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10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful :-
meh, 21 October 2006
Author: cwjack-1 from Canada
As direct to video horror flicks go, there have been much worse. Hell there has been worse in the theatres. So if after reading the DVD box description or seeing that cover and you're expecting something greater that this, whatever. Playing against type for a change, Englund plays the minor role of the Sheriff who has a grudge against the "Heartstopping" psychopath stalking the hospital in the picture. The biblical spouting psycho is pretty amusing in a total cornball sort of way and there is the barest minimum of tension developed throughout. Englund's good for the record but the movie is simply what it is: A cheesy horror film.
6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Good gore, and thats about it!!!!!, 27 December 2006
Author: jurassicmarc from United Kingdom
Robert Englund - Good Over the top gore - good And thats about it you'll probably only have seen this if your a horror fan and if you are i'd wait till its on TV the two above mentioned is a bout all the positive to be said for this lame rerun of Shocker. Outcast female lead, terribly unscary killer, clunky dialogue and about the worst ending you could imagine....tornado please!!!!
Nothing interesting happens in the first quarter of the movie then gorehounds get a good solid 10 minutes of splatter and gore then the story powers on to its conclusion with about as much intelligence as a lobotomised sheep and a plot thats about as interesting as watching your fingernails grow.
All in all a pointless experience.
5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Sienfeld's Stienbrenner sings the opening theme, 5 November 2006
Author: julian kennedy from Clearwater Fl
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Heartstopper: 4 out of 10: After twenty minutes this movie really had me psyched. A true Eighties throwback it begins with two characters, a Death row inmate who has trouble being electrocuted (Shocker) and a good looking suicidal shy girl who is called whore by a bunch of teenage cheerleader vixens (Carrie). They meet in an ambulance and the Death row guys tattoo transfers to the suicidal girl. And we all know what happens next don't we.
The girl goes back to high school and takes revenge on the vixen sluts and her mother and everyone else and there is violence and nudity and sexy high school girls kicking ass. (Okay let me calm down for a moment) And had the movie actually done that I would have been happy. Instead it remakes Halloween 2. Yup an abandoned hospital, (The staff is about 5 people) and the serial killer comes back to life using his patented heart through the chest maneuver (hence the name) which looks silly the first time and gets progressively sillier as the movie goes along.
In the Jamie Lee Curtis role we have Meredith Henderson who is surprisingly bland for a suicidal girl being chased by a serial killer. The killer is played not by title actor Robert Englund (Who is an Amish Sheriff and leaves the movie fairly early) but James Binkly whose serial killer won't shut up.
In fact dialogue is a real problem in this film. Nobody talks like real people. All the conversation is either a witty rejoinder or a plot point or god forbid horrible self-conscious foreshadowing. Needless to say nobody has been crying out for a Halloween 2 (or Visiting Hours) remake.
And while the sets are unconvincing and understaffed and the script and story derivative and pedestrian this is hardly the worst direct to video horror movie I've seen. Its biggest fault seems to be it does nothing I haven't seen done better dozens of times before.
6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Predictable, but Gore and Entertaining, 26 June 2008
Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In a stormy night, the evil serial-killer Jonathan Chambers (James Binkley) is executed in the electric chair. The arrogant coroner Doctor Hitchens (Michael Cram) brings the corpse in an ambulance to a hospital for the autopsy escorted by the County Sheriff Berger (Robert Englund) that arrested Chambers. Meanwhile the outcast high-school student Sara Wexler (Meredith Henderson) tries to commit suicide on the road and is hit by the Sheriff Berger's car. While bringing Sara in the same ambulance that is transporting the body of Chambers to the hospital, the teenager sees the dead coming back to life. In the hospital, Sara shares the room with the stabbed teenager Walter (Nathan Stenphenson) that coincidentally is her schoolmate, and she asks him to help her to leave the hospital. She tells what she saw, but Walter in principle believe Sara is nuts. However, when he sees blood on the corridor, he helps Sara to escape from their room. However, they find that all exits are locked and they are trapped in the hospital while the psychopath is slaughtering the patients and staff looking for Sara.
"Heartstopper" is flawed and predictable, but is not a bad low-budget horror movie. The gore story has the usual clichés of the genre, but I have found it entertaining in the end. The greatest attraction is certainly Robert Englund that has a minor participation. However, the sexy Meredith Henderson, Nathan Stenphenson and James Binkley have good performance the result is OK. The way Sara defeats the demon in the storm is not reasonable and gives a weak conclusion to the plot. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Devorador de Almas" ("Souls Devour")
3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
Relatively Entertaining STV Release..., 4 November 2006
Author: EVOL666 from St. John's Abortion Clinic
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Yeah...HEARTSTOPPER ain't gonna be stoppin' no hearts in terms of a great cinematic achievement - but I don't think that it ever had that intention. The story is derivative, the acting is mediocre, and the gore is above average - it's all that you could really hope for for an off-the-shelf rental...
A Satanic serial-killer is sentenced to death via electrocution but he passes off part of his "spirit" to a girl that he has some sort of psychic connection to when she is hit by the cop who's escorting the now dead killer to the morgue, and she's put in the killer's ambulance. I can't really give you any of the real details, as I was kinda drunk when I watched it - but that's the basic premise. Once in the hospital the girl befriends a classmate who helps her do battle with with the resurrected bad-guy...the typical blood and mayhem ensue...
Nothing extremely notable about HEARTSTOPPER...some pretty well-done gore scenes, but the plot is relatively lacking. Robert Englund plays the good-guy for a change, so die-hard horror fans will probably wanna see this one just for his presence. The "killer" in the film is your typical cheezy one-liner jerk-off who is less scary than amusing, but he kills lots of people in pretty gory fashion, so he's OK in my book. Not a great film, and I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone other than someone looking for a Saturday nite "popcorn" horror film, but I've seen A LOT worse in my day...6/10
3 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
A good'n'gory little straight-to-video horror shocker, 2 November 2006
Author: Woodyanders (Woodyanders@aol.com) from The Last New Jersey Drive-In on the Left
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Vicious serial killer Chambers (a genuinely scary and intense portrayal of pure demonic evil by actor/stuntman James Binkley) gets executed on the electric chair, but ain't down for the count just yet. Chambers comes back to ferocious and murderous life in a rundown hospital that's on the verge of closing. He naturally embarks on the expected gruesome killing spree, joyfully slaughtering both staff and patients alike while gaining additional strength by ripping the hearts out of his victims. Chambers specifically goes after Sara Wexler (a strong and sympathetic performance by the very attractive and appealing brunette Meredith Henderson), a spunky, but troubled and depressed suicidal young lass he shares a special psychic bound with. Pretty soon only Sara, smartaleck teen Walter (the likable Nathaniel Stephenson) and feisty Nurse Grafton (the solid Laura De Carteret) are left to fend off the seemingly unstoppable supernatural maniac.
Capably directed by make-up effects maestro Bob Keen, with slick, shadowy photography by David Mitchell, a constant snappy pace, an effectively spooky'n'shuddery score by Eric Cadesky and Nick Dyer, several grisly shock set pieces (the sequence where Chambers blithely butchers an emergency room full of screaming and terrified folks is especially potent and unnerving), a suitably creepy claustrophobic atmosphere, and sound acting from a sturdy cast (beloved genre icon Robert Englund in particular does well in a refreshing change-of-pace good guy part as a friendly, folksy sheriff), "Heartstopper" delivers a reasonable amount of thrills and tension as its grim and gripping story unfolds. With his big, bald head, deep, growly voice, powerful muscular build, and calmly malevolent demeanor, Chambers makes for a genuinely fearsome and imposing homicidal fiend. A good'n'gory little horror item that doesn't break any new or original ground, but still does the trick in a perfectly enjoyable and straightforward manner just the same.
6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :-
OK b movie, 4 November 2006
Author: wrlang from United States
Heartstopper wasn't to bad for a low budget B slasher movie. Took a large number of queues from Halloween with events taking place in a hospital. The film is about a killer who is hit by lightening while getting sitting in the electric chair and becomes an unstoppable killer after he's taken to the morgue in the hospital. The acting was pretty good and the effects were a little on the silly side, but it held together. Some religious connotations as the killer seemed to be living a life of eternal torture and was taking souls. Lots of gore and blood as plenty of people get their hearts ripped out as food for the killer. About an average B slasher movie. Nothing terrific, but nothing really bad.
2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :-
Lacking, Though I Guess It Could Have Been Worse, 10 May 2007
Author: Gavin Schmitt (gavin6942@yahoo.com) from Kaukauna, Wisconsin
A girl stands in the middle of the road, gets hit, and ends up sharing an ambulance with a serial killer who allegedly died in the electric chair. Well, he didn't die. And he is looking for the girl (Sara Wexler), which is coincidentally fairly easy, being in the same hospital.
Some of this movie is pretty good. The electric chair scene is alright, the coroner scenes are pretty good. And I especially have to give a hand to Robert Englund. I was afraid he would show up for five minutes and then disappear, or give a lackluster performance to get a paycheck (like Jeffrey Combs and Lance Henriksen seem to be doing lately). But Englund gives a great performance, and plays a hero brilliantly and with more passion than I've seen from him since "Slashed Dreams". Thank you, Mr. Englund.
The plot is shaky. A killer who survives the chair... well, I want to reference "Shocker", but should I? (If the director has a Shockeresque killer and casts Robert Englund, does he have a Wes Craven fetish?) Anyway, it's something hard to pull off because there are already many immortal slashers out there. Further ,the plot is just weird -- the string of coincidences around the Sara Wexler character... I don't know. Hard to believe.
And what's with the ripping out of the hearts? Okay, I get it -- he's a "heart stopper". But he puts his hand through a chest -- bones and all -- and pulls the heart out without blood and with neatly sawed off arteries. Weak, very weak. Maybe I can believe this in "Temple of Doom", but not here.
So yeah. I might be a little harsh. After all ,this isn't pure rubbish like "Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis" or any number of other films I could name. But I felt I was short-changed as a viewer. You set me up for what could be a great supernatural slasher flick and then really drop the ball at the key moments. Thanks a lot. I make no recommendations for this film to anyone.
3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Predictable but Somewhat Enjoyable, 14 December 2006
Author: PCyst from The Base of Your Spine
HeartStopper is a very predictable horror/slasher film that uses the same ideas we have seen time and time again. Directed by Bob Keen, who is the same director who gave us the silly B movie Proteus, Keen doesn't do a much better job with this movie. It seems to put Halloween 2 and Wes Cravens Shocker into one movie.
The movie starts with our serial killer already apprehended by the hands of the local Sheriff played by Robert Englund. Chambers (the killer) is already to be fried in the electric chair and pulls a similar type of performance of that of Horace Pinker from Shocker or Max Jenke from The Horror Show. After being fried (horribly) the sheriff and the coroner are taking the body to the local hospital when they almost hit a suicidal girl named Sara. Along with the body, they take her to the hospital as well. Once in the coroners room, Chambers rises from the dead and murders the coroner and anyone else who gets in his way as he tries to make it to Sara to take her body and use it as his own.
What this movie lacks is some background of the characters and and any real terror. The character of Chambers is played WAY over the top and is just not a believable performance. Meredith Henderson, who played the part of Sara, didn't do such a bad job and was actually pleasant to watch. Robert Englund as the Sheriff seems a bit silly, but, he was really the only true highlight of the film and he gets killed off very early in the movie.
Now onto the gore/violence department. Anyone that is going to rent or buy a movie called HeartStopper is expecting a great deal of violence. For my taste, there wasn't enough. I have seen plenty of movies where the subject matter is of people getting there hearts ripped out so that didn't bother me. But, there is one particular scene that is worth seeing just for that scene alone. Let's just say that Chambers decides to perform surgery on an unsuspecting victim.
Well, there have been far better movies then this over the years. As far as slasher movies go, this is one of those weak links. I would suggest watching if there is nothing else on, or, if you just have to see everything that Robert Englund is in. 6/10
3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful :-
Boring piece of drivel, 14 November 2006
Author: dmuel from downtown, Michigan
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I'm a sucker for gross-out splatter flicks, or over-the-top horror of any kind, so I end up watching a lot movies I later wish I hadn't wasted the time on. Such a movie is Heartstopper. An over-the-hill Robert Englund heads the rest of the no-name cast, playing a sheriff who watches a serial killer fry in the chair. Englund sends him to a hospital morgue where the killer, possessed of some kinda demonic power, comes back to life with an urge to rip out hearts. Englund is killed by minute 30 or so in the film, but he only has about 10 minutes face time with the viewer. I guess he made his money and left. There is absolutely no plot, no drama and no thrills in this flick, not to mention zero acting, and we are subjected to a series of about 6 or 7 heart ripping scenes for about 85 minutes. If this is enough to make you want to watch this movie, have at it.
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