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Raiders of the Living Dead

Raiders of the Living Dead

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 90 minute snooze-a-thon. You'll sleep like the dead.
Review: Dull, bloodless direct-to-video dreck. The shortsighted should be forewarned in case they think they are purchasing an unlikely double feature of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. It takes an hour for any zombies to emerge and even then nothing happens. The final minute of the movie is so dark you can't even see what is going on. However it may interest horror fans to know that the movie features Zita Johann, who was the co-star of the old Karloff classic THE MUMMY. The only good bits of this garbage are a couple of brief 3 Stooges clips. Do yourself a favor and watch George Romero's DAWN OF THE DEAD or Peter Jackson's BRAINDEAD (DEAD ALIVE) instead. You can't go wrong with those two.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This movie is an insult
Review: I love Romero"s [Dawn] as well as [Night],and if thats what your looking for, you are definetly in the wrong place.All I can say is that anybody involved with this production should be lined up and shot.I honestly dont know where to begin.The theme song was the worst----painful to hear---totally 80"s,totally tasteless and very gay.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This could very possibly be the worst movie ever.
Review: If you like cheap horror movies, there are millions more out there, and they are probably all better than this one. This movie isn't even very bloody, as most of the killing is done with a lazer that some kid makes from a compact disk player. Don't waste your money, instead stick to Romero's Night of the Living Dead trilogy.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This could very possibly be the worst movie ever.
Review: If you like cheap horror movies, there are millions more out there, and they are probably all better than this one. This movie isn't even very bloody, as most of the killing is done with a lazer that some kid makes from a compact disk player. Don't waste your money, instead stick to Romero's Night of the Living Dead trilogy.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Raiders of the Living Dead
Review: In the name of GOD don't buy this movie. The cover art was better than the movie. (I use the term movie loosely) The acting was the worst thing I have ever seen. I have spent more money on a good dinner than was spent on the special effects for this (movie). I should have turned it off after the kid turned his Grand Fathers Laser Disk Player in to a death ray. The same effect used to beam people up in the old Star Trek TV series was used to make the laser beams. (scraching the film) After watching this (movie) I could not even bring myself to rewind it. It now sit on the self and I threaten to tie the kids up and make the watch it again if they act up.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This movie sucks!
Review: It doesn't even deserve one star. Matter of fact, I want my money back!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Okay, I guess.
Review: Raiders is a cheesy, hoaky, run of the mill forgotten horror film. Funny at moments with one head exploding scene (the most gore you'll get with this film), Raiders is descent, but not great by any means.

A good thing to have in my collection, but would I watch it again...may be awhile--if never.

...The other DVD's are screwed up versions of the first film, not worth viewing really. Brett Piper's version is incomplete and crap, don't buy it for his version.

You've been warned, bad movie, good collector's item.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Okay, I guess.
Review: Raiders is a cheesy, hoaky, run of the mill forgotten horror film. Funny at moments with one head exploding scene (the most gore you'll get with this film), Raiders is descent, but not great by any means.

A good thing to have in my collection, but would I watch it again...may be awhile--if never.

...The other DVD's are screwed up versions of the first film, not worth viewing really. Brett Piper's version is incomplete and crap, don't buy it for his version.

You've been warned, bad movie, good collector's item.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: There's probably more zombie action in an old folks home...
Review: Raiders of the Living Dead had accumulated a lengthy stay on my dust-ridden shelves before I finally got around to cracking open the cheap plastic casing and popping the disk into my DVD drive. I wasn't really expecting much from the beginning as it had only cost me a mere five pounds but I was prepared to sit back and watch anyway.

The movie itself stands merely as a simple time waster offering very little new, nor exciting. Its setbacks are the shoddy and over-the-top acting mainly originating from the younger actors, the cheesy special effects, and the downright lack of zombies. These 'Smurf-grey' coloured zombies do make an appearance, don't get me wrong, but they don't really seem to make much of an impact until later, an impact that wasn't going to be shaking anyone's world anyway. Sadly, my zombie taste buds were only ticked.

Raiders of the Living Dead seems more focused on the young lad's ridiculous laser gun, formed from parts of a VHS player. If a VHS player can make a laser gun like that, it stands no chance against today's DVD players. Come on, how often does opening part of a VHS player send a laser ray out that sizzles your hamster?

It also appears the directors were seriously trying to make up some extra time in this 86 minute movie. How necessary are extended scenes of a guy walking past a metal fence, and uneventfully boring nightmares.

Raiders of the Living Dead hasn't aged well either. Only made in 1986, it already looks far more outdated compared to other movies of it's time.

Sadly, Raiders of the Living Dead offers little new and is probably as far away as you can possibly go from receiving an Oscar nomination. For me, the movie simply made it's marks as a mere time-waster. And for five pounds, what do you expect? If you catch it cheap like I did, maybe consider purchasing. But any higher than bargain bin prices then I seriously recommend staying away.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Horrid waste of time!
Review: Raiders of the Living Dead, has to be one of the worst horror movies ever made, top 10 at least. It had a memorable scene where the reporter blows off the zombies arm and head, but that was about the only action there was in this movie. Unless that is you count shooting a ray gun to kill the zombies action, bad enough there is no blood in those scenes. The movie is extremely slow paced, you think, when are the zombies coming? 50 minutes into the film you only see 3 zombies, one of them were killed, the other two just show up on screen and kidnap a woman. You see alot of zombies at the end, and you would think that there would be action but there was none. You are guaranteed the cheesiest of cheese with the boys ray gun, which looks more like a cartoon lightning gun. The movie should have been called The Ray Gun, because that's what it spends most of it's time showing the viewer. Horrible, boring, this might have made an ok episode for a tv show, but not a movie. If you collect bad movies, get this, it's guaranteed to be among the top in your collection. Even zombie fans wouldn't like this load of crap.


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