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The perfect modulation of Horror and Comedy.

Advantages: Improves on the original is nearly everyway. Bruce Campbell is the man!. A trumendous blend of genres.
Disadvantages: Your mother might not like it...

...plaudits and cult status THE EVIL DEAD gained after it's release way back in 1981 it was certainly not a movie for everyone (your mom for example). So the movie wasn't exactly a blockbuster and Sam Raimi was still stuck making low budget flicks. So when the studio decided to give him the modest sum of 3 million dollars to make EVIL DEAD 2 he chose to make it less gory and more humorous. An idea that worked surprisingly well, not only did it take ...
...it is common misconception that EVIL DEAD 2 is a remake of THE EVIL DEAD. The truth is that this is indeed a sequel but because Raimi couldn't get the right's to show a re-cap of the first film he shot a simplified 5 minute version of the whole of the first movie and stuck it at the front of this one. Instead of Ash (Campbell) and his 3 friend's, it's just him and his girlfriend Laura who show up at the start of the film. Laura is possessed and attacks ...

moxon123 04.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Evil Dead 2 (DVD)

The Hitcher

Advantages: A suspenseful film with some great extras
Disadvantages: None

...Halsey is falling asleep at the wheel, so when he sees a hitchhiker on the side of the road he decides to go against his mother's advice and pick him up. The hitchhiker says his name is John Ryder but he refuses to give any other information, including where he is heading. Ryder forces Jim to speed past an abandoned vehicle at the side of the road, and this sparks Jim to be suspicious of his passenger. As a result he stops the car and asks him to ...
...Ryder explains that he killed the driver of the abandoned car and tells Jim that he is going to do the same to him and holds a knife to his throat. Jim manages to succeed in forcing Ryder from his car and drives away, thinking he has escaped from danger. However his connection with the mad hitcher has only just begun... Whereas other movies take this kind of urban legend starting point and turn it into a bland horror movie, THE HITCHER instead becomes ...

phurren2006 03.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Hitcher (Special Edition) (DVD)

Watch watchers

Advantages: still a good story
Disadvantages: unfaithful to the book

This film is loosely based on the book by Dean Koontz. I do mean loosely aswell. Travis Cornell as changed from an EX-DELTA force soldier to a ten year old boy. Travis's mum is the romanic lead in the book. These are little niggles but the film is still good. The story is about a goverment experiment that has gone wrong. It starts off with an explosion at a factory. Two animals escape, one has been bred for intelligence and the other for pure brute ...
...intelligent dog. However on their tale is a psycho federal agent (Michale Ironside) LEM JOHNSON and the viscous animal is never far behind leaving a path of destruction and whenever the animal kills it takes the eyes of its victims. Not faithful to the book, and Dean Koontz felt his book had been murdered. Still a good film, and will make you jump. The effects could have been better but it was a low-budget film, still pleasantly enjoyable. There ...

johnnyhaupt 22.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Watchers (DVD)

Where wolf?

Advantages: Lycanthropy
Disadvantages: Takes a while to get started

This film is the journey of a news reporter, Karen White (played by Dee Wallace) who goes hunting for a serial killer, Eddie Qvist (Robert Picardo) and gets dragged into something much deeper. After the killer is shot and killed by a police officer she is sent to a retreat in the countryside called "The Colony", run by a pyschologist who unbeknown to her is a werewolf (or Lycan, depending on what kind of film you have seen) There's only two ways ...
...this movie. Thought on the film: It takes around 40 minutes before it really gets started, so it can drag at first, but the last half is pretty good as Lycan films go. The werewolves are fairly realistic, with them not being made to look perfect, more twisted and dishevelled. Music: A bit eerie at times, but nothing of note in the film. Acting: Surprisingly good considering a fairly no-name cast. Things I've learned from this film: 1. In times ...

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Review of The Howling (Special Edition) (DVD)

"I want my Son back!!"

Advantages: A Very emotional and moving filmm very well acted.
Disadvantages: It happened in real life.

THE CHANGELING (2008) "I used to tell Walter, "Never start a fight... but always finish it." I didn't start this fight... but by God, I'm going to finish it." This review is a 'film only' review as it is a film that I watched on Sky Movies. It is the 2008 film, 'Changeling', directed by Clint Eastwood and written by J Michael Straczynski. The film is actually based on real life events that took place in Los Angeles in 1928, wait that is wrong, it's ...
...story, even the names have stayed the same. I have to admit to starting to watch the film with a little aprehension, as Angelina Jolie is not an actress I am particularly fond of and I was a little in the dark about Eastwood's direction. As soon as the film started I have to say that I was very impressed with the setting and the vehicles, it certainly looked very authentic. THE STORY The story was about a single mother - Christine Collins, she worked ...

seanbond87 24.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Changeling (DVD)