Time will probably prove that I was deeply wrong to have any issues with Men, which has so many good elements going for it that perhaps my expectations were simply too goddamned high. But it’s Lassick, a meaningful character actor who never quit his day job as a trucking company dispatch, who makes The Unseen special. The movie, which also includes fine performances from the late Stephen Furst ( Animal House), Barbara Bach, and Leila Goldoni, would be an interesting curioso on its own terms.
A character actor who appeared in everything from Cool as Ice to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Lassick gets a rare opportunity to be front and center here. It's worth watching The Unseen’s wholly ridiculousness and impressive atmosphere of constant madness simply for Sidney Lassick playing an incestual, brutal, cruel, and rather pitiable piece of shit. What ultimately makes this story, in which three female news reporters wind up staying at the mansion of some random weirdo (Lassick), are the performances. The Unseen is an ambitious and well-meaning low budget film.
DRUNK OR DEAD RIDICULOUSNESS MOVIE
Sometimes, when it comes to movies like these with a whirlwind of strangeness, off-kilter performances, and sometimes ludicrous plot developments, it’s not that the movie is necessarily great. I think the real fun of watching The Unseen-a somewhat forgotten 1980 horror film that features at least two really interesting casting choices-Is seeing Sidney Lassick play an absolute monster. Or you can just get all of your suggestions from Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo, currently the longest-tenured movie column on Long Island. If you’re not willing to take suggestions or inspiration from at least most people, you’re probably missing out. However, and I don’t see this mentioned quite as often, it’s just as much fun talking about movies with people who wouldn’t identify themselves as fanatics, cinephiles (not even once), etc. It’s fun to talk about movies with people who spend all day talking about movies.
That happens all the time, as I still haven’t seen every film ever made.
There are also times when someone suggests a movie I just haven’t seen, either been meaning to, or something I haven’t even heard of before. It might be something I’ve seen, but it’s often been the case that it’s also something I haven’t seen in quite a long time. People who don’t watch tons and tons of movies, or use words like “cinema” in deathly serious tones (guilty), more often than not surprise me with what they come up with. What’s just as interesting to me are the suggestions from people who either watch other things, read those newfangled books I’ve been hearing so much about, or whatever the case may be. People who have also definitely not wasted their entire lives watching movie after movie will generally dive deep, if they know I’m one of their wretched kind. Whenever I pose a film-centric question to folks on social media (because it’s not like I’m leaving the fucking house very often), I’m not just looking to people like me. One of the things I love about movies is that you don’t have to be a fanatic to have valid suggestions.
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