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The Furies, a review by addicted2dvd

The Furies (2019/) (United States) Director: Writing: Length: 82 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Plot:
When Kayla wakes up in a coffin-like box in the middle of the woods, the first thing she sees is a terrifying masked man with an axe running straight for her. As she runs to try to get away, she realizes she is part of an insane and deadly game. There are six other women running scared in the woods, each with a masked assassin assigned to protect them and kill everyone else. Kayla races to save herself and as many women as she can, but when they start to turn on each other, her killer instinct is unleashed as she does whatever it takes to survive.

Extras:

• Scene Access

This is one of the Shudder Original films I got my hands on. These can be hit or miss but I usually tend to like them as I did with this one. This one has a bit of gore in it though the effects are not the greatest I am guessing the funds wasn't there. I liked the story. It kept my interest till the end.



(From Horror/Halloween Marathon 2023 on October 5th, 2023)

Slither, a review by Rich

Title: Slither

Movie Count:35 
TV Ep. Count:18 

Runtime:92
Certificate:15
Year:2006
Genres:Horror, Comedy

Plot:One humdrum evening, Grant hits the local bar where he bumps into an old friend, Brenda. Abandoning their drinks for a moonlit stroll, the pair discovers the remains of what appears to be a meteor and a trail of glistening, noxious ooze leading to a pulsating, unidentifiable mass. Suddenly, the glob comes to life and overtakes Grant, penetrating his body with a pustule-covered tentacle. As alien parasite has found and infected its unlucky human host and unwilling transporter who now must continue to infect others in order to survive.

My Review:
Despite some pretty impressive special effects, this B movie could best be described as a blob with brains.
Little in the way of storyline, the characters are faceless and the lack of tension, humour or horror make this a nondescript movie. The only thing hardcore in this movie is the pointless excess of swearing - there is no significant gore, no major slashing, in fact nothing at all except dumbing down in a poor attempt to rip-off films like The Thing.
Why did the worms make people walk bow-legged? Was the make-up artist drunk?
One to miss.



(From Rich's October Horror Fest on October 27th, 2009)

Pete's Pilots, a review by addicted2dvd

Married... with Children


Pilot
In this pilot we meet Al and Peg Bundy, a very dysfunctional Chicago family. In the pilot, Al and Peg, who have no friends, meet their new neighbors Steve and Marcy Rhoades. Steve and Marcy are a very happily married couple until they learn from the Bundys.

My Thoughts:
Like that last one (probably even more so then the last one) this is definitely a dysfunctional family. This show has it's share of laughs but is another show that I like to watch when I am in the mood... but can only watch a handful of episodes before I tire of it. At this point I only have the first season set and a best of disc. The pilot episode sets up the series well. And it was funny how they "infected" their happily married neighbors.

My Rating:

(From Pete's Pilots on March 25th, 2010)