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reeker

Advantages: good script, some good acting
Disadvantages: some bad acting

The beginning of the story is a bit silly when a guy (trip) decides hes going to steal thousands of pounds worth of pills from a crazy drug dealer but after this little hiccup you remind your self that this IS in independent film and when you compare it to others its a pretty good film! It begins with a pre-credits horror scene involving a family (couple with child) and i find it quite rare to see small children in horror films at all and thought ...
...blood smeared windscreens and dodgy acting but all in all a good beginning. The characters meet for a ride share, some know each other, some don't. They end up stranded at a motel with no electric, miles form anything else and no gas. Its not going well, they decide to wait it out till morning so its a classic 'who will make it through the night' flick. They leave it quite late on into the film to show you whats killing people so you're not quite ...

toffee69 21.10.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Reeker (DVD)

Their Thoughts Can Kill

Advantages: Classic Cronenberg horror
Disadvantages: No special features, can be confusing

Scanners is an unusual movie from the now acclaimed director David Cronenberg. Before Cronenberg hit the mainstream his focus was always on horror, shining examples being Shivers and Rabid, both shot in and around Toronto and Montreal, places he considered home. On his first rise of power in the directorial stakes came Scanners, a significantly different horror movie, that seemed dated even from its release. Cameron Vale (Stephen Lack) is effectively ...
...so collecting an army of Scanners to do his bidding and get revenge on those who created them. Scientist Dr. Paul Ruth (Patrick McGoohan) has been desperately trying to get to the bottom of Revock's power over other Scanners, and now with Cameron in his care he seeks the opportunity to send him out as a spy and end Revock's rule once and for all. Despite the movie hailing from the very early 1980's there is little to prevent this looking like a ...

sghawken 11.03.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Scanners (DVD)

Watch watchers

Advantages: still a good story
Disadvantages: unfaithful to the book

This film is loosely based on the book by Dean Koontz. I do mean loosely aswell. Travis Cornell as changed from an EX-DELTA force soldier to a ten year old boy. Travis's mum is the romanic lead in the book. These are little niggles but the film is still good. The story is about a goverment experiment that has gone wrong. It starts off with an explosion at a factory. Two animals escape, one has been bred for intelligence and the other for pure brute ...
...intelligent dog. However on their tale is a psycho federal agent (Michale Ironside) LEM JOHNSON and the viscous animal is never far behind leaving a path of destruction and whenever the animal kills it takes the eyes of its victims. Not faithful to the book, and Dean Koontz felt his book had been murdered. Still a good film, and will make you jump. The effects could have been better but it was a low-budget film, still pleasantly enjoyable. There ...

johnnyhaupt 22.10.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of Watchers (DVD)

AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem

Advantages: These are two classic horror films which despite the lack of good acting would be a great addition
Disadvantages: its a triller cum horror film

It is the boxset of the two "Alien Vs Predator" films - and it costs near on £40 at the time because Alien Vs Predator requiem had only just been released - hopefully the price will be slightly better for you now. As a fan of both alien and predator I had high hopes on going to watch the first avp at cinema and was a little dissapointed - i also do think that many of us have seen the first part already, but believe me friends the Avp requiem is the ...
...is also another the best film- From director Paul WS Anderson's comes an inspired melt of two sci-fi horrors alien and predator. Avp Requiem - Directed by the brothers strauss who promised this would be much improved on the first - they don't make it - the plot stuggles - A Predator has an alien burst out of it and then it crash lands on Earth in smallville mid America. For some reason only one Predator leaves its home world to go to Earth to take ...

UMAKANTH 03.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem DVD

A Chilling Classic Reminding You That Anything Can Happen...

Advantages: Colours are richer and crisper, the music is truely UNIQUE!
Disadvantages: storyline is basic but typical of that era, movie is short lived

Wow!! The movie has been brought back to life in much clearer picture detail to tell the tale of 5 teenagers in an accidental situation of desperate survial against a cannibalistic family with a chainsaw weilding maniac in the deep south of rural Texas. (The storyline is simple,dead simple, which makes it much more realistic and easy to follow) HOT HOT HOT!- the uncomfortable heat and drieness of the Texas setting compliments the theme of desperate ...
...Burns) desperatly tries to evade the freaky chainsaw weilding psycho under the moonlight, is a horrific scene that will most certainly leave you stunned in your seats as she screams histerically through the woods with her iconic white flares glowing in the moonlight supressing her desperate attempts to hide... The rich colours of the classic film are something to be pleased about, the deep blacks, warm oranges and azur blues are very impressive ...

BoomBoomPow123 02.07.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (DVD)