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American Nightmare (2002)
This movie can cause spontaneous narcolepsy in all viewers
This movie can cause spontaneous narcolepsy in all viewers. The only thing this movie does that is scary is present itself for rental at your local video store. If your ideal of horror is watching a couple of T&A shots, and a chick that can masturbate with a knife then it is for you!
There is no story line at all: supposed crazy nurse likes to kill folks on Halloween and do lots of drugs, ranting, and slink around looking good (with the obligatory tit shots). Even attack of the killer gummy-worms had more of a story line. No motivation for the killing, what few shots of them are supposed to be done. Very bad fake blood shots, and an ending that is as boring as the start. The nurse goes home and cries ? what, she wanted her mommy ?
Actors: What actors, someone mentioned K-Mart, and I guess that is where you find bad actors? Although I must say that with no more of a story line than this movie had, and no on set drugs, then the only smell of fear I could sense from them was the fact that people were going to see them in this movie.
Overall: this movie should be shown to film students to give exact and precise examples of the things you SHOULD NOT do in a movie.
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Anne Rice Fans beware..
I tried to give this film a break, I took my wife with me (she has never read a book from Rice) to give me her opinion on the movie. Her exact words I can't even put here, they are really that bad. The plot line changes from the book didn't work in the movie, they made no sense to anyone. From the changes in how Lestat was made a vampire to the ending (while visually stunning) left the viewer with too many disjointed fragments that never make any sense. Akasha (Aaliyah) did a great job, but it is sorry to note that is about all I can say of the cast (maybe the cast members should have read the book instead of watching a few vampire movies for their inspiration). An `A' for effort to the writers and producers in not fearing the ` Rice Wrath ` in making changes to the story line, but sorry you Flunked out because they didn't work. Lestat (Stuart Townsend) ends up looking like a rip off of Jim Morrison of the doors. The Talamasca looks like some sort of thrown together club for a `Hidden Camera' show. I kept waiting for Marius (Vincent Perez) to start rapping and putting on the `Colors', or at least steal a car throughout the entire thing. As for the rest of the cast, well, who was the rest of the cast? While the other members in the book are an integral part of the ending, they are no more than cheerleaders that could have been completely skipped in the movie and no one but a Rice fan would know.
If you are a dedicated Anne Rice fan, wait for the Bargain Shows to have it, or the video store.
If you know nothing of the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, then you may B rate the movie at best, although much mind altering drugs may help that rating.