After the too arty Big Man Japan, we got a horrible arty short with…mimes. This was called The Adventure (2008). The really terrible part, because my shtick at B-Fest is that I don’t look at the schedule, is that I didn’t know if it were a short or a feature. A feature about mimes might have killed me after BMJ, so I was pretty relieved when it ended after 15 or 20 minutes.
Then came, as it turned out, my sponsored film, X the Unknown. The best part is you get to see the repugnant Anthony Newley get killed, even if he’s a bit player in this. It’s a pretty good movie, a Quatermass movie without Quatermass (since Hammer didn’t own the character). Some of the deaths are really shockingly gruesome for the time period. Leo McKern is in it, the black and white imagery just looks great, and, well, I like blob monsters. Chad R said it was basically a Jon Pertwee Doctor Who episode, and he was right in the best way.
