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The Return of the Living Dead 1985 ★★★★½
What a way to celebrate New year's Eve. Wolfing down (cult) classics.
I absolutely love this one. It has more ham than a parmesan butcher and so many screams even Shaggy and Scooby would say that it's a bit too much.
And does The English patient have 45 grave on the soundtrack? I believe not.
Return of the Living Dead Part II 1988 ★★★
All in all a fun watch, but not the over the top balls to the wall fun that part 1 was.
Invitation to Hell 1984 ★★★
When shitty days come up with a nice surprise. Like stumbling across a Craven-flick you never heard of before.
Invitation to hell is tv movie and it shows. The title being but the first example. The intro being a good second. A guy in a car just mowes down a lady in the middle of the road. She gets up without a scar or bruise, points her fingergun at him and shoots him on fire. Leading to him burning to death in agony. And of course offscreen because tv movie. What the hell?
A family moves to silicon valley where the dad gets a big job at a tech company. So you would think that they have it made. Nope. In order to really go places, they have to join the... country club. A country club of course run by the killer lady from the opening. That has more to it than meets the eye.
It's not up there with his classics like ANOES or The hills have eyes, but it's still solid. Even under these circumstances, what with the drabness of the story and the limitations in the effects, Craven manages to entertain and deliver a decent flick with a fairly smooth pace, while at the same time ticking off all the tropes.
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