Kuukausi: marraskuu 2023
#1848 Halloween 2023: Evil Spawn (1987)
A pretty useless story of an actress past in the twilight of her career taking injections by some mad professor, turning her into this combination of a blood thirsty killer / insect.
Done in the day – and also introduced by in the DVD – Fred Olen Ray, the movie is full of bad acting and dialogues ripped straight out of 1950s B-horror movies. It would’ve been a much more interesting story to see her struggle in the actress career and either overcoming it or taking some other unfortunate actions, rather than going by this nonsensical storyline.
Either that, or going full ahead with the apprent humour aspect. Neither of which is seen here.
80s-o-meter: 75%
Total: 20%
#1847 Halloween 2023: Witchcraft II: The Temptress (1989)
Just when I thought the Witchcraft was an useless horror movie, enters its sequel Witchcraft II: The Temptress.
A kind of continuum of the witch story seen in the first movie, the second part builds its story upon an evil vamp seducing the now grown up baby from the prequel, with the hope of him becoming the supreme warlock. Gone is the little budget there was in the first installation, and everything here from writing to effects is subpar. Having much too old actors play teenagers is the ongoing joke with the 80s movies, but this movie really takes things to another level.
Probably the only good thing I can say about Witchcraft II: The Temptress is that it is the last one one in made during the 80s in the Witchcraft series of movies that has spawned a whopping 15 sequels to date, and that I don’t have to sit through the remaining 14.
80s-o-meter: 85%
Total: 24%
#1846 Halloween 2023: Torment (1986)
Torment, a horror movie depicting a deranged killer seeking her daughter and
#1845 Halloween 2023: Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
One of the first movies I remember seeing was The Mummy from 1959, which left a lasting impact on little me. Now, I haven’t consumed much of the mummy movies from thereon, but everything I’ve seen has dropped short of that experience.
Enter the early 80s Dawn of the Mummy, which is by far the poorest take on the subject I’ve seen. The movie frames the mommy as something of a slasher kind of killer, wasting photo models who ”happened to be nearby”. Occasionally the Mummy also turns in a cannibal, rips his victims up and consumes .. uh, some parts of them.
Dawn of the Mummy falls into that unfortunate slot where the movie is just plain bad, but not the kind of bad that would have any guilty pleasure entertainment value to it.
80s-o-meter: 2%
Total: 4%