SYNOPSIS: A reporter is on the trail of a vampiric murderer who travels by plane. REVIEW: Miguel Ferrer is one of those actors who gives a good performance even if the material he is working with stinks on ice. He tended to play angry, jaded types, both good guys and bad guys. You want someone who needs to stand firm …
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Film Review: Event Horizon (1997) – Review 2
SYNOPSIS: “The year is 2047 and a ship named the Event Horizon has re-appeared after disappearing seven years prior, in experiments for faster-than-light travel. A rescue hastily speeds to the returned vessel after a transmission was picked up from the ship, garbled, but vaguely resembling a human voice. As the crew reach the ship, and spend longer on it, it …
Read More »Film Review: Sudden Fury (1997)
SYNOPSIS: Intent on seizing control of South East England’s cocaine business, small-time crime boss Randall hires notorious hit-man Walker to take out his competition. When Randall betrays the hit-man, however, the tables are turned.
Read More »Film Review: Batman & Robin (1997)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City. REVIEW: This is one of the few times where the film I have to review is not a B-movie. It was actually a big budget movie with a A-list cast of actors. However, …
Read More »Film Review: Future War (1997)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A run-away human slave from Earth’s future escapes to the present. REVIEW: We got a painful one here, folks. Future War (another film that has been featured in an episode of the original Mystery Science Theater 3000) is about a man who escapes from a spaceship orbiting our world. Apparently, his people were plucked from Earth’s …
Read More »Film Review: Jack Frost (1997)
SYNOPSIS: After an accident that left murderer Jack Frost dead in genetic material the vengeful killer returns as a murderous snowman to exact his revenge on the man who sent him to be executed REVIEW: What if I told you that there’s a movie where a serial killer named Jack Frost is caught by a small town sheriff and later …
Read More »Film Review: Mimic (1997)
SYNOPSIS: “A virulent new disease is killing the children of Manhattan and has reached epidemic proportions. Peter Mann in desperation asks the entomologist, Doctor Susan Tyler, if she can help by killing the disease carrier, the common cockroach. Susan genetically engineers a new species of predatory insect to exterminate the cockroach and then die off. This novel solution works and …
Read More »Film Review: Screen Kill (1997)
SYNOPSIS: When two friends get together to make a slasher flick one of them goes a little too far and starts killing people for real, filming their gruesome deaths for their movie. REVIEW:
Read More »Film Review: Sick The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997)
SYNOPSIS: This documentary chronicles the life and art of Bob Flanagan, who was diagnosed with the disease cystic fibrosis. Director Kirby Dick examines how Flanagan began routinely maiming his own body to deal with and overcome the acute physical pain he felt every day. Flanagan’s self-torturing habits are the basis for his avant-garde live performances, which are featured prominently in …
Read More »Film Review: Habit (1997)
SYNOPSIS: In this stark vampire film, the near-alcoholic Sam (Larry Fessenden) meets the hauntingly beautiful Anna (Meredith Snaider) at a Greenwich Village, N.Y., costume party — and then she promptly disappears. Sam becomes obsessed with the woman, abandoning his friends when they need him the most — most notably his pal Larry (Jesse Hartman), who had a fling with a …
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