Elitist Bastards: White Zombies And Sucky Vampires

Posted on by Ken Hanke and Justin Souther

In this week’s Elitist Bastards Go To The Movies, Xpress film critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther review Get Low, The Lottery, Nanny McPhee Returns,The Switch, Piranha 3D and Vampires Suck. They also discuss this week’s Thursday Horror Picture Show double feature of the Béla Lugosi classics White Zombie and Island of Lost Souls, the Asheville Film Society screening of the George C. Scott cult classic They Might Be Giants, and the one-night-only screening of the remastered version of Ken Russell’s Tommy. And, just to top it off, they ponder the potential quality of soon-to-open films Takers and The Last Exorcism.

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9 thoughts on “Elitist Bastards: White Zombies And Sucky Vampires”

  8. Dread P. Roberts

    No bizzare, half ape men? I guess the Altered States’ isolation tank sensory deprivation research has reached its full, finalized morphing phase.

    I’m so glad you found the trailer for The Last Exorcism funny. I unnintentionally burst out laughing in a crowded theater, and recieved angry glares from a few, nearby audience members. It momentarily made me wonder if perhaps there was more wrong with me than I initially thought… not that this really disproves that.

  9. Ken Hanke

    No bizzare, half ape men?

    Jeremy claims he needs more photos of us. He could recyle as far as I’m concerned, but I guess we have to get him some more somehow.

    not that this really disproves that.

    Yeah, I was going to say that. Whoever was with me — I think it was “Tonberry” — laughed, too. Not sure if that helps or hinders.

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