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Just saw this one off cable PPV. Another one of those cheesy horror movies I assumed. This one was priceless! I would have to watch this movie more than once to get all the jokes. The dialog was absolutely hilarious and you have to listen carefully to hear it all. It starts really going once they get to "Housechusetts" or whatever it is. The sex-related jokes had me almost in tears.

Oh yeah, also loved the "town meeting" of vampires. And the "veiled" Wal-Mart commentary.

The actors did a great job and probably took a lot of showers during the making of this movie. But the WRITING was what made this film really shine. I will watch for more from these people, they are going to make it big in Hollywood some day. They certainly deserve it.

Wow.

What an awful movie. Another PPV where I wasted $3.89 of $3.99. This "horror" movie was about as scary as watching "Care-Bears". I kept waiting and waiting for something scary to materialize but finally gave up after an hour. Nothing that even the filmmakers intended to be scary happens for some 30 minutes. Unless you count catching a glimpse of a bald albino man scary.

You can hardly understand the characters for a lot of the movie because they are wearing gas masks. But what dialog I could catch was silly. They spend a *huge* amount of time walking around a building finding - absolutely nothing of interest.

When you see the bald albino man the filmmakers think it is scary to show some edited cut shots of him opening and closing his mouth. When the actors run away from this guy they run so slowly it's like a fast walk.

Cable PPV is really screwing us. I watched an even worse movie last week called "Hell's Tomb" which made this one almost look fair. This one at least was made with some production values whereas "Hell's Tomb" was made by what looked like high schoolers. Maybe that was being mean to high schoolers.

Avoid this mess. Ditto "Hell's Tomb".

I never saw this in theaters which I understand was pretty much what happened to it when it first debuted. I discovered it later as a rental. I loved it then and still love it now years later. I guess since it is a deliberate retro it can't really get dated like other movies.

I had no real problems with any of the acting jobs, each actor filled the role he/she played well. I always wondered why Bill Campbell didn't seem to go much further after this? Fun to see Terry O'Quinn as Howard Hughes before his "Lost" years.

This movie makes you feel good. An unpretentious and straightforward action flick, one of the best in that category. It is so amazing how movies like this can be made without needing overwhelming effects, big-name stars, sexual suggestions, or gore. I wish Hollywood could do this more often (and who would've expected this from Disney? - not any more).

The soundtrack main theme was wonderful as well, I think I've even heard it in some other movie (not sure how that could've happened). Rent this and watch it with the family, it is well worth it.

This movie exemplifies what I like about Movies On Demand on cable. I look for these unheard-of efforts and about one time in nine am richly rewarded. This was a good one. I watch a lot of stuff on the History Channel and can attest that the premise is totally believable. That is, the Nazis really did look for exotic weapons in their quest for world domination. Nothing in this movie really seemed overly far-fetched.

The lack of noticeable CGI was refreshing. The acting was very good. I especially liked the guy (don't recall his name) that was the one who hired all the mercenaries. The suspense was decent and the gore was sufficient. This is worth renting.

Another user said that the budget was only 10K. If that is true what did they do with the money? The actors were truly uninspired and didn't manage to evoke the tiniest feeling of care from me. The story (or what passed as a script) was incoherent other than here's a bunch of dumb kids in the woods getting picked off one by one. Late in the movie they throw in several "Deliverance"-style yahoos just out of the blue for no reason I could figure out, the of course kill them off immediately!

And here's a good question: WHY when you have such a low budget and cannot afford a good monster suit would you show the monster at the first opportunity? Also, WHY overlay the "scratched film effect" over the film every time the monster is seen? Is he supposed to be from an earlier time?

Also - the whole thing takes place in a northern forest and the characters are dressed appropriately. But at the end when they call for help and a "rescue helicopter" flew out to them - look at the PALM TREES in the footage shot from the copter! What a hoot!

The credits suddenly pop up as though the director has gotten tired of the movie and no longer wants to explain what happens to the last few kids. And the credits themselves are so amateurishly done - it's like some kids in junior high school did this movie.

My wife and I were just looking for a bad horror movie to laugh at. The genre provides many such films. But the film-making here is *so* bad it quickly became no fun. My goal here is to add another voice to help others avoid wasting their money renting this. It is bad, bad, bad. Don't quit your day jobs!

I bought this title after watching the first two installments of the new "Sarah Conner Chronicles". It was a favorite of mine back in the 80's and it still is. I don't care that the effects are not as pristine as they are today. It's the story, which along with "Back To The Future" explores aspects of time travel in an interesting way. It's also the way the Terminator is presented as a malevolence that is almost unstoppable. One of my favorite moments is watching Linda Hamilton's expression after Kyle Reese has pumped round after round in the the Terminator - and he still gets up! I swear, it is almost like "The Omen" - how do you stop a foe that is unstoppable? The 2nd movie was also good although I'm not wild about loudmouth kids acting beyond their years. I wish Arnold had remained the bad guy - that was where his real value was. The third movie was a fiasco. But this movie was and always will be my favorite of the franchise.

Man, I LOVE digital cable and movies on demand. I end up renting movies I would probably never pick up at the video store simply because it's so convenient. This movie was damn good, amazing for a low budget horror flick.

It had a novel approach in the way it started somewhere in the middle of the chronology of the story arc. It takes you a while to get enough backstory to understand what is going on but once you do you're hooked. The acting was very good and the pacing was relentless, almost like a James Cameron action flick. You can't go to the bathroom without missing a vital part of the movie, so much happens during the film.

The MAKEUP and EFFECTS were far, far beyond a small budget movie. Whoever designed them is obviously going to be regularly employed in Hollywood. The alien suit while obviously worn by a human was excellent! The manner of death for one of the humans was something I've never seen in a movie before, you'll understand when you see it.

I wish I could run across more movies like these but you've got to kiss a thousand frogs before you find a prince, I guess.

I didn't plan to see this. Instead I just sat down while my wife was watching it and ended up seeing it all the way through. It was difficult not to get emotionally involved, mostly because of the acting of Maureen O'Hara. Yes, some of the plot mechanisms are clichés. Yes, the overall message of knowing what to truly value most has been done many times by Hollywood. But the understated performances from O'Hara and Richard Thomas along with a good story really make this movie well worth watching. I ended up being so affected that it drove me to write this review in the hope that it might influence someone else to see it. And perhaps enjoy it as much as I did. Merry Christmas everyone...

I am so glad *something* came out of Hollywood that was actually worth my time and ticket price to go see. I haven't actually laughed out loud at a movie in a long time. The cast is perfect here. They play each role exactly as each should be, no one goes over the top and makes their role a caricature. Everything was believable which really makes the comedy work.

One odd note from my own personal experience. Don't ask me why I remember this but I took Spanish in high school as so many of us did. We all probably remember that each new chapter in a Spanish textbook usually started with a dialog between two or more people in Spanish of course. For some reason all these years I remember one of those dialogs which translated "When they clean my room I can't find anything". Well, remember the part in the movie where Andy's manager started singing a supposed love song in Spanish? I caught the words and they weren't about love - it was the same dialog from my old Spanish textbook! Guess the scriptwriter and I took the same course!

Yes, it's a SBIF (So Bad It's Funny) classic. With a budget running into the tens of dollars, some of the most abysmal acting you have ever seen, and absolutely NO even remotely frightening moments - not even a nanosecond! Camera work was at the elementary school level - one still shot outside a house was obviously hand-held and jiggled crazily. Blood looked like watered-down cherry Koolaid, someone made a trip to the local butcher shop for the "human" bones, and Miss Witch had the cheapest mask Wal-Mart could provide.

Did ANYONE involved look at the final cut and realize what a mess this was? Most of the names in the credits HAVE to be pseudonyms, it would be career suicide to have THIS on your resume. Do yourself a favor and watch Ebert's video of his colonoscopy instead!