Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
ceejayred From 1989 comes THE DEAD PIT directed by Brett Leonard and starring the late Jeremy Slate. An evil insane doctor is conducting cuckoo experiments on the patients of a mental hospital, when the good Dr. Jeremy Slate shoots him dead in order to stop his insanity, then seals him up in his hidden pit with what apears to drywall spackle. Yeah....that'll hold him in there. Fast forward twenty years later, and Jane Doe arrives at the hospital not remembering a thing about her past or who she is. An earthquake strikes and TOTALLY RUINS THE SPACKLE JOB, reopening the crypt of insanity. Can Jane Doe overcome her own murky past and her own proclivity for running through a mental hospital in a t-shirt and bikini panties?This plot runs as insane as a Stuart Gordon film like From Beyond or Re-Animator. It's fun to watch, if you don't have any hang-ups about stories that make sense. There is a lot of style here from Brett Leonard, the acting is okay-ish, thanks mostly to Jeremy Slate, and there is plenty of gore. True horror fans should have this one on their radar.
zombievato Threre's a natural creepiness attached to abandoned buildings. Like an in your face reminder that failure and decay, know no bounds. The grandest empire can fray and crumble at the edges. This was shot in an actual abandoned mental hospital. The sets alone set this above the norm. This is truly one of the best of the 80's schlocky horror films. The story is okay, if not entirely cohesive. The acting, even the background/extras, are better than should be expected. The main character Cheryl Lawson gives her all, and goes the extra mile with a nice (though tacked on) topless dream scene. The effects were done with loving care, as evidenced on the "CODE RED" release with the DVD extras. This IS 80's horror going out in style. Zombies, well done gore, nekkid babes, crazy surgeons, what more do you want? Vince Vaughn?
haildevilman Should have revived the Zombie genre.No awards for plot originality. But the effects were as good as ever. And the creepiness was THERE.Haunted asylums with psycho Doctors are hardly original, but they made up for it with the assault from hell at the end.A combination of a women in prison flick, zombie flick, with a dash of occult flick.I was hoping this would inspire the new blood to make more zombie flicks. Unfortunately, the critics nor the censors allowed it much of a chance.The British accented professor/patient was a bit much though. The actor did OK. I just can't figure the chances of that really happening.But then...that's fantasy.
choppyno Brett Leonard (Lawnmower Man, Hideaway) gives us in his directorial debut a pastiche of De Moro's HELLHOLE and Fulci's CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, and it holds it's own with those two heavy-weights from opposite poles of the extreme-film spectrum. This movie has raving mental patients, psychotic doctors, people being buried alive, ritual murders in boiler rooms, flesh-hungry zombies, high-quality gore effects, and hot women. Very atmospheric for taking place in a clichéd setting = a mental asylum. Probably the creepiest one caught on film. There are dead bodies all over this movie. Amazing dialog like this doesn't hurt either: -"My God! You're a Doctor! You're supposed to be saving lives!" -"I've done life. Now I'm doing death." Not a disappointment for zombie fans looking for something different, or slasher fans doing the same. Solid. A must see.
