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The demon can enter of each one of us.

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THE STORY: John Hobbes is a recognized police officer of the murder squad. Following a long investigation, it apprehended Reese, a killer psychopath. Thus it goes to its execution before being led to the gas chamber, Reese poses a enigma with John in the form of invocation in an old dialect. . In spite of the death of Reese the murders do not stop, nor the anonymous telephone calls which reçoient the police officer. However, all these murders ...
...Its investigation the met into the track of a former colleague suspected of murder in series. John thus contacts his daughter: Gretta Milano. John sees himself embarked in a history where it is not question of rational. John pursues a demon (Azazel) which passes from a person to the other by the touch. The demon seeks to take possession of the body of people to continue its murders. Its rational spirit will be confronted with the evil at the pure ...

kendy86 29.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Fallen (DVD)

"I hardly think a few birds are going to bring about the end of t

Advantages: Classic Hitchcock - I can say no more !!
Disadvantages: None

...review with a quote from the Master himself, Alfred Hitchcock: "When a new Hitchcock film appears, the public and critics sit back at the start and say to themselves, 'Let's see him scare me.' My job is to get them up on the edge of their seats, and to keep them there. It gets more difficult all the time because one must find new ways to surprise an audience. Any time a viewer of one of my films can say to himself, 'I knew that was coming,' I've ...
...'The Birds' was based on the story of the same name written by Daphne Du Maurier - this was Hitchcock's third major film based on the author's works (after Jamaica Inn (1939) and Rebecca (1940). In the original story the birds were attacking in the English countryside, not in the Calafornian town used in the film. This film shows Hitchcock at his best as 'Master of Suspense' and covers a five day period from Friday to Tuesday. The film starts with ...

oldchem 05.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Birds (DVD)

Torn Curtain - Was It Really Torn?

Advantages: It's Hitchcock
Disadvantages: But not at his best

Torn Curtain is an Alfred Hitchcock produced and directed film released in 1966 which starred Paul Newman and Julie Andrews as Professor Michael Armstrong and his assistant/fiancé Sarah Sherman with support from Wolfgang Kieling, Lila Kedrova, Hansjorg Felmy, Ludwig Donath, Carolyn Conwell, Gisela Fischer and Gunter Strack. Professor Armstrong is engaged to his assistant Sarah Sherman and the films starts off with them on board a ship to Copenhagen ...
...his usual acting prowess in Torn Curtain. I did feel that the plot had some glaring holes in it from start to finish. I didn't understand the significance of Professor Manfred going with Sarah to the bookshop to collect the Professor's book as he doesn't even look at the book or try to. Whilst watching a Hitchcock film, one tries to find hidden meaning in so many scenes and strangely enough there just weren't many hidden meanings in Torn Curtain. ...

anonymili 28.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Torn Curtain (DVD)

About as fun as being stuck in the Channel Tunel

Advantages: Acting
Disadvantages: Yawnnnnnnn

The dust-cover proudly states that this is the best film of the new millennium! They obviously haven’t seen Brazilian Girls Go Wild In Cancun then. I took both films up on their boasts and I can confirm there was only one winner—and I didn’t need the subtitles. Talk about over rated. I had heard good things about Hidden; it had won the Palm De Or` in Cannes no less. But it’s French and so that means its going to be very talky and actor centered, ...
...the limited and predictable script. For a movie pushed as a mysterious thriller the only mystery here is how it won anything, dribbling out to a very disappointing finish. One broadsheet even voted this film of the decade?? The movie opens with a single static shot of the front of one of those comfy urban secluded houses in a nice middle class Paris superb. From across the street we observe the house panacea and everyday movements in the street ...

thedevilinme 20.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Hidden (DVD)

Attack Of The Humdrum Elbow Joints

Advantages: Good sound design
Disadvantages: Slow. Uninspired. Mediocre.

...mark with someone – and they don’t take a lot of reinvention – a joke is a joke, after all. Horror is a trickier bucket o’ tentacles. The same thing that scared people 20 years ago may not have the same impact – so the genre subtly shifts to reflect the terror inherent in day-to-day life. Or at least, that’s the theory (Hi, Mr Romero!) So, when They was released in 2002, what societal ill-feeling was it reflecting? What were we all going through ...
...the movie makers realised they needed to play on the eternal fears of children to create a movie that would endure – who knows? I speak only for me when I say – I was feeling all right in ‘02. I was similarly content in my continued existence until this average-ness scraped across my eye-holes. ***BLAH*** Opening with a scare-free introduction to the clicking monsters that will go on to hardly appear at all in the rest of the movie, there was ...

peppersinclaire 17.05.2004 · Read full review
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Review of They (DVD)