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For whatever reason I was in the mood to watch horror sequels that few people particularly care about: Psycho 2 - Surprisingly engaging, blackly comic follow up to Hitchcock's classic. Alien 3 (Director's Cut) - Defended this as a young fan of the franchise in my early teens, now apart from the ending and some decent visual cues it's a resounding 'meh'. Alien: Resurrection (Director's Cut) - Still utterly terrible after all these years, those who thought Prometheus ruined the Alien series would be wise to relive this wreck to set the record straight.
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I prefer the ballsy opening to the ending, swiftly killing off the annoying kid and Action Man hero It's the repetitive 'run n' scream' climax that really lets it down for me . . .
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I will give you that too, the one thing I personally thought was interesting were the POV shots from the Alien during the last chase; good offset to the quite jarringly bad matte effects used for the titular monster most of the time.
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I don't know, I don't mind the monster effects - matting in a puppeteered creature seemed quite a novel approach to me - but then, I haven't seen it for a good while. Another big plus is the score by Elliot Goldenthal - really haunting stuff, second only to Goldsmith's for Alien. But then, the scores to all four alien films (not counting Prometheus) have been uniformly excellent . . .
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The music is definetly a highlight, I usually love a good wonky matte effect but on Blu where the Alien's luminous green visage is projected against the prison's arid reds and oranges in quite eye-popping detail it's very strange to see. I suppose at the time they may have wanted to make the creature's dog/ox hybrid features seem more unnatural through this method.
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Five Element Ninjas aka Super Ninjas (1982) "Two schools' rivalry comes to a bloody end when the master of the "evil" school hires a group of deadly ninjas to kill the members of the other." What can I say about this Shaw classic...it's great fun if you like ninjas. Surprisingly bloody and gory as well and there's even some nudity. |
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Laid to Rest Not a bad film at all i went in expecting nothing and was surprised at what i got. The gore is done really well. I have Laid to Rest 2 on right now and it picks up right at the end of the first and like the first one starts off with some great gore.
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I saw it in 2D and can't imagine 3D adding anything to the viewing experience except making it darker!
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