A great little horror flick starring the amazing Caroline Williams where not all is what it seems. Nice and tight at 73 minutes, wonderful, quirky characters, and just a fun watch. Worth your time.
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Land of the Dead
(2005)
We waited 20 years for this?!
20 June 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Romero had a lot to live up to. The last installment, Day of the Dead (1985), is one of my favorite horror movies of all time. Plus the very excellent remake of Dawn of the Dead last year is still fresh in the minds of horror fans. But I thought he was up to it. I thought he could do it. Man, was I wrong.
This isn't a terrible movie -- it's just not remotely impressive. It's like he took the formula established by the first three and just churned out a mindless sequel. There's gore but nothing amazing, there's action but nothing surprising.
The actions and motivations of many of the characters simply don't make sense. Their focus on the political inequities in their feudal society (which is exactly the form you'd expect government to take amongst the survivors of a civilization-destroying disaster) doesn't seem realistic given the alternative. It sucks that the top dogs get all the privileges but I'd put up with a lot rather than face the walking dead.
And the "Live and let live" line concerning the zombies that one character delivers left me stunned, as though there's a moral equivalence between humans and the flesh eating dead! What were you thinking, George?
This isn't a terrible movie -- it's just not remotely impressive. It's like he took the formula established by the first three and just churned out a mindless sequel. There's gore but nothing amazing, there's action but nothing surprising.
The actions and motivations of many of the characters simply don't make sense. Their focus on the political inequities in their feudal society (which is exactly the form you'd expect government to take amongst the survivors of a civilization-destroying disaster) doesn't seem realistic given the alternative. It sucks that the top dogs get all the privileges but I'd put up with a lot rather than face the walking dead.
And the "Live and let live" line concerning the zombies that one character delivers left me stunned, as though there's a moral equivalence between humans and the flesh eating dead! What were you thinking, George?
The Godsend
(1980)
It's got NOTHING to do with The Omen!
10 November 2001
This movie is not connected to, a rip off of or inspired by The Omen. Just because both happen to be about an evil child doesn't mean a thing. The Godsend is pure science fiction: what if there was a sub-species of humans who bred the same way the cuckoo does. This bird has the nasty habit of laying it's eggs in the nests of birds of other species. The baby cuckoo imitates the calls of its nestmates so the unwilling adoptive parents are none the wiser. At its first opportunity the baby cuckoo murders the other babies by pushing them out of the nest. That's what this movie was about.
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