price | James Wolford Hardin | Judy Joseph Crippin | Steve Anderson | Jeff Bodart | Craig Mark Wells | Jan Day | John Bender | Ron Mackay | Kim Todd Smith | Shawn Dever | Ken Daniels | Dale Miller | Leah Shilts | Quinn Clark | Ross Shilts | Ken Christie | Brain Marshall | Sam Dever | Jeremy Ryan | Justin Ryan | Leslie Voges | Linden Smith | Josh Hewitt | Margaret Rohrbacher | E. L. Rohrbacher | Heather Grantham

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

Man, I love Wynorski and I will watch anything he makes. Sadly this isn’t one of his better trashy B-movies. In fact, it’s quite terrible. The biggest problem is making this a period flick set in the 50s (a loose remake of The Giant Gila Monster). Had it been modern day it would be more effective and possibly a better production i.e. putting a giant digital creature into that setting just looks bad.

Then having visual queues to remind you that this really isn’t the 50s is distracting. Also having the Gila Monster so far outside of its natural habitat is silly. I actually like the digital lizard but I don’t like everything around it. I could nitpick this to death but it really isn’t worth the time. Hopefully he doesn’t attempt something like this again and sticks to what he does best.

I was supposed to see this at B-Celebration last fall with Wynorski in attendance. Couldn’t make it work with the schedule. Glad I missed it because I just would’ve been sad.

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