Daniyel
Joined Oct 1999
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...for the last five minutes. You know how you watch a really great movie, but it's sort of ruined when the end of the movie doesn't live up to the rest of it?
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is one of the true classics of the horror genre. It's one of the original slice 'em and dice 'em comedies, although not as funny as later additions to the series. Freddy is a little nastier and a little darker in this film, but it's essentially like the rest. The acting tends to be so bad you can't help but turn Freddy into the hero of the flick, because it's obvious he's had many more acting lessons.
Heather Langenkamp is impressive in this one, but it's easy to see how much she has learned by watching the third and seventh in the series. Ronee Blakely isn't even mildly amusing as the drunk mother. The other three teens are tolerable, but John Saxon really steals the scenes as Nancy's policeman father.
Six out of ten! (The lousy ending dropped it two points.)
"A Nightmare on Elm Street" is one of the true classics of the horror genre. It's one of the original slice 'em and dice 'em comedies, although not as funny as later additions to the series. Freddy is a little nastier and a little darker in this film, but it's essentially like the rest. The acting tends to be so bad you can't help but turn Freddy into the hero of the flick, because it's obvious he's had many more acting lessons.
Heather Langenkamp is impressive in this one, but it's easy to see how much she has learned by watching the third and seventh in the series. Ronee Blakely isn't even mildly amusing as the drunk mother. The other three teens are tolerable, but John Saxon really steals the scenes as Nancy's policeman father.
Six out of ten! (The lousy ending dropped it two points.)
Thankfully, my local video store has excellent prices.
"Demonic Toys" was an excellent movie. I have never seen "Dollman" or "Bad Channels", but they don't look too interesting. No matter what, they can't beat this movie for trash.
Baby Oopsie-Daisy, one of the best characters in the original film, is destroyed with his "new" ultra-squeak voice. He sounds like someone just kicked him in the "Oopsie Daisy". Jack is not only mysteriously alive, he's gotten out of his little box. Nurse Ginger is mildly humorous in the same way the gratuitous T&A scenes are mildly humorous in most '80s horror flicks.
This movie is totally devoid of plot, and it's amazing they could come up with something this bad. Not counting credits, opening sequences, flashbacks, and "special add-on video", this movie lasted less than an hour. About the only thing that was worth renting the movie for was the musical accompaniment. They stuck with the same freaky polka music that categorized the original "Demonic Toys", which was almost enough to give this movie a bit of a fright.
I'll give it a one out of ten for the blonde in the nurse's outfit running around screaming, and a two out of ten for the cussing baby. And a three out of ten for the usage of the phrase "do the nasty".
"Demonic Toys" was an excellent movie. I have never seen "Dollman" or "Bad Channels", but they don't look too interesting. No matter what, they can't beat this movie for trash.
Baby Oopsie-Daisy, one of the best characters in the original film, is destroyed with his "new" ultra-squeak voice. He sounds like someone just kicked him in the "Oopsie Daisy". Jack is not only mysteriously alive, he's gotten out of his little box. Nurse Ginger is mildly humorous in the same way the gratuitous T&A scenes are mildly humorous in most '80s horror flicks.
This movie is totally devoid of plot, and it's amazing they could come up with something this bad. Not counting credits, opening sequences, flashbacks, and "special add-on video", this movie lasted less than an hour. About the only thing that was worth renting the movie for was the musical accompaniment. They stuck with the same freaky polka music that categorized the original "Demonic Toys", which was almost enough to give this movie a bit of a fright.
I'll give it a one out of ten for the blonde in the nurse's outfit running around screaming, and a two out of ten for the cussing baby. And a three out of ten for the usage of the phrase "do the nasty".