Horror > Ironside, Michael Horror

Reeking of quality or rubbish?

Advantages: Interesting ending...if you get it
Disadvantages: Generally not that memorable

A group of five teenagers are sharing a ride to a party in the desert. On the way, Trip admits that he has a huge stash of ecstasy tablets on him and the driver, Gretchen, who is anti-drugs, tells him he must find another ride - just as well because the dealer Trip stole them from is following him with revenge on his mind. Gretchen agrees to drive him back to a diner where he can arrange another lift...but on arrival, they find the diner is deserted ...
...strange things start to happen - there is a weird smell in the air and very strange people appear and then disappear. What is causing the smell, and who are all the strangers? Will the dealer catch up with Trip? And will any of them survive the experience? As with many horror movies that involve teenagers, few of the characters are very likeable, although there is an attempt to give them more background than most films of this type. Gretchen can ...

sunmeilan 17.10.2009 · 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)

So a bunch of eejits go camping, eh

Advantages: Funny at times
Disadvantages: Badly directed, nothing happens for most of film

Legal systems across the world and especially in the U.S.A. are notorious for a disproportionate amount of their criminal convictions being working-class ethnic minorities. But in this dull, baaad film we have eight young people all doing community service. They’re mostly rich, mostly white, mostly stupid and all annoying in some way. They’re being sent into the woods to clean it up over after the holiday season under the watchful eye of Ranger/wannabe-drillseargent ...
...majority of this film and by saying that I mean nothing happens for the majority of this film. Our characters all moan and are arrogant in one way or another despite being very obedient for apparently rebellious criminals. Rather than come to learn about their characters we just learn about their crimes, that are all far-fetched and also that basically that they’re all stupid. I mean the characters in this film are so stupid that it’s almost an insult ...

Phelthew 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Grizzly Park (DVD)

Anyone for a Bella sandwich with vampires and werewolves?

Advantages: Casting, FX, action scenes
Disadvantages: Drawn out romantic bits

...all, I woud suggest watching Twilight before watching this, as there will be a number of things that may seem confusing otherwise. Brief Plot Essentially, in a nutshell, Bella has moved to Forks, a desolately damp, rainy and gloomy town, to live with her father Charlie, the chief of police. She encounters Edward Cullen at her new school, they fall in love, she finds out he's a vampire. The first film saw a frantic chase and fight where other vampires ...
...the more impressive elements of Twilight was the FX adopted to show how the vampires move. The superspeed, the strength, the use of slow motion to emphasise these elements. All this is just as good, if not better, in New Moon, but is completely overshadowed by the superb FX used with the werewolves. It's the transformation element, and as the characters in their human form merge into their wolf forms, it's astounding. They do it 'on the fly', or ...

pmcds 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Twilight Saga - New Moon (DVD)