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Blood Lake (1987)
Keep repeating "It's not even a movie"
I have seen many, many, MANY, many horror movies. You learn how to approach the different variations of horror films. I can do that, and appreciate everything from The Exorcist to Dog Soldiers to Pieces. But there is no way to approach Blood Lake. There is no appreciation after viewing. If there is, you're not human so go back home. The film offers the absolute low of everything. They've gone straight through the bottom of the barrel and gone way deeper. I cannot explain how much of a home movie this is. It seriously makes Zombie Lake look like the cream of the crop.
The plot goes.......far away before the camera starts rolling and you get a group of kids who had a dollar and their parents new cam corder whilst spending a weeks vacation at the summer home.
Stay away. I'm serious. This isn't funny. There's someone on the IMDB that says it gets better after seeing it a few times and he came to appreciate it. He OBVIOUSLY made the thing, and can barely bring himself to give the bunk a decent review. Be ashamed mister!
Tentacoli (1977)
There's an octopus?
*SPOILER* *SPOILER*
If anyone really cares, there's an almost sort of spoiler down at the bottom.
I am an ENORMOUS fan of Nature-Run-Amok films. I'll see all I can see. You get a Sea Beastie attacking and I'm a happy man. That's nice for me. Tentacles is not good. There's an interesting cast assembled here with
(A) Henry Fonda - Reprising his angry man role and literally phoning in his performance.
(B) Shelly Winters - She's big. Would have been much more effective with her as the creature on the loose.
(C) John Huston - What are you doing man? Money tight?
(D) Bo Hopkins - Well, I know what he's doing. Just not doing such a good job.
Apparently about $18 of the $750,000 budget went to creating the title creature. I guess creating a believable and COMPLETE octopus isn't a top priority in a movie about an octopus. The few times you do see it, it's a tentacle here, maybe an eye there. And it's always murky. The lone promising moment comes from the tease that Hopkins's killer whales (he's like a sea world guy) are going to fight the octopus and do away with it once and for all. That's doesn't really happen either. Ever seen Shelly Winters swimming? I'd take my chances with the octopus.
Frailty (2001)
A good attempt here by Paxton
I do rather like the premise of Frailty. A hard working, every day man is visited by an angel, and is given a list of names and a job to do. The job is to destroy the demons are Earth posing as humans. I do not however, like Matthew McConaughey, or however you spell his name. He is utterly boring in every single thing he does. And this is movie is no exception. There are different shades of Bill Paxton that you get with each movie he does. Sometimes you get the Aliens Paxton, where he played a great crybaby. Sometimes you get Twister Paxton, I don't know what he was doing there. He's riding somewhere along the lines of monotony in this one, but it's not all that bad. The boy who plays his son, Fenton, basically keeps this afloat. It does tend to drag at points (basically whenever McConaughey (?) is on the screen. It does a pull a little murky twist at the end and you may have to rewind it a couple of minutes to make sure you heard and saw everything correctly. This is pretty much because the movie lies to you up until that point. A nice try here, and worth a watch if you're as tolerant of "crapting" as is the majority of our film viewing audiences.