Reel Horror (1985)
1/2 (out of 4)
If you rented movies back in the VHS era then you'll remember several compilations that were put together to show off movies. Usually titles like THE BEST OF SEX AND VIOLENCE and ZOMBIETHON featured various trailers and they were made in an attempt to make people interested in renting the actual films.
Then you've got something like REEL HORROR, which is downright awful in just about every way imaginable. In this film, film canisters become possessed and they "come to life." By coming to life I mean that once the prints come to life we then see clips from a variety of movies and in between the clips there are some hosts to tell some jokes.
This here is a really awful movie on many levels but I'm going to guess that a majority of people came to it because it was advertised as featuring John Carradine. Clips from his movie BAD CHARLESTON CHARLIE are shown and that's the only connection that Carradine has to this picture. We also get clips (according to IMDB) from UP YOUR TEDDY BEAR, THE BLOODY SLAYING OF SARAH RIDELANDER, NICOLE, PIGS and NIGHT CREATURE.
The problem with this film is that the hosts are incredibly annoying and nothing they do or say is funny or interesting. Another problem is that the clips from the films are showing without any rhyme or reason and it seems as if someone was too lazy to create an interesting trailer or an interesting segment of scenes so they just showed large chunks of the actual movies. Out of the clips shown, I've only seen PIGS and it was a pretty good movie but you wouldn't know it by the scenes selected here.
I'm really not sure why these films were selected but REEL HORROR was meant to be rented by horror fans yet the horror elements in the movie clips are very tame and it's doubtful anyone would watch this movie and then want to go out and rent these other films.
1/2 (out of 4)
If you rented movies back in the VHS era then you'll remember several compilations that were put together to show off movies. Usually titles like THE BEST OF SEX AND VIOLENCE and ZOMBIETHON featured various trailers and they were made in an attempt to make people interested in renting the actual films.
Then you've got something like REEL HORROR, which is downright awful in just about every way imaginable. In this film, film canisters become possessed and they "come to life." By coming to life I mean that once the prints come to life we then see clips from a variety of movies and in between the clips there are some hosts to tell some jokes.
This here is a really awful movie on many levels but I'm going to guess that a majority of people came to it because it was advertised as featuring John Carradine. Clips from his movie BAD CHARLESTON CHARLIE are shown and that's the only connection that Carradine has to this picture. We also get clips (according to IMDB) from UP YOUR TEDDY BEAR, THE BLOODY SLAYING OF SARAH RIDELANDER, NICOLE, PIGS and NIGHT CREATURE.
The problem with this film is that the hosts are incredibly annoying and nothing they do or say is funny or interesting. Another problem is that the clips from the films are showing without any rhyme or reason and it seems as if someone was too lazy to create an interesting trailer or an interesting segment of scenes so they just showed large chunks of the actual movies. Out of the clips shown, I've only seen PIGS and it was a pretty good movie but you wouldn't know it by the scenes selected here.
I'm really not sure why these films were selected but REEL HORROR was meant to be rented by horror fans yet the horror elements in the movie clips are very tame and it's doubtful anyone would watch this movie and then want to go out and rent these other films.