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Basically the exact same movie as "House of Wax" - Vincent Price's first genuine horror hit released the previous year - but seriously who cares, because "The Mad Magician" offers just as many sheer thrills, delightful period set-pieces, joyous 3-D effects, sublime acting performances and macabre horror gimmicks as its predecessor!
When I watched it again my reaction and to my surprise was almost the same, of sheer horror and fear and never has my heart been beating so much too.
The sheer menace on the woman in black's face is just pure horror and the accompanying music just worsens the dread.
The scene at the airport with the brief shower and beautiful music was sheer poetry.
Even though duels in Japanese cinema last only seconds or a minute at the most, the sheer intensity of those moments made them better.
Late, great Grade Z drive-in exploitation filmmaker par excellence Al Adamson really outdoes himself with this gloriously ghastly sci-fi soft-core musical comedy atrocity which plumbs deliciously dismal and dopey depths in sheer celluloid silliness and jaw-dropping stupidity.
Eric Weissberg's and Steve Mendel's performance on guitar and banjo as part of the Duelling Banjos sequence remains one of the most awesome pieces of soundtrack in the history of cinema for the sheer intensity of its performance.
Although the substance matter doesn't belong amongst the other titles in the list, The Driller Killer often wanders on the thin border between trash-exploitation and art-house cinema, as it features voyeuristic elements (a gratuitous lesbian shower sequence) as well as sheer close-ups of blood-puddles and whirring drills.
This story is sheer delight, and i sincerely hope to see it on DVD soon
It's the sheer normality of this character who constantly has to push himself, test himself to see how far he can go.
Sarah Douglas is suitably evil (can't go wrong there), but even she seems overwhelmed by the sheer hokiness of it all.
This was rated a mere 1 based on sheer disappointment.
The movie deals with the so-called historical figure of Vlad Tepes (phonetically that is "Tzepesh" and it literally means "Impaler"), not the vampire of Bram Stoker but the tormented Wallachian (Romanian) medieval ruler that stood against the might of the Ottoman Empire with nothing but a few trained men of his own and his reputation as master of psychological warfare by means of sheer terror and unprecedented scale of prisoner execution through impalement (Google on that for detailed info).
I see some people adore it for its sheer badness, but I didn't find it particularly amusing (save for a couple of scenes and dialogues) in that aspect.
I picked this up as a twofer but the comparison the Blair Witch was thankfully nowhere near as bad as that one-the Blair Witch is ins a category of its own as sheer unadulterated BADNESS.Nothing is or ever will be as bad as that film.
The sheer moral vacuum of Tanner is a depiction of the worst that can happen when location and money allow someone to construct a "reliaty" founded on self-image - kill a man so that no-one will have cause to wonder if I killed my lover's husband to grab her - I don't need to kill someone to take his woman - and a life is a small price to pay to make that clear.
Ian MacShane's Swearengen is beyond brilliance...for sheer violence he is more vicious than Tony Soprano or Vic Mackey, yet Swearengen has an intelligence and foresight they both lack.
Well, I can look at all the outrageous contradictions, bad cgi explosions/scope effect/fake town effect/cloud effect, etc, numskulled goofs and sheer idiotic behavior from characters in the film, and idiotic continuity from film makers, except a few.
John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins and the unnerving Tilda Swinton complete the package of this movie that feels as if it was made for the sheer pleasure of it.
I damn well cared what happened to the 2 female leads, and I came within an inch of turning away from the screen through sheer tension.
Sexy,cohesive and method, on a very weak and poorly written part for her, demonstrated the ability of sheer acting genius: The story is self explanatory and does not require brain surgery to assimilate and nor should it: Now to my case in points 1.
Most of which is redundant, but the sheer ineptitude and lack of point is somewhat comic in effect.
The sheer amount of detail and striking bizarre symbolic compositions continued to overwhelm me.
The insistent preaching of the series is thankfully toned down, with the emphasis on a slightly more exciting adventure that recycles the perils of the previous films, like falling rocks and sheer drops.
This talented cast worked for scale and for the sheer love of the project and it shows.
Remember the sheer (albeit cheesy) entertainment value of the 80s prime time shows?
This is the only movie that I have literally walked out of for sheer boredom.
Fortunately, I just love the movies and accept them for what they are - sheer entertainment!
The characters were incredible... the sheer amount of development, through so little time spent on each... that's talent.
Shirley MacLaine, a canny actress of unqualified breadth of cleverness, intuitiveness and sheer heart, has said repeatedly she has no idea if a picture is going to work or not work while she's making it.
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