TIMESWEEP – Knocks ‘The Strangeness’ clean off the podium when it comes to first prize for endless shots of people wandering up and down darkened corridors. That’s ALL that happens in ‘Timesweep’, but the crazy thing is – it’s fantastic. An impenetrable curtain of acid fog surrounds a movie studio, where way too many sightseers to even keep track of have gathered; for the sketchiest of reasons, the sinister mist induces some sort of time-slip phenomenon that not only snatches figures from the past, but also zombies, aliens and monsters. Divine eighties garbage, full of killer lines and inexplicable scenes. We might witness random spearings, nonsensical bug attacks or sleazy top-ripping followed by bloodletting, but those shadowy corridors are never very far away (the odd flight of stairs, too). I watched a VHS rip on YT. Apparently, there’s a German DVD. Someone put it out on blu in time for Christmas!
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