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Summary: It's not a horror its a comedy!
Review: My friends and I were bored one night so we went to rent a video. We couldn't agree on anything so we used the old randomly-grab-a-horror-movie move and well we grabbed this. Upon watching we started off hunched togeter with the lights off expecting a scare any moment. As soon as we saw the monsters we just busted out laughing! The monsters are so stupid and fake looking, and the plot is so not possible that it is hysterical! There is one scene with the monsters and a paranoid old lady in a whelechair that is a classic! If your looking for some great laughs get this movie!
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Summary: GREAT movie
Review: one of te best movies a fetus loving maniac can buy, shows sex after eating different color eyed hemogoblin babies, very hot
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Summary: This film is a classic old fashion B movie
Review: This film contains most of the elements of a wonderfully old fashion horror movie: the beautiful, tragic young couple facing an incurable illness; the mad old woman in the ruined old castle; the family skeleton in the closet; the drunken doctor; wonderfully fake monsters; a remote island setting; the delightfully dishonest innkeeper: so where did it go wrong? The editing was haphazard. There were glaring inconsistancies in the storyline. Sometimes there were hints that led nowhere. Other times things happened that made you sure you had miss an important part of the movie. There are flashbacks but they occur so quickly the only way I was able to tell they contained actual pictures and aren't just blurs representing the confusion and weakness of John's illness was to watch them in slow motion. Roy Dupuis and Kristin Lehman made the viewer care about what happened to John and Kathy Strauss. During their search for the secret of John's past they meet a number of interesting residents of the island. Sadly most of these characters never develop. Rutgar Hauer as the doctor is actually a more minor character than his billing lead me to expect. This film is not the movie it could have been, still I enjoyed it well enough to rewatch it and try of figure out the parts where I had been left with the feeling I'd missed something.
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Summary: Good Monster Movie
Review: This film had some nice T & A. The social commentary is waring against incest. An important bloodline practices incest to keep the bloodline going, and over time the children end up becoming grotesque little monsters. I got this to finish my H.P. Lovecraft adaption collection; I have every last one of them and Crimson Cult was the last one I needed and I loved it. Another, better film, was based off the same H.P. Lovecraft story, if not I stand corrected; it was called Lurking Fear. As far as Lovecraft adaptions go, this is B-grade. This is an under-rated film. I got lucky and I own the now out of print and rare bloody box version. There is a plastic thing attached to the front cover that contains fake blood that is movable. I originally saw this as a rental when it first came out. It made a strong impression on me, both with social commentary, the T & A, and the off-beat nature of it. Recommended for diehard horror fans and H.P. Lovecraft devotees.
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Summary: Good Monster Movie
Review: This film had some nice T & A. The social commentary is waring against incest. An important bloodline practices incest to keep the bloodline going, and over time the children end up becoming grotesque little monsters. I got this to finish my H.P. Lovecraft adaption collection; I have every last one of them and Crimson Cult was the last one I needed and I loved it. Another, better film, was based off the same H.P. Lovecraft story, if not I stand corrected; it was called Lurking Fear. As far as Lovecraft adaptions go, this is B-grade. This is an under-rated film. I got lucky and I own the now out of print and rare bloody box version. There is a plastic thing attached to the front cover that contains fake blood that is movable. I originally saw this as a rental when it first came out. It made a strong impression on me, both with social commentary, the T & A, and the off-beat nature of it. Recommended for diehard horror fans and H.P. Lovecraft devotees.
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Summary: this is how low I will sink to see Rutger
Review: This movie had, what it seemed to be, an interesting plot going for it, for the first hour, and then.... Muppets! The film turns from a man haunted by a mysterious legacy, to muppets fighting villagers. Oh well, pass the popcorn.
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Summary: The most origional horror film of the 90's!
Review: This movie has everything horror film fans are looking for! It's scary, gory and it has beautiful women in it! When a couple come to a remote island off the coast of Maine to find his family, they soon find out that the town has few secrets burried under the cemetary. Centuries earlier a family of rich Dutch people called the VanDams lived there. Being inbreads,their mansion was set aflame by the townsfolk. But some Vandams escaped into the tunnels beneath the island. Years later they still live there and survive by eating the corpses from the cemetary. Once their food source is taken away after the cemetary is dug up, they become desprate for food and start feeding on those unlucky enough to be out at night. Soon they are discovered and are found to be very sensitive to light. The townsfolk gather at the lighthouse where they hold up with guns through the storm and try to fight them off. The best scene is where the island's mortician, Alice climbs down into a grave to steal a necklace (for the best of intentions) and a Vandam pops out from underneath the coffin, digs sharpened hammers and spikes into her calves and pulls her into the caves. I give this movie an A+!
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Summary: Great acting, scares and effects!
Review: This turned out to be an okay movie. Threre was only on good character.Alice,she's sweat,beautiful,and giving.To bad she was the first on the chopping block.The creatures are deformed and hideous.The acting and effects are very good and it is actually scary. The scene where the bleeders are coming toward the light house combined with rain and thunder and lightning is superb. Also, Alice's death scene was done well. That scene was the scariest of the whole movie! Great effects when the digging hammars get hooked in her thighs. Look for the scene where the whole town is locked in the lighthouse and they send people outside with guns to keep watch. Out of all the strong able bodied people, they choose the girl who is obsessed with make up and her hair to go out! Yeah right! It took alot of make up to get all of those midgets looking like monsters!It's a good movie to rent when you're bored.
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Summary: Kristine Lehman is the only highlight.
Review: Very poor horror/thriller featuring Roy Dupuis and Kristine Lehman as a husband and wife arriving at an island to discover the man's past. The answer is a very sordid history involving incest. The silly script, poor acting, and bad creature effects eventually sink this movie into the level of preposterousness. Kristine Lehman's topless scene is the only highlight (10 seconds out of a 90-minute film).
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Summary: Fairly good, but not that scary
Review: Well, I rented this movie expecting a horror show. What I got was a movie that was more intruiging than scary. I wasn't scared at all, in fact, but some of the deeper plot elements kept me watching until the end.I did not like the fact that most of the shots of the grotesque Van Daans were so brief you did not get much of a look at them, but from a scientific person's point of view, it kept you wondering about how this could have happened to a family. The only part that made me sick was Jon Strauss's having to eat...that fetus that had been soaking in formaldehyde for 75 years. *That* was going beyond the good--or bad--tastes of any horror film. Horror film cannibalism is one thing, but this was overstepping bounds. On the other hand, the element that interested me most, and dissapointed me because it wasn't really resolved that well, was Kathleen's baby. It's a Van Daan. Was it a boy or a girl? Born with the horribly mutated gene's of it's father? Would it have to come back to the abandoned island one day if it displays the symptoms of Jon's blood disease? I wish that factor had been addressed more, but if they ever make a sequal--and this I doubt, it was a B-movie--I would hope it would be this child coming back, whether for medical reasons or simply to explore his/her twisted roots. Now *that* would make an interesting movie element.
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