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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)

Better than the first?

Advantages: It's so amazingly sexy
Disadvantages: The pregnant lady annoys me =P

...which I like better between Final Destination 2 and the original. I LOVE ALL the Final Destination movies, for many reasons. One, I adore horror movies! They entertain me the most. I can sit and watch horror movies such as Saw and such and laugh as people get tortured and die, its brilliant! Its so thrilling! The thing I love the most about the Final Destination series is that the creators seem to share the same sense of humor as me! I love it; it's ...
...all jokingly. In regards to Final Destination 2, I really enjoy the way everybody seems to connect to the victims of the first movie. And of course, Clear Rivers is present too. This kind of connection isn't apparent in the third and fourth movies, which makes them a little less interesting. If you have a sick sense of humor like me, go ahead and watch this. But I suggest watching the first one first! Yum, dead people. Delicious. Sorry, did I say ...

neptunelouse 16.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Final Destination 2 (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 ...

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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)

CANDYMAN

Advantages: good horror flick
Disadvantages: none, just good film

...Green about a man called candyman (tony todd), and if you say his name five times in the mirror he will appear and kill you. The stories seem far fetched at first but as the story progresses more murders start happening, and HELEN always end up at the scene with a blooded instument, and its left for the auidence to decide is it candyman doing the killing or HELEN. this is one of Clive Barkers first films and I would reccomend it. The story behind ...

hardingjenny 24.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Candyman (DVD)