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Gorgo, a review by GSyren

Title	Gorgo
Year	1961
Director	Eugene Lourie
Stars	Bill Travers, William Sylvester
Overview
My thoughts	It's not many European made films that have shown European cities devastated by giant monsters. The only other one that comes to mind is the Danish film Reptilicus. While I have a guilty-pleasures-fondness for Reptilicus, I have to admit that it cannot hold a candle to Gorgo. The films is obviously inspired by Godzilla. The miniature destruction of London is as good as anything Godzilla did to Tokyo. Sometimes the filmmakers try a little to hard and add superimposed debris that somewhat detracts from the reality of the scene rather than adds to it, but I can overlook that. The fact that the "monsters" win in the end is also nice. Today this would all have been made using CGI, but there is something special about "real" physical effects and monsters that CGI just can't duplicate. I'm not saying that it's better or worse, just - different. And I like it. The younger generation proably won't like it as much, I guess.
Rating

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on March 26th, 2013)

Jeepers Creepers, a review by addicted2dvd

Jeepers Creepers
You can keep your doors locked. You can keep your eyes closed. But still, he'll get what he wants...and what he wants is...you. Brace yourself for "90 minutes of steadily mounting horror [that] delivers more than its share of honest chills" ('The Baltimore Sun'). From "the scariest opening sequence of any horror picture in recent memory" ('Los Angeles Times') to "one of the gutsiest endings to a film this year" ('Dallas Morning News'), 'Jeepers Creepers' is the real deal in terror!

On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens (Gina Philips, 'Living Out Loud' and Justin Long, TV's "Ed") are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck...and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe. But when they stop to investigate, they discover that the grisly reality at the bottom of that pipe is far worse than they could have ever suspected...and that they are now the targets of an evil far more unspeakable -- and unstoppable -- than they could have ever imagined!

My Thoughts:
I know this movie is not for everyone. And I can see why. It is far from the best horror movie I have in my collection. But I am able to enjoy it. I just need to turn my mind off before watching it. I did like Gina Philips in this movie. I will have to look into what else she has done... I only have a couple other titles with her in it (Ring Around the Rosie & An ep of Sliders).



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: 1/16 - 1/18 on January 17th, 2009)

[Rerun Marathon] Police Squad!, a review by Tom

4/10

Rather weak episode in my opinion. There were no lines which stood out for me.

(From [Rerun Marathon] Police Squad! on October 18th, 2007)