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Aleksi Mäkelä, the director of excellent Häjyt and Pahat pojat, offers us an hour and a half of great and stylish entertainment. The title character Vares (Juha Veijonen) is a finish detective who sets out to help a woman named Eeva (Laura Malmivaara)in her dangerous pursuit for Russian mobs money. Based on the book of finish novelist Reijo Mäki, this movie really boasts on great characters. Vares himself is a good guy, mostly hanging in his favourite pub with his boozing buddy Luusalmi (Markku peltola) in his spare time. A Mäkelä regular Samuli Edelmann portraits a tough cop working on both sides of the law. Then there's the hilarious killer duo Hillosilmä- Munck and Tetsuo Sinkkonen played by Pekka Valkeejärvi and Kari Hietalahti. Director Jari Halonen is surely one the most devilish criminal in finish movie history as lurid Karl E. Miesmann. Good supporting cast also include Minna Turunen, Jorma Tommila and Santeri Kinnunen. Not just a detective story, but also a black comedy and good old fashioned action movie as well this one's probably the finest pop-culture movie made in Finland in 2004. Good work, keep on rockin' guys!

Wes Craven succeeds here, making the zombie myth come to life. A very entertaining, but also a kind of cultural study of voodoo, the Serpent and the Rainbow is a very serious attempt on the field of horror. Recommended specially for those who think horror movies can't be made realistic yet scary and thought provoking. 8 out of 10. Terrific job thoroughly.

Umberto Lenzi's Nightmare City is a highly entertaining mixture of the 70's Italian horror scene, camp plot twists and a third-rate acting. The film uses typical Italian senseless screen writing, exploitation (nudity=nubile women with some absurd scenes as zombies rip off clothes before killing their victims) and a nice quantity of gore.

Cheap special effects make this film look hillarious enough to trash completists. Lenzi keeps the pace up most of the time though some scenes tend to drag a bit. This may not be a bad thing while viewing the film among fellow gorehounds: you will have time to chat and still keep up with the plot. As funny as grotesque Nightmare City delivers the goods if you're looking for a snack of European gore.