Reviews

This surprised me that it was made in 1961 because it looked like it was from the early 50's. The women's hairstyles were 50's, but maybe that was meant to look that way for it was mostly set in the mid 50's.

Most of it wasn't horror of any sort, but comedy and even drama. The students looked very old and middle aged. I was confused by this, as it seemed to go up against a brick wall.

The horror elements were the cat, the cemetery, morgue, studying an autopsy and Moffet's nightmares. Most of this film was just like a comic with silly characters like Tiny and his girlfriend Ragdoll. But what I found interesting was the nice way Tiny spoke up in defence of Ragdoll during a beauty contest when she was fat-shamed by judges. His sweet comments were really nice as he said there's more to her beauty than just her looks.

This is very nice and a really interesting little fantasy version of the Grimm fairy story. The characters are very traditional to the story and with new ones added such as the black knight and the court jester. It's lovely how these weave into the story. This film explained what happened to Snow White's father, and why he was absent from the entire plot. I like the explanation here better than other film adaptions that killed his character off. I agree that the cottage of the 7 dwarfs is very cosy. One issue I have with this is why the "guard dog" never reacted when the queen visited in her disguise? And another question puzzling me is why the dwarfs gave such a powerful mirror to the king in the first place. Other than that it's a beautiful film. It was made in Germany, the same birth place of the Snow White story.

The film was using a lot of flower symbolism, and just like flowers, this movie wilts. The story began promising, and later it withered and died. The villain is the new teacher who every woman has a crush on and they're all willing to jump in bed with him, including the pregnant lady. It turns out he's a weirdo that keeps a very dark secret, plus a very nasty piece of work. The film becomes bored of itself, by making a silly climax ending. The villain always has the ability to jump in several places at once. The main lead actress never contacts the police and she doesn't close the curtains or shut the blinds. She heads out into the wilderness searching for a isolated cabin without telling the police. It lost intelligence.

This film started off okay and almost made me think it was about the money issues with the family and getting into the right college. Along comes the father of the kids the main character babysits for, then he offers her a shoulder to cry on, then he manipulates her into getting a place at a much more better college if she helps. Soon she becomes his bed partner, while her school chums are sleeping with rich men for nice money.

The whole thing was very disgusting. These are kids being used by older men. Sadly, it was the schoolgirls who were punished and not the actual abusers. Not only that but the film makers wanted to turn this into a fantasy by putting on a handsome dad, who doesn't even look like the average man in real life, to play the predatory sleaze who blackmailed the young girl. This was to remove any horrible from the film. If he was played by an ugly balding fat older man, that would've been more realistic and yet they wanted to make it nice.

The opening of the film was about a very spooky looking building with some lads sneaking around until one of them falls into a hole in the ground. He stumbles upon strange dolls and things and then corpses. The film seemed quite exciting sometimes but let down by the result. It wasn't until it finished that I realised this was disappointing. The film is supposed to be based on a book that I haven't read, although others have said the film wasn't fair to the story. I found the film itself tried too hard to be cool instead of focusing on the actual crime story. If there was a point to anything such as the killing of squirrels by the serial killer then it wasn't fully explained. The film was more about the lead character actress being glamorous instead of the important points.

The musical box opening music at the beginning credits was the most creepiest thing. The rest of the film was poor. It had no story and didn't explain anything. The ghost girl who appeared briefly earlier on was the scariest. The other ghosts were not, they looked exactly like the main couple characters who moved into the haunted house, except the ghosts were wearing emo make-up. A nice big house bought at an auction, even though the couple are meant to be penniless with nothing. Why did the girl show up to the new home owner? Who was she? Why was she related to the story? Who was the boy who witnessed the death of his family decades earlier? Who were these ghosts? Did the auctioneer know about the hauntings? Why did the same crowd of people appear again at the second auction and sat in the same places too?

I knew exactly what was going to happen. The film is so predictable and bland, not very interesting at all. This story has been done many times before in much better films than this. I gave up watching it halfway but chose to skip and look at pieces later on, which was what I knew was going to happen. The characters are wooden and certain things don't make sense. The woman lost her baby after an accidental fall in water, then her husband coldly blames her, but he already has his own secrets like picking up random women in a bar during his book signing tour. He was hardly perfect husband of the century. The woman's business selling organic food at a market stall shouldn't give her a massive big house either with a perfect view. The people making this film don't live in the real world. The villains are always dirt poor with tattoos and like heavy metal in these films. Also the heroes are the plastic boring types with few brain cells. No real family would allow a total stranger to come live with them or babysit their small child. Anyway too many holes in this film. The best thing in this film awarded 2 stars is because the little kid was the best acting and the duck pond was pretty.

This film is so underrated and almost buried on the shelf of old films. It's a hidden gem. The story is very good, although with a fantasy twist. The horde of Mongolian barbarians have invaded Poland and they're led by Genghis Khan and his ruthless army. It's a battle film of Medieval knights, barbarians and in armour, do save Poland. Also a shepherdess living in the village cares for a frightened woman accused of witchcraft. It turns out that she's more than seems and the shepherdess also has a secret. Hercules comes to save the day. He's a strong immortal man, who's been around since ancient Greece! Also Hercules is the ONLY one who hardly wears anything lol.

This was a very good episode and worth watching it again. Not only was it a thriller but also a mystery. From the beginning, all was blaming the little girl for murder because she was found holding a gun. She was going through PTS or post traumatic stress after losing her mother and seeing a murder, seeing the killer, and being so frightened that she chose to be silent. All this was distressing to the kid. If you see this twice, you get to learn what is happening with the child and the effect it has. The real killer messed up by being too ambitious and cruel. I guessed it was them who did it anyway.

My first review of this series, which I have only just started watching. I was optimistic at first by the obsessive Lily with very big catlike eyes, always wanting to be near Alan. The character of Alan is a top guy with a family and decent job although he's got two stalkers, Lily and another one, a younger man working in the same company who wants to step into Alan's shoes. I found this guy Merle creepy and it makes sense because he then tries to rape Lily and ends up murdering her. Alan is already annoyed by Lily constantly phoning, so he visits her to have a word but discovers her dead. Strangely he doesn't even contact the police! I wasn't keen on this episode because it seemed all over the place.

This had the scenes of a good horror movie but it was flat. Four friends stay in a cabin in the middle of a wood, and one of them decides to pull a prank on them. She puts hidden cameras in every room, which was creepy. Her idea was to frighten her friends for some college project but no good friend would behave like that. All four girls were acting like children, all excited, until they started messing with a ouija board. Meanwhile there's a strange man lurking around, who I guess was the handyman, but I think there's more to him. By the end of the film, I was very disappointed. As it made no sense at all. Now I think this handyman was checking on the women in the house, not because he's a killer or anything but because he suspects its haunted and can see ghosts. Yes, the women who arrived there are dead, and this man is alive and curious about strange voices and lights. If only the film went in that direction instead of farting around looking weird.

This is a really powerful and gripping film. The story itself was not familiar to me as I haven't seen the Hitchcock film from the 60's that everyone keeps mentioning as being like this one. I will watch it in the near future. I actually liked this film, it was interesting and the characters grew, especially Brigid the loving stepmother who meets a psychotic Allison. I don't believe this is a carbon copy or poor copy of another, but there are many films that seem to be like that too, such as Titanic being a 90's Gone with the Wind. How many more shark movies are there since Jaws anyway? So this film is just okay and the villain is pure evil and yet the ending is nice and rosy.

A lot of glittery outfits and pretty scenery. I don't think there was anything special about the main character as her appearance was mediocre and her music was quite boring, but as a fictional pop star she was meant to be the big star. She felt scared when a stalker appears in her life. So she hires a security guard for her house, but he's well liked by many. He's the one to watch out for, because the stalker isn't part of the plot. There's a number of holes in the story, such as why the security guard would want to sleep with popstar when he hates her so much. Also why none of her friends told her that security guard assaulted one of them. Otherwise a good film but sudden ending.