Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Tango and Cash I was really looking forward to this one! I've been renting cheesy 80s movies on iTunes lately and thought, "Hey, why not try this one." Looked kinda cool, but it was really dumb. The idea is good, but the execution wasn't.So why does the Fright Night kid get turned into the monster? Why not the motorcycle guy? They both called the same number.I watched this movie less than a week ago but I can barely remember what I was going to write about it. There was too much build up and little delivery, that was one thing. I'm not sure if I can't stand the Fright Night kid or if I'm okay with him. He smiles in every scene, it's pretty annoying. Same thing in Fright Night too, just smilin' away, havin fun. He turns into a monster in Fright Night too, which I just now remembered.Anyway, bottom line - dumb movie, I would say only aficionados of 80s garbage would want to spend time on this one. I would NOT say it's so bad it's good, I would just say it's bad.Peace!

Woodyanders Wimpy persecuted adolescent nerd Hoax (a sound and sympathetic performance by Stephen Geoffreys) gets connected to a powerful satanic force over the phone that enables him to exact a harsh revenge on all of his tormentors. Director Robert Englund, working from a derivative, but serviceable script by Rhet Topham and Brian Helgeland, relates the engrossing story at a steady pace, creates and sustains a pleasingly spooky atmosphere, delivers a satisfying smattering of splatter, takes time to develop the well-drawn characters in the first half before pulling out the thrilling stops for the more lively and eventful second half, and further spruces things up with a wickedly funny sense of pitch-black humor. The solid acting from the competent cast rates as another substantial asset: Pat O'Bryan makes for an appealingly scruffy punk anti-hero as Hoax's surly cousin Spike, Jim Metzler contributes a likable turn as meddlesome journalist Marty Palmer, Sandy Dennis almost steals the whole show with her marvelously flaky portrayal of Hoax's domineering and overprotective religious kook mother Aunt Lucy, the foxy Lezlie Deane burns up the screen as sassy and sexy bad girl Suzie, and J.J. Cohen jerks it up nicely as mean head bully Marcus. Robert Picardo has a regrettably small, yet sill nifty role as the sinister Mark Dark. Paul Elliot's stylish cinematography gives the picture a gnarly'n'funky garish look. The shivery score by Thomas Chase and Steve Rucker hits the moody'n'brooding spot.The special effects are pretty cheap and shoddy, but overall acceptable. An enormously fun fright flick.

oprlvr33 So this was the legendary Robert Englund's big directorial debut??? Hey, I LOVED him as iconic Freddy Kreuger, but as Director? I hope this was his only project.How some Reviewers could rate this even remotely above a 3-point is beyond me. Only due that Geoffreys plays the title role is the reason I sat through it all (should I have stated 'Suffered'?) waiting for it to improve. It didn't. The acting is terrible, the entire plot; below B-film quality, the action was lame and very slow (if you can describe it as such) and God-awful. Englund appears to give his characters absolutely nothing to work with; no depth whatsoever. And he portrayed Freddy Kreuger?! One would assume he'd have utilized his iconic expertise into this genre and produced a horror film even Krueger would have been proud.The poker scenes, especially near the end where the biker chick has a moment with Spike...I sure thought this was a HORROR FILM - because THAT was romance scene. So just where WAS the "horror"? Not ONE SCENE is remotely "scary". The entire special effects were special, and well beyond cheesy; poorly executed would be a better term. Either the producer was high that time or the graphics dept. was on break, recruiting a C-student apprentice.As said, Geoffreys plays the lead; but that's par the course. The character directions were weaker than last weeks coffee. The film altogether: Insufferable.We sat dumbfounded through most of this train-wreck. And here it apparently was an over-rated horror movie??? That film reviewer must have been on Quaalude's or something.Thank heavens Geoffreys and J.J. Cohen did other very excellent acting work.

lastliberal Not the best horror film that you will watch, but it is significant as Robert Englund's director debut.It's a typical story of a nerdy teen (Stephen Geoffreys) with a whacked out mother (Oscar-winner Sandy Dennis looking a lot heavier than I remember her), who keeps getting his head shoved in the toilet by the school bullies, and just wants to be cool like his cousin Spike (Patrick O'Bryan).He manages to find a way to reach out to the dark side and get revenge on everyone - well, almost everyone. His goofs in his first attempt to scare his cousin's girl (former Cowboy's cheerleader Lezlie Deane) and kills her. If you have a thing about spiders, you may want to fast forward through this part.He perfects his craft as he changes into a satanic beast. The makeup and special effects were really good. The only problem I had was the length of time that it took to get here. The movie was pretty boring up to this point. Maybe Englund will do better as he directs himself later this year.Of course, there is a sequel where Spike returns to battle the evil.