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The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

The best bad movie I know..

[10/10 · 16 April 2022]

"The Incredible Melting Man" is the best bad movie I know. He is only worth seeing for the effects of Rick Baker.

Greetings,

Hans from Velbert, Germany.

Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

Raoul Walsh shows how an excellent adventure movie must be...

[8/10 · 31 December 2005]

Raoul Walsh shows how an excellent adventure movie has to be made: Take two Hollywood stars (Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo), send them to Eng- land, take British character actors for the supporting roles (Robert Beatty, James Robertson Justice) and take finally a good English stunt team. For me it is one of the best adventure movies at all, with excellent battle sequences, visual effects and a good cinematography by Oscar-winner (for GREAT EXPECTATIONS, 1946)Guy Green (1913-2005). I recorded that movie from the TV, and I was not pleased about removing the clips, so I'm asking: When will the DVD in Germany appear? Regards, Hans-Dieter

Night of the Demons (1988)

...only the gal's tits and asses were worth a vote of 5 stars...

[1/10 · 16 August 2005]

Dear friends, I've never seen such a trash movie as NIGHT OF THE DEMONS (1988). It seems that the director Kevin Tenney had the intention to copy classics like THE EVIL DEAD by Sam Raimi (1978) or George A. Romero's RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD from the same year. The cinematography was lousy, the movie was very dark, so I had to turn the brightness control to the maximum. Indeed, horror pictures have to be dark, but not the way like NIGHT OF THE DEMONS. The entire movie was ridiculous, no suspense, worse actors except Alvin Alexis in the role of Rodger, and horrible make-up effects. An average vote of 5 stars for that movie? I can't believe this. Perhaps the users were pleased about the tits, asses and pussies of the actresses, they were indeed worth 5 stars. Regards, Hans-Dieter

The Patriot (1998)

...the most underrated movie of all time...

[7/10 · 29 June 2005]

It seems that all people didn't like Steven Seagal: Just take a look at his nomination list, there are only razzie awards nominations (with one win) for him, but I think he didn't earn anything of it. I saw good movies with Steven Seagal, I saw bad movies with Steven Seagal. And THE PATRIOT (1998) is one of his best movies, nearly as good as UNDER SIEGE (1992) or HARD TO KILL (1990). THE PATRIOT shows his activities to protect nature. Surely, this movie is not a great one, and I must say that there is more violence than I like, and why must Seagal's best friend L. Q. Jones die the death of a victim? The role of Dr. McClaren is one of Seagal's best performances. He has, as always, a very good charisma. And in summary, THE PATRIOT is good entertainment-and with an average rating of only 4 points the most underrated movie of all time.

Regards, Hans-Dieter

Ghosts of Mars (2001)

John Carpenter is a good film-worker, isn't he?

[3/10 · 26 June 2005]

I could not believe that GHOSTS OF MARS is a John Carpenter-movie. Is that really the same director who made brilliant classics as THE THING (1982) and CHRISTINE (1983)? It seems that Carpenter took the theme from THE THING and something from Quentin Tarantino's FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1995). And finally, choose a new location (Planet Mars in this case) and a new movie is complete. The actors are playing like comic-strip-figures... Did you see that one of them tried to play like Bruce Willis? GHOSTS OF MARS is the worst Carpenter-movie I've ever seen. I'm sorry that I must say this, because I'm still thinking that Carpenter is a good film-worker: But nothing of it can be seen in this movie.

Regards, Hans-Dieter

The Core (2003)

Armageddon was unwillingly funny, THE CORE was not...

[5/10 · 26 November 2004]

No matter what it is, a new ice-age or a giant meteorite, it seems that movies in which the earth is in danger are up-to-date. The newest example is THE CORE, which shows a journey to the earth's outer core, because this core had stopped it's rotation. The consequences were perturbations of the earth's magnetic field what could destroy the earth. I could not imagine that the rotation of the earth's outer core is independent from the rest of the earth's body, that means that it is improbable that the earth has a differential rotation like the planets Jupiter or Saturn have: And when it would be possible, why should the core stop its rotation? And a journey to the core is completely impossible: The pressure and temperature there is much too high for any material. But what about the movie itself? I gave him 5 points. Not boring, good actors, but long before the film ends you know who will survive and who will not. When I saw this film, it seems to me that it was a remake of Richard Fleischer's FANTASTIC VOYAGE (1965) through the human body. What can I finally say? Armageddon was unwillingly funny, THE CORE was not. The effects were good, but in directly comparison with the effects in FANTASTIC VOYAGE, almost 40 years earlier, I ask myself: Where is the progress? Regards, Hans-Dieter

The Gunfighter (1950)

...you will see what it means being a great gunfighter...

[8/10 · 2 July 2004]

Is it possible to make a great western movie without any action and excessive shooting? Henry King is showing that it is with his movie THE GUNFIGHTER. The story itself is not unusual, but what King and his writer Nunnally Johnson have made of it is great! The story of a man who is wanting to bury his past was often told, but not in the way that King did. The end of this great movie is unhappy (also unusual for a western of that kind), but it leaves the spectactor not unhappy: What the dying Jimmie Ringo is saying to the young guy who has shot him is a great quote: "...you will see what it means being a great gunfighter...there will be a lot of guys who are wanting to kill the man who killed Jimmie Ringo..."

Nightmare City (1980)

A beginner´s work?

[1/10 · 23 October 2003]

When I was a teenager in the eighties, I watched a few so-called zombie-movies, most of them were absolutely trash, but some had good splatter effects and were worth to see because of good cinematography and actors, but Lenzi´s NIGHTMARE CITY has nothing of it especially in comparison with Fulci´s ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS. It seems to me that NIGHTMARE CITY has been made by a handful of absolute beginners: the actors were lousy (especially the ones playing the zombies...UURRGGHH...UURRGGHH...), the cinematography was not worth to mention, and the splatter scenes were ridiculous. The highlight of this movie was, without any doubt, the massacre at the half-naked show girls (a little bit of erotic is a must in movies like these). And finally, I´m asking myself the following: Did the famous actor Mel Ferrer know in what trash he was acting? Regards, Hans-Dieter

Horror of Dracula (1958)

A legendary Hammer-movie...

[10/10 · 28 July 2003]

A legendary Hammer-movie has been made by Terence Fisher, and it is showing that Christopher Lee is much better than Bela Lugosi. I saw Tod Browning´s DRACULA from 1931 with Bela Lugosi in the leading role, and I must say although I´m respecting Bela Lugosi as a good actor, Browning´s movie is for me unwillingly funny and boring in comparison with the one from Fisher.

Mutiny in Outer Space (1965)

A nice little movie

[5/10 · 30 May 2003]

I watched this movie first when I visited my best friend, it´s a tradition watching a DVD-movie when we met. It was not a well-known low-price-DVD which I didn´t know yet. The effects were lousy, the actors average, but this movie has a certain charme. If only Ed Wood had worked this way...

Regards, Hans-Dieter

Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)

...not a strong Harryhausen-movie, but better than many people say...

[6/10 · 6 December 2002]

I must say first that I´m a great fan of Ray Harryhausen, and that may have a great influence to my opinion, but that movie isn´t really bad. It has good actors and the best-looking-Sinbad ever (if I should say that because I´m a man...). The effects are, as always in a Harryhausen-movie, excellent, but many people say that it was not for the best that Harryhausen took some creatures from earlier films: that might be partially true, the creatures from the beginning sequence are looking like the selenites from FIRST MEN IN THE MOON, but it is not the right of the master to copy himself? He did also in JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS with the fighting skeletons, where he copied Kerwin Mathews´ fight in 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD against the skeleton that Torin Thatcher took to life. Margaret Whiting (surely a good actress) as the opponent of Sinbad is not very strong. No comparison with Torin Thatcher in 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD or Tom Baker in GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD.

The War of the Worlds (1953)

one of the best sci-fi-movies from the fifties!

[8/10 · 4 December 2002]

I saw this movie first when I was a young boy, and I was amazed about the effects there. But this movie has more than effects in comparison with other movies that are made that time. Much of them are unwillingly funny, I have to mention INVADERS FROM MARS by William Cameron Menzies for example. I´m sorry that I have to say that because Menzies was a great film worker. Byron Haskin made great movie, and it is no wonder that Gordon Jennings won his fourth OSCAR for the best effects.