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Tremors

Advantages: Good humorous movie with a silly creature
Disadvantages: a bit sloppy on the special effects

...as the reason for the tremors around the desert are unearthed, leading to one of the weirdest creatures ever to grace our screens. The acting is a bit questionable and the special effect team need to go back to school but if you don't take the movie as a true thriller/horror, more a comedy/thriller type, then this can be an entertaining movie all round. Would I recommend this movie….? Well yes, why not… It is entertaining if a little on the silly ...

blissman70 11.07.2008 · Read full review
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Pet Sematary Review

Advantages: Creepy, atmospheric
Disadvantages: Ghost character didn't bring much to the story

Pet Sematary is a film based on the novel by Stephen King. He also wrote the screenplay and cameos as a minister. The film centres around the Creeds, who have just moved to a new house in the countryside, a house that hasn't had anyone living in it for a long time. Their neighbor, Jud, tells them to be careful on the road as they are constantly being used by semis. He also shows them the Pet Sematary, where all the kids bury their pets after they ...
...markings on it past the Pet Sematary and tells the husband, Louis, to bury the cat there. Soon after the cat returns from the beyond, but he seems different: he's more aggressive and vicious than before. Soon, with the help of Jud, Louis realizes what happens. What he doesn't know though, is that he will soon need the help of that isolated hill again. I don't mean this in a macho way or anything, but it's very rare for a film to scare me, but this ...

Walter_Kovacs 11.01.2009 · Read full review
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Freddy Returns With More Jokes Than A Stand-Up Act

Advantages: Great directing, decent acting, gory if viewing the unrated version
Disadvantages: Freddy’s still trying to be funny, the rated version Is ow on the gore, not all of the acting is exceptional

...elements gained, the film as a whole is much more likeable and has turned into one of the sequels that I don’t mind watching. Unlike “Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare,” the supposedly “last” film in the series, the film take itself a little more seriously. The dark, gloomy look of “The Dream Child” gives the audience a precedence of atmosphere that the “Nightmare On Elm Street” sequels lacked. Although Freddy is still a jokester and you’ll laugh ...
...worst and it actually provides a good time for yours truly whenever I decide to watch it. The plot is much more original; it’s unarguably the most original throughout any of the sequels. Instead of relying on the plot thread of Freddy using a victim’s dreams to claim souls, we get a more complex idea. For this entry, Alice (Lisa Wilcox) and a new group of friends have just graduated high school. Starting with this, it’s a nice detail that means ...

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"I am Iron Man...": Tetsuo the Iron Man

Advantages: Excellent cinematography, brilliant soundtrack, unusual and shocking
Disadvantages: a complete mind bending confusion!

A fascinating and at times disturbing look into the world of fetishism and sado-masochism. It'd be near impossible to convey any sort of story line in the form of a review, but there is a loose narrative of sorts, involving a man's quest for revenge and his transformation from a meek Japanese business man into a hybrid of man and machine, hell bent on destruction and, it is finally revealed, apocalypse. The power of this film to shock lies more in ...
...the story itself is something of a classic revenge story, but it is executed (pardon the pun) with such finesse in terms of cinematography it really does warrant multiple views. The entire film is set to a brilliant soundtrack (if your idea of brilliance is similiar to mine, encompassing) elements of krautrock, noise, punk, breakcore and psychadelia, that really adds to the shock value of the film. Distinctly "art-house" in it's production, don''t ...

Azran 04.06.2008 · Read full review
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Not all B movies are bad movies

Advantages: It's a B sci-fi movie, cheesy action and cheesy violence
Disadvantages: it's a B sci-fi movie and some people might not like it

-------------------------- CLASS OF 1999 -------------------------- In a near future (like the title says... 1999) underage crime will go out of control, schools will be war zone for gangs and will look like high security prisons with police check points and metal detectors at the entrance, teachers object of all sort of abuses. These are the premesis of this sci-fi film. In answer to this uncontrollable situation the new principal of the Ronald ...
...quality though. ---------------- Class of 1999 ---------------- Year: 1990 Runtime: 99 minutes UK Rating: 18 (honestly I would have put at most a 16) Director: Mark L. Lester (who directed also the cheesy "Commando" with Schwarznegger) Notable actors: Bradley Gregg (who starred previously in Stand By Me and Explorer) Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) Pam Grier (Jackie Brown and many others) Patrick Kilpatrick (appeared in many ...

EVIT 12.10.2008 · Read full review
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