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The Seven Year Itch, a review by addicted2dvd

The Seven Year Itch: The Diamond Collection (1955/United States) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Director: Billy Wilder Writing: Billy Wilder (Screenwriter), George Axelrod (Screenwriter), George Axelrod (Original Material By) Length: 104 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.55:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: Dolby Surround, English: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, French: Dolby Digital: Mono Subtitles: English, Spanish

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Stars:
Marilyn Monroe as The Girl
Tom Ewell [Tommy Ewell] as Richard Sherman
Evelyn Keyes as Helen Sherman
Sonny Tufts as Tom MacKenzie
Robert Strauss as Mr. Kruhulik
Oscar Homolka as Dr. Brubaker

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Gallery
• Closed Captioned
• Movietone Newsreel
• Restoration Comparison

This is the very first Marilyn Monroe movie I ever seen. This one was recommended to my by a friend. Over-all I found it to be a fun watch. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Marilyn Monroe was definitely a beautiful woman. Though I must admit the way she talked will take a little getting used to. The way she does her voice... like she was trying to make every word of every sentence sound sexy. It just seemed a little strange. But this one is a fun comedy... well worth checking out. Now I am looking forward to watching the other movie I have with her in it... Some Like It Hot.



(From What Movies I Been Watching on February 9th, 2013)

Re-Animator, a review by Jon

Re-Animator
4 out of 5



Slightly insane Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) has discovered how to bring the dead back to life. His experiments don't stay secret for long...

Re-Animator is one of the most gleefully gruesome films ever made. It's a great little horror story (by Lovecraft) that has it's roots deep in classic horror, most obviously Frankenstein. And the wonderful Combs is perfect as the disturbed West. I want to say "mad scientist", but actually he plays West as quietly serious and dedicated. We can excuse his naivety when he re-animates his flatmates cat (and it proceeds to launch it's bloody carcass at everyone!), so perhaps we only understand the real depths of his insanity when... no. I won't say it. It involves a shovel and it really isn't very nice.

The gore really is a bit OTT, but Stuart Gordon keeps the balance with the story just right throughout. The credits sequence is a perfect introduction to the style, with it's garish colours and detailed anatomy diagrams, and best of all, the theme. It's Bernard Herrmann's famous Psycho tune sped up! Genius. And of course, West's serum is a lovely bright green, as it should be in such a film.

The cast all throw themselves into it. Aside from the brilliant Combs, Robert Sampson (demands respect even as a slavering zombie) and David Gale (Karloff lookalike) might seem too mature and respectable for a film like this, but you wouldn't know it from their performances. Bruce Abbott and Barbara Crampton are the focus of the plot, as their romance is put to all sorts of terrible trials. All credit to Crampton who also had to suffer several gratuitous topless shots and one full-frontal where she is subjected to a brief, but outrageous visual gag that will make your jaw drop! By that point another character has slipped into a new level of depravity.

The weird thing is, while I said gratuitous depravity, there's also something rather innocent about the whole thing. Whereas comparable gore-hounds Raimi and Jackson have a real vicious streak, I really feel Gordon is just having the most fun possible and he wants the audience to be complicit and have the same fun. He definitely doesn't pull punches, but his gags are less flashy. He comes from a theatre background I think, so maybe it's a simple case of letting the actors play through the parts with honesty and without accentuating anything with edits and freaky compositions.

This came out the year after Nightmare On Elm St. and while that has a marvellous premise, I think Re-Animator deserves equal recognition. It's a classic horror setup, it looks and sounds great and it's a whole lot of very messy fun!

(From Jon's Marathon of Horror! 2009 on October 8th, 2009)

Angel Marathon, a review by addicted2dvd

16. Players
Original Air Date: 3/26/2003
Angel and the gang set out to find out as much as they can about Cordelia's pregnancy and the identity of The Beast's master while Gwen Raiden (guest star Alexa Davalos) enlists Gunn's help to crash a black-tie affair and rescue a kidnapped girl.

Guest Stars:
Alexa Davalos
Dana Lee
David Monahan
Hope Shin

My Thoughts:
Another good episode... though not quite as good as the "Evil Angel" episodes. What can I say... I like it when Angel goes all bad-ass in the episodes. 

My Rating:

(From Angel Marathon on March 19th, 2010)