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  Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot 1992

  ★★ Watched 31 Aug 2023

  A light weight, and embarrassing action-comedy, which could test your patience. Just looking at Stallone’s performance, you gotta wonder if second thoughts were creeping into his head. Likewise for Director Roger Spottiswoode. The crime element of the plot plays second fiddle to a forced script that really plays up the mother (Estelle Getty) and son (Sylvester Stallone) relationship. Meaning the villains leave very little in the way of impact, and lack the edge needed to instil any sense of danger.…

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  Out for Justice 1991

  ★★★★ Rewatched 30 Aug 2023

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  Kadaicha 1988

  ★★½ Watched 18 Sep 2017 2

  Hoop-tober 4.0 Film #2
  Six Countries - 1/6 [Australia]

  Don’t you just hate when a scene from a film haunts your mind, coming across it by accident at a young age and not knowing the title? Well, late one night I got up to go to the kitchen for a drink, and going by the lounge room I caught my parents watching a horror film. As I stood there, I just happened to time it with a death scene. It…

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  The Boogey Man 1980

  ★★★½ Watched 24 Jun 2017 2

  Other than “THE DEVONSVILLE TERROR” (which I didn’t particularly care for). I’m fairly new to Ulli Lommel’s work, but I gotta say the shoe-string budgeted “THE BOOGEYMAN” was rather a nice surprise. In spite of its stilted nature (especially the scenes involving John Carradine’s psychobabble), there’s something rather creative, visually enticing and uncanny around its process of a supernatural slasher. Maybe even a pioneer for the sub-genre, as what felt like a thematic blueprint, still with some slasher influences, eventually…