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The Horror of Party Beach, a review by Jimmy

                       
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Title: The Horror of Party Beach
Year: 1964
Genre: Monster Movie
Director: Del Tenney (Zombies)           
Rating: Unrated
Length: 1h18
Video:  Widescreen 
Audio:  English(Mono)
Subtitles: English

Stars:
John Scott (No other credit)   
Alice Lyon (No other credit)
Allan Laurel (No other credit)
Eulabelle Moore ()
Marilyn Clarke ()

Plot:
A drag race between hot rodders and bikers winds up at a swinging rock-and-roll beach party where the Del-Aires perform some rockin' tunes. Nearby, a barrel containing radioactive waste is unloaded from a passing ship, and plunged to the bottom of the sea, splitting against a jagged rock. When a peculiar black liquid oozes out covering a human skull, a vicious monster slowly twitches into life, and "The Horror Beach Party" is born!


The teens beach movie (Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party,...) were successfull in the sixties and the monster movie was always popular (and they continue to be). Del Tenney has decided with this movie to mix this two genres together. Before that he has directed 2 serious horror movie : Zombies (64) and The Curse of the Living Corpse (64).

The best things in this films (everyone who have seen it will agree with me) is the music and the party at the beach. The band in the movie was called the Del-Aires and they were a local New Jersey club band. They did release some single and they were popular in the club scene untill 1964 when the group split after a seven years career. The beach party got all the good ingredients : teenagers (older looking, but that's usual), good looking girl, a biker gang and a fight between the hero & the biker leader. Everyone in the cast perform corectly, no one is really bad and it's surprising since they are not really professional actors (many of them are just local habitants of Stamford, Connecticut). The story is not really original (toxic waste are dump in the sea and create a monster who will go on a rampage), but the script goes on a straight line and doesn't add any useless sub-plot.

On the less good side. The monster is a member of the silly and awfull monster club and since I can find a good way to describe it, I give you a picture. The first time you see it you could do nothing but laugh.


(From The little known movie review depot on January 31st, 2008)

Epic, a review by Tom

Epic (2013/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (Germany) Director: Chris Wedge Writing: James V. Hart (Screenwriter), William Joyce (Screenwriter), Dan Shere (Screenwriter), Tom J. Astle (Screenwriter), Matt Ember (Screenwriter), William Joyce (Story By), James V. Hart (Story By), Chris Wedge (Story By), William Joyce (Original Characters By) Length: 102 min. Video: Widescreen 2.40 Audio: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1, French: DTS 5.1, Spanish: DTS 5.1, Catalonian: DTS 5.1, Dutch: DTS 5.1, German: DTS 5.1, Flemish: DTS 5.1 Subtitles: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Turkish

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Stars:
Blake Anderson as Dagda (voice)
Aziz Ansari as Mub (voice)
Allison Bills as Dandelion Jinn (voice)
Jim Conroy as Race Announcer (voice)
Todd Cummings as Fruit Fly (Old) (voice)

Plot:
A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world -- and ours.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Trailers
• Featurettes

I have been curious about this movie since I first saw the trailer. It looked promising. And I have to say, I was not disappointed. Of cource the stories is nothing special, but I really liked the visuals and it was a fun ride.

(From Tom's Random Reviews on December 31st, 2013)

2016 TV Pilot Reviews, a review by DJ Doena

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It's all about family. Brothers, sisters, children, fathers.

One happy pair is expecting triples, about to burst into this world.

The other pair are siblings; she's heavily overweight and struggling with it, and he's Mister Hardbody and an actor playing a stupid role in a mindless sitcom.

And the last one is a man looking for his biological father who left him at the entrance of a firehouse when he was born.

What they do share, is their birthday. Their 36th birthday to be exact. The triplet-father, the twins and the fatherless man. And by the looks of it, the triplets will share their birthday.

I did enjoy the acting, it is an interesting cast and it could be an interesting story, especially after you learn how all the people are connected to one another.

I particularly found it hilarious how Justin Hartley's (Smallville) character was against taking off his shirt in every scene for the sake of being eye-candy. Why did I find that to be funny? Well, because that was basically his job for all his episodes on Smallville. I don't think there was a single episode on that show where he didn't take his shirt off. He was even shirtless in the opening credits.

But in the end the show is going to be a family drama and that's not exactly my favourite TV food. As I said, the story could be interesting, but it's just not a genre that I personally prefer.




(From 2016 TV Pilot Reviews on September 24th, 2016)