A slasher movie directed by J. Lee Thompson (Cape Fear) and starring Melissa Sue Anderson (she's a long way from Little House on the Prairie here!), Glenn Ford and Lawrence Dane (Scanners). Someone is bumping off college students in innovative ways. Who could the killer be? Even though the methods of murder are unconventional (barbell, …
It must be very difficult for a film director to make a sequel to an established masterpiece. The weight of expectation towards The Exorcist 3 even though it was the second sequel and not the first, must have been massive. Fortunately, the end result is pretty good. Fifteen years have passed since the events that …
10. The Irishman A fantastic study on ageing, psychopathy and the passage of time aided by the use of age-defying CGI. This was made by Netflix for people to watch on Netflix. I actually watched it on the big screen in the opulent surroundings of Leeds Town Hall on a wooden seat. An uncomfortable experience …
I first remember hearing about the film Scanners when home video first appeared on the scene here in the UK. A lot of the businesses with a selection of rentable videos in the early days weren't exclusively video shops. There was a shop near my school called Clockmakers (which is weird as it was a …
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aka Predator Goes To The City. Things I liked about Predator 2- - It looks great. A fantastic comic book style and a vibrant colour palate. The framing is very comic book-like also. - The cast. No, we don't get Arnie again but we do get Danny Glover, Bill Paxton and Gary Busey. But the …
I love it when sequels include the ending of the previous film as a recap for the audience. It's very considerate. I had forgotten nearly all of what happened in this film but it all came flooding back as I started to watch it. The last time I watched Rocky 2 was on VHS in …
I have a confession to make. I might be the only person on the planet who HATED Mad Max: Fury Road. It felt like riding a really fast 2-hour fairground ride after having a roast dinner. A very uncomfortable experience. But whilst I detested this Tom Hardy film, another released the same year made up …
Timmy Lea and his brother-in-law are still cleaning windows (see the previous film) but somehow blag their way into the world of pop management. The band they start to manage are called Bloater which Timmy's brother in law then renames Kipper (it's classier). When Kipper's drummer is unable to play a gig, Timmy steps in. …
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I love the low-budget horror curios that I stumble across. Drive-In Massacre, Spawn of the Slithis and The Incredible Melting Man are three such examples of this sub-genre. I watched The Demon (aka Midnight Caller) from 1979 last night and can add it to this category. I actually thought the film was based in California …
This 1958 film adaptation was noteworthy as it was the first film based around the character which was made by the legendary studio Hammer Films. This adaptation has been pared down and changed to help the film's narrative flow (an example of this is that Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to purposely destroy Dracula. This …
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