Nightbreed
The other movie I watched on DVD this weekend. I actually caught this when it first came out years ago. It's based on the book by Clive Barker, called Cabal. In fact, I think Clive Barker actually made the movie. It's not bad -- but, if it was being made today, it would be made differently. The movie basically turns the tables on monsters and people around -- in the movie, the monsters are the 'good guys' -- or as good as the 'Children of the Moon' can get -- and the humans manifest the ugliness visible in the monsters. It's got a few bloody bits (Clive Barker -- what did you expect?), and is scary, but a lot less scary and bloody than Dagon.
The first chef
First came fire ... and then, as the camera shifts to the soon to be late-village idiot, you're left wondering -- just what was going through that mind -- and food is put on the fire, for the first time, and cooking is accidentally discovered by humanity. The first chef is ridiculed by grunts, then the local thug tries a sample of the burnt carcass, and soon, everybody gets queued at the McDonalds drive-thru. What happened? Richard Wrangham of Harvard believes there's more to cooking than evolutionary history would have you believe. Wrangham points out that there is no way homo sapiens could survive on just raw food. Raw food just doesn't give up calories as easily as cooked food -- and raw food makes the digestive system expend more energy to get at those calories. Cooking on the other hand breaks complex molecules down, allowing the digestive system to make easy work of them -- and cooking also softens food, allowing the body to get to the calories with less effort...
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