Jason And The Argonauts
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I will give you that Harry Hamlin gave a stronger
performance than Todd Armstrong, but that ain't
setting the bar to high. I would also agree with
you that Jason was less much more episodic than
Clash of the Titans, but I don't see that
necessarily as a negative when the
"episodes" were so exciting and well
staged. I just was just bored with Clash, though
the Medusa sequence was pretty cool and tense.
And Olivier, though from a historical point of
view, was a superb actor, at this stage in his
career he was pretty much phoning everything in
for a paycheck IMO.
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The Return Of The Living Dead
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Totally agree with this review. The Exorcist to
this day remains in my book the scariest and most
well crafted horror film of all time, but I found
Return of the Living Dead more out and out
enjoyable. I still remember seeing this with a
buddy at a drive-in (remember those?) when it
first came out in 1984 and us laughing our asses
off (the beer didn't hurt). Years later I bought
this on DVD and had much the same reaction. Truly
funny and tense and scary when it wanted to be.
Plus sharp writing, great zombie creature designs
(even better than Day of the Dead IMO) and bright
performances across the board. 10/10.
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Prince Of Darkness
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Agree, Chad. Not one of Carpenter's best by any
means. No idea how Bluemeanie could rate this a
10. Too bad. Carpenter developed a really unique
premise with the whole science/physics approach to
evil--only let it dissolve in the final reel to
possessed people barfing green junk on other
people to turn them into possessed folks. Like a
lot of Carpenter's post-Thing work, a movie that
started off well and by the end the wheels fall
off.
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My Bloody Valentine
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I bought this movie basically just to see a horror
movie in 3D at home; the movie was well made, but
the 3D effects-at least on my regular HD
flatscreen and the red/blue glasses were pretty
variable. Only seemed to work a couple times
including when one of the victims was adjusting
the TV and the antenna came out at the audience.
Probably better in plain old 2D as the 3D does
make a dark movie even darker.
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Jason And The Argonauts
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Sorry, 385, I just can't comprehend that you would
rate Clash of the Titans (1981 version) over
Jason. That one is dully directed, indifferently
acted, lethargically placed and further hindered
by misguided Star Wars rip-offs (mechanical
own/bad R2D2 stand-in). Worst of all, quite
frankly, Ray's special effects work in COT was
hardly his best stuff. This is, especially the
fight with the skeletons.
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Creepshow
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Great, review! Only thing I disagree on was your
critical view of the zombie make-up in Something
to Tide You Over. I thought they were great.
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Clash Of The Titans
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As much as I loved Ray's "old fashioned"
effects work here, the film itself was dull as
dishwater; thanks largely to the flat direction of
Desmond Davies (a not very talented TV director)
and similarly dull acting from Harry Hamlin in the
lead performance. Too bad, especially as this was
the master's swan song in film.
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Bath Salt Zombies
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I dunno. I hope the actual movie was better than
the trailer. I am all for low budget, innovative
filmmaking, but am frankly getting tired of these
no-budget camcorder quickies that don't even
bother to hire professional actors. Evil Dead (yes
I know I'm going a ways back) did and it had a
VERY low budget.
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Survival Of The Dead
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I liked this a lot more than its immediate
predecessor, Diary of the Dead. Much better
acting, better production and less of George's
patented get on my soap box social messages. But
geeze, it is time for George to try and scrape
together funding for another type of movie WITHOUT
zombies. I love zombie movies, but younger
filmmakers are taking the genre in whole new
directions, while George seems caught in an
endless loop.
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Night Of The Demons
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I liked this film. It wasn't worth buying, but
definitely a Nexflix rental. Great photography,
excellent makeup effects, some good dialogue and
of course some Class A Tits & Ass. I would
rate it a solid 7 for what it is.
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Mad Monster Party
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I remember this flick. I don't remember the
animation being all that bad. My biggest
complaint was that the plot was pretty slow moving
and boring. Still not sure this earns a lowly
"2" though. It's entertaining enough for
what it is.
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Jeepers Creepers 2
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The only disappointing part of this was the stupid
"coda" ending. SPOILER ALERT: At the
climax of the movie, the Creeper looses an
arm/wing AND a leg and is stabbed repeatedly in
chest until it "dies". Then the
"coda" goes twenty some years later and
the Creeper is miraculously together in one piece
and the guy who "killed" it earlier is
waiting with his spear gun for the creeper to
awake again. First off, why the hell would the
guy sew the creepers parts back on so he could
reanimate? Did they grow back? And if they do
grow back, why the hell didn't he just burn the
fucker?
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Cat People
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Saw this in theatres also. Loved the nudity, of
course. Acting was first rate also, but the movie
was slow, poorly paced and not a bit scary. Best
thing about it, beyond Nastassia's nudity, was the
David Bowie theme song!
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Jeepers Creepers 2
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I liked this movie. Very scary, well directed and
great make-up/creature. Unfortunately, DaSilva
seemingly can't help himself in inserting some
homoerotic content at the end of the movie, when
three youths excit a pickup truck and one of the
young "men" is shirtless for no reason
whatsoever.
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Alien 3
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Movie was a total bummer. Beginning with killing
off the harmless little girl who went through hell
to survive the previous installment. Just an
utterly depressing and boring sequel.
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Flight Of The Living Dead: Outbreak On A Plane
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Sorry, it was just OK. It had decent acting and
production values--but I just can't STAND how this
copied the Dawn of the Dead redux with RUNNING
ZOMBIES! Zombies don't run. They're just not
scary or creepy when they run--there just run of
the mill rabid killers. When you have a great
concept of normal people in a contained setting
aboard a flying plane--WTF do you need the zombies
to run? There's no where for the suvivors to run!
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