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When the Christmas season
rolls around and you're sick and
tired of watching seasonal re
runs, Bob Hope holiday specials
and those stupid Rudolph puppet
movies, go out and rent a decent,
wholesome, violent and cheap
video to watch.
Silent Night, Deadly
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This X-mas treat was made a
few years ago but, like wine, it
has improved with age...kind of!
Years ago a young boy named
Billy and his younger brother
watch as their parents arc
murdered by a man dressed as
Santa Claus. This, of course,
scars the kids for life and while in
the orphanage, Billy freaks out
every Christmas.
The head nun is upset by this
and she torments the heck out of
the kid. Anyway, years later Billy
is a healthy young adult and has a
job in the stock room of a toy
store. Purely by coincidence he
gets to dress up as Santa for the
holidays and on Christmas Eve
he has a little too much to drink,
gets depressed about his parents,
and decides to go out and kill
people.
The film is something to
watch to get in the holiday spirit
but isn't as good as the title. I
think the people who made the
movie made the title and the
movie poster first, and then tried
to make a story to fit that mold.
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This dramatic, horror,
romance, suspense film actually
seems like a comedy if you take
it too seriously. The best thing
about this film is star Sharon
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Stone plays Angela Anderson,
a part time stenographer who
lives in the city. Angela is
attacked in the elevator of her
apartment one night by a red
bearded man, and she defends
herself with a pair of scissors she
bought earlier that day. The man
escapes promising to return
taking the scissors with him.
Angela is then befriended by
her feuding brother neighbors and
she develops an attraction to one
of them. The problem is she's
terribly withdrawn and is seeing a
psychiatrist who is trying to
uncover her hidden past.
This movie is good
some spooky scenes, but
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also predictable. However, if you
like movies about beautiful girls,
feuding brothers, pig puppets,
psychiatrists and scissors, this
movie is one for you.
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The people who made this
movie must have thought that
anything with Stephen King's
name on it would sell. They were
wrong. This movie bombed at
the box office and isn't doing too
well in the video stores either.
Not to say that this is a bad
movie, because it is, but for
reasons other than the story.
The story centers around a
drifter who gets a job in a textile
factory in the south. Because of
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graveyard shift). His boss is a
typical bad employer who takes
advantage of his employees and
his co-workers give him a hard
time
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Over Fourth of July weekend
he is chosen to work with a
group of others cleaning and
organizing the rat-infested
basement. While cleaning, the
crew begins to exterminate the
rats with poison, high pressure
water hoses and soda cans; almost
everything but chicken soup!
Anyway, while cleaning they
stumble upon a sub-basement
that is home to a huge bat/rat
monster (surprise!) and it's every
man for himself to survive.
The story of this movie
wasn't bad and the special effects
were fairly decent, but the actors
were a little bit too over
dramatic. It's worth seeing once
but don't tell anyone you saw it
unless they ask.
Defending Your Life
This film stars Albert Brooks,
who starred in Broadcast News
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and numerous other films, and
Meryl Strccp who has been in
almost as many films as Michael
Caine. Brooks stars as Mr.
Miller, a guy who gets killed and
who we follow into the
afterworld to find out what really
happens after you die.
When you die you arc taken to
Judgement City, a place not on
Earth but designed to look like
Earth, where you spend five days
while your fate is decided. You
arc, in a sense, put on trial to
defend your life and whether or
not you have overcome your
fears. There is a prosecutor, a
defender and judges that watch
certain days from your life and try
to prove whether you're ready to
evolve and join the universe or if
you should go back to earth in
another life and try again.
In between your court
sessions you can take in
Judgement City's night life:
comedy clubs, the Past Lives
Pavilion, golf, bowling and all
the comforts of home. The food
there is the most sensational
you've had in your life, and you
can cat as much as you want and
never gain weight.
Miller soon runs into a girl
(Strcep), and they start a sort of
relationship. As the film
continues it seems Brooks is
doing bad in his sessions and
Streep is doing well, so they
might never see each other in the
afterlife again.
This film is an excellent
romantic comedy. It's very
sarcastic in that it pokes fun at
life on Earth and the things we do
in our lives.
Albert Brooks is one of the
most under-rated actors ever. He's
witty and clever and delivers a
magnificent performance (Meryl
Streep isn't that bad either!). Hi
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