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A very close shave....

Advantages: great cast, great story
Disadvantages: none for me

"A bleeding masterpiece" Sweeney Todd (The demon barber of Fleet street) to give the film its full name was released just less than a year ago, the film was showing at cinemas from the 25th January and I remember the queues were huge! Set in 19th century London, Sweeney Todd tells the story of a wronged man; Benjamin Barker, he is just returning (illegally) from deportation to Australia for a crime he didn't commit, he is helped by a young sailor ...
...incredibly spooky....but somehow still sexy Sweeney Todd and Helena Bonham Carter is equally disturbing as the crazy Mrs Lovett. Alan Rickman plays the evil Judge Turpin and carries this part off well. But I don't think the film really needed the odd performance from Sacha Baron Cohen as all I can think when I see him is Ali G! With scary films the ending is usually easy to see coming but I think in this case the twist is unexpected and really shocked ...

leanne8686 26.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Sweeney Todd - Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (DVD)

Queen of the damned

Advantages: Atmosphere, classic vampire
Disadvantages: May be too slow, melodramatic black white film for the modern viewers

Supposedly adapted from Bram Stoker´s short story Dracula´s guest (1914) but actually based on the original screenplay by Garret Fort, Dracula´s daughter opens just after the end of Dracula (1931): Van Helsing (now called as VON Helsing, but again played by Edward Van Sloan) is arrested for the murder of Dracula! While the Count´s daughter, pseudonymous (?) Countess Marya Zaleska (Gloria Holden) starts to attack both male and female victims in foggy ...
...earlier film - are forgotten, Van Helsing asks help from rather cold psychiatrist (Otto Kruger). Heroine Marguerite Churchill looks especially good in gorgeous rose-decorated evening dress, but her character is not any more sympathetic - she even tries to sabotage the meetings between the psychiatrist and his client! Still, this is atmospheric little movie for the friends of the Universal´s monster classics; it also shows sympathetic and (at least ...

scarletpurity 18.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Dracula's Daughter (DVD)

a comedy scary movie

Advantages: full comedy
Disadvantages: i dont know

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mustisoft 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Scary Movie (DVD)

The Mummy Returns!

Advantages: action/adventure
Disadvantages: non

The Mummy Returns The Mummy Returns is a good action adventure movie and a good follow up from the first movie! General information Running: 131 minutes Category: action/avonture Year: 2001 Director: Stephen Sommers Language: Engels Country: United States Actors: Brendan Fraser as Rick O’Connell Rachel Weiz as Evelyn Carnahan John Hannah as Jonathan Carnahan Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep The story The Mummy Returns It’s almost 10 ...
...defeated the mummy Imhotep and now they got an eight year old son called Alex. But at the same time a cult has summoned Imhotep from his dead and his plan is to conquer the world by defeating the Scorpion king. The Scorpion King lived thousands of years ago and was conquering the world with his army. Only when he and his army came into the desert they died of thirst, with only the Scorpion king alive. He called to the God of the underworld, Anubis, ...

JL132 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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The Suddenly Sensation of Supernatural

Advantages: good plot, talented actors
Disadvantages: some parts get a little scary

Supernatural follows the stories of Dean and Sam Winchester. Sam Winchester has made a good life from his curious childhood. Sam is studying to be a lawyer at Standford University and him and his girlfriend are very close. Then, after not seeing each other for years, Dean, Sam's brother, shows up at Sam's room. Dean tells his brother that 'Dad's on a hunting trip, and he hasn't been home in a few days." Sam instantly knows what Dean means. Sam and ...
...hunted ghosts, deamons, and any supernatural being. Sam had run away trying to escape from that life and he told his brother that he wouldn;t join him; however, after a trageic event, Sam and Dean hit the road to search for their father who has gone missing. Throughout their search they hunt down deamons and other beings. Episode Guide: "Pilot" "Wendigo" "Dead in the Water" "Phantom Travelor" "Bloody Mary" "Skin" "Hookman" "Bugs" "Home" ...

secret23 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Supernatural - Series 1 - Vol.1 (Box Set) (DVD)