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The Hearse (1980)
Terrifically boring and mediocre
This movie moves along at an uneventful snail pace for the first 2/3rds of the flick and then it picks up. By then, however, it probably would have lost 2/3rds of its watchers. The story is then told and perhaps wishy-washy answers the questions that have been generated. Such as so her ancestor was bad in one word or another but what did she do, what acts that make all of the town absolutely shun the descendants? With so much left unanswered or, at best, to imagination, any conclusion at the end that the director put out there, that they may have thought was so obvious, could be very missing on an audience that has long since been put to sleep.
It has two bright points of light. First, it shows what life was like in a simpler, pre Net time. Secondly, it is pretty good at hiding who is friend and who is foe and really who is nobody until the time their masks must be taken off. The bad part is that when this is done, the audience has so little invested in them, that they can be there and then disappear without much of a notice.
Stegman Is Dead (2017)
It adequately passes the time.....
Even without the dialogue which even at full volume was largely ununderstandable, it was a decent series of pictures with action figures for the evening movie. Understanding what they were saying would have helped at points such as when an innocent is place in harm's way. It lacks, however, anything to really tie the viewer in except a decent looking femme fatale. Many a viewer might be tempted to turn it off at any a point, especially since the lead is a cross between John Colbert and."The Lord of the Skies" (El Senor de los Cielos) lead Rafael. Amaya. But, as stated, it was the movie of the night so had to get it over with. This flick was bought on a Michael Ironside buying spree but this movie is not a good representation of him. Adequate but hardly worthy of his name. A final down point of the movie is the finale for any love for any redeeming factor of most of the cast is dashed to bits when it is revealed just exactly what kind of people the characters really are. It is not something I would recommend people pay to see.