Wordiezett So much average
Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!
Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation
Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
Paul Magne Haakonsen I was lured in by the DVD cover for this movie. Sure, I knew it was old, but I didn't know what it was about, aside from it obviously being a horror movie.I managed to sit through 50 minutes of this ordeal of a slow paced and uneventful movie. Then I had enough and I just quit.The characters in "The Strangeness" were pointless and irrelevant to the storyline.And while we are on the topic of the storyline, then the storyline was so generic and sluggish that you were at danger of being lulled to sleep. Trust me.The few times you do see the creature, in the 50 minutes I managed to endure, it was a horrible stop-motion animated tentacle creature that was more laughable than it was scary.This was definitely one of the more genre defining horror movies to make it out of the 1980s.
Leofwine_draca Another no-budget offering, full of actors you've never heard of. The thin plot stretches credulity to the breaking point as a group of no-hopers descend into a mine, looking for riches, but find a mysterious alien creature which picks them off one by one in the dim tunnels. So basically it's an excuse for lots of people running about in the dark (that's one of the problems with this film - it's so darned dark!) and a little murky gore.Most of the time you can't actually hear what the actors are saying, the filming was so handicapped. It's hardly original and offers absolutely nothing new, except perhaps the creation of one of the worst monsters I have ever seen in a film (and that's saying something). The alien creature looks like an octopus and is animated by a crude stop-motion type of technology. It also looks incredibly fake. This can be taken as a good point of the film, but the monster is only actually seen for 2 minutes or so at the end of the film, so again doesn't save it.Let's face it, BBC TV made better stuff than this ten years earlier with the John Pertwee Dr Who stories. THE LAMENESS would be a better title for this moronic outing. Everyone involved with the AVR VHS releasing film company ought to be chastised for unleashing rubbish like this and THE THIRSTY DEAD on an unsuspecting Britain.
Woodyanders Basically an endearingly chintzy and moronic $1.50 version of the nifty early 80's subterranean creature feature favorite "The Boogens," this entertainingly schlocky cheapie centers on a nasty, squirmy, wriggling monster who makes an instant meal out of any unfortunate souls foolhardy enough to go poking around the notoriously off limits Gold Spike Mine. Your standard-issue motley assortment of intrepid boneheads -- hectoring hard-nosed mine boss, cute, but insipid blonde babe, feisty lady geologist, boozy, inexplicably Aussie-accented (!) seasoned old mine hand, charmless doofus, hunky, jolly guy, and, arguably the most annoying character of the uniformly irritating bunch, a nerdy bespectacled aspiring writer dweeb who's prone to speaking in flowery, melodramatic utterances -- trek into the dark, uninviting cave in search of gold. Naturally, these intensely insufferable imbeciles discover that the allegedly abandoned mine is the home of a deadly, ugly, multi-tentacled beast who in time honored hoary B-flick fashion proceeds to gruesomely bag the group one at a time. Directed, co-written, co-produced and co-edited with dumbfounding maladroitness by Melanie Anne Phillips, acted with dismaying flatness by a rank no-name cast, further marred by lethargic pacing, a drably meandering narrative, murky, under-lit, eye-straining cinematography, a shivery, redundantly thudding pseudo-John Carpenter synthesizer score, and a cruddy, herky-jerky stop motion animation wormoid thingie that's only quickly glimpsed at the very end of the movie, this extremely clunky, amateurish and hence quite delectably dreadful would-be scarefest commits all the necessary bad film missteps to qualify as a real four-star stinkeroonie.
willywants A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in, and find themselves at the mercy of a slimy, tentacle-flinnging stop-motion monster. Despite the silly-sounding title, "The strangeness" was one of the better horror films that crawled out in 1985 (well, at least better than Larry Cohen's god awful "The stuff").The monster is pretty interesting-looking beastie, and the clay mation used to bring it to life is excellent. Some of the actors are bad and the film is poorly-light, but it's a very amusing horror film otherwise that when compared to most shoe-string budget horror film succeeds quite well. Recommended!
