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An avid horror fan with an odd nostalgia for older horror movies, I don't even mind the sleazy ones, provided they have some entertainment value.
Favorite movies:
American Psycho (2000)
The innocents
sentinel 1977
Rosemary's baby
The Thing 1982
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
Edward scizzorhands
Texas chainsaw masacre
suspiria (1977)
Inferno
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
Prince of darkness
Silence of the lambs series
the ninth gate
Nightmare at Elm Street
Cat's eye
Evil Dead
Nightmare at Elm street (old)
Matrix
fallen
Americna psycho
Equilibrium
Resident evil
Mr bean
Seven
Aliens
Event horizon
The illusionist
Prestige
Ratings
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Reviews
Tales from the Darkside: A Choice of Dreams (1986)
An OK plot with a daft ending
A cold hearted mobster, who is dying of cancer is approached by a strange man who claims that he can make his afterlife pleasant by inducing sweet dreams & by erasing his memories of guilt.
As always, the talents employed by TFDS resonate well with the plot, the characters- the mobster (played by Abe Vigoda), his faithful comrade, the accuser-doctor & the eerie scientist are all played nicely.
But good actors are not a substitute for a not so good script. Although I do I like the small twist just before the climax, the climax itself is just daft & feeble & is short of anything fulfilling. I like watching TDFS but if my memory serves me right, this is not the first episode of this kind.
I give it a 4.
Matango (1963)
Thou shall not eat of the forbidden mushroom, lest ye shall surely become one.
After seeing all the positive reviews on IMDb, I thought I would give this one a try. I liked the first half of the film, the acting was good especially for a B grade horror, the characters seemed to be nicely developed , the build up was neat & eerie at an almost perfect pace.
However, after the first half & as it moves towards the end, the movie turns into just about another b grade average, it loses its excitement & turns bland, not the worst, but there isn't anything outstanding about it either. I like the way its shown how the tension & mutual distrust among the characters begins to mount due to the scarcity of food & suddenly some of the members start turning hostile, a somewhat typical trapped in an island/everyone for himself situation, but that was the only part which was entertaining.
There are the mushroom people but there isn't anything scary about them, they could have been just as well substituted by zombies & this could have been another dawn of the dead type average movie, with an add on of the forbidden mushrooms.
There was some scope here & there was potential, but wasn't banked upon. It may appeal to an occasional horror movie viewer but certainly won't suffice for the horror movie veteran. To sum up, the acting & the pacing was good, the plot was decent, the climax mediocre. I give it a 6 ( to be precise 5.5 would be perfect but IMDb rating only has whole numbers XD) , at least it kept me entertained for about 60 minutes & there's much worse out there.