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I decided to watch "Vengeance Most Fowl" a second time before offering a review, because on first view I was in all honesty distracted by the absence of Peter Sallis' voice as Wallace. While Ben Whitehead did an admirable job, it wasn't the same and it took the majority of the movie to adjust, which pulled me out of it. But, as an admirer of these films, I wanted to give it another try weeks later...and it made all the difference.

This time, I was able to simply enjoy it for what it was, another silly but fun production from the talented people at Ardman. The claymation is again at top form with previous villain penguin Feathers returning to once again cause chaos. This time, Wallace invents a helpful robot gnome that Feathers manages to turn evil and creates an army of gnomes in order to steal a giant diamond. It's complicated. I think my only complaint is that it's not quite as creative as previous W&G shorts or "Curse of the Were-Rabbit," but it's still a well done film and I laughed several times throughout.

The first viewing my rating was a 7, but I changed to an 8 after the second. Not a perfect film, but still very entertaining and the technical aspects are absolutely top notch as always.

"Healing Towers" has an interesting poster. That's about the only interesting thing about it. The synopsis is understandably vague, because I'm not quite sure how to describe it either, but as best I could follow, a supposedly brilliant psychiatrist kidnaps psychologically damaged people whose history he knows to experiment on them with a weird-and unlikely to be approved by the American Psychiatric Association-gameplay where the patients think they're acting out revenge on people in their past in a dream, but are instead causing real harm. It's possible that I'm not exactly getting that right, because gosh was this a convoluted mess. It sounds more interesting than it it's presentation.

It is low budget, but I think they tried their best with what they had so that gets a star. However, the plot makes no sense, acting is subpar at best, the lighting was amazingly amateur and it was extremely difficult to stay engaged because I didn't care about any of the characters and was too conscious of my brain cells losing their sharpness to concentrate too deeply. I wanted it to be over. Even the twist at the end really...isn't. I didn't even want to take the time to write this, but there was only one other review and I just wanted to reiterate what they had to say.

I suppose if you just want some background noise and to get some use of your Prime Video subscription you could do worse, but 3/10 is the best I can do.

I cannot believe I'm admitting this, but I actually kind of enjoyed this dumb thing.

"Hideous!" from director Charles Band and Full Moon, is still a bad movie. But we ARE talking about Charles Band and Full Moon, so for me to find anything positive is unlikely. But at least there was the attempt at humor, which I did chuckle at a few times. And the acting-incredibly-wasn't that bad...for a Full Moon pic. The gloppy, cheap creatures were more funny than freaky. But there seemed to actually be some...oh I don't know...EFFORT involved in this one. Maybe I felt nostalgic for Stuart Gordon, hearing the familiar synthesizer tones of Charles's brother Richard Band throughout. Regardless, it's not near as bad as expected, and that's really saying something.