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The Rage: Carrie 2 - being more a remake than a sequel of the 70ies classic - is a good film for chilling out after a week of work or something like that. The creators were able to transport the basic ideas of the Stephen King novel (teenage problems)into this sequel. Only this is a reason to call this a good movie - because I think that Stephen King fans had to see much bad adaptions of the master´s work in the past. Another reason is that this movie is much better than all the other teen-horror-movies of the last years like I Know What You Did Last Summer (of course I could never say something bad about the first two Scream movies - seriously!). Carrie 2 handles teenager´s problems and conflict much better than other films and I think that it is a much better film to identificate with for young people. The "new Carrie" is - once again - a true outsider and not one of these upper class all-american teens like the ones in I Know...etc. The movie shows its sympathy for this outsider (a nice detail: in some scenes you can see the Marilyn Manson-poster at the wall of Rachel´s room - the icon of all angry outsiders). Another point: the horror violence is much harder than in the other teen movies, too. Everyone who likes gory horror should like this movie All in all, I could not say anything bad about this movie. Just take a look. 8 out of 10

After I´ve seen quiet a lot of the Hammer Studio´s output, I would say that Hands Of The Ripper is one of the best. You can discover nearly everything that made Hammer famous - well, except Christopher Lee and

Peter Cushing. Peter Sasdy filled this movie with a lot of dark London streets-atmosphere, a straight on plot that never gets boring, good actors - and at least: blood. I think that this film is one of the goriest being produced in the Hammer Studios and the brutal shock sequences truly surprised me. Of course the psychological background - even though Sigmund Freud is mentioned - is quiet primitive and a little stupid but who cares? At least, I feel well entertained after having watched this pic. 6 out of 10

Humanoids From The Deep was one of the first "more gory" horror-films that I´ve seen in my early youth and this is why I remember it as one of my favourite horror-films ever. Well, in fact there´s no high quality standard in this Corman-production and the direction tries to catch the viewer´s attention with some (quiet evil)gore effects and nude girls being chased by funny-looking, costume wearing men. You just have to remind the plot of Jaws to know what´s going on here but nevertheless, Humanoids From The Deep is one of the films that people call "Good Clean Fun". Just take a look. 6 out of 10