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AFTERLIFE - COMPLETE SERIES 1 & 2

Advantages: Spooky Thriller with great actors
Disadvantages: NON

 Afterlife - Box Set Series 1 & 2  STORY  If anyone is into the paranormal then this is a series you have to watch, originally shown on ITV Afterlife has to be one of the best award winning drama series going. Robert Bridge is a psychology teacher whose son was killed in a car accident. Alison Mundy is a psychic medium, the question is, is she a fraud or can she actually see sprits and get in touch with Robert's ...
...at a clairvoyance meeting he decides to follow her and write an autobiography about her, but the book he is writing is he trying to prove Alison is a fraud? Throughout the series we see Robert and Alison's friendship/relationship thrown into crisis as each other discover a lot about Robert and Alison's past. Each episode tells a story, this drama is one of those dramas where you're not sure what's going to happen next so it's best to have the lights ...

innercircle 22.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Afterlife/Afterlife 2 (Box Set) (DVD)

It all begins again.

Advantages: First Tom Baker story.
Disadvantages: Robot a bit dodgy, but it was 1974.

...2nd most important date in Doctor Who history. It was the televised debut of THE Doctor, played by Tom Baker. Following his regeneration, the Doctor has to assist UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce), and their enigmatic and old friend, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge Stewart in helping to solve some mysterious robberies. All these robberies involve the theft of parts to build the ultimate weapon, a disintegrator gun. The robberies are a mystery, ...
...are perpertrated by a Giant Robot. The Robot was built as a peaceful machine and as it wages a campaign of theft and also murder, it begins to go mad, as the Robot was built with a Prime Directive, not to hurt anyone. Its creator Professor Kettlewell appears to be an innocent victim of the Scientific Reform Society, who are using the Robot to acheve their aims. The destruction of the World and the creation of a 'newer, better World'. The only weakness ...

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Review of Doctor Who - Robot (DVD)

A plant that does what?

Advantages: Works around its limitations, gripping story
Disadvantages: The short episodes are a little irritating

This review refers specifically to the 1981 BBC adaptation of John Wyndham's novel, rather than the 1962 film. In the early 80s when I was tiny, I had to go to bed before nine o'clock. For a few weeks, this meant I could be terrified by strange creatures stalking my tv screen, but never the resolution. The fact I had to watch on a small black and white tv because the main set was designated to Coronation Street merely highlighted the scariness of ...
...story first published in 1951. The Day of the Triffids tells the story of Bill Masen, following a natural disaster and the devastating effect it has on the earth's population. For reasons that gradually become apparent, Masen has escaped the fate of the majority of the human race, but the world he is faced with is a far more uncertain and dangerous place. In addition to this natural disaster, Masen must learn to live with the omnipresent Triffids. ...

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Review of The Day Of The Triffids (DVD)

TRIFFIDS, ORCHID OR A FLOP?

Advantages: Good Value
Disadvantages: Poor Quality in Places, Low Special Effects

The Day Of The Triffids made in 1962 by Directors Steve Sekely (Night Of The Living Dead) and Freddie Francis (The Creeping Flesh & Torture Garden), from the book of the same name by author John Wyndham. The story..... All over the world a large meteorite shower can be seen hitting the Earth's atmosphere, a large spectacular shower that the Worlds press is reporting as being 'unprecedented shower of meteorites - a once in a lifetime spectacle that ...
...see this event. In the morning the World awakes to find that all those who saw the meteorite shower, are now blind. The population becomes a crazed, hysterical mass of violent and helpless people. Meanwhile, a hospital patient, Bill Masen who had under gone surgery on his eyes and didn't see the shower and therefore is one of the few people who can see. He leaves the Hospital and finds a little girl in the train station, wandering helplessly on ...

pc2308 14.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Day Of The Triffids (DVD)

If you think your children are bad...........

Advantages: felt realistic and well shot
Disadvantages: a little rushed

...a little idea as to the ending, as in it not being all hugs and fluffy bunnies unlike a lot of US horrors! So the plot! Well without giving loads away basically a family and friends go away for a stay in a house in the countryside. They bring of course their children which consist of 2 boys aged roughly 4, 8 and 2 girls aged around 6 and 9. There is also an older sister of around 16 who plays the bored teen. There is it would appear then a virus ...
...which is what lot of the films tend to do with this kind of thing, just totally evil, sadistic and manipulative which I also found to be almost amusing at time- as lets face it kids can be very good at getting what they want! This is not a long film and it all happens pretty quickly but then in all fairness if you were in that type of situation it probably wouldn't be too strung out either! Iwouldn;t say I developed much feeling for any of the actors ...

f1re_cr4cker 17.09.2009 · Read full review
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