Letterboxd — Your life in film

Wildly uneven, and in parts pretty tedious, but also has some great little moments if you can overlook it's flaws. I thought it picked up in the second half, which ended it on a better note than I would have guessed earlier.

I didn't know Jack Arnold had it in him to make a movie this wild and dynamic.

Would likely get a higher rating if I could see the original dub (or cut, unclear) in better fidelity. Great atmosphere and some great moments of weirdness. Cute creepy "dolls". Karina confidently infodumping all kinds of voodoo lore. A bit slow for sure, but the way it at times felt almost like a silent film added to the atmosphere.

I passed it by for many years because it seemed to have a middling reputation, but that was a mistake.

I sort of preferred this to Curse of the Screaming Dead. Incredibly slow, but it all felt like a strange hypnotic dreamworld that I kinda grew to like. The hoarse whispering voice over certainly helped establish the atmosphere, and the musical interlude was a nice addition. Nice touch that these elements also felt like they went on forever.

I never got around to watching my old UK DVD of this, but I have to wonder how much there was left after the BBFC were through with it.

Surreptitiously somewhat less fun and crazy than any of the movies in Cardona Vol 1. In those he always threw in a couple of additional odd ingredients to keep things interesting, but here it's mostly just end to end pigeon flapping.

For a while, while his trust in man faded and his number of pets kept growing, it looked like he was going to end up replacing human society entirely with animal companions

Not very gripping, but delightfully wacky.

Why on earth is this not more beloved? Wes Craven's last masterpiece, and from what I've seen his most twisted and entertaining since Shocker (to which it felt like a spiritual sequel) and The People Under the Stairs.

After finally forcing myself through the Scream series recently I didn't have high hopes for the movie he directed right before 4, but this was such a breath of fresh air.

I almost missed it because of the low average, but thankfully took note that all the actual reviews seemed to really like it.

The first five minutes are close to my perfect ideal for cinema, and most of the first third doesn't let up. But inevitably this becomes a bit of a hurdle - it starts at max, and toward the middle starts to struggle a bit trying to keep up with itself.

That said, it's still pretty great! Beautifully shot beautifully sounding almost abstract fever-dreamy gothic soap opera madness.

(Italian dub)

This is that dream where you have something very important you're already late for, but you're constantly getting sidetracked. Great, but very stressful.