This movie was dreadful. I think it must be because the basic premise is bad -- the original wasn't any good, either. This was simply an excuse to show surgically-augmented breasts (I recoiled when the first girl took off her shirt, her tits looked that unnatural!) and splattery effects. I have to give it half a point for the way they combined the first three movies into the first 20 minutes, and I thought it was cute that, when we toured Jason's lair, there was a souvenir wheelchair up on the wall -- a subtle reference to Texas Chain Saw Massacre. I was in the bathroom afterwards when a group of 12-14 year-olds came in (don't ask me how they got tickets). The youngest said to his friends, "That ending sucked." Well, the whole movie sucked.....
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Yomigaeri
(2002)
The most touching film I've ever seen.
28 June 2005
I absolutely LOVED this movie! The stories (and there are several in the film) are not only (dare I say it?) heartwarming, but some have twists I didn't see coming. A story of love and the different meanings of "resurrection", YOMIGAERI strikes me as nothing less than a Japanese Spielberg film--complete with soaring John Williams-like score. There are also a couple of pop songs that are actually relevant to the plot. I'm sure there are those who consider this movie hopelessly sentimental, but it's an honest sentimentality that only the Japanese seem to be able to pull off. (See AFTER LIFE and SHALL WE DANCE?--if you haven't already--to see what I mean.)
The House That Screamed
(1969)
Excellent!!!!
16 September 2004
I saw this on a double-bill with Murders in the Rue Morgue back in the early 70s. According to IMDb, it was released in America in 1971, but I think I saw it later. Anyway, that year saw the release (in the US, at any rate) of two of the absolutely BEST horror movies of the decade: Daughters of Darkness and The House That Screamed. The comments are right about House being about sexual repression: whew! If you've only seen this on TV, YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT!!!! Not that there's anything especially graphic in the film, but you just won't be able to "get" it. I keep hoping it'll come out on DVD: it is, in Spain, but I don't understand Spanish, and it doesn't have subtitles! VSOM sells it on tape, but it's p&s and just too dark. Why don't we start a write-in campaign to Blue Underground??? I just wanted to add my two cents: RUNDBAUCHDODO's comments are right-on. I will say this about the greenhouse murder: it's pretty creepy when the girl enters, but it's a real shocker when the murderer STANDS UP RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA!!!! Maybe it was done before, and it's probably been done since, but it's the first time I saw it and I've never forgotten it. In fact, it surprises me how much of this whole movie I remember -- and remember correctly!
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