"The Johnsons" is basically the Dutch answer to "The Omen".
I caught it on TV one night when I was a kid back in the nineties and I have always remembered it. I rewatched it just now hoping that it would hold up, and it sort of did, but wasn't as good as I had hoped.
I have less patience now than I did as a kid, funnily enough. I've seen way more movies, so I notice call-backs and rip-offs whereas before everything seemed new and untouched.
I actually found the movie harder to follow this time, but I think that was because it often lost me. Some of the details of the plot still seem pretty cool.
It's something about a group of evil, bald-headed septuplet brothers who live in an asylum. I never forgot the scene where we see on surveillance tape where they all kill a guard while being sprayed down.
And who could forget the carving-knife blade through the skull?
Thing is, the movie takes too long to get going. It has one hell of a climax with a lot of memorable death scenes. But before that, it's only really the bits with the seven brothers that tantalised me. I never really understood what the giant baby in the vase thing was about, though it looked cool.
The filmmakers needed to let us in to the lives of the main characters. The actresses were up to the challenge. There aren't enough movies like this with young girls as protagonists. This could have been something special, but it's merely an intriguing timewaster.
I caught it on TV one night when I was a kid back in the nineties and I have always remembered it. I rewatched it just now hoping that it would hold up, and it sort of did, but wasn't as good as I had hoped.
I have less patience now than I did as a kid, funnily enough. I've seen way more movies, so I notice call-backs and rip-offs whereas before everything seemed new and untouched.
I actually found the movie harder to follow this time, but I think that was because it often lost me. Some of the details of the plot still seem pretty cool.
It's something about a group of evil, bald-headed septuplet brothers who live in an asylum. I never forgot the scene where we see on surveillance tape where they all kill a guard while being sprayed down.
And who could forget the carving-knife blade through the skull?
Thing is, the movie takes too long to get going. It has one hell of a climax with a lot of memorable death scenes. But before that, it's only really the bits with the seven brothers that tantalised me. I never really understood what the giant baby in the vase thing was about, though it looked cool.
The filmmakers needed to let us in to the lives of the main characters. The actresses were up to the challenge. There aren't enough movies like this with young girls as protagonists. This could have been something special, but it's merely an intriguing timewaster.