George W Bush Cost Us Face Time With Barbara Clampton
Well, folks…we lost a good one this time around. Not only did we have a chance to reanimate the Re-Animator breed, we also lost a chance to give the Bush Administration a well-deserved smack upside the head as well as a chance to get re-acquainted with terror hottie Barbara Crampton.
It was called House of Re-Animator.
Jeffrey Combs, absolute genius that he is, would have reprised his role as Herbert West, the mad doctor who managed to figure out the secrets of life and death and put them all into a little glowing green vial. Hired to re-animate a sitting President–who would have been played by other absolute genius William H. Macy–he’s also joined by the vice president, played by George Wendt.
Why did we lose this gem of political humor and zombie presidents? Simple. No one was willing to put up the dough for director Stuart Gordon to make the movie. When Fangoria asked, Gordon said “I think people are still too afraid of offending the Bush adminstration…Re-Animator…is a very successful franchise, but nobody wanted to do that story. People are defiantly (sic) afraid. These guys are known for payback.”
And now, I sorrow. Bush has ruined America’s standing on the world stage, sent four thousand brave men and women to their deaths in Iraq, devalued the dollar, antagonized and alienated our allies, and now, he just cost us Re-Animator.
Can there be any further damage?