Horror > Combs, Jeffrey Horror

Comedy horror

Advantages: Comical, Michael J Fox
Disadvantages: Overly silly at times

In the small town of Fairwater, strange things are afoot - healthy people are dropping dead like flies. Frank Bannister is thrilled by all this - he is a paranormal investigator and hopes to make a good living out of other people's misery. He works in conjunction with two ghosts, who visit his clients beforehand and pretend to be poltergeists, However, Frank is in over his head for once, because there is a more powerful force in Fairwater, and unless ...
...who recognises that Frank is the only person with the power to help. Will he take on the challenge? Or will it be too much for him? Produced by Robert Zemeckis and directed by Peter Jackson, I was quite surprised that I hadn't heard of this 1996 film before, particularly as it stars Michael J Fox. It was really good to see Fox again - he reminds me so much of my teen years, and although he is perhaps not the best actor in the world, he is certainly ...

sunmeilan 27.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Frighteners (DVD)

The House is coming to get you

Advantages: Geoffrey Rush
Disadvantages: slightly dodgy CGI

...a night in the haunted house and come out alive will get a million dollars. This is a remake of a 1958 film, but has been vastly improved and is thoroughly more enjoyable. As with other modern Horror movies (Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer), there is plenty of dark humour to lighten up the mood of the film. There also enough twists and turns in the story along with some very scary moments which make you jump, that there should be something ...
...are plenty of surprises in House on Haunted Hill. The only real negative about the film is the ending, which succumbs to the standard Hollywood ending, rather than surprising you with something knew. The main character in the film is Stephen H. Price, played by Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean). His character has been based on the character played by Vincent Price in the original and Rush has done a worthy job of picking up on the look and ...

christianfilmcritic 07.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of House On Haunted Hill (DVD)

Talking Heads will never sound the same again...

Advantages: Fun, silly, gory, and actually well acted - oh and great music!
Disadvantages: Dumb plot and lame script

Re-Animator is a trashy, silly gore-fest of a horror movie, from 1985. Like most horror films, it has developed into something of a franchise, with a 1990 sequel, Bride of Re-Animator, a 2003 sequel, Beyond Re-Animator, and an upcoming sequel planned for 2008, House of Re-Animator. This one actually sounds quite good, since it will apparently star William H Macy as the President of the USA! Imagine that! Anyway, I'm reviewing the original. It tells ...
...that you could possibly take Re-Animator seriously, since it is just a trashy B-Movie, complete with buckets of fake blood, several eye-gougings, and even a talking severed head. These effects are really quite good; maybe not as bloody as The Evil Dead, for example, but still more than enough to have any squeamish viewer reaching for the sick bag. The acting of the main characters is also surprisingly good - much better than the lame script deserved. ...

l-m-n-o-p 01.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Re-Animator (DVD)

The Return of Jeff

Advantages: Jeffrey Combs
Disadvantages: Not as original as the first

...I attended the Nothing Shocking horror festival around 1991 at the Scala cinema Kings Cross and actuall won the right hand of the Bride from this film that had been hacked off on the last day of shooting by a member of the FX crew - I still have it. ...

tilly77 11.05.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Bride Of Re-Animator (DVD)

A weak follow-up

Advantages: Some good one liners
Disadvantages: Music, script, acting, poor follow up, ...

Trancers 2, is a weak follow-up to the original ,"Trancers". At the start of the film, the scene is set by Jack Deth narrating: Talks about how he spent a lot of time wandering around, knowing a killer quake is comming in the future of 2063, ... blah, blah, blah.... The first film was not all that bad but the actors that were in the first film look weary and board. While Jack Deth sounds fine doing the voice over narration, in the film itself he ...
...really state-of-the-art, even for this era. The music in the film was electronic/synthesizer and anoying. Trancers 2 may be somewhat watchable for some Sci-Fi viewers. Its the sort of film thats worth watching on a Saturday night if you've got no friends or nothing better to do. ...

dogard 10.01.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Trancers 2 (DVD)