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Meet the Erotic Cave Bunny! Past meets presents when a time warp opens in prehistoric times, allowing beautiful Tahra (Jezebelle Bond) and her caveman lover, Tiko (Evan Stone), to transport into the modern day. Present-day residents either want to make love to them or study these new specimens for their own evil ends, leading to a number of hilarious and sexy misadventures. Filmed in the legendary Bronson Canyons (the site of countless B-moves from ages past), this affectionate, racy tribute to monster matinees from director Nicholas Medina (Playboy TV's Sexy Urban Legends and Haunting Desires) comes packed with beautiful babes and rampaging dino-beasts! ... Read more

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Great mindless softcore!
Describing the story to this thing would be pointless. They probably made it up as they went along. Just know that its only purpose is to string together a bunch of sex scenes, which are the only reason to see this thing, and a pretty good reason at that. This is excellent mindless softcore trash! For example, here's the setup for the lesbian scene between Jezebelle Bond and Kennedy Johnston. Kennedy is trying to get Jezebelle to remove her teensy cavegirl animal skin bikini to take a bath. Since Jezebelle doesn't understand English, Kennedy first removes her top to demonstrate. Jezebelle understands and removes her top as well. This is repeated for the bottoms. Then, of course, Kennedy has to help her with her bath. Just brilliant!

There are six sex scenes. Three are boy/girl, one is girl/girl, one is boy/girl/girl, and one is boy/girl/girl/girl. In addition to Jezebelle and Kennedy, we also get Nicole Sheridan and some other girl whose name I can't remember, but she was hot with massive, um... screen presence. All the women were hot, especially Jezebelle, who spends almost the entire movie parading around in her little cavegirl bikini or nothing at all. The sex scenes are all good and very hot. As explicit as you can get in softcore with lots of grunting, panting, and moaning.

This is a Retromedia release, and very similar to their other recent release, "Erotic Dreams of Jeannie". All the things I disliked about that release are still present here, but overall, I felt that this movie was better than Jeannie.

I recommend this one. ... Read more

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Five beautiful starlets are summoned to the mansion of Count Byron Orlock for a seminar on horror moviemaking, but sinister events indicate a more diabolical plan: to get the actresses undressed for a Scream Queen Hot Tub Party with reenactments of their most vivid monster movie experiences! Join the finest gang of scream queens ever assembled as they run, scream, and take long showers with plenty of mutual soaping! In One Million Heels B.C., a Los Angeles earthquake frees a prehistoric cavegirl (Michelle Bauer) who finds her way to the house of two strippers (Jerica Fox of the Boobsy Twins and Cierra Knight) who teach this primitive babe how to dance for a dollar; From legendary cult directors Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Biohazard, Dinosaur Island) and Jim Wynorski (The Return of Swamp Thing, Vampirella, Chopping Mall); Sizzling scream queen star power! Michelle Bauer (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-a-Rama, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, The Frightening) Brinke Stevens (Haunting Fear, Mommy, Nightmare Sisters) Monique Gabrielle (Amazon Women on the Moon, Evil Toons, Transylvania Twist) Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet, Not of This Earth, Servants of Twilight) Roxanne Kernohan (Critters 2, Fatal Pulse, Angel III). ... Read more

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This is not 3-D at all
If you are interested in a silly DTV movie with lots of naked girls (including Julie Strain), by all means this won't disappoint. However, if you are intrigued by the 3-D idea then forget this one. Not one second was actually shot in stereoscopic 3-D at all. What the makers have TRIED to do is exploit something called The Pulfrich Illusion. This technique can give the impression of depth in a flat movie if the camera and background move in different directions. This has been tried, usually without success, in Super Bowl half times, music videos, cartoons, even sitcoms. They did not understand how to do do it and even with the glasses on there is very little if any depth to be seen, and certainly not anything which should be advertised as being "in 3-D". Shoot out the passanger window of a car moving at 25 MPH and then watch the video with the glasses and you will see more of the pulfrich effect than you will in 13 EROTIC GHOSTS.

Julie Strain the most Beautiful Ghost I ever saw,,,,
13 Erotic Ghost,is a fantastic movie,,, Julie Strain is at her best in this movie,,,, only Julie can walk into a room and light up the whole room like she does,,,with her radiant smile, her natural wit, and humor,, and her natural beauty,,,,, If you love Julie, like I love her,,, you will want to see this movie,,,It has alot of Lesbian ghosts, doing their thing,, but Julie has a way of introducing humor that makes even their antics funny and humorous,,Julie is such a talented actress; and even though their was not a formal script and the actresses and actors adlibbed, they did a great job, a must see if you are a die-hard Julie Strain Fan like I am....

Sexy AND Fun
An erotic comedy that is funny because of the jokes, not just the low-budget status of the production. There is a range of girls: cute, sexy, dangerous and infamous (Julie Strain) and the 3-D effect is an added touch. It's a really good show.

Julie, Julie, Julie
I've writen a review for "Battle Queen 2020" where I said that was Julie Srtain at her best. Well this is Julie Strain at her worst, I personally love this woman but this movie is just terrible. The only reason I gave it three stars was because of the opening scenes where Julie and two girls were taking care of business in a hot tub. I almost had to quit watching this movie after the first scene. I guess if you're into tons of random lesbian scenes, with fairly atractive women, then this movie might be for you. This movie really has no substanse and if it wasn't for Julie then I would have sued someone for producing it.

Silly and sexy, just what I expected...
Julie Strain Eastman is an intelligent, funny, gorgeous and extremely sexy addition to any movie cast. She isn't the Queen of B-movies for no reason. Aria Giovanni is also a sight for sore eyes. This movie was exactly what I expected it would be...a silly excuse for beautiful women to take their clothes off. Hooray for boobs. ... Read more

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CHAINSAW'S AND NUDITY!
don't be fooled by the shotty packaging on this dvd it actually comes with a decent amount of extras. this classic b-flick from the eighties is reborn into the dvd generation. although the movie gets a bit slow at points, the comedy and silliness of the dialog("kill it to em'","kill it to em'") makes up for it ten fold. not Fred Olen Rays best work but some of his most memorable. so if you like chainsaw weilding hookers and a fully nude Michelle Bauer. this is the flick for you! with appearances by Gunner "Leaterface" Hansen, portraing the weird leader of the chainsaw cult and scream queen extrodinare Linnea Quigley trying to infiltrate the cult to bring them down!

The name says it all!
Jack Chandler is a private eye tracking down a runaway. In his travels, he comes across a gang of chainsaw weilding prostitutes that like to carve people up for their cult. Featuring B Movie Queen Linea Quigley.

If you're a fan of oddball B movies, collect well named movies, or like Chainsaw wielding hookers, this movie is a must see!

They get an arm and a leg- what do we get?
A private eye's case to find a missing girl, leads him into the jaws of a sacrificial chainsaw cult- who want him to be their very special "John".

As a film, it has it's ups and downs. Watching it, even the most crude moments have a provocative side to them. But it always left me wanting more. For instance, the ending. To me, it seemed like such an obvious set-up to have the heroin Linnea Quigley pull out a chainsaw. Especially since her shoulders and entire midsection was blanketed in a trenchcoat, and since we never really know her character's been victimized at all. She could have jumped out with the chainsaw and ended the movie on a more appropriate note. But alas, it flakes.

There is very little plot to this story. And sometimes I want it. A little more dialogue would lend itself to interesting situations affecting the characters, but these people just exist for decoration. Except for Jack, the private eye character. He plays the really worn-out "cop on the beat" character, and with no real passion. Though, there are a few times where he brings some great physicality to the role, include small mannerisms. Such as the way he laughs, or how he reacts to the crazy events happening around him.

I found myself not digging most of the signature chainsaw kills. The one murder I felt actually delivered, was the 'baseball bat' modeling-for-pictures scene. Though the opening seemed to have the best touch, as one girl wraps up her Elvis poster in plastic covering before killing her victim. Also the "Virgin Dance of the Double Chainsaws" is a winner- with Linnea running the chainsaw across her collarline at least twice, blowing smoke coming from the saw right into the camera.

Wanting more is the theme of this film. More life for the cult leader, and not enough energy and ambition from this film.

A T&A & Blood & Guts Masterpiece!!
This movie has everything any red-blooded American male B-movie buff could ever ask for. Beautiful women. Killing. Beautiful women. Comedy. Beautiful women. A wiseacre detective a la Mike Hammer on valium. And all of it on the cheap. If you're one of those PC Nazis, you'll hate it, but if you can take low-brow comedy with a grain of salt it'll be a fabulous movie-going experience.

Funny, sexy
This is sure one funny/sexually appealing movie!...

The detective also was something else, he was such a funny guy!

In total favor of this movie... ... Read more

Description

Three gorgeous women will stop at nothing for a chance to become a famous magazine's Centerfold of the Year. For Angel Grace, this opportunity is too good to pass up, and she enlists the help of a doctor who promises her great endowments with a secret beauty enhancement program. But something goes wrong, and Angel finds herself filling out in the most unusual ways! A wild and sexy comedy that shows beauty is not just skin deep, but 60 feet tall. ... Read more

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The 50 foot woman grows 60 feet taller!!!
No she is not The 50 foot woman but this Centerfold is bigger, badder and better the the other one!And look! now she has someone to fight about who has a bigger bust than the the other in the middle of Hollywood! I did enjoy this one better then the other movie.The reason i bought this movie and probbobly why all the other men who bought this movie was becuase of the picture on the case,it was a picture of J.J. North in a ripped up white bikini (witch didn't hide much) peeking behind a skyscrapper while a fire truck was at her feet.I think this movie deserves five stars because well, just look at the case.

great campy movie
this is a funny great b-movie, with lots of beauful women,and a huge jj north as the sexy centerfold. the ending is pretty good, for anyone who likes b-movies, this is a must buy.

JJ North is Incredible!
JJ North is one of the most beautiful women to land in any B-movie in the last twenty years. It's heartbeaking this stunning actress has not done more. This movie is what B-movies are about. It's fun and filled with incredibly pretty women. If you're looking for Oscar winning acting look elsewhere. If you want silly fun, you shouldn't miss this. My only complaint is that there wasn't nearly enough of the dark and sexy Nikki Fitz.

The Most Colossal Catfight Ever Filmed!
J.J. North stars as Angel Grace, a drop dead gorgeous model who is insecure about her looks. She goes to a doctor who has developed a formula that will enhance her natural beauty. She drinks a certain amount every day, to help give her an edge over her competitors for centerfold of the year. This comedy is a thinly veiled cautionary tale about the dangers of drugs. As the effects of the beauty formula wear off quicker, Angel increases the dosage. By taking an overdose, her body grows to gigantic proportions. Jay Richardson as the humorous Hugh Hefner-like magazine publisher, and Tim Abell as the photographer, conspire to keep her from getting an antidote. They figure they can make millions off her as a colossal centerfold. This comedy is also a thinly veiled indictment of the way men exploit women. The luscious Tammy Parks plays Betty, Angel's main rival for centerfold of the year. When she finds out about Angel's beauty enhancement, she consumes a massive amount of the formula and also grows to massive proportions. The catfight between these two gorgeous giants is the highlight of the movie. This comedy is really a thinly veiled guilty pleasure!

Babe-a-liscious!
Normally I would give a disc with absolutely no extras (except for 3 trailers for other Corman movies) 2 stars but I gave it an extra one since the price is so right. J.J. North is a babe beyond belief in this ripoff...er uh, I mean tribute to 50's sci-fi flicks such as 50 Foot Woman. REALLY bad special effects mixed with mostly forced perspective shots make for a fun flick with cameos by other favorites of mine like Nikki Fritz and Michelle Bauer. The catfight between the two female giants through downtown LA is a hoot and gives us the best line from the movie: "My God! Look at the size of those T*TS!!" ... Read more

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It's Definitely NOT Virgin Airlines!
This movie follows in the grand tradition of "The Bikini Carwash Company." Instead of a car wash, the owners employ women in bikinis to save their struggling airline from going out of business. In fact, they go so far as to rent their jet just to charter a private bachelor party. Everybody, except the poor pilot, is inducted into the mile high club! Just put your brain on autopilot and enjoy flying the friendly skies of Bikini Airways! ... Read more

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Cool comedy thriller
I really liked this movie. Justin Berfield is always great and Robert Carridine was a likeable Dad. My favorite was the humorous villain, Mr X played by the British star Martin Jarvis. I loved him in Titanic and Buster and here he was different again - keen to dominate the world, just like a James Bond bad guy. Great fun - all our family loved it.

Justin Berfield
Justin Berfield Defenatly adds Major Pionts, cuz he is soooo Hott! This movie is only good cuz of him!

it's okay
The best thing about this movie is that Justin Berfield is extremely good-looking and funny. Otherwise it was sorta corny. Check out "Mom, can I keep her"; Justin is in that one too.

Justin is a diamond in the rough
This seemed like a typical young kid vs. bad guys movie. But having Justin Berfield as the star made it a 5 star film. He has such good comic timing. The scene in the middle was classic---where Justin was fixing macaroni & cheese and he was singing and dancing in his uncle's kitchen.   

Typical kiddie fodder
Were it not for Justin Berfield starring, I probably would have passed on this one. He is one of my favorite young actors though, so I gave it a view. The story was good and there was plenty of action; but the rest of the actors were only so-so. (Especially the girl who played the lifeguard; she seemed bored.) If you're a fan of Justin's work---check out the TV show "Unhappily Ever After". Justin is way funnier than his older brother on the show. ... Read more

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THE FOREVER CINEMATIC BEACH BOY
Michael Dudikoff is one of those guys who will always look like a beachboy, even when he's in his seventies. Handsome in that Californian way, Dudikoff has managed to stay fit and trim and a likeable hero. FUGITIVE MIND breaks no new territory in plot line or suspense, but it's a passable mind control pic.
Dudikoff plays Robert Dean, a happily married man with a lovely adoring wife (played stonefaced by Michele Greene). However, he has horrifying nightmares in which he is obviously going to kill someone. This someone turns out to be David Hedison who plays a senator about to expose the government-sponsored agency that is dealing with cloning experiments. A myriad type plot begins and while it sometimes becomes confusing, we are exposed to the real idea of the plot. Seems Dudikoff is not who he thinks he is and once he runs into former lovelady Heather Langenkamp (Nightmare on Elm Street), he finds out the truth. Along for the ride are a surprisingly plump Gil Gerard as a private investigator; Barry Newman as the doctor behind the mess; Gabriel Dell as a young doctor who exposes the plot; and Ian Ogilvy as the heinous perpetrator of the experiment. Add Chick Vennara as the senator's duplicitous aide and you have the ingredients for this direct to video scifi thriller.
Not a great film but an adequate time passer.

suspensfull, unpredicatble, intellagent,...anything else?
First of, I don't believe this movie is getting such a hard time in reviews. I thought it was very good.
Although Michael Dudikoff is the dominent lead I think Heather Langenkamp stole the movie. And this is the only reason I bought this, because of her. Because of her roles as Nancy in the Nightmare on elm street movies. For a Heather fan this is a true gem! But I discovered even more reasons to like this.
The scientifical intellagence, the suspensfull unpreciatble storyline, the action and everything in between. I was on edge throught it trying to understand as it had a complex and clever story line! It kept you watching!
This movie has made me a Michael Dudikoff fan also.
This could had been a masterpiece but instead is in comferbale position of the best straight to video movie ever. ALTHOUGH, it did actually get a limited theatrical release in the USA and Canada. Remember that!
But it does have some bad qualities. Heather and Michael were great leading roles, but some of the other actors. The acting was weak from some.
In my oppinion this movie does not deliver the sci-fi good of "aliens" or "terminator" but is a damm good sci-fi flick that is worth the buy!
Given a international release this could had been a international hit but unfortunatly is relitivly unkown accross Europe.
It does lack in places. But if your a fan of the lead actors and like a bit of science mixed with action, do buy this film!

I give this movie a solid 8 out of 10

Sci Fi Chiller without the Sci Fi
"Fugitive Mind" was produced for Canadian TV and recently released in the US as a feature-length movie. A company named GENCOM has reprogrammed the mind of one of its employees (Michael Dudikoff) to kill a political figure. With the help of his girlfriend (Heather Langenkamp), Robert must fight to regain his lost personality and stop GENCOM before it is too late.This movie is bad... poor scripting, bad acting and virutally no science fiction aspects, despite this being a sci-fi movie. I only bought it because I am a Heather Langenkamp fan (she was in the original "A Nightmare on Elm Street"), but all others should stay away.Also stars Michele Green ("The Unborn II") and Gil Gerard.

Average Thriller
Fugitive Mind is about a man, who was part of mind controlling experiments. One day he awakes to find the life as he knows it were nothing more than memories inplanted to him. Nice plot for a TV movie. Dudikoff shows again he can act. ... Read more

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Worst Movie In All History of All Planets of All...
I rented this because of Michael Dudikoff. I realize his career is on the skids, and he'll agree to any job, but this is just awful.

I cant count the number of times I saw stock footage. They stole a scene from "Space Camp" where the NASA computer was calculating the chances of thermal curtain failure. You can even seen Jinx in the reflection. I also saw the F16/F15 swap. And what about the Space Shuttle scenes where it's the Enterprise, the Columbia, and the Atlantis?

There was a budding romance that quickly ended in the vacuum of space right when it was getting interesting. They also blew up the shuttle in the fakest explosion I've ever scene. Looks like a sparkler. The same goes for when they blew up the station. And what about the artificial gravity? I might have believed it of the station (even though it wasnt rotating), but they had this space elevator that also had artificial gravity. It was just killing me. And this is a recent film!

Doctor Who was far better filmed. This movie now rates worse than "Clockwork Orange" and "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask". I demanded my money back when I took it back to Blockbuster, and they gave it to me. This movie should be reported to someone for copyright infringement. Space Camp was never listed amongst the credits.

The Art of Black Horizon
This was one of the worst movies I've seen. I couldn't even watch it. In the opening scene, the footage where Ice T jumps out of the black truck on to the truck with pipes is the EXACT same footage from The Art of War. This movie is terrible, crap and should not have been made. If you spent money to buy it, you got reamed.

Makes "Queen of Outer Space" look high-budget!
Horrible movie. Begins with a drug bust then suddenly, those characters disappear and you're on a space station. Totally unrealistic. The "space station" has passageways like a Vegas casino. In one scene, a hero takes off in an F-16 and suddenly, they're flying in an F-15. It's as though no one really cared about these blunders. Asteroid impacts seem depicted by the sparks of a grinder on metal. While I couldn't watch the entire movie, I'll bet it ended in a submarine. I think I'll go watch Plan 9 from Outer Space. At least it's funny.

Painful!
Low budget movie filled with stock footage, horrible acting, terrible special effects. After about 10 minutes, I had to turn it off, because I thought my head was going to explode. ... Read more

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Its Contagious !!!
I love this movie !!!! There are no flaws !!! It great !!!! I recommend it !!! If you dont watch it, I'll put snakes in your bed !!! So watch it already !!!
That is all .....

Venomous
When you look at this DVD you may think that this is going to be one of those movies where there's a giant mutated snake that eats people. If you do, you're wrong. This is what you can call a "Realistic" movie. It is about when some rattlesnakes in a laboratory/workshop are left alive when two people blow the building up. The snakes make a den in the ground and there are small earthquakes from time to time so the snakes are forced to come to the surface. When they get there, one snake bites a farmer and he dies in the hospital. All the snakes start biting everyone in Sana Mira, California and they wipe out almost the entire population. One of the nurses claim in her studies that the desease is echoeli. It was sad w hen the dog and the little kitten and the elderly couple get killed. To me, it felt like the movie was way too short. There could have been more to the story. I'd like to see waht happens next if they come out with a Venomous 2. This movie is almost like a documentary. To my surprise there wasn't any gore. Otherwise, this movie is a pretty good scifi movie.

MIS-TREATED
The career of Treat Williams has certainly been a circular one. After a brilliant start in the awesome "Prince of the City" and "Hair," this fine actor has gone from real bombs to mediocre material like "Venomous." Williams plays a loveably crusty middle-aged town doctor who is plunged into terror when a strange virus overtakes his small town. His estranged wife (Mary Page Keller) is a viral specialist in Washington and he is forced to bring her in as an assistant. The virus is caused by the bite of genetically mutated rattlesnakes, who escaped during a terrorist attack in 1990; of course the government wants their blunder kept secret. So the nasty government (under the auspices of the delightfully cool Tony Denison) decides to get rid of the town. There is some reasonably good suspense and the acting is above average. Hannes Jaeneke has a nice turn as Williams' studly assistant, who gets shot and we don't see any evidence of the shot in the following scene, but the bandage grows in the next two times we see him. It's directed by the prolific pseudonymned Fred Olen Ray (this time he's Ed Howard). It's not a bad movie, per se, just average and mildly entertaining.

Scary not really !?
well i really wasn't expecting much , definely a D- movie good in spots but never a great one at that . the effects are cool in places , but if you're looking for a real horror movie then go somewhere else the actress that plays the doctor so much more capable of better roles then this sorry one, i wish they would have spend more time on it,starts off cool then loses steam.

P.S. if you just want to see snakes moving around then rent it.

Not bad at all !
Sure, it is very similar to Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak, about deadly virus carried by rattlesnakes. But the stars, Treat Williams and Mary Page Keller make this movie fairly entertaining. Director Fred Olen ray provides a great audio commentary throughout the movie that is very informative and entertaining. The DVD itself is OK. Sharp and clear picture and quite good Dolby 5.1. Too bad, Fox charges way too high for this B movie DVD but it worths at least a rental. ... Read more

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Almost a total waste of time
This DVD is another installment of the B horror movie line. While many of the B horror movies that I have seen in the past were entertaining and enjoyable, Witch Academy is simply awful.
The plot (if you look hard enough for it) deals with what I believe to be a college serority, but I can't be sure because all of the actresses (for lack of a better word) are way to old to be in college. Anyway the serority sisters all seem to have special powers (if you call causing unseen explosions powers) which they use mainly for pranks on eachother. Other than the pranks these powers seem to serve no basic purpose in this movie. After a party with the local frat gets cancelled, the girls invite a guest over who hopes to become part of their sisterhood. Little does she know she is being invited over so that the bored serority sisters may harass her and play jokes on her. To make a long painful story short, she ends up getting locked in the basement of the serority house where she makes a murderous deal with the devil. She undergoes a personality and immage change (compliments of the devil) so that she may find human sacrifices for the devil. And so it goes....
This movie suffers from terrible acting by just about the entire cast and a story that a two year old must have come up with. The only bright spot in this flick is the attractive actresses that bare it all time after time. The nudity however does not make this movie worth viewing much less owning. Save your time and money for something a little better than this. I don't think that even the most dedicated B movie fan will enjoy this movie. There is far better out there. ... Read more

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TALK ABOT BIG TYM
THIS IT IT. KENU REEVS EART YOU HEART OUT. THIS MOVY MAKS ME BLOW TEARS INTO PAPR AFTR IT MAKES YOU BLOW CHUNCS BECAUS OF BIG BELY AIK..../ ") I THINK THIS MOVY GOT AWARD. YOU MAY GO HOME IF YOU NED BUT IF NO STICK HERE AND SIT IN CAR FOR LONG TYME WITH THE MOVY AND BELY~!!~!! BROUGHT HOME FROM DUMPSTR AND THINK IT WAS WORTH. BRING IT ON HOME GRAMPY WIT FIIIGHGHGHYTYYYHJGGHY MONKY STATUES. BIG LAUGHS NEXT WHEN THE BIGMAN GETS HONKY ON HONKYTONK ... Read more

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Counter Measures
This movie is a great undiscovered movie hit. With the hard hiting excitement you want. This movie has great combination of top gun/ Hunt for Red October. I highly recommend this movie to any action packed film enthusiast.

Dang, this movie is baaad!
Ok, I should have rented this movie from the library first before wasting my money on this stink burger...

The sub was too big and there was too much walking space, they ripped off too many scenes from Crimson Tide and Hunt for the Red October which were far better movies then this one. I strongly recomend you buy something else like Crimson Tide or Das Boot if you like submarine movies.

Just plain Bad
I have seen some pretty cheesy movies with bad acting, but Counter Measures has to be in the top five worst films of all time.

The story line, which has some great potential, is completely destroyed by the poor acting ability of the cast. Dudikoff can't even salute correctly - and he is supposed to be a SEAL??? Alexander Keith, while very attractive, does a very poor job convincing the viewer that she is a military solder. As for her role, I have heards better screams out 1950's era b-movies.

The scenes inside the sub where just as bad. Was that a Russian sub or the Starship Enterprise. I've seen houses with less room than the sub had.

The Special FX were attrocious, I've seen more realistic explosions using green plastic army men and firecrackers.

All in all just a very bad film and a complete waste of time.

Wow!
This is a great movie. A lot better than the frist, Crash Dive. I highly recomend seeing this. I would really like to see Michael Dudikoff in a bigger picture.

wow, this actually had characters
okay, okay, so you don't expect a lot from this sort of fare. So be prepared for something a little differant. Dudikoff plays a coward...until the end of course. His co-star, Alexander Keith is excellent! Hard to imagine that they are still making Cynthia Rothrock movies with a woman (yes, a woman named Alexander) as tough AND sexy as Alexander on the scene. She is a much better actress that Ms. Rothrock too. Good action but the submarine interiors look more like a space ship (Anyone whos ever been on a submarine knows that there aren't a whole lot of winding corridors or open spaces) On the whole this one is pretty good but, of course, it is no Das Boot. ... Read more

Description

A secluded tropical hideaway becomes a serial killer's site for revenge when four beautiful girls arrive for their five-year college reunion of sorority sisters and succumb to gruesome murders, one by one.Now, it is up to two local police detectives to track down the killer before the next victim is killed, and they must figure out what dark secret ties the victims together. ... Read more

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Was Anybody Really Expecting a Great Movie???
Pretty typical B-movie fare. Sorority girls are being bumped off at their 5 Year Reunion(like anyone would actually go). Anyway, it's up to 2 miscast actors playing detectives to unmask the killer. Basic stuff.
This one tries to be more of a police thriller than a slasher flick(not a wise move), though all the trappings are in place for an old school horror bloodbath. You've got your bikini bimbos, a masked killer, and a fair amount of blood; yet this falls short of being a satisfying outing. I guess the main problem is that the victims solely exist to be offed. We have no emotional attatchment to any of them. Too much time is spent on the detectives and their investigation.
Oh, well. Nobody really goes into these movies expecting to be knocked out of their seat. They go to be entertained, which this film manages to do at least some of the time.

Aaaaaaahhhhhhh, cheese
If this film took itself seriously at all, we would have a problem. Luckily, this is the type of cheesy b-movie fare that one can sit back and enjoy. Everything about it is absurd and it revels in it.

The film starts out with a cop swindling some drug dealers. He gets chased after they get wise. The car chase is actually pretty decent but there's an added bonus: It changes from raining to not raining randomly. Of course the cop catches hell from his boss (a character named Hugh Janus) as he's the rogue-ish type. However, it was the cop who was being chased. How can that be his fault? Luckily, it doesn't matter in the least as the consequence is a transfer from the LAPD to Hawaii. Cut to a scene of expository dialogue. We soon find that a sorority is having its reunion on the Big Island.

The bad-boy cop finds his new partner appealing. How do we know this? Because he fantasizes about her swimming! They must now find out who is bumping off the sororstitutes before all of them bite it. It shouldn't be too hard given that all of the clues point exactly to one person throughout the entire film. Through a series of events too stupid to recount, the killer is apprehended, or is he? Or is she? Or are they?

The dialogue is better than say, Matrix: Revolutions but it isn't anything exceptional. There are a few decent jokes ("It's pretty thin." "Yeah it's downright bulimic.") to pass the time between sex scenes and lunacy. The sex scenes are in no way erotic to anyone other than a fifteen-year-old male but like the rest of the film, they're fun. One of them features a woman who walks like an android trying to walk sexy but the program isn't quite right so it comes off as terribly awkward instead.

This films showcases; people who get bloodied and bruised for no good reason before a car chase; cops who can't hold guns; a family of revenge-driven psychos; gratuitous blood in one scene; name-dropping of b-film legends; and sorority girls on a five-year reunion. Sounds like a winner to me. The plot twists in this are as predictable as VH1's playlist yet in the last few moments the nonsense starts to pile up in a lovely fashion. Each further twist to the film induces a groan but also a grin, as does much of the dialogue. It's a pretty bad film but a great guilty pleasure.

simply awful...
Awful play, awful dialogs, actors sound the same, all emotions are the same. In my opinion it's an awful movie... I stopped the DVD after watching the first hour.

Final Examination
I'll have to agree with Izzie, this was the absolute WORST movie I have ever seen. Can you say cheese?....I mean really,it was literally the most poorly written film of all time! If there was an award for that now they might stand a chance...oh wait! The Raspberries, theres an award worthy of this masterpiece (of crap). Happy viewing, but really, dont waste your dollar.

p.s. You know a film is going to be a winner when one of the characters name is Hugh Janus...I was waiting for his partner I.P Freely to show up.

Final Examination puts the s,u,c and k in suck
Self castration would be preferable to viewing this masterpiece of suckedness. You are sure to sustain massive eye injury due to the vicious amounts of eye rolling required to endure this horiffic tragedy. So please, before viewing this muck, blind yourself with hot fireplace pokers. You'll thank yourself later. Fred Olen Ray should be required to take hours off his lifespan and return them to the victims that suffered this calamity. Only would that I could express how much I loathed Final Examination. ... Read more

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Crashing and burning at way less than Mach 2
Synopsis:
Air Force Liaison Jack Tyree (Bruce Bosworth) is assigned to protect presidential candidate Stuart Davis (David Hedison) on his trip to Bosnia to try and secure the release of American prisoners of War. While en-route on a Concorde Jet, the plane is taken over by terrorists hired by Davis's political rival, Vice President Pike (Cliff Robertson), to kill everyone on the plane. Only Tyree stands between them and the corrupt Vice President Pike's clean sweep into the office of President.

If you think that sounds exciting, don't be fooled.

About the Movie:
For a low budget film, Mach 2's production values aren't that bad. The Concorde flight sequences are pretty nice to look at. It's hard to know if they're stock footage or not.

The problem isn't in the production values or special effects, it's a lot more simple than that. This movie has a kernel of potential that's utterly wasted by bad casting, bad editing and a dismal screenplay.

You know how sometimes when a book or movie is so poorly written that a person might say, "I could have written better than this?" It's usually said sarcastically, but in this case, it can be said with real sincerity. /I/ could have written a better screenplay than what was used here. In fact, I actually got frustrated at this movie for that reason. If this is the quality of writing that gets into B-rate movies these days, I ought to move to Hollywood. I'd clean up.

But on a more serious note, this is the poster child of what not to do in a movie. Honestly.

For one thing, Mach 2 simply had an extremely poorly constructed plot progression, so poor in fact, you wonder if it was written by someone who even knows anything about constructing a story. It meanders here and there, and worse, is so obvious pretty early about who the bad guy is that it completely blows any opportunity for suspense.

Then it makes matters worse by putting way too many characters into the mix. In this case, there are at least 6 sets of them all at the same time, with perhaps almost 20 speaking roles, many of them shoehorned into being roles that are supposed to be significant somehow. But there are so many characters that none of them really get much development. Then when we're supposed to care about certain characters being killed off, we don't at all because they were barely even introduced.

And worse, many of them are completely superfluous. At least a third could have been cut from the movie entirely with a little reworking and would have created a tighter movie overall. For example, the subplot of the two reporters out to get a scoop doesn't have any relation to the characters in the airplane at all. What results is a series of scenes that are completely inane, don't tell us anything we didn't learn from other characters, and instead just ate up screen time and slowed down the movie. Cut them completely and the movie wouldn't have been hurt at all. They weren't even needed!

Editing could only have helped a little with this. Even with the bad screenplay, better editing could have cleaned up the convoluted mess and made it flow together a little better. Still, given the content of the movie, it makes me wonder if the editor groaned when he saw what he had to work with.

Then there's the casting (spoiler warning). The worse of it was Michael Dorn, best known in his role as Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation. He plays the bad guy here. It comes as a surprise when it's revealed, but then the surprise is utterly wasted by his utter inability to be anything other than what he looks like, a hunkish, nice, clean-cut guy. So, his bad guy comes off as utterly laughable. I'm not saying he had to be psychotic in the role, but as it is he's so darn polite and nice to his hostages that you can't help but giggle at the silliness of his performance.

The Hero in Bruce Bosworth isn't horrible, but he's not great either, speaking out one-liners that are supposed be clever, but instead sound like he's utterly bored. It really gets bad in the attempted romance between him and the female lead. You end up with a hammy attempt at double entendres between a male lead who's as stiff as a board and an attractive female lead who comes off and not even wanting to touch him, despite what she's saying.

I could go on and on. (I haven't even touched on the soundtrack.) I mean, you don't expect high quality work when you talk direct to video b-list films, but this is really bad. Really, really bad. And it didn't have to be.

There are bad movies that are so bad they're funny. This one's so bad, it's frustrating. It's like they didn't even try.

About the DVD:
Mach 2 comes in a hard plastic snap case on a single sided DVD. The movie is presented in widescreen and Dolby Digital 2.0 sound. It has a single audio track, in English, and has optional Spanish Subtitles. Picture and sound are both pretty good.

Bottom Line: A budget movie on a budget DVD. This movie is horrible. Just terrible. Bad Bad Bad. 1 Star.

Twice the speed of sound?
Despite a good plot, I'm afraid that even with outstanding acting talent by just about all cast members, I found myself thinking that this was a movie that was a COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT MOVIE, but WASN'T, due to too many characters, too many non-essential scenes, too much confusion, and bad editing.

Once into the story (finally, after a subplot that should have been omitted to make the story tighter) it was fast paced and exciting, but even then it needed more intriege and believability.

The star of this film had little opportunity to be the real hero,and I found his part actually rather bland. Not his fault of course that he couldn't give it more 'omph' or 'pizzaz'.

But, the film had an intrieging plot in keeping with these uncertain times, and I enjoyed seeing such great stars as David Hedison in a gutsy supporting role of which I only wish there had been more of. ... Read more

Description

One of the most notorious, widely censored horror films of all time! Impending doom is in store for a group of college students digging in a cursed Indian burial ground, where an evil spirit lies in wait to possess the living and cut a bloody swath of vengeance across the land! In the harrowing tradition of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this widely suppressed, gruesome tale features gritty, outrageous gore effects and is now presented in all its graphic splendor. ... Read more

Reviews (4)

Scalps review
Scalps was a highly ambitious low budget horror flick that should be in everyones horror collection. The story is well written and proves as an interesting spin on the slasher flick. Instead of making the evil killer a crazed lunatic like in most of your horror films from this time frame(the early eighties) it uses a evil native native american spirit as its vehicle for massacre. I think this makes it scarier than most of the traditional slasher films. The movie is filled with gorey and darkly frightning scenes. The only problem I had with the movie was the sometimes inappropriate lighting it used during some of the nightly killing scenes. It seems to be daytime sometimes in the middle of the night??? And also some of the acting is sub par but an the whole is pretty decent. I really like some of the slow motion chase scenes near the middle of the movie and also the hauting indian face that flashes in the fire and through out the film. Chilling!!!.......Jerry

A lesson to learn
I vaguely remember seeing this film on Continental Video in the mid 80's and considered it OK. I puchased the original movie poster a couple of years ago and then went on a quest to find a VHS copy of it. No luck. Then I heard about Retromedia and Fred Olen Ray Along with "The EEL" decided to do the 20th Anniversary eddition. I bought it. Basically Fred Olen Ray had to go through hell trying to piece together a print to Scalps. Most of the footage shown is grainy from a blow up of a 16mm print to 35. The cut scenes that were added in are from a Vidoe transfer from the 80's U.S. VHS release and Canadia 3 quarter inch tapes. Watch the movie once through and please forgive the grain. The viewing may seem like the film is over 2 hours because it drags and drags on. The best scene is the throat slashing. In my opinion it is one of the best throat slashings I have ever seen on film. I had some time to kill and decided to view Scalps once again with the commentary track on by Lee and Fred. The commentary is great. I learned information about the making of a film. From script writing to finding financing. The commentary taught me a lesson on filmmaking. How to make a film with no budget and the tricks to shooting with what you got. Fred Olen Ray explains about shooting day for night, shoestring budgets, how 21st century cheated him out of $ and the secrets to some special effects that were used for the murder scenes. I recommend the viewer to watch the film once without commentary then watch it with the commentary. The movie is not great, the image is grainy and poor but the make-up and gore is pretty good. The commentary is the best. Fred's voice over is much louder than Lee's but Fred is much more fun to listen too. 3 stars for gore and commentary.

"Its From Hell!!!!!"
The packaging of Fred Olen Ray's "Scalps" leads one to believe that it has been banned virtually everywhere and is usually only seen in highly censored versions. I doubt this is a true statement and comparisons with "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" are unfounded. If you do not watch the film expecting it to be some sort of forbidden fruit of graphic gore and unrelenting horror you will probably enjoy it. The setting is a familiar one to those who know horror; a group of young people end up stranded in a remote area and stumble upon an ages old curse that engulfs them all. The acting is terrible and the film does not ever betray its low budget roots. The one amazing thing about the film is an extremely brutal throat slashing sequence that might be one of the "best" ever. This scene alone makes the film worth watching as well as cameos by Forrest Ackerman, Carrol Borland and a general revisiting of early eighties horror. I especially enjoyed the virtual immediate "freak out" of one of the group who resorts to some priceless dialouge during a scene when they hear ghostly drumming. (Its from hell). The DVD transfer is barely acceptable and there is even a disclaimer stating that it was culled from many different sources to present the most complete version possible. What is odd is that I am not clear as to why this was needed as there is nothing in the film that would indicate the need for massive censorship. My thought is that the film was basically "lost" and it was pieced together from whatever footage they could find. Anyway, while I seem fairly negative about this movie, I did enjoy revisiting "Scalps" and would recommend it to slasher movie completists.

non-pc B-movie gore
Briefly, college students digging where they shouldn't. End result, student possessed by spirit of Black Claw, an avenging Native American spirit exacting his revenge via the forgotten art of scalping. A creepy movie with a very familiar theme (...).

The film "stars" many of the director's standard cast - most of whom were key players/extras in later films (Tomb and Biohazard). Notable names include Forrest J Ackerman (B-movie bit playa) and... well just Ackerman.

This is the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, featuring a new letterboxed transfer, audio commentary by Fred Olen Ray and writer Lee (T.L.) Lankford, the original trailer, and an exclusive still gallery. ... Read more