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Title: Welcome to the Grindhouse - Black Candles and Evil Eye (2007) |
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Review of Welcome to the Grindhouse - Black Candles and Evil Eye
- Grindhouse is an American term for a theater that mainly showed exploitation films. To salute this film revolution of a bygone era this DVD double feature recreates this ephemeral experience of the Grindhouse theaters with a whole new interactive DVD experience. Included are Black Candles - Carol and her boyfriend Paul travel to England after the unexpected death of her brother. Once there she finds out her sister-in-law is involved in a satanic cult and finds out that Paul is being drawn into the cult. Helga Line and Vanessa Hidalgo star in this Jose Ramon Larraz film; and Evil Eye (Il Malocchio) - Peter Crane is having nightmares about murdering someone. Richard Conte moreSystem Requirements:Running Time: 174 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR UPC: 787364788491
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- Posted on 2007-11-25
Down To The Grindhouse!
When the movie Grindhouse featuring, "Planet Terror" and "Death Proof" came out at the cinema-plex, there was the hope for starting a new nostalgia. So, BCI decided to release movies from it's catalog and formed the Welcome to the Grindhouse Series. But, unfortunately Grindhouse proved a failure at the box office, so go figure. so, here we have a double bill of "Black Candles" and "Evil Eye." With both movies previously released, the suckers like myself bought them anyway. First off, both are not good movies. Also, they are virtually on the soft-porn side. So parents, use good judgment with your kids. "Black Candles" features lesbianism and disturbing bestiality. Girl-girl actions, ok. But, with barnyard animals? Quite disturbing. On the other hand, I do enjoy the whole feeling of the Grindhouse experience. With trailers and such, is such a cool concept. I only wish the movie had done better at the box office. If you have all the other releases, then get it to complete you collection. But if not, avoid at all cost.
Score: 2
- Posted on 2007-09-09
Half-way recommended....
This is gonna get confusing so hold on. I decided to take a chance on this low-priced, grindhouse double-feature cause i enjoy fairly obscure horror films with an exploitation angle to them. Problem is, both films aren't very good attempts at the horror genre. EVIL EYE struck me as the potentially better horror film but it was less exploitive and coherent than BLACK CANDLES and ended up being a very frustrating film experience, especially the ending when you think "was that it?". Actually, you will feel that way at the end of both films as one could say they end EXACTLY the same way. So if you don't like the way one ended, prepare for deja-vu with the other.
So if both ended up being poor horror films with even worse cliched endings, why the 3-star rating then? Simple. If you're looking for sexploitation in a satanic cult-themed horror film, you've hit the jackpot with BLACK CANDLES. It is surprisingly wall-to-wall sex-scenes(have your finger on the fast-forward button ready when the 'tender love scene' involving a goat appears). THE TEACHER/PICK-UP grindhouse release doesn't have the amount of sex and sleaze that this movie alone has.
Overall, 3-stars for this set as it really is an average set of movies but at a decent price. But honestly, add 1-star on the strength of BLACK CANDLES alone if you enjoy softcore in your horror. Subtract 1-star from the 3-star rating if you actually want good horror films with decent endings that don't jerk you around. DVD picture quality isn't very good compared to the 'cleaner' looking TEACHER/PICK-UP release, and no extras except for three grindhouse trailers for THE PICK-UP, LEGEND OF THE 8 SAMURAI(hilarious), and DON'T ANSWER THE PHONE.
(edit: if you choose to view both films back to back under the 'grindhouse experience' option on the main menu, after the intermission you'll get trailers for PRIME EVIL and SISTER STREET FIGHTER).
Score: 3