Advantages: Well-made, interesting story, good SFX (for the era) Disadvantages: Rushed, not loyal to the book
...Eddie, she quickly deduces that the voice on the other end of the phone may possibly be that of a notorious serial killer who is terrorising local women. To try and lure the killer out into the open, she agrees to go undercover, continuing to take Eddie's calls and eventually agreeing to meet him. Although wearing a police wire, Eddie lures her to a local sex club where the police signal is broken and Karen is left on her own. In the darkness of ... ...comes face to face with the killer, and it is only thanks to the quick thinking of two police officers that she escapes the man's clutches. With Eddie dead from a gunshot wound to the head, everyone believes that the dark episode is finally over.
But Karen is unable to recover quite so quickly. Haunted by dark visions of the incident and suffering from a partial amnesia, she is referred to a doctor/psychologist, De George Waggner. Dr Waggner believes ...
LostWitness 23.10.2005
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Advantages: Lycanthropy Disadvantages: Takes a while to get started
This film is the journey of a news reporter, Karen White (played by Dee Wallace) who goes hunting for a serial killer, Eddie Qvist (Robert Picardo) and gets dragged into something much deeper.
After the killer is shot and killed by a police officer she is sent to a retreat in the countryside called "The Colony", run by a pyschologist who unbeknown to her is a werewolf (or Lycan, depending on what kind of film you have seen)
There's only two ways ... ...this movie.
Thought on the film: It takes around 40 minutes before it really gets started, so it can drag at first, but the last half is pretty good as Lycan films go.
The werewolves are fairly realistic, with them not being made to look perfect, more twisted and dishevelled.
Music: A bit eerie at times, but nothing of note in the film.
Acting: Surprisingly good considering a fairly no-name cast.
Things I've learned from this film:
1. In times ...
iateamonkey 02.11.2006
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Production Year: 1998 - Horror - Director: Steve Miner - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Williams, Adam Arkin, Adam Hann-Byrd, Janet Leigh, L.L. Cool J.
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