Reviews

I've been a fan of Peanuts for as long as I can remember. Every year our family has a tradition of watching the holiday specials together. Sure, we all know what happens, but Peanuts still has the ability to get you in the mood for the season.

At least until this special came along.

Rerun always had a segment on the TV show, riding on his mom's bicycle and giving his philosphies on things. For a two minute segment, it was cute. But this new special is all Rerun, all the time. There was a reason Rerun was confined to a two minute space. Any longer and he's grating.

The special (or at least the first half hour) consists of Rerun basically complaining about being the baby of the family. Nobody includes him in anything. Mom won't let him have a dog. He's not big enough to do what he wants to do, etc.

And then he gets suspended for sexual harassment! I kid you not. He tells some girl he wants to take her to Paris and he gets suspended for sexual harassment! At that point, I switched the channel. This isn't Peanuts. It's a cheap piece of trash trying to cash in on the Peanuts empire. Charles Schulz would be spinning in his grave.

This gets zero stars from me.

I'm a brand new Dario Argento fan, having only seen 4 of his films (Phenomena, Tenebrae, Suspiria, and this). But I'm definitely planning to see more (my copy of Stendhal Syndrome is preordered and should be here next week). I bought this simply because it was Argento, and I was actually surprised. I was told that this was his worst film, and some even called it his swan song. I rather liked it, myself. If it is made by Dario Argento, it will be good. Dario took a few liberties, making this more of his own instead of yet another adaptation of the novel. I have to applaud him for that, even though some of it hardly makes sense. And there is the fact that electric light was not around at the time. But if you spend your life analyzing movies and hating them for the smallest detail, what's the point of watching movies? I watch to be entertained. The visuals aren't nearly as great as Suspiria, and the special effects are hardly special (you can smell a CGI shot from a mile away). Not to mention some performances. But I still liked it, because it had that Argento touch that all of is films have. Besides, Argento's worst films are still better than most of the 'horror' America has, today. I'd probably give it 3 out of 4 stars if I had to grade it. Check it out.

I saw one of the writers on Jeopardy a year or so ago, and he mentioned this movie on the show during one of those, "Know The Contestant" segments where they tell some odd thing about them to "humanize" the person or whatever. He said that he wrote the Goldi Lox segment, and that the movie was the worst movie ever made. I had seen the video in stores since I was 4.....and I just had to get it. You see, in the past few years, I've been getting all of the horror movies I saw in the video stores and wanted to rent, but wasn't allowed to because I was 4. First there was Bad Dreams, then Night Of The Demons, now this.....

Anyway, I just found it at another store, and picked it up immediately. I'm a sucker for bad movies. Especially when they're so bad that the writer speaks out against them on any kind of forum, be it TV, internet, magazine. I know the guy who wrote Forever Evil, and picked that movie up when I found it at a Mom & Pop store (Freeman, it ISN'T that bad!).

Well, to the movie!

I put this in the VCR, and began to watch.....OK.....Annoying kid jumping on the bed, uncle telling him a story. Why do kids in all movies have to be annoying? Strike that. Why do kid actors in general have to be annoying? They're either too expressive or too sugar coated or something.

The first story, Peter & The Witches, begins with a guy enslaved by two witches, who plot to bring their dead sister back to life. This involves severing the hand from a holy man and taking a young blonde sacrifice with large breasts(since, after all, this IS a horror movie). Twist ending, back to annoying kid and uncle, begin story 2.

The second story, Little Red Runninghood, could have gone somewhere if it hadn't ended so abruptly. Another heroine with large breasts(but there's a twist.....she's a brunette!) bringing medicine to her sick grandmother. Stops to have sex with boyfriend along the way. Grandmother is attacked, as well as heroine and boyfriend. Grandmother and heroine survive, end up in hospital, makes good use of the line, "Grandmother, what big teeth you have!"

The third story, Goldi Lox And The Three Baers is by far the best. It's also the one that the guy on Jeopardy wrote.....Bank robbing family(The Baers) breaks out of mental hospital, goes to old house, which is inhabited by psychic serial killer Goldi Lox, who kills any guy who puts the moves on her. They team up, go out for pizza, and run away after they are believed dead by the police.

This ends with the annoying kid getting killed by a monster in his closet, and the uncle thinking that it was the kid being annoying again.

All in all, an odd movie. Some good twists and funny dialogue. If you can make it past the first story, you might like the rest.

5 out of 10 for me.....

As the subject says, this is one thousand times better than the original. Sure, the original had some good moments, especially involving Linnea Quigley's demon lipstick (cult classic scene). But this one both managed to maintain both the spirit of the original and the style of the 90's at the same time, as well as better comedy and great visual effects. Great film for horror buffs. Also glad to see Mimi Kinkade return for the sequel, instead of some look alike actor.

"Leave Some Room For The Holy Ghost."

Let me just say this first. I saw the two sequels before the original, so the ending was less shocking to me. It wasn't my fault! Blame Blockbuster! :) Anyways, to the actual movie. Rather standard horror flick. Creative death scenes and very stupid situations mix in this film. But since I'll always remember Pamela Springsteen as Angela, Felissa Rose didn't have much of an effect on me with her performance. But I do need to give her credit where it deserves. Just imagine how everybody treated her at school after watching that final scene. A few scenes could have been left out, such as when the two kids are watching their dad with another man in bed, and the skinny dipping. But otherwise a standard horror flick. Watch the sequels instead.

After recently moving, I got a membership at some Mom & Pop video store and found this little film from the days of college slasher movies. I picked it up just to get the deal of 5 films, 5 days, 5 dollars. Now I wish I hadn't. There is one scene where a bunch of people in a van go onto the campus shooting everybody in sight.....only to turn out to be a prank. After the shootings at Littleton, and now in Georgia, this scene really disturbed me, and the fact that it was a prank did not help matters, either. Otherwise, it was a decent horror film. Not exactly a classic, but better than The Crazies.

I'm 14 (I'll be 15 in two weeks), and I love my horror movies as much as the next horror freak. About a year or two ago, my sister rented Last House On The Left, and my mom told us that she used to go to horror movie double features all the time. One of them was Last House On The Left, and this feature. Last Thursday, I found this, and another movie that she mentioned at the video store (The Town That Dreaded Sundown, which she said was the scariest film she had ever seen). I rented them both, and watched them. I watched this one last, waiting for my sister to watch it with me (she thought it looked good). There is nothing to really explain it. There is no word that can grasp the concept that I'm trying to get across. Odd doesn't even begin to describe this. Performances are horrible, yet strangely believable. The script is strange, but an interesting strange. It was a lot better than I thought it was going to be, but still a bad film. See it if you can get it as a free rental, or if you rent Last House On The Left.

This is truly one of the best horror films ever made! It had both thrills and good laughs-especially from Margot Kidder's character. How this film hasn't gotten the recognition that it deserves, I don't know. I bought it last year, and recently watched it again. It gets more and more worth every penny each time I watch it. I would do ANYTHING do see it released on DVD. I would run a hundred miles to see it on DVD. If two films who heavily "borrowed" from it can get on DVD(Halloween, When A Stranger Calls), why can't this? Warner Brothers, you haven't had a hit in a long time. This is a classic, and more than deserves the DVD treatment. This is stuck in your vaults, and should be let out. If not for the fans that have already started a following, then what about the future fans? What about the teens who think quality horror is a bunch of people stripping down and dying extremely bloody deaths? This is a BRILLIANT film(and I hardly use that term) that uses hardly any blood, and no nudity-yet it has a stronger effect. Now that I am off topic, I will stop typing. Thank you, and good night. :)

Am I the only person who sees this film the way that I do? The film is a purposely trashy piece of art-and the writer/director Kim Henkel did a great job in making it. In the age of Jerry Springer, I'm surprised more people didn't cling on to this film. I mean, they like watching actors playing white trash on Jerry. TCM: TNG is pretty much the same thing. I won't compare this to the original, since these are meant to be two completely different movies. Comparing them would be like comparing a used car to an orange. It would be a waste of time to compare them.

I would lie, cheat, steal, and other stuff for a John Hughes of the 90's. All us teenagers are stuck with cheap slasher films and comedies written by people who obviously don't remember what it was like to be a teenager. Although, Empire Records is very close to the John Hughes films of back then. I even wish I was born 15 years earlier just to have been alive when John's films were released theatrically. The Breakfast Club is about 5 teenagers, who are completely different, in the same Saturday Detention one day. We have the jock, the brain, the 'thug', the prom queen, and the one who dresses in black everyday. At first, they totally hate each other, then, they become sorta friends. What I like most is how we can all find a part of ourselves in each character, and how everybody in the film found themselves in each other. If more people watched it, I feel that maybe.....JUST MAYBE.....the clique population might go down. As for John Hughes, if I see that he is at work on the latest Home Alone, I will be very upset!