{"id":393,"date":"2007-10-26T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T20:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/393"},"modified":"2015-07-24T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T18:37:32","slug":"pelts-2006-dario-argento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/393","title":{"rendered":"Pelts (2006, Dario Argento)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A lot of bad shit’s been happening around here ever since we started working on this coat. It’s like it’s cursed or something.”<\/p>\n

Yes, this movie is about a cursed coat made from the cursed pelts of cursed raccoons, trapped and killed by (an obviously cursed) John Saxon on some cursed land near some cursed ruins behind a cursed old witch’s house.<\/p>\n

Terrible music and bad acting in a silly story. What, did Friday the 13th: The Series<\/em> use up all the cool stuff that could possibly be cursed, so now we’re down to raccoon pelts? At least Master Argento didn’t write it – guy who wrote the novel behind Michael Mann’s The Keep<\/a><\/em> did.<\/p>\n

Meat Loaf makes coats and likes strippers (one in particular). Saxon traps a buncha raccoons and raves over how perfect they are, phones Meat Loaf who picks them up and makes a coat to woo his favorite stripper. Oh, and since the pelts are cursed, everyone who touches them kills themselves and\/or someone else in a bloody, horrible way.<\/p>\n

Should’ve hired the makeup guy from Hellraiser 2<\/em>, because in the climactic scene when Meat Loaf walks around skinless, it looks very much like he’s just wearing a gory black shirt.<\/p>\n

Contains all three of the big MoH signature elements: naked breasts (boy, a lot of them), recognizable actors doing ridulous stuff (meat loaf, duh) and something nasty happening to an eye (lady in coat factory sews hers shut).<\/p>\n

Why do the credits use a goofy comic font?<\/em>
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Meat “Loaf” Aday being creepy:<\/em>
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Scary raccoon:<\/em>
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John Saxon (of Tenebre<\/em>, A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em>, and Mitchell<\/em>) about to be beaten to death:<\/em>
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Of course, writing this led me to look up Friday the 13th: The Series<\/em> on IMDB. Who knew that Atom Egoyan and actor David Morse directed episodes and the writer of Mystic River<\/em> and The Postman<\/em> wrote a couple? For that matter, who know that the writer of Mystic River<\/em> worked on The Postman<\/em>?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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