Hard Candy focuses more on the torture that the lead character inflicts on the suspected pedophile. There are differences between each movie, of course. The similarities are so apparent that it's impossible, if you watched both films, to compare this, unfavorably, to the superior Hard Candy.
#Knock knock movie movie#
But, if I'm being honest, I already saw this movie over 10 years ago (and I re-watched it again a couple of months ago) and that movie is called Hard Candy. They obviously worked very hard to make the best movie they possibly could. The concept is certainly interesting enough and there were clearly a lot of talented people behind the scenes and in front of the cameras. On the other hand, part of me wasn't that into the movie or the characters. Any movie that has Keanu Reeves literally begging for his life, doing more acting than he ever has attempted at any point prior in his career is clearly MEANT to be laughed at and not necessarily meant to be taken completely seriously. This movie is meant to be campy, so I don't know how you use that as a negative. That would be a fair point, but the intention was for the movie to be bad, but it failed at even that. Now, you might say, that I missed the point of Snakes on a Plane because I said it tried so hard to be 'so bad it's funny' that it was just bad and not what it actually it was intended to be. It's like criticizing a comedy for being TOO funny, you know. I think that the movie was intended to be campy and criticizing it for that is pointless. On one hand, I don't think that the movie, at least from reading the consensus on Rotten Tomatoes, should be criticized for the fact that it is campy. Anyway, so this was the movie I ended up watching and I have quite mixed feelings on it.
#Knock knock movie series#
I find it, legitimately, surprising that a movie as awful as that also has an accompanying series with the same terrible actors from the movie. My Guardian Angel was the awful movie in question and it's on Amazon. I started watching another movie yesterday, but it was so awful that I switched to this one. For those curious (ie: none of you) those movies were: The Innocents (Argentinian horror movie), A Touch Unseen and Proof Of Innocence (both from South Korea). Three of the weren't available on here, therefore I did not review them. I've watched four films since then (including this one). Woody's first words are his trademark "Guess who?" as he pops through the roof of Andy Panda's house, except the voice is normal-sounding instead of sped-up as Woody's voice normally would be.It's been, almost, five days since the last movie I reviewed. So then Krieser took it back and asked for a series as the short was a hit. Lantz told him, "You're not paying for these pictures, All you're doing is distributing them, so release him, because I'm taking a chance". The short almost never saw the light of the day because then distributor Bernie Krieser (representing Universal) thought Woody was the ugliest thing he had ever seen. This first design featured Woody with red "vest feathers" (instead of white), buck teeth in some shots, thick ringed legs, two green tail feathers and a big chin which made him look more like a pelican than a woodpecker. This cartoon is also notable for featuring a very crude Woody design, something that was softened by 1942 and later changed into a much more realistic and easier to animate woodpecker by 1944. This is also the laugh Blanc used for Happy Rabbit, a predecessor to Bugs Bunny in the 1939 cartoon Hare-um Scare-um. Knock Knock was Marsales' final score for Lantz.Īs the first appearance of Woody Woodpecker, Knock Knock is also the first cartoon to feature Woody's trademark laugh, a gurgling cackle voice artist Mel Blanc had been perfecting since high school. The cartoon features animation by Lovy and Frank Tipper, a story by Ben Hardaway and Lowell Elliott, and music by Frank Marsales. Lantz himself has claimed to have directed this cartoon, although more recent information has indicated that Alex Lovy was the actual director. Like most of the early 1940s Lantz cartoons, Knock Knock carried no director's credit.
To Woody's surprise, Andy's attempts prevail (comically, the mound of salt placed on Woody's tail is so heavy that he cannot run away), and in an ending very similar to 1938's Daffy Duck & Egghead, two other woodpeckers arrive to take Woody to the insane asylum but then prove to be crazier than he is. Andy, meanwhile, tries to sprinkle salt on Woody's tail in the belief that this will somehow capture the bird. Woody constantly pesters Papa Panda by pecking at his house roof, tempting him to try to kill the woodpecker with his shotgun. The cartoon ostensibly stars Andy Panda (voice of Sara Berner) and his father, Papa Panda (voice of Mel Blanc), but it is Woody Woodpecker (voice of Blanc) who steals the show.
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