Slasher

Starring:Michael Bennett (XIV), Christin Ackerman
Director: John Landis
Studio: New Video Group
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Slasher is a semi-comic and revealing documentary about the crude art of selling used cars in a hurry. Filmmaker John Landis, best known for some key 1970s and '80s comedies (Animal House, Trading Places), directs this warts-and-all look at the life and trade of Michael "the Slasher" Bennett, a California freelance salesman who travels the country mounting garish campaigns to clear car lots of old inventory. The film focuses on one weekend in which Bennett and his team of "mercenaries" descend on a lot in Memphis, attempting to unload 60 automobiles in 48 hours. Motormouth Bennett and his allies pull out all the stops (raffles, pretty hostesses, music) and keep intense pressure on themselves, revealing a few unscrupulous practices in the course of things. Landis finds moments of unintended and sometimes tender comedy everywhere, especially in Bennett's strenuous efforts to live up to the moral standards of his wife and children. --Tom Keogh
Description
"My job as a slasher, being a used car salesperson, liquidator, doing these auction sales...people automatically assume whatever I say, whatever comes out of my mouth is a lie" Meet Michael Bennett, better known as "The Slasher," a raspy-voiced family man who exudes so much nervous energy that he smokes two cigarettes at a time and can hardly stand still. When auto dealerships are desperate to dump their stale inventory as quickly as possible, the California-based Bennett is flown all over the country to slash prices and clear entire lots within a few short days. Director John Landis (The Blues Brothers, Animal House, An American Werewolf in London) brilliantly turns his comedic eye on one particularly off-the-wall weekend in the life of Bennett, as he's called upon to help a struggling dealership in Memphis, home to Elvis Presely and the bankruptcy capital of the world. Featuring a pitc-perfect Southern soul soundtrack, including forgotten favorites from Sam & Dave, Booker T. and the MG's, and Otis Redding, SLASHER is a frenetic, fascinating and intensely funny look at one man so tightly wound, he couldn't be anything other than a car salesman. DVD Features: Commentary from Director John Landis and Crew; Deleted Scenes; IFC 'Making of' Featurette; Crew Biographies; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection

Hostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Average customer rating:

Pointless

hostel

Yuck

Another garbage movie made by Tarantino...

Watchable, but not great or in any way unique !

Hostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Mark Taylor , Jan Vlasák , Miroslav Táborský , Takashi Miike , and Gabrielle Roth
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B000EHRVP6
Release Date: 2006-04-18

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Well-made for the genre--the excessive-skin-displayed-before-gruesome-bloody-torture-begins genre--Hostel follows two randy Americans (Jay Hernandez, Friday Night Lights, and Derek Richardson, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd) and an even randier Icelander (Eythor Gudjonsson) as they trek to Slovakia, where they're told beautiful girls will have sex with anyone with an American accent. Unfortunately, the girls will also sell young Americans to a company that offers victims to anyone who will pay to torture and murder. To his credit, writer/director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever) takes his time setting things up, laying a realistic foundation that makes the inevitable spilling of much blood all the more gruesome. The sardonic joke, of course, is that Americans are worth the most in this brothel of blood because everyone else in the world wants to take revenge upon them. This dark humor and political subtext help set Hostel above its more brainless sadistic compatriots, like House of Wax or The Devil's Rejects. In general, though, there's something lacking; horror used to suggest some threat to the spirit--today's horror can conceive of nothing more troubling than torturing the flesh. For aficionados, Hostel features a nice cameo by Takashi Miike, director of bloody Japanese flicks like Audition and Ichi the Killer. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

Pointless.......2007-07-06

As enough people have pointed out already, this movie is painfully pointless. I thoroughly enjoyed the plot but I feel the end ruined the movie. The plot keeps you interested to get to the end. There's plenty of female nudity and blood for all the guys out there. I prefer a movie with some kind of depth to it, not pointless slaughter.

hostel.......2007-06-24

A little too much gore and violence for me. Definitely not something I'd have my children watch. If I could go back It's something I'd probably would've never bought. Thought of giving it away but didn't want my friends to watch this gore either.

Yuck.......2007-06-15

There was no story to this movie. It was gory and disgusting, just for the sake of being gory and disgusting. If you want a good, gory movie, watch any of the "Saw" films.

I could have lived the rest of my life without seeing Hostel.

Another garbage movie made by Tarantino..........2007-06-12

Mr. Tarantino should seek psychiatric help with garbage movies he makes. Waste of material and money and desperate cry for help in every movie he makes. I am sure there are some mental institutions that can help people like this.

Watchable, but not great or in any way unique !.......2007-06-10

It's certainly interesting how some movies are advertised and presented. When I bought this DVD on the front cover of it was written "the scariest American movie in a decade", on the back cover there was an introduction to the plot, in which it was claimed that 3 young men are lured into a trap in "Slovakia" by beautiful women. Being an avid thriller fan I quickely opted for this movie.

This one was written and directed by Eli Roth, who also, as I found out did "Cabin Fever" (a horror flick), this then only being his 2nd movie.

As far as I was concerned, the first half of the movie was good, typical and promising. Here you have perhaps a more serious version of something like "Euro Trip", meaning 3 horny Americans are traveling through Europe, searching for cheap sex, and drugs. Actually, its 2 Americans that on their way through Europe meet Oli, who happens to be from Iceland (if I remember it correctly). Knowning that there is absolutely nothing going on in a place like Iceland, Oli gladly joins our American Duo of horny boys, who plan to get laid as often as possible.
While they continue their nihilistic journey of debauchery, they meet a rather strange middle aged man, with a german accent, on one of their train rides, while talking to them he tells them that there is this Hostel in Slovakia, where they have absolutely beautiful girls that are just crayz and willing to do anything for foreigners, especially if they are American. Well, needless to say, the horney gang dosen't need any further encouragments, and the next thing you see is them heading for the town where the hostel is. It is only here that the movie starts to change its mood, it becoming dark and there is a sense of impending danger which is conveyed briefly to the viewers. It is also here, where the movie started to lose some of its appeal. The torture scenes were really gory and heavy, at least for someone like me, who dosen't preferr the horror genre. Sure, someone who is totally into it, can claim that they were mild, ect. But, for me, they were quite disturbing, yet far more disturbing is the fact that according to the makers of the film, they were supposed to be based on real life events. Maybe its just me, but I for one, have my doubts about them, if only because I refuse to believe that people could be so cruel and inhuman to others.

Well, in the end, this was alright, if you want to see a horror movie, that starts off during the first half, more like an adventure type of a film, that has a bit of road movie characteristics to it.

Average customer rating:

Better than I thought it would be!
KNB = 5 Stars, Film = 3.5 Stars
VERY good remake
WORST REMAKE EVER!
garbage

The Hills Have Eyes (Unrated Edition)
Starring: Aaron Stanford , Kathleen Quinlan , Vinessa Shaw , Emilie de Ravin , and Dan Byrd
Director: Alexandre Aja
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ASIN: B000FAOC2W
Release Date: 2006-06-20

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Boasting an upgrade in production values, The Hills Have Eyes should please new-generation horror fans without offending devotees of Wes Craven's original version from 1977. There's still something to be said for the gritty shock value of Craven's low-budget original, made at a time when horror had been relegated to the pop-cultural ghetto, mostly below the radar of major Hollywood studios. With the box-office resurgence of horror in the new millennium--and the genre's lucrative popularity among the all-important teen demographic--it's only fitting that French director Alexandre Aja should follow up his international hit High Tension with a similarly brutal American debut to boost his Hollywood street-cred. Working with cowriter Gregory Levasseur, Aja remains surprisingly faithful to Craven's original, beginning with a bickering family that crashes their truck and trailer in the remote desert of New Mexico (actually filmed in Morocco), where they are subsequently terrorized, brutalized, and murdered by a freakish family of psychopaths, mutated by the lingering radiation from 331 nuclear bomb tests that were carried out during the 1950s and '60s. After several killings are carried out in memorably grisly fashion, it's left to the survivors to outsmart their disfigured tormentors, who are blessed with horrendous make-up (especially Robert Joy as freak leader "Lizard") but never quite as unsettling as the original film's horror icon, Michael Berryman. In Aja's hands, this newfangled Hills is all about savagery and de-evolution, reducing its characters to a state of pure, retaliatory terror. It's hardly satisfying in terms of storytelling (since there's hardly any story to tell), but as an exercise in sheer malevolence, it's undeniably effective.--Jeff Shannon

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Based on the original film by fright master Wes Craven, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.

Customer Reviews:

Better than I thought it would be! .......2007-06-12

I haven't seen the original in years, but I remembered liking it. I was kind of skeptical about the remake of this movie but was pleasantly surprised. I thought it was a great remake. I liked the fact that it was gory, but not way overboard, such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Great ending! Overall, I loved this movie!

KNB = 5 Stars, Film = 3.5 Stars.......2007-06-09

I'll bypass telling you what you already know, that it's a remake and what the plot is. The film just finished, I'm now 10 minutes into the "making of" documentary, and I must say as a fan of the genre this picture is pretty awesome. I'm a BIG fan of KNB (The EFX Group) and they have outdone themselves on this one. This film is littered with remarkable effects, very gory and very realistic. The head shot, in the outhouse...WOW! The gore alone get's 5 stars in my stupid little opinion book of ratings. As always, when I watch horror films I tend to overlook the plot holes, etc and focus more on the gore, the scares, this film has loads of gore and a few scares as well.

It's selling on Amazon cheap, seriously consider picking it up!

VERY good remake.......2007-06-06

Given the task of remaking Craven's original The Hills Have Eyes, they had to cast someone great as the director. They chose Alexandre Aja, and what they came up with was one of the scariest movies of 2006, perhaps THE scariest. My review will be in two parts: the movie itself and the DVD special features.

The Carter family is off on a road trip through the desert. After stopping to get gas, the station attendant tells them of a pathway through the desert that will take them to the main highway and would cut a few hours off their time. The Carters accept, not knowing that the route they would travel would take them through an area that had undergone heavy nuclear testing by the US Army years earlier- or that a family of settlers had survived the testing, but with less than desirable results: they are all now bloodthirsty mutants. So the Carters move on- till a spikechain set in the road blows out all four of their tires. They settle in while Big Bob goes to get help. When night falls, the "eyes" open up- and that's where the fun begins.

This being the Unrated Director's Cut, alot of material made it in that wasn't in the original R-rated theater version: the fight between Doug (Aaron Stafford) and Pluto was extended and some of the other fight scenes were added; one scene that was taken out, however, was the scene of Pluto siphoning gas from the family Jeep. The DVD itself contains a behind the scenes look at the making of the movie called "Surviving the Hills", a music video for The Finalist's "Leave the Broken Hearts", and a few other extras like director and actor commentaries.

The Ring? The Grudge? Nah. Most "scary" movies can't touch The Hills Have Eyes with a 50-foot pole. Thanks, Aja, for making probably the scariest movie I have ever seen.

WORST REMAKE EVER!.......2007-06-04

This movie is no where near as good as the original. SAVE YOUR MONEY...... PERIOD!

garbage.......2007-05-22

Not a horror movie fan, but all was fine for me until the POINTLESS rape scene. Disturbing enough to me that i'm still thinking about it a few days later.

I don't even necessarily object to a rape scene being put in a film - but this disgusted me in that it was put in purely for those who get some sort of delight through watching a woman's suffering. I really, really womder about people who enjoy this kind of stuff.

Average customer rating:

Decent movie
Ending lacked
Are frightened tourists giving this movie bad reviews!???
not too bad......
Surprisingly good.

Turistas (Unrated Edition)
Starring: Miguel Lunardi , Melissa George , Desmond Askew , Josh Duhamel , and Olivia Wilde
Director: John Stockwell
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ASIN: B000N3AW6G
Release Date: 2007-03-27

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If not for Hostel, we'd never have been treated to the gory, horrific delights so lovingly captured with sadistic detail in Turistas. Together, these movies could be spawning a radical new Hollywood-pedigreed sub-genre of extreme horror. Like Hostel, Turistas concerns a group of American hardbodied kids on an exotic foreign vacation--this time in Brazil. After a suspense-filled opening sequence of a speeding bus careening off a dangerous mountain (it's also tinged with just the right kind of humor), the kids wander into the seeming paradise of a secluded beachfront resort where they think nothing of locals who lure them one by one to their gruesome and shocking deaths. Hey, they're here to party! These excruciatingly graphic scenes unfold in the lair of a madman doctor named Zamora, who harvests organs of the still-living as a way of exacting revenge on American turistas to "give back" to the locals they exploit with their capitalist dollars. One such scene has the donor undergoing surgery without the help of anesthesia wherein the lovely young "patient" has the chance to see her still thriving innards pulsing warmly on her well-formed chest to the tune of her own screams. This stuff is not for the faint of heart (or liver, or kidney, or lungs, for that matter). But there is a fair amount of nicely staged tension, especially a "foot" chase scene in a water-filled cave that will give claustrophobics a whole new way to experience nightmares. The two most familiar faces are Melissa George and Josh Duhamel, from TV's Alias and Vegas respectively. Fans of this new world of extreme gross-out horror should be thankful that TV has plenty of cute young bodies waiting for their big screen break, no matter how many organs they have to donate to get there. --Ted Fry

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Rising star Josh Duhamel (TV's Las Vegas) leads a group of young backpackers who find themselves stranded on a remote Brazilian beach; an exotic paradise, with warm sunshine, cool ocean breezes, and plenty of hot bodies. But, after a night of partying, the wayward turistas are drugged and robbed, and their dream vacation becomes a gruesome nightmare. Trapped and desperate, the vulnerable travelers are lured deep into the menacing jungle and beyond, where a dark and twisted fate too terrifying to imagine awaits.

Customer Reviews:

Decent movie .......2007-07-03

Thought this movie was a decent little watch, its not as horrific as you may think, you only see one person get multilated and it looks as though they are under anasthetic so it kind of takes the horrific factor away, the idea of it is scary but it somehow misses the actual scares.
The kids do some idiotic things (as usual) in this movie, like following a stranger through underwater caves (the stranger being the only one with a torch) so it would be pitch black for everyone else (in reality), he probably would not be able to see even with a torch, without goggles how they managed to do it is beyond me and thats coming from a former pro swimmer, the ending is as bad with a 10 minute chase through these underwater caverns, no goggles, holding their breath for minutes at a time while trying to avoid a guy with an arrow, only coming up to breath pockets of air that are trapped at the top of the cave (could be CO2 for all they know).
Worth a watch, though slightly ruined also by the bad english actors (one who used to be in a daytime british soap called "Hollyoaks"), how can I take him seriously !!

Ending lacked.......2007-06-12

The movie was decent, good plot, good characters. The action lacked it was short. The ending also sucked.

Are frightened tourists giving this movie bad reviews!???.......2007-06-10

This is a good well acted fun suspense movie with a scarily real message, "be careful who you trust" I dont just mean on foreign soil but ANYWHERE your not familiar with, as people can have ulterior motive anytime, anywhere. Thats the message of this movie I believe and its presented in a chilling and at times ( although NOTING like Hostel etc) brutal way. What we have here is a group of likeable fun characters who just want to have fun, fighting to survive against a macabre set up by some locals in the area they have happened upon. This movie in no way dserves so many one star reviews, I mean a movies sole purpose is to entertain..this movie entertained... so much so you want your group of characters to survive and get home safely, rather than create people so unlikeable you're praying for that machete to fall asap! Im glad I decided to ignore the trashing of this movie and go with my gut feeling which was : with a beautiful scenary, great actors and actresses ( melissa George, always a pleasure) and a chillingly plausible plot, that a good movie was sure to come out of it. And...it did. i'd give it a go...although gore hounds expecting a HOSTEL rerun, please think again, its not the director, actor or writers fault that this movie was presented to theatres and marketed in such a way!!!!!!!!!!

not too bad.............2007-06-04

Ive seen lots worse than this. The story is good enough to make a movie
about it. Its only a movie, so i did not try to tie in too much logic to it and i ended up liking it. Creepy doctor with a chip on his shoulder dont like tourists and has personal plans for some of them.
I enjoyed the scenery, the waterfalls, the forest...much better than a
movie shot inside a studio.
Bottom line, good for a viewing or two.

Surprisingly good........2007-05-27

Turistas (John Stockwell, 2007)

I think Turistas may hold the record for speed of a theatrical release making it to DVD; I was watching it at home less than three months after it came out in the theaters. And while I have to say I understand why it redefined the term "box-office disaster," it's not nearly as bad a film as I was expecting it to be. Much of the problem, both with my expectations and (I suspect) the turnout at the cinema, had to do with the press' endless comparisons between this film and Hostel, comparisons which are about as warranted as those between, say, My Fair Lady and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Yes, there's the same mix of sex and violence, but in nowhere near the same ratio (nor amount) to be found in the wonderful world of Eli Roth. I'd have a hard time believing that Stockwell had to do anywhere near as much cutting to get his R as Roth did.

Stockwell (Nixon) opens his film with three characters on a Brazilian vacation--Alex (Las Vegas' Josh Duhamel), his sister Bea (Alpha Dog's Olivia Wilde), and her friend Amy (Guess model Beau Garrett). A combination of inattention and aggression in the bus driver causes an accident, and the three of them, along with some newfound friends--Pru (Melissa George, recently of The Amityville Horror), an Australian, and London brothers Finn (The Hills Have Eyes' Desmond Askew) and Liam (TV actor Max Brown)--find what seems to be paradise just down the hill, a white sandy beach with a bar run by beautiful, mysterious Camila (Brazilian actress Andrea Leal, in her first major American appearance). The six of them hook up with Svend (Gustav Roth) and his girlfriend Annika (Olga Diegues), who have been staying there for the past three days, and the group is set. Oh, except for the token native, Kiko (Agles Steib), a Brazilian who's been studying English, but hasn't had any native speakers on which to test his skills. As with all paradises, you know things are about to go bad quickly. They do.

Where Hostel seemed to me to be far less about plot and more about how much Roth could get away with within the Hollywood machine (rather like Wes Craven's Last House on the Left thirty-plus years previous), Turistas imposes a plot, interesting characters, etc. on the formula (continuing the parallel, think, say, Men Behind the Sun). For the most part, I think, Stockwell quite succeeds, but the trade-off is that the gorehound crowd get not nearly as much of what they're looking for, while the plot-and-character crowd will find their stomachs turned by what little gore there is (there's really not enough nudity to cause anyone to squirm, and what there is is, with the exception of one comedic scene, presented in the least sexy way possible; Stockwell was not out to titillate here). Thus, like so many neglected movies, the main problem with Turistas is not really a problem at all: it's just a movie that no one knows how to categorize, and thus how to market, and the audience who would've found it enjoyable were too busy dismissing it as either too gory or not gory enough.

If you didn't catch it the first time round, and you almost certainly didn't, it's worth a rental, if you're into that sort of thing. *** ½

Black Christmas (Unrated Widescreen Edition)

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A Great Gorefest For All Horror Fans
She's My Famliy Now
Dear God why?
Jingle bells, your fear smells...like Christmas spirit
A Christmas Clunker...

Black Christmas (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Katie Cassidy , Michelle Trachtenberg , Kristen Cloke , Crystal Lowe , and Lacey Chabert
Director: Glen Morgan
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ASIN: B000MM0LIM
Release Date: 2007-04-03

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Needless and unnecessary are two words that have little meaning in Hollywood, especially when you're talking sequels or remakes. Case in point: Black Christmas, the revisionist version of the 1974 horror thriller largely thought to be the proto-slasher movie (this was four years before the first Halloween installment). The original, from director Bob Clark, is still considered a masterpiece of tension, understatement, innovative camera perspective, economic efficiency (a polite way of saying "ultra-low budget"), and killing off pretty young girls in grisly ways without any cumbersome exposition regarding the psychopath's motives. This, by the way, from the same Bob Clark who would soon bring us the beloved Porky's franchise as well as Black Christmas's polar opposite, the sweetly nostalgic classic A Christmas Story. Anyway, as needless and unnecessary as this remake is, it certainly delivers the goods on 21st-century slasher conventions as the sorority sisters of Alpha Kappa are picked off during Christmas break in ever more gruesome fashion. There's nothing wrong with all of this, particularly for fans of impalements, crushed skulls, ripped-out eyeballs, and some good old-fashioned Christmas cookie cannibalism. Writer-director Glen Morgan, who earned his own credibility as co-creator of the Final Destination series and the interesting 2003 remake of Willard adds a few clever visual homages to the original along with the amped-up extreme gore. Clark's device (was he the first to use it?) of creepy, mouth-breathing phone calls from killer to victim remains intact and creepy. He also resurrects Andrea Martin, one of the then-unknown actor victims who, now famous, plays the prim housemother. Another addition, which may not be so welcome to purists of the genre, is a load of exposition and backstory for the killer. Disturbing as these flashback set pieces are, they're also somewhat distracting to the foreboding tone. But you get what you pay for, and lots of people are going to pay dearly to dream of the shocking frights another Black Christmas will bring. --Ted Fry

Description

(Horror) A remake of the 1974 horror classic that inspired slasher films like Halloween; A group of sorority sisters are terrorized and murdered, one-by-one, during Christmas Break.

Customer Reviews:

A Great Gorefest For All Horror Fans.......2007-07-02

Blood, Guts, Sex And An Insane Psychopathic Killer..What More Could You Ask For? This Movie Was Great. The Original Was Better But This One Is Definitely Worth The Money To Buy And Or Rent As Well...As Big Fan Of Slasher Flicks I Wish I Could Give This One AT Least A Nine But We Only Get 5..So..Yeah..If Your The Type That Likes A Good Slasher In The Spirit Of Freddy And Jason And Chucky And All Of The Above Masters Than This Is IT!

She's My Famliy Now.......2007-06-08

this movie was pretty disturbing, it was a very good movie. it was pretty disgusting, espicaily when billy made cookie cut outs of his moms flesh, nasty. well if you like these sort of films then check it out.

Dear God why?.......2007-06-07

I won't say the original was a classic but this, geeze, is the equivalent of a cinematic abortion. It never truly develops, is never given the chance too, and is so stunted in every way (dialogue, acting, directing, storyline) that I feel justified in being pro choice. One can only imagine how much worse this could have gotten if it had actually run a full two hours.

Jingle bells, your fear smells...like Christmas spirit.......2007-06-05

As a lover of horror movies, classy and cheesy, spooky and blood soaked, hair rinsing scary and the subtle terror subplots all intrigue me and this movie had a little bit of each yet all the parts didn't come together as smoothly as I wished.

Few girls are staying at their snow covered sorority house during the Christmas Season only to discover that they are being harassed on the phone by a maniac. As they slowly start disappearing and their numbers dwindle they finally sense that something weird is going on. When blood appears they realize that the house they have lived in hasn't always been a sorority house but a home to a madman, locked away in prison for horrendous crimes that seems to have broken out....

One by one they meet some gristly death, and that's what was actually gory, the death scenes were gruesome, focusing on a certain body part, the eye ball. Much more I dare not say but I enjoyed the creepy beginning as something evil stirs in the darkness and quietly starts to take the house apart from the inside out. The characters were pretty much one dimensional, not likable much and there for great prey for the killer as I can easily say that the not so bright sorority stars who were more likely to be makeup artists than serious scholars almost deserved their fates, that is if they made it all through the night.

The bad parts were the bizarre details, the freaky mother and sister of the killer, the glow in the dark skin, what was that about, what psycho madman glows in the dark? It gave me a few chuckles, the incest scene, brief and pretty much not shown still left a weird taste behind but I liked the twist that reveled itself towards the end and also the fact that the killer wasn't working alone but with someone who seemed to betray them all was a great add on. I really liked the Christmas spirit through the movie, the sorority house was really beautiful and made me miss snow and warm cider, decorations and the resiny scent of pine almost filled my nostrils. There were some cozy and creepy parts but they were broken up by chicks who acted dumb and strange madman behavior that was not explained at times. Overall a good horror flick but I'm still a bit split over it, saying that I'm glad I saw it, as it had a certain quality that fulfilled my horror flick appetite for that night.

If I had to give my own rating and really nit pick, I'd say it's a 3 ¾ star movie but I gave it a 4 because I enjoyed it more than I complained about it so there....

- Kasia S.

A Christmas Clunker..........2007-06-03

My husband and I went to see this in the theater during the holidays and I LOVED the original. I enjoy horror movies , especially holiday-themed horror, and I wanted to like this movie. But we got up and left within 15-20 minutes after the movie started. It was extremely disappointing.

I highly recommend the original Black Christmas however---it's scary and atmospheric and it's one you don't want to miss!

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (Divimax Edition)

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It isn't a man
The Return of Michael Myers
A Great Horror Film.
MICHAEL IS COMING HOME AGAIN? GOOD SEQUEL!
"Die you son of a *****!" Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (Divimax Edition)
Starring: Donald Pleasence , Ellie Cornell , Danielle Harris , Beau Starr , and George P. Wilbur
Director: Dwight H. Little
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
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ASIN: B000FA57UI
Release Date: 2006-07-25

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"You can't kill the bogeyman," the children insist to a terrorized Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in the original Halloween. How right they are. Laurie is gone, but guess who's back in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers? Acting as if the third entry never existed, this installment picks up 10 years after the original, with mad maniac Myers in a coma and moved to a new facility. But wouldn't you know it that as soon as a loose-lipped orderly lets slip that Myers has a surviving niece he springs back into action, leaving a bloody trail of corpses on the road to Haddonfield. Donald Pleasance returns as Dr. Loomis, scarred and crippled from his last encounter with Myers and seething with a fanatical zeal to stop the freak from repeating his previous rampage. Pleasance is the best thing about the film as an aging hero seemingly on the verge of madness who drags a bum leg in his manic rush to save little orphan Jamie (Danielle Harris), the 10-year-old waif terrorized by her homicidal uncle. Director Dwight Little has managed a generic if professional slasher picture, rife with improbabilities and dominated by a killer whose superhuman powers reach near-mystical dimensions, but he delivers the goods: shocks, stabs, and cold, cruel killings. --Sean Axmaker

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TEN YEARS AGO, HE CHANGED THE FACE OF HALLOWEEN. TONIGHT, HE'S BACK. A decade ago, he butchered 16 people trying to get to his sister. He was shot and incinerated, but still the entity that Dr. Sam Loomis (the legendary Donald Pleasence) calls "Evil on two legs" would not die. Tonight, Michael Myers has come home again…to kill! This time, Michael returns to Haddonfield for Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris of HALLOWEEN 5 and THE LAST BOY SCOUT) - the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode - and her babysitter Rachel (Ellie Cornell of HALLOWEEN 5 and HOUSE OF THE DEAD). Can Loomis stop Michael before the unholy slaughter reaches his innocent young niece? Michael Pataki, Sasha Jenson and Kathleen Kinmont co-star in this smash sequel that marked the long-awaited return to the original storyline and remains infamous for its startling twist ending and graphic violence.

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It isn't a man.......2007-06-26

This is still the sequel to Halloween 2 over H20 for me. Dannielle Harris is just brilliant in this film at such a young age. Donald also delivers as usual. this brought the franchise to new heights and spawned two more good sequels.

The Return of Michael Myers.......2007-06-18

This movie is a great sequal and is one of my favorites. Lot of suspenes in this one and has a great storyline. my recomenation is to buy it.

A Great Horror Film........2007-06-17

Halloween 4 is an excellent horror film and most certainly one of the best in the Halloween series. This film isnt quite like a lot of horror films around the time it was made and now because it doesnt really rely on blood and gore to scary the piss out of you. It mostly relys on the atmosphere of a dark night and the music. Thats what great horror films are all about is if they can scare you without even showing anything that is remotely scary. This film is an example of that concept. The script, the acting, and the score are incredible. Especially for a horror film. Ive noticed after seeing many horror films that this movie feels like Jaws or Gone With the Wind in terms of quality of every single aspect within it. The shape is performed very good here. The mask is cool as well, unlike what many people say. Here we find the greatest ending of any other Halloween film and one of the best ever filmed. Very good script that is pretty tight through the entire movie. This is a fantastic horror film that still amazes viewers because its aging very well. Highly recommended.

MICHAEL IS COMING HOME AGAIN? GOOD SEQUEL! .......2007-05-29

It is really hard to judge the sequels to Halloween. The first film is a classic and none of the sequels come close to it. This 4th installment(3rd featuring Michael)is OK if you can get past the good Dr. Loomis and Michael surviving the explosion at the hospital in the second film. The film looks good and there are some good chills and thrills along the way,but in the end, you feeling like you have seen it all before. Not the worst in the series,thats for sure!

"Die you son of a *****!" Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers.......2007-05-12

In 1988, 10 years after the original Halloween terrorized audiences, Director Dwight H. Little teamed up with executive producer Moustapha Akkad to create what is arguably the greatest Halloween sequel to date.

Laurie Stode's little 8 year old daughter Jamie Lloyd is now orphaned due to a fatal car crash. Michael in the midst of a transfer of sanitariums escapes leaving a bloody ambulence behind. Only Dr. Loomis knows where Michael is heading, and again after 10 years time, nobody believes him. Haddenfield recieves one more night of unholy terror as Michael comes closer and closer to his ultimate goal of killing Jamie.

This film is really effective now and especially when it first came out. In 1988 we saw such great sequels to other horror franchises such as Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason takes Manhatten and A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. I'm being sarcastic of course as neither of these films got large profit at the box office. This was a fresh and well done shot for the Halloween series. With such memorable sequences such as the roof top chase and the car chase at the end, this movie has very little flaws. i guess my only criticism is that I don't find Michael nearly as scary with sideburns on his mask. This film blew me away as being the best sequel to Halloween. The ending is also the most affective ending aside from H20 and Halloween.

The Divimax edition of this film gives us two new audio commentaries from the likes of Ellie Cornell and Danielle Harris (the two main actors in the movie). Their commentary is good an fun but they don't really know that much about the series or the film itself, I found myself knowing more than they did. Alan B. McElroy's commentary is very immformative and flows well with the movie. It also includes a panal discussion on Halloween 4 and 5 from the 25th anneversary convention which is a great addition as you don't find this particular discussion on the H25: 25 years of terror dvd.

This film deserves 5 stars for giving Halloween a fresh start and the sequel it deserved from the getgo. Sadly, the next two entries sorely lack in the originality that this film brought or the freshness it brought to the franchise.

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"Danny...Kill for him." Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
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Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers
Starring: Donald Pleasence , Paul Rudd , Marianne Hagan , Mitch Ryan , and Kim Darby
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ASIN: B00004Y632
Release Date: 2000-10-10

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The series premise continues to stretch so thin it could dissipate. This time, Michael Myers chases his unfortunate niece around, then goes after a family who happen to be living in his former home. This is slasher-ism at its most cynical, and a thoroughly unpleasant, unimaginative, and unredeeming movie. Donald Pleasence, the one holdover from the original film, looks like he'd rather be anywhere than in this thing. --Tom Keogh

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For pulse-pounding suspense and relentless thrills, nothing can match HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS -- one of the most frightening chapters in the chilling HALLOWEEN series! In a single horrifying night, Michael Myers' masked reign of terror changed Halloween forever! Now, six years after he was presumed dead in a fire, Myers has returned to kill again -- and this time there's no escape! As the homicidal fury builds to a spine-tingling cliimax, the long-hidden secrets of the screen's most maniacal murderer are revealed ... with shocking results! Starring a thrilling cast including legendary Donald Pleasence (HALLOWEEN, THE ADVOCATE) and Paul Rudd (THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, CLUELESS).

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I Actually Loved This Movie!.......2007-06-19

This more than likely the most underrated film Ive ever seen. No joke. I know the film gets trashed by critics and a lot of the Halloween fans alike. Nevertheless theres still something about the film that keeps me entertained even after Ive watched it 50 times. I really liked the story and the death scenes in the film. Not to mention this is the scariest out of all the Haloween movies. I just never really understood how anyone who likes Horror films cant find something good in this. I always recommend viewers wanting to see this to try to find the Producers Cut of the film. Its not an official release, but it can be found if you know where to look. Most of the time fans of this film make those Producers Cuts. Some of the great things about the film is the score(especially the Producers Cut of the film), the photography, a lot of the acting, and the creepy atmosphere it puts on. This IS the most brutal of all the other Halloween movies. I absloutely love seeing Myers kill people in this film. Im sure that sounds sadistic, but you can root for him sometimes. I always try to give this film credit and love. Ive even spent up to $75 on buying Producers Cuts of the film! Ive always had a soft spot for it. Definitely one of my favorite films. Its not for everyone though. I just recommend to anyone who watches it to have an open mind and try to see some of the awesome things in the film. They are most certainly there.

SCARIEST HALLOWEEN EVER!!!.......2007-06-18

This is the scariest one is the series. Most people hate this one because it explains why michael kills a reveals the cult that is behind all his madness. I usally would hate a film like this but for some reason i did not and i am sure why. If you take aside the whole cult thing it's another great addition to the series. but whatever I like it.

STOP IT ALREADY! DO NOT COME HOME EVER AGAIN!.......2007-06-03

Halloween part 6 The Curse of Michael Myers is the worst entry in the series so far! After a fairly good installment with Halloween part 4 The Return of Michael Myers, they followed it up with, what I thought was the worst Halloween movie ever Halloween part 5 The Revenge of Michael Myers. Now we have the abysmal part 6. This movie is not only boring, it doesn't even try to be consistent with it's past sequels. What happened to Dr. Loomis's Scars on his face and hands? Why is Michael so big and brawny now? Why do they change the Shape's mask in every movie? This movie makes Jason X look like an Oscar winner! I have not seen the director's cut,but no one could make this boring and stupid mess work! This almost makes Halloween part 5 look good!

"Danny...Kill for him." Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers.......2007-05-13

In 1995, Director Joe Chappelle butchered Daniel Farrands script by putting his artistic vision onto it. This is the second weakest entry in the series, but it is miles ahead of the crapfest that was Halloween 5. This entry tried to give Michael a backstory and failed misserably.

Jamie's character has a baby and the thorn cult attempts to put the same evil, the same rage that is in Michael into her baby. She escapes with the baby, but only the baby survives after Michael chases after her. Michael then stalks and kills members of a family that are living in his old house all in attempts to either kill or capture Jamie's baby. So, basically Michael stalks and kills once again.

The backstory which works fine when reading the script doesn't transfer to film well at all. In fact the whole script itself seems it would work much better as a novel than as a movie. The acting isn't extraordinary and it isn't horrendous, but it is above average for a part 6. Marianne Hagen in particular does a fabulous job in the film, seeing that this is her first film.

The film suffers the most from the ending which doesn't play well at all, I haven't met a single person who liked the ending to this film. The ending just leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth and that is in my opinion why this movie failed is that the ending didn't make much sense at all. The over the top effects don't help matters much either because it gets so over the top you stop believing that this could actually happen to a human.

The dvd promotes the Scream trilogy boxset and Halloween H20, but abosolutely nothing about Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is found in this dvd not even a trailer (a trailer is tagged at the beginning of Halloween: Resurrection before the main menu comes up).

In conclusion, the thing that drags this entry down so much is the crappy direction and the ending. But the ending is awful enough that I can't recommend this movie to anyone, so this one, like the previous entry is reserved for Halloween die-hards only. If you've never seen a Halloween film before stay away from this entry.

Michael myers is back.......2007-03-03

Personally, I love Michael myers. I consider him my boyfriend because I love the films. I was researching about him and I found out that they are remaking a film and it shall be in theatres on august 31, 2007. I am so freaked and I can't wait to see it. they are still using the original mask, but it is all cut up. It is freaking off the bomb!!! The movies are like scary, but its like you are always looking behind you after watching them. i love michael he is like scary, but in the movies it is awesome when he walks like ya know all slow and fast at he same time and creepy. I think it is so freaking cool when he takes off his mask!!! I love him so much he is my favoritist person in the world...

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taylor

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"You don't know what death is!"
MORE OF THE NIGHT HE CAME HOME!!!!
The Halloween series went from brilliant to average/mediocre in just one movie
More of the night HE came home
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Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis , Donald Pleasence , Charles Cyphers , Jeffrey Kramer , and Lance Guest
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Release Date: 2001-09-18

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"You can't kill the boogeyman," explains John Carpenter in Halloween, and to prove it he brings Michael Myers back in this handsome but grisly sequel. Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode but spends most of her time cowering in a hospital gown, and Donald Pleasence runs around like a maniac as the panicky doctor desperate to hunt down Myers before he kills again. Carpenter writes and produces with partner Debra Hill, and together they replace the mystery and uncertainty of the original with an exponentially bigger body count and some strange tales about the Druids and pagan ceremonies, and the now-familiar family ties between Michael and Laurie. First-time director Rick Rosenthal (Bad Boys) paces the film at a brisk jog and directs it with a clean, crisp style, taking the murders out of the dark to display them in all their nasty detail. --Sean Axmaker

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"You don't know what death is!".......2007-06-26

I Think this film is a fantastic sequel. Picking up exactly where the first left off was a great idea, although obvious. To me Jamie lee's performance of an emotionally and physically drained Lauire was the perfect touch. This is a time where Jamie Lee Curtis still needed what a Halloween film could do, unlike H20 where the franchise needed her.Donald Pleasence is even better the second time around taking little guff from anyone.

MORE OF THE NIGHT HE CAME HOME!!!!.......2007-06-18

Halloween 2 takes place right after the original and michael's sister laurie strode is taken to the hospital. Michael is again on the loose and killing anyone who gets in the way of killing his sister.

I think halloween 2 is one of the best in the series. It follows right up with the original and has a very shcoking twist. However alot of people think john carpenter directed this movie but he did not. He was the producer along with debra hill. I think if john would have direted it also it would have been a better film. I feel times that it gets very boring and lightens on the suspense. Another thing is the charachters. This and resurection are the only movie that dont have good charachters. it is erelevent that those to movies are directed by the same guy. But overall halloween 2 is a great addition to the series and i recommened picking it up.

The Halloween series went from brilliant to average/mediocre in just one movie.......2007-04-18

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What's revealed in Halloween 2 (that Michael's been going after his sister all along) is perhaps a creative spin that no one saw coming. But the problem with this is that Michael is a far less scary figure because he's not a psycho (well at least not as big a psycho) as we orginally thought because he's not randomly killing people. I liked the original because Jamie Lee Cutis is someone you can relate to because she could represent anyone of us. But this movie turns her from "anyone of us" to just his sister. It unknowingly hints that as long as you are not Michael's sister or are near his sister, you are safe. I don't want to completely bash this film because there is some action and it is in some respects a guilty pleasure. Maybe worth a rent but try not to take it too seriously.

The original was, more or less, a perfect atmospheric film with a flawless ending (how most horror films should end) and is the only one truly worth owning.

More of the night HE came home.......2007-03-22

Halloween 2 continues the Halloween saga. Michael Myers is still on the loose in Haddonfield on that same Halloween night. Laurie Strode is left cowering in the hospital, and Dr. Loomis is trying his best to hunt down Michael Myers, and kill him forever. But Michael learns that Laurie is in the hospital and follows her there, killing everyone who gets in his way.

Halloween 2 is one of the best horror sequals of all time. It takes place on the same night as Halloween 1, and is just as scary. This exciting and fun to watch sequal will scare everyone. Halloween 2: The nightmare isn't over.

GOOD SEQUEL TO THE ORIGINAL.......2007-03-21

The first Halloween is a classic. "Halloween II" starts off right where the other film stops. The DVD transfer is good,but a special edition would be appreciated by fans of the series.

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PLEASE STOP COMING HOME!
"Uncle, Bogeyman, let me see..." Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
The Boogey Never Dies

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Starring: Donald Pleasence , Danielle Harris , Ellie Cornell , Wendy Kaplan , and Beau Starr
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ASIN: B000FA57US
Release Date: 2006-07-25

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Starting around Halloween 4, that masked nut Michael Myers stopped chasing his sister (played by Jamie Lee Curtis in the first and second films, as well as Halloween H20) and went after his niece. Now he's chasing her around again in part 5, but it's a lot of other people who die in the process. Donald Pleasence continues his mad-doctor bit from the earlier movies, Danielle Harris is the unfortunate relation, and Donald L. Shanks plays the monster. The film is an improvement on parts 2 and 4 (part 3 having nothing to do with Michael Myers), but it still amounts to routine slaughter with none of John Carpenter's stylistic brilliance from the original movie. --Tom Keogh

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MICHAEL LIVES. AND THIS TIME, THEY'RE READY! Now Remastered In HD And Featuring An All-New Audio Commentary! Because Hell would not have him, Michael Myers survived the mine explosion thought to have killed him. One year later, his traumatized young niece Jamie (Danielle Harris of HALLOWEEN 4) is horrified to discover she has a telepathic bond with her evil Uncle…and that Uncle Michael is on his way back to Haddonfield. But Dr. Loomis (the late, great Donald Pleasence) has a new plan to destroy The Boogey Man in his childhood home using Jamie as bait. Tonight, the carnage begins again: Michael Myers is back with a vengeance! Ellie Cornell and Beau Starr return for this hit sequel that features grisly gore by K.N.B. EFX Group (ARMY OF DARKNESS, SCREAM, HOSTEL), and is now fully remastered in DiviMax™ for the ultimate in Michael Myers mayhem!

Customer Reviews:

Don't Diss Donald.......2007-06-26

Donald Pleasence is hard core kids. Don't forget it. I esspecially like his performance in this film. An aggravated, gun carying, psychiatrist really looking forward to november 1st. This is a good movie that wraps up the fourth film and gives us a taste of the thorn storyline to come.

Nicley Done!.......2007-06-18

This movie is basicaly a follow up to 4 so if you liked 4 get this one. Might be a few minor disapointments but overall a good movie. And one other thing, what the hell is with that goofy mayers mask.(the worst mask of the series)

PLEASE STOP COMING HOME!.......2007-05-29

After a fairly good entry in the series,we come to Halloween 5! This is probably the worst in the series or close to it. There are just too many plot holes and the whole thing feels really contrived(even for this type of film!)I am a little harsh on these sequels,because the first Halloween is a classic. The sequels don't compare to the original and this one is really confusing and boring at times! It still delivers some shock value here and there,but nothing we haven't seen before. The film transfer is very good though and if your a fan of the series.......

"Uncle, Bogeyman, let me see..." Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers.......2007-05-13

In 1989, Director Dominique Othenin-Girard unleased the worst entry in the Halloween series to date. Nothing good came out of this entry. What came was horrendous acting, ugly teens, and a music score that is a total embarassment.

Michael apparently didn't die in the explosion at the end of #4, he escaped and traveled down a river instead. A year later, Jamie is a mute (a bad decision because she's the only main character that does a decent job) and Dr. Loomis has been keeping a very close eye on little Jamie Llyod. Racheal is going away for the weekend, but while she's packing, she dies.

More teens with bland faces who are annoying as hell and don't have a personality you will remember 20 minutes after you view the film, Jamie finally talks with about 1/16th of the movie left to go. Donald Pleasence is great as always, but the writing is so increadibly awful that he can only do so much to save this movie, and even the great Pleasence cannot save this movie from being a total disaster. Don Shanks is also the worst actor to ever wear the horrific mask. Praise God he did not return for #6.

The bonus features on this DVD are quite good the audio commentary makes the movie slightly bearable, it's more entertaining than the movie will ever be. Also, the documentary is very good and interesting.

In conclusion, this is the worst horror film sequal I have ever seen in my life. Avoid at all costs! Even Halloween die-hards will have a tough time sitting through this entry. For die-hards only.

The Boogey Never Dies.......2007-03-07

With a very shocking and plot twisting HalloweeN 4 ending. The producer of HalloweeN 4 seeing that the movie was #1 for two weeks at the box office decided to make a sequal to 4. The Revenge Of Micheal Myers sounds good until you notice this is not the same Myers from 4. Note the mask difference as soon as he escapes the mine explosion. With the last Micheal Myers being small in stature (using hockey equipment to look buff up). They hired a actor who not only taller but is a stunt man. The mask is too long. Most of all why on earth would you kill off Rachel so easily? I mean how many people who are smart in horror films ending up getting killed? Her death was too early in the film to begin with. Once again Danielle Harris does a great job renewing her role as Jamie. Her acting is well scripted with the "luandry chute* scene she did it herself. Shows how devoted she was to her role. When HalloweeN 9 or 1 comes later this year once again Danielle will be in HalloweeN. The mysterious guy in boots was never answered until it was confirmed the actor who played who also did Myers in this film had no idea why. Overall the movie was good to watch until they killed Rachel and the finale with a echoing Harries yelling "no" with a disappointing HalloweeN 6 to followed. Evil never dies is what I see from Micheal Myers no matter what people do he will be back in one way or another.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning - Unrated (New Line Platinum Series)

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning - Unrated (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Jordana Brewster , Taylor Handley , Diora Baird , Matthew Bomer , and Lee Tergesen
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Release Date: 2007-01-16

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a prequel to the recent remake of Tobe Hooper's classic 1974 splatter film, with an emphasis on the vogue for torture and bottomless depravity that characterize contemporary horror. As one might expect, The Beginning is just that, an origins tale about the Hewitt family of backwoods Texas. Step by step, we discover the source of their taste for human flesh, penchant for snaring young people passing through, and, most of all, how young Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski) came to choose his favorite power tool and wear a mask made of someone else's flesh. R. Lee Ermey is very effective in his perverse authority figure mode as Hoyt, the lawman who earned his badge through unorthodox means and now supplies specialized food to the Lone Star cannibals. Much less interesting than Hooper's two Massacre films, The Beginning (on which Hooper has a production credit) is not so much a tribute to the films he directed but a more sadistic continuation of the franchise. --Tom Keogh

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The only thing more shocking than how it ended is how it all began! Born under unspeakable circumstances, a young orphan is taken in by the sick and demented Hewitt family and soon the seeds of a deranged murderer are planted. When two brothers and their girlfriends stumble across the house of horrors. Leatherface reveals his ravenous appetite for chainsaws and torture as the teens fight to survive.

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Accurate Portrayal.......2007-06-28

I really enjoyed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. I recently visited Texas, so when I came home and watched this movie, I was really taken by the history of this amazing state. I never realized that one of the most famous historical figures of Texas, Thomas Hewitt, was actually born in a meat-packing plant! Learning all about his family life was really something else. It really warms my heart to think about how despite such rough beginnings and facial deformities, one can still make something of themselves. I've watched my copy of this DVD about 11 times and I think I will have to watch it again tonight. Kudos to the filmmakers for creating such a breathtakingly accurate portrayal of the history of the Lone-Star State.

Amazing .......2007-06-17

The prequel does a excellent job with showing the roots of this family. The first half of the movie seems to be familiar, but it gets better. The final thirty minutes is amazing. I really enjoyed the ending and I will not give it away if you have to yet to see it. I recommend this movie to fans of the series; I dont know how you can hate this movie if you love the series. Anther cool thing is there are three alternate endings. All were good and could have been the ending. Highly recommend this movie.

Please enter a title for your review.......2007-05-29

Although it started slow the second quarter started picking up steam but the second half is a waste of film. Exhibit A in the case of the horror genre being populated solely by lazy genre-loyalist writers and directors who wouldn't know a creative idea if it disemboweled them. I spent half the movie willing it to get to the point and half the time when it did wondering what the point was. Boring sterile conventional suspense and climax, no plot points or characters to wonder about, no chance of anything coming out of leftfield, it just sets a tone and hammers and drones away at it. No big things needed to be changed to improve the film, it's just the little things that weren't there to hold your interest and make it worth watching, no attention to detail. They've got a perfectly functional skeletal plot outline for a movie, they just needed to let some creative writers do something with it before it was ready for filming.

Dont buy into it........2007-05-23

Really, after the original TCM and the remake were there that many unanswered questions? Sure, some might ponder on the origins of leather face and clan, but that is what makes good horror! At the end of the film you want the unpredictability and the lingering shock in the air, you aren't supposed to know every facet and detail and reasoning behind the brutal horrific acts. I never once asked myself "gee I wonder how Sheriff Hoyt came to be or how leather face was reared" I never once wondered who the first victims were, or why the slaughterhouse closed, or even how much garlic needed to be in the stew. We all, as fans, know that no one survives to tell about the first murders, because the "original" would have never taken place! Are we to root for this heroine, and her boyfriend and his brother and his girlfriend to make it? Do we hope within hopelessness that somehow they would get out and away and safe? Why watch the doomed? What is the point? Do the fans need more torture films, with familiar "faces", are we to watch more people get flayed, and stabbed, and eaten for no apparent reason at all because we are hungry for real horror. This isn't scary, or thrilling, or even worth a shiver. This "beginning" will fade into being a mere tiny blip of a footnote to the original.
I certainly hope this torture genre we have seen these past 3 or so years is almost over, and people will start wanting horror with good writing, and plot lines, and not buy into the Hollywood machine that touts movies like this as if it were bait for the starving fans.

Gore! Gore! Gore!.......2007-05-06

For some time now, horror films are back with a vengeance - no more (or, to be precise: far fewer) boring PG-13 rated children scares. Movies like LAND OF THE DEAD, HOSTEL, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, MURDER SET PIECES, the recent remake of THE HILLS HAVE EYES or the British BROKEN push the envelope regarding violence, splatter and sheer terror in ways not seen since the glorious 1970ies. If you like the aforementioned films, you will like THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING.

A pre-title sequence, set in 1939, has an obese female worker giving birth to a disfigured boy at her workplace, an incredibly filthy slaughterhouse in a godforsaken remote part of Texas.
The baby is discarded in a dumpster (!) and picked up by a poor white trash woman sifting through the garbage. She and her husband decide to raise the boy.
Fast forward 30 years. The boy is a grown up man and works in the slaughterhouse. The abattoir is closed by the authorities due to hygienic reasons. Leatherface takes issue with that and kills his supervisor. The sheriff is out to arrest Leatherface, but is killed in turn by Leatherface's "foster dad", who assumes the sheriff's identity.
Meanwhile two brothers and their respective girl friends enjoy a trip with their jeep before the guys are off to Vietnam (one of them has second thoughts about being drafted). They run into trouble with a group of wild bikers. When being chased by a female biker they crash their jeep (a very odd accident, believe me!) and one of the girls is thrown off the car. While our injured youths are being threatened by the biker gal with a sawn-off shotgun, the police car with the "sheriff" arrives at the scene...
What follows is a non-stop horror trip and a bloody descent into hell...

As already mentioned TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE : THE BEGINNING is EXTREMELY gory (remember it is the unrated cut!). Without wanting to give too much away storywise, you can expect shotgun mayhem, a face cut off, teeth beaten out, penetration by chainsaw (more than once), someone being cut in half, bones broken with a hammer, severed limbs, bear trap mayhem, cannibalism, throat slitting, stabbings... A very unusual and gross effect was the cow in the car accident! The scenes in the basement are especially gruesome! Even more unsettling than the gore are the scenes of torture and terror. The whole atmosphere is very gritty and sick in the extreme.
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE : THE BEGINNING plays the horror straight and refrains from the annoying "irony" or "spot the refernce", which ruin so many horror movies (there is however a subtle reference to APOCALYPSE NOW, although it is not distracting). There is a bit of ultra-macabre jetblack humor regarding our "sheriff", who as veteran of the Korean war takes issue with one character's burnt draft card, although this does never compromise the horror. Lee R. ERMEY, a really GREAT actor, is perfectly cast in his role as sheriff and exudes an air of threatening menace and backwoods degeneracy throughout. And although ERMEY stands out, all of the other actors are convincing in their roles.
With the exception of the 2003 remake, I have watched all TCM movies over the years and although the fans of the 1974 original will loath me for it, in my view without any doubt TCM : THE BEGINNING is the best.

I also hugely enjoyed the DVD extra features.
There are several extended and deleted scenes, which in my view the filmmakers were right to cut from the finished film. There are 3 different alternate endings, one has an (underwhelming) coda, which unfortunately undercuts the violent and powerful climax and two are minor (lesser) variations of the original ending. There are optional commentaries for the deleted/extended scenes by the filmmakers.
The Making Of, titled "Down to the bone - Anatomy of a prequel", is excellent. Of particular interest for horror fans is the interview with special effects guru Greg NICOTERO, who explains the many gore F/X (for instance the cow that was torn to pieces in the car accident, was in fact made of glassfibre and filled with fake blood and intestines). It is incredible what these special effects wizards can accomplish! Actors elaborate on their respective characters. The shooting was unsurprisingly physically very demanding.
There is also the film's trailer, which I found disappointing and trailers for other movies (including SNAKES ON A PLANE, NUMBER 23, BUTTERFLY EFFECT 2 and UNDISPUTED 2 - LAST MAN STANDING).
Overall - a clear recommendation! A DVD any self-respecting horror fan and gore hound should own! Do NOT rent it - buy it! NOW!!!

Halloween H20 - 20 Years Later (Dimension Collector's Series)

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AT LAST A SEQUEL WORTH WATCHING!
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to the film that made her a star
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Surprisingly good!

Halloween H20 - 20 Years Later (Dimension Collector's Series)
Starring: Adam Arkin , LL Cool J , Jamie Lee Curtis , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , and Adam Hann-Byrd
Director: Steve Miner
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Release Date: 1999-10-19

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Halloween is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, House), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film begins as if sequels 3 through 6 never happened. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role for the first time in almost two decades) faked her death and is now a single mom and headmistress of an exclusive California private school. She's also a secret alcoholic who lives in fear of her homicidal brother-bogeyman Michael Myers. Guess who decides to show up for a family reunion? The film begins with classic horror-movie exposition (the deserted college campus, Michael's escape, Laurie's waking nightmares) accomplished with some humor and style, but it's all setup for the second half, a driving roller coaster of stalk-and-slash thrills. There's little of the self-conscious genre referencing of Scream and at times the film is a little far-fetched--it is a slasher movie about a knife-wielding homicidal maniac who won't stay dead, after all--but Curtis transforms Laurie from a shrieking victim into an empowered, determined horror-movie heroine who's learned a thing or two from the previous films. Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, and TV cutie Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek) costar, and the script received uncredited polish from Scream writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. --Sean Axmaker

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This smart and suspenseful thriller scares up a bone-chilling good time with original scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis (TRUE LIES, HALLOWEEN I&II) and a hot cast of hip young stars! Now the headmistress of a private school, Laurie Strode (Curtis) is still struggling with the horrifying, 20-year-old memories of the maniacal killer Michael Myers ... when he suddenly reappears with a vengeance! And this Halloween, his terror will strike a whole new generation! Laurie's rebellious son (Josh Hartnett -- THE FACULTY), his girlfriend (Michelle Williams -- TV's DAWSON'S CREEK), and the school security guard (LL COOL J -- WOO, B.A.P.S.) will become Michael's newest victims unless Laurie can conquer her greatest fears and put evil in its place once and for all! The time has come again for you to experience the frightening fun of HALLOWEEN -- the motion picture series that totally redefined terror!

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AT LAST A SEQUEL WORTH WATCHING!.......2007-06-04

This entry into the halloween series is probably about as good as it is gonna get! After two really really bad installments(parts 5 and 6) we get a pretty darn good sequel "Halloween H20". The best thing about the movie is that Jamie Lee Curtis is back and it makes all the difference. I still don't understand why they keep changing Michael's mask? It looked great in the first movie...why fix what ain't broke? This movie is really a 3 and 1/2 star movie,but they don't have that option. The DVD transfer is good,but I would like to see a 16X9 upgrade someday.

Jamie Lee Curtis returns to the film that made her a star.......2007-05-20

In HALLOWEEN H20, Jamie Lee Curtis returns to the film franchise which made her a star. This is probably the best entry since "Halloween II", in terms of performances and the fact that Jamie Lee Curtis is back as terrorised Laurie Strode. To properly enjoy this film, you have to disregard the 4th, 5th, and 6th films which featured Laurie's daughter, Jamie Lloyd. There is no daughter here, instead we have Laurie's son John (played