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Reviews
Dimension in Fear (1998)
You know the frase So Bad that It's Good? Not this one
This is so bad, it stinks! I don't even know where to begin. Sound: miserable. Music: amateurish. Acting: Un-BEAR-able! Even 1st year art students could never have concocted something as bad even if they tried. There's a quite good reason why you haven't heard about most of the "actors" in this mistake - they probably never got another offer. I once decided that I will avoid the perfect 10 or the absolutely imperfect 1 because it would set a standard by which it is impossible to get by. But this is just awful and 1 star is more than it deserves. I'm just happy that I won't have to see it again.
The Shepherd (2023)
Faithful to the book
About the time I became a teenager, I began reading some of the books that was on the shelf in my childhood home. Among these were a lot of Alistair McLean, Arthur Hailey, James A. Mitchener and Frederick Forsyth.
Having seen the film version of The Day of The Jackal, I read that book as well as The Odessa File and then came across this little book. Hyrden as it was called in danish, which is a direct translation of The Shepherd.
Being an easily scared teen I put down the book with a shiver the first time I read it, but it grew on me. When realizing that a short film had come out based on the book, I just had to see it.
Was I disappointed. No way! Even though John Travolta is the only actor on the credit list known to me, it was great work by all in the cast. And much more so, it was a faithful rendition of the book. As faithful as you could ask for.
Both in the book and the film the revalation that this is a ghost encounter is first revealed at the very end, but now 40 years after I read it the first time, this first viewing was more like a christmas tale about hope and love and I ended watching it with a tear in my eye because of its moving potential.
Whatever small goofs that occur in the film, they are only minute and bear no influx on the story. It should be watched by older children and grown-ups alike this christmas.