pissanthology., 6 June 2004
Author:
teptime from fabulous Las Vega$!
Instantly forgettable trilogy of unrelated horror shorts that you
should place near the top of your "must pass" list. The first concerns
a zombie arriving to play a few hands at a buddy poker night. It's
probably the best of the batch, but still no winner by any stretch of
the imagination. The second story is an incoherent mess that has
something to do with a convict in the future being shipped through
space on a craft patrolled by androids.
The third segment is just scrapings from the Joe Spinell flick "The
Last Horror Film", and even though I like that one personally as a
feature, the squat version is just a ridiculous waste of time. So, all
in all, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to see this amateur
collection. Blah.
2.5/10
Not too thrilling, one may zone out watching it., 1 April 2004
Author:
CryFi from Lansingburgh, New York, USA
The third segment of this horror anthology has been edited down from The
Last Horror Film
(1982) starring Joe Spinell and Caroline Munro. The print used is pretty
poor, looking very
washed out; having seen an old videotape of that film recently which was not
anywhere near
as in as bad shape, I can't explain why it looks as bad as it does in
Thriller Zone. The story in
The Last Horror Film was rather a mess, or appeared so as a result of the
editing, so it is not
particularly helped by being further edited! Spinell is a disturbed taxi
driver who is in love
with his favorite horror film actress, played by Munro. He stalks her at
the Cannes Film
Festival, hoping to have her star in a film he will direct. However, while
trying to enlist her,
he is also threatening her and all the people around her that "you've made
your last horror
film."
It's possible that the first two segments have also been edited from feature
films, but if so,
they were probably unreleased; they're not on the IMDb. The first segment,
"The Last Hand"
has also been featured in another horror anthology though, one that is
currently not on the
IMDb (though it is on Amazon's German site, amazon.de ASIN: B00008XGJT),
called Stephen
King's The Night of the Crow AKA Stephen King's Nightshift Collection (not
to be confused
with the other titles by that name that are on the IMDb). As far as I know,
"The Last Hand" is
not based on a King story, however. There are some decent gore effects in
this, as the star
has strange visions of another man at the poker table who was supposed to be
dead,
unbeknownst to the other players.
The second segment "The Final Hour" features a very young-looking William
Forsthye,
despite his beard. He's an "ex-space commander" being transported for an
appeal to his
murder conviction. He complains about computers thinking they know
everything about
him, when they're wrong. The pilot receives some instructions from him in a
crisis that save
the ship, and she thereafter starts some kind of relationship with him. She
then finds him
trying to hang himself in his cell, and things take a bit of a twist from
there, but nothing
particularly unexpected.
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pissanthology., 6 June 2004
Author: teptime from fabulous Las Vega$!
Instantly forgettable trilogy of unrelated horror shorts that you should place near the top of your "must pass" list. The first concerns a zombie arriving to play a few hands at a buddy poker night. It's probably the best of the batch, but still no winner by any stretch of the imagination. The second story is an incoherent mess that has something to do with a convict in the future being shipped through space on a craft patrolled by androids.
The third segment is just scrapings from the Joe Spinell flick "The Last Horror Film", and even though I like that one personally as a feature, the squat version is just a ridiculous waste of time. So, all in all, there is absolutely no reason for anyone to see this amateur collection. Blah.
2.5/10
Not too thrilling, one may zone out watching it., 1 April 2004

Author: CryFi from Lansingburgh, New York, USA
The third segment of this horror anthology has been edited down from The Last Horror Film (1982) starring Joe Spinell and Caroline Munro. The print used is pretty poor, looking very washed out; having seen an old videotape of that film recently which was not anywhere near as in as bad shape, I can't explain why it looks as bad as it does in Thriller Zone. The story in The Last Horror Film was rather a mess, or appeared so as a result of the editing, so it is not particularly helped by being further edited! Spinell is a disturbed taxi driver who is in love with his favorite horror film actress, played by Munro. He stalks her at the Cannes Film Festival, hoping to have her star in a film he will direct. However, while trying to enlist her, he is also threatening her and all the people around her that "you've made your last horror film."
It's possible that the first two segments have also been edited from feature films, but if so, they were probably unreleased; they're not on the IMDb. The first segment, "The Last Hand" has also been featured in another horror anthology though, one that is currently not on the IMDb (though it is on Amazon's German site, amazon.de ASIN: B00008XGJT), called Stephen King's The Night of the Crow AKA Stephen King's Nightshift Collection (not to be confused with the other titles by that name that are on the IMDb). As far as I know, "The Last Hand" is not based on a King story, however. There are some decent gore effects in this, as the star has strange visions of another man at the poker table who was supposed to be dead, unbeknownst to the other players.
The second segment "The Final Hour" features a very young-looking William Forsthye, despite his beard. He's an "ex-space commander" being transported for an appeal to his murder conviction. He complains about computers thinking they know everything about him, when they're wrong. The pilot receives some instructions from him in a crisis that save the ship, and she thereafter starts some kind of relationship with him. She then finds him trying to hang himself in his cell, and things take a bit of a twist from there, but nothing particularly unexpected.
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