Expected this to suck because there was hardly enough story to hold the original together so I mean I was definitely wondering how they’d handle a second chapter…and turns out the answer is by having so many things not make any sense at all, starting with the fact that this time around Emanuelle is played by an entirely different actress and couldn’t act any less like her first incarnation and conversely having the male lead from the original (the guy…
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Shark Exorcist 2015
A few of the deadpan one-liners got me pretty good as did the first reveal of the shark but for the most part this is garbage — hard to believe this is by the guy that did Red Lips 20 years earlier, because while it also too had no budget, it felt like a sincere grimy NYC vampire movie working within its constraints, while Shark Exorcist on the other hand is very insincere and deliberate trash (similar to what I…
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Hellraiser 1987
I’ve been looking at the cover for Hellraiser for 30 years now, one of the few I remember seeing at video stores as a kid (probably memorable due to the Pinhead art), and despite having seen it once before I always forget it’s not just the standard 80s slasher I always imagined it to be based on the box — in actuality it feels less like cheap entertainment, it’s slower and more contemplative than that, and it rarely goes for…
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Red Spirit Lake 1993
This did grow on me — I wasn’t in love with it the first time I saw it and I don’t know if I’d say I’m in love with it now but it did stick with me enough to see it again and I’m glad I did. There is a plot here although not an entirely conventional one but more than anything this one is all about the color and lighting — it seems like a good 75% of the…
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