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The Window to the Soul

Advantages: Stunning imagery, pathos, intriguing plot and characters.
Disadvantages: Ignores the substance at times in favour of art.

Eyes Without a Face or Les Yeux Sans Visage to give the film its original French title is an unforgettable piece of French horror cinema. Filmed in 1959, the scenes of horror may be decidedly tame in comparison to modern cinema, yet the film has a story and vision that have endured the years. The plot of the film focuses on Doctor Génessier (Pierre Brasseur) whose daughter has been left with a horrifically disfigured face following a car accident. ...
...is the simplistic premise behind Eyes Without a Face. At the time the film was made, director Georges Franju was advised not to upset European censors and therefore to refrain from using too much blood, scenes of animal torture or to present a stereotypical mad scientist. Since all three of these elements are essential to the film, it is a tribute to Franju's talents as a director that he managed to present these elements with such subtlety as to ...

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Death Note Movie Version (DVD)

Advantages: totally worth to collect
Disadvantages: if you not a DN fan or movie freak, then you will not really interested in it

Death Note (デスノート, Desu NÅto?) is a series of two live-action Japanese films released in 2006 and based on the Death Note manga and anime series by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. The films primarily center on a university student who decides to rid the world of evil with the help of a supernatural notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. The two films were directed by ShÅ«suke Kaneko, produced by Nippon Television, and distributed ...
...as the "Death Note". The Death Note's instructions claim that if a person's name is written within it while picturing that person's face, that person shall die. Light is initially skeptical of the notebook's authenticity, but after experimenting with it, he realizes that the Death Note is real. Soon he is visited by the Note's original owner, a shinigami named Ryuk. After that meeting, Light seeks to become "the God of the New World" by passing his ...

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a review on paranormal activity

Advantages: was really creepy
Disadvantages: it wasnt real

...was really interested in seeing paranormal activity as soon as i seen the trailer for it. i love anything to do with ghosts and haunted houses. paranormal activity is set out to look real like the blair witch project was, its centered around two people a couple called katie and micah. weird things start happening in their house so micah decides to set up a video camera to try find an answer to whats going on. They soon realise that all the creepy ...
...few nights of freaky things happening she decides to call out a spiritualist to their house. as soon as he arrives he senses and evil presence and tells katie shes being haunted and gives her a number of a demonologist to call. katie debates wether or nto to call him and in the mean time freaky things start to happen i dont wana give away to much to spoil it but i found her sleep walking freaky. after a week she phones this guy and as soon as he ...

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PMS Can Be A Devil

Advantages: Disturbing, chilling atmosphere
Disadvantages: Not all it's cracked up to be; terrible special effects, some laughable bits

...beginning to drastically differ from the sweet young girl she once was. When doctors examine Regan they find that she turns violent and screams profanities at them which she has never done before. Doctors decide that a physiatrist may be the best option for Regan, but when all else fails Regan’s Mother is forced to turn to the church… I wasn’t around when The Exorcist was first released back in 1973 but have heard numerous things about the film ...
...to watch the film but have always been hesitant due to all the harrowing things I’ve heard about it. The film has been named ‘The Scariest Film Of All Time’… fitting? I still don’t know. I have heard about people committing suicide after seeing the film but curiosity got the better of me and surely 36 years after it’s initial release the film wouldn’t be able to achieve the same shock factor would it? That I can’t effectively answer, after seeing ...

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Review of The Exorcist (DVD)

Gory, gritty and deliciously fun, a worthy sequel to the original

Advantages: Gritty, suspenseful and jumpy - a solid horror
Disadvantages: Ridiculous plot lines in places, a little too gory on occasions

...on a regular basis with the pap often served up by Hollywood of late, both myself and my friend went to see the first Descent film without much expectation and with only the merest of hope we may at least get the odd nervous jump and maybe a quiet giggle at what will probably be another big busted beauty running around in her well-matched knickers. We were very wrong, the original film was gritty, well-shot and was, in our opinion, one of the best ...
...they were going to follow the original film on as it had left our feisty protagonist in a rather inescapable position, however, within the first few minutes of the film we see her again – bloody but free from the cavern of terror that had claimed so many of her friends. With suspicions running high as to the fate of the young women, and with Sarah's memory a complete blank, she is coerced into returning to the caves to assist with the rescue mission ...

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