Chastened by my last experience, it's been a while since i dipped into this box-set, but with loins girded, i've dived in once more!

Good Against Evil

Picture Quality: Good
Sound Quality: OK
Script Quality: Good
Laughable Quotes: None.

Hmm, starts off all Rosmary's Baby, goes all Omen and then ends up as The Exorcist.

Despite that, it's a solid little B movie.

Kim Catrall makes an appearance and Jimmy Sangster wrote it (Hammer stalwart), so it can't be all bad.

You can imagine the film from my first sentence, so i'll just restrict myself to talking about cats...

The film has hurricane breathing cats, window breaking cats, ninja cats and murder cats!

Also, the Devil worshipping sign is identical to the Vulcan 'Live long and prosper'.

Decent t.v movie, although it has a non-ending.

Score: B6
Conclusion: Derivative, but worth a watch.

Quote from: One Horse Town;538497Prisoners of the Lost Universe

I own a copy and love the theme song.  It can apparently be watched online here.

Once more into the breach my friends!

Black Voodoo Exorcist

Picture Quality: Inconsistant
Sound Quality: Good
Script Quality: Awkward - mainly i suspect because of terrible dubbing.
Laughable Quotes: None, although some lines are laughably delivered (dubbing)

So, we hit Blackploitation at last. This is a colour movie from around '73 i think. There are black people, there is voodoo, but alas, no exorcist (i guess they thought tagging that on the end would cash-in on the notoriety of The Exorcist).

This film is the classic story of boy meets girl, boy gets killed and then raised in a boobyliscious voodoo orgy, boy mistakes another girl for his original love - shenanigans result.

The story would hang together but for the fact that the resurrected voodoo boy mistakes a white red-head for his original black lover...

Shaky story aside, the dubbing almost ruins the film - but not quite. There is some obvious talent on show in the camera work - zoom shots, POV shots and unusual camera angles that are quite effective until someone opens their mouth. Although at one point the classic rookie error of having the entire crew show up in a mirror is a glaring mistake.

Score: B3 - would have been B4 but for very sub-par dubbing.
Conclusion: Half-arsed blackploitation and comedy dubbing don't quite sink the ship, but it's pretty badly holed. Only come aboard if you don't mind bailing with a bucket.

Time to delve into the past...

The Phantom Express

Picture Quality: OK
Sound Quality: Good
Script Quality: Good
Laughable Quotes: None

A b&w film from 1936, this film concerns a 'phantom' locamotive responsible for the derailing of 4 trains.

Yet again, this is no horror, but more of a mystery/thriller.

OK, so all the train shots are models and the final reveal of what the phantom express is strains credibility, but this 70 minute film zooms past as quickly as the trains it depicts (this alone makes this movie better than most i have seen so far).

Decent acting and a professionally produced B movie result.

Score: A3
Conclusion: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the phantom express!

More reviews to come - needed to bump the thread before it vanished.