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Tales of the Unexpected: Wet Saturday (1984)
Not as bad as others say
I quite liked the twist in this one. But when the police started investigating would it hold up? I liked the cast, except for the daughter, she was terrible. Funny seeing Charles Hallahan in something other than The Thing.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: I'll Take Care of You (1959)
3 shots for 50 cents
The students bought the car for the carnival to be hit with a sledgehammer for $50. At the carnival he states 3 shots for 50 cents. So they would need to sell 100 tickets, and the car would be hit 300 times with a sledgehammer, just for them to break even.
I don't buy the conclusion with the cops making the arrest. There's no motive, so they obviously have the wrong guy.
Run (1991)
90 mins is too long for this drivel
Where do I begin with this triteness ? The stupid plot, making a mountain out of a mole hill. Becoming America's most wanted over an accident was beyond ridiculous; his being recognized as "that guy on the news" by everyone in town to create yet another chase scene. There's no tension, despite him being chased for 90 mins. The clichéd, generic score playing throughout in the background. The protagonist that reminded me of a young Sean Penn, who I didn't care for, doing his Marty McFly running around thing every five minutes. It has the look and feel of a generic Saturday afternoon TV show, which someone thought was good enough for a feature-length film. Seen it all before. I give it 4/10.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Don't Come Back Alive (1955)
"Just to show you there's no hard feelings..."
There's a lot wrong with the plot on this episode, as stated already by the numerous reviews on here, but the thing that made me laugh was at the end when the insurance investigator shows up and decides, out of the blue, to help the husband with his gardening, with little protest from the husband as he's about to be exposed for murder. So ridiculous it's funny.
It occurred to me while writing this that maybe the insurance guy knew the wife was there but that would mean he saw him burying her the previous night and didn't say anything then.
The Twilight Zone: Our Selena Is Dying (1988)
Requires full attention
I watched this on my comp while going through some IMDB pages simultaneously and by the end of it I couldn't piece together what had happened. I got that the aunt was stealing the youth from the niece but then there is another niece who has stolen the youth from her daughter, and so switching places. I had to read the Wiki page on this episode to work out what I had missed. I even went over the episode again, and so it does require your full attention, but, ultimately, there's too much going on with no explanation as to why. There is a bit of a twist ending, with not much of a punch to it. 6/10
To Catch a Killer (1992)
Move along. There's nothing to see here.
Part I: Cops follow Gacy a lot, search his house and interview his associates. The cops get more screen time than Gacy. There are no on-screen kills, just talk about previous ones. It's not badly made, it's just very slow.
Part II: Margot Kidder has a cameo as a psychic, which is as fun as it sounds. At the 55 minute mark there's actually a scene with some tension but that quickly fizzles to nothing. It's almost as if Dennehy didn't want to film any violent or disturbing scenes for fear of tarnishing his public image. I knew as much about Gacy by the end as when I started, which was not a lot.
Read Gacy's Wiki page and watch First Blood with Dennehy instead, you'll have a much better time.