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Cannibal Taboo

Advantages: Graphic sexual Intent
Disadvantages: sexual violence of extreme kind and unpleasant to view

This is one sick sad sadistic movie nobody should see! The sleeve suggests a movie to do with Alfred packer who carried out a series of murders and related crimes in a gold mining area in 1874 but the movie has no relationship whatsoever to this and is totally and utterly misleading loaded with graphic sexual violence and is highly unsuitable viewing. the only good thing about the movie are the nice breasts appearing regularly throughout the movie ...
...at all. Quite what kevin Rapp was looking to achieve it beyond my understanding. the film is the platform for illustrating a psyopathic mother who participates as the leader in the death ritual of her coming of age children. Movies like Vacancy, The Ring, the Omen and Wrong turn are nothing compared to this. I assume it has never been certified for release at the cinema in UK or USA or any other civilzed country and thank God!! ...

pauldavid58 20.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Cannibal Taboo (DVD)

An Adaption Loaded with Flaws

Advantages: Some Pretty Good Performances and CGI is Great
Disadvantages: The Rest of the Performances are Forgettable, Screenplay is Goofy, and Action Scenes Have Flaws

...adaption of Anne Rice's novel Queen of the Damned. The story revolves around a vampire named Lestat who has just awoken from a long sleep. After he awakes he meets a band and becomes their lead singer. The band becomes a huge hit and the rest of the vampires living throughout the world don't like Lestat's public profile, and decide to attact Lestat at one of his massive concerts. Lestat also meets up with the man who made him, Marius, who warns ...
...I have to be honest, Queen of the Damned is not my favorite Anne Rice novel, it wasn't a terrible novel but it wasn't great either. The screenplay for this movie is really goofy and a lot of the dialogue isn't well thought out.. The acting is pretty mixed up, some is good and a lot is bad. Stuart Townsend plays Lestat in this movie and looks nothing like the character described in the book. Usually flaws like this is saved by the actors acting but ...

TheGame2k2 06.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Queen Of The Damned (DVD)

the curse of the dead........

Advantages: gripping, haunting images
Disadvantages: not enough blood

...of Mario Bava's other films, Kill Baby, Kill is actually a quiet ghost story. It still creates the air of suspense throughout the film, and keeps you on edge. The Plot Dr Paul Eswai receives a summons from Inspector Kruger to come to a small village in Transylvania. He is asked to perform an autopsy on the body of a young girl who was found impaled on iron railings. He is helped by Monica, who is ex-local girl. Whilst Dr Paul Eswai stays to help ...
...Graps. Melissa was a young girl who had been left to bleed to death after an accident by drunken villagers. Her spirit is said to still roam the village and whoever catches sight of it suffers the same fate she did. Soon, one by one, the villagers start dying. Inspector Kruger is also found dead. Dr Paul Eswai needs to find a way to stop the deaths before he suffers from the same fate. The main characters Rossi-Stuart as Dr Paul Eswai Piero Lulli ...

madhatter7880 27.07.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Kill Baby Kill (DVD)

A Daughter of Horror Hits Skid Row

Advantages: Surreal, weird fantasy; a fascinating one-off
Disadvantages: May be too weird for some

Starring: Adrienne Barrett as The Gamine Bruno VeSota as Rich Man Ben Roseman as Gamine's Father / Plainclothes Cop Richard Barron as Evil One This is one weird film - probably one of the, if not THE, very weirdest you'll ever see. Although classified on Ciao as 'Horror', it really is a one-off that defies categorisation. This 1955 production is a very dark, very surreal, very odd and somewhat disturbing film that, if there was a category called ...
...under. It has far more in common with 1920s German Expressionism and the Surrealist movement, than any modern definition of a horror film. The film consists of a series of frightening experiences a young woman encounters during one night in a bad part of a big city, after she wakes up in a cheap hotel room. There is no dialogue in the movie, just a brilliant soundtrack consisting of cool 1950s jazz, avant-garde orchestral music, and the voice of ...

thereddragon 16.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dementia (DVD)

Attack of the Killer Pigeons <Guffaw>

Advantages: Has the right B Movie Feel
Disadvantages: But just ain't scary!

...of humans being attacked by birds that are otherwise normally very docile. It seems that bird-kind has had enough of being pushed around and now it is the humans who are in their way, as opposed to the other way round. The similarities to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds are evident - conceptually, Birds of Prey is roughly about the same idea. Sadly, in the hands of a far less visionary director, and with a far smaller budget, Birds of Prey is unlikely ...
...Heel and saves the day. Birds of Prey plays roughly to this formula. The setting is slightly unusual - the action takes place in Spain rather than the USA - but otherwise things play to a tried and tested formula. Events start out on a small scale and then quickly escalate until they've suddenly got out of hand. There are those who disbelieve, rapidly persuaded otherwise when they see the problem with their own hands. And then there are the innocents; ...

LostWitness 14.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Birds Of Prey (DVD)