This movie is straight up awesome!
Michael York plays a pianist who begins to show signs of a genetic disorder that rapidly ages him. The disease makes him go mad and he starts killing people. Meanwhile police are hot on his trail.
The aging subplot plays A LOT like the aging subplot from The Fly II. There’s even a dog that our lead connects with in a lab. Only this film arrived a full year prior. At the same time,…
I watched Videodrome before checking this out. A very surreal combo! This basically feels like some kind of middle-of-the-night pirate broadcast that no one was actually meant to see. And yet, here I am, reviewing the amazing new Blu-ray from Terror Vision!
This is less a film and more like a promotional piece for a bunch of David DeCoteau movies featuring Linnea Quigley. It’s a mix of clips, workout routines and other schlocky B-movie nonsense, like ravenous pool party zombies…
Big. Dumb. Fun as hell. But don’t get me wrong — this one is straight up stupid.
I love how the movie was made in ‘93 but predicts that a cryogenic penal system is established and fully functional by 1996. OK…
And what, the person is frozen for a period of time only to be unfrozen in the future with no family or friends, but the person is STILL the same age once unfrozen? Make that make sense!
Like, all…
That Jerry Goldsmtih score! That gripping plot! The daring thrills! Such a good time.
That said …the visuals are a bit racist in their depiction and it didn’t always sit well with me. Perhaps I’ll appreciate the live action version as it doesn’t contain those depictions and fantastical elements.
Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean owes A LOT to Captain Ron, namely to actor Kurt Russell. His nutty laissez faire Captain is curiously similar to what would become Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow. In fact, there are numerous jokes that get reused in Pirates. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean is even mentioned in this film, several times! There’s even *actual* pirates in the film, too!
And this makes sense. After all, Disney owns Captain Ron. And despite being a somewhat family-friendly…
I have no idea why more people don’t talk about this film. It’s a blast! But for some reason, a large portion of horror fandom has something of a blind spot for this hugely entertaining meta horror flick. Perhaps it’s the simple fact that the movie came out in 1991 – not exactly the era of the classic slasher. But rather, an era where fans where moving on to different genre styles. As such, this film has long struggled to…
