76% on Rotten Tomatoes (out of 68 reviews)
Runtime: 99 minutes
Directed by: Jonny Campbell
Starring: Joe Keery, Georgina Campbell, Liam Neeson, several names I wasn't expecting to see
From: Several different European companies, plus one from Morocco
This was the first of two theatrical movies I saw on Thursday; the second review will be posted Saturday afternoon. Praise I heard elsewhere + the premise of “killer fungus causing people to explode” was intriguing. Both movies I saw were R-rated original ideas, which I of course in theory prefer to all the gruel that’s clogged multiplexes for years now.
I never saw a trailer for Cold Storage and only knew the premise. The germ of the idea being that a piece of Skylab falling from space in ’79 fell in the outback of Australia but it contained the fungus, and it was captured and stored in Kansas but it was decommissioned & now resides a storage facility… that was unknown to me, as was the cast including Sosie Bacon, Lesley Manville, Richard Brake, & even Vanessa Redgrave.
Yeah, you don’t want to scrutinize the plot too hard, the CG usually
didn’t
look great, and to use a word from the movie, the characters were too
loquacious in general… meaning everyone was real talkative, especially
Joe Keery’s lead character. My criticisms aside, the movie was still a
fun time. The fast pace never lagged, the gross-out moments entertained
me, and there were some laughs. While not a classic and not the sort of
80’s splatter horror-comedy I’d most likely prefer, Cold Storage
provided enough entertainment to satisfy me. Much of the film is in one
large setting, used decently well.
There are enough bad things happening to reprehensible characters and the team of Keery/Georgina Campbell was quaint-enough for my tastes. Plus, Liam Neeson (who portrayed a realistic old man w/ back issues instead of an old badass that was his motif for years after Taken) got to talk on the phone in a menacing fashion as if he was Bryan Mills again for a scene.
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