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Nosferatu

Advantages: Creepy silence
Disadvantages: None, unless you dislike silent movies

Nosferatu was and still is one of the creepiest horrors of all time. The silence throughout the film adds to the atmosphere in a very unsettling way. Nosferatu was originally meant to be based on Bram Stokers Dracula but was denied the rights making the director change the title and vampires name to Count Orlok. It was banned in Sweden because of its graphic nature at the time but the ban was lifted in 1972. Even though it is dated and considered ...

nautilis 28.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Nosferatu (DVD)

"What I want for Christmas is please go away"

Advantages: A highpoint of the screen ghost story
Disadvantages: May seem dated to some

...a suspense-cum-horror tale shown by the BBC at Christmas in 1972. It is often cited as being the pinnacle of "Quatermass" author Nigel Kneale's output (tackling as it does one of his favourite themes; science meeting the paranormal or fantastic), and similarly regarded as possibly the very best ghost story ever made for television. Plot (spoilers included throughout this, and the rest of the review) ...
...their work, and learn from the site foreman (Iain Cuthbertson) that there is a room within the building that the workmen refuse to enter because it is haunted. The team's curiosity gets the better of them, and their probings reveal a set of stone steps seemingly leading nowhere. A particularly sensitive member of the team, a computer programmer named Jill (Jane Asher) finds herself alone in the room, and feels a sudden drop in temperature; fleeing, ...

greenierexyboy 04.11.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Stone Tape (DVD)

The Turn Of The Screw

Advantages: A potentially pants-filling viewing experience
Disadvantages: Some people can't abide having their pants filled

...is scientific fact' While Ghostwatch itself was obviously heavily influenced in its method of spinning a fictional tale by using the methods of the factual media by such obvious examples as 'The War Of The Worlds', it would seem to have triggered a new wave of interest in this form of story telling. In the near 17 years since its transmission, we have seen films such as 'The Blair Witch Project' (imagine how effective that would have been if you ...
...television shows such as 'The Day Today' and 'Brass Eye', and all the while the worldwide phenomenon of 'reality tv' (with its manipulation via editing of supposedly 'true' footage) has become the cathode ray staple of the age. As a race, as a nation, we have become far more media-conscious...possibly harder to deceive...and yet still collectively dumber. Go figure. And today, still 'Ghostwatch' casts its shadow. Just to show there's nothing original ...

greenierexyboy 31.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ghostwatch (DVD)

a comedy scary movie

Advantages: full comedy
Disadvantages: i dont know

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mustisoft 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Scary Movie (DVD)

The Mummy Returns!

Advantages: action/adventure
Disadvantages: non

The Mummy Returns The Mummy Returns is a good action adventure movie and a good follow up from the first movie! General information Running: 131 minutes Category: action/avonture Year: 2001 Director: Stephen Sommers Language: Engels Country: United States Actors: Brendan Fraser as Rick O’Connell Rachel Weiz as Evelyn Carnahan John Hannah as Jonathan Carnahan Arnold Vosloo as Imhotep The story The Mummy Returns It’s almost 10 ...
...defeated the mummy Imhotep and now they got an eight year old son called Alex. But at the same time a cult has summoned Imhotep from his dead and his plan is to conquer the world by defeating the Scorpion king. The Scorpion King lived thousands of years ago and was conquering the world with his army. Only when he and his army came into the desert they died of thirst, with only the Scorpion king alive. He called to the God of the underworld, Anubis, ...

JL132 27.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Mummy Returns (DVD)