{"id":406,"date":"2007-11-06T17:38:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/406"},"modified":"2007-11-06T17:38:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T21:38:34","slug":"the-screwfly-solution-2006-joe-dante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/406","title":{"rendered":"The Screwfly Solution (2006, Joe Dante)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Made me more upset\/queasy than any episode since &#8220;Cigarette Burns&#8221;, and includes possibly the worst stabbing scene I&#8217;ve ever watched.  No sense of humor here, it&#8217;s a dark, pure horror, sort of unexpected from the usually jolly Joe Dante.  Definitely the most successful movie from this season so far (still got 5 episodes to go), more so than the relatively lighthearted &#8220;Right To Die&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/screwfly1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Elliott Gould (of American History X and the Oceans movies) and Jason Priestly 90210 are scientists called in by the military to explain\/study a spreading phenomenon of mass murders by men against women, seemingly tied to a hormonal virus similar to that manufactured to exterminate the screwfly.  The disease spreads, seen through the eyes of Priestly&#8217;s wife Anne, until she&#8217;s one of the only surviving women, catching a glimpse in northern Canada of the &#8220;angels&#8221; that started it all.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/screwfly3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Really a dreadful and well-made little apocalyptic movie, a mini masterpiece up there with &#8220;Homecoming&#8221; and &#8220;Cigarette Burns&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/screwfly2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made me more upset\/queasy than any episode since &#8220;Cigarette Burns&#8221;, and includes possibly the worst stabbing scene I&#8217;ve ever watched. No sense of humor here, it&#8217;s a dark, pure horror, sort of unexpected from the usually jolly Joe Dante. Definitely the most successful movie from this season so far (still got 5 episodes to go), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[198,54,8,52],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-apocalypse","tag-horror","tag-joe-dante","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}