Take the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, add a dash of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and a lot more rum. Shake well and you'll have something resembling Dead Man's Chest, a bombastic sequel that's enjoyable as long as you don't think too hard about it. The film opens with the interrupted wedding of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), both of whom are arrested for aiding in the escape of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in the first film. Their freedom can only be obtained by getting Captain Jack's compass, which is linked to a key that's linked to a chest belonging to Davy Jones, an undead pirate with a tentacle face and in possession of a lot of people's souls. If you're already confused, don't worry--plot is definitely not the... Learn More
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This film has one redeeming factor: It is only 66 minutes long. I bought this for two reasons, first because I am a fan of Jerry Warren as a Director (after all he made both "Frankenstein Island" and "The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman", two of the most entertainingly awful movies ever), and second, because I am a John Carradine completist. I have seen many, many Carradine films, and am wondering if any of them are actually not made of cheese.
This is a black and white effort and Carradine looks relatively young here. The movie starts with a lot of stock footage shot in an aquarium. First we see a shark fighting an octopus, which I thought was a very promising opening. The fight went on and on in an orgy of teeth and ink, all the while a very boring narrator tells us about the conquest... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Jerry Warren DVD Release Date: Released the 18 March 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Okay, I realize that's not saying much, but this is an entertaining picture much in the way that Ed Wood and Phil Tucker movies are entertaining. This is one of the 3 Abominable Snowman pictures released in the 50's. This version is much better than the BORING Snow Creature and more campy than Hammer's Abominable Snowman. Plot involves a young woman in search of her brother who is on an expedition to find the Yeti. Warren has stolen some footage of mountain climbing, but obviously spent more time trying to match the footage in this film versus his other spliced up messes.
There is enough plot information in the Editorial review and the VHS review. Let's discuss the merits of the DVD. As with most Rhino DVD's, you get the movie and that's it. The picture is okay. Not spectacular, but... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Jerry Warren DVD Release Date: Released the 30 July 2002 Special Order
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Nothing captures the peculiar pastiche of the pop-cultural zeitgeist like Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K to fans). The formula is simple: subject a hapless temp worker, Mike Nelson, and his robot friends, Tom Servo and Crow, marooned in space to the worst B, C, even Z-grade movies imaginable and record the results. On The Wild World of Batwoman, they quip through a movie summed up best by Crow: "It looks like they just put a whole lotta movies in a blender and turned it on really fast!" The plot of the movie is hapless at best, inexplicably puncuated by bikini-clad "Batgirls" go-go dancing with guns (Mike quips: "That's 40 pounds of butt in pants with a 30-pound capacity."). The episode starts with a '50s educational short on student cheating that is so dour in... More Info About This DVD Director(s): Jerry Warren DVD Release Date: Released the 30 January 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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