acorn_of_doom

I had wanted to see this movie ever since I found out it existed, being the only person in my age group that's a Dolly Parton fan (woohoo!). When I realized that it was near impossible to find I pretty much gave up hope on it, 'til one day, on a whim I decided to search for "Wild Texas Wind" on Youtube, and sure enough it was there, the whole movie. I then stayed up until 1 in the morning watching it, aren't I the pathetic one. Afterwards I just sat there, staring at the screen, what was this that I just watched? A sheer travesty is what it was, the film obviously had absolutely no budget and a terrible director. I can imagine on paper it looked pretty good, it had all the elements of a good story but all were incredibly poorly executed especially the attempt at putting it in a narrative frame. But there is still one gleaming reason to watch it, Dolly Parton herself. about 40% of the movie is all her performing and these are songs you can't hear anywhere else. Although it was an amazing blunder for the director, if you're a Dolly fan, you're bound to be entertained.

As a film I give it 3/10. For entertainment value, a definite 8/10

Larry Cohen's work is always weird or cheesy or both. I loved the movie the Stuff, but there was a moment in the film that I didn't understand, why a miners first reaction to white stuff bubbling out of the ground is to eat it, if that was his first reaction to things he found on the ground he wouldn't be alive for very long. One of the things that annoyed me most about this film was the kid Jason, he was really annoying. But overall in the Keenan-o-meter this deserves a 7.5

I wish Larry Cohen would keep making movies like this