![]() ![]() So Simmons does have prior experience making spin-offs of hit National Lampoon movies that lack the qualities that made the originals hits. Delta House is notable in that it was an attempt to spin Animal House into an ongoing television series (with John Belushi as Bluto replaced by his cousin “Blotto”). You might recognize those last two as projects you’ve never heard of both are failed TV series. His previous writing credits include the Baby Huey Easter special, Two Reelers and Delta House. He was not, however, a writer on any of them. The writer on the film is Matty Simmons he actually does have a prior association with the Vacation franchise, in that he’s been a producer or executive producer on all of the films. ![]() It’s directed by Nick Marck, whose previous and subsequent credits consist almost entirely of episodes of television shows. The movie was released in 2003 I initially thought it was direct-to-video, but some research reveals it actually debuted on television first, carried by NBC. But when I saw there was a spin-off of Christmas Vacation, one of my favorite Christmas films, but not starring Chevy Chase and instead focusing on Cousin Eddie, I knew it was one I had to check out. Sure, Hallmark and Lifetime produce hundreds of “Christmas” movies every year that are nothing but saccharine romantic comedies and pedestrian musicals featuring people who never should have been allowed to sing, but there aren’t very many Christmas films that look as though they’ll have that special cheesy kind of badness to them that makes me curious enough to check them out. The overlap between Christmas Cinema and the Morbid Curiosity Files is fairly small.
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