kirk.wagstaff
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Could you believe it? I accidentally picked this movie up in Music Zone instead of another Vipco Horror "Classic". Initially I found the film to be, like another reviewer here said "impossibly bad". Forty minutes into the film I actually had hopes for this poor monstrosity. It is incredibly grim and tacky, and the kung-fu scenes are cringe-inducing. For example, after the evil doctor injects victims with serum in his dungeon, they wake up and suddenly transform into black-belters and beat the crap out of each other. There was an uneasy atmosphere throughout the 90 minutes and there isn't one scene not shot in darkness. The sado-masochism, violence against women, sexual content and disturbing S&M undertone easily earn this a place in the Vipco library. As a movie itself it really stinks!
2/5
2/5
Event Horizon stars Sam Niell, who starred in Jurassic Park and as the anti-christ in Omen 3. Here he plays a similar character, who plans to bring hell into the world via a spaceship which returns from the boundaries of Neptune with hell captive.
Initially a science fiction movie, this eventually turns into a futuristic horror which is uncannily similar to Hellraiser 4, in which Pinhead and his demons devour space crew. Event Horizon follows the same path with some horrific results but with a much better cast. You will notice some faces from Alien 3. Laurence Fishburne is wonderful as Captain Miller and keeps a level head through this nightmare in convincing fashion.
Event Horizon has some great ideas, most of which taken from the film Alien. I was disappointed how the film looked to become an envigorating science fiction movie, then turned into a gory horror. It feels like they took the easy way out. The CGI effects are some of the best I've ever seen and the sequences where the crew first enter Event Horizon are exciting. Too bad the effects were used on claret and massacre in the last thirty minutes. It could have been so much more.
3/5
Initially a science fiction movie, this eventually turns into a futuristic horror which is uncannily similar to Hellraiser 4, in which Pinhead and his demons devour space crew. Event Horizon follows the same path with some horrific results but with a much better cast. You will notice some faces from Alien 3. Laurence Fishburne is wonderful as Captain Miller and keeps a level head through this nightmare in convincing fashion.
Event Horizon has some great ideas, most of which taken from the film Alien. I was disappointed how the film looked to become an envigorating science fiction movie, then turned into a gory horror. It feels like they took the easy way out. The CGI effects are some of the best I've ever seen and the sequences where the crew first enter Event Horizon are exciting. Too bad the effects were used on claret and massacre in the last thirty minutes. It could have been so much more.
3/5
The hype surrounding this film pursuaded me to check this film out, I haven't seen a good slasher movie in years and had heard good things about Jeepers Creepers.
I was very impressed with the first thirty minutes. A brother and his sister are driving around and nearly get killed by a maniac with a stupid truck. They decide to investigate the church this maniac was spotted moments after. They discover a chute which leads down into the unknown, and Darius has the nice idea of sliding down minutes after almost being killed. Nice idea Darius! Learning that dead bodies in their hundreds are waiting at the bottom, the two teenagers leave horrified and distraught. Searching for help, the body count begins which results in some cool imagery, if little gore (to the gore-monger's disappointment).
One of the most annoying things in Jeepers Creepers is the frequent looks of shock and horror on Darius and Trisha's faces. They are subject to some of the most over-used tactics and cliches, ones which have been used for almost every horror movie in the last twenty years -so you really don't need to see ten minutes of them freaking out. I don't even need to mention the "psychic", it made me cringe as this character seems to have walked off the set of The Matrix. She is still spouting off her patronising emotional drivel ("You are the one, Neo!").
The "creeper" in question is a pretty boring killer. He has one of the most ridiculous maturing cycles in horror movie history. As the psychic tells us, he actually grows from eating people. And he devours those who fear and can smell people wetting their pants, apparently. I guess the writers forgot the existence of Freddy Kruger. We see the "creeper" eating tongues and other body parts to try and make people disgusted. It feels quite forced and really starts to give you a poor outlook on the rest of the film. The scene in the police station is a great example of how dumb the characters in slasher movies are, and boy it makes you wonder how anyone rated this movie. Even horror hero Clive Barker enjoyed this, go figure. Even the police seem to have an IQ of less than forty and seem to stand there whilst the killer eats on prisoners.
The ending was unorthodox but leaves you thinking "so what?" The movie is average. One good point was that the main characters (Darius and Trish) were tolerable for the most part, which is a rarity in modern horror movies.
2.5/5
I was very impressed with the first thirty minutes. A brother and his sister are driving around and nearly get killed by a maniac with a stupid truck. They decide to investigate the church this maniac was spotted moments after. They discover a chute which leads down into the unknown, and Darius has the nice idea of sliding down minutes after almost being killed. Nice idea Darius! Learning that dead bodies in their hundreds are waiting at the bottom, the two teenagers leave horrified and distraught. Searching for help, the body count begins which results in some cool imagery, if little gore (to the gore-monger's disappointment).
One of the most annoying things in Jeepers Creepers is the frequent looks of shock and horror on Darius and Trisha's faces. They are subject to some of the most over-used tactics and cliches, ones which have been used for almost every horror movie in the last twenty years -so you really don't need to see ten minutes of them freaking out. I don't even need to mention the "psychic", it made me cringe as this character seems to have walked off the set of The Matrix. She is still spouting off her patronising emotional drivel ("You are the one, Neo!").
The "creeper" in question is a pretty boring killer. He has one of the most ridiculous maturing cycles in horror movie history. As the psychic tells us, he actually grows from eating people. And he devours those who fear and can smell people wetting their pants, apparently. I guess the writers forgot the existence of Freddy Kruger. We see the "creeper" eating tongues and other body parts to try and make people disgusted. It feels quite forced and really starts to give you a poor outlook on the rest of the film. The scene in the police station is a great example of how dumb the characters in slasher movies are, and boy it makes you wonder how anyone rated this movie. Even horror hero Clive Barker enjoyed this, go figure. Even the police seem to have an IQ of less than forty and seem to stand there whilst the killer eats on prisoners.
The ending was unorthodox but leaves you thinking "so what?" The movie is average. One good point was that the main characters (Darius and Trish) were tolerable for the most part, which is a rarity in modern horror movies.
2.5/5