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Santa's Summer House (2013)
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Saw this as a Rifftrax presentation. Which is the only thing that made this remotely watchable (more so than most). Question 1: Who backs these movies? Question 2: Why? Question 3: Isn't this against the Geneva convention? As noted in other places, this has martial arts people but strangely does not make us of this talent. Not that they should be in this movie to begin with, but shows how much diregard the director has towards filmmaking and using acting talents. The dialogue is suitable for unlearning the English language or acting like an alien on their first contact on Earth after crashing their spaceship and suffering multiple brain injuries. The is no real plot, it's entirely predictable, the cute music is insufferable. Belongs in Lifetime's pantheon of 3 am Xmas filler spots 18 days before Christmas.
The Avengers (1998)
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Not sure what people expect. You can't bring back Diana Riggs and Patrick Macnee. Then again there are parts we probably really don't want back if we were honest - there was a lot of excessive cheese there. If you treat this as an homage with a similar tongue in cheek campiness, it's an enjoyable flick.
Carnival of Souls (1962)
But wait, I've seen this before...
This is a long, drawn out, roughly done version of the Twilight Zone's "The Hitch-Hiker", for which that episode is not given the due justice. The TZ episode predates the movie release date by 2 years.Reviewers and critics tend to give this movie mid-range to above average scores,but the reasoning is faulty given the TZ episode. Quotes like "offers delightfully chilling proof that when it comes to telling an effective horror story, less can often be much, much more". Well in that case, award TZ the honors and references. TZ make be less dreamy or look less like "ghastly hallucinations" but it resonates more if anyone has driven on a trip and wondered if someone is following them and why, and it holds up well even in the highways and byways of 2019.
We love camp movies but poor derivatives, not so much.