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Wolves (2014)
Enjoyable Film
This certainly is not American Werewolf in London. But I have to say it was fun. For some reason it reminded me of Lost Boys (without the awesome soundtrack). It's fairly fast moving.
Santa Jaws (2018)
Sure to become a Holiday Classic.
I think the Grinch has been unseated. It has some of the best special effects of any Christmas movie to date. You'll laugh, You'll cry, You will Stand Up and Cheer!
Grey Skies (2010)
The Best Realistic Alien Abduction Movie
I was surprised to see the low ratings for this film. I must say that I thought it was the best and (theoretically) the most accurate film of its class. It brought back some remnants of the literary work of Whitley Strieber.
Without any of the hokey "found footage" film; the writers and director do an excellent job of evoking how a reasonable abduction might occur. Each of the characters were believable, though not fully developed. It didn't really matter how developed the characters were to make this work.
What I do have to take to task is the results of the abduction. It took an outstanding film and made made it a great film. In the "less is more" category we didn't need to see what the aliens did. Moreover, it was pushing the envelop when the abductees left with a "puppet master" change of personality. This wasn't needed; and the shots inside the spaceship weren't needed and were probably an expensive cost.
Good show!
Nazis at the Center of the Earth (2012)
Bad, Very Bad
There are bad movies, and then there are bad movies which are so bad they are good. This is NOT one of those. Asylum has a history of releasing "guilty pleasures." This was not one of those. One of the worst movies ever made. I feel sorry for the actors who had to go through the process of making it. Not only was it bad, it was boring. I do have to say that as a script it probably looked like an interesting project, but when turned into an actual movie --- not so much!
The CGI is about the same quality, overall, as in a 2010 Xbox game. They should have just made the entire movie in CGI so no actors had to be involved in this mess.
The Lost Future (2010)
Can you imagine the "Pitch" Meeting ?
I can just imagine the "Pitch" Meeting.
OK. We have cavemen and zombies - well, not exactly zombies, we'll call them mutants. The cavemen all have perfectly groomed facial hair and the cave women wear makeup.
Well, these aren't OLD cavemen - this is the future and we have turned back into cavemen. Nobody can read, but everybody can speak perfect English.
Oh - and they fight giant Sloths and apparently (though not seen, but mentioned) Mammoths. Since this is "future-cavemen" those creatures were made by genetic engineering in the past - you know, before everyone turned into cavemen.
There are apparently only 2 people who can read. One of them is a caveman from a tribe attacked by zombies (oh - I mean mutants). His father taught him to read (apparently using Mark Twain literature) then his father died. However before he died, he made a "yellow dust" which keeps people from becoming zombies (oh - I mean mutants). So the son must use his reading skills (and apparently the ability to understand chemical structures) to make more "yellow dust."
Then we end it!
Q: Does he make the "yellow dust"? A: Can we say "SEQUEL" !!!
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Genetics
As a geneticist, I was a bit taken back by this movie. The mutants make statements that they were driven into the mine by the nuclear testing and that it was the nuclear testing that "made them." Certainly radiation can cause harm to DNA, but that would show up in the NEXT generation. Given the ages of the mutants and the approximate time line, it wasn't clear that it was their parents who were radiated causing those births; nor that enough time had past for a second generation to be produced --- assuming the parents did not receive sufficient radiation causing them to die prior to producing offspring. While certainly radiation exposure can result in "mutant" offspring, most of them would either be still born or die shortly after birth.
Anonymous Rex (2004)
Forever Knight Similarities?
While watching this film, I kept having flashbacks to a vampire series which played a few years ago, Forever Knight. The similarities were many:
(1) Protagonist PI versus Police Detective (2) Nightclub as meeting place for Dinosaurs / Vampires (3) Protagpmost lives in loft (4) Hiding secret identities (Dinosaur / Vampire) (5) Human let in on secret ("Daughter" / Girlfriend) (6) Secret Society of Violent Elders (Council / Enforcers)
etc.
They both also looked like they were filmed in Toronto, though for Anonymous Rex I have no validation.