Horror > 1987 Horror

Say Hello to the Night

Advantages: Fantastic Film with a great cast
Disadvantages: Slightly dated for some people

The Lost Boys Say Hello to the Night Sleep all day Party all night It's fun to be a vampire It may be an unusual take to write a review on a film which was created in 1987, though this, I believe, is one of those classic films that live on no matter how many years have gone past. I first watched it as a teenager with one of my friends and we fell in love with it straight away and years later I finally brought it on DVD and have already watched it ...
...as good special effects for the time, they are not so much a spot on the horizon for modern day special effects, though I feel this has to be kept in mind. OUTSIDE THE LOST BOYS The Lost Boys in title was originally in reference to the Peter Pan stories by J.M.Barrie and was directed by Joel Schumacher. The cast list is a really great cast for the time and includes big names such as Kiefer Sutherland and Dianne Wiest. A large part of the movie was ...

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Review of The Lost Boys (DVD)

Thank god I could never solve a rubik's cube!!!

Advantages: cheap, atmospheric, terrifying
Disadvantages: starting to look a little dated

WE WILL TEAR YOUR SOUL APART!!!! Generally speaking, the Eighties were not good to the horror film. Films made in this decade were either comedy horror's like evil dead, or films that were designed to make you jump, like nightmare on Elm Street. Most times, films like this were not truly scary. More often than not, it was the orchestral soundtrack that made you jump, rather than a particularly scary plot or effect. There were, however, occasional ...
...possible to pull the proverbial needle from the Eighties haystack. One such needle, is Clive Barker's directorial debut, Hellraiser. Barker was not well known. Previously he had written three short horror storybooks called the 'Books of blood'. Although highly enjoyable in their own right, they are more notable for the quote that was published on the front cover. " I have seen the future of horror, and his name is Clive Barker ". When Something like ...

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Review of Hellraiser (Special Edition) (DVD)

Reminiscent of the Living Dead...

Advantages: Decent direction
Disadvantages: Poor script, bad acting

...I remember them. Return of the Living Dead part 2 (1987) This is a very disappointing sequel. The acting is more hammy, the jokes are too obvious, the special effects are too cheesy, the characters more clichéd and they have committed what’s normally a cardinal sin of horror; the introduction of children as central characters. A feat pulled off by very few, The Shining and The Lost Boys spring to mind. But they had the resources of good actors, ...
...and Freddy from the original) return as Ed and Joey; the grave robbers. They start well but soon succumb to a lot of overacting (Lots of “wooahh , it hurts!” and the like). It seems they’ve done it all before and realise that this time it’s just a bit pants. Michael Kenworthy is Jesse, who gave a decent performance in The Blob (1988), but here is just another annoying kid. Suzanne Snyder (Weird Science 1985, Retribution 1988) is the grave robbers ...

ThePolarOne 02.09.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Return Of The Living Dead 2 (DVD)

Zombies - The truth!

Advantages: Interesting fact based horror.
Disadvantages: Very slow start

...one man's nightmarish journey into the eerie and deadly world of voodoo. Bill Pullman (Spaceballs, Independence Day) stars as a Harvard anthropologist who is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the ability to turn people into zombies. In his quest for the drug the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of the walking dead, blood rites and ancient curses. Not your typical zombie movie, "The Serpent and the ...
...are instead human vegetables under the influence of drugs. This may sound a little boring…and it is, but its not all that bad…Ok so it is. One tiny quibble that I have is that director Wes Craven seems to be more interested in putting across the facts of the true story rather than the horror. Having said this there are a few terrifying moments, including the scene where Pullman is buried alive with a huge tarantula on his face. Oh and there is the ...

pizzacat 11.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of The Serpent And The Rainbow (DVD)

big budget horror turns into low budget rubbish

Advantages: none
Disadvantages: thrown together

The first Creepshow film - based on the old Weird Tales/EC Comics of the 50's - was a big budget all star anthology film. It was a collaboration between George A Romero and Stephen King (who even starred in one of the stories) and had stars like Ted Danson, Leslie Nielsen, Ed Harris. This one has no stars - no decent director but surprisingly a screenplay from George A Romero and the last segment The Raft actually written by King (who I dont rate ...
...The stories are basic and bland - the first one has a Wooden Red Indian that you see outside US stores in films like this, coming to life to kill those who robbed and killed the storeowner, the 2nd, The Raft, has a group of generic teens terrorised by a black blob that looks like oil slick whilst sunning themselves on a raft in a lake and the final one is a rip off of an old Hammer House of Horror story from their 70's magazine - hit and run driver ...

tilly77 11.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Creepshow 2 (DVD)