Remember this? The whole "I love you, honey bunny" shit thing from Pulp Fiction. I don't know that either of these characters have names, but I think he's referred to as both honey bunny and Ringo. But who is Ringo? Ringo is Tim Roth. But who the fuck is Tim Roth? Is that the Hostel guy? No, that's Eli Roth. So who the fuck is Tim Roth? I guess Tim Roth is Ringo.
Oh, and Tim Roth is the guy who stars in the episode of Tales From the Crypt that I'm about to review, in case you were lost. So here goes...
Most Fucked-Up Episode, runner-up:
"Easel Kill Ya"
Alright, this is a pretty fucked up episode. Now, I like the term "fucked up" but it's not the easiest term to define. Fucked up usually refers to something that's gross or disturbing or twisted, something that's just plain unsettling. For Tales From the Crypt, fucked up is the status quo. But their variety of fucked up is halfway in between funny and disgusting, like a very masculine male midget having sex with an obese woman. Easel Kill Ya is not anything like a midget having sex. It's disturbing and dark.
Tim Roth stars as an artist who has problems with anger management and alcohol. Immediately, I'm hating this episode. He's at a group meeting talking about how to let out his anger in an appropriate way. This immediately makes me think that some guy in his first year of film school wrote this script and it's going to end with him realizing that the bad guy is himself. It's going to be some Fight Club/Donnie Darko auto-fellate myself while I cry and listen to Radiohead bullshit.
Anyway, Tim Roth needs money and he's a painter with no real prospects. He wants to nail a really wholesome girl who goes to his anger management group. One night, he accidentally kills a neighbor of his and is so inspired by the violence, he promptly paints what looks to be a really shitty portrait and sells it for thousands of dollars to a mysterious art collector.
As the episode goes on, our hero continues to give into his dark side in order to find inspiration and consequently get a paycheck. It's a good premise actually. As my previous paragraphs indicate, I'm not usually impressed by this kind of "dark souled artist" storytelling, I usually find that kind of thing intolerable. But this episode really is pretty fucked up and doesn't let up, it isn't delicate or beautiful or subtle. It's just a head on collision with fucked-up awesome.
Not the best episode ever, but if you like this kind of thing, you should totally watch this. Like I say, it doesn't ever let up, and it's not funny at all, and it's totally fucked up.
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