Registered: Nov 2003
Location: My own little world
Thoughts on the upcoming new Mangler film?
So is anyone feeling good about the new mangler film? I haven't seen the first two (seems they don't merit a third movie though considering the bad reviews), but I will definately be renting the third for a review. It doesn't look like it going to be too bad. I mean it is going to have Reggie Banister (Reggie from Phantasm!) as a crook and Jeff Burr (director of TCM3) in a cameo.
__________________ Mean Man: "Listen mr. I've been trick or treated to death tonight."
Dr. Loomis: "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT DEATH IS!"
Halloween II
Last edited by HockeyFace on Jun 9th, 2005 at 06:12 PM
Oh it's terrible, despite the fantastic crew responsible for it.
Based on a short story by Stephen King, directed by Tobe Hooper and starring Robert Englund!
It's about a gigantic laundry-press that gets possessed by some sort of evil spirit and starts devouring people, squashing and folding them up nicely. A lone cop and a librarian kinda guy start getting clues that the deaths are more then just accidents and try to stop the evil machine.
Where this all went wrong is the fact that the original story is pretty short, and not remotely as good as King's other works. Somehow they do did get the idea that it could me smeared over a 1.5 hour movie, and in order to fill up that time we get lots of weary dialogues, bad acting, silly side plots and other pointless scenes not adding anything worth full.
The gore is good though! You can still watch it fast forwarding from one death-scene to the next and have a amusing 15 minutes.
Worse, Maximum Overdrive had some humor at times and at least made the viewer care for the characters a little. And it had some degree of tension to it and last but not least... AC/DC soundtrack!
The Mangler is stripped of all these sparse qualities
Eeeh, not many stories? He has written nearly 50 books, among which there were at least 6 being a bundle of short stories, approximately 10 stories each.
The fact remains that to much of his lesser work finds it's way to become a movie, instead of the truly intriguing tales.
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Australia,originally from the uk!
the mangler is/has got to be 1 of the biggest steaming piles of unadulterated horse shit ever,and the fact theyve made sequels to it just goes to prove there is always gonna be hope for us horror fans cos if ppl can finance crap like this they will jump at the chance to finance decent movies
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