Horror > Hough, John Horror

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Advantages: Genuinely creepy, spiced with nice dialogue & atmospherics
Disadvantages: Laughable conclusion spoils all the good work

In the early 70s a clutch of young directors and talent threatened to pump new life and indeed blood into the British horror film. Peter Sasdy, Peter Sykes, Alan Gibson and John Hough appeared the most promising and the ones most likely to wrestle the reins from elder statesmen such as Terence Fisher and Freddie Francis. As gothic horror faltered at the box office, studios opened up to the idea of younger imaginations as they sought to recapture ...
...television, and who had directed the spirited if typically flawed Hammer outing 'Twins of Evil'. Armed with a talky but atmospheric script, Richard Matheson adapted his own novel 'Hell House' , the film was already on solid ground. Add faces like Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill and Pamela Franklin to the mix. Alan Hume was employed to light and shoot the picture, while Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop were contracted ...

dadmancat 03.05.2004 · Read full review
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Another jewel in Hammer´s crown

Advantages: Vampires, sets, photography, costumes, music
Disadvantages: Some hokey preaching

...to be an enjoyable villainess. The photography, sets and scenery make the film look wonderful , and although Tudor Gates´otherwise excellent script introduces some stink-air don´t-trust-anyone-over-30s crap (middle-aged men burn Playboy models in the stake, not lonely old women), Twins of evil is another jewel in Hammer´s 1970s output. ...

scarletpurity 13.09.2008 · 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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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 ...

Great_reviewer07 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Exorcist (DVD)