Horror > Fisher, Terence Horror

"There'll be no morning for us" - Hopefully not Helen.

Advantages: Christopher Lee, great imagery
Disadvantages: Lots of boring dialogue

...what happened in the last Dracula film with Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) destroying Dracula by forcing him to enter daylight where he crumbles into dust. It is ten years later, in Transylvania and the body of a young girl is being carried out into the forest by a sombre group who all look like English puritans and all with English accents. They’re going to stake her through the heart as they believe she has been bitten a vampire. A distraught mother ...
...in a ritual sacrifice brings Dracula back to life with the blood of Alan. And the proverbial hits the fan and about time, it took forever for Dracula to arrive in this film. What I Thought I at first intended on reviewing all the Dracula films in this Christopher Lee series, however, I couldn’t find the first one but this film can stand on it’s own. All you really need to know is that Dracula is a vampire and Van Helsing vanquished him into a ...

Phelthew 08.06.2009 · Read full review
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Madman of the Century?

Advantages: Darkly cynical horror thriller with superb direction and performances
Disadvantages: Film = none, DVD = threadbare vanilla release

Hammer's Frankenstein cycle was a far superior product than the concurrent Dracula franchise. Both ran from the buoyant boom days of the late 50s through to the stagnation of the horror studio in the early 70s. Unlike the unsteady Dracula outings where the vampire was reduced to occasionally appearing from the shadows to hiss and snap at big bosomed wenches, Frankenstein was always the one with most potential for character development, and above ...
...lesser and lesser adventures. Frankenstein though remains resolutely Fisher's saga, and of the seven films made, he directed 5, and the less said about the non-canonical 'Evil of' and 'Horror of' the better. Under the guidance of Fisher, the tales interlinked, and we were able to witness the descent into madness of the Baron, where once he was a man striving to revolutionise medicine, and do good deeds, by the time of the final hurrah - 'Monster ...

dadmancat 06.10.2005 · Read full review
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ISLAND OF TERROR, BRILLIANT!!

Advantages: Great Value, good story and good actors
Disadvantages: None

...centre based on a remote Island off the coast of ireland, is trying to find a cure for cancer and is experimenting with radiation and effects on human tissue. The Island is a small one with no means of communication except a ferry that comes once a week. Populated mainly by farmers and a local Doctor and Police Officer and a pub. Whilst on patrol the local Police Officer finds a man dead in a cave and discovers that the body has no bones in it. ...
...(JUDD) to come to the Island and investigate. As more victims are discovered they discover that a new creature called a 'Silicate' has been created by the cancer research facility and is multiplying. I won't spoil the film and tell you what happens at the end, but we win or do we? The plot is great, the suspense is very good and it has an air of a good quality science fiction film. The Special effects are good and the performance by the actors is ...

pc2308 14.05.2007 · Read full review
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Guddling for Satanic Trout

Advantages: Stylish, based on a Dennis Wheatley novel, Christopher Lee is magnificent.
Disadvantages: Special effects look primitive today.

..."Hammer had always worried about the Church's reaction to the screening of the Black Mass. But we thought the charge of blasphemy would not stick if we did the thing with due attention to scholarship. I appointed myself black technical adviser, as well as playing a goody, and spent many hours in the British Museum guddling for Satanic trout, and came up with a useful catch, notably the genuine prayer of exorcism we used at the end. It was a new venture ...
...people, to put them off the sinister dangers implicit in dabbling with black magic." ~Lord of Misrule by Christopher Lee~ Published 2003 The film that Christopher Lee was alluding to above was the 1968 Hammer produced The Devil Rides Out, a slight departure from the norm for the studio, in that the 1920's English country setting is quite different to the usual gothic 19th century small European villages Hammer were so fond of. No burgomasters ...

bigcat 03.06.2004 · Read full review
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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 ...

QieRa 30.12.2009 · Read full review
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