Synopsis
He's not home alone.
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
1992 Directed by Chris Walas
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
Bill Paxton Michael Ironside Marshall Bell Mitzi Kapture Colleen Camp Patrika Darbo Marc McClure Stuart Pankin Teddy Wilson Nick Young Debbie Bartelt Derek Mark Lochran Mildred Brion Brett Marston Ken Love Katherine Gosney Steve Gates Mark DeMichele Peppi Sanders Judy Lebeau Shane McCabe Allan Berne John Wade Cynthia Eichor Bill Andres Ed Gable Robert C. Campion Johanna Went Shirlette Baker Show All…
Cole S. McKay George P. Wilbur Randy Hall Glory Fioramonti Gary Pike Bob Minor Merritt Yohnka Jim Wilkey Jerry Spicer Rob King John Moio Gary Baxley Bret Davidson Susan Hurtado Mary Albee Ellis Edwards Andree Gibbs
Scary - Horrortrip in den Wahnsinn, Psicosis mortal, Voi ei, taas se on täällä!, Psychose meurtrière, Il cannibale metropolitano, Kísértet, Włóczęga, Бродяга, 도시의 난폭자, 乞丐也疯狂
Second time seeing this thing and I kinda feel like I slept on this my whole life. Dark, funny, gory, and gross, The Vagrant hits all the beats I love in a weirdo picture like this and Bill Paxton is wonderful—plus detective Ironside? I’m all in. Yuppie paranoia for the 1992 Clintonian, back in the days when you could escape everything and move to a trailer park in the middle of nowhere undetected... would love to be able to do that now.
Kinda wanna pair this with The Burbs and like, Serial Mom?
He's not Home alone!
Bill Paxton plays Graham Krakowski (nice pun!) who has a boring job and a boring life, decides to buy a new house where is then driven to madness by a local vagrant who is living rough across the street from him, but after some weird going on's he starts to wonder if he is imagining everything until people around him start to die.
This is an excellent zany horror/comedy by Chris Walas who also directed the Fly 2. Marshall Bell who played the vagrant did an outstanding job and looked absolutely disgusting!
Sweat the details and you can lose track of yourself...
After moving into a new house, a yuppie (Paxton) becomes obsessed with a local homeless man (Bell), with our entitled home owner's life unravelling as a result.
Chris Walas' second feature is a continuation of his collaborations with Mel Brooks' Brooksfilms. Cronenberg's Fly (1986) got Walas an academy award for the Brundle make-up as well as being a smash hit for a production company that was shouldering the heavy burden of Solarbabies. It's easy to understand why a fondness for this success, later saw Walas tapped to make his directorial debut with Fly 2 (1989). Though not as critically successful, it was another commercial hit - paving the way for…
Bill Paxton longing to murder a vagrant whilst also having a pushover personality so strong he doesn't even have the spine to say no, let alone shove a mentalist hobo off the coil; a natural recipe for comedy with Chris "Brundlefly" Walas' puss FX and Mel Brooks' satirist tendencies weaved in for good measure. The rip I watched was like trying to see through a window smeared with bacon grease using eyes made of vaseline, which probably isn't ideal.
I remember the summer that Twister came out I must have seen it in the theater 4 times, maybe more? This was back when young teens didn’t really have much to do because we were too old to “play” and too young to “party”. Im pretty sure most of my friends were there for the groundbreaking special effects, but each time I was entirely fixated on Bill Paxton with his terrific ass in those tight Levi’s. I had such a huge crush on him that I think I pretty much stopped lying to myself about being gay even if it was another year before I came out. He has always been incredibly attractive to me even in this movie where…
Realtor Magazine’s Best Movie of 1992.
American Foreclosures Magazine’s Best Actor Award for Bill Paxton.
Best Squatting Award for Marshal Bell by themortagereport.com
Once Upon A Time…. An Spooktober List
ENCOURAGED BY Geoffrey
Take a look at the poster. If I asked you what type of movie is this, there's a big chance y'all would say this is some kind of zombie/horror movie. And I can't blame ya, as I thought the exact same thing. But what would you know, this is everything but.
Bill Paxton plays a businessman looking to get a new higher position on his work, which he might. He has a gorgeous girlfriend and some good ole' friends. However, when he moves to a new home in a weird and God forbidden looking place, he will find himself in big odds with a homeless man who made his home…
The Vagrant gone and crinkled my brain up good wowz! This was a very offbeat and unique experience. Kinda horror, kinda comedy and all around quirky, colorful and entertaining. One of those unclassifiable early 90s films that seemed to fall through the cracks.
Joe Six Pack Bill Paxton moves into a quaint little new home. It might be a little shoddy and small but dang if it isn't just the perfect dwelling for Billy P. But too bad there's a catch! A mischievous and scary looking Vagrant! Just look at him there on the cover! Yikes!The Vagrant sneaks around causing all sorts of trouble for Paxxy. But why does everyone else think the Vagrant is just a misunderstood homeless gentleman?…
You could argue we are all whores to Cinema. Remaining monogamous to your favorite film would be nigh impossible. We have to watch every film we can get our self indulgent hands on. We can't even stay on our own side of town. We're slumming it with trash, starfucking with blockbusters and laying on our backs for bohemian artistry. The weirdest orgasms. As many notches on the belt as one can handle.
What the hell am I talking about? Forgive me (Make a point, make a point). I always had a complicated time in the 90's. My second hardest decade to live through. Particularly the second half. I abhor SCREAM and it's offspring. I actually turned my back on Craven…
The Beast Within by Dr. Stanley
For man starts as a free agent, yet falters under the burden of ambiguity and existence. By embracing the ambiguity rather than despairing from it, he may become what he truly is rather than the values and commitments set by the outside world. Therefore, man is free once he reaches awareness of his own being and the Beast within himself is settled. The lower man is so afraid of choices and consequences, of being within the world, that he creates an insulated castle of societal ideals finding worth not within himself, but by the loyalty of adhering to a fixed set of values imposed by someone else. Next is the nihilistic man, for he…
Viewed with the Amazing Edith’s *Collab Film Group*.
I still don’t know if I watched a film or got high on PCP. I think I also had that same dream of Mitzi (circa ‘92) or some other-worldly woman, and the cherry on top is how this film realistically nailed the current-day homeless issues of cities like LA and San Fransisco (the film turns out to be brilliant commentary). Here is an interactive poop map for your leisure! While the film is clearly joking on this matter (and was also made 25 years before this problem arose), it does showcase the horror of privacy becoming undone by a homeless person, compacted by law that won’t do anything about it... because The Vagrant is mysterious and…
When this movie is most thematically interesting to me, it’s way less fun.
Suburban yuppie fear of encroaching homelessness is a wonderful theme, more relevant here in Los Angeles than ever, but the great Bill Paxton stammer-prats around like Jerry Lewis throughout the first reel, all the women are played to their worst cliches (traveling with too much luggage, sex addicts, yada, yada, yada) and the whole thing is a cartoon that takes wild and inaccurate shots at some decent societal targets.
The turning of Paxton’s perfect dream home into a secure prison of his own making because he is terrified of a man who has so much less than him is a good and insightful bit though and did…