Overall, Pandemonium is an entertaining experience but not a movie that will stick with you. With that being said, that film has several visual effects heavy scenes that are very dated by this point. No blood and gore but comical deaths that work for the scene it is in. There is some death scenes but they play on the comedy side of the film. Also, the horror angle takes the back seat resulting in some miss opportunities story wise with the killers.įinally, the film is not a bloody one for those of you needing the gore fix. The movie tries too hard to make the viewer laugh than it does to bring substance. The movie is funny and I’ll give it that but the humor does run it’s course well before the middle of the film. The story for this one parodies several movies of the time with the biggest being Carrie. The characters that bring the horror aspect are a little underwhelming but the funny out weighs the horror anyway. The characters all bring something different to the table and they all offer up some laughs. The acting in this one is fun and consistent. Instead, if offers up some cheap laughs that works in the same manner as Student Bodies and Scary Movie. It doesn’t try to redefine the genre or make something that would become a pop phenomenon. The movie, for a lack of a better term, simply fun. Pandemonium is not one of those movies that will make horror fan’s top ten lists and you will not find people with tattoos featuring scenes from the film but you will find people who enjoy watching it. The local authorities are actively trying to prevent the deaths from previous years of returning but the local prison and asylum both experience escapes by their most dangerous inmates and the pair meet up before making their way to the camp where the cheerleaders are.**spoiler Alert** **Spoiler Alert**The film follows a cheerleading camp reopening years after the tragic murder of the cheerleaders years prior. Thanks again Vin Syn for sending this one over! I had never heard of this film prior to their announcement but after discovering it was a horror comedy with Paul Reubens you can damn well bet your ass that I was on board for it. Each and every month they bring me titles to films that I’ve never heard of before.Ĭase in point is 1982’s oddball horror comedy Pandemonium. Over the years they’ve released countless video store gems that have never made their way to disc or if they did hit disc they have long been out of print. This company has been bringing the video store era into the modern age. Vinegar Syndrome is a company that I often praise and those praises don’t go unwarranted. 1 point deducted for not showing even the slightest glimmer of hope.Tagline – “Finally, a movie that is totally taste-free” This is a film which is easier to admire than to actually like, but it's forlorn, doomed and - literally - lightless vision means it could only be truthfully recommended to those who are fans of truly downbeat cinema. Daylight is glimpsed only once (the first shot as the sun sinks from the blood-red sky - also the only shot in colour) and the story plays out over the course of several nights.Īs with his previous film 'Funeral Parade of Roses' Matsumoto employs many times a 'dual reality' device replaying scenes first as the protagonist imagines, and then as it actually happens, constantly keeping the viewer unsettled, with shocking - though never gratuitous - spurts of violence which one is torn between finding sympathy with and being repulsed by. The theatrical origins of Matsumoto's film are very evident from the onset of this bleak piece, an extremely minimalist affair, but this only adds to the feeling of entrapment and claustrophobia. True this is a staple of Japanese cinema - but it is one which has rarely been examined quite this painfully and as unflinchingly as it is in this film. This is basically the whole plot in a nutshell, but this isn't any kind of action adventure story or pulp fiction Samurai epic, rather a philosophical and meditative examination of manipulation and a misguided affection which blinds a man from his duty and true quest. A stark, desperate tale of vengeance, Shura examines the plight of Gengobe - a Ronin (Samurai without Master) - and his quest to right the wrongs done unto him.
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