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I watched Jurassic Park episode 7 in a nearly empty cinema today, and it wasn't as bad as I'd heard. The characters include a group of mercenaries and an unprepared family who accidentally ends up on the island-a decent starting point.

As the movie goes on, it dives into some truly ridiculous moments. For instance, the scene where the T-Rex "chases" the yellow rubber boat-he treads so slowly, it's like he's begging the humans to escape. "Please run, I can't walk any slower than this!"

Once again, they've unnecessarily abandoned science, which was a key part of the original Jurassic Park novel. They could've simply said dinosaurs survived on an island; that would've been enough. But instead, they made them mutants, likely to give more creative freedom to the creature design team. The thrill used to be about showing us how dinosaurs really were, remember?

In summary, episode 7 is much better than part 6 ("Dominion"), which I consider the nadir of the series. Still, it's just a silly action movie with none of the original trilogy's qualities, apart from the occasional impressive monster. The Mosasaur was my favorite.

Ivanna is employed as a chemist at the laboratory of Baron Janos. The baron is suspected of several brutal femicides in the area, but she doesn't worry about that. She doesn't really mind, either, to be drugged in the night and carried away to the torture chamber. After all, her scientific work is all that matters to her, and the rest is minor obstacles. For some strange reason, the baron asks her not to open a particular door, never, under no circumstances. Sure she opens the door one minute later, and then the real trouble begins...

Laughable story, totally ridiculous main character, but great gothic look and altogether it's quite some fun - maybe not in the way the makers intended. Not to be missed by lovers of weird European gothic cinema.

Doctor Garondet enters the castle of the infamous professor Orloff who managed to create an invisible creature and trained it to - well, close doors and carry a torch. Soon invisible creatures like this will rule the earth, the professor claims - yes, he is a very, very mad scientist. His guest attempts to rescue at least the professor's daughter from the claws of the monster.

Simple, but visually effective low budget Frankenstein spoof from the hands of Pierre Chevalier according to the credits, although rumours don't die that Jess Franco directed it uncredited. Safe to say is that one of his favorite actors, Howard Vernon, delivers an impressive performance here as the professor.