valiumthousand
Joined May 2011
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Samantha Froelich is complete and utter garbage.
And that the makers of this series have chosen to give her a pity party platform to bleat about how bad she allegedly feels is equally pathetic.
Oh, so the repeated entreaties to give the Nazi salute weren't quite enough for her to understand what was going on? She had to experience so much worse in order to truly understand or comprehend the nature and character of the people she was with?
This is not some redemption story or heroic, courageous turnaround...this is a throughly disgusting person being given a platform to absolve themselves from having to acknowledge that they are the lowest of the low.
Garbage.
And that the makers of this series have chosen to give her a pity party platform to bleat about how bad she allegedly feels is equally pathetic.
Oh, so the repeated entreaties to give the Nazi salute weren't quite enough for her to understand what was going on? She had to experience so much worse in order to truly understand or comprehend the nature and character of the people she was with?
This is not some redemption story or heroic, courageous turnaround...this is a throughly disgusting person being given a platform to absolve themselves from having to acknowledge that they are the lowest of the low.
Garbage.
What we have here is 5% Poe, 70% Lovecraft and 25% Frankenstein.
Oozing with type of the fantastic atmosphere that Corman seemingly effortlessly delivers again and again while working with a meager budget, effective period evocations, and more than serviceable performances from the principal actors, this is an entertaining if occasionally slow paced Gothic horror film and an important early entry in the canon of explicitly Lovecraft/Mythos based films.
It could have been an 8 or even 9 star film if it wasn't for the (even for its time) mind numbingly trite ending which for me, detracted greatly from the overall quality of the film.
Honestly, the ending frustrated me to the point of wanting to rate this 5 out of 10 but it would be unfair to do so given the caliber of the production, sets, performances and atmosphere. So, 6 it is.
Oozing with type of the fantastic atmosphere that Corman seemingly effortlessly delivers again and again while working with a meager budget, effective period evocations, and more than serviceable performances from the principal actors, this is an entertaining if occasionally slow paced Gothic horror film and an important early entry in the canon of explicitly Lovecraft/Mythos based films.
It could have been an 8 or even 9 star film if it wasn't for the (even for its time) mind numbingly trite ending which for me, detracted greatly from the overall quality of the film.
Honestly, the ending frustrated me to the point of wanting to rate this 5 out of 10 but it would be unfair to do so given the caliber of the production, sets, performances and atmosphere. So, 6 it is.
This one's a hot, hot mess. There's no denying that much of the cinematography is well done and there are some visually compelling moments.
But truly, this is a terrible movie. The dialogue/script is overblown and comical. I'm a big fan of trash cinema but I'm really hard pressed to recall a movie that took itself so seriously but was so cliched and vacuous as this is.
The acting veers wildly between wooden and dinner theater histrionics and there are zero sympathetic characters in it.
Amusing and there are some stupefyingly bad moments of dialogue that will have you howling with laughter. The positive reviews are really difficult to comprehend.
But truly, this is a terrible movie. The dialogue/script is overblown and comical. I'm a big fan of trash cinema but I'm really hard pressed to recall a movie that took itself so seriously but was so cliched and vacuous as this is.
The acting veers wildly between wooden and dinner theater histrionics and there are zero sympathetic characters in it.
Amusing and there are some stupefyingly bad moments of dialogue that will have you howling with laughter. The positive reviews are really difficult to comprehend.