Horror > Atkins, Tom Horror

One of the best films of the director !

Advantages: rare classic
Disadvantages: it's scary!!!

As i mentioned on the title this movie count as one of the best movies of the director like; The Thing, Halloween İf you are areal horror fan you must hve this movie for your archive. When we come to the story part of the movie it satified me cause iit has a rare story compare to the other horror movies.Jamie Lee Curtis again outstanding in this movie as she become horror QUEEN with Halloween series.When we look at the special effect s part ...

srsenman 31.01.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Fog (DVD)

What The Hell Happened

Advantages: dead cheap
Disadvantages: dead crap

Halloween 3 is one of the weirdest things ever produced. It is from the Halloween series however it has none of the stars or the characters from it. I mean what was the point in calling it Halloween, if you ask anyone about a movie called Halloween they imediately think of Micheal Myers. The simple reason for this is, (as with most other sequels) money. The producers knew that the name alone would draw interest from the large teenage movie goers ...
...up to the legacy of halloween and the result is that the franchise has be on a downward slide ever since. As for the film itself its rather misleading. You read the label Halloween and expect to get Micheal Myers, instead you get a mad scientist who creates robotic helpers and halloween masks that kill the wearers. I have, as yet, been unable to make any conection between this and the first two films. It isn't based in the same place and none of ...

zeptana 29.05.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Halloween 3 - Season Of The Witch (DVD)

Low Budget ‘Slasher’ Film fights Mediocrity

Advantages: Good central story with well played bad guy.
Disadvantages: Low production values, story drags, weak dialogue.

MANIAC COP (1988) Tagline: “You have the right to remain silent. Forever.” A series of horrific murders have occurred on the streets of New York. They appear related. Witnesses identify the killer as wearing a police officer’s uniform. Officer Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell) suddenly becomes the prime suspect with even his wife doubting him. With the help of love interest Theresa Mallory (Laurene Landon) and detective Frank McCrae (Tom Atkins) he ...
...is Robert Z’Dar as the maniac cop that steals the show. His strong physical presence combined with the image of the starched, authoritarian police uniform creates a very foreboding character. The very idea of fearing police officers late at night leaves a lasting impression. Larry Cohen’s (Phone Booth and a multitude of trashy low budget horror flicks) script does contain a strong central premise, which slowly reveals itself throughout the film. ...

ThePolarOne 19.06.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Maniac Cop (DVD)

Trick or Treat?

Advantages: The John Carpenter original, and H20
Disadvantages: The Curse storyline

...the film takes place on Halloween 1978, 15 years after a 6 year old killed his sister. The madman has now escaped from the asylum, donned a creepy mask, and headed back to the town of the original horror. Jamie Lee Curtis is Laurie Strode, the resourceful teenager who is stalked over the course of Halloween night by the masked man. Donald Pleasance turns up as an eerie doctor who has to try and bring Myers in alive. The performances are above average ...
...a scene from the original Halloween that subtly plays on a screen in a bar. It wasn't long before Michael returned though. After spending 10 years in a coma, he is now waking up for Halloween. After all, he wont be happy til everybody in his family is dead. We still dont know why though. What we do find out here is that Laurie Strode died in a car crash, and has left a child who now lives with over protective foster parents. She knows nothing about ...

bilbob20 28.03.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Halloween (Box Set) (DVD)

Creepy as Hell

Advantages: Superb musical score, hugely atmospheric, powerfully unsettling, simple but effective plot
Disadvantages: None

...of tension and suspense. In the hands of a lesser director, The Fog would have been just another generic horror film, (see the execrable 2005 remake if you don't believe me) but Carpenter instead manages to create an oppressive and unsettling film with his mix of eerily-lit shots, brooding off-screen menace and his trademark pulsing synths that ebb and flow throughout, gradually building up anxiety in the viewer on an almost subconscious level. The ...
...beacon and driving it onto the rocks, causing crew to drown before plundering the ship of gold and using it to establish the town. The local church houses a huge gold crucifix fashioned from the supposedly ill-gotten gold, and its curator, Father Malone, is a descendent to the head conspirator and town founder. On the hundredth anniversary of the shipwrecking a strange luminous fog begins to envelop the town, and strange figures with glowing eyes ...

Burning_Darkness 06.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Fog (DVD)