DrPrunesquallor

You're in a train. You're dragged through a barren landscape. Occasionally shells fly past. You have no idea what's going on. The train stops and you find yourself in a plain concrete cell. A few pipes stick out from the wall. And then the horror begins.

Borowczyk's early animation is a disturbing and haunting piece, a metaphor for dehumanising death machines in general and the Holocaust in particular. Short, but hard to forget, and with a pervasively disturbing soundtrack that sinks in to your mind.

Dull. Unbelievably so. Badly acted, badly scripted, badly plotted, cliched, nonsensical.....

As far as I can tell, the point of the film is that if you're Irish, you are an enlightened, racially tolerant liberal. If not, you're an evil bigot beyond redemption.

Can't beat a good moral, can you? Luckily, my great-grandmother was Irish, so I myself emerge on the side of the Angels.

Oh dear.

Swamp Thing, now. Swamp Thing was a fairly unremarkable horrorish comic, which went on for a few years quite happily. Then, in 1984, Alan Moore started writing it. And his writing revolutionised comics, there had never been anything this complex and deep before. He went on to write (among other things) the comic "From Hell" which is being made into a movie with Johnny Depp, Ian Holm and Heather Graham, later this year.

Anyway, back to Swamp Thing. A pre-Alan Moore film of it was made, and after he made the comics popular, they decided to make a sequel. Did they use any of his ideas or style? Or did they decide to make a campy, supposedly-funny mess out of it? Well, you decide.

Dont even get me started on the problems with this. The characters look all wrong. They feel all wrong. The plot is messed up. No one here can act. Its NOT FUNNY.

Lets see if I can find something good to say about it....hmm...well, Heather Locklear looks quite nice. And Louis Jordan wants to be Vincent Price so much, its hard not to feel sorry for him

Altogether, 0/10. I might have enjoyed it more if I hadnt had the comics to compare it to.