I characterize George Romero's post-Creepshow output the same way that I do Lucio Fulci's post Manhattan Baby output, except that, you know, I actually like some of what Fulci did. His films feel like a man struggling for relevance, falling back on outdated tropes and the same old, same old one more time.
But man, as rough as Fulci's life got, he never started a middling anthology film off with absolutely dreadful dialogue like ""Now I lay me down to rest, but there's a goblin upon my chest. He's grey and ugly and very gory and he wants to tell me a deadtime story."
For shame.
The first film has three stories: Valley of the Shadow, in which a woman takes people into the jungle on a cursed trip to find her missing husband); Wet, the story of digging up a mermaid and Housecall, which has a doctor visit a boy who claims to be a vampire.
At least Tom Savini directed the last story and tried. The rest of this, put together by Michael Fischa (My Mom's A Werewolf) and Jeff Monhahan, who appeared in Romero's films Two Evil Eyes and Bruiser, made me question just how bad movies can be and I just spent a week watching every Bruno Mattei film I could get my hands on.
I really hope that Romero at least got some money for these films, because I see no reason that he should be involved in these pictures. I struggled to get through these. Don't make the same error that I did.
But man, as rough as Fulci's life got, he never started a middling anthology film off with absolutely dreadful dialogue like ""Now I lay me down to rest, but there's a goblin upon my chest. He's grey and ugly and very gory and he wants to tell me a deadtime story."
For shame.
The first film has three stories: Valley of the Shadow, in which a woman takes people into the jungle on a cursed trip to find her missing husband); Wet, the story of digging up a mermaid and Housecall, which has a doctor visit a boy who claims to be a vampire.
At least Tom Savini directed the last story and tried. The rest of this, put together by Michael Fischa (My Mom's A Werewolf) and Jeff Monhahan, who appeared in Romero's films Two Evil Eyes and Bruiser, made me question just how bad movies can be and I just spent a week watching every Bruno Mattei film I could get my hands on.
I really hope that Romero at least got some money for these films, because I see no reason that he should be involved in these pictures. I struggled to get through these. Don't make the same error that I did.