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Hercules in the Underworld, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: Hercules in the Underworld
Year: 1994
Director:
Rating: NR
Length: 91 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: N/A

Stars:
Kevin Sorbo
Anthony Quinn
Tawny Kitaen
Marlee Shelton
Cliff Curtis

Plot:
When a beautiful young girl asks Hercules to save her city from an abyss that has opened there leading straight to the Underworld, Hercules leaves his family to help her. But the evil centaur Nessus plants the seeds of jealousy in Deianeira's heart, driving her to kill herself in her despair. Now it is up to Hercules to leap into the abyss of death to rescue his wife and all mankind.

Extras:
N/A

My Thoughts:
And once again... my memory failed me as I did indeed enjoy this one just as much as the first one I watched today. I like how they did the underworld... and I liked the three headed dog. I am surprised how much I enjoyed these last couple as I could have sworn I didn't care for them as much the first time I watched them. Maybe I was just thinking the last one... which I am now about to find out.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Multi-Themes on January 15th, 2010)

The Mummy's Hand, a review by Danae Cassandra

The Mummy's Hand
Year of Release: 1940
Directed By: Christy Cabanne
Starring: Dick Foran, Peggy Morgan, Wallace Ford, Eduardo Cianelli, Tom Tyler
Genre: Horror, Comedy

Overview:
In this chilling follow-up to the original classic, a magician (Cecil Kellaway) and his beautiful daughter (Peggy Moran) finance an expedition of American Archaeologists, led by Steve Banning (Dick Foran) and Babe Jenson (Wallace Ford). The team travels to Egypt in search of an undiscovered tomb. At first, they are thrilled to find a 3,000-year-old mummy. But soon they learn that when the moon is full the mummy goes on murderous rampages - unless they can find a way to destroy their greatest find.

My Thoughts:
This quite a bit more comedy than horror. Indeed, except for an origin story at the beginning, the mummy doesn't appear until about half way through the film. Until then, this is almost an Abbot and Costello script of two bumbling adventurers and a pretty dame. Indeed, it almost seems like the character of Babe was written as a character for Costello, minus the cowardice his characters often have.

Worth watching as a part of Universal's classic Mummy films, but not an actual classic the way the first one is. It does establish the rest of the franchise, however, so if you're going to watch the later films you'll want to watch this first. Just don't expect it to be anywhere as good as the Karloff film.

Watched For: Hoop-tober 3.0, Horror/Halloween Challenge 2016

Bechdel Test: Fail
Mako Mori Test: Fail

Overall: 2.5/5

Horror/Halloween Challenge Films: 13/52

(From Horror/Halloween 2016 Challenge on October 8th, 2016)

Pete's Pilots, a review by addicted2dvd

A Haunting
In sixteen chilling tales of the supernatural, on 3 DVDs, New Dominion Picture's A Haunting, takes you inside real-life horror stories. The series originally aired on the Discovery Channel, and each eerie one-hour episode features eyewitness accounts and cinematic re-enactments of some of most spine-tingling, ghostly hauntings ever recorded, filmed in actual locations where these apparitions took place. They are all but guaranteed to spook even the most skeptical observer, but you can judge for yourself: are they imagined, or are they real?

Episode by episode, you'll be shocked and surprised by the spell-binding tales. Take the case of the dance club haunted by ghosts from a by-gone era, the child inhabited by evil that only an exorcism will cure, or house-haunting specters, scaring the wits out of their unsuspecting victims. A Haunting explores these and many other unexplainable, eerie, and macabre tales of the paranormal.

By the end of each amazing story, you will experience a lingering sense that life and death are much stranger than you could have possibly imagined!

Hell House
A family buys a 19th-century farmhouse in Connecticut, but become targeted by strange occurrences. The family consults world-renowned paranormal investigators, including Ed and Lorraine Warren to find out what is truly in their house.

My Thoughts:
Another show I enjoy. I own the entire series (4 seasons). It is a documentary series of supposedly "true" hauntings. I like they way they do this show. Not only is the documentaries interesting (and a little eerie) the reenactments are also done well.

My Rating:

(From Pete's Pilots on February 4th, 2010)