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Brotherly Brutality

Advantages: Good horror
Disadvantages: All gets a bit daft towards the end

...thing about eyes and videotapes. Evil Dead Trap must surely be the most popular one yet then, because this movie has both. Suffice it to say that, having watched this, I should strongly advise against opening any anonymous mail that is sent to you from Japan. Evil Dead Trap (crap title, don't you think?) really is a very bizarre movie - a perfect example of the wacky and, in all honesty, rather perverted imagination of the Japanese film maker. At ...
...Without giving too much away, Evil Dead Trap is like a combination of My Little Eye, Saw, Alien and Hallowe'en - and if that all sounds a bit too much, it probably is! Toshiharu Ikeda has a flair for the subject matter. At times, Evil Dead Trap is visually very effective, with little flourishes of a sinister imagination peppered around the place. Darkness is briefly illuminated by a camera flash. Dark. Flash. Dark. Flash. Something scuttles across ...

LostWitness 12.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Evil Dead Trap (Subtitled) (Wide Screen) (DVD)

Rock and Roll!!! With zombies?!

Advantages: completely random, strangely original
Disadvantages: a little two bizarre for some...

...the thing for you. Wild Zero is a rock and roll zombie gore fest for those of us light hearted (or drunk) enough not to care. After all, how many movies have a drinking game to go with them? The film is centred on the rockabilly craze in modern day japan, with the rock and roll band Guitar Wolf, and the protagonist- Ace, 1950s style biker loser. On the way to a concert on his trusty motorbike, he meets a nice girl, and some not so nice zombies! ...
...eyebrows and laughing. It's definately one for the bizarre pile. Personally, I quite enjoyed it. It was obviously not a film to be taken seriously, the acting was pretty funny, I liked the characters, and the guitar wolf soundtrack was great. The twist halfway through was thoroughly unexpected and completely unique. It's the kind of movie you watch just for entertainment, not for enlightenment or feeling. Afterall, it is a rock and roll zombie ...

madlilnerd 16.12.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Wild Zero (Subtitled) (DVD)

So a bunch of eejits go camping, eh

Advantages: Funny at times
Disadvantages: Badly directed, nothing happens for most of film

Legal systems across the world and especially in the U.S.A. are notorious for a disproportionate amount of their criminal convictions being working-class ethnic minorities. But in this dull, baaad film we have eight young people all doing community service. They’re mostly rich, mostly white, mostly stupid and all annoying in some way. They’re being sent into the woods to clean it up over after the holiday season under the watchful eye of Ranger/wannabe-drillseargent ...
...majority of this film and by saying that I mean nothing happens for the majority of this film. Our characters all moan and are arrogant in one way or another despite being very obedient for apparently rebellious criminals. Rather than come to learn about their characters we just learn about their crimes, that are all far-fetched and also that basically that they’re all stupid. I mean the characters in this film are so stupid that it’s almost an insult ...

Phelthew 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Grizzly Park (DVD)

Anyone for a Bella sandwich with vampires and werewolves?

Advantages: Casting, FX, action scenes
Disadvantages: Drawn out romantic bits

...all, I woud suggest watching Twilight before watching this, as there will be a number of things that may seem confusing otherwise. Brief Plot Essentially, in a nutshell, Bella has moved to Forks, a desolately damp, rainy and gloomy town, to live with her father Charlie, the chief of police. She encounters Edward Cullen at her new school, they fall in love, she finds out he's a vampire. The first film saw a frantic chase and fight where other vampires ...
...the more impressive elements of Twilight was the FX adopted to show how the vampires move. The superspeed, the strength, the use of slow motion to emphasise these elements. All this is just as good, if not better, in New Moon, but is completely overshadowed by the superb FX used with the werewolves. It's the transformation element, and as the characters in their human form merge into their wolf forms, it's astounding. They do it 'on the fly', or ...

pmcds 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Twilight Saga - New Moon (DVD)

Shrooms

Advantages: Decent Ending
Disadvantages: Unoriginal

...[Film Only Review] Shrooms is a horror/thriller, which was released back in 2007. Written by Pearse Elliott and directed by Breathnatch, Shrooms is about a group of Americans travelling to an Irish forest to collect shrooms (magic mushrooms) and then to experience the weird 'trips' you get by taking them. The movie revolves around Tara (Lindsey Haun) who has taken one of the bad shrooms and is experiencing less than normal trips. The rest of ...
...shrooms and it's up to Tara to make sense of it all. Lindsey Haun ... Tara Jack Huston ... Jake Max Kasch ... Troy Maya Hazen ... Lisa Alice Greczyn ... Holly Robert Hoffman ... Bluto I was watching this because I had heard the name mentioned before and after skipping through all the various channels on Sky, this seemed to be the only thing worth watching. The movie lacks any originality, following a worn out idea that no longer hold any surprises. ...

Wils0408n 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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