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Post by terry on Jul 11, 2010 1:03:12 GMT -5
TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE - 1990
Entertaining horror anthology features a trio of tales, with a wrap around bit, that has Deborah Harry planning to cook a captive child, who stalls for time, by reading each of these stories. "Lot 249"- Steve Buscemi aquires a mummy, that was buried with an ancient scroll, that allows him to make the coprse exact his revenge. "Cat From Hell" was originally intended to be part of CREEPSHOW 2, features William Hickey hiring hitman David Johansen to kill a cat, easier said than done. "Lover's Vow" has James Remar witnessing his friend being slaughtered by a gargoyle. The creature lets Remar live, as long as her never tells anyone, what he saw. I had the pleasure of seeing this at the theater, 20 years ago. Fun stories with bloody carnage.
My take 4/5, good horror film, period.
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Post by terry on Jul 12, 2010 0:48:32 GMT -5
PROPHECY - 1979
I remember when this film came out in 79. In the Chicago area, you couldn't drive 2 miles in any direction, without seeing this advertised on a billboard-(the mutant fetus). Filmed in British Columbia, the film is supposed to take place in Maine. A paper mill is contaminating the local water supply causing the native indians to get sick, and mutating the wildlife. Enter our heros, Robert Foxworth-(playing an overly intense doctor)- and his girlfriend Talia Shire, who investigate the native's claims, of what's going on. Armand Assante plays an indian....(huh? sorry, but he looks Italian, not Indian), who's at odds with the paper mill boss- Richard Dyssart-(hey, Richard, do you and Larry Fine have the same barber?).The build-up leads to a deadly confrontation with a large mutated bear-(pretty cool guy-in-monster-suit). The movie has it's share of flaws, but it's entertaining schlock all the same.
My take 2.5/5, a fun view , unintentionally funny at times.
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Post by gmac on Jul 12, 2010 7:53:08 GMT -5
Funny that I watched The Prophecy yesterday afternoon. Your description is dead-on accurate and the other somewhat amusing part was when the Indian elder got tossed around like a rag doll when the bear was chasing the group across the lake. Did that guy think the grizzly would just pass him by with a pat on the head? Also, there are no grizzly bears in Maine. John Frankenheimer admitted he was drinking heavily during the production of this film. PROPHECY - 1979 I remember when this film came out in 79. In the Chicago area, you couldn't drive 2 miles in any direction, without seeing this advertised on a billboard-(the mutant fetus). Filmed in British Columbia, the film is supposed to take place in Maine. A paper mill is contaminating the local water supply causing the native indians to get sick, and mutating the wildlife. Enter our heros, Robert Foxworth-(playing an overly intense doctor)- and his girlfriend Talia Shire, who investigate the native's claims, of what's going on. Armand Assante plays an indian....(huh? sorry, but he looks Italian, not Indian), who's at odds with the paper mill boss- Richard Dyssart-(hey, Richard, do you and Larry Fine have the same barber?).The build-up leads to a deadly confrontation with a large mutated bear-(pretty cool guy-in-monster-suit). The movie has it's share of flaws, but it's entertaining schlock all the same. My take 2.5/5, a fun view , unintentionally funny at times.
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Post by terry on Jul 13, 2010 1:02:35 GMT -5
gmac- Yes, "grandfather" simply stood there in awe, thinking the creature was a diety, not realizing it was blood thirtsy predator. Actually, that scene in particular, had some impressive cinematography, with the fog covering the lake, and the creature disappearing in the water, eerie stuff :-)
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Post by Iron Rich on Jul 13, 2010 9:41:57 GMT -5
Predators(2010): The previews pretty much tell you the story. Earth's best killers/hunters put on a planet by the predators to be hunted. Despite knowing the story from going into the movie it is a pretty good film. Some of the character development is enjoyable. The best part of the movie for me was the use of some real special effects instead of CGI. I'm not a CGI hater but I think it's overdone and there are many missed opportunities when special effects would make a movie better. Greg Nicetero did some great work on this movie and it helped make this the best Predator movie since the original.
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Post by terry on Jul 16, 2010 2:08:15 GMT -5
THE TWILGHT PEOPLE - 1972
Another in a series of Eddie Romero/John Ashley horror outings, made in the Philippines. This time, John Ashley is kidnapped while scuba diving, and brought to an island. Crazed scientist Dr.Gordon deems Ashley as being a perfect subject, for his expiriments, which involved tuning humans into half-animal beings. The doctor's pretty daughter-(Pat Woodell)- takes a liking to Ashley, helps him escape, as well as the half-humans, which include a wolf woman-(who makes dog sounds)-, an antelope man-(who's a damn good shot with a rifle), the ape-man-(who tries to rape the daughter), the bat man-(who waits until the film is almost over, to do anything), and Pam Grier in her first film, as the panther woman-(her dialogue consists of dubbed over cat growls). It's basically a remake of "Island Of Lost Souls", made on a shoe string budget.
My take 1.5/5, cheap and silly, but gosh darnit, the antelope man and the wolf girl make such a cute couple :-)
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Post by Akasha on Jul 16, 2010 10:45:06 GMT -5
THE TWILGHT PEOPLE - 1972 Another in a series of Eddie Romero/John Ashley horror outings, made in the Philippines. This time, John Ashley is kidnapped while scuba diving, and brought to an island. Crazed scientist Dr.Gordon deems Ashley as being a perfect subject, for his expiriments, which involved tuning humans into half-animal beings. The doctor's pretty daughter-(Pat Woodell)- takes a liking to Ashley, helps him escape, as well as the half-humans, which include a wolf woman-(who makes dog sounds)-, an antelope man-(who's a damn good shot with a rifle), the ape-man-(who tries to rape the daughter), the bat man-(who waits until the film is almost over, to do anything), and Pam Grier in her first film, as the panther woman-(her dialogue consists of dubbed over cat growls). It's basically a remake of "Island Of Lost Souls", made on a shoe string budget. My take 1.5/5, cheap and silly, but gosh darnit, the antelope man and the wolf girl make such a cute couple :-) Sounds a lot like Island of Dr.Moreau
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Post by terry on Aug 1, 2010 1:23:10 GMT -5
KONGA -1961
laughably bad British film, that borrows concepts from "Murders In The Rue Morgue" and "King Kong". Scientist Dr. Decker-(Micheal Gough)- returns from Uganda, with some mysterious carnivorious plants and a chimp named Konga. He learned secrets from a witch doctor, that allows him accelerate growth in plants, which he uses on Konga-(who goes from being a chimp, to a guy-in-a-gorilla-suit) He uses Konga to knock off a few people, who stand in his way. His faithful assistant Margret, confronts him about it, and promices to marry her, to kept her quiet. Too bad Dr.Decker is a self-serving scumbag, who has no intention of going through with it. He has the hots for a pretty young student, whom he tries to force himself on. Margret sees this, and in a fit of anger, she injects Konga with syringe, that turns it into a giant gorilla. (So it's OK with Margret if you kill people, but don't you dare cheat on her!). The big gorilla terrorizes London for about 5 minutes, before the military shoots it to death. What a stinkbomb!
My take 1/5 stars, good for laughs, Micheal Gough delivers as the evil scientist.
NOTE: This is a double feature disc from MGM, that also has the Korean monster flick YONGARY, which is even worse than than KONGA.
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Post by SJ782 on Sept 5, 2010 17:36:56 GMT -5
Return of the Living Dead. Its been at least 20 years since I've seen this one. Funny movie. This is the one that started the whole " Eat Live Brains " aspect of Zombiology. HULU has it available on their Horror Channel. When did Linnea Quigley get such big fun bags ? Also, the zombies ran in this one. This must have been the first movie where the zombies ran. I give it an 8 outta ten plus one for Linnea's sweater meat.
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Post by Almeda J. Becker on Sept 5, 2010 22:51:15 GMT -5
Watched Romero's Survival of the Dead. Quite enjoyed it, actually. Not his best by any means, nor the best horror movie I've seen in the last year...but pretty good. Lots of silly shit. The final shot reminded me of the last scene in Bertolucci's 1900. Intentional? Eh...probably not. 3 out of 5.
Watched NOTLD:R too. Loads of fun. Some of the animation was great, some horrible. However, a project this ambitious is bound to produce varied results. When it worked...it worked great! DVD has lots of good extras too. My only bitch is that too much was "animated" with pan 'n scan still images and not actual animation. I'd like to see other classic movies get this treatment. Citizen Kane, perhaps? 3 out of 5 with bonus points for effort. Look forward to seeing it again at Whorer Elm.
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Post by terry on Sept 14, 2010 3:47:13 GMT -5
SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD- I liked it, but Romero's recent sequels still don't stand up to his first three zombie flicks-NIGHT,DAWN & DAY. Question: Are we supposed to be happy, that they'll eat a horse too? What's next CALVARY OF THE DEAD? ;D
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Post by terry on Sept 14, 2010 4:05:53 GMT -5
RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE - 2010
I'll preface my review, by saying I thought the first Resident Evil film was so-so, and parts 2 and 3 were fairly entertaining as scfi-action flicks. AFTERLIFE picks up were part 3 leaves off. Writer/Director Paul Anderson fails miserably with this 4th outing. The opening scene has Alice-(Milla Jovovich)- infiltrating Umbrella Corp's underground headquarters, slaughtering all the masked stunment that get in her way-(uhh...wasn't ULTRAVIOLET enough? Sheesh!). She finally reaches the head honcho, before they both blow-up together....gee, that was a short film, huh? Oh wait a minute, the director is fooling with us, by showing the film's ending first-(I hate that). Alice is now flying an airplane, looking for uncontaminated human survivors. She finds Ali Larter, then moves on to find a group of people on a city rooftop. They think she there to rescue them, but she's just trying to find the sanctuary, mentioned in the 3rd film. So togther, they look for this place-(which turns out to be a ship)- and fight more zombies. There really isn't much more to this, than that. It's an ugly looking film with nothing to offer other than a few new types of creatures. The action is sporadic, and the story fails to explain much of what's going.
My take 1/5 stars, Incoherent and sadly bland.
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Post by VampyMar on Sept 14, 2010 16:11:37 GMT -5
The last horror movie I watched was probably The Children. Not the original from the Seventies...the souped up British version, which had alot more gore in it, better make up, effects, & creepier little kids. There was actually one of the little girls that looks just like one of my patients, when she was a couple years younger. Same weird, look-through-you stare, & odd demeanor, too. *shudders* I liked it better than the original. Am I allowed to say that? Lmao. For those of me who know me, & have seen me post about how much I HATE remakes, even though some remakes(very few)are the first versions that I ever saw...they know that this is a remarkable moment for me to say I liked it.
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Post by alexthegoon on Sept 14, 2010 21:26:01 GMT -5
My old VHS copy of Poltergeist. This movie still freaks me out.
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Post by VampyMar on Sept 15, 2010 11:14:03 GMT -5
The last horror movie I watched was probably The Children. Not the original from the Seventies...the souped up British version, which had alot more gore in it, better make up, effects, & creepier little kids. There was actually one of the little girls that looks just like one of my patients, when she was a couple years younger. Same weird, look-through-you stare, & odd demeanor, too. *shudders* I liked it better than the original. Am I allowed to say that? Lmao. For those of me who know me, & have seen me post about how much I HATE remakes, even though some remakes(very few)are the first versions that I ever saw...they know that this is a remarkable moment for me to say I liked it. Actually, now that I think about it-I was wrong. It wasn't The Children. I watched another On Demand movie: Crazy Eights. I hadn't seen that movie the whole way through, & since they added it to the "free movie" selections via On Demand, I got the chance to. It's so lovely to see a movie from the freaking beginning,,heh...but it was great! Surprised that Tracy Lords didn't even show any nipple. Aww, I guess she's not into it these days. Nice mind-messing tricks, and the effects were cool. I'm glad that whiny, smarmy guy from "Pulp Fiction bit it early. He's a pain in my ass, & annoys the shit out of me.
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