Showing posts with label James Brolin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Brolin. Show all posts
Saturday, 22 August 2020
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..."
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