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The Beyond, a review by Jimmy

Title : The Beyond (1981)

Overview
Beneath a run-down New Orleans hotel lies a dark, evil secret. The entrance to the underworld is waiting to be opened, and when new residents of the hotel move in...the evil is awakened. Demonic forces of all shapes and sizes are rising up and violently attacking the living one by one. Can the text of an ancient book save the tenants from a horrible death? Will mankind prevail over the demonic forces, or will it perish in a bleak wasteland conquered by legions of the undead?

My Impression
This one is a real italian classic. Very bloody, great special effects, an interesting story and a powerfull musical score. Two scenes are particularly frightening : one involving a group of spiders (I can guarantee that this one would give some nightmares to our good friend Pete) and the other involving a blind woman and her dog (you know what it means Jon). Catriona MacColl is really good in this, David Warbeck and Cinzia Monreale aren't too bad either. The movie was made in english, so it doesn't sound silly like many Italian movie (some of the Italian actors are dub but none of them have a big role). The end is confusing and you must watch the movie more than one time to get it (this the fifth time that I watched it and I'm not 100% sure of my interpretation yet). One last thing that I've just remarked this time : One of the character is a plumber and his name is Joe 

If you have never watched a Fulci's horror movie this is the one to watch. He had directed a lot of good movies (Perversion Story, Don't Torture a Duckling, ...) but none of them are really horror movie. The dvd reviewed here is the one release by Anchor Bay in 2002 that countains a really good commentary with David Warbeck and Catriona MacColl.
 
Rating :

Number of film watch : 49

(From My October Horror Marathon on October 30th, 2008)

(T)Raumschiff Surprise: Periode 1, a review by Tom

Title: (T)Raumschiff Surprise: Periode 1
Year: 2004
Director: Michael Bully Herbig
Rating: FSK-6
Length: 84 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.20
Audio: German: Dolby Digital EX 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), German: DTS ES 5.1 (Matrixed 6.1), Music Only: Dolby Digital 5.0, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2-Channel Stereo
Subtitles: German

Stars:
Michael Bully Herbig
Rick Kavanian
Christian Tramitz
Anja Kling
Til Schweiger

Plot:
Hundreds of years after humans have settled on Mars, Regulator Rogul and Lord Jens Maul, lead a force of Martians to Earth in order to conquer the planet. Queen Metaphor looks to the gay heroes aboard the spaceship Surprise -- Captain Kork, Mr. Spuck, and first engineer Schrotty -- for help.

Awards:
Extras:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Music Videos
Outtakes
Photo Gallery
Production Notes
Scene Access
Super Surprise Mode
Trailers

After watching "Cyborg She" yesterday, I got in the mood to watch some time-travel movies again. This one is a guilty pleasure of mine. It is a Star Trek/Star Wars parody based on a sketch from the German comedy show "Bullyparade". I think the delivery and editing is really done well in this movie, which make even the bad jokes funny.
With the time-travel device we even got a chance to see characters from Bully's previous movie (a western parody based on Winnetou sketches from the Bullyparade) again.

Rating:

(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on May 7th, 2010)

Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

1. Judgment
Original Air Date: 9/26/2000
After a case of mistaken identity leads Angel to slay a demon protecting an innocent girl, karaoke is the only way to make things right. Meanwhile, Angel struggles with the discovery that he may not always be eternal and Darla recovers from her resurrection from Hell.

Guest Stars:
Christian Kane
Stephanie Romanov
Julie Benz
Eliza Dushku

My Thoughts:
Until I seen Lorne (The Host) on the cover I completely forgot about the karaoke bar. Now I am not looking forward to this season as much. The very first scene is Lorne singing a little. Then there was 2 more scenes in the bar through-out the episode. Including Angel singing (badly) Mandy. But other then that... it was a good episode... with some decent action. But I had to laugh at the end of the episode when Angel went to visit Faith in jail. And they were comparing how bad their day was... after listening to Faith say how she was attacked by another inmate with a make-shift knife and how she disarmed her but didn't killer her. Then she was beat by the guards. Angel came back with well I had to sing Barry Manilow... in front of people. We also get our first look at the old hotel that will eventually become the new home base for Angel and his team.

My Rating:

(From Angel Marathon on March 1st, 2010)