{"id":18018,"date":"2025-10-19T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18018"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:05:56","slug":"ick-2024-joseph-kahn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18018","title":{"rendered":"Ick (2024, Joseph Kahn)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has got one of those modern sound mixes where the dialogue is buried, too bad, but the one-star reviews were wrong, Kahn is back baby!  [an hour later]  Okay, they buried the dialogue because it&#8217;s bad, lot of embarrassing culture war stuff, but most of the visuals are still good, Kahn is kinda back baby!  This week I watched two <em>Superman<\/em>-adjacent movies about townspeople zombied by gooey creatures, and this one doesn&#8217;t come off great when closely compared to <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/124\">Slither<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/ick1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The ick has been around for decades, suddenly becomes hostile and starts zombifying people, leading washed-up science teacher Brandon Routh to summon his old hometown-hero energy and fight back with student Grace (who played Young Supergirl, appropriately) plus fellow losers The Goth One and The Arty One.  <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18013\">Big year<\/a> for guys going on adventures with high schoolers who they believe to be their illegitimate daughters.  At least we all learned about some key figures in existentialism.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/ick2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/ick3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has got one of those modern sound mixes where the dialogue is buried, too bad, but the one-star reviews were wrong, Kahn is back baby! [an hour later] Okay, they buried the dialogue because it&#8217;s bad, lot of embarrassing culture war stuff, but most of the visuals are still good, Kahn is kinda back [&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":[2643,712,2593,100],"class_list":["post-18018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-aliens","tag-joseph-kahn","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018","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=18018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18058,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18018\/revisions\/18058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}