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Movie Review: Hell of the Living Dead (1980)

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Synopsis: After the population of New Guinea begins turning into zombies, four commandos and two reporters brave hoards of the undead to find the source. Only distrust threatens to make their journey even more difficult. Who's in it? The movie stars Margie Newton, Franco Garofalo, Selan Karay, José Gras and Gabriel Renom. Review: It's another cold, rainy and now stormy night so we ended up staying home and watching a movie again. Since it has been a while since our last zombie movie, I went with Hell of the Living Dead . After watching it, I immediately wished I had picked a different movie. As far as the overall plot is concerned, this Italian film is basically your typical zombie movie, borrowing from (ripping off) plenty of other films. There are zombies created by an experiment gone bad, they eat people and anyone who is bitten turns into one.  It's a proven formula that is hard to mess up. Unfortunately, this movie managed to do just that. One of the fil...

Movie Review: Friday the 13th (1980)

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Synopsis : 21 years after Camp Crystal Lake was shut down following a drowning and the murder of two camp counselors, Steve Christy is looking to re-open the property and has brought in a group of counselors to help him. Shortly after arriving, however, the counselors are stalked by an unknown killer. Who's in it? The movie stars Betsy Palmer , Adrienne King , Robbi Morgan , Kevin Bacon and Harry Crosby. Review: My wife and I recently watched some of the sequels to this film and, while doing so, I realized it had been a while since I had seen the original and I didn't remember too much about it. So, when we had an opportunity to watch this film earlier this week, we did. One of the biggest problems with slasher movies is, once you know who the killer is, they do tend to lose a little something the next time you see them. That is, unfortunately, the case with this movie. While I never thought the movie was overly scary, I do think, without prior knowledge of w...