{"id":12467,"date":"2018-01-22T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12467"},"modified":"2018-01-21T17:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T23:24:55","slug":"spring-2014-benson-moorhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12467","title":{"rendered":"Spring (2014, Benson &#038; Moorhead)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evan has a dying mom, is also a bit of an impulsive fuckup, and during his immediate post-mom depression he acts self-destructively to the point of having to flee the country.  Off in Italy he meets a couple of drunken brits, takes a job with chill farmer Angelo, and hooks up with gorgeous local Louise (Nadia Hilker), who turns out to be an ancient cat-squid-beast, as shown through some dodgy CG.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/spring1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Evan then spends the rest of the movie trying to convince Louise not to be reborn as a new identity, which is something that happens every generation or so, forcing her to disappear and make new ID documents and will herself possessions (shades of <em>Highlander<\/em>), but to remain mortal and live a normal life with a tourist loser.  Someone described it as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9760\">Before Sunrise<\/a><\/em> as a monster movie, which is about right, and I enjoyed it even though it seems like I have nothing nice to say.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/spring2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Evan is Lou Pucci, who looks like my neighbor Jared, but is actually the doomed nerd of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12297\">Evil Dead Remake<\/a><\/em> and bazooka kid of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/537\">Southland Tales<\/a><\/em>.  The Moorhead\/Benson duo also contributed a segment to <em>V\/H\/S\/3<\/em> and have made two other features which seem to be horror movies but aren&#8217;t, really.  Count me in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evan has a dying mom, is also a bit of an impulsive fuckup, and during his immediate post-mom depression he acts self-destructively to the point of having to flee the country. Off in Italy he meets a couple of drunken brits, takes a job with chill farmer Angelo, and hooks up with gorgeous local Louise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2367,54,225,352],"class_list":["post-12467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-benson-moorhead","tag-horror","tag-italy","tag-werewolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12479,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12467\/revisions\/12479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}