elizabethlee0577
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Is Necropolis any good. No, not even remotely. Is it's really, really funny? Absolutely. 100%.
Come for the clown makeup (even by eighties standards) and stay for the zombie suckling. You thought the three breasted alien in Total Recall was great...how about six??
This is definitely one of those film that begs for a drinking game: shots for terrible dance moves (double shots when there's no accompanying music), take a drink every time an actor speaks with an accent that doesn't exist in real life...chug when the pimp pronounces "wh*re" as "hoo-er".
If you go into Necropolis with the proper mindset (and liquid courage), you *will* be entertained.
Come for the clown makeup (even by eighties standards) and stay for the zombie suckling. You thought the three breasted alien in Total Recall was great...how about six??
This is definitely one of those film that begs for a drinking game: shots for terrible dance moves (double shots when there's no accompanying music), take a drink every time an actor speaks with an accent that doesn't exist in real life...chug when the pimp pronounces "wh*re" as "hoo-er".
If you go into Necropolis with the proper mindset (and liquid courage), you *will* be entertained.
I'm a huge fan of Demián Rugna's Terrified & When Evil Lurks, plus his work on Satanic Hispanics, so I was excited to check out his first full-length move.
In anyone else's hands, a stomach portal to hell would be a black comedy but Rugna writes & directs the whole thing completely seriously, with very little humor. You can also see him playing with ideas that would show up later in the far superior Terrified & When Evil Lurks.
The acting and screenplay are actually fairly decent. And the gore & practical effects are appropriately gnarly & squelchy, although used very sparingly (probably due to budgetary constraints). It also feels much more like a Lovecraftian story than religious horror. I think his stomach portal to hell could be a gateway to an indescribable eldritch landscape & it wouldn't have changed much.
But Rugna hasn't latched onto the unrelenting suspense and scary storytelling he's known for yet, so the pacing is awful & it feels so much longer than it actually is. I think it also suffers from being shot in English instead of Spanish...Some of the actors apparently couldn't hack it and are dubbed over with atrocious voice acting. It's also shot in those desaturated and blue filters that used to be popular so ymmv with that.
Sadly, I can't recommend The Last Gateway unless you're curious about Rugna's beginnings or Argentinian horror. It's not awful but the experience is more like an overlong cable horror anthology series episode than the polished terror of his later films.
In anyone else's hands, a stomach portal to hell would be a black comedy but Rugna writes & directs the whole thing completely seriously, with very little humor. You can also see him playing with ideas that would show up later in the far superior Terrified & When Evil Lurks.
The acting and screenplay are actually fairly decent. And the gore & practical effects are appropriately gnarly & squelchy, although used very sparingly (probably due to budgetary constraints). It also feels much more like a Lovecraftian story than religious horror. I think his stomach portal to hell could be a gateway to an indescribable eldritch landscape & it wouldn't have changed much.
But Rugna hasn't latched onto the unrelenting suspense and scary storytelling he's known for yet, so the pacing is awful & it feels so much longer than it actually is. I think it also suffers from being shot in English instead of Spanish...Some of the actors apparently couldn't hack it and are dubbed over with atrocious voice acting. It's also shot in those desaturated and blue filters that used to be popular so ymmv with that.
Sadly, I can't recommend The Last Gateway unless you're curious about Rugna's beginnings or Argentinian horror. It's not awful but the experience is more like an overlong cable horror anthology series episode than the polished terror of his later films.
This film has 5+ names so it took me a while to find it streaming on Prime. It's a hard film to review because most of the actors are actually good? They're accomplished stage actors and you can tell. The beautiful elephant in the room is a shirtless Joe Dallesandro who slinks through various scenes like he's in a porno...but I'm blaming that on the unexperienced director since we know Little Joe can/could do more than that.
Unfortunately the story is incredibly boring. Even the lowest budget film can be a fun watch if the plot moves at a good clip but this just meanders along, making it feel interminable. It's good acting with bad writing and directing.
Unfortunately the story is incredibly boring. Even the lowest budget film can be a fun watch if the plot moves at a good clip but this just meanders along, making it feel interminable. It's good acting with bad writing and directing.