The Tripper, Stephanie Daley
The Tripper *1/2
Directed by David Arquette
93 Minutes
Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, drug content, language and some sexuality/nudity.
-David Arquette's political horror film is a mess of a message with a mostly cliched storyline and no real interesting killings. This tells the story of a Ronald Reagan obsessed killer who dons the mask, and heads out into the woods once a year to attack the group of hippies that gathers for a music festival, hosted by a character played by Paul Reubons. It was actually pretty funny at the start, and seeing Jason Mewes play yet another drug addled man was quite a hoot, but once the slayings begin it becomes your average slasher film, and not even a strong anti-war message is able to make it anything else.
Stephanie Daley ***
Directed by Hilary Brougher
91 Minutes
Rated R for disturbing material involving teen pregnancy, sexual content and language.
-A powerful and deeply moving story of a young girl, unaware that she was pregnant, who ends up killing the baby when it is born after only five months. The rest of the film has her story being told by a shrink, played by Tilda Swinton, who is pregnant herself, and needs to be an outside source to evaluate Stephanie Daley. Swinton is good, but it is young Amber Tambyn who is remarkable as the title character. "Stephanie Daley" is a great character study of not one, not two, but three different people, and how children and bringing a life into the world could in fact be the death of something else. Timothy Hutton also stars as Swinton's husband, and it is always great to see him in anything.
Directed by David Arquette
93 Minutes
Rated R for strong horror violence and gore, drug content, language and some sexuality/nudity.
-David Arquette's political horror film is a mess of a message with a mostly cliched storyline and no real interesting killings. This tells the story of a Ronald Reagan obsessed killer who dons the mask, and heads out into the woods once a year to attack the group of hippies that gathers for a music festival, hosted by a character played by Paul Reubons. It was actually pretty funny at the start, and seeing Jason Mewes play yet another drug addled man was quite a hoot, but once the slayings begin it becomes your average slasher film, and not even a strong anti-war message is able to make it anything else.
Stephanie Daley ***
Directed by Hilary Brougher
91 Minutes
Rated R for disturbing material involving teen pregnancy, sexual content and language.
-A powerful and deeply moving story of a young girl, unaware that she was pregnant, who ends up killing the baby when it is born after only five months. The rest of the film has her story being told by a shrink, played by Tilda Swinton, who is pregnant herself, and needs to be an outside source to evaluate Stephanie Daley. Swinton is good, but it is young Amber Tambyn who is remarkable as the title character. "Stephanie Daley" is a great character study of not one, not two, but three different people, and how children and bringing a life into the world could in fact be the death of something else. Timothy Hutton also stars as Swinton's husband, and it is always great to see him in anything.
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