B-Movie HoF II: The Sequel!

@Citizen Rules

You thought many wouldnt like your nominee

I said it had similar feel to it like Mad Max

Thats a good thing

Mad Max is a great pop cult film...

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is supposed to be silly. That's what makes it so much fun.

You should watch the sequel, Return of the Killer Tomatoes. It's a much better movie, and it stars a young George Clooney.

Time to continue. Hadn't seen this one before and knew nothing more than IMDb's 23 word plot description and that Peter Cushing appears in it.

The Beast Must Die (1974)

There's a millionaire hunter who invites bunch of people to his estate for a few days. Each of his guests has a shady past and there's something that connects them to unexplained deaths. He's convinced that one these people is a werewolf and he intends to find out who - and after that kill this fearsome beast.


The Beast Must Die has one of the worst scripts I know. Newcliffe seems complete idiot who's given no thought at all how to accomplish his goal. With Dr. Lundgren he could have devised a plan to reveal and kill the werewolf without risking anyone else (a small amount of silver mixed in everyone's food). Or he could have just monitored the surveillance to see who the werewolf was during the first night. And why did the werewolf even accept the invitation during the full moon?

The film reminds me of some Finnish B-films I saw as a kid due to director being a local, eh, celebrity (Visa Mäkinen is his name, in case anyone's interested to find some real trash films). Good example of incompetent film making is the car chase in the early parts of the film - it takes a long time, there's no sense of speed or urgency and those "shortcuts" make no sense at all.

Acting is terrible (I hope Cushing was just pissed off for accepting the role). Music isn't exactly bad but it just doesn't fit the film at all (yeah, the lead is black but the film is hardly a blacksploitation). Pseudo-scientific werewolf theories rate pretty high on stupidity. Only positive things I can think of are that the film appears to take itself seriously and the unintentional humor following from that (there are moments that are slightly amusing because they're bad enough).

This might be a well made movie for fans of slasher gore and I'm sure some would love it. But I hated it as I don't like slasher gore movies and this was way too graphic for my taste. It seemed like it was well made and the dubbed roles made some of the character's seem funnier than they probably were, especially the detective. If this hadn't been so bloody graphic I might have liked it as it seemed like the tongue in cheek dialogue was written well and clever. But people being chopped up isn't my thing.

lol the guts scene looks cheesy and fake.. the blood didn't even look like blood... there were several annoying things to me... and I love slasher gore..

Oh forgot to say I did dig the muscle cars! Damn nice, the red one was a Javelin, I'm not sure what the blue one with the white stripes were.

I'm done and I just sent in my voting list.

@Joel can you update the list of reviews on the first page, you missed some of mine.

None of mine are linked either...

I like to go and read all the reviews once I finish a movie. I don't usually read them before hand so the links are the only way I can find those reviews.

Waiting for the second video from @TYTD

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Absolutely. Just give me a littl bit of time. I've been slave to the grind for a bit now, just need to decompress a bit so I can roll my sleeves up again.

OK, all reviews are linked onto the 1st page here..please let me know if I've missed anyone's.

Here's what I have left to see/review

The Dragon Lives Again
Cherry 2000
The Beast Must Die (I know my gut reaction review is linked but that will change - hopefully for the better)
Spaced Invaders

It's one thing to disagree with a posters opinion but this review is just nonsense.



The point of the chase was to trap people on his estate, his goal was to trick all the party goers and leave them stranded. The werewolf has a degree of control in the film that was clearly established during the bullet scene you were not paying attention.



Why does Newcliffe care who lives or dies? Why would he trust Lundgren if he thinks he's a werewolf? Was the plan to reveal the werewolf or to also hunt it. Newcliffe's is also motivated by vanity.



Why didn't he just beat them over the head and tie them to a board and wait for the moon to come out? Though your position is absurd because of what happened to the surveillance.



https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...acksploitation

blacksploitation
Films and TV series which exploited black popular culture. Usually revolved around badass black detectives with funky hairstyles solving crimes


I would love to hear your definition of blacksploitation.


I don't mean to rip your review apart and I will joke with you on occasion, it's one thing to miss a point it's another thing to be factually incorrect

OK

And this explains why the werewolf accepts an invitation in the first place exactly how? I know what Newcliffe was trying to do (albeit very stupidly but still) but I was questioning the logic behind the werewolf's decision to come to his estate. And you also quoted my complaints about the car chase so I'm assuming your reply was meant to refute that as well.

First Caroline was his wife so I'd assume he cared whether she lives or dies. I also got the impression that Lundgren wasn't that much a suspect but more like an accomplice (my assumption is that wolfsbane, silver, etc. were available due to prior instruction by the doctor). He was there out of scientific curiosity. And the plan was to kill the werewolf.

Nice straw man to start this one. Newcliffe was clearly aware of the silver's effect on werewolf so both easiest and safest way to put it in contact would be to have small amount mixed with food. And how does it make my position absurd if the surveillance system was trashed afterwards? Using it to monitor the guests was one of its main functions (the rooms had cameras as was shown earlier) and doing so would have revealed the werewolf at the start of the first night.

In my opinion blacksploitation films usually have mainly black cast, not just a black hero. There's a huge difference between something like Blacula and this. But I admit that I have no idea what's the official definition.

Sadly nothing you wrote shows me being factually incorrect. The script was terrible and you're free to disagree but I don't like your general style of attacking all differing opinions and trying to make yours an objective truth that others are just too stupid to see.

Should be on it's way for early November I've watched 2 of the remaining 6 so far and i've had a "Questionable" copy of "Attack of the killer tomatoes sat in my player for the last 3 days!


Subsiquently I've also spent the last 3 days being ferried to half a dozen birthday parties between me and my partners family (Octobers a hell of a month) though if you liked my last video I post up a new video review every friday over in the "Reviews" board on here



Also; on the plus side, this turned up today

@Joel, I've not left. Just wrote a review of Night of the Creeps

I knew ya didn't leave, all good1

Shlt, I almost left at one point, though! lol

The Beast Must Die

and there must be spoilers.

After reading other reviews, I was a little worried about this one, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by it. I remember a ton of similar movies from the Seventies that would play out on local TV horror film related shows so the setup and the execution was like meandering down an old, bedraggled hangout.

The opening, while a bit long, definitely gets you in the mood and is a good introduction to the character of our millionaire hunter looking to add a werewolf to his collection of kills while adding the mystery of figuring out which of his guests actually is the beast.

One of my favorite monsters have been the werewolf, which, with great aggravation, there is very few good werewolf films.
This does add a nice twist to the usual genre while mixing a kind of sleuth dinner, guess the murderer setup to it.
Our lead actor did a solid job, including his fixation and frantic excitement at getting closer to his prey.

There was some amusing red herrings to who was the werewolf

This also had some nice surprises in actors, including:
Charles Gray manning the surveilence whom I remember from teaching us the step moves for the Time Zone in The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

as well as
Michael Gambon whom I know from:
the villian rancher in Open Range
and in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow as Van Tassel.
And seeing him in a younger role was VERY cool. In fact, recognizing the voice, but not the face, I actually had to pause and research who it was on IMDb.

I think my one and only complaint was the jazz music to this, but then, much like some of the silly pop scores of a lot of Eighties flicks, it WAS a measure of its time, so I can't completely fault it for that.

And so, with this, I continue on some fun lil B-flicks so far and look to continue so.

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