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...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà (1981)
Awful
My friend John has been into Italian horror films for a few months now. I'm not a fan of foreign films - the awful acting and bad dubbing in the small clips I had seen put me off watching any full films. I had successfully managed to avoid watching them until John convinced me to give a couple a try - The Beyond and Zombie. Quite frankly the two films disgusted me - not because of the pointless, fake-looking and generally inane gore, but because of the blatant ripping off of George Romero's zombie films "Night Of The Living Dead" and particularly "Dawn Of The Dead".
Out of the two, The Beyond annoyed me the most. The violence seemed totally forced, and in many of the plentiful gore scenes, it seemed like the special effects man took advantage of the fact that his country's national produce was spaghetti. There was little or no plot, the acting was atrocious, and the zombies seemed very non-threatening. And as for those damn spiders! The less said the better. They should have used computerised spiders instead of those pipe-cleaner models
To say that the Italian horror film disgusts me in every way possible would be a gross understatement. There is nothing at all of worth in these cheap and visually repulsive copies of classic American and British films, and to my mind this is yet another offensive piece of Euro-crap that the tasteful people of the world could do well without.
Never again will I waste three hours of my life on such awful, badly acted, ugly looking films with the worst music I have ever heard. Absolutely awful.
Nattens engel (1998)
Superb
I saw this film at the "Dead By Dawn" festival, half way through an all-nighter. I was expecting to watch 10 mins and then sleep through the rest. How wrong I was! If you can look past the influence from "From Dusk Till Dawn", there lies a absolutely great film - funny, gory and highly intelligent. It's a crime that a film of such high quality will unlikely see a proper UK theatrical release, and will probably not see a DVD or video release either.
Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Classic
Dumb and Dumber is without a doubt one of the funniest films of all time, and definitely Jim Carrey's best performance yet. There are plenty of obscene jokes at a first glance, but there is a lot of visual and subtle humour crammed into 100-odd minutes as well. The plot is simple but effective, paving way for lots of humour. Dumb and Dumber is definitely up with "Austin Powers", "Monty Python" and "Back To The Future" as some of the funniest films/TV series of all time.
Back to the Future (1985)
Classic
Back to the Future is an absolute classic film. It has just the right amount of action / sci-fi and plenty of comedy. George McFly is an absolute classic character. "You mean you're gonna go touch her on her..."
The whole trilogy is great, but the first remains the best, and one of my favourite films of all time.
I'm Alan Partridge (1997)
Brilliant
I'm Alan Partridge is one of the funniest TV programmes ever made. It's a shame that it hasn't reached the United States yet, but hopefully it will soon, so that the rest of the world besides the UK can enjoy it. "Oooh, Scary Irish Men!"