Advantages: Surprisingly good picture for such a low budget film, although age is starting to show through Disadvantages: All the extras are the same as the previous DVD release
...be surprised how many times Evil Dead II appears on people's Top 10 lists. Hell even quite a few Top 5 lists may feature it. It might even occupy the top slot on some of those lists. The half remake/half sequel to the The Evil Dead was directed by the now very famous Sam Raimi a million years before he got his hands on Spider-Man and, perhaps unfairly, will always be seen as his masterpiece by genre fans. It wouldn't be until Drag Me To Hell ... ...release. Optimum Releasing has brought Evil Dead II to Blu-Ray as it did previously on DVD. In fact the extras on the back look very similar... Oh wait, they're the same. Of course this isn't a terrible thing, the commentary track for example is one of the funniest I've ever had the pleasure to hear. I actually like to put the film on every now and then to just listen to the track. Yes, I am that sad. The cast joke with each other and recall fond ...
Advantages: Very funny and imaginative, a great send-up of 1950s teenage sci-fi, colourful Disadvantages: None unless you don't like silliness
...as they babble hysterically about killer clowns and dead bodies in cotton candy cocoons. Meanwhile, several clowns make their way out of the 'tent' and head into the town... This is a really fun send-up of the lurid fifties teenage sci-fi B movie genre. The acting and direction are spot-on, with all the requisite cliched cardboard-cutout characters such as cheesy-acting teenagers, ultra-macho cops (a younger one who comes across as a Clint Eastwood ... ...in the form of the Killer Klowns who, as they interact with the townspeople, appear to be just cute and funny clowns entertaining various people with circus tricks - until they then turn their evil raygun on them and turn them into cotton candy cocoons. A scene where two Klowns trash the local corner store playing with the products, which are alien to them, is hilarious - they go through the whole store picking things up one by one, trying them out ...
Advantages: Good chase scenes Disadvantages: Lackluster ending
The Hidden is a rather obscure 1980's sci-fi/action film, starring Michael Nouri and Kyle MacLachlan, of "Twin Peaks" and "Showgirls" fame. Here he plays Lloyd Gallagher, an FBI agent who arrives in the city and is immediately paired up with Tom Beck (Michael Nouri) to tackle a bizarre event that seems to be happening. Normal, everyday people who no connection have all seemingly turned into psychopathic monsters, killing anyone who gets in their ... ...Gallagher be able to stop the alien before yet more lives are lost?
I bought this because of a recommendation on a forum I visit. I don't think I'd heard of it before, but I'm willing to give anything a try. After watching "The Hidden", I thought it was Ok, but not as good as other films that have been recommended to me.
I thought it was rather slow in places, with too much focus on the two cops not really doing anything. The music was a little ...
Walter_Kovacs 04.01.2009 ·Read full review
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Advantages: Great release of a little seen movie Disadvantages: Not the best Deodato movie, not overly gory either
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The Phantom Of Death
Straight on to Shameless' second DVD release a little known movie called The Phantom Of Death AKA Off Balance (Un Delitto Poco Comune as its known in its native Italy). Scarcely seen in the UK on its release back in 1988 to some degree this is the first proper release the movie has had in UK shores. Piano virtuoso Robert Dominici (Michael York) is much loved and famous face in Italy, but when his girlfriend ... ...guess you would classify The Phantom Of Death as Giallo, but unlike most its blatantly apparent whom the killer is in this movie. York as Dominici is a man troubled by a rare illness that causes him to age heavily and beyond his ears, so as the movie progresses we see him age from his mid thirties to a ninety year old man, obviously a little bit annoyed he takes his anger out on people that bother him; although beyond that there is not a great deal ...
Advantages: The DVD is cheap Disadvantages: Story, dialogue, acting, special features
...predictions are not always true. Intruder transpires to be a yawn a minute horror tale in which a group of late night supermarket workers are stalked by an unknown assailant. The problem with Intruder is that its just nothing new, it steals ideas from The Friday The 13th movies, uses named cast in order to add a touch of class to a very low budget and pointless film. There is a bit of humour, which really is not funny at all, but seems to think it ... ...off is just awful, there is no bonding with characters or their tedious acting. The storylines are tied together with the tiniest pieces of string. Then when all hell does break loose its on the whole rather pointless, and worse still they try to keep the killers identity secret, but at the same time developing a pathetic plot that makes it obvious exactly who the killer is.
The sets and fashions look dated and I suspect that's down to the fact ...
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