The new Looney Tunes movie is basically John Carpenter body horror — as it should be

“Daffy Duck and Porky Pig get jobs at a bubblegum factory to pay their mortgage” reads like the plot of a classic Looney Tunes short. “Alien overlord taints that bubblegum with mind-control technology that turns consumers into zombies,” on the other hand, could be the logline of a 1950s sci-fi cheesefest. When the gum gains sentience, though, that’s a John Carpenter movie. That happens to be the situation Daffy and Porky (both voiced by Eric Bauza) wind up in...