Like the creature; this lurching film is filled with interesting parts, but is a bit of a mess. In an alternate 1930s, the monster created by Victor Frankenstein seeks a mate. When a doctor obliges and resurrects Ina into The Bride, she isn’t quite what anyone expected. Actor-turn-director Maggie Gyllenhaal has one feature besides The…
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Review: Frankenstein
Sympathy for the monster. Doctor Victor Frankenstein seeks to redeem himself in the eyes of his father by unlocking the secret of immortality. But his experiments create a creature that, in his eyes, is devoid of intelligence. Written for the screen and directed by visionary director Guillermo Del Toro, Frankenstein is an adaptation of Mary…
Review: Patchwork
A silly, over the top monster movie with a modern twist. A love letter to 80s and early 90s horror. Jennifer is a businesswoman with no friends and a crashing social life, but one night she is knocked out by a mysterious assailant only to wake up again as some Frankenstein’s Monster construct of body…
Duo Review: Death Race (1975, 2017)
Death Race 2000 (1975) A product of it’s time, Death Race 2000 is something you cannot replicate today. In the heady time of the year 2000, America has become ruled by a dictatorship, spurred on by a financial crash in 1979, and has developed the Transcontinental Road Race, a motorised blood sport inspired by gladitorial…