In Cold Blood Makes For An Appropriately Unsettling Adaptation of Truman Capote's Iconic Novel

If a book turns out to be a bestseller, well, usually that means a film adaptation of it can't be far behind. This means that Truman Capote's iconic 1966 tome In Cold Blood was always headed for a silver screen adaptation, though it's hard to imagine a proper feature film adaptation being possible if the Hayes Code hadn't been abolished in 1964. The Code's restrictions placed on violence and grisly material would ensure that this intentionally disturbing piece of literature would lose much of its sting in being translated to a cinematic format. Luckily, In Cold Blood was one of a number of late 1960s American features using newfound creative freedom to create distinctive and dark pieces of cinema that would be influential for years to come.

Son of Godzilla Is A Goofy Trifle About Gigantic Monster Father/Son Bonding

The very first Godzilla movie is a relatively serious affair meant to provide social commentary on the dangers of nuclear power in the mid-20th century. Naturally, subsequent follow-up's would look at such a grim allegorical set-up and proceed to take the gigantic lizard monster into more goofy directions that would eventually involve Godzilla duking it out with a massive gorilla. I'm not sure anyone behind the original Godzilla feature could have predicted where the Godzilla saga would go tonally but Son of Godzilla shows that there is merit, albeit heavily flawed merit, in taking the Godzilla mythos in an unabashedly silly direction.