Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie
Director:
Myron J. Gold
Staring
Donald Pleasence (yes, the Donald Pleasence)
Yvonne Furneaux (the Mummy)
June Wilkinson
British
1984
Summary
The descendant of Baron Frankenstein, his 190 year old aunt, and his babe return to his families castle before it is seized by the Mucklefugger Town Comity for back taxes. They revive a monster for some reason, and thats about it. Or I think it is...
Review
Well I've been putting off this comedy/horror for some time, cause I already know its going to bad, so bad that it's going to hurt. Ive been through worse... and laying half naked in bed with a few shots of vodka will make it passable.
Transylvania, 100 years later..??? later from what???
The sound and dubbing is absolutely horrible and although it was released in the 80's the video really has a 60's feel to it.
9 Minutes In
Swinging from chain the Donald Pleasence's character falls off and on to the sleeping Frankenstein's monster.
13 Minutes In
Pleasence and his babe want to bring the monster back to life, cause they believe the monster knows the where abouts of a large fortune, which they could use to pay their taxes.
21 Minutes In
FIGHT THE POWER!!
Going into town Aunt Tillie (Furneaux) incites a riot, causing all the females to strike, or revolt, or something. This incites the city counsel to meet and try to tell quality gags, such as “down with trousers and up with skirts.” This movie's attempted humor is mostly trying to say words that sound like dirty words, or nonsensical ramblings, like “racket stabble”. O those crazy Austrians... Anyways needless to say it is not funny in any way.
28 Minutes In
They still on strike?
It is possible that being boiled alive in hot oil is worse then watching this film.... it is possible...
40 Minutes In
They raise the monster. He is big, blue and boring. He does nothing but walk around, monster-like.
I can't believe I got another 60 minutes of this... I'm on straight vodka, and probably going to die thanks to this film...
43 Minutes In
They get secret information from Tillie, about the family history, by locking her in a room and smoking info from her.
45 Minutes In
Are we in a flashback? I can't tell cause the same actors do all the voices during.
60 Minutes In
I don't know what is going on, and I don't care. Pleasence has been strolling around in a milk maid's outfit playing a flute.
87 Minutes In
The Monster sees a little girl by the pond, approaches her, of which she says, "Want to play with me? On second thought, you're too old for me. Why don't you play with my sisters over there? Sleepy, Sneezy, Grumpy, Dopey, Happy, Horny and Doc." After which they all dance.
90 Minutes In
Epilogue? There is more of this?
The French actress Yvonne Furneaux is a great actress, talented and saucy, with a long career, and she commands the screen, even here. Unfortunately this piece of crap is her last movie.
Its boring and only capable of a few cheap giggles. The actors try very hard to revive something here, June Wilkinson (Pleasence's Babe) is a bit of a standout, but this monster should have stayed in hibernation.
When the monster is revived, it does nothing, and has absolutely no value to the plot. He pops up in the background in some scenes, when he's suppose to be elsewhere, and, as I said before, HAS NO VALUE TO ANY PLOT.
The gags can only be described as boring. To give you an example, the best gag (I mean the best) is the sign above the butcher's shop, “if you can beat my meat tell me"
... of course I couldn't hear half of what was being said, but I sincerely doubt they were muttering anything even equivalent to the worse of outtakes from “Young Frankenstein”.
I can't figure out if the producer made this is as a comedy for dysfunctional kids, brain dead adults, or just hobbled something together to be used as a tax right off.
Its unfortunate, cause there IS talent here, some worthy attempts, and even a few giggles but it was a doomed project from the beginning... It kept going on and on, as I kept getting eye sored, braindead and drunk... 1 out of 5
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Devils Nightmare
Director:
Jean Brismée
Staring
Erika Blanc (French, Italian Sex Scarlet)
Jean Servais (Rififi)
Daniel Emilfork
(1971)
Belgium
Summary
Seven tourists hold up in an ancient castle, where the Baron's family curse dictates a Succubus will prey on their mortal souls.
Review
I had this film in my closet for almost a year, bought from an internet movie website, and never, untill now, had the incline to sit down to watch it.
First thing that struck me before putting this one in, is this is a hell of a cast. Daniel Emilfork, Jean Servais, and of it's an Erika Blanc music (cue 70's sleaze music).
The film opens up with some overused (even for the time) stock WW2 footage. As Germany is being bombarded Baron von Rhoneberg's (Servais) wife dies in childbirth, but the child is saved. When the Baron learns it is a female he kills it.
4 Minutes In
Cue some kick ass synthesizer music. They just don't make spooky music like they use to.
8 Minutes In
Some time which could have been used for later development is wasted with a death of a photographer, where the in the moment of interest, all we get to see in the camera focus in on the screaming victim. Maybe I'm just completely bored of the all the horror cliches. It was good scream though...
11 Minutes In
We finally get to meat our victims, I mean characters. The seven tourists (can anyone say seven deadly sins) get lost, but luckily they get directions from some creepy skinny guy in a black cape (Emilfork) to a castle they could hold up for the night. Well, who could pass up that opportunity?
14 Minutes In
I'm easily amused with the butler, who while showing each their room, and has to end every tour with a little tale of something horrible that happened in that room. I honestly believe this is what every vocation should be like.
21 Minutes In
We get to see the Baron's little creepy scientist lab, complete a massive vial full of fluorescent blue liquid. Plus an erotic little lesbian scene.
32 Minutes In
The family curse is explained, and by now I pretty much can predict everything that is going to happen from now to the end. I've seen way too many of these films.
34 Minutes In
The succubus (Blanc) has arrived. Something strange has happened. I've been drawn into the film.
78 Minutes In
Apparently touching a crucifix will send a succubus into a insane hissy fit.
A problem arised, as the deaths, like that of the woman photographer make it seem like the movie would be better without so much attention devoted to them, or at least perhaps done in a more complete way. Also the movie soon feels like hell and brimstone preaching, and I'm not sure if I can completely feel content with the preaching. Some of the “sins” seem very trivial, if not sins at all. Kind of the opposite of when sins are overplayed in the movies, but it left me with the same result. The characters start to seem unnatural, and motivated only by plot, which can account for the detachement with the death scenes. Blanc, Servais, and the two butlers, are able, and allowed by the script, to work their characters with almost a master's hand, but some fo the other actors seem as if they aren't even given that breathing room.
Emilfork reappearance in the late film is definitely a high point, and after dragging through the killings (the supposed meat of the film) it set everything back on track. But this left me wanting more of this story, his and Blanc's characters, more of the grainy atmosphere, and less of those preachy, uneven killings.
The dubbing on my version was under par. I definitely would have preferred subtitlesd.
Its a grainy, little film, with moments of atmosphere and some terrific music - the kind of film found more enjoyable overtired, in bed, in the dark, at about 2 am, playing on late night TV – but the moralization, an predictably uneven ending and what I believe are very heavyset death scenes unfortunately feels a bit of a drag. But still, a fan of the genre would enjoy him or herself... 3/5
PS In case your wondering.. yes Blanc's presence is stunning...
Jean Brismée
Staring
Erika Blanc (French, Italian Sex Scarlet)
Jean Servais (Rififi)
Daniel Emilfork
(1971)
Belgium
Summary
Seven tourists hold up in an ancient castle, where the Baron's family curse dictates a Succubus will prey on their mortal souls.
Review
I had this film in my closet for almost a year, bought from an internet movie website, and never, untill now, had the incline to sit down to watch it.
First thing that struck me before putting this one in, is this is a hell of a cast. Daniel Emilfork, Jean Servais, and of it's an Erika Blanc music (cue 70's sleaze music).
The film opens up with some overused (even for the time) stock WW2 footage. As Germany is being bombarded Baron von Rhoneberg's (Servais) wife dies in childbirth, but the child is saved. When the Baron learns it is a female he kills it.
4 Minutes In
Cue some kick ass synthesizer music. They just don't make spooky music like they use to.
8 Minutes In
Some time which could have been used for later development is wasted with a death of a photographer, where the in the moment of interest, all we get to see in the camera focus in on the screaming victim. Maybe I'm just completely bored of the all the horror cliches. It was good scream though...
11 Minutes In
We finally get to meat our victims, I mean characters. The seven tourists (can anyone say seven deadly sins) get lost, but luckily they get directions from some creepy skinny guy in a black cape (Emilfork) to a castle they could hold up for the night. Well, who could pass up that opportunity?
14 Minutes In
I'm easily amused with the butler, who while showing each their room, and has to end every tour with a little tale of something horrible that happened in that room. I honestly believe this is what every vocation should be like.
21 Minutes In
We get to see the Baron's little creepy scientist lab, complete a massive vial full of fluorescent blue liquid. Plus an erotic little lesbian scene.
32 Minutes In
The family curse is explained, and by now I pretty much can predict everything that is going to happen from now to the end. I've seen way too many of these films.
34 Minutes In
The succubus (Blanc) has arrived. Something strange has happened. I've been drawn into the film.
78 Minutes In
Apparently touching a crucifix will send a succubus into a insane hissy fit.
A problem arised, as the deaths, like that of the woman photographer make it seem like the movie would be better without so much attention devoted to them, or at least perhaps done in a more complete way. Also the movie soon feels like hell and brimstone preaching, and I'm not sure if I can completely feel content with the preaching. Some of the “sins” seem very trivial, if not sins at all. Kind of the opposite of when sins are overplayed in the movies, but it left me with the same result. The characters start to seem unnatural, and motivated only by plot, which can account for the detachement with the death scenes. Blanc, Servais, and the two butlers, are able, and allowed by the script, to work their characters with almost a master's hand, but some fo the other actors seem as if they aren't even given that breathing room.
Emilfork reappearance in the late film is definitely a high point, and after dragging through the killings (the supposed meat of the film) it set everything back on track. But this left me wanting more of this story, his and Blanc's characters, more of the grainy atmosphere, and less of those preachy, uneven killings.
The dubbing on my version was under par. I definitely would have preferred subtitlesd.
Its a grainy, little film, with moments of atmosphere and some terrific music - the kind of film found more enjoyable overtired, in bed, in the dark, at about 2 am, playing on late night TV – but the moralization, an predictably uneven ending and what I believe are very heavyset death scenes unfortunately feels a bit of a drag. But still, a fan of the genre would enjoy him or herself... 3/5
PS In case your wondering.. yes Blanc's presence is stunning...
Freakshow (1989)
Director
Constantino Magnatta
Staring
Audrey Landers
Peter Read
Dan Gallagher (Much Music vey-jay)
1989
Canadian
Summary
After a massacre at a movie theater, a reporter, who had been contacted by the killer prior, is ditched by her cameraman for questionable moral behavior. Walking home she meats an eccentric freak show director, who tells her four macabre tales.
Review
The main problem with these short story movies is the simple fact that they rely on the cinematic power of their short little movies. If, as is the case with the 1989 Canadian independent film "Freakshow", the stories aren't really good your in for a long evening of boredom - constantly waiting and hoping for a short tale that would be worth your time.
So much of "Freakshow's" time is taken up by the main story, the story that is suppose to unite all the tales and provide the audience with some interesting downtime between flicks, but since "Freakshow's" main plot is far more intriguing then anything else the film has its almost as if there shouldn't have been any short movies at all.
The main story revolves around Shan, a young up and coming reporter for "Action News". She is tipped off by a future killer about a massacre that he was going to commit and is on the scene trying to get the scoop of her life, and thus advance her career. Although this part of the plan goes off without a hitch her cameraman ditches her after being disgusted that she didn't do anything to stop it, and just viewed the innocent deaths as a means to an end – of course he just sat there and filmed it. Walking home, alone, she comes across a strange smiling buffoon, who just happens to be a freakshow director. Telling her she could use his phone, despite the line turns out to be dead, he invites her into his freakshow.
He brings her to a room full of swirling blue lights, completely bare except for a strange creature in a glass jar. He is overly "intrigued" with the young reporter. Yes its corny I know, but I was willing to expend my belief. Besides I kind of liked this character.
With each glass jar the reporter imagines the next tale in the movie.
The first tale involves this crazy guy, who, after being jumped by kids, goes to “the doc” to get some drugs, but ends up freaking out, killing “the doc” with a microwave to bad 80's rock, and then proceeds to chase around a poodle who stole his drugs. If you think watching 20 minutes of some drugged out loser chase around a poodle to screaming guitar solos is interesting, well this is the movie for you.
The second story deals with a dorky pizza boy delivery man, who goes has to deliver to 1313 Bram Stoker Boulevard and finds a bunch of porno babes, who do nothing but dance in their lingerie to hair metal, while he is forced to watch, until of course he turns into a monster. The weirdness factor makes this portion eatable.
The Third story is particularly boring. Beginning with a strange drug dealer who gets his drugs, and kicks, by cyphering it from a dead female junkie. This would have been an interesting story, if it didn't turn out to be a dream, and I later learned the real story is about a woman who is pronounced dead and has to watch her own apostasy (despite the fact she constantly moves her fingers, making pretty much every doctor in this story a complete boob), I was pretty upset.
The Fourth story is maybe the most general, and watchable. After her husband dyes of a heart attack, a bimbo heiress inherits a golf course and gets a gravedigger (Funk) and his buddy to steal dirt from the graveyard, cause “graveyard dirt is the best dirt”, to use on the golf course with. This of course pisses off the dead who go on a rampage to more 80's hair metal.
With mass murder, cocaine, decadence, poodles Freakshow is a coincidental 80's film trying to beat you over the head with the fears of a coming decade.
The movies never knows what it is, (ie an anti-drug movie, a comedy, an over the top horror film, a music video, an anti-poodle movie) and therefore none of the stories can have any sober interest. It tries very hard to be revelant, and some of the characters pull it off, but in the endt, in my opinion, it's only a 2 out of 5.
Constantino Magnatta
Staring
Audrey Landers
Peter Read
Dan Gallagher (Much Music vey-jay)
1989
Canadian
Summary
After a massacre at a movie theater, a reporter, who had been contacted by the killer prior, is ditched by her cameraman for questionable moral behavior. Walking home she meats an eccentric freak show director, who tells her four macabre tales.
Review
The main problem with these short story movies is the simple fact that they rely on the cinematic power of their short little movies. If, as is the case with the 1989 Canadian independent film "Freakshow", the stories aren't really good your in for a long evening of boredom - constantly waiting and hoping for a short tale that would be worth your time.
So much of "Freakshow's" time is taken up by the main story, the story that is suppose to unite all the tales and provide the audience with some interesting downtime between flicks, but since "Freakshow's" main plot is far more intriguing then anything else the film has its almost as if there shouldn't have been any short movies at all.
The main story revolves around Shan, a young up and coming reporter for "Action News". She is tipped off by a future killer about a massacre that he was going to commit and is on the scene trying to get the scoop of her life, and thus advance her career. Although this part of the plan goes off without a hitch her cameraman ditches her after being disgusted that she didn't do anything to stop it, and just viewed the innocent deaths as a means to an end – of course he just sat there and filmed it. Walking home, alone, she comes across a strange smiling buffoon, who just happens to be a freakshow director. Telling her she could use his phone, despite the line turns out to be dead, he invites her into his freakshow.
He brings her to a room full of swirling blue lights, completely bare except for a strange creature in a glass jar. He is overly "intrigued" with the young reporter. Yes its corny I know, but I was willing to expend my belief. Besides I kind of liked this character.
With each glass jar the reporter imagines the next tale in the movie.
The first tale involves this crazy guy, who, after being jumped by kids, goes to “the doc” to get some drugs, but ends up freaking out, killing “the doc” with a microwave to bad 80's rock, and then proceeds to chase around a poodle who stole his drugs. If you think watching 20 minutes of some drugged out loser chase around a poodle to screaming guitar solos is interesting, well this is the movie for you.
The second story deals with a dorky pizza boy delivery man, who goes has to deliver to 1313 Bram Stoker Boulevard and finds a bunch of porno babes, who do nothing but dance in their lingerie to hair metal, while he is forced to watch, until of course he turns into a monster. The weirdness factor makes this portion eatable.
The Third story is particularly boring. Beginning with a strange drug dealer who gets his drugs, and kicks, by cyphering it from a dead female junkie. This would have been an interesting story, if it didn't turn out to be a dream, and I later learned the real story is about a woman who is pronounced dead and has to watch her own apostasy (despite the fact she constantly moves her fingers, making pretty much every doctor in this story a complete boob), I was pretty upset.
The Fourth story is maybe the most general, and watchable. After her husband dyes of a heart attack, a bimbo heiress inherits a golf course and gets a gravedigger (Funk) and his buddy to steal dirt from the graveyard, cause “graveyard dirt is the best dirt”, to use on the golf course with. This of course pisses off the dead who go on a rampage to more 80's hair metal.
With mass murder, cocaine, decadence, poodles Freakshow is a coincidental 80's film trying to beat you over the head with the fears of a coming decade.
The movies never knows what it is, (ie an anti-drug movie, a comedy, an over the top horror film, a music video, an anti-poodle movie) and therefore none of the stories can have any sober interest. It tries very hard to be revelant, and some of the characters pull it off, but in the endt, in my opinion, it's only a 2 out of 5.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
ENTER: Zombie King
AKA (Zombie Beach Party)
(reviewed April 7th, 2007)
Director:
Stacey Case
Staring
Jules Delorme
Jennifer Thom
Raymond Carle
Rob 'El Fuego' Etcheverria
2003
Canadian
Tomorrows easter and I just finished getting half drunk and watching Montreal lose to Toronto, thus expelling them from playoff contention.
So now its time of Enter Zombie King, an alternate reality film where masked wrestler face off against the Evil Zombie King and his legion of rampaging zombies.
Our masked hero is Ulysses. He acts quotes bad philosophy throughout, and he's quite famous. He can't even go to the corner store without being mobbed by sexually charged fans.
When a young lad gets mauled by zombies everyone suspects Ulysses' friend Tiki, who trains and wrestles zombies at the local pub. You see in this alternate reality zombies are just part of the backdrop. But of course, its not Tiki, its "the Zombie King", with his evil minions the French Vixen and Murdelizer (who years ago killed Ulysses friend Blue's father). Blue also is the brother to our hero's on again off again girl friend Mercedes, who the Zombie King is trying to make his zombie bride. So how are they going to clear Tiki's good name then discover the Zombie King's certainly evil plot? Well enter Mr X (who's played by the writer of this crap) and the Sheriff (played by Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart, yes the wrestler). Using hypnosis they hypnotize Tiki's zombies thought responsible for another attack, this time on a recurring lesbian character. Then following our hero's dream they enter the woods to find the Zombie King's not so secret layer. Yes, this about the time I stopped caring. But it illustrates one of the main problems with the movie. Too many characters. And of course almost everyone is wearing wrestling masks, making the whole thing rather confusing.
The highlight of the movie is when Blue is being held captive by his arch enemy Murdelizer and Murdelizer divulges their entire evil scheme (James Bond Villian Style) to take over the city by pouring zombie blood into the water supply. Blue, tied to chair at the edge of a dock, can only respond by wiggling and whining, “why... why must you be so evil?” Of course the whole evil plot probably would not work, unless everyone in the city drinks out of the river, and there is no watering processing plants, or filters, or bottled water.
This is were the movie is at its best. The quirky, amateurish dialogue and a plot not grounded in reality is just plain fun.
Where the movie fails is in trying to continue the sense of fun created with the dialogue with the continuous action. Bad wrestling is just not quirky, or entertaining, unless done completely over the top, which is not the case with Enter: Zombie King.
In the end the movie, with its too many characters and long unentertaining action scenes, just falls short of mediocrity, and even a short lesbian zombie kiss help it from the three count. I can only give Enter: Zombie King Two out of Five.
Memorable Line
"Do you sell cigarettes? Do you sell beer? Do you sell Jerky?"
(reviewed April 7th, 2007)
Director:
Stacey Case
Staring
Jules Delorme
Jennifer Thom
Raymond Carle
Rob 'El Fuego' Etcheverria
2003
Canadian
Tomorrows easter and I just finished getting half drunk and watching Montreal lose to Toronto, thus expelling them from playoff contention.
So now its time of Enter Zombie King, an alternate reality film where masked wrestler face off against the Evil Zombie King and his legion of rampaging zombies.
Our masked hero is Ulysses. He acts quotes bad philosophy throughout, and he's quite famous. He can't even go to the corner store without being mobbed by sexually charged fans.
When a young lad gets mauled by zombies everyone suspects Ulysses' friend Tiki, who trains and wrestles zombies at the local pub. You see in this alternate reality zombies are just part of the backdrop. But of course, its not Tiki, its "the Zombie King", with his evil minions the French Vixen and Murdelizer (who years ago killed Ulysses friend Blue's father). Blue also is the brother to our hero's on again off again girl friend Mercedes, who the Zombie King is trying to make his zombie bride. So how are they going to clear Tiki's good name then discover the Zombie King's certainly evil plot? Well enter Mr X (who's played by the writer of this crap) and the Sheriff (played by Jim 'The Anvil' Neidhart, yes the wrestler). Using hypnosis they hypnotize Tiki's zombies thought responsible for another attack, this time on a recurring lesbian character. Then following our hero's dream they enter the woods to find the Zombie King's not so secret layer. Yes, this about the time I stopped caring. But it illustrates one of the main problems with the movie. Too many characters. And of course almost everyone is wearing wrestling masks, making the whole thing rather confusing.
The highlight of the movie is when Blue is being held captive by his arch enemy Murdelizer and Murdelizer divulges their entire evil scheme (James Bond Villian Style) to take over the city by pouring zombie blood into the water supply. Blue, tied to chair at the edge of a dock, can only respond by wiggling and whining, “why... why must you be so evil?” Of course the whole evil plot probably would not work, unless everyone in the city drinks out of the river, and there is no watering processing plants, or filters, or bottled water.
This is were the movie is at its best. The quirky, amateurish dialogue and a plot not grounded in reality is just plain fun.
Where the movie fails is in trying to continue the sense of fun created with the dialogue with the continuous action. Bad wrestling is just not quirky, or entertaining, unless done completely over the top, which is not the case with Enter: Zombie King.
In the end the movie, with its too many characters and long unentertaining action scenes, just falls short of mediocrity, and even a short lesbian zombie kiss help it from the three count. I can only give Enter: Zombie King Two out of Five.
Memorable Line
"Do you sell cigarettes? Do you sell beer? Do you sell Jerky?"
Mangler, The
(reviewed June 1998)
1995
American
Director:
Tobe Hooper
Staring
Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street)
Ted Levine (Silence of the Lambs)
Jeremy Crutchley
Based on the short story by Stephen King, and definitely not one of his best, The Mangler is a laughable film about a possessed iron folding machine, which has an unstoppable taste of virgin's blood. If they can make a movie about a possessed elevator, why not an oversized laundry machine.
Ted Levine plays the detective investigating a series of “accidents” that has happened in the towns grimy industrialized laundromat. Because having a huge hunk of iron as your main villain can be seen as kind of boring enter the diabolical owner Bill Gartley, played by Freddy himself - Robert Englund. You see Englund had made a devilish deal with the hunk of iron for continued prosperity in return for blood.
Sure it was simplistically stupid 100 minutes, but there was time where it was lot of fun. Englund plays it for 110 % charisma and 0 % talent, creeping around the top level of the factory, with his one eye and in metal leg braces. Levine's deadpan gravely style provides many delayed reactions and luckless beaten down hints of laughable wisdom. The movie also unique, expecially for something that had a budget, and never thinks of itself as anything more then quick buck B Movie trash.
The Mangler not only attempts to have fun with itself, but also take ideas of capitalism, the occult, and the process of forgiving and treats them in a stue of dankness of horror atmosphere and the fun of straight to video, and in sometimes within of its horribly cheesy lines, strange acting, and horribly drafted ideas it succeeds at some level.
It suffers from its own personality as well, and final battle between the demon and Levine off tilters the movie and in the last fifteen minutes it sinks under the weight of it's own stench.
Hooper's tale of a killer Laundromat shows it self at the end to be nothing more then a senseless gore fest that the actors almost carry to the finish line - but then again my tastes has never been that impeccable.
Three out of Five
Notable Lines
“I already have a life... what I need is a beer.”
1995
American
Director:
Tobe Hooper
Staring
Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street)
Ted Levine (Silence of the Lambs)
Jeremy Crutchley
Based on the short story by Stephen King, and definitely not one of his best, The Mangler is a laughable film about a possessed iron folding machine, which has an unstoppable taste of virgin's blood. If they can make a movie about a possessed elevator, why not an oversized laundry machine.
Ted Levine plays the detective investigating a series of “accidents” that has happened in the towns grimy industrialized laundromat. Because having a huge hunk of iron as your main villain can be seen as kind of boring enter the diabolical owner Bill Gartley, played by Freddy himself - Robert Englund. You see Englund had made a devilish deal with the hunk of iron for continued prosperity in return for blood.
Sure it was simplistically stupid 100 minutes, but there was time where it was lot of fun. Englund plays it for 110 % charisma and 0 % talent, creeping around the top level of the factory, with his one eye and in metal leg braces. Levine's deadpan gravely style provides many delayed reactions and luckless beaten down hints of laughable wisdom. The movie also unique, expecially for something that had a budget, and never thinks of itself as anything more then quick buck B Movie trash.
The Mangler not only attempts to have fun with itself, but also take ideas of capitalism, the occult, and the process of forgiving and treats them in a stue of dankness of horror atmosphere and the fun of straight to video, and in sometimes within of its horribly cheesy lines, strange acting, and horribly drafted ideas it succeeds at some level.
It suffers from its own personality as well, and final battle between the demon and Levine off tilters the movie and in the last fifteen minutes it sinks under the weight of it's own stench.
Hooper's tale of a killer Laundromat shows it self at the end to be nothing more then a senseless gore fest that the actors almost carry to the finish line - but then again my tastes has never been that impeccable.
Three out of Five
Notable Lines
“I already have a life... what I need is a beer.”
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