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Summary: GOOD 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.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 men 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: A bit better than average b-movie stuff
Review: This wasn't quite your average b-movie. The plot was fairly simplistic and obvious, which I had expected, but what made it more was the decent acting between the main characters, John and his wife. They were able to give their roles more depth than I would typically expect from a movie like this. I felt there was several other characters who were unusually detailed for this sort of movie--the "odd" girl, and an undertaker's daughter! Also, I enjoyed the natural settings,the island views--so often in films like this bad quality set design detracts from the film. The other thing I very much liked was that most of the characters were women, rather than the usual "I'm fainting come and save me" females in movies like this.
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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: 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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Summary: Can't look Mom in the eyes anymore.
Review: While the plot lacks substance.. and the subject matter is just disturbing.... this film offers much in the realm of F/X. superbly done, especially considering the script they had to work with.
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Summary: An intelligent but cheap horror movie.
Review: Writer Dan O'Bannon (Alien, Dead & Buried) has lately turned to B-movies, as this one or the superior "Screamers" show. Also a fan of H.P. Lovecraft's narrative (he directed "The resurrected", based on a Lovecraft tale), he co-writes this Canadian horror movie which is slightly based on another Lovecraft tale. The film is cheap, yes, and there are no big names in the box (well, except Rutger Hauer), but it has the charm that only B-movies have, together with some gore and unconventional features which will scare the more conventional viewers. Hey, this is not for children! So it is appealing to B-movie lovers and Lovecraft fans, but the low budget ultimately becomes a problem: while the first half of the film benefits from the slow pace and the acceptable suspense, once the mystery becomes evident and the special effects department becomes the main attractive, the film looses interest, and the poor climatic sequences are too short and poorly directed (I guess they tried to hide how few money they had) to be climatic at all. With more lenght and money, "Bleeders" would have become a little classic. As it is, well, at least is funny and unconventional, because I honestly believe you cannot made such an unpleasant and disgusting movie if that is not your purpose from the very beginning.
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