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Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette, a review by Danae Cassandra

Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette (Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks)

Year of Release: 1973
Directed By:  Robert H. Oliver
Starring:  Rossano Brazzi, Michael Dunn, Gordon Mitchell, Simonetta Vitelli, Christiane Rücker
Rating:  Unrated

Overview:
South Pacific star Rossano Brazzi plays the crackpot Count Frankenstein whose latest creature is a goofy, dome-headed Neanderthal man he's brought back to life and cleverly named Goliath. Typical of monsters, Goliath also has the hots for Frankenstein's new squeeze, Krista (Christiane Royce), who likes to bathe in milk. Things turn ugly, however, when Genz, a horny necrophiliac dwarf, is expelled from the castle for leaving his footprint at the scene of a recent grave robbery and promptly makes friends with Ook, a second Neanderthal man who just happens to be passing through town. Out for revenge, Genz then lets Goliath loose who ends up going head to pointy-head with Ook for a good old-fashioned monster rumble...

Screwball Italian horror from producer Dick Randall (The Mad Butcher) and distributor Harry Novak (The Sinful Dwarf), FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS also stars sword & sandal muscleman, Gordon Mitchell (Atlas Against the Cyclops), "the Italian Peter Lorre" Luciano Pignozzi (billed here as "Alan Collins") and the dubiously named "Boris Lugosi" as the fun-lovin' Ook.

My Thoughts:
Okay, it's not like I didn't know what I was getting into here - between the title, the overview, and the release coming from Something Weird Video, there were plenty of warnings.  This is bad.  Oh, man, was this bad.  Now, I'll admit I haven't seen a lot of versions of Frankenstein, but any other is going to have to work very hard to be worse than this one.  The acting and writing are terrible, the dubbing is laughable, and the film is cheesy, kitschy, and sleazy but I honestly expected more gratuitous nudity to make up for this basically being utter trash.

I guess the answer to whether or not you want to watch this mess depends on how much you like bad 70's exploitation films.

Bechdel Test:  Pass

Overall:  1.5/5

(From Danae's 2012 Horror on October 17th, 2012)

Critters, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Critters: 4 Film Favorites Year: 1986 Director: Stephen Herek Rating: PG-13 Length: 86 Min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1, Pan & Scan 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround Subtitles: English

Stars:
Dee Wallace Stone
M. Emmet Walsh
Billy Green Bush
Scott Grimes
Nadine Van Der Velde
Don Opper

Plot:
It's no picnic for the Brown family when a lethal litter of carnivorous aliens arrives unannounced at their Kansas farm. Trapped in a deadly nightmare, the terrified Browns fight for their lives against the attacking bloodthirsty monsters. But it's a losing battle until two intergalactic bounty hunters arrive, determined to blow the hellish creatures off the planet! It's an alien adventure, full of action and just crawling with CRITTERS!

Extras:
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Bonus Trailers
DVD-ROM Content
Closed Captioned

My Thoughts:
Well... this one is a real blast from the past for me.I used to watch the Critter movies all the time when they first came out. But this is the first time I seen them in a good 15 to 20 years! I still found this to be a fun and  entertaining movie. The Critters is just a blast to watch... and you can't help but to chuckle at some of the subtitles of what the Critters are saying. After all these years this movie held up rather well for me. I just hope now the next 3 did as well. Though I really can't remember them at all.




Count:
Movie Count: 24
TV Ep. Count: 12
Other Count: 2
Time Started: 10:00am

(From Month Long Horror/Halloween Marathon: 2010 on October 8th, 2010)

Samantha Who?: The Complete Second and Final Season, a review by addicted2dvd

Samantha Who?: The Complete Second and Final Season (2008/United States)

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Stars:
Christina Applegate as Samantha Newly
Jean Smart as Regina Newly
Jennifer Esposito as Andrea Belladonna
Kevin Dunn as Howard
Melissa McCarthy as Dena
Barry Watson as Todd
Tim Russ as Frank
Cybill Shepherd as Paula Drake

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Closed Captioned

This completes this series. It isn't a bad series.. I did enjoy it. But at the same time I am not surprised it got canceled as quickly as it did. There is far better sitcoms out there. The finale does a fairly good job at closing the series out... but at the same time it does set up a 3rd season... in case it got one. The way they put the episodes on the discs is a bit confusing. Instead of running the episodes as they aired... 1 through 20... they for some reason pulled 3 episodes out of the middle of the season. Numbered the rest 1 through 17... and then put the three they pulled under it's own menu option entitled "More Sam." No idea why they did this.... makes no sense to me what so ever. There is some decent (though all very short) extras added to the set as well.




(From Addicted2dvd's Random TV Series Watched on June 20th, 2012)