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Rats live in the sewers, does this belong there?

Advantages: Glover and Ermey's acting, looks very stlyised
Disadvantages: Story, direction & pretty much everything else!

Willard is a strange, strange film. It is the story of Willard Stiles, a young man stuck in a dead end job at the firm his dad founded, and used to own. Now owned by his dads partner Willard is guaranteed the job as part of his dads will and he has nothing much to live for. He lives at home with his mum, who permanently wants her son to do things for her; he has a hopeless life with no future. His existence changes when his mother thinks she hears ...
...every instruction. Willard now becomes even stranger than he already was, and starts taking the first rat (or is it a white mouse?), Socrates, with him everywhere. Realising that his control over them can help him gain revenge on all those who have put him down during his life, starting off with his boss, Willard sets into action a plan of retribution that is just plain unpleasant! But what happens when a bigger rat, Ben, starts to get 'jealous' ...

Ailran 24.07.2005 · Read full review
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The Final Chapter *snigger*

Advantages: better actors, action and direction
Disadvantages: still no attempts at a real story

Friday the 13th Part 4: The Final Chapter (1984) To refresh your memory again here is a recap of previous events. If you have not watched the previous films then skip this paragraph to avoid spoilers. In the original we discover that a young boy, Jason Voorhees, drowned in Crystal Lake, in 1957, due to a couple of careless camp counsellors making love instead of watching him. In 1958 the counsellors were murdered and the camp shut down. In 1979 ...
...only one person alive and serial killer Mrs Voorhees (Jason’s mother) dead. In Part 2 a new camp was to be opened on Crystal Lake but this time a fully grown Jason, returned from who knows where to avenge his mothers death, kills everyone in sight. Despite being stabbed in the neck he gets away, only to kill a group of teens in a nearby cabin in Part 3. In the end he is stabbed, hung and has an axe stuck in his head. Left for dead (?) in the barn. ...

ThePolarOne 04.03.2005 · Read full review
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I! AM! BEOWULF!

Advantages: Anthony Hopkins
Disadvantages: CGI.

...but I digress... Beowulf uses a technique wherein CGI is pasted over and mixed in with live action footage. Original, yet massively over-ambitious. The graphics werent generally well-received, as the public has come to associate CGI characters with childrens' movies. Not to mention that CGI itself is only in its adolescent state. However, it could not have acheived its impressibe battle scenes without the technique, the most memorable being the one ...
...conveniently placed objects and furniture obscuring Beowulf's genitalia in a highly comedic fashion. The film has, to all intents and purposes stuck to the text, with its landscapes mirroring perfectly, the imagery of the book. I was surprised to see excessive bloodletting in this film, as it is not what I have come to associate with CGI-based movies. Nonetheless, there is plenty of it. Although in terms of entertainment, the level of gore pales ...

Mutalisk 09.10.2009 · Read full review
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Bore Six

Advantages: Some tension synonomous with the Saw franchise, chilling music
Disadvantages: Lack of plot/ideas, very slow and tedious

...have number 6 in the Saw franchise, this has split public opinion much like John and Edward on X Factor recently, some like the films, some hate them. I too have mixed opinions on the Saw films as I loved the first four yet the fifth and sixth instalments in the series don’t match up to the ingenuity, the nail biting tension or the sheer carnage which we witness behind our hands in the first four. Since 2004 there has been a Saw film released every ...
...I personally feel like 3 Saw films would have been adequate however Saw 4 brought in another dimension to the films which seemed to relight the series and in a way was the first in another trilogy of Saw films. Bringing in a back-story for Jigsaw has become the basis of the most recent three films. Saw 4 did well in establishing the reasons behind Jigsaw’s psychopathic ways but I feel that was enough as Saw 5 brought nothing new to proceedings that ...

Great_reviewer07 05.12.2009 · Read full review
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Let's Hear It For Campy British Horror - YAY!

Advantages: Great cast, entertaining, mix of genres
Disadvantages: Not to everyone's taste

The House That Dripped Blood is a camp horror film, which lasts 97 mins and is rated a 12. I bought it from Amazon UK for just £3.98, which I felt was a great price. I have recently got into watching horror – but only the old, classic era ones from the 1970s or earlier, definitely not the modern gore-fests. To me, I like a good cast, traditional horror elements and a fair bit of suspense. I am not interested in huge amounts of blood and on-screen ...
...instead loving the old Vincent Price films and the like. I first heard of The House That Dripped Blood after reading a review of it on Dooyoo by Jake Speed and it sounded just my kind of thing. I was not disappointed. Despite its horrific cover, the film itself is not nearly so frightening. Filmed at Shepperton Studios, it has a stellar mainly-British cast (Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Jon Pertwee, Ingrid Pitt, Denholm Elliot, Joss Ackland, ...

KarenUK 05.12.2009 · Read full review
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