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The Return of Dracula 1958.
An unusual Dracula film. Stuck between the Universal type horror of the 30's and hinting at the new Hammer horror, it's kind of in limbo but a fun film nevertheless with some nice effective scares.
 
Great film. I haven't seen it in a long time. (I do remember that some of the early digital effects are a little dodgy). And it might be weird to watch Kevin J. O'Connor as the magician after he played the comic sidekicks in The Mummy and Deep Rising!!
I look forward to watching that again. Makes me wish they had made Barker's Cold Heart Canyon.
I like his enfusing of noir.
Weirdy, it kind of precedes The Prestige in a way...

Absolutely adore Cold Heart Canyon, and with the right director could be a stunning film!
 
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Alrighty, so I finally started watching the sequels. All I ever hear is people raving over the second film (some even saying it's better than the first)... but after seeing the second and the third, they don't touch the first film by a mile. In fact, I had the Well Go USA box set on pre-order and I just cancelled my order. As of now, the first film is the only one definitely worthy of being in my collection.

PHANTASM II (1988)
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While the first film had some campy fun to it, there was more of a serious undertone to it. This film jacks the campy, silliness to overdrive -- clearly influenced by the same move that Sam Raimi made with his Evil Dead sequel a year prior. While that worked for Evil Dead, it didn't work here. So much of what I loved about Phantasm was replaced with massive weaponry, a road trip dripping of sexual innuendo, and Ash-like quips. Reggie was a good supporting character in the first film, but I don't think he works so well as the lead. Add on the fact that A. Michael Baldwin was left out and James LeGros was cast as Mike instead (and he's really, really awful)... yeah, just wasn't feeling it. The saving grace here is Angus Scrimm's return as The Tall Man. Damn, what an awesome, menacing villain. Overall, it could've been a decent movie if it wasn't a follow-up to Phantasm, but alas, such is not the case.

PHANTASM III: LORD OF THE DEAD (1994)
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Much better than the second film. I honestly don't understand the love for the second. Here, A. Michael Baldwin returns as Mike and while he's not a good actor, he's still much better in the role. Angus Scrimm is as great as ever as The Tall Man and Reggie Bannister's Reggie is turned down to a more tolerable level. This film is still all about the road tripping across towns you've never heard of, but it brings back a lot of what made the first film so special (helps the Bill Thornbury also returned as Jody). Great cinematography in this one, too (some truly iconic shots of The Tall Man)! Honestly, I think that since the second film was the only studio film (Universal distributed it), writer/director Don Coscarelli had to make a lot of changes/sacrifices. Now that they're out of the picture, Phantasm III brings back a lot of what the first film originally offered.

PHANTASM IV: OBLIVION (1998)
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A slower paced film when compared to the last two that falls somewhere in-between the two of them. Again, it helps that the original cast returned and it was really cool to see the origins of The Tall Man -- but overall, it was still missing something. I've never fully enjoyed this series since it went 'road trip' after the first film, but it's always kept me interested due to Angus Scrimm's The Tall Man. The film's climax feels very contained and that somewhat reminded me of the first film. A good film, but not great.

PHANTASM: RAVAGER (2016)
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While I wanted to see an actual conclusion to the series after the end of the fourth film, I think it may've been best to just leave things after Oblivion. Ravager is a pretty awful film. The film tells three different stories and it's all over the place. It's also the only film in the series that's not directed by Don Coscarelli and you can tell. The cinematography is a mess throughout and everything just comes off as very amateurish (not surprising since this apparently started as an online web-series). Waiting nearly 20 years to release the final film after Oblivion was a horrible mistake for numerous reasons -- the #1 reason being that Scrimm's The Tall Man doesn't come across nearly as menacing due to him being in his late 80s when it was shot. In the end, Phantasm is a series that has an insane amount of ups and downs and it's a shame that it ended with such a whimper (considering how perfect that first film was).
 
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The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) - Great thriller; doesn't rely on cheap tricks. Thanks for the recommendation @tridon. :thumbs:
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Power Rangers (2017)
- A bit cheesy, but in a good way. Still fun to watch. :D
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Ghost in the Shell (2017)
- Faithful adaptation. Ignore any "whitewashing" comments you may hear. Has a different ending but a good/believable one. :thumbs:
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The Fate of the Furious (2017)
- Action scenes are fun to watch but it's almost as if they didnt even bother writing a script :LOL:
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Life (2017)
- Can't remember the last space thriller that was this good. Has bit of an Alien vibe, but it manages to set itself apart from that. Great cast to boot. @digitalbabe You should definitely watch this. :drool:
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Interesting documentary, to be sure. It does not go where you think it will. But, I also think it has been very overhyped. The denoument is kind of a letdown. (Although, a major news story this month put the final nail in the ending).
 
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) - Great thriller; doesn't rely on cheap tricks. Thanks for the recommendation @tridon. :thumbs:
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Power Rangers (2017)
- A bit cheesy, but in a good way. Still fun to watch. :D
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Ghost in the Shell (2017)
- Faithful adaptation. Ignore any "whitewashing" comments you may hear. Has a different ending but a good/believable one. :thumbs:
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The Fate of the Furious (2017)
- Action scenes are fun to watch but it's almost as if they didnt even bother writing a script :LOL:
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Life (2017)
- Can't remember the last space thriller that was this good. Has bit of an Alien vibe, but it manages to set itself apart from that. Great cast to boot. @digitalbabe You should definitely watch this. :drool:
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We have nearly the same taste in movies. Happy to hear that you enjoyed both Jane Doe and Life. I love both of those flicks and they definitely deserve more viewers. I'm checking out both F8 and Ghost in the Shell tonight, so we'll see what I think about those. I'm expecting to enjoy both of them. I want to see Power Rangers, too, but I'll likely wait until I can watch it at home.
 
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Interesting documentary, to be sure. It does not go where you think it will. But, I also think it has been very overhyped. The denoument is kind of a letdown. (Although, a major news story this month put the final nail in the ending).
I pretty much felt the same with this one... it kept me fairly interested throughout, but people made it sound like it was some sort of Hitchcockian thriller with loads of suspense, which it wasn't.
 
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The Incredible Shrinking Man 1957
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A superb classic that couldn't be made any better today. The ending is simply way ahead of it's time.....


Quatermass and the Pit 1967
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What more is there to say. One of the all time great horror/sci-fi films. Are we listening digibabe?
 
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A superb classic that couldn't be made any better today. The ending is simply way ahead of it's time.....


Quatermass and the Pit 1967
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What more is there to say. One of the all time great horror/sci-fi films. Are we listening digibabe?
Both incredible films. Quatermass and the Pit (Five Million Years to Earth U.S. title) is one of my all time favorites. (I even own the earlier tv serialized version!)
 
Two Is A Family (2016)
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It starts as a comedy then morphs into a drama. In the first part there are some funny moments, some more well-done than others. Halfway the general tone drastically changes and meets its peak in a very didactic ending, with a voiceover that suggests us how to live properly and wants us to cry leaving the theater.
 
After seeing the catastrophic mess that was Marvel's Doctor Strange- it's made me re-evaluate my entire position on... well... movies.

Tron: Legacy:
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A film that has a plethora of "good ideas" that are never fully realized in the scheme of a rather traditionally told, "Hero's Journey" story.


Power Rangers:
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This movie was literally the opposite of everything I expected from it. Instead of senseless fight scenes- the film prided itself on 2 solid hours of well-written, (surprisingly) well-acted character drama before falling apart once the action started.
 
Get Out (2017)
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Not to sound like a smart-ass, but I pretty much predicted everything just from watching the trailer...
...the fact they were being hypnotised and the girl being in on it.
 
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