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A Design For Death [Film Only]

Advantages: Memorable deaths, good performances and special effects
Disadvantages: Some dodgy dialogue, a few inconsistencies

...explodes. Their trip to the final destination delayed but not terminated - as the teenagers find out, there is no cheating death. The opening scene at the airport is effective, and ensures Final Destination won't be shown as flight entertainment. The deaths are well executed (if you'll excuse the pun). If it's not the thought behind them - which will get the guessing games going - then it's the timing that can catch you out. However, there is inconsistency ...
...stuff thrown around already. Final Destination is strong in the special effects department. Computer trickery can be evident, but it's not as if these effects stand out like a sore thumb. It's not entirely the works of computers however, and when something is evidently fake, there is humour with horror - something which the film manages to mix successfully on more than this one occasion. Despite being set in New York, there are a couple of clues, ...

scream4bruce 21.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Final Destination (DVD)

Just When You Thought It Was Over...

Advantages: Very innovative, elaborate death scenes
Disadvantages: Mini Premonitions

...their other two sequels with Final Destination 3 being released in 2006 and The Final Destination released at cinemas in 2009. The significance with the time gap being that it enables people to possibly forget the early twists that occur in the movie, making it a more tense atmosphere when you witness the horrific accidents towards the beginning of the film. This sequel is a little different than most as it follows the exact same premise that the ...
...all sounds relatively simple but Final Destination adds something very innovative and intriguing to the mix enabling audiences to be captivated by each individual film and not be caught up in the ‘it’s all the same’ attitude. Of course with the sequel following the same foundation as the original film you’d be very naïve to think that it’s going to all be fresh and new but luckily because of the ingenuity and shrewdness of the Final Destination films ...

Great_reviewer07 03.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Final Destination 2 (DVD)

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Advantages: Scary from the beginning
Disadvantages: The cute guy dies!

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre follows a group of teenagers taking a road trip through Texas in the 70's. However, when they come across a young woman walking along a deserted road and pick her up, they soon realise something is wrong with her. Not long after, she shoots herself, leaving the group scared and confused to say the least, but little do they realise, their ordeal has only just begun. Coming across an isolated house seeking help, the group ...
...massacre scene. One by one, the youths suffer horrendous deaths in this gruesome remake of the classic horror movie that was origionally banned from cinema in the 70s. I absolutely loved this film, it was a true horror story that was well acted by a young cast. This film had some of the most brutal death scenes i have even witnessed in a horror movie and is just as much disturbing as it is terrifying. I definately reccommend this movie to horror ...

angel01laura 26.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (DVD)

Farewell to the flesh!

Advantages: More back story to the original
Disadvantages: A tad predictable

...times into a mirror, the Candyman comes to take her back to hell with him. In various parts of the film we get some more of the back story behind the Candyman, we see him being murdered in the field by the mob of locals in revenge for him "defiling" the slave owner's (Annie's relative) daughter. It turns out that they had a daughter, who was Annie Tarrant's great grandmother, leading to the whole situation where Annie must go back to the slave quarters ...
...mind there is a third Candyman film, which will confuse the whole issue entirely! The film featured some very effective music which built up the tension in the movie, and led to you actually caring about the teacher, and her pupils at the conclusion. Directed by Bill Condon (the man who directed Ian McKellen in Gods and Monsters in 1998), who does a decent job, considering this was his first real voyage into the world of cinematic horror since ...

iateamonkey 05.02.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Candyman 2 - Farewell To The Flesh (DVD)

remake/remodel

Advantages: in colour rather than colourised
Disadvantages: lacks the originals bite

...zombies have been awakened from the dead and are on a relentless killing and eating binge. Re-make of the 1968 George Romero classic. Filmographies, Theatrical Trailer, Making Of, Directors Commentary,Region 2 I enjoyed this film when I first saw it in the early 90's - the main reason for this was that I saw it at a horror festival, it was directed by Tom Savini (FX guru) and it was in colour. Watching it again 15 years later and after seeing ...
...like a missed opportunity. Also the fact that the main character in the original was black and the film was also seen as a comment on the social landscape of the late 60's neuters this remake somewhat as there is no longer any "message" or "comment" to make. As with the Dawn of The Dead remake the message has to be ditched as it is no longer relevant to the time the remake was made. But whereas the Dawn Of The Dead updates and reimagines the original ...

tilly77 27.04.2005 · Read full review
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Review of The Night Of The Living Dead The Remake (Wide Screen) (DVD)