Film Reviews by AL

As the mother of a dead child, I found the ending to be sick. It was a cheap shot and a crass ending. Some things should be sacrosanct. Dead children stay dead. The rest of the film was not that great either.

... because no stars is not an option.

It looks great but the clunky script, that presents as though it had been written in a different language then badly translated into English, is delivered by a collection of the worst participants of a local amateur dramatic circle.

So bad it is almost funny.

I wanted the 'bad guys' to hurry up and murder the three females lives to put an end to both theirs and my own misery. The plot goes nowhere and has little to say that has not been done more eloquently elsewhere. It was not a good sign that the unending dreadful lives of the main characters was making us laugh at how bad it was.

Comedy at it's blackest. The characters and the scenarios are all extreme and hamming it up for entertainment. It's not for the faint hearted, but the horror scenes are cut so sharp you are left wondering if you really just saw it. This is not social realism, it's tongue in cheek fun.

I enjoyed the experience of watching this film. Everything about it felt fresh, I was watching something new and innovative. It is probably best just to go along with the flow of the storyline then analyse it later. I did not want it to end, I wanted to extend that feeling of watching something different. It is more a concept of ideas and though it does have a plot I found it to be more of a leap of imagination over narrative.

As executors of the late Alison Low, who did not heed the warnings and passed away towards the end of watching this film, we have been asked to review the DVD rental as follows:

There is a good film in there about siblings digging their way into hell. It's a bit like Alphaville, only with demons. The viewer has to use their own imagination to appreciate the five levels of hell contained in the film. The guff and hype round the movie was not required. The 3D effects were irrelevant and only proved to be an annoying distraction to the viewing. I ........ (it was at this point Ms Low passed away).

I mean me, I appear to be in the minority. I know most folks don't like it, but I think it is great. The episodes are fitting to the memory of the original and Rod Sterling. I hope there will be another series, but I'm not sure that the public have warmed to it.

On paper, this ticked all the boxes: a plot that did not require an explanation; art house and slipstream. In reality it is a never ending series of scenes watching a bloke walk around with a bag with a puppet in it posing as a Harold Pinteresque play. The ending was sadly predictable. Some parts I am sure were unintentionally funny. It has been a long time since I have given a film one star, and I don't like doing it, but struggling to come up with any reason to give it two.

Hmm... great idea, and it would have worked if they had skipped the schmaltz. It was a bit too nice. I think the writer started off with a decent ending (incorporating bits of other things) then working the plot backwards. The prologue was rushed, and was more like a preview of something that had happened in previous episodes of a television series, which may have been a better format for this story line.

...shame about the rest of the movie. It was not dreadful, just silly. The first half looked a bit like The LIttle House on The Prairie with monsters.

The first two short films are a delight. A good mix of sixties absurdity and flights of fancy. The third film let's it down. It does not appear to have any common ground with the first two, and looks to belong in a different anthology. However, the this is a must for fans of 60's British cinema.

I originally saw this when it was released in the cinema, and wanted to see it again. The film has stood up well and still entertains. The ending is judged just right, and probably not for the hard of thinking.

This came up in my suggested viewing list, and I decided to go with it. I feel an odd feeling of having felt entertained by something that is very un-PC. It's not really about the crimes, more about the very odd characters and their behaviors in different sets of circumstances. I will rent the sequel and hope for something similar to make me feel amused and unsettled.

The reasons why I enjoyed this movie was for all the reasons why some people clearly disliked it. It did not have to show every act of violence, and did not spoon feed the viewer with useless conversations explaining what was taking place. I would also put forward the argument that the blokes (expecting a bloke film) were deprived of a macho shoot out or fight as the conclusion. Instead, we had a young girl who dealt with the bad guy off screen, leaving the main character to reflect on the outcome. This film was more concerned with the mechanisms and the complex personality of the main character.

I found this to be a well acted film with a good script. The aliens were genuinely alien and were never threatening. I would give away the ending if I was to voice my thoughts, so all I will say is that this is worth seeing so long as you are not looking for an at war with the aliens film. This is a thought provoking adult film.