{"id":494,"date":"2008-02-19T00:24:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T04:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/494"},"modified":"2008-02-19T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T04:24:34","slug":"family-2006-john-landis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/494","title":{"rendered":"Family (2006, John Landis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, any show that opens with George Wendt dissolving his father in a bath of acid is gonna be good.  Never quite lives up to its promise (or its predecessor, &#8220;Deer Woman&#8221;), but it gets 80-90% there, and that ain&#8217;t bad at all.<\/p>\n<p><em>His coolest horror role since House:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/family.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Young couple moves in next door to utter lunatic Wendt.  Besides being a bit socially awkward, he&#8217;s also creating himself a lovely family of well-dressed skeletons in an upstairs room and imagining whole conversations (even fights) with them.  Young couple is an investigative reporter and an ER doctor whose daughter is part of Wendt&#8217;s family.  Turns out they have tracked him down in order to torture him to death, a perfectly horrible ending (and I mean that as a compliment).  Some of the couple&#8217;s own fights, which we assume are about deciding to have a new baby, are actually about deciding to go through with the murder plot, a detail which makes the somewhat-slack middle of the episode come to life upon reflection.  And the more lighthearted &#038; comedic moments come from Wendt&#8217;s delusions and the care with which he assembles and dresses his skeleton family, so it&#8217;s probably a darker piece than &#8220;Deer Woman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/family2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, any show that opens with George Wendt dissolving his father in a bath of acid is gonna be good. Never quite lives up to its promise (or its predecessor, &#8220;Deer Woman&#8221;), but it gets 80-90% there, and that ain&#8217;t bad at all. His coolest horror role since House: Young couple moves in next door [&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":[33,312,54,55,52],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-comedy","tag-george-wendt","tag-horror","tag-john-landis","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}