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Land of the Dead (2005)
 DVD DEscription: The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation. STORY:4 out of 5: A zombie movie with meaning ACTORS QUALITY:4 out of 5 VIOLENCE: 5 out of 5 GORE: 5 out of 5: Watch unrated version SPECIAL EFFECTS: 5 out of 5 LOVE: 1 out of 5: 1 pair FINAL THOUGHTS: I have been reading alot of bad thoughts on this movie...I loved it...The zombies finally start to figure out how to do things...Well that was happening in Day of the Dead...Just think of Bud teaching them..It still isnt better than the others, but for what today has to offer...It was great....Get this one today...If you liked Romeros zombie movies... OVERALL SCORE: 5 out of 5 Last edited by rubenmania; 12-19-2005 at 12:05 PM.
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The Devils Rejected:Unrated(2005)
 DVD Description: Ambushed at their homestead by sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men, the Firefly family awakens with guns blazing- yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape unharmed..Taking refuge and hostages in a back-road motel, the wanted siblings rendezvous with their deranged partner in crime, Captain Spaulding, killing whoever happens to stand in their way.. But as the body count mounts higher, Sheriff Wydell decides to " cross the line" and take the law into his own hands paving the way for one of the most depraved and terrifying showdowns in cinematic history... Magazine & Dvd comments: " You'll get creeped out big time..."- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone, " Two thumbs up" , Ebert & Roepel STORY:5 out of 5 ACTORS QUALITY: 4 out of 5: Would of gave it 5 out of 5, but mommy in the jail scene going crazy ruined it for me... VIOLENCE: 5 out of 5: Wow GORE:5 out of 5: The girl getting ran over by the semi was awesome.. Special Effects: 3 out of 5: The house fire was pretty weak looking.. LOVE: 1 out of 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: Zombie did it again, but the ending was a shock for me....Anyways what an awesome movie...If you havent seen it, go buy it.. OVERALL SCORE: 5 out of 5 Last edited by rubenmania; 12-21-2005 at 04:25 PM.
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War of thr Planets (2003)review
 DVD DESCRIPTION: Twelve astronauts volunteer to pioneer a colony on a newly discovered planet...They awake from their frozen 15 year sleep to discover that the ship has crashed and that they're trapped in their cryo-tubes...To make matters worse, a hairy beast breaks in and begins devouring them, one by one.. STORY: 1 out of 5 ACTORS QUALITY:1 out of 5: Bad VIOLENCE: 2 out of 5 GORE: 1 out of 5 SPECIAL EFFECTS: 0 out of 5: Real bad LOVE: 0 out of 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: Wow, what a bad movie...The only good thing about it was the dvd cover and what you see on the cover isnt in the movie....It looks high budget...But from the get go its boring...Their stuck in their tubes for at least 40 mins....Boring!!!!..The creature looked like a guy in a bad ape suit...This movie is plain bad....Man if I watched this, I better now watch Asylum home entertainment's War of the Worlds...I hope it aint as bad as this movie....Do Not rent or buy...\ OVERALL SCORE:1 out of 5: Stay Away
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Eternal (2004)review
 DVD DESCRIPTION: When the beautiful wife of a Montreal vice cop disappears, his investigation leads him to an alluring temptress who admits only to having steamy sex with the missing woman...Unconvinced, the detective plunges into her dark, erotic world, uncovering a terrifying connection to a 16th- century countress said to have seduced and murdered young woman to bathe in their blood in order to remain immortal...Now, the detective finds himself in a deadly race against time to prevent this modern vampiress from claiming another victim in this supernatural thriller inspired by actual events... STORY: 4 out of 5 ACTORS QUALITY: 4 out of 5 VIOLENCE: 1 out of 5: Its your basic seduce vampire movie GORE: 1 out of 5: A little blood here and their... SPECIAL EFFECTS:I didnt notice anything LOVE: 5 out of 5: WoW FINAL THOUGHTS: THis movie was pretty decent, if it wasnt for the love, it would of been real boring....Not much killing....IT looked good and was high quality....Just needed that extra push for more extreme violence.... OVERALL SCORE: 4 out of 5: Rent this one...Like my boy Austin Powers says " Yeah Baby, Yeah"
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The Amityville Horror (2005)
 DVD Description: On November 13, 1974, Suffolk County Police received a frantic phone call that led them to 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island. Inside the large Dutch Colonial house, they discovered a horrific crime scene that shattered the landscape of the typically peaceful community: an entire family had been slaughtered in their beds. In the days that followed, Ronald DeFeo, Jr., confessed to methodologically shooting his parents and four siblings with a rifle while they slept, claiming �voices� in the house drove him to commit the grisly murders. One year later, George and Kathy Lutz and their children moved into the house thinking they�d found their dream home. But shortly after settling in, bizarre and unexplainable events began to occur--nightmarish visions and haunting voices from an evil presence still lurking within the house. Confused and frightened by her daughter Chelsea�s cryptic interaction with an imaginary friend named Jodie, Kathy struggles to hold her family together as George�s increasingly strange behavior finds him spending days and nights in the basement of the house, where he soon discovers a passageway to a mysterious and gruesome �Red Room.� With lucid visions and evil voices swirling through George�s head, the house comes alive. MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS!!!!!!! STORY: 4 out of 5: The story was pretty good, read above. ACTORS QUALITY: 5 out of 5: The whole family did a great job...The wife, I think did the best out of them all... VIOLENCE:1 out of 5: The beginning really set it off, but then it slowed down..I quess we can expect that from a ghost movie... GORE:1 out of 5 SPECIAL EFFECTS: 5 out of 5: This is the part of the movie that they did a great job....The Ghosts and everything being moved around was great.. MUSIC: 3 out of 5: Really nothin made me jump... LOVE:2 out of 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: From the beginning to up to the end it had me drawn in...But then the ending let me down..Right when the wife was reading about the history of the house and George has the same vision as the book...Like I said before up to that part it was a great movie...It nowhere close to the original... OVERALL SCORE: 3 out of 5: rental for me only
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Skeleton Man (2004)
 DVD DESCRIPTION: In the dense wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, an elite crew of soldiers investigating the brutal and mysterious deaths of four Army Special Forces officers meets an old, blind Indian who claims to know what happened to the dead men..So begins the dark tale of Cotton Mouth Joe- a ferocious warrior who slaughtered his entire tribe...Four hundred years later, the warrior's evil spirit still seeks revenge...Disbelief turns to cold terror as the horrifying spirit of Cotton Mouth ominously appears riding a black stallion and wielding a lethal spear....The Skeleton man has returned to rain misery and death upon any mortal who dares cross his path...this time the soldiers are locked dead in his sights... STORY: 1 out of 5: ACTORS QUALITY: 3 out of 5 VIOLENCE: 5 out of 5: Their was a whole lot of it, this is the only good thing about the movie, but the killing scenes arent that great.... GORE: 1 out of 5: Lots of blood SPECIAL EFFECTS: 3 out of 5: They made some of the kill scenes look good.. MUSIC:1 out of 5: Didnt make it any better... LOVE: 0 out of 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: Skeleton man had three personalities of other killers...1)He had predator instincts and vision, 2)He was like the Headless Horseman and 3)He sort of looked like the Scream killer with the hooded cape..This guy could appear anywhere..I mean miles away and then make it back to kill the rest of the soldiers.....The woods or jungle was humongous....ALso this is the 1st time I have ever seen a movie were all the guns run out of ammo.... OVERALL SCORE: 1 out of 5:You wont miss nothin if you dont watch it...
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Vlad (2004)
 DVD DESCRIPTION: Remembered as a hero by his subjects and a tyrant by his enemies, Dracula (a.k.a. Vlad Basarab, Prince Vlad III, Vlad the Impaler and Vlad Draculea) ruled over 15th century Rumania with an iron fist and the promise of a slow, agonizing death for anyone he considered to be an enemy, a criminal, or simply a liar..So numerous were his victims that the myth of the vampire developed around him, and still persists over 500 years later.. Filmed on location in Transylvania, the story centers on four foriegn exchange students who, at the behest of a Bucharest university professor, retrace a journey taken by Vlad through the Carpathain Mountains... One of them carries with her a powerful amulet, rumored to have been stolen from Vlad's tomb.. With the charm, the group breaks through the wall of time that seperates the centuries and witnesses the barbarism that molded a young orphan into one of the most feared despots in medieval Europe... At their heels is the monster himself, determined to seize the amulet and resume his reign of terror! DVD or Magazine Comments: " Dark and Hard Hitting...an engrossing story mixing horror, suspense, and romance!"- Stacy Lane Wilson, horror.com, " If you are a lover of vampire and Dracula films, you'll love Vlad"-James Bartholnet, Nitelife CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!!!! STORY: 4 out of 5: It does a good job of retelling Vlads life.. ACTORS QUALITY: 4 out of 5 VIOLENCE: 2 out of 5: Mostly Vlad will break your neck GORE:1 out of 5; Some blood SPECIAL EFFECTS: 3 out of 5: Most of it was Vlads face changing MUSIC: 3 out of 5 LOVE: 2 out of 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: Vlad gets boring after a while and doesnt pick up..I like vampire and Dracula movies, but Vlad doesnt do it for me....Its from being to boring and not enough vampire scenes...Vampie lovers might enjoy this...I thought I was, but it didnt happen... OVERALL SCORE: 2 out of 5: Same as always, you wont miss nothin
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Witches of the Caribbean (2005)
 DVD DESCRIPTION: Seventeen-year-old Angela suffers from a recurring nightmare about a 16th century witch burned to death on a dark and mysterious beach...To find an explanation and reclaim her life, she flies to a two week retreat for troubled teens on the Caribbean island of Matau, run by a noted child psychologist... Little does she realize that Matau hides a horrific secret history and her nightmares are about to come to life! STORY: 3 out of 5 : Not even the retelling of the witch being burned helped it out... ACTORS QUALITY: 3 out of 5; Not to bad. SPOILER WARNING!!!!!! VIOLENCE: 2 out of 5 : The killings were all the same... SPOILER WARNING!!!!! GORE: 2 out of 5 : Hearts being pulled out of bodies... SPOILERS ARE OVER!!!!!! SPECIAL EFFECTS:1 out of 5: Not much MUSIC: 1 out of 5: They keep on playing this one song that didnt even go with the movie... LOVE: 0 out 0f 5 SPOILER WARNING!!!!!!! FINAL THOUGHTS: The movie keep me into it, but the reshowing of the girls nightmare started to get old...And the same killings wore out.... OVERALL SCORE: 2 out of 5 : Your choice to rent or not....
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Shapeshifter (2005)
 DVD DESCRIPTION: Inmates and guards alike become trapped in a maximum security prison when they fall prey to a demonic beast that feeds on human flesh... As the creature's power multiplies with every kill, their only chance for survival is to uncover the ancient mystery that holds the power of the shapeshifter.... DVD & MAGAZINE COMMENTS: " Recalls the claustrophobicterror of Ridley Scott's Alien and John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 23!" STORY: 3 out of 5: It tells you about the origin of the beast.. ACTORS QUALITY: 3 out of 5: Lady guard needs some more lessons.. VIOLENCE: 4 out of 5 GORE: 5 out of 5: Lots of it SPECIAL EFFECTS: 4 out of 5 LOVE: 0 out 0f 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: If you have seen Frankenstein Reborn, Beast of bray Road and Dead Men Walking... Well this one is right up your alley....For others ASylum Home Entertainment has been putting alot more money in their newer releases....Check this one out.. The gore is great and lots of killing, only downfall is the acting, but it isnt that bad.... OVERALL SCORE: 4 out of 5: Check it out
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The Mangler: Reborn (2005)
 DVD DESCRIPTION: Upon discovering cursed parts from the original Mangler, an obsessed man reinvents the machine that becomes his ultimate hell... Possessed by his deadly creation, the man is transformed into its living form.... Now the only way for him to survive without decaying is to feed the machine fresh victims... STORY: 3 out of 5 ACTORS QUALITY: 3 out of 5: Not a lot of talking in this one...Lots of screaming VIOLENCE: 5 out of 5 GORE: 3 out of 5: Lots of blood SPECIAL EFFECTS: Not a whole lot , but the blood and tearing looks good.. LOVE: 0 out of 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: I havent seen the first one in a long time, but from what I remember it sucked.... This one destroys it...It a good movie....Everything about it was good except some acting.... AT 1st it looked like it was going to be stupid...You wont go wrong on this one....Check it out
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13 Seconds (2003)
 DVD DESCRIPTION: Called " Creepy " by Fangoria Magazine and " Disturbing " by United Press International, 13 Seconds takes you into a deadly art gallery that reveals death and torture on every canvas that comes to life in the most horrifying way- and shows the evil that lies within each of us... We all have thirteen seconds- just enough time to live out our last nightmares- before the devil comes... STORY: 5 out of 5: Folks this story was great....It keeps you drawn in the whole movie.... ACTORS QUALITY: 1 out of 5: Yes it was bad , but the rest of the movie will get you interested... VIOLENCE: 4 out of 5 GORE: 3 out of 5: Lots of blood and more SPECIAL EFFECTS: 4 out of 5: I give it this point for the gore and blood look... MUSIC: 2 out of 5: Sometimes it goes with the movie and others it dont... LOVE: 0 out of 5: None FINAL THOUGHTS: This was my 1st movie that I rented and looked like it was taped with a camcorder and really didnt care for it....SO I decided to rent it again after watching so many of these kind of quality....I have to say Im glad I did...This movie was good....They did a hell of a job....I could only imagine what a big studio could do with this movie, if they bought the rights....If you decide to rent it dont let the bad acting make you turn it off...Stick with it , because it starts to get interesting and weird.....CHECK THIS ONE OUT OVERALL SCORE: 4 out of 5: Would of gave it 5 out of 5, but the acting messed it up...
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i think it's safe to say that in most of these choices - you CAN judge a film by it's cover.
My only problem with Rubinmanias revies .. is that he is only reviewing junk ... i need to know how he feels about the same movies I've seen before i can trust his judgement .. his tastes may not be aligned with mine .. And these are the kinds of movies i never give a second look to. There is a kind of .. flavor to these films .. the covers have a commonality ... not sure if anyone knows what i'm saying .. but there is a certain quality. Decent movie covers are more subtle in general .. like they dont have anything to prove ..
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I think he said that most of all these movies are coming for Hollywood Video... I rent at Hollywood Video so i see these movies available all the time. Most of them are B-crappy movies and he even admits it. Saves me time and money. I much prefer him to review the lesser known movies because how many times do we have to see reviews of the same old good popular movies.
Are there really any great B-Horror movies that came out recently on DVD? I dont think so. There should be a thread solely for recent B-horror movies on here because there are so many new B-horror movies coming out but I dont give them a shot.
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You have no idea what a shock it was seeing a post of yours, Urge. Good to see you here again!!
Now would you PLEASE get rid of that fuzzy avatar? It's scaring people.
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Uhhhhhhhh yeah....yeah! Laserdisc...it's the...the platta that mattas....
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Santa's Slay (2005)
 DVD DESCRIPTION: It turns out that Santa Claus is not really the sweet old fellow that we all know and love... In fact, he's the devil and the only thing that's kept his bad side in check was a bet he lost with an angel... After 1000 years of playing nice, the bet is up and Santa is about to open up a can of holiday Whoop- Ass!!!...The only glimmer of hope comes from an old man with a secret, his grandson and his girlfriend.... Brace yourself for one really bad Santa, bent on spreading holiday fear!!! STORY: 3 out of 5 ACTORS QUALITY: 3 out of 5 VIOLENCE: 5 out of 5: Santas out of control BLOOD: 1 out of 5 GORE: 0 out of 5 SPECIAL EFFECTS: 1 out of 5 LOVE: 1 out of 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: Santa is played by Bill Goldberg from WCW & WWE...He's one bad dude....Not much talking from him, but alot of 1 liners...This had to be a made for tv movie....Rent this only if you have nothing else to watch... OVERALL SCORE: 2 out of 5
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Eternal Blood (2003)
 DVD DESCRIPTION: A jourmalism student, Carmilla, meets a group of kids who play a role game called " Eternal Blood". She becomes interested in this hobby through " M ", a young man she met in a philosophy seminar... During a strange party at an abandoned house, the group meets " Dahmer ", a peculiar young man, who introduces the group to rituals of vampirism.... " M " sees that the situation is not normal and shortly realizes that some of them are actually being transformed into vampires... Using ancient texts, " M " has to find a way to revert the vampire process before the souls of the transformed are too far gone to be brought back... STORY: 4 out of 5: Pretty interesting ACTORS QUALITY: 3 out of 5 VIOLENCE: 3 out of 5: Alot of neck bites BLOOD: 5 out of 5: Tons of it GORE: 1 out of 5 SPECIAL EFFECTS: 4 out of 5: Neck tearing looked real good LOVE: 2 out of 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: For being a foriegn film it was pretty good....The vampires where ugly..... Their was a couple of creepy parts.....And a part of the story that made it real good....I wont tell you, you have to see for yourself....Rent it and if you cant find it at the video store, buy it, it shouldnt cost that much, I would say under 10 bucks.... OVERALL SCORE: 4 out of 5
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The Changeling (1980)
 DESCRIPTION: A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre. STORY: 4 out of 5 ACTORS QUALITY: 4 out of 5: George C. Scott is main character VIOLENCE: 1 out of 5 GORE: 0 out of 5 BLOOD: 0 out of 5 SPECIAL EFFECTS: 1 out of 5 LOVE: 0 out of 5 FINAL THOUGHTS: I thought I was going to be scared, because its from th early 80's, but it didnt happen...Forget about it...It doesnt even come close...The music didnt make me jump...If you are going to check this out ..Then its about the story...Pretty good...Its the only thing that will keep you watching... OVERALL SCORE: 3 out of 5: The story saved this one.. SPOILER ALERT!!!!!! If you read on you will learn about the whole movie... Ok, George was taking his family on a skiing vaction and their car broke down... Just so happen their was a phone booth right across the street...SO George goes to call for help and at this time his wife and daughter play snowball fight....Little did they know that a truck and a car were coming toward them from different directions...If you quessed what happen yet, then your right they get ran over by the truck...SO its 3 years later and he decides to move away...His friends set him up with their friend to rent him a house...And it hasnt been lived in for years....Well George a music composer takes it on and strange things begin to happen... Mostly loud noises....THe ghost isnt trying to kill him, its trying to lead him up stairs to a closet that has a secret room behind it....Once he gets in he finds a wheel chair and a journal of sort...So George investigates and finds out that the ghost boy was murdered in the room by his father....George then finds out where they had other houses and one had a well...The well was buried under the house floor...Goerge gets the owner to belive him about his visions and starts to dig and finds the boys remains...They call the police and they take the bones , but they dont find anything else....Goerge goes back at night and a necklace comes up from the well by the ghost....Well it has a Senators name on it....George cant believe it and confronts the Senator...THe senator then send his crooked police chief out to confront George... George doent give in...The Chief then tells him that he will be back with a warrant to search the house for the necklace... Well on his way back to the station his car is flipped and he is killed....George investigates the family necklace name and finds out that the Senator is an adopeted...The ghostboy was paralized and the father had to kill him to get all the money...SO his dad drowned him in the bathtub.....Then he says he sent him away for 2 years and thats how the Senator took the boys place....SO to the end...The house catches on fire from the ghosts rage and the George sees the senator walking up the stairs to the room..Then George gets outside and the house burns down...The end, like I said above the story is the best thing about this movie.....
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ok, now i have my benchmark for Rubenmania.
I'd have given this film a 4.5 at least ... and thats only because it's a wee bit dated now in hindsight (never a fair way to judge a film) when it came out i'd have given it a 5. Probably still deserves it .. George C Scott is a terrific actor ... It certainly doesnt belong with the rest of the rabble in this thread !
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