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Twice Told Tales, a review by Danae Cassandra![]() Twice Told Tales Year of Release: 1963 Directed By: Sidney Salkow Starring: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Brett Halsey, Beverly Garland, Genre: Horror Overview: It's spine-tingling terror... in triplicate! "Virtuoso of horror" (Los Angeles Times) Vincent Price dials up the depravity in this spellbinding trilogy of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "all-chiller" (LA Herald-Examiner) classics! Featuring "a demented genius! Poisonous plants! Oozing blood! [And] a corpse in a wedding gown" (The Film Daily), Twice Told Tales spins three diabolical nightmares of madness, mayhem and murder most foul! My Thoughts: This anthology film stars one of my all-time favorite actors, Vincent Price, so there's no way as far as I'm concerned to go too far wrong here. If you like Price, you'll enjoy this film. That's not to say that all things are equal. The final story, "The House of Seven Gables" is by far the best one, and has the most atmosphere and horror attached. Price's character is also the only truly villainous one in this piece, unlike the tortured characters in the other two stories. The first story, "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," is also quite good, the horror being more subtle here than in the final piece, but nonetheless present. The middle story, "Rappaccini's Daughter," I find to be the weakest and most predictable. There is the horror of the situation, but overall it is also the least 'horrific' if one can use the term here. Recommended for fans of Price, or fans of 60's style horror. If you liked Tales of Terror (which is arguably better, but still...) you'll like this. Bechdel Test: Fail Overall: 3/5 (From Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon on October 8th, 2014) The Dead Zone, a review by Tom![]() Title: The Dead Zone ![]() Year: 1983 Director: David Cronenberg Rating: R Length: 104 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: English: Dolby Digital Surround, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital Mono Subtitles: English Stars: Christopher Walken Brooke Adams Tom Skerritt Herbert Lom Anthony Zerbe Plot: Christopher Walken stars in this tense, gripping screen adaption of Stephen King's best-selling novel, The Dead ZoneExtras: Closed Captioned Scene Access Trailers My Thoughts: A good movie. Though I like the TV series better. For those of you, who know the TV series, but not this movie: It's essentially the plot of the pilot episode and the first season's Stillson story arc. And unlike the TV series, we have a proper resolution to the Stillson arc. Ironic is, that Martin Sheen, who plays Stillson whose ambition is to become President of the United States, later plays the president on West Wing. And Christopher Walken, whose character is talking about Sleepy Hollow and the headless horseman, will later play this character in the Tim Burton movie. Rating: ![]() (From Short Stephen King marathon on May 9th, 2009) Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by TomVOY 4.14 Message in a Bottle Writer: Lisa Klink (Screenwriter), Rick Williams (Original Material By) Director: Nancy Malone Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert (Chakotay), Roxann Dawson (B'Elanna Torres), Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim), Judson Scott (Commander Rekar), Valerie Wildman (Nevala), Andy Dick (EMH-2), Tony Sears (Starfleet Officer), Tiny Ron (Hirogen), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice (voice)) The doctor gets sent through an alien communication network to the alpha quadrant on a Starfleet starship prototype. There he has to battle off Romulans who have taken over the ship with the help of the prototype of his successor program (played by Andy Dick). I always enjoyed this episode for the interplay between the two doctors. Rating: ![]() (From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on September 20th, 2009) |