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From Beyond, a review by addicted2dvd

Title: From Beyond
Year: 1986
Director: Stuart Gordon
Rating: Category IIB (US Rating: R)
Length: 85 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.50:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo
Subtitles: Chinese

Stars:
Jeffrey Combs
Barbara Crampton
Ted Sorel
Ken Foree
Carolyn Purdy-Gordon

Plot:
"A hilariously grisly amalgam of sex, shock and satire. Do I laugh or do I scream? Both." - Newsweek

If you loved RE-ANIMATOR, wait until you visit FROM BEYOND! It's a critically-acclaimed shocker based on H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale of suspense that takes you where no horror film has!

The Resonator is a gruesome machine that activates a special sixth sense - one that makes its victims crave human brains. You're in for a wonderfully slimy time when you go FROM BEYOND!

Extras:
N/A

My Thoughts:
This is one of the movies that our good friend Achim sent to me. So it is a Hong Kong release (no region coding). I thought I never seen this movie before. But I now believe I had as some of the scenes in it looked familiar. It is not a great movie... but it was worth watching. I did enjoy it. One thing that kinda bothered me off and on through-out the movie is the forced Chinese subtitles. They distracted me from the movie a few times. As I said... the movie is pretty good., had some disgusting scenes in it. I don't think I would really classify it as gory... because when I think gory I think blood and guts... humans being torn apart. While there is a bit of blood. This seems different to me. It is more on the line of things you never seen before that look pretty gross. And those things coming apart and such.



(From Weekend Movie Marathon: Unwatched DVDs on January 7th, 2010)

Gone Girl, a review by Antares

Gone Girl (2014) 90/100 - I haven't watched many films from the the last few years, due to the fact that I've felt that Hollywood has lost the ability to be creative and entertaining at the same time. This film proves that there are still bits of gold out there waiting to be found. David Fincher has shown once again, that his film making is evolving, taking risks that Hollywood generally, doesn't want to take anymore. I can't remember the last time I was so riveted by a modern day movie. Kudos to the actors too, because every performance is spot on, with equally high praise to Rosamund Pike, Kim Dickens and Carrie Coon. I'm hoping to see more in the future from each of them. The only fault I can find with this film does not lie at the feet of the director. I felt the ending was a bit too unreal and according to my wife, who read the book, was how the author chose to end the story. And seeing as how the author wrote the screenplay too, you also have to credit Fincher with staying faithful to the original narrative. I've said this before, in regards to a David Fincher film, and I'm going to say it again... this is the kind of film that Quentin Tarantino wishes he had the talent to make.

Teal = Masterpiece
Dark Green = Classic or someday will be
Lime Green = A good, entertaining film
Orange = Average
Red = Cinemuck
Brown = The color of crap, which this film is

(From Antares' Short Summations on February 11th, 2015)

"Due South" marathon, a review by Tom

2.05 The Promise (1996-01-11)
Writer: Paul Haggis (Created By), Michael Teversham (Writer)
Director: George Bloomfield
Cast: Paul Gross (Constable Benton Fraser), David Marciano (Detective Ray Vecchio), Beau Starr (Lt. Harding Welsh), Daniel Kash (Detective Louis Gardino), Tony Craig (Detective Jack Huey), Catherine Bruhier (Elaine), Camilla Scott (Inspector Margaret Thatcher), Amy Stewart (Andy), Shawn Mathieson (Sid), Sherry Miller (Commander Sherry O'Neil), Todd William Shcroeder (Cobb), Diane Douglass (Celia), Julian Richings (Miles), Warren Sulatycky (Child Welfare Agent), Barbara Law (Sunny), Nicole Crozier (Sung Lee), Rena Polley (Campaign Manager), Adriana Galic (Ms. Downing)

A rather boring episode with an uninteresting main plot. I would have liked to see more of the B-story with Fraser's new boss Inspector Thatcher.

Rating:

(From "Due South" marathon on August 11th, 2009)