Sanguine Appetites - Aug. 27 - Friday Video Distractions with Mike Norton
Another blur and muddle of a week, with much of my attention on other personal and professional matters. Still, I've seen (or at least started to see) a few things. Oddly enough, aside from the TCM notes, threats looking for blood turned out to be the binding theme this week. Nicolas Cage has gotten involved in another fun entertainment, this time with the horror action comedy Willy's Wonderland (2021 - TV MA - 1h 21 m). It's much the same premise as the video game Five Nights At Freddie's , where someone is locked into an abandoned children's theme restaurant with an array of Chucky Cheese-ish animatronic characters who've become bloodthirsty menaces. Cage came in as one of the producers and as the star. With unnaturally dark hair and goatee, Cage's character goes unnamed (referred to only as "The Janitor" in the script and credits), and while he occasionally makes some vocal noises (usually during...