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Aswang (1994)
cool idea... possible spoiler
Seems as though I too, like so many others, was convinced to rent this based on the comments on the jacket. It said something about video stores not carrying this movie.....but I don't know why. I kept thinking they were going to do something gruesome to the baby but they didn't. What else would prevent video stores from carrying it? The old woman's tongue thing was really gross but not THAT gross. I've seen worse for sure!!
I thought overall the concept of this type of vamp was really interesting. I had never heard of it, which will always pique my interest. It seems to be a genuine myth from the philippines....but what an inefficient method of bloodsucking!! Is all that really necessary?
Problems: what is with the maid? Why did she kill everyone but the little girl? Who are all those other janines? Where are all those dead babies coming from? The doc. says "scores" of them...so they can't all be from the former janines.
Overall, not a bad low budget effort. Interesting monster, weird story but not tied together well at the end. Not really scary, but the tongue thing really grossed me out.
Flesh for the Beast (2003)
not as bad as i was afraid of....Possible spoiler
Not that bad at all! I had read some user comments on this site and was worried I was going to completely waste my time watching it. Nothing like bad reviews to set your expectations low!!! True, the dialog was awful, I mean painful in some places, but the gore was a beautifully bloody mess! Got to love it when someone vomits up their own intestines......
I thought it could have been made more interesting at the end. It was interesting how the esp gal was one of them too. It could have been played up a lot differently for a much better effect. And why if the guy had the medallion didn't he USE IT.
I read several comments on here that mentioned the soundtrack. I thought it was good, effective music in the places it was used....but i hate when the music is so much louder than the people's voices that you have to keep adjusting the volume.
Overall, definitely worth renting...good gore scenes although the sex scenes were unconvincing. And the guys kept saying how "hot" the women were although I didn't get that! Relatively unattractive bunch in my opinion....
Reign in Darkness (2002)
stunningly bad!
First i need to say that i took this movie out without watching it all.....but i would bet good money it didn't get any better! There are so many things wrong with this movie that i felt like taking notes just to keep track of them. I mean, what is going on here!? Why is he walking around in daylight? Did i miss something? Why are they injecting homeless people? Why is everybody talking like that and what is the deal with the guy with the southern accent? Maybe they wrap it all up at the end....like i said i took it out so who knows. Don't waste your money renting this. The acting would be laughable if it weren't actually painful to watch. I read somewhere that this movie had a million dollar budget, the largest percentage of which seemed to me to have been spent renting the bmws in the chase scene. They're convertibles, and our "hero" is driving one with the top down in broad daylight. That's where i turned it off!!