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Monday, 11 July 2016

Amityville: A New Generation (1993)

Film number seven contains possessed artefact number three: a mirror.
Keyes Terry (Ross Partridge), one of a group of arty-farty types, acquires the hideous item and takes it home to his large studio apartment. When someone looks into it they become influenced by its predictably predictable evil.
Keyes' investigation does eventually uncover a story that's Amityville in nature, but even though he and a couple of his fellow artists are given an actual backstory of their own they still manage to come across as two-dimensional and the horror they're plunged into is bland.

1 paranoid delusory murderer type out of 5

Saturday, 26 October 2013

Double Dragon (1994)

This exists.  o_0

After 15 minutes you'll maybe wish it didn't.

After 25 minutes you'll maybe wish you didn't.

0½ a neck blister out of 5

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

This is what happens when you let James Cameron help write your screenplay. Rambo, now literally a one-man army, gets sent back into Vietnam on a half-assed top-secret covert mission that enables him to crank the action genre clichés to maximum, and beyond. He creeps and plods through a jungle that was better lit than my back garden on a summer night, before initiating a maiming montage.
It was even worse than I remembered. The only saving grace was the almost complete lack of Arnie style one-liners.

1½ exploding arrows out of 5