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Showing posts with label Terry O'Quinn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Terry O'Quinn. Show all posts

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

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Black Widow (1987)

Theresa Russell is the Black Widow, named because of her proclivity for finding a mate and killing him shortly after his usefulness expires. Unlike the spider, however, the 'usefulness' isn't post-copulation but post-marriage, once the will has been amended to leave everything to her. It's unclear what she actually does with the wads of cash she acquires, though.
Federal investigator Debra Winger tracks the killer in a manner not dissimilar to how the killer tracks her prey, each woman succumbing to an obsession that's only really different in its focus.
The journey contains within it a number of things that are implied but not clarified, so it's up to a viewer to decide if the subtexts they thought they read were actually there or if they were accidental, surfacing in the edit.

3 green windows out of 5

Monday, 15 July 2013

Blind Fury (1989)

An American remake of Japanese director Kenji Misumi’s Zatoichi Challenged (1967) that somehow isn't as bad as I’d feared it would be.
Rutger Hauer was a good choice to play the blind swordsman; his cheesy factor is balanced out by his strength of character and his ability to be wryly comical. The plot is part escort mission/part revenge drama that descends into something resembling an episode of The A-Team that, for me, worked in its favour because I love The A-Team. (I really do. It's reviewed HERE.)
I'm surprised there was no Blind Fury 2; there are many more Zatoichi films they could've plundered a similar kind of story from.

2½ useless henchmen out of 5