{"id":3083,"date":"2009-06-21T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2009-06-21T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T23:07:04","slug":"weekend-fright-flicks-gadzooky-and-dracenstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/21\/weekend-fright-flicks-gadzooky-and-dracenstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fright Flicks: Gadzooky and Dracenstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was distracted and busy last weekend and completely neglected to put up a Weekend Fright Flick program. Never mind. As some sort of recompense, here is a double feature &#8212; both minimalist animation.<\/p>\n<p>First up, a giant monster epic: <strong>Gadzooky<\/strong> (US; dir. Mike Van Cleave)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>The KING of the giant super-atomic fire breathing prehistoric monsters is loose in our world! (Before you start anything, we know the name was used. This is better. Scroom!) Action! Thrills! Destruction! Mad monsters! <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"460\" height=\"320\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Pr5139GkMN4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Pr5139GkMN4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Next, Tasmanian mad-scientist horror!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dracenstein<\/strong> (Aust; dir. Tom Priestley and Bill Flowers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>A mad scientist&#8217;s life turns pear-shaped after accidentally installing a vampire brain in his monster creation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read Jeff Ritchie&#8217;s review on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaryminds.com\/reviews\/short04.php\" target=\"_blank\">ScaryMinds<\/a> website if you&#8217;d like a bit more background on the film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"460\" height=\"320\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/20fkLfjxO-w&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/20fkLfjxO-w&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was distracted and busy last weekend and completely neglected to put up a Weekend Fright Flick program. Never mind. As some sort of recompense, here is a double feature &#8212; both minimalist animation. First up, a giant monster epic: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/21\/weekend-fright-flicks-gadzooky-and-dracenstein\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[73,44,26,95],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3085,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}