36th Ryder Cup DVD

Advantages: none other than Winona Ryder was in it
Disadvantages: the story

...I was really looking forward to this film - firstly its a horror film (and I love horror films) and secondly it had Winona Ryder in!! The film starts with Ryder being invited along to an exorcism on a mental patient. Through flashbacks you learn that she was once the subject of exactly the same treatment. The exorcism complete - though not neccessarily successful - Ryder's character steals the books the patient had been writing in and begins to decode the numeric coded scribblings. Having decoded the ramblings of this supposed possessed inmate - who is now comatose after a stroke - she finds that Ben Chaplin is to become the reincarnation of the Devil. Chaplin's character is a sceptic who writes books about mass murderers. Having been warned by Ryder and various other lunatic priests and psychics - he starts to believe and ... well... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: cinematography
Disadvantages: story, lack of chemistry between leads

...I saw this 'tearjerker' on a flight coming back from New Zealand in February, and frankly I'd not given it a second thought since I saw an advert in the paper for it and thought 'my god, they've released it in the cinema?'. Frankly it's a straight to video, or straight to the TV to be honest. However, with heavyweights like Richard Gere and Winona Ryder playing the leads, what else can you expect. Even Elaine Strich thrown in for good measure who plays Ryder's grandmother. Set in New York (unsurprisingly given the title) it starts with Ryder celebrating a twenty-something birthday and Gere then appears on the screen. He'd previously dated her late mother, and of course Granny (Strich) is less than happy when Gere starts pursuing Ryder. His reputation as a womanising self-centred restauranteur doesn't exactly make him family... Read review

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Advantages: sleeping in chair
Disadvantages: long, boring, dull

...Lost Souls stars Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin and John Hurt to name a few. Winona Ryder plays a recovering exorcist victim. She is plagued by evil imagery, and through out the film has to control her fear. The film starts off well with an exorcism but it struggles to build up the plot to an ending, which is very dull indeed. Its seem dark and yet very unsatanic making evil seem well nothing out of the usual. Its temperament is mild compared to the imagery in The Exorcist and other films of that genre, and makes Satan to be a regular person like you or me. I do not know what I have missed but there seems to be a flurry of ghost and end of world films in the last year, is there something I do not know about? To me the film was too long and drawn out, and not violent and lacked horror content. Okay it had a few “I jumped” scenes... Read review

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