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13 Ghosts, a review by addicted2comics

Title: 13 Ghosts
Year: 1960
Director: William Castle
Rating: NR
Length: 84 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital: Mono
Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai

Stars:
Charles Herbert
Jo Morrow
Martin Milner
Rosemary De Camp
Donald Woods
Margaret Hamilton

Plot:
It's 13 GHOSTS, a ghoulish fright-fest from producer/director William Castle. When an eccentric uncle wills a huge, ramshackle house to Cyrus (Donald Woods) and his impoverished family, they get the shock of a lifetime. Their new residence comes complete with a spooky housekeeper, Elaine (Margaret Hamilton), plus a fortune in buried treasure and 12 horrifying ghosts. As the terrified family soon discovers, these haunting ectoplasms include a decapitated man, a wailing lady and a flaming skeleton, who are held captive in the eerie house and must find an unlucky 13th to free them! Who'll be the final victim of these ghostly shenanigans?
See for yourself-if you dare!

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Closed Captioned
Illusion-O glasses

My Thoughts:
Yes, I swiped dad's formatting from the profiler, but his is better!!!

Speaking of swiping, watching this whole movie again, which I have seen numerous times since I was a little kid, reminded me that there were a pair of Illusion-O glasses that would help you see the ghosts, but as little kids often do---I wrecked them.  I am so regreting it now. I was struggling to much to see the details, I caught myself saying, "Where are the glasses???"

I haven't seen this in a long time, like, I remembered the ghosts. But I also remembered Ben as such a swell guy. A real sweetie. Now that I'm older, I can understand more, and I saw how he was really portrayed.


I gotta admit, even with this being in black and white, which to me always takes away from how real it feels, all the ghosts and moans I admit gives me the creeps. (Just a LITTLE but it does.) Very nice work! Especially for the time! 1960? Not bad!



(From Doing the ABC's Movie Style!! on July 12th, 2010)

Déjà Vu, a review by Tom

Title:
Year: 2006
Director: Tony Scott
Rating: PG-13
Length: 126 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1 , French: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Commentary: Dolby Digital Surround
Subtitles: Commentary, English, French, Spanish

Stars:
Denzel Washington
Paula Patton
Val Kilmer
Jim Caviezel
Adam Goldberg

Plot:Extras:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Scene Access


I do not really know what to think of this movie. Usually I am quite willing to accept quite a lot suspension of disbelieve when dealing with time-travel stories. But with this movie I cannot be this lenient (probably because it takes itself too seriously). None of this movie's time-travel devices could work. I expect a time-travel movie to set a certain set of rules regarding its time-traveling and then follow them. But I do not have the feeling that in this movie this has been done. They set up the possibility, that changing the past will lead to different future (different to the existing). Spoilers follow: The major flaw in my opinion is, that while traveling back in time and preventing the disaster, he again leaves behind all those hints for his future self to find. But by changing the time, the future will not happen and this is not necessary anymore. A whole new timeline has already started at the point he traveled back in time. 
This whole leaving yourself hints behind cannot work in the frame of this story. I feel they mixing up these two timelines too much.

As I said, usually I am not that bothered about time-travel paradoxes (I even like stories which are using the cause-and-effect reversal argument). But here they are screwing it up too much.

Rating:

(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on April 14th, 2008)

The Flash Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

Guest Stars:
Vito D'Ambrosio as Bellows
Biff Manard as Murphy
Mike Genovese as Lt. Warren Garfield
Dick Miller as Fosnight
Laura Robinson as Col. Powers
Claire Stansfield as Alpha

My Thoughts:
Another good episode. I enjoyed it. They did the android effects pretty cool... and it has an interesting story.

My Rating:

(From The Flash Marathon on April 26th, 2010)