Showing posts with label James Brolin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Brolin. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 August 2020

Westworld (1973)


In 1983, a robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

Thursday, 13 June 2019

The Amityville Horror (1979)



Newlyweds move into a large house where a mass murder was committed, and experience strange manifestations which drive them away.

Below par haunted house horror that delivers the standard shocks without any sense of coherence or logic; at least the movie has an honest tagline: "For God's sake, get out!"

Halliwell (no star): "Sub-Exorcist goings on, a shameless exaggeration of some of the alleged facts retailed in the best-selling book. A shocker for the uncritical."

Maltin*1/2: "...film is yawm-inducing rehash of old schticks; not even good for laughs, with Steiger hamming it up as local priest."


Wednesday, 1 November 2017

Westworld (1973)



A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.

Simple, but effective sci-fi thriller with a decidedly anti-consumerist and skeptical stance concerning future development.

Halliwell**: "Unusual and amusing but under-produced melodrama with slipshod story development and continuity, atoned for by memorable moments and underlying excitement."

Maltin***: "Engaging story..."

Michael Weldon/Psychotronic: "Yul Brynner is great in a silent role...Richard Benjamin and James Brolin aren't so great in speaking roles..."