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The Rockville Slayer (2004)
Poor DVD actually makes the movie interesting
I sat watching this and I was drifting off into dreamland so many times. I mean, what's the point of this movie? There's nothing even remotely interesting about the story or the technique. It just goes from one scene to the next trying to be interesting but really just adding confusing elements that don't matter at all in the end. And the ending just shoots outta left field. But back to my first point. I was watching and slipping in and out of sleep and I thought I was dreaming when people were talking and it was so outta synch that I was expecting Godzilla to show up and just stomp on the stupid deputy and put an end to my misery. To my disappointment, the Big Fella never showed up. Robert Zdar and Joe Estevez are a guys you will remember seeing from lots of videos in the 1980s. They were pretty cool in Vivian Schilling's vanity piece "Soultaker" but they have no chemistry at all here. Maybe it was just bad direction but Zdar looks like he doesn't care much and he's really in sad physical shape (my prayers for him). Estevez tries his best like a pro but the weight of the silly story is too much for his shoulders. Linnea Quigley is badly miscast as a harridan and you really start to remember how far removed she is from some of her quality roles in the 1980's/90's too.
What I really want to know is if anyone ever saw this movie in a movie theater? Was it so badly synched then too?? I cannot believe that a studio would put out a film so bad technically. Maybe the technicians fell asleep and didn't notice that the sound went off. But even with such unimportant films like this, studios should pay more attention when making the DVDs. It's not fair to the indie filmmakers who try so hard and then get their films treated like so much dust on the floor. The end result is going to reflect badly on the guys who made the film. OK, it's not like the film was going to be good if the sound was properly synched up but it could have avoided being an unintentional comedy. They turned a snoozefest into a laff fest.
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Let's Watch Jessica again
I vaguely remembered this flick from when I was a young girl watching late night UHF TV and getting the monster theater signal out of Scranton/Wilkes Barre. It's original release predated me. What struck me was that everybody seemed to want to scare the Goya lady to death! All I knew of Zohra Lampert at that time was that she was the woman on TV who always said, "Goya, Oh boy-a!" To suddenly discover that the undead wanted to do her harm was very unsettling. I had some long nights filled with bad dreams after seeing this for the first time when I was only about 12 years old.
Fast forward many years later and I find a copy of LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH on a badly panned and scanned VHS print and rediscover those unsettling feelings all over again. Sure, it's not as slick and state of the art as I might have remembered it to be, but the performances are all pretty good and the story about Jessica and her husband moving into an old house and finding a transient vampire is pretty original. Certainly it's not a story that I've seen copied ever since and it simply celebrates the originality that inspired the horror genre in the early 1970s.
When, oh, when will this be released on DVD?