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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Directed by Michael Dougherty
influenced by The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Visuals
Kong: Skull Island’s polar-opposite approach, embracing a go-for-broke retro pulp vibe that had more in common with campy 1970s Doug McClure vehicles like The Land That Time Forgot, did a lot to revitalize the nascent franchise.
Was "Green Room" inspired by an episode in 1980's "Motel Hell," in which a van of punk rockers is run off the road so the members of Ivan and the Terribles can join the "all kinds of critters" found in "Farmer Vincent's fritters"?
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts
influenced by The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Themes
Drawing from films like The Land That Time Forgot (1974), with Kong not the only oversized beast on the island, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts strikes a fine balance between action, drama and humour.
The script, written by West, knows its nostalgic influences thoroughly, evoking low-brow classics such as “Motel Hell,” “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,” and even the not-so-classic “I Spit on Your Grave.”
There have been funny iterations too, like “Motel Hell” and “Eating Raoul.”
And then, when Russian thugs break into his house to steal his sweet ride, beating him up in the process and killing the puppy that his wife bought for him from beyond the grave, Wick reverts back to his old ways of being a stone-cold killer.
Worse, the episode in which he’s half-buried and stuffed—which might remind dyed-in-the-wool horror devotees of Rory Calhoun’s 1980 cult classic “Motel Hell”—is more disgusting than funny.