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Road House (1989)
I didn't want to go to the bathroom until I saw the ending.
I had to watch this for work because someone told me that the company I worked for had a song in this film, and wanted to know if the song was cleared for "road house's" use. So I sat and watched it. No the song was not in the film. Yes the person who gave me the tip is no longer on my xmas card list.
Some movies are bad in a way that allows you to make fun of them. This isn't one of them, and therefore has approximately zero redeeming qualities unless you like being annoyed and wasting your time. On the positive side, maybe the filming of it employed some people so they could put food on their table.
I recently saw some grade-school kids at a park filming their use of their toy trucks in a sandbox. That was more interesting than 'road house.'
A shame that a somewhat esteemed actor like Gazzara had to stoop to this level but some actors do that sort of thing, like Ray Milland in "The Thing With Two Heads," Beau Bridges in "Village of the Giants," or Glen Campbell and Joe Namath in "Norwood."
Curse of the Swamp Creature (1968)
Creatively Bad. Be ready to laugh.
So these people are going thru the jungle/bayou looking for the mad scientist's house, going thru thick leaves they have to cut back, for hours or days...then they come to the mad scientist's house and it has a manicured lawn, a sidewalk leading up to the front door, trimmed bushes, a ranch house like it was from suburbia! Evidently when shooting or editing they had no stock shots of houses so they went next door to some real estate office and snagged one to use.
This is an example of how hilarious this film is - there's more stuff like this in there.
The clothes, the poor make-up and masks...I wonder if when they made these type of "horror films" they knew they would be hilarious.