![]() ![]() Adam comes out ahead in the first such contest we see, and according to the wager they made at the onset of the duel, that victory entitles him to borrow his father’s private plane for a getaway over Spring Break. Anyway, one of Adam’s hobbies- probably the only one of which his dad actually approves- concerns working out his intergenerational frustrations by taking on his old man in simulated dogfights using little two-seater jets with roughly the performance characteristics of a MiG-17. Mind you, Adam is most likely too lazy, self-involved, and spoiled to accomplish any of that, but that’s a whole other father-son argument there. Rather than following in his father’s footsteps, Adam wants to go to Hollywood to be a filmmaker in the Michael Bay-Jerry Bruckheimer mould, after which he figures he’ll abandon directing to found his own studio and get even richer by releasing other people’s infantile action movies. Dad (David Keith, from Firestarter and Sabretooth) has all the usual Big Plans and High Expectations for Adam, all of which were naturally arrived at without reference to anything the boy himself might have wanted from his life. Mann) is a rich-prick college boy, son of an Air Force test pilot turned captain of the aerospace industry. Succubus: Hell Bent, for example, is bad in ways I’ve not seen since I decided that preserving my sanity demanded an indefinite respite from the Witchcraft series.Īdam (Robert L. All I’m asking is that the people who are in that business try just a little bit harder to suck just a little bit less. I fully realize that nobody who has a good movie in them is going to bother making sexed-up horror flicks for the straight-to-DVD market. Notice that I didn’t say “good,” by the way. I keep thinking that one of these days, someone, somewhere, is going to figure out how to make a direct-to-video T&A horror film that isn’t abysmally awful. ![]()
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