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Instant Swamp, a review by Tom

Instant Swamp (2009/Japan) IMDb FusionMediaSales, Third Window Films (United Kingdom) Director: Satoshi Miki Writing: Satoshi Miki (Writer) Length: 120 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Subtitles: English

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Stars:Plot:
Miki Satoshi's follow-up to film festival hit the 'Adrift in Tokyo' stars the beautiful Kumiko Aso a Haname, a lively young journalist blessed with an exceedingly vivid imaginative working for a woman's magazine on the brink of bankruptcy. Her daily diet of gloopy health drinks aren't enough to shield her from what she perceives as a particularly severe run of bad luck, which all began on her eighth birthday when her father stormed out of the house, not only abandoning her, but flinging all her toys into a nearby swamp, including a cat talisman which she thinks must have been cursed. Haname sets out to retrieve her lost possesions, a quest which reacquaints her with her father, now a hippie working a junk shop who goes under the name 'Light Bulb', and brings her into contact with a punk named Gus.

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Scene Access
• Trailers

As expected, a quirky comedy. Nothing laugh out loud funny, but these characters are amusing to watch.

Rating:

(From 2010 December Marathon - Discussion thread on December 10th, 2010)

The Brides Wore Blood, a review by Jimmy

Title: The Brides Wore Blood
Year: 1972
Genre: Horror
Director: Bob Favorite (Indian Raid, Indian Made)         
Rating: Unrated
Length: 1h24
Video: Full Frame
Audio: English
Subtitles: No Subtitle

Stars:
Dolores Heiser
Paul Everett
Bob Letizia
Chuck Faulkner
Jan Sherman   

Plot:
The 1970's are back in this hip hop and hapennin' of retro tale of drugs, vampires and exorcisms.
Girls are invited to a crappy mansion in Florida only to become blood-sucker bait for a centuries old demon who wants to be your daddy !

I got this one by error, because I've made a title error after I've seen the trailer for a movie that was looking interesting. Finally I got the good one (The Blood Spattered Bride), but not before another title error order (Blood Castle) it's something frequent with European movie since they are known under many different titles. I've keep the DVD, because it was my error and maybe the movie will be interesting.

The story looks promising : a vampire curse runs in a familly and for defeating it a girl must be made pregnant by the the older vampire son. When the child is born the curse is defeat. This is not really original, but it's enough to make something not so bad. The end result is not good at all, the problem start with the cast : everyone is untalented (nobody have done anything before or after that), they miss their line and most of the time doesn't know how to react. The story is confusing, they mix too many thing (vampires, an hunchback (that or a drunk guy, this is not really evident by the way he act), an hairy beast (why they had it in the basement is unclear), a medium woman (the majority of what she said make no sense),...

Don't waste your time with that. Even the vampire look is ridicule (just look at the screen capture that I've attach to my post)

Rating : 
Movie Trailer : No Trailer

(From The little known movie review depot on February 11th, 2008)

Caroline in the City Marathon, a review by Tom

Caroline and the Kid (1996-06-14)
Writer: Will Calhoun, Bill Masters, Jay Sherick
Director: Tom Cherones
Cast: Lea Thompson (Caroline), Eric Lutes (Del), Malcolm Gets (Richard), Amy Pietz (Annie), Andy Lauer (Charlie), Burke Moses (Marco), Sam Gifaldi (Martin), Gregory Itzin (Mr. Lepner), Lupe Ontiveros (Rosa), Perry Anzilotti (Towel Attendant)

A good episode. Richard and Caroline have to deal with a brat boy. Del gets jealous when he sees in the gym's locker room, that an ex-boyfriend of Caroline is hung well.



Caroline and the Ex-Wife (1996-03-28)
Writer: Amy Cohen, Michelle Nader
Director: Tom Cherones
Cast: Lea Thompson (Caroline), Eric Lutes (Del), Malcolm Gets (Richard), Amy Pietz (Annie), Andy Lauer (Charlie), Joely Fisher (Jill), Adam Ferrara (Pete Spadaro), Kenny Johnson (Blair), Joseph Bologna (Lou Spadaro), Candice Azzara (Angie Spadaro)

Caroline meets the second ex-wife of Del. An average episode.



Caroline and the Movie (1996-04-04)
Writer: Bill Prady
Director: Tom Cherones
Cast: Lea Thompson (Caroline), Eric Lutes (Del), Malcolm Gets (Richard), Amy Pietz (Annie), Andy Lauer (Charlie), Robby Benson (Himself), John Landis (Himself), Jeff Altman (Howie Bloom), Steven Banks (A.D.), Kathy Griffin (DMV Clerk), Rick Pasqualone (Blade), Sandra Purpuro (Maria Louise Fanego), Wendee Cole (Howie's Date), Nina Jane Barry (2nd A.C.)

John Landis shoots a scene for a movie in the street where Caroline lives. Richard and Caroline get roles as extras in the movie.
A good episode and one of the cases I do not mind the stunt casting.

(From Caroline in the City Marathon on September 18th, 2008)