Rish Outfield's reviews
Tyranist and I rented two Dario Argento movies one day (this and The Bird With The Crystal Plumage), and I am now proud to call myself a Dario Fan. This was great! It was thoughtful, bizarre, grotesque, and filled with a recognizable style that raised this high above the horror we've been seeing. It was also totally twisted. Plus, this starred Jennifer Connelly, whom Jeff and I both adore, in all of her exotic, perfect-haired, teenage glory. It was interesting to see how beautiful she was, even then. And, as if that wasn't enough, the great Donald Pleasence also starred, cheering me from my otherwise melancholy day. There were some really sick moments--I mean I'm talking SICK--stuff American films would never dream of. Like when our soon-to-be-one-of-the-most-beautiful-women-in-the-world heroine induces vomiting. Thrice! Or when we see a maggot-covered head and the camera not only lingers--it zooms in! Or when our soon-to-be-one-of-the-most-beautiful-women-in-the-world heroine falls into a squirming, worm-ridden vat of dead body part stew, covered from head to toe in putrid, liquid death! Yes, those Italians sure know how to show us a good time.
Best Scare: You thought the fly scene in Amityville Horror was awful . . .
I'd Recommend It To: The strong-stomached.

The tyranist's thoughts
Why isn't Jennifer Connelly the star she deserves to be? I love her movies.
Creepers is another smart horror film from Dario Argento. It does contain a lot of run of the mill horror cliches, but at the same time it maintains a separate air and the killer is protected in identity until the climactic scenes. There aren't clues that will lead you to the killer this time, but there is a lot of interesting sideplay with Jennifer Corvino's power before we ever get to the central mystery. Probably the most interesting thing to me is that this movie featured an all girls school full of young beauties and yet, I didn't care that not one of them even came close to taking her clothes off. Usually, an all girls school is just a convenient way to set up the nudity, but Argento used it differently and made me care enough that I didn't mind the lack of that particular cliche. We saw the US version and there were some pretty obvious cuts and now that Anchor Bay (God bless them) has released a longer cut that is more closely related to the original Italian film, perhaps Rish and I will have to re-view this in the near future.