Much better looking but just as dull and plotless as any Hollywood CGI fest. Colour is rich and beautiful in that vintage 1960's way, and the set - yes, the one and only - is a misty interior graveyard, gorgeous and fun in the studio/theatre way. Ghoulita looks like a (bit) better-looking Elvira, but the mangy
werewolf and especially the squalid mummy are eye sores. Acting is flatlining more than a zombie.
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The Innocents
(1961)
Under the veneer..
19 October 2021
The lavish Victorian setting. The luminous black and white cinematography by Freddie Francis. Deborah Kerr, her screen presence scrubbed clean as always, is a spinster who sees ghosts. Are they real? Or - as it is a heavily hinted - a case study of bigotry? Something dirty and nasty seems to boil under the sterile veneer. Film makers' projected fantasies?
Does it work? Well, not really. Personally I do prefer Black Narcissus, another Deb film about sexually frustrated virgins. That film has 1940's Technicolor and "exotic" setting, completed with the hand painted matte Himalayas. This is a bit dry and academic. Close but no cigar.
Does it work? Well, not really. Personally I do prefer Black Narcissus, another Deb film about sexually frustrated virgins. That film has 1940's Technicolor and "exotic" setting, completed with the hand painted matte Himalayas. This is a bit dry and academic. Close but no cigar.
Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier
(1989 TV Movie)
Ok pilot
17 October 2021
Lot of hairy chests and big breasts. Moderately entertaining, though, thanks to the subplot of beautiful stalker (young Mädchen Amick). Pamela Anderson may never have been a great beauty, but in this series that terrible Playboy model look - over stuffed pale lips and white hair against brown skin - had already spoiled her looks. Matter of taste, of course, and her sweet CJ Parker ruled the Baywatch fandom...
I'm Dangerous Tonight
(1990 TV Movie)
Light but entertaining
6 October 2021
Amy is a spinster in making - a wallrose (albeit played by Mädchen Amick!) whose Ivory soap purity and sweetness is exploited by everyone. Then the bright red fabric falls into her hands.
This is the last TV films shot in film, one of those films where the plainly dressed modern protagonists live in the well-dressed Victorian mansions, and the evil things happen during stormy nights. It is directed by Tobe Hooper, bur it has no sleazy, gross ambiance of Texas Chainsaw Massacre - this is actually quite clean film, without foul language, gore or other gross-out filth and depravity for your viewing pleasure. Mädchen Amick is a striking beauty, and there is a hilarious scene, where she and the actor playing her boyfriend fight against the the wardrobe of woe, while she is dressed only in her underwear - plain white, of course. She definitely looks good, but otherwise the scene will guarantee laughs.
Amusing diversion.
This is the last TV films shot in film, one of those films where the plainly dressed modern protagonists live in the well-dressed Victorian mansions, and the evil things happen during stormy nights. It is directed by Tobe Hooper, bur it has no sleazy, gross ambiance of Texas Chainsaw Massacre - this is actually quite clean film, without foul language, gore or other gross-out filth and depravity for your viewing pleasure. Mädchen Amick is a striking beauty, and there is a hilarious scene, where she and the actor playing her boyfriend fight against the the wardrobe of woe, while she is dressed only in her underwear - plain white, of course. She definitely looks good, but otherwise the scene will guarantee laughs.
Amusing diversion.
Prison Heat
(1993)
Amateurish but quite tame and even slightly amusing Israeli WIP
15 September 2021
Four sweet and innocent American co- eds - led by a beautiful and gutsy brunette (Rebecca Chambers) - end in the sleazy Israeli cooler. The especially sweet and innocent blonde (Playboy model Lori Jo Hendrix) attracts perverts with her exotic tresses and ample bosom. However, these four are loyal to each others and so brimming in the golden-hearted goodness , that I ended to care what happens to such nice girls in such a nasty place.
Soft core version of Prison Break? The cover girl looked a bit like Sarah Wayne Callies, but sadly, it was the grizzly-haired Lori Jo Hendrix, who apparently didn't like how she looked in this film and if so, I agree - but then I am not a man!
Soft core version of Prison Break? The cover girl looked a bit like Sarah Wayne Callies, but sadly, it was the grizzly-haired Lori Jo Hendrix, who apparently didn't like how she looked in this film and if so, I agree - but then I am not a man!
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