Bruiser is a 2000horror film starring Jason Flemyng as Henry Creedlow, a man who wakes up one morning to discover he is missing his face only to find that it has been replaced by a white featureless mask. Written and directed by George Romero, Bruiser is the first film he had directed since the 1993 film The Dark Half. The film also features legendary horrorpunk band The Misfits. This is a list of film-related events in 2000. ... DVD cover showing horror characters as depicted by Universal Studios. ... Jason Flemyng (25 September 1966) is an English actor. ... George A. Romero (born 4 February 1940) is an American director, writer, editor, actor and composer. ... Stephen King wrote several stories under a pseudonymn, Richard Bachman, during the seventies. ... Horror punk is a dark style of music mixing Gothic and punk rock sounds with morbid imagery. ... The Misfits canonical skull graphic was lifted from the 1946 television serial, The Crimson Ghost, while the typeface is from the 1950s-60s magazine, Famous Monsters of Filmland. ...
Yet the film's verve recalls the best of Romero in its fascination with intimate violations and conspicuous consumptions: the eating of meat during mad explosions of Darwinian justice; the disintegration of the family; the paranoia of the working class at the heart of the implosion of the American dream.
Bruiser begins to fail when it departs from its allegorical structure to present tawdry shots and mundane stings.
I will say that Bruiser is a fairy tale worth telling and a return to form for Romero who, even in his minor failures, exposes by example the dearth of significance and heart in the majority of today's lifeless knock-offs.
Further removing this film from the rest of Romeros work is the absence of his usual group of collaborators and bit part actors.
Since the world of the film is presented through Henrys eyes, and we have to accept the reality of the mask with him, his character has to be fleshed out completely.
After the second viewing of each film I came to the conclusion that the world, or at least the video store, is a better place with new films by Romero and Argento in it.
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