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Halloween 78 - 10/10
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Yeah you're right. I guess I missed the part about the power being out. I wonder where he got that second car from though because I saw the scene where he called from the phone booth where coincidentally the dead tow truck driver laid. it was just something I never really thought of before I mean I have watched this movie more than any other horror movie in my life but it never occurred to me until now why he waited so Long to contact anyone considering the nurse probably needed medical attention.
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Scarecrows, 1988
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
4/10 As small town factory is selling Halloween masks to kids who are to put on the masks as they watch a special Halloween give-a-way on TV, a young woman and her befriended Dr try to discover why her father was murdered by a strange man in a suit. A lot of sneaking around, laying low, and running around again, but the chills and suspense are far and few inbetween. I agree with Roger Ebert who said Season of the Witch is a collage of pieces of much better films. Even when the antagonist Conal Cochran, the evil factory owner (played well by Dan O'Herlihy) gives the big reveal speech, it comes up lacking in coherence and completeness. We never find out what Cochran gets out of doing what he's doing. I did like the premise and its metaphorical commentary, but wasn't the film producers doing exactly what the film seems to condemn? Film has a 25% rotten rating Audience Score of over 25k votes at Rotten Tomatoes.com. |
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E.T. (1982). Haven't seen this in forever, but still finds it holds up very well and still can bring on the old waterworks, even to a cranky curmudgeon like myself. Dee Wallace is lovely and quite appealing as the single Mom trying to hold it together and it's hard to believe Drew Barrymore was once so young and unsullied-mean, I know. But hopefully, she will conquer any Demons and stay healthy. *****
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Night of the Comets (1984)
7/10 Two teen sisters wake up to find virtually all humans vaporized by comets. They search for other survivors, but might not be happy with who, or what, they find. The acting, dialogue and sentimentality are quite good in this. The wide angle shots of empty big Los Angeles streets are impressive and impactful. The way the story plays out, especially the last third is nothing original or particularly exciting. |
The Abomonation ( 1986 )
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Fuck Me Running/10 Synopsis: An old woman coughs up what she believes to be a tumor whilst watching the local trash evangelist on t.v., naturally she thinks it’s a miracle and tosses it in the garbage. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. That night, while her 30yr old teenage son, Cody, sleeps. The bloody lung cookie gains sentience ( also teeth ) and crawls it’s way into his mouth, slowly taking control of him and multiplying and needing to feed, ultimately driving him to go on the best homicidal rampage a $6.32 shot on shiteo budget can afford. Hallelujah! Oh Jesus, lol::shocked:: The funny thing is, I’m pretty sure I rented this from a Ma and Pa video store back in the late 80s, because this isn’t the kinda flick you’re likely to forget. From the cringe worthy dubbing, excessive same-ing, gratuitous and ultra low budget blood and effects, non existent character development, and pants-on-head plot, ( coupled with absofuckinglutely stellar performances, lemme tell ya ) The Abomination is one of the very best, brick camera lensed crapfests the bowels of the genre has to offer. Simultaneously worse than any Violent Shits, or Axe’Ems, or Wood Chipper Massacres (... Well, maybe not that one.), while managing to be infinitely more entertaining. This movie is absolute nonsense, and it’s fucking hilarious. A guy having his head chainsawed off, then watching his neck spew creamed corn for five minutes, is one of two standout highlights featured in this grainy pile. The other being the aforementioned televangelist sitting down to take the loudest ADR’d dump in history ( think Harry from Dumb and Dumber caliber ), only to have his toilet morph into one of the titular creatures, which eats him alive mid shit. https://media.giphy.com/media/8zioxuulSd1h6/giphy.gif Bottom Line: If you’re lookin’ for some Z grade crap, look no further. We’re talkin’ Manos with gore and puppets level stuff here. So worth it! |
FRIDAY, THE 13th (1980). Watching this again, while there are a lot of limitations in here, I feel it has aged better than many of its comtempories from that same era, including HALLOWEEN. H is very well done, certainly the "Better" film, but while it scared me on release in 1978 (First R movie I went to myself), it's now more subdued with more supernatural elements (Unstoppable Myers) while I find F13 more realistic and scarier.
While the sequels have their moments, most of them are dreadful and only a fast forward helps to get to the good stuff (An inventive moment like Jason's resurrection in F13 6 or a gorgeous fame like Debisue Voorhees::love:: in F13 5..the sequels are also full of stock characters like the rutting teens and the "Goof" that really hastened the decline of the series. "Ned" in this one is annoying, to be sure, but no means, really, about him, he's just trying to impress Brenda and the teens in here having sex (Jack/Marcie) are in a relationship. Whatever faults it has, still has those amazing Savini FX, better than average photography, a memorable music score and also one of the best Psychos ever in film. This film, and Betsy Palmer in particular, scared the Bejesus out of me when I first saw it, really cutting edge. Have met Betsy, Robbi Morgan and Adrienne King at cons and all were nice as could be, which also helps me still enjoy the film. **** |
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SLUGS: THE MOVIE 1988
Didnt have the same "so bad it's good " charm of Squirm. A town basically gets invaded by killer slugs. |
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The Evil Dead series is fun. Has anybody read Bruce Campbell's memoir "If Chins Could Kill"?
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Withnail and I, 1987. 8/10
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BRAIN DAMAGE (1988). Great little film which could almost be a parable for the dangers of drug addiction. "Aylmer" is just too cool-neat that the voice is TV show host Zacherley- and some gruesome scenes that in a less skillfully made film could almost be offensive, especially the "Hell" sequence::shocked::. ****
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A lot of people who watch Hallowe'en or Friday the 13th for the first time don't find half as much explicit gore as they expected. Same with the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Silent Madness, 1984. 6/10
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OPEN HOUSE 1987
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THE BRAIN 1988
Cheesy little flick about a huge alien brain trying to take over a town through the tv. Loved it. |
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How can a brain take over my brain through the tv, when the tv has already taken over my brain?
That topic makes me think of the sf short story The Twonky, by Arch Oboler (Lights Out). In this story a guy who has sent for a tv gets a tv from some other planet, which does weird things. I guess tv was new enough in the 1950s for people to be afraid of what it would do. Aren't we still? |
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