Timesweep

OK, so the acting isn't that great, the budget is low, and the story doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Fair enough, but I actually enjoyed watching this movie quite a bit and have no complaints. This is the type of forgotten trash that I would have stayed up until 3AM watching when I was like 15 years old or so and even now the film, despite its obvious faults, is engaging enough to keep you focused and watching it until the bitter end. There is decent gore, aliens, and a pretty good scene where a chick gets her clothes torn off by some sort of monster. It isn't epic, but fans of 80's B-Movie trash should seek this one out.

Hang on, don't blink, or you'll miss something in this campy tribute to the genre. It's all here - bugs, boobs, blood, and every monster in every pizza nightmare you've ever had, plus, the fatalistic character who's manta is `We're all gonna die! We're all gonna die!' Throw in some mysterious time travel, and hey, it's covered all the bases.

I suspect some of the cast might have ended up in another line of work, but props go out to Sandra Beer for giving the guys some topless action and being a helluva good screamer. And, kudos to the scriptwriters for giving Miss Shoulder Pads of 1986 what's coming to her halfway through the movie. The foreshadowing of her mirror obsession early on wasn't lost on me.

The movie builds up some very nice momentum with the carnage, beheadings, impalings and your run-of-the-mill bloody demises. The fog is thicker than the plot, but the premise holds its own through the film.

In spite of the bad acting (and isn't that a gold standard in B movies?), the it's-been-done-before monsters and cheesy special effects, for B movie aficionados, this campy tribute to horror movies is pretty damn entertaining.

TIMESWEEP is a pretty typical independently produced 80s horror film designed for the then booming direct-to-video market. The basic idea is a fun one wherein a group of people are swept up in the title phenomenon within which they encounter people, creatures and events from throughout time who have also been caught up in their own "Timesweep." There's aliens, Roman soldiers, a seriously cheesy dinosaur-like-thing along with petty infighting and lots of gore, in jokes and girls getting their clothes torn off.

The cast is very uneven, with some giving solid performances and others coming across like community theater rejects. The effects, except for the lizard man, are OK but less than special and the buns, breasts and bush on display are fairly entertaining. There's not much plot but most of it moves quickly and I liked the idea that one of the group was there deliberately- he knew about the Timesweeps and when and where they'd happen- in an attempt to find the wife he'd lost to another Timesweep years ago.

If you've watched the kind of 80s films Fred Olen Ray, Charles Band or Dave DeCoteau made and found them fun, then this one might be good for a giggle. Just don't get your hopes too high.

This was completely uninvolving from the very beginning. 2 minutes in and we're thrown into a muddled mess with way too many nameless characters ,none of which standout. This sucked BAD. I give a 2 because at least they tried some gore effects.

This is one of those films where the writer obviously thought it would be a clever idea to name the characters after horror luminaries; it wasn't. However, with H.G.Lewis being one of the genre greats given a name check, I had hopes that some graphic gore would make up for the lack of originality; it didn't.

There's a couple of reasonably juicy death scenes, and one awesome moment where a guy gets his head torn off by a monster (the creature following this by ripping the clothes off a blonde), but the majority of the film is crap that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever: having wandered into an abandoned film studio, a group of people find themselves unable to leave thanks to a poisonous fog, and are hunted down by a savage monster and some zombies. The messy script makes a weak attempt to explain events (some rot about time shifts) but logic is in short supply (there's even a flying saucer for some reason).

Horror/fantasy fans might have some fun with all of the references (Arkoff, Agar, Romero, Arne Saknussemm, London After Midnight), but I imagine most people will quickly tire of the aimless wandering around dark corridors and gloomy rooms.

3.5/10, generously rounded up to 4 for the bloody decapitation/gratuitous nudity double whammy.