{"id":5604,"date":"2010-12-26T22:50:23","date_gmt":"2010-12-27T03:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=5604"},"modified":"2010-12-26T22:50:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T03:50:23","slug":"lord-of-illusions-1995-clive-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/5604","title":{"rendered":"Lord of Illusions (1995, Clive Barker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was born to murder the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watched for about the fifth time whilst trying to think of something to write about <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5532\">Johnny Guitar<\/a><\/em>.  It&#8217;s not a great movie, mostly because of pacing problems and dull dialogue scenes, but it&#8217;s better than most.  Barker shoots plenty of shirtless men in S&#038;M-inspired gear and he&#8217;s full of neat visual ideas, but needed about twice the budget (not likely for a Scott Bakula-starring horror) to pull it off.  I still enjoyed it significantly more than Capra&#8217;s <em>Meet John Doe<\/em>, which I half-watched with Katy, the poorly-encoded soundtrack burbling out endless long speeches.  Detective Scott Bakula was yet to achieve his post-<em>American Beauty<\/em> comeback, Magician Swann (Kevin J. O&#8217;Connor) would play Dr. Mindbender in the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5097\">G.I. Joe<\/a><\/em> movie, the girl went on to play Jean Grey in the <em>X-Men<\/em> movies, and evil baddie Daniel von Bargen is best known for having a cheesy line in <em>The Postman<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was born to murder the world.&#8221; Watched for about the fifth time whilst trying to think of something to write about Johnny Guitar. It&#8217;s not a great movie, mostly because of pacing problems and dull dialogue scenes, but it&#8217;s better than most. Barker shoots plenty of shirtless men in S&#038;M-inspired gear and he&#8217;s full [&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":[451,60,54,216],"class_list":["post-5604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-clive-barker","tag-horror","tag-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604","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=5604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5604\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}