Too bad, a modern take on this might have been interesting, if it worked in any way.
A man's decent into evil is revealed, and a woman's revenge is initiated. A little too corny to be truly frightening these days, but a good solid story and build up to the finale. I heartily recommend this movie. Pleasantly surprised.
Second Nature-Perhaps if this was my first "secret agent" or "experiment" movie ever it would have been good. It was pretty predictable, lame romantic interest....some good action scenes though. If you found this on TV and were bored for something to watch, it's not horrible. It's doable, but pretty predictable.
Curdled-By far the most original concept in the group. Woman fascinated by death quits her job as a baker in a bakery, and goes to work for a "unique" maid service company. They specialize in cleaning up really gory crime scenes once the police are done. Quirky, interesting, and I liked it. It didn't blow me away, and the ending was pretty predictable to me (but then again I have seen like a billion of these things) but it was an interesting and sort of humorous concept. I like original and quirky and this fit the bill.
Why didn't the devil's helpers just switch the babies in the first place? Why the whole adoption ruse that would later make the father question where his kid was. I understand he didn't mention to his wife that their baby had died in "childbirth", but why had he never seen his own kid's body or know where it was?
Why did the father cut the hair in the kid's room so the Nanny could sneak up on him after he witnessed the birth mark? Why not just take the kid out for a moment and cut his hair?
Anyway, seemed like some classic horror movie mistakes and inconsistencies.
The acting horrible, the plot been done before and better.....husband sets up wife to get her killed for his book or movie project. Backstabs his best friend et et. Oh, sorry, did I ruin the ending for you. Don't get this movie, I am telling you. Horrible, awful, bizarre in that it seems to offend every group that it could have marketed itself too. Unless, maybe it was a comedy? I don't think so though.
I loved the book, AND I LOVED the movie. There were some truly frightening moments there, and I was glad we didn't go some places it seemed we were going. I also loved seeing my Rome guy, Verenus (?) playing a bad guy. Really brilliant, I thought.
Tourist Trap--Typical in some ways, but this 70s movie preceded it's followers, so I gotta think this is one that is being copied from. The wax theme was done before of course with Vincent Price, but this has a couple different spins on it. Not my favorite movie, but in the interest of seeing a minor classic that has something to do with major themes, I did enjoy it. Again not the best piece of work (and certainly not acting) that I have ever seen.
Mark of The Devil--Note to self, do not take horror movie suggestions from the husband. First of all, I have seen parts of this (really really bad) movie before. This is a sixties movie and a classic cult movie among some. I, personally, can't get past the bad western, sixties, or Gypsy music that is many time inappropriate and distracting during the whole movie. It's all about torture and witch trials in the 1700 or 1600 hundreds (perhaps even earlier), so you can see my objection to the cheesy western cowboy music being used. Boob shots, pretty girls, a couple of sex scenes that were probably shocking at the time, rapes, knives used on females.....yawn. Really really bad acting by pretty girls, and handsome men with nice eyes and other attributes (that are probably 90 years old now).
Have to say, am again sad to have seen it again, but forced myself to see it all the way through, so I would never need to wonder if it's redeeming at all again. Oh yes, well lit sets where actors use candles as that is the period, but of course castles would actually be lacking light, and so candles would have been NEEDED instead of STAGE SETTING for a horrid movie.
It does look somewhat intriguing at parts, but trust me, just walk away. Ick.
I have seen a lot of Asian horror since Audition, which I love (and three extremes). Maybe those copied something like this (though I know Audition most likely came out before). There are certain story lines in these films that take away some of the surprise when you have watched a lot of them. That's true in this movie, though if you haven't been following Asian horror, it's certaintly a worthy one to watch.
