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Masters of Horror: Deer Woman (2005)
Enjoyable character-driven light -weight horror story
This was an enjoyable, character-driven thriller. The comparison to "X-Files" is appropriate, but it succeeds where "X-Files" failed for me. As a big science fiction and horror fan, I really wanted "X-Files" to work, but it lost me pretty quickly; I felt that "X-Files" was poorly written, the conclusions mostly unsatisfactory, and the protagonists not overly likable or competent. "The Deer Woman" does work. The protagonists are likable. The story is light-weight but progresses along smoothly. The gore is mostly off-screen. My only problems are that the motivation of the title character is unclear, she never speaks, and the ending is a little ambiguous; overall, though, "Deer Woman" kept my interest. It was an agreeable way to spend an hour, and I look forward to viewing other episodes of this series.
Date with an Angel (1987)
Man meets angel and falls in Love. Hilarity ensues.
If you're in the mood for a very light-weight fantasy love story, give it a try. It has some seriously over-the-top acting in places, but it's a cute story; its central characters are likable and charming, and the supporting cast has some pretty funny moments. It'll be in my DVD library one day. Trust me, you'll like it. How much? I couldn't let the earlier negative review go unanswered.
Spoiler follows.
The groom is a decent, likable guy who finds an injured angel in his pool after waking up the morning after his wild bachelor party. His fiancé finds the angel in his home the next morning and, thinking he is having an affair with a normal girl, spends the rest of the movie in a rage, trying to track her fiancé down to win him back or wreak revenge, or something. Meanwhile, he cares for the angel until her wing heals, while simultaneously trying to keep his wild, mischievous & capitalistic best friends from revealing her to the world. This is complicated by these recurring headaches he has. The man and the angel fall in love. Eventually though, the angel heals and flies away, about the same time that the man collapses with a stroke. The man is in a coma at the hospital being grieved for by his family and friends when the angel returns, in disguise. It turns out that the angel was originally sent to Earth to take the man's soul to heaven, but her mission was delayed. Now they both are ready, but she can't do it. The complication? She is in love with him. So what is an angel to do?