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| GL84 | May 19 2016, 05:25 PM Post #1 |
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Killer's Therapist
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![]() Rescuing a woman from an abusive boyfriend, a lawyer enters into a relationship with her that puts him in contact with the coven of satanic worshippers intending on using her mystical powers to complete a deadly ritual and sets out to stop them before it’s too late, What did everyone think of this one? |
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Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs. My review blog: http://donshorrormovieblog.blogspot.com/ | |
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| GL84 | May 19 2016, 05:26 PM Post #2 |
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This one here wasn’t really all that enjoyable and had a few issues going for it. The film’s main issue here is the way this one really manages to drag out their impending romance throughout the first half which really manages to make for some really uneven times. They fall into each other really quickly here and then really drag it out after the fact which really slows this one significantly when there’s a disproportionate amount of time on a rather lame and schmaltzy series of scenes that don’t go anywhere so immediately into the movie. It’s all of about ten minutes before they’re together and getting quite intense in the relationship, which is hardly a significant wait here to get that intense into matters here then to turn it around into a dreadfully dull series of interludes that are nowhere near appropriate for a horror film. All of these here manage the unfortunate task of keeping the film’s horror trappings so late into the film that these here are just so unworthwhile when they appear that it’s really hard to take what’s going on seriously based on what’s given in so many of these scenes. We don’t get a true measure of the group’s powers until so late into this one that there’s little about it that works as a horror film during this segment due to the lame-ness of the chosen powers and sporadic nature of its appearances into the film. These here really hurt this one enough to the point of it really downgrading the film enough that a lot of the positives featured here aren’t all that impressive when we do get to them. That basically comes from the few attempts here to showcase the cult’s powers which are based around quite impressive displays here from the supernatural powers against the those who have wrong them, the different torments to stay away once they’ve stolen her back and then devolves into the nice action of their hold-outs against him, all of which really save a lot of face against the dull first half by making the second half a lot more fun and exciting with plenty to like about it. From their attack on his house where they use the witchcraft powers for safety against the approaching horde attempting to break into the house, while the aftermath of all that is quite an impressive display of their powers that they use against them. It all leads into the fun finale at the beach as his attempts to track her down following the second abduction brings them to their sacrificial ceremony that’s quite chilling and works more at delivering the impressive and original twist that sells this one nicely. Though it does tend to go on a little longer than it really should’ve, this one is still fun enough to really get some great points out of it when it really mattered. |
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Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs. My review blog: http://donshorrormovieblog.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Lon Of The Dead | May 20 2016, 01:30 AM Post #3 |
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I saw it once, back in the mid-90s. I seem to recall thinking the cast did well (especially Tim Daly, who I think has always been sadly under-rated as an actor) but the fact that I remember very little about the story tells me it must have been crap lol |
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| GL84 | May 20 2016, 03:43 PM Post #4 |
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It's probably because it's not too much of a horror film until the last act. First it's an abbreviated romantic comedy about his relationship with her, turns into a thriller when she disappears and he plays amateur detective trying to track her down and then finally becomes a full-blown horror film once he realizes that those after her are Satanists intending to sacrifice her. That stuff is clearly the best part of the film and what really works for it, but yeah up until then it's pretty rough. |
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Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? Some people are like slinkies: not good for anything, but you can't help but laugh when one falls down the stairs. My review blog: http://donshorrormovieblog.blogspot.com/ | |
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