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Winterbeast

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Winterbeast is a low budget 16mm American horror film about an ancient Native American demon that murders partygoers in the Wild Goose Lodge, Massachusetts. Although filmed in 1986, it was never finished and the existing footage remained unreleased until five years later when J.R Bookwalter’s Tempe Video (“The Evil Dead meets Northern Exposure”) issued a tape.

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Written and directed by Christopher Thies, this legendarily shoddy and confusing production features stop motion monsters. It was subsequently released on a Special Edition DVD in 2008 with a 20 minute Making of featurette, deleted scenes (!) and audio commentary.

“There’s a lot of weirdness on display in Winterbeast, like gross misuse of plaid flannel clothing of all colors and a creepy stuffed deer head that shows up in multiple locations and always seems to be staring at the audience. Maybe it knows something we don’t.  Perhaps it read the script.  There are lots of monsters, though their purpose is as questionable as the rest of the picture.” Kevin Pyrtle, Wtf-Film

“I’m a sucker for stop-motion animated monsters, and this film boasts an interesting menagerie ranging from a walking totem pole to (loins girded?) a giant demonic chicken. These things are fun to watch, particularly, since they don’t blend well, or even at all, with the live action footage. The aforementioned totem pole attacks a woman in a cabin (the film’s only instance of gratuitous nudity), pulls her out the window and crushes her to death against the cabin wall. At least I think this is what’s going on. The figure the monster kills is so laughably crude that a Barbie doll would have been more believable.” Matt Bradshaw, Moviefone 

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“Love it! Love it!… If you find Winterbeast, watch it. Then, watch it again…The film drips with weirdness – camera angles and frame compositions – the sets. It’s all one big pile of greatness…” Bleeding Skull

“While at times the film can be a little slow it is definitely worth watching to see all the cheesy, stop-motion animation monsters murder their clay prey!” Deathwish Industries

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Jeepers Creepers 3

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Jeepers Creepers 3 (originally Jeepers Creepers 3: Cathedral) is a 2013 horror film written and directed by Victor Salva (Jeepers Creepers and sequel) that was originally slated to be released in 2011. The film stars Ray Wise, Jonathon Breck — who plays the creeper — and Gina Phillips.

The storyline goes back to the Wild West and brings in a Native American folklore angle…

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Volcano Zombies

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Volcano Zombies is a 2014 American horror film directed by Rene Perez (The Dead and the Damned) and written and produced by Jeff Miller and Jason Ancona (co-writers and producers of Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan). It stars Danny Trejo (Machete, Machete Kills, Dead in Tombstone), Tom Downey (Axe Giant, The Beast of Bray Road), Moniqua Plante, Robert F. Lyons (Dark Night of the Scarecrow, 10 To Midnight), Nicole Cummins, Kevin Norman, Kyle T. Heffner, Julia Lehman (Cheerleader Massacre 2), Tom Nagel (Hillside Cannibals) and Jenny Lin (Piranhaconda).

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The plot concerns a sheriff and an estranged family who must escape not only the impending eruption of what was thought to be a dormant volcano but also a horde of zombies brought to life by the cursed mountain.

The film is in post-production…

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Track of the Moon Beast

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Track of the Moon Beast is a 1972 American horror film, directed by Richard Ashe and written by Bill Finger (co-creator of Batman in 1939) and Charles Sinclair (Finger and Sinclair also scripted The Green Slime). It remained unreleased until 1976 and is now in the public domain. The film stars Chase Cordell, Leigh Drake, Gregorio Sala, Patrick Wright, Francine Kessler, Timothy Wayne Brown, Crawford MacCallum and Jeanne Swain. Makeup artist Joe Blasco (Shivers) played the titular Moon Beast. It is one of the few horror movies filmed in New Mexico.

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Mineralogist Paul Carlson (Chase Cordell) is struck by a lunar meteorite while observing a meteor shower. Lodged in his brain, the meteorite causes him to transform into a strong and vicious lizard demon whenever the moon comes out. In his lizard form, Paul loses all traces of his human self and goes about killing people at random. While human, Paul is subject to spells of dizziness and nausea, causing his girlfriend Kathy Nolan (Donna Leigh Drake) and friend and former teacher Johnny Longbow (Gregorio Sala) to become concerned.

Eventually it is shown that Paul is the monster, and deduced that the meteorite fragment in his brain is the cause of his transformations. Plans are made to remove it from his skull, but the NASA brain surgeons realize, after another X-ray and Johnny remembering some Native American legends documenting similar phenomena, that the meteorite has disintegrated and will eventually cause Paul to self-combust…

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“The acting is universally wooden, the dialogue atrociously written, and the camerawork and other production values are barely competent. In some cases they aren’t even that, such as during the painfully bad time-lapse photography sequence of Paul transforming into the Moon Beast. Or maybe when one changes from a human to a giant, humanoid reptile, an extra set of eyes and a nose appear and disappear as part of the process.” Steve Miller, 150 Movies You Should Die Before You See

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“Incredibly, having your hero be a geologist wasn’t boring enough… they had to add a few supporting radiologists to move the story further along. Approximately 15 minutes or so of Track of the Moon Beast’s runtime is spent in an X-ray exam room… Approximately 2 minutes into that scene, you’re already saying to yourself “Why in the hell are they still in the X-ray Exam room?!?”.  But don’t worry. If you are able to make it through those parts, you’ll be rewarded with terrific action sequences such as digging up ancient pottery…. and engaging dialouge like “His name is Ty. Which is short for Tyrannosaurus.”…. and spectacular scenery such as Albuquerque, N.M.” Cinema Bandits

“Folks, there are horrible guy-in-a-rubber-suit films from the 1970s, and then there’s Track of the Moon Beast (1972). Like its contemporaries OctamanThe Milpitas Monster, and Slithis, the New Mexico-lensed Track rehashes monster movie tropes from the 1950s against a backdrop of the eco-conscious but fashion-challenged 1970s. Only, unlike its contemporaries, Track of the Moon Beast sports an excellent musical interlude and a really long scene about making soup.” Brian Albright, The Dead Next Door

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Creepshow 2

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ImageCreepshow 2 is a 1987 American live-action/animated Horror comedy anthology film directed by Michael Gornick and the sequel to Creepshow. Gornick was George A. Romero’s cinematographer on the original Creepshow. The screenplay was written by Romero, the director of the original film and it was once again based upon stories by Stephen King, featuring three more “Jolting Tales of Horror”: Old Chief Wooden HeadThe Raft, and The Hitchhiker. c5   In a live-action sequence,  we are introduced to Billy, not to be confused with the first film’s protagonist. He is eagerly awaiting delivery of his favourite horror comic and lo’, the delivery van pulls up, driven by a ghoulish chap (this is our host, The Creep, played by effects warlock Tom Savini though voiced by Joe Silver, star of David Cronenberg’s Shivers and Rabid). The action, in the same manner as 1982′s prequel, briefly changes to animation and shows the latest issue opening up and introducing us the this issue’s treats. c7

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c13 Written by King specifically for the film, we are introduced to Ray and Martha Spruce (the always superb George Kennedy (Death Ship) and 40′s legend Dorothy Lamour in her final role) who are quietly running a small-town general store in their twilight years, watched over by an old cigar store Indian statue. They are visited by the leader of a local tribe of Indians, Ben Whitemoon,  who offers them tribal jewellery to pay for a debt. Shortly afterwards, the couple are subjected to a brutal robbery by a gang of local hoodlums, lead by Ben’s ne’er do well nephew, Sam (Holt McCallany, Alien 3, Fight Club). After murdering the couple and leaving with the swag, the three (‘Fatstuff’ being played by David Holbrook, son of acting legend Hal, who also starred in the original film) are stalked by the wooden Indian Chief who takes it upon himself to put wrong to right. With the two junior oiks dispensed with, Ol’ Wood’nhead tracks down Sam with predictably gory results. c3   c4 A brief animated interlude sees Billy at the post office, receiving one of the fondly remembered send-away novelties advertised in comics of a bygone age, in this case a Venus Flytrap bulb. Before we return to Billy, The Creep presents the second story, The Raft. c1

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Based of the story of the same name from one of King’s best collections of short stories, 1985′s Skeleton Crew, four college students, Deke, Laverne, Randy, and Rachel decide to go drunkenly and occasionally nakedly swimming in a lake, a past-time only partaken during the 1980′s. As their rickety craft reaches the middle of the lake, they become aware that a strange slick in the water is surrounding them. Initial vague concern turns to panic as the gloop envelops and eats Rachel, leaving the remaining three to contemplate how they are going to get back to shore. Slowly their numbers become even fewer with the water-bound blob gnawing at the stranded teens and melting their flesh like acid. A ‘No Swimming’ sign at the shore’s edge gives some kind of indication as to why any of this is happening. Whilst the original story ends with a slightly meditative contemplation of life, death and the metaphysical, the schlock of Creepshow 2 cuts to the chase with crash, bang, wallop subtlety. c12   On his way home, Billy is ambushed by local bullies, firstly taunting him and then taking away his precious package. The bulb is stamped into the ground whilst Billy sees an opportunity to flee but Rhino and his oafs are in hot pursuit. Whilst we catch our breath, we get to watch the closing tale. c14

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Another King original, this is one of the most often seen stories in the Golden Age of horror comics, with an innocent hitch-hiker (played by Tom Wright, briefly seen to Exterminator 2) being mowed down by a repugnant member of society; here an adulterous business woman (played by Lois Chiles) eager to get home to her wealthy husband before her sexual dalliances are uncovered. Certain that she can’t be connected to the remote death of the hitch-hiker, imagine her surprise when his mangled remains appear at the roadside, still requesting a lift and giving rise to the most memorable line of the film: “Thanks for the ride, lady!”. Despite her best efforts to speed away, he continues to appear, leading to a final and rather messy confrontation. hh2 Back to Billy and his is cornered by his enemies in a leafy grove but fortunately for him, his trusty Venus Flytrap and sprouted to huge dimensions. The tables are quickly turned and the carnivorous plant gobbles up the baddies, leaving The Creep to watch on satisfied nd ready to move on to his next delivery. An end of credits message delivers the following thought:  “Juvenile delinquency is the product of pent up frustrations, stored-up resentments and bottled-up fears. It is not the product of cartoons and captions. But the comics are a handy, obvious, uncomplicated scapegoat. If the adults who crusade against them would only get as steamed up over such basic causes of delinquency as parental ignorance, indifference, and cruelty, they might discover that comic books are no more a menace than Treasure Island or Jack the Giant Killer”. Colliers magazine 1949. Some might suggest this is the best bit of the film. c15   Despite the success of the first film, both at the cinema and on home video, it took 5 years for the sequel to Creepshow to arrive, perhaps an early indication that all was not quite right. Directorial duties were handled by Michael Gornick, a long-time associate of George Romero, most especially as director of photography on Martin, Dawn of the Dead and Day of the Dead. Though dabbling as a director on television, this was his only role helming a major motion picture, which also speaks volumes. For a time, actor Bob Balaban was considered to direct the film. Like the 1982 film, Creepshow 2 was intended to consist of 5 stories – omitted for reasons unknown are “The Cat From Hell”, was later used in the the similar anthology film “Tales From The Darkside: The Movie”, released in 1990, and directed by the original Creepshow’s composer, John Harrison. The other story originally intended to be in Creepshow 2 was the Stephen King short story, “Pinfall”, about ghostly rival bowling teams. The decision to stick with only 3 puts a lot of pressure on the stories to deliver, a step too far, alas. Ol’ Wood’nhead starts promisingly Kennedy and Lamour’s slaying being oddly upsetting. Unfortunately, despite an excellent villain, their is little suspense in being stalked by a lump of wood. On the subject of lumps of wood, the goofy teens of The Raft are utterly undeserving of sympathy though succeeds in delivering some superb special effect – unsurprising perhaps, the effects team featuring, amongst others, Savini, Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger. The final story is either the most successful or the most annoying, depending on your tolerance for someone saying “Thanks for the ride, lady”. The scoring duties are handled by Les Reed, originally a member of the John Barry 7 – sadly, it isn’t a patch on Harrison’s original, fun soundtrack. The score also features cues by Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who horror fans will have fonder memories of him taking musical duties on The Burning. Creepshow 2 was a massive disappointment and continues to be so. Unfortunately, with the title and Romero and King attached, it is only reasonable to compare the two and sadly, no element shows an improvement. The stories lack the fun, fizz and EC credentials of the original film, feeling padded and leaden. George Kennedy lends some credence to proceedings but once he meets his maker, the parade of acting, whilst never awful, is as uninspiring as King’s rather lazy stories, all of them having predictable endings. The wraparound is quite nice, though The Creep is a poor host and the live action sections of Savini gurning through his latex make-up are a distraction rather than an addition. Apologists will hail it as a fun late 80′s cheeseball classic but the fact remains that with the joint talents of Romero, King and Savini, this is self-indulgent, slight and worst of all, boring.

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The Jersey Devil – folklore and mythology

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The Jersey Devil is a legendary creature or cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey, United States. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many different variations. The common description is that of a kangaroo-like creature with the head of a goat, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked, serpentine tail. It has been reported to move quickly and often is described as emitting a “blood-curdling scream.”

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The legend of the Jersey Devil spans at least 260 years and has been witnessed by no fewer than 2000 people. The earliest legends date back to Native American folklore, wherein the Lenni Lenape tribes called the New Jersey area “Popuessing” meaning “place of the dragon”. Swedish explorers later named it “Drake Kill” (“drake” being a word for dragon, and “kill” meaning channel or arm of the sea in Dutch).

The basis of the most widely reported sightings are based on the story of Mother Leeds (born a Mrs Shrouds of Leeds Point), a supposed witch who, having been given of twelve children, announced that her expected thirteenth was to be the spawn of the devil. When the stormy night of the birth came, the child was delivered safely though deformed. Shielded from the outside world, a matter of days later, it metamorphosised into a creature with hooves, a goat’s head, bat wings and a forked tail. It growled and screamed, then flew up the chimney, circled the village and then headed toward the pines. Five years later, In 1740, a clergyman exorcised the demon for 100 years and it wasn’t seen again until 1890. Variants of the tale see the child born as the ghastly creature or changing soon after birth, the creature held captive by the witch in the attic or cellar, or alternately, killing the midwife en-route up the chimney.

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The earliest reported sightings concern a Commodore Stephen Decatur (one of the U.S. navy’s greatest heroes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) who, whilst visiting the Hanover Mill Works to inspect his cannonballs being forged, sighted a flying creature flapping its wings and fired a cannonball directly upon it to no effect. Joseph Bonaparte, elder brother of Emperor Napoleon and former King of Spain, is also said to have witnessed the Jersey Devil while hunting on his Borden town estate around 1820. In 1840, the devil was blamed for several livestock killings. Similar attacks were reported in 1841, accompanied by tracks and screams.

Claims of a corpse matching the Leeds Devil’s description arose in Greenwich in December 1925. A local farmer shot an unidentified animal as it attempted to steal his chickens. Afterwards, he claimed that none of 100 people he showed it to could identify it. On July 27, 1937 an unknown animal “with red eyes” seen by residents of Downingtown, Pennsylvania was compared to the Jersey Devil by a reporter for the Pennsylvania Bulletin of July 28, 1937. In 1951, a group of Gibbstown, New Jersey, boys claimed to have seen a ‘monster’ matching the Devil’s description and claims of a corpse matching the Jersey Devil’s description arose in 1957. In 1960, tracks and noises heard near Mays Landing were claimed to be from the Jersey Devil. During the same year the merchants around Camden offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of the Jersey Devil, even offering to build a private zoo to house the creature if captured.

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During the week of January 16 through 23, 1909, newspapers of the time published hundreds of claimed encounters with the Jersey Devil from all over the state, the eventual number rising to over a thousand. Amongst alleged encounters publicised that week were claims the creature “attacked” a trolley car in Haddon Heights and a social club in Camden. Police in Camden and Bristol, Pennsylvania, supposedly fired on the creature when spotted at the banks of a canal, to no effect other than a loud scream. Other reports initially concerned unidentified footprints in the snow, but soon sightings of creatures resembling the Jersey Devil were being reported throughout South Jersey and as far away as Delaware and Western Maryland. The widespread newspaper coverage led to a panic throughout the Delaware Valley prompting a number of schools to close and workers to stay home. During this period, it is rumoured that the Philadelphia Zoo posted a $10,000 reward for the creature’s dung. The offer prompted a variety of hoaxes, including a kangaroo with artificial wings. A report from a Mr & Mrs. Nelson Evans of Gloucester detailed the following particulars of their late-night encounter at their bedroom window:

“It was about three feet and half high, with a head like a collie dog and a face like a horse. It had a long neck, wings about two feet long, and its back legs were like those of a crane, and it had horse’s hooves. It walked on its back legs and held up two short front legs with paws on them. It didn’t use the front legs at all while we were watching. My wife and I were scared, I tell you, but I managed to open the window and say, ‘Shoo’, and it turned around barked at me, and flew away”.

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There were many reports from various locales declaring that hoof-prints had been found in trees and rooftops but aside from a few dead chickens and being chased away from an attempted dog-napping attempt, there were no incidents of humans being hurt by the beast. It was 1927 when sightings returned, the first seeing a cab driver changing a tyre one night whilst heading for Salem, when his car began shaking violently. He looked up to see a gigantic, winged figure pounding on the roof of his car. The driver, leaving his jack and flat tire behind, jumped into the car and quickly drove away.

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In August 1930, berry pickers at Leeds Point and Mays Landing reported seeing the Jersey Devil crashing through the fields and devouring blueberries and cranberries. It was reported again two weeks later to the north and then it disappeared again. In November 1951, a group of children were allegedly cornered by the Devil at the Duport Clubhouse in Gibbstown. The creature bounded away without hurting anyone but reports claimed that it was spotted by dozens of witnesses before finally vanishing again. Similarly, in 1953, a man encountered the beast whilst walking down the street. During the mid 60’s, there were more infrequent sightings, though more carnage than usual, the carcasses of several fowl and dogs, including an Alsatian with its throat ripped out, were found.

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Skeptics believe the Jersey Devil to be nothing more than a creative manifestation of the English settlers, Bogeyman stories created and told by bored Pine Barren residents as a form of children’s entertainment, and rumours arising from negative perceptions of the local population, known as “pineys”. According to Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, folk tales of the Jersey Devil prior to 1909 calling it the “Leeds Devil” may have been created to discredit local politician Daniel Leeds who served as deputy to the colonial governor of New York and New Jersey in the 1700s. Folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand wrote that the spread of contemporary pop culture has overtaken traditional Jersey Devil legends. Jeff Brunner of the Humane Society of New Jersey thinks the Sandhill Crane is the basis of the Jersey Devil stories, adding, “There are no photographs, no bones, no hard evidence whatsoever, and worst of all, no explanation of its origins that doesn’t require belief in the supernatural.” Outdoors-man and author Tom Brown, Jr. spent several seasons living in the wilderness of the Pine Barrens. He recounts occasions when terrified hikers mistook him for the Jersey Devil, after he covered his whole body with mud to repel mosquitoes.

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One New Jersey group called the “Devil Hunters” refer to themselves as “official researchers of the Jersey Devil”, and devote time to collecting reports, visiting historic sites, and going on nocturnal hunts in the Pine Barrens in order to “find proof that the Jersey Devil does in fact exist.”

More forgiving, naturalistic explanations see the Jersey Devil as a bird, one suggestion being an invasion of ducks (!) others believing the devil is really a sand hill crane, a bird of around the right dimensions which, if confronted, will fight and emit a loud screaming, whooping sound. This could account for the screams heard by witnesses but doesn’t explain the killing of live stock, or indeed the bizarre facial features and tail.

The Jersey Devil has become a cultural icon in the state, inspiring several organizations to use the nickname. In professional hockey, the Eastern Hockey League Jersey Devils played from 1964 through 1973. When the National Hockey League Colorado Rockies relocated to New Jersey in 1982, a fan poll voted to rename that team the New Jersey Devils. The Devil has also featured in films such as 13th Child (2002), The Jersey Devil (2005) and The Barrens (2012) and has been adapted as a comic book

Daz Lawrence, Horrorpedia

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Poltergeist II: The Other Side

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Poltergeist II: The Other Side is a 1986 supernatural horror film directed by Brian Gibson from a screenplay by producers Michael Grais and Mark Victor. A sequel to Poltergeist, it features the return of the original family, who are once again confronted by a spirit trying to harm their daughter, Carol Anne.

It stars Craig T. NelsonJoBeth WilliamsHeather O’RourkeJulian BeckOliver Robins (Don’t Go to Sleep), Will Sampson (Orca) and Zelda Rubinstein (Anguish; Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon). Prolific genre composer Jerry Goldsmith (Planet of the Apes; Alien; The Omen films) provided the film’s score.

The film received mixed reviews from critics and did not gross as much at the box office as its predecessor, although it was still financially successful, taking over $40 million in the US against a $19 million (estimated) production budget. It was followed in 1988 by Poltergeist III. A novelization was written by James Kahn and published by Ballantine Books in 1986.

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A year after the events of Poltergeist, Cuesta Verde, the Freelings’ neighborhood, is being evacuated and turned into an archeological paranormal dig, centered around the spot where the Freelings’ home stood before it imploded. The excavation leads to the discovery of an underground cave. Its existence is revealed to psychic Tangina Barrons (Zelda Rubinstein), who tells a friend of hers, Taylor (Will Sampson), a Native American shaman. After investigating the cave for himself, Taylor realizes that Kane (Julian Beck), a deceased, insane preacher, has located Carol Anne and goes to defend her…

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Reviews:

‘This sequel, sans Spielberg but obedient to his spirit, simply fails to regenerate the original’s gut-grinding fears that make you dread ever scratching a spot again. And the contribution of Giger‘s design work has only added one near-unwatchable sequence.’ Derek Adams, Time Out

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‘There are also a few times in the film where some editing (rumor has it that nearly 40 minutes were cut from the film) is painfully obvious … By themselves, it doesn’t mean much, but altogether, it’s very distracting. Plus a lot of things seem very abrupt, such as the battle with the worm-monster, and the “Other Side” sequence. You’d think that the section of the film that dealt with the film’s subtitle would last more than 75 seconds, but you’d be wrong!’ Brian Collins, Horror Movie a Day

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‘Seems like a string of special effects held together by a far-fetched story line with an unsatisfying sticky-sweet ending.’ Nina Darnton, New York Times

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