ATTACK OF THE 50 FT WOMAN

Reviewed by FRIGHTFEST.COM

there was a time, hard as it may seem to recall, when remaking this kind of thing was not an excuse for denigrating the genre and turning a quick buck while making vapidly pretence of snuggling up against fans goodwill and fond nostalgia. Luckily, for temperate genre buffs, Cast A Deadly Spell writer Joe Dougherty and the late, great Debra Hill facilitated what is a logical extension of Christopher Guests inner horror fan. Nigel Tuffnel had, after all recently come off his exceptionally sly industry comedy, The Big Picture, which even 16 years later still ably skewers a whole raft of generic cliche from Bergman to Frankie Avalon. Here, Daryl Hannah essays the soon-to-be titular titaness, pushed to the edge of her tether by the unforgiving domestic hell which is her life. Thank the ancient ones, then, for freakishly well-timed extraterrestrial encounters. Rampage, rabid augmentation and raillery ensue. A more-than-modest guilty pleasure.

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