I am a very patient movie watcher. I let the credits linger and I panic if some body trys to talk to me right after a really great movie has ended, because how am I supposed to know what I think of it if I'm still soaking it in? Squirm has pretty much nothing to soak in. It's a talkie. It's all talk, really, and it is so slow-moving. It's just a terrible waste of time, and I waited for it to get better and it never did. By the end I couldn't get my self to watch the extra features on this disc, because I just really wasn't interested.
Cheesy fun
I remember seeing this on tv and it scared me a bit back in the day for a few reasons. However presented here its a gem, the quality of the picture and widescreen are great but the movie isn't scary but at times laughable, it does maintain a certain atmosphere and that is why I love it. The acting isn't bad and you have to take it with a grain of salt....killer worms? ....could happen, never know? Heh
A DVD zone IT'S SMALL BUT IT BITES
I've always liked this movie. Not because I'm particularly interested in the fascinating life of our little friends -the insects- or because I'm a curious fisherman; no, simply because SQUIRM is an above average B movie with great horror scenes and well written characters.
A scene will, if it's necessary, show you a bit of director Jeff Lieberman's know-how. Near the beginning of the movie, the main character being quietly speaking to his girl-friend, a terribly long worm (yeech !) quickly crawls down the wall behind him. Without his noticing. You spend the rest of the scene wondering whether the worm will attack the hero. Stressing.
The copy presented in this MGM DVD is perfect and deserves to stay in your library if you're interested in cult movies.
Arguably the best and most personal of director David Cronenberg's early films, The Brood is an extremely unsettling horror film about familial disintegration and emotional trauma taken to a monstrous extreme. Art Hindle (Black Christmas) stars as a man embroiled in a bitter custody struggle with his estranged wife (Samantha Eggar), who is undergoing therapy at psychiatrist Oliver Reed's controversial institute. Reed's treatment causes his patients to give form to their inner conflicts, and Eggar--whose psyche is at the boiling point from childhood abuse as well as the custody trial--creates a horde of homicidal humanoid children who enact bloody revenge on anyone who has threatened their "mother." Cronenberg's first feature with name actors and composer Howard Shore has its... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Oliver Reed - Samantha Eggar Director(s): David Cronenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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This is one of those films you've heard about for 30 years and have never been able to see, until now. It has a small cult following in England (where it was shot). It concerns a lunatic living in a London subway, preying on commuters. The movie had a lot of potential. Donald Pleasance is terrific as a sarcastic police chief, the premise is creepy and the camera work is good. Yet somehow the film falls flat. When it's over, you'll say: "That's it?" The DVD has no extras. Director Gary Sherman runs hot and cold. His "Dead and Buried" is very good, but "Poltergeist III"... need I say more? Fans of British horror will want this rarity to complete their collection, others beware. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Gary Sherman DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Based on the Robert Marasco novel of the same name, Dan Curtis's eerie movie puts a spin on celluloid haunted-house sagas. The well-adjusted Rolf family (father Oliver Reed, mother Karen Black, aunt Bette Davis, and young son Lee H. Montgomery) rent a huge old summer house only to find that its spirit is in control of the estate. The requisite sinister proceedings appear--including a possessed pool and the vision of a sinister hearse driver following Reed--that disrupt the family's unity. Black also falls under the spell of an elderly woman whom she is required to take care of, but no one ever sees. While it may not be as overtly shocking as other ghost tales, Burnt Offerings has a creepiness that gets under your skin thanks to good performances and the dreamy, soft-focus... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Karen Black - Oliver Reed Director(s): Dan Curtis DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Fans of Wes Craven's more recent major studio work (the Scream series) may be put off by the low-budget griminess of his sophomore feature, The Hills Have Eyes, but the director's longtime supporters and aficionados of '70s horror will be riveted by this unsettling culture clash fable. Originally titled Blood Relations, Hills strands a suburban family (which includes E.T.'s Dee Wallace Stone and future documentarian Robert Houston) in the desert and pits them against a clan of inbred cannibals. The resourceful killer brood quickly decimates the outsiders' numbers, forcing the survivors to fight back with equally savage means. Like Craven's debut, Last House on the Left, Hills is a relentlessly tense film which demolishes numerous societal taboos... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Susan Lanier - Robert Houston Director(s): Wes Craven DVD Release Date: Released the 23 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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'Troll' is a fun story about an evil magical creature who impersonates a little girl in order to infiltrate a San Francisco apartment building and convert it, room by room, into its own horrid realm. A great cast (including Michael Moriarity, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack, Julia Louise Dreyfus, June Lockhart & Anne Lockhart) make the zany characters and broad humor work in creating an entertaining film. The 'sequel' has nothing to do with the original; it does not even involve the same creature. The 'sequel' is about city folk who vacation in a countryside of goblins who want to turn them into plants so they can eat them. (huh?) The sequel is quite bad, but the DVD is worth buying just for 'Troll'. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Michael Moriarty - Shelley Hack Director(s): John Carl Buechler DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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