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My title pretty much describes "Beyond the gates".
It's around 90 minutes of slow, uneventful (and by that I mean nothing new or exciting happens) poorly acted, not particularly well directed movie. It attempts to bait the audience with some cheap nostalgia, such as plot resolving around one of those FMV board games from 80s, but it heavily borrows from Hellraiser and Jumanji, only unlike either of those it's not well crafted and not gory or shocking enough like Hellraiser to make an impact.
Skip this one, go watch something else, and Barbara Crampton is in this movie only for quick paycheck, I am guessing she had to buy new laundry machine or something.
It's around 90 minutes of slow, uneventful (and by that I mean nothing new or exciting happens) poorly acted, not particularly well directed movie. It attempts to bait the audience with some cheap nostalgia, such as plot resolving around one of those FMV board games from 80s, but it heavily borrows from Hellraiser and Jumanji, only unlike either of those it's not well crafted and not gory or shocking enough like Hellraiser to make an impact.
Skip this one, go watch something else, and Barbara Crampton is in this movie only for quick paycheck, I am guessing she had to buy new laundry machine or something.
"Twisted Nightmare" is forgotten slasher movie from the 80s, no different then countless "summer camp" Friday the 13th knock offs.
It has generic and dull cast, who at this point are your familiar good pals if you've seen more then couple of slasher movies (dumb jock, promiscuous chick, nerd, crazed old man yelling "ya all doomed!", etc.)
First half of the movie you kinda have to wait for pointless dialogue scene that lead nowhere till something finally starts happening, and when it happens cinematography is so bad that most of the time you'll watch black screen. I doubt the budget for this type of movie was big (usually they slasher movies had around 1-1.5 million, which would be around 5 million nowadays), but I am sure that someone didn't know how to light a scene. Action (kill scenes) are so dark that it had to be intentional to hide poor FX, few that this movie actually had, or they forgot to hire cinematographer.
Creature\Maniac make up looks descent, couple of nude girls, and the "twist" for anyone who actually sit through this movie and pay attention.
There are lot better underrated or obscure slasher movies out there that you might want to check out instead of this one, or just do what I did, which is play it in background while you do something else, because with bare minimum plot you've seen hundred times, and dialogues that make your head spin, and action scenes that are too dark to actually see, it's not like you're missing it out.
It has generic and dull cast, who at this point are your familiar good pals if you've seen more then couple of slasher movies (dumb jock, promiscuous chick, nerd, crazed old man yelling "ya all doomed!", etc.)
First half of the movie you kinda have to wait for pointless dialogue scene that lead nowhere till something finally starts happening, and when it happens cinematography is so bad that most of the time you'll watch black screen. I doubt the budget for this type of movie was big (usually they slasher movies had around 1-1.5 million, which would be around 5 million nowadays), but I am sure that someone didn't know how to light a scene. Action (kill scenes) are so dark that it had to be intentional to hide poor FX, few that this movie actually had, or they forgot to hire cinematographer.
Creature\Maniac make up looks descent, couple of nude girls, and the "twist" for anyone who actually sit through this movie and pay attention.
There are lot better underrated or obscure slasher movies out there that you might want to check out instead of this one, or just do what I did, which is play it in background while you do something else, because with bare minimum plot you've seen hundred times, and dialogues that make your head spin, and action scenes that are too dark to actually see, it's not like you're missing it out.
"Overlord" is fun movie overall, it doesn't really push any new grounds, it plays pretty safe, however what it does it does somewhat well. It's D-day and small group of Allied soldiers is sent to sabotage radio tower to prevent Germans from alarming of incoming invasion, however soon they found secret Nazi lab that's performing experiments to make "Hitler's thousand years (Uber soldier) army".
It mixes war genre with SF and horror, and when it comes to action\war movies, there are couple of well shot and well choreographed scenes. Horror on the other hand is kind of just out there, it doesn't really try to go for the scares but rather uses some violence and gore but never fully indulges into it.
Overall good cast, great visuals, script could have been bit more polished but it's closest thing we will get to Wolfenstein movie, where WW2 historical events unfold with SF horror twist.
Characters aren't really deep, we get somewhat generic cast of characters: evil Nazi officer who's evil just for sake of being main antagonist, US\UK corporal who's all about mission, war photographer dork, token black guy, etc. French actress Mathilde Ollivier's character is your only female character and serves as great eye-candy, however she doesn't really go beyond that much like rest of the cast.
Oh, Iain De Caestecker of Agents of Shield show up for glorified cameo, in somewhat waste of his talents and Wyatt Russell plays tough guy. Again.
Overall, entertaining if you know what you're going into.
It mixes war genre with SF and horror, and when it comes to action\war movies, there are couple of well shot and well choreographed scenes. Horror on the other hand is kind of just out there, it doesn't really try to go for the scares but rather uses some violence and gore but never fully indulges into it.
Overall good cast, great visuals, script could have been bit more polished but it's closest thing we will get to Wolfenstein movie, where WW2 historical events unfold with SF horror twist.
Characters aren't really deep, we get somewhat generic cast of characters: evil Nazi officer who's evil just for sake of being main antagonist, US\UK corporal who's all about mission, war photographer dork, token black guy, etc. French actress Mathilde Ollivier's character is your only female character and serves as great eye-candy, however she doesn't really go beyond that much like rest of the cast.
Oh, Iain De Caestecker of Agents of Shield show up for glorified cameo, in somewhat waste of his talents and Wyatt Russell plays tough guy. Again.
Overall, entertaining if you know what you're going into.