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[Doggett]

Fright Night

3/5...just for this female vamp.



I don't like vampire films but this was alright. One big issue I had with it was the fact that the teenager's girlfriend looked like she was in her early 30's.

[ToyMan]

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972): Two teenaged girls are kidnapped by a gang of lowlifes and raped and abused. Zero suspense, zero comic relief, zero art, only a willingness to depict naked sadism in loving detail.  SKULL.

personally, i love it, and all of the spin-off roles that david hess milked out of it. looking forward to the upcoming 3-disc treatment it'll be getting because of the remake, but i'll probably avoid the remake like the plague unless it has some wildly good casting choices.

[Iseuelt]

I had to endure "P.S. I Love You" this weekend as my sister was visiting and I had to provide entertainment that wasn't filled with brains being splashed here and there, gratuitous nudity, or any type of zombie apocalypse. Being a girl myself, it is expected of me to enjoy a nice romantic comedy in which no one gets decapitated, I found it merely tolerable (maybe it was the beers I had), which is better than I had expected. I also had to endure "Mrs. Pettigrew Lives for a Day" which both my sister and watched and waited for something to happen and finally nothing did.  We also watched "Kicking it Old School" Don't ask why, it just happened. 

[Sister Grace]

Day of the Dead 2: Contagium-  1/5 for bad acting, bad plot, lack of nudity...

The Death Wish Trilogy: 5/5 last night AMC played the all three death wish movies. Charles Bronson is a bad ass...

Edmond- 2/5 while everyone knows my affection for movies involving psychotic breakdowns, this movie just didn't do much for me. I really didn't need to see William H. Macy bald or involved in a prison-love relationship....oh, my eyes!! They Burn!!!

[Jack]

Boogeyman 2 - a bother and sister see their parents killed by the boogeyman.  Years later, they're both still traumatized by the experience, and the guy has just spent three months in a mental institution undergoing a therapy program.  It seems to have helped, so the sister enrolls in the program.  We meet the other patients, each of whom has a fear of something.  Then the boogeyman shows up and starts killing everyone in ways which correspond to their fears.  Pretty good overall, fairly well developed characters, good atmosphere in the institution, but a whole lot of plot holes.  Still worth a watch if you're really bored some night.  3/5.

[lester1/2jr]

hawk: the slayer = jack palance is a sucky darth vader imitation in this medieval travesty that the band Manowar must have seen.    the only girls in it are the nuns.  yeah that's some realy eye candy there,  if you are from saudi arabia maybe.  Probably inadvertant Bruce Cambell type color and goofiness  in places has made it a cult hit.  I rented "there goes the bride" by the same director from the year before and it is horrible in a compltetely different way

[Doggett]

The Brood 3/5
Too slow but it has a really weird messed up central idea that's too gross not to like

[lester1/2jr]

there  goes the bride (1980)        this was made by the guy who did "Hawk: the slayer"  but is absolutely nothing like it.   Did you ever see "pink Lady and jeff"?  it was a short lived tv series that has developed a cult following because it was so bad.  What made it's nondescript   variety show songs and jokes bearable is the empathy you have for their live audience and the looks on the performers faces:  extreme discomfort and depression in the face of Jeff, and glazed over smiles on the part of the duo Pink Lady.  This is like a bland pre recorded no pink lady or jeff "pink lady and jeff".  Tom Smothers can't tell a joke properly.  He imagines he sees a flapper, played by anarexic model Twiggy, everywhere.  They never get tired of telling the same joke over and over where he sees her and everyone else is like "who were you talking to?"  Again, There are song and dance numbers with canes and top hats.  I read two different reviews bemoaning the fact that the reviewer had to pay less than a dollar for it and still felt ripped off and technically speaking so did I and I agree.

[Doggett]

Dead and Buried
3/5
Good idea poorly done. Shame.
This could've been really, really good.

[RCMerchant]

Fright Night

3/5...just for this female vamp.



I don't like vampire films but this was alright. One big issue I had with it was the fact that the teenager's girlfriend looked like she was in her early 30's.

The "teenage" girl freind  was Amanda Bearse, (she played Marcy,the Bundy's neighbor on the TV show MARRIED WITH CHILDREN),and she was 28 in 1985. So yeah...she was no teen!

[Jack]

Incubus (2006) - watched this not too long ago, must have forgotten how awful it was, so I watched it again last night.  Tara Reid and friends wreck their SUV, but it's too far to walk back to the main road so they cut through the woods, coming across a building on the way.  Seeing as 8 floodlights come on when they approach, one guy announces that "It looks abandoned".  Yup, and it's only downhill from there.  Inside they find a guy in a glass box, who can apparently control everyone else's minds.  Character development?  One girl doesn't want to get her $500 boots dirty, another guy mentions something about the Lord Of The Rings.  That's the sum total of the character development.  Tara Reed...I guess she mostly just plays herself, and not too convincingly.  Most of the characters reactions to things make little or no sense.  The dialog also makes little to no sense.  Reid knows that the guy in the box is in a coma - not sleeping - because people who are sleeping wake up.  Well, he's got about 8 tubes running into him, maybe he's sedated?  They all think it's vitally important to have working flashlights, even though the building is fairly well lit.  Best part - one guy is taken over by the mind of the guy in the box.  He tries to kill the rest of the characters, then he bites his own tongue off.  What do Tara and company decide to do?  Tie up one of the other people and let them fall asleep so that the guy can take over her mind.  She is taken over, immediately bites her own tongue off, and then they untie her.  She tries to choke Tara.  So what does the big strong guy do?  Pull her hands away from Tara's throat and tie her up?  No, he puts a plastic bag over her head and kills her.  Well...guess that didn't work out too well.  We're told several times that the guy in the box has bitten his own tongue off, but by the end of the movie he's talking perfectly well.

Yeah...well...at several points in the film you could see Tara Reed's bra right through her shirt, plain as day.  So, it wasn't totally without its good points.

[Doggett]

Thank you for Smoking
4/5
This was the good stuff.

[Sister Grace]

Wieners- 1/5 why did i torture myself by sitting all the way through this

The Entrance- 2/5 good idea, badly done, the road to terrible movies is paved with good ideas....

[Fishasaurus]

Black Christmas, finally got around to it and it was a delight.

I also reacquainted myself with C.H.U.D. -- some movies just get better with age, although I was painfully aware that the actors in the underground scenes were all using flashlights despite the bright lights already there...

[asimpson2006]

Dirty Harry *** out of ****.  Since I never seen Dirty Harry I decided to rent it.  It was enjoyable to watch and I didn't feel that I wasted my time with it.