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Death Ship, it's no Ghost Ship

Advantages: Good idea
Disadvantages: Badly executed

...night”. NO IT DIDN’T. That was a major error with the film, you can actually see in that trailer how it’s a lot brighter around the death ship than the cruise ship. Written by Phelim McC. Don’t steal it, I have friends in the internet police ...

Phelthew 04.06.2009 · Read full review
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Sugar Rush

Advantages: Unusual British horror movie
Disadvantages: Nothing new for the most part

...Moving from New York to London Lincoln, (Doug Cockle) Sarah (Sara Stewart), and their young child begin to settle into their Victorian terraced house. When renovation begins on the house however something rather unpleasant is bought to the surface, in the cellar is what appears to be a shrine. Soon the world and his wife start popping by to share a long buried secret with the newcomers about the houses past, most notably the terrible fire that caused ...
...like a low budget one. London Voodoo takes a traditional horror yarn and puts a new spin on things, a story of possession and a dodgy nanny is nothing new by a long shot; and I won't pretend that this is anything that new, but what it is, is something very different. Once the typical aspects of the story are played out, the possession portion normally that would call at this point for an exorcist is put aside for a story of Voodoo in the heart of ...

sghawken 06.09.2008 · Read full review
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Movie Trailers Have Never Looked So Good

Advantages: Classic trailers for awful films
Disadvantages: None

...happened with Nucleus Films release Grindhouse Trailer Classics. Taking a leaf out of US DVD releases 42nd Street Forever, a series of DVD's that bought the power of cult, low budget and niche movie trailers into the homes of viewers, themselves inspired by Quentin Tarentino's Grindhouse movie. Watching trailers for movies from yesteryear may seem like a strangething to do, but if you're a fan of classic movies of the 60's, 70's and 80's that were ...
...be right up your street. Grindhouse Trailer Classics opens a sort of vortex to the past, a glimpse at life before the dawn of the multiplex cinemas of Warner, Venue, or Cineworld. The success of this DVD was so unexpected that Nucleus films headed up by film historian Marc Morris and movie maker Jake West are about to release a second volume of this compilation series. To be honest with you, there is not much you can say about a two hour DVD of ...

sghawken 28.09.2007 · Read full review
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Returning To A Lost Generation

Advantages: Entertaining and often hysterically bad trailers
Disadvantages: A bit tedious in one sitting.

After the success of Grindhouse (split in two as Death Proof and Planet Terror in the UK) interest in the Grindhouse genre has spread across the world. What are affectionately known as B-Movies have returned in their popularity some 4-0 years after they were made. When Marc Morris, and Jake West's Nucleus films earlier released DVD Grindhouse Trailer Classics, (inspired by the popularity of the genre, Stephen Throwers book Nightmare USA, and US released ...
...sure enough now available is Grindhouse Trailer Classics 2. Up till the birth of DVD these low budget cult movies were only seen in Grindhouse cinemas, a sort of downbeat version of a normal cinema designed not to show the blockbuster but low budget offerings, often horror based from across the world. When video arrived this was not the end of the genre, in the UK in particular these movies for two to three years were incredibly popular on video, ...

sghawken 19.09.2008 · Read full review
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Classic werewolf film

Advantages: Story and special effects
Disadvantages: none

The John Landis film, An American Werewolf in London, is an iconic film that has achieved cult status over the years. This film is about two American college students, David Kessler and Jack Goodman, who whilst backpacking in England, encounter a werewolf who vicious attacks them, killing Jack but it is killed before David is killed as well. David wakes up in a hospital in London but starts to suffer terrible nightmares of his dead friend Jack, ...
...Sergeant McManus This is an excellent film that has a brilliant story. The story is quite simple but features some great dialogue and quirky special effects. The cast is not exactly full of big stars but John Landis, who wrote and directed this film has managed to get some brilliant performances from the cast. The transformation of David into the werewolf is quite impressive and well done. The scene at the start of the film is very eerie and very ...

mozzie76 12.12.2009 · Read full review
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