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Hellgate hellgate.jpg Dem threw down the gauntlet when he said can u get refunds from poundland in reference to this new pick up. I had to put it on straightaway to experience for myself how bad this film would be, cuz that's the kinda guy i am. I only really picked it up to see if it was really all that bad. The verdict? What the F*ck did i just watch?? Erm i like bad films a lot of the time, but they need to possess that certain something, something that compels you to forgive the ineptitude and enjoy the stupidity, to surrender yourself to going with the flow. I must admit during the first half an hour i was oddly entertained, a really inept biker gang supposedly in the 50's, a bar that looked to me like it was named 'gays diner' on the sign, a kidnapping that led to the death of the abductee purely because the dad goes apeshit and starts throwing sharp objects about a bit. The dad who looks like Gomez Addams gets hold of a crystal that makes goldfish mutate and dead turtles re-animate and then randomly explode. So far so good. Sadly from then on in everything falls apart, the time periods the film is set in make no sense and the story even less so. Why there is a town of ghosts, no idea. Why they want to kill people, no idea. Why anything is happening, no idea. Why Gomez has metal bits on his face, something to do with the turtle i guess, otherwise no idea. They basically seem to have spent the rest of the budget on a couple of number plates for the cars, saying THEHERO and other irrelevent shite and then gone down the pub. Then again i did find the final moments vaguely amusing. 'Get off the car you son of a bitch !!!' 3.5/10 purely for the beginning insanity. The Arrow release is going for £39.99 on Amazon. I can live with £ 1, but pity tha fool who pays that price.
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Ghosts That Still Walk (1977) A quite bizarre film that focusses a problematic young boy who is undergoing medical and psychiatric evaluation. However, little do the medical professionals know that he is in fact possessed by the vengeful spirit of a mummified Native American Indian medicine man. Most of the tale is told via flashback as the boy and his Grandma (played by the woman who hangs herself in Airplane! no less) are both separately subjected to hypnosis by the boy's psychiatrist. It's a pretty dull ride for the most part, but has a strange new-age hippie vibe to it, which for me gave the film a strange draw, and made it hard to get too bored for the most part - particularly during the elderly Grandma's hypnotic session in which we are treated to a fairly long flashback of her and her husband's motorhome being attacked by giant rolling boulders and a chase across the salt flats. Whilst not very 'good' in the conventional sense, I still got enough out of the poorly and awkwardly titled Ghosts That Still Walk than I envisioned I would. Originally posted here: Nightmare USA Films Discussion Thread |
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