Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

JohnLeeT The finest performance Sean Young has given since Blade Runner highlights this truly amazing film and showcases some of her best work. The script is superb, the direction like lightning, and the suspense unrelenting. Young sets the tone for the entire film in the first few minutes and they are minutes no one who sees them will ever forget. Young is nothing less than dynamite and unfortunately the rest of the movie suffers a bit. However, an overall outstanding cast, a director working with a screenplay of unique eloquence and imagination all come together to make for one of the finest horror films of all time. An underrated masterpiece that deserved far more recognition.

trashgang When I was in the first minutes of this flick i thought this was becoming a hell of a movie. Sadly after the opening credits it became one dull flick. Just the last 10 minutes were fun to watch again as a horror buff. How is it possible that a flick with such a gory opening sequence could fall into a blah blah flick were things happen off-screen. And teasing us with Udo Kier and Dee Wallace-Stone didn't save the flick either. they are only a few moments in the flick. Christopher Denham was worth mentioning, his role as Alex Borden was believable. But it was really the script that teared this into a sad boring flick. Too much of chess I saw. Even a few things that I won't spoil were predictable. The creatures also looked a bit ridiculous and the hallucinations of seeing creatures or people didn't work either. For the geeks one thing is worth seeing, a full nudity love scene that you can watch as a peeping tom. As gratuitous as it could be 'cause it added nothing to the story. Headspace is about headache, a thing i noticed after watching it.Gore 0,5/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Neil Welch A pre-credits scene sees a father shoot a knife-wielding mother in front of their two young sons. We then pick up the life of son Alex in his 20s: simultaneously with the onset of severe headaches, his intelligence increases dramatically, he acquires certain psychic gifts, and he starts having visions.This movie is quite ambitious and, for a lot of its running time, it is successful although it ultimately falls at the last fence. The engine which drives it - the truth about the two boys - is a good one and, if the movie had used that as the payoff, my opinion would have been higher. However, the story then goes further and unnecessarily feeds into a big monster finish (involving unconvincing rubber monster suits) and a frankly ludicrous final "twist" scene.The DVD box sells this as a film starring a number of well known stars. However, they are all in small featured roles: the film is carried by main actor Christopher Denham. He isn't bad, but a large part of what he is asked to do is "Ow! I've got a headache!" and after a while this gets really wearing. The DVD box also promises lots of gratuitous nudity and gore. The nudity, courtesy of Pollyanna McIntosh, is pleasing enough and not entirely gratuitous, but the "lots of" applies only to the gore.

Scarecrow-88 An impressive cast headlines a very elusive, mind-boggling psychological thriller about a deeply mentally troubled young man, Alex(Christopher Denham)who believes beasts are killing anyone he comes in direct physical contact with. His intellect is growing as he gains other abilities such as his unique ability to see things that happen to other people. He can simply skim through a book, for an example, and know every word by memory. He has knowledge of things such as chess which confound him. It seems all this started when he met a talented chess player in Central Park named Harry(Erick Kastel). He tries to confide with others around him about what is happening(..and the beast that almost kills him in his closet)such as a psychologist named Dr. Karen Murphy(the still very beautiful Olivia Hussey of ROMEO & JULIET and BLACK Christmas fame)trying to help him and two friends who he has peeped on during having sex. Karen sends Alex to a once-respected doctor,(Mark Margolis) blacklisted for proclaiming outlandish things their field found too wild and unbelievable to stand behind. Boris, who had seen "links" like Alex in Moscow, informs him that he sees what others don't..these beasts can use links to the outside world because of a certain part of the brain only certain humans can use. Alex tries going to a priest,(played by Udo Kier!)for solace and even there in the church during their meeting the beast shows itself. A doctor, Ira Gold(William Atherton)wished to examine Alex at the start of the film when he fell unconscious(..he seems quite healthy except for his exceptionally high Attention Deficit Disorder)and is killed by what appears to be a monster. Two chess players who Alex met at the park near Harry also are killed in a public bathroom from what appeared to be a monster.At the beginning, we see two young boys experiencing a birthday party where their mother(Sean Young)bleeds from the nose. Later, we see a seemingly possessed mother with evil eyes and a nasty growl on the prowl for her family. The father(Larry Fessenden, the director of WENDIGO and the vampire flick HABIT)has to defend himself and shoots her with his shotgun. He later sends the boys off to foster care insisting that they are separated. This may very well be why the strange occurrences start happening when Alex meets Harry, as we later discover that the two are more "linked" than they realize.All this I have mentioned above could be part of a warped, disturbed mind. The very opening shows blood trickling down Alex's legs as his hair appears in a frizzy frenzy. This could signify that he himself was committing all the murders instead of the beasts. I'm not quite sure, however, because the film won't give us a definite answer. The ending leaves you wondering what the hell is going on. I'm afraid the narrative becomes so chaotic, I was wondering if the madness we see is purposed to create doubt in our minds regarding Alex's sanity or that he just sees what others without his gifts don't.Dee Wallace has a small role as a doctor attending to Alex's physical condition. I will say that this flick is quite the mindscrew.