{"id":13910,"date":"2020-12-12T20:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13910"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:23:46","slug":"the-resurrected-1992-dan-obannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13910","title":{"rendered":"The Resurrected (1992, Dan O&#8217;Bannon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Lovecraft movie to go with our <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13844\">Re-Animator<\/a><\/em> <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13899\">duo<\/a> (and with the same composer).  A man named Ward has made a bloody impossible escape from some institution, detective March is closing the case via dictaphone in flash-forward, then there&#8217;s&#8230; a flashback from the flash-forward?  March is the boring, lumpy John Terry (of a Timothy Dalton Bond movie), his client Mrs. Ward is the unnaturally terrible Jane Sibbett (of a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie).  Too much voiceover, maybe to make up for the dialogue recording being pretty bad &#8211; overall competence here is low, though eventually there&#8217;s a doppelganger, a living skeleton, and some good monstrosities, so it&#8217;s not a total waste of time.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terry&#8230; and John Terry&#8230; in A Bronx Tale<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/resurrected2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Christoph Huber in Cinema Scope 83 called this movie &#8220;superior&#8221; and &#8220;neglected,&#8221; so maybe I was just tired and unappreciative.  O&#8217;Bannon is of course the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10221\">Alien<\/a><\/em> creator who also made <em>Return of the Living Dead<\/em>.  Corman&#8217;s <em>The Haunted Palace<\/em>, the first IMDB-credited Lovecraft-based feature, is an adaptation of the same story, featuring Vincent Price, Elisha Cook Jr., and surely far less blood.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/resurrected1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Lovecraft movie to go with our Re-Animator duo (and with the same composer). A man named Ward has made a bloody impossible escape from some institution, detective March is closing the case via dictaphone in flash-forward, then there&#8217;s&#8230; a flashback from the flash-forward? March is the boring, lumpy John Terry (of a Timothy Dalton [&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":[451,2765,1601,172],"class_list":["post-13910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-dan-obannon","tag-doppelganger","tag-lovecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910","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=13910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13948,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13910\/revisions\/13948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}