November 30, 2005
It's Showtime! The Busheviks Meet the Horror of Their Folly!
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
If you can watch Showtime cable this Friday, December 2, at 10 PM EST (check your local directory), we encourage you to take a look at the hour-long feature, "Homecoming," by veteran Hollywood director Joe Dante.
BuzzFlash received an advance screening copy of Dante's work for the "Masters of Horror" series http://www.mastersofhorror.net/. Written with Sam Hamm, Dante uses the most unlikely vehicle of a campy horror script to film one of the most devastating commentaries on the Bush/Cheney lies that led us into the Iraq War.
Dante -- who has worked with Roger Corman, Steven Spielberg and John Sayles, among others -- knows how to mix humor, satire, parody and horror into one big ball of wax. But this time, the Director of "The Howling" and "The Gremlins" focuses his droll and horrifying creative talent squarely on how our soldiers were betrayed by Bush, Cheney and their cast of cynical, devious ship of fools.
You won't have to wait but a moment to meet the Ann Coulter character or the Karl Rove stand in. And Dante's recreation of a television celebrity pundit "news" program is so real, it's eerie -- which is about right for a horror film.
We can assure you that the White House would never allow the "Homecoming" to air on any of the national non-cable networks. It is such a devastating evisceration of their lies and contempt for the American public that the right wing echo chamber would howl it off of the major stations.
You don't have to like horror films to enjoy the "Homecoming." It gives such a lashing to the Busheviks that you can just sit back and have some fun.
It's something like Al Franken meets "The Night of the Living Dead." But beneath it's flipness, it cuts so close to the bone about the Iraq War and the Republican B.S. machine that you wonder how it made it to television.
We never thought a horror film could become a political indictment (with a droll wink and a nod), but the "Homecoming" proves that we were wrong.
Kudos to Joe Dante and Sam Hamm for not being intimidated by the Bushevik blacklist tactics.
"Homecoming" turns the whole idea of who the military supports on its head, particularly our soldiers who have died for a lie.
Check your local listings and watch The Masters of Horror, "Homecoming," on Friday, December 2nd.
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS