NightwishYear: 1989 Director: Bruce R. Cook Written by: Bruce R. Cook Threat: Demon Weapon of Choice: Hallucination Based upon: Original |
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The tyranist's thoughts
Every once in a while, in the course of watching horror movies, we stumble onto good but inexplicable movies like this
one. Wait, that makes it sound like I liked the movie, which I didn't, mostly. What I think I'm trying to say is that
while the ideas and acting and fundamental concept behind this movie are all sound, the end product is confusing and
poorly strung together.
A bunch of grad students are participating in dream research for a professor of parapsychology, in the course of their
work they all head out to an abandoned house that sits on top of a mine for a closer look at the being that inhabits
it. Well, mayhem insuse, with people dying and aliens and demons and whatever else the filmmakeers could get out of KNB.
On that topic, I have to say that the KNB effects were actually pretty good, especially the little parasite things. That
is really the only clear memory I have of the movie though, since it winds its way through half a dozen different little
sub-genres and never really makes up its mind about what it wants to be. Even when the end rolls around, things still
aren't really resolved.
Skip this one. It just isn't worth the effort. You could probably get about the same effect by watching TV and changing
the station to something new about every five minutes.
Total Skulls: 20
Sequel | ||
Sequel setup | ||
Rips off earlier film | ||
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie | ||
Future celebrity appears | ||
Former celebrity appears | ||
Bad title | ||
Bad premise | ||
Bad acting | ||
Bad dialogue | ||
Bad execution | ||
MTV Editing | ||
OTS | ||
Girl unnecessarily gets naked | ||
Wanton sex | ||
Death associated with sex | ||
Unfulfilled promise of nudity | ||
Characters forget about threat | ||
Secluded location | ||
Power is cut | ||
Phone lines are cut | ||
Someone investigates a strange noise | ||
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door | ||
Camera is the killer | ||
Victims cower in front of a window/door | ||
Victim locks self in with killer | ||
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls | ||
Toilet stall scene | ||
Shower/bath scene | ||
Car stalls or won't start | ||
Cat jumps out | ||
Fake scare | ||
Laughable scare | ||
Stupid discovery of corpse | ||
Dream sequence | ||
Hallucination/Vision | ||
No one believes only witness | ||
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth | ||
Music detracts from scene | ||
Death in first five minutes | ||
x years before/later | ||
Dark and stormy night | ||
Killer doesn't stay dead | ||
Killer wears a mask | ||
Killer is in closet | ||
Killer is in car with victim | ||
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes | ||
Unscary villain/monster | ||
Beheading | ||
Blood fountain | ||
Blood hits camera | ||
Poor death effect | ||
Excessive gore | ||
No one dies at all | ||
Virgin survives | ||
Geek/Nerd survives | ||
Little kid lamely survives | ||
Dog/Pet miraculously survives | ||
Unresolved subplots | ||
"It was all a dream" ending | ||
Unbelievably happy ending | ||
Unbelievably crappy ending | ||
What the hell? |