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Wow. That's Strange...
The Curse of Bridey Murphy
Senseless and Only Fun for the Pure Goofiness...
This is What the Multiverse is For...
Awful
I Actually Like It...
I could really do with a less crappy copy...
You really have to like this sort of film...
Not Bad
Surprisingly Watchable...
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I think you are probably right. As a child molester, and a very clever one, Freddy could have been active for quite a long time and had a large number of victims... With the children under his psychological control. As a murderer, it's just surprising that he got away with multiple killings in such a small area.
The filmmakers probably decided it was somehow less unpleasant to make him a serial killer and let the rest be implied.
I had a great idea for the (generally pointless) remake - Have Freddy NOT be a killer OR a child molester. Instead, have a series of killings and molestations with the weird janitor being blamed, based largely on his discovered writings and paintings - (See Henry Darger, the guy celebrated after his death as an outsider artist.) The notion is that Freddy had all these disturbing fantasies, but never meant any harm and was actually innocent. This allows for his supernatural revenge as well as having a nice surprise at some point when it turns out that someone like the Sheriff turns out to be the murderer.
So, would that be Russel Crowe's boot stamping on Tom Hiddleston's face?
I assumed that he intended a sequel because of that ending. It is possible that he has simply exhausted his store of good ideas or caught a serious case of diminished competence. Granted, he seems not to like comic book superheroes, but with Unbreakable, he made the best superhero origin movie ever and Split was very good, so I really was hopeful...
The funny thing is that when you look back at them - Each of the three films is an origin story... I guess that's all he cared to do.
Well, I don't think Prometheus is worth ever seeing again... I'm one of those who actually like Alien 3 - too bad about the characters we wanted to see again but, shit happens. My very short description of Alien 3 is - shit happens. Nihilism seemed like a good place to end the series and that's where it ends for me.
It's pretty realistic and very well done... Because of this it is disturbing and depressing. Compare to:
The War Game (1965) A Peter Watkins documentary style film for TV (which the BBC wouldn't show at the time).
Dead Man's Letters OR Letters from a Dead Man - Pisma Myortvogo Cheloveka (1986) a slow but unrelentingly grim nuclear nightmare that got shown on TV in the US in the wake of The Day After.
One more of interest is O-Bi-O-Ba - The End of Civilization (1985). This one is Polish and it's set inside what must have been a very well prepared shelter some years after a global nuke-out. It's all about slow starvation of a population of desperate people who are waiting for "The Ark" to come and save them... How do you rate their chances?
What a sad comparison. Covenant is very bad. Romulus starts off looking promising and then turns out worse. So, based on the little bit of good at the beginning of Romulus I still wind up rating them both equally bad by the end.
Dr. Strangelove is excellent, and Fail-Safe is solidly adequate.
That is an essential flaw in this version. They sacrificed a central element of the novel in order to have a different ending. I've just never really found the miniseries compelling, so while I rate it higher than this, I don't find either of great value.
I would agree that the ending of the miniseries was potentially better... But to me it didn't ever really feel intense or involving. What we got in this is a gimmicky ending that was well enough executed that I enjoyed it more.
I had been comfortably forgetting about this character... But the copy I just found of the second Nostradamus movie (Mexican vampire from '62 as dubbed by K. Gordon Murray) has the commercials cut out but NOT the Commander USA segments. It was apparently around St. Patrick's day and that seems to be a big deal in the segments that I am attempting to skip. Horror hosts were generally bad enough but this guy is intolerable.
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