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Shallow Water (2017)
There's Not Much Out There!
This is a prime example of how over hyping a film can hurt it in the long run. I have been hearing about this film for over a year. From it's beginnings on Kickstarter through the endless hype on the net and social media, especially Facebook. The creatures, the effects, people will be blown away, so the filmmakers promised. I finally saw it and thought it was alright. Nothing more than that. Nothing much happens and most of the film features a woman running through the woods and rain to get away from a Creature From The Black Lagoon - snapping turtle on steroids hybrid monster, with and ending reminiscent of "Preedator 2". I don't want to totally trash this film, because it is alright. It is a different kind of horror film, one artistically shot and with no dialogue. I applaud the effort, but again, in the end, not a lot happens and the film, the promise and the resolve are a bit underwhelming and unsatisfying. I am also convinced that I would have liked it better without the hype, or knowing about it at all. I did like the photography, editing and a very good performance by Lisa Roumain. The woman who is in this horrifying situation, that you know nothing about. Which makes it hard to empathize with or identify with. It reminds me of an artistic version of those cheap 50's sci-fi/horror flicks where the posters and trailers promise a horrifying monster and widespread destruction, but you get an underwhelming monster and minimal destruction. It's decent, it's interesting and worth a look, just don'r expect to be "Wowed"!
They Call Me Superseven (2016)
Great little 60's spy spoof
This funny, action packed, low budget cheese fest is clearly a homage and love letter to the spy shows and movies of the 1960's. The film is influenced and pays homage to such things as James Bond, Matt Helm, Flint, Eurospy movies, "Get Smart", "The Avengers", "Man From UNCLE", "Mission: Impossible", masked wrestling movies, the Kaiju genre and much more. A 60's spy-geek junkie's dream series. Stunts, fights, action, sexy women, gadgets and a hefty body count for a comedy! The entire cast is wonderful, especially Jerry Kokich as Superseven, Olivia Dunkley as Sandra West (Politically incorrect and doing all those things you wish Emma Peel would do, if she weren't so British and nice!) and Anne Leighton as the ditsy mechanical genius, Seriously, with soooo much garbage on TV, this really needs to be a TV series and soon!