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It's like a friday night down my local

Advantages: great all round entertaining movie
Disadvantages: none really... (apart from one or two 'iffy' scenes)

...Romero's night of the living dead… and with a rather good little twist of a finale it is sure to be a great movie to watch… If you do want to get a copy of this then you can get one from amazon.co.uk for as less than £6.00. ...

blissman70 23.11.2008 · Read full review
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The Golem legend is just not very interesting

Advantages: A classic of early foreign cinema
Disadvantages: poorly shot, poor plot, unintentionally very funny moment

Der Golem is a classic of early cinema, and while I have no wish to trample all over the oppression of the Jewish people etc, etc, this is a dull story and I have read the legend as well. The Golem is a Jewish story first written around the 1500s about the Jewish oppression that existed. All through history Jews have been persecuted and hated as moneylenders. So this is the inevitable film of this story. The Golem is created to defend the Jewish ...
...get on the DVD of Der Golem. 64 minutes of nothing particular. Somewhat amusingly Der Golem is also shot with the Golem carrying a shopping basket on his arm like an elderly lady. It is an unintentionally funny moment and is really something I shouldn't highlight it will ruin the story for you if you do watch it!! Compared to other films of the time (1920s) this is a poorly shot movie. The camera exposure sways in and out of light and dark, the ...

coleecip 12.05.2005 · Read full review
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Movies For Halloween - The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari

Advantages: One of those "greatest film ever" regulars, and with good reason.
Disadvantages: None.

There is something inherently eerie, otherworldly, about silent pictures. Whatever the merit of the film itself, the faint flickering of the frames (however good the restoration), the grain, the occasionally over-theatrical performances (I'm generalising horribly here, I know. There is nothing theatrical about many of the performances in, for example, Benjamin Christensen's masterpiece Haxan), even the nature of the musical soundtrack, disembodied ...
...Eerie, yes. And how much more so when these elements are wrapped around a picture already reeking of the uncanny? A picture, perhaps, like Robert Weine's 1919 The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari. The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari is a masterpiece. Routinely propping up the top end of Best Films Ever Made lists, it is a nightmare plucked from the mind of a madman, held aloft that we might gaze with hands over mouths and eyes wide at the intricacies of its grotesquery, ...

DavidJay 17.10.2008 · Read full review
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Nosferatu

Advantages: The first vampire movie
Disadvantages: not so special second disc

...disc one remastered print of Nosferatu has very sharp nice image quality considering this movie is over 70 years old. This movie has been colour tinted a reddish colour. Audio is in 5.1 surround, it appropriately fits in well with what's going on and is never overbearing. Also on the disc are two featurettes, one entitled NOSFRATOUR which consist of a tour of some of the original shooting locations. The other consists of conceptual and promotional ...
...full of interesting information, but I did feel at times the person speaking dug too deeply into things. Disc two contains nothing but an older un-re-mastered dirty scratchy version of the same movie with half the scenes missing. Not really worth an extra disk but the re-mastered tinted version is nice. ...

foxtailuk 03.09.2006 · Read full review
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little shop of horrors - the original version

Advantages: brilliant
Disadvantages: black and white

...original version is by far the best - the actors are a lot better than the later version - you have;- Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles, Dick Miller, Myrtle Vail this version is in black and white which for some reason makes it scarier than the updated version. The basic plot is that a nerdy florist called seymour falls in love with audrey and names one of his plants (a venus flytrap) after her - he spends most of his day tending to the ...

magoogy 17.06.2007 · Read full review
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