{"id":62,"date":"2016-04-30T04:06:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T04:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/?p=62"},"modified":"2016-04-26T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T04:08:10","slug":"review-otis-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/30\/review-otis-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Otis (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/otis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/otis-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"otis\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/otis-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/otis.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Directed by Tony Krantz<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Starring: Daniel Stern, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Pollak, Jere Burns, Bostin Christopher<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Otis is a serial killer, abducting and torturing that most stereotypical of Hollywood victims, the cheerleader. But he\u2019s also slightly incompetent, and after accidentally killing one of his victims too soon, he kidnaps her replacement with plans to make her his latest plaything. Her very dysfunctional family has a very different idea about that. But like the killer\u2019s clueless attempts at playing psycho, this vengeful but overenthusiastic family brings a cheese knife to a manhunt.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis is <em> Last House on the Left<\/em> as a screwball comedy, taking a few broad satiric sweeps at the bloodlust in modern media. Christopher, as the shambling man-child Otis, strikes the essential balance between black comedy and enough menace to keep him from becoming appealing. But it\u2019s hard to find a better laugh this year than Illeana Douglas, as the enraged and protective mother, talking about finger-and-toe smoothies.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=rmwhittakerco-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B0093QDEDC&amp;asins=B0093QDEDC&amp;linkId=Y53OIMJIOWHJKXEP&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Tony Krantz Starring: Daniel Stern, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Pollak, Jere Burns, Bostin Christopher Otis is a serial killer, abducting and torturing that most stereotypical of Hollywood victims, the cheerleader. But he\u2019s also slightly incompetent, and after accidentally killing one of his victims too soon, he kidnaps her replacement with plans to make her &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/30\/review-otis-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Otis (2008)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[33,29,54,30,32,31,27,23,22,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}