Dr_Cosmo_McKinley Reviews

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

An absolute mess...Producers Cut is way to go

[4/10 · 2 April 2008]

I had the fortunate experience of watching the Producer Cut of this movie before I saw the 'official' version and may I say i'm glad I did otherwise I might have been too shocked and hesitant to watch another version. The official version is an absolute mess to say the least, it has deleted and shortened SO many scenes that were crucial to the story and simply replaced it with blood and guts with no real explanation besides a small scene with Tommy Doyle talking about 'Thorn' and its history. Overall, this version of the movie was simply re-made for mindless idiots who only view a movie for possible breast exposure or violent madness. The final nail in the coffin is the editing and and scene skips. Watching this you can plainly see that it was an ATTEMPT to re-do half of a movie with frequent black outs to scenes where people have magically appeared and scenery changes with no explanation to why those people are either there or what happened between the skips. These fade in/fade outs in the movie left me feeling weird and irritable about the lack of story telling and ability to draw in the audience. I ask all who read this and agree with me about 'this' version to not give up hope, check out the producers cut and see the dramatic changes and superior story that will leave you satisfied and not confused over what you just saw.

It's your game now, Doctor Loomis!(sinister laugh)

Hannibal Rising (2007)

A great movie, superior to Red Dragon and Hannibal

[10/10 · 11 February 2007]

This movie in my opinion is terrific in all its aspects. The acting is superb especially from Gaspard Ulliel who is cold and menacing and portrays Hannibal Lecter 'truly' as if he was in real life. The storyline and direction is great expressing a vast emotional range of the characters, the beautiful and ugly side of humanity and how ones mind could work in such situations.

The most noticeable thing about this movie which truly caps this off as a successful prequel is the tone of the movie. In Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal the tone is very different from what you experience in this movie which in my opinion is very refreshing from what we're all accustomed to seeing in these movies.

Shock Treatment (1981)

Come on...At least a 5-6 rating

[10/10 · 17 July 2006]

For all those whom disliked Shock Treatment and gave it a score of under 5, I seriously don't agree with you. From discussions I have read and things people have told me, the main response was "Not as good as Rocky Horror". You have to realise that Shock Treatment is technically a sequel and is a great movie on its own.

When I first watched it, I didn't like it that much until I came to the conclusion that it isn't RHPS-like due to it not having any Gothic aspects but instead took ideas from real life and most importantly the modern day media which pretty much dominates our lives.

The music is good, the storyline is good and the acting in my opinion is good, except of course for Jessica Harper's lack in facial expression throughout the movie.

Overall it is a good movie, but you might have to watch it 2-3 times and steer away from comparing it to the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It is a great rock comedy musical and is a great follow up to Rocky Horror from the 80's.