Thursday, August 1, 2013

FIVE FILMS - FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY, CONFESSIONS, GUT, THE COLONY, BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW



FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY

FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY is a total win.  Great looking monsters framed by a clever found footage premise – A Soviet propaganda film shot during World War II.  Frankenstein’s grandson and a plot that is good horror fun from beginning to end.


CONFESSIONS

Entertaining and creative Japanese revenge yarn that is also absurdly histrionic and convoluted.  The first twenty minutes or so which involve one character’s confession is great.  A well told story if a bit overdone.

 
GUT

What I liked – The banter between the main characters, the building tension which is constant. What I didn’t like – Low budget which hurts the story's flow, weak ending .  VIDEODROME influenced but needed tightening up.


THE COLONY

Mediocre dystopian sci fi horror partly redeemed by the overacting of Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton. Future Environmental causes slogan - Global cooling = cannibals.


BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW

A thin story camouflaged and padded out by a series of weird futuristic images and random nonsense.  Never horrifying only boring.  It seems like every member of the cast of this film is on tranquilizers not just the psychic girl heroine.


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