Usually, I'm rather a fan of 80s horror-movies, i don't mind the latex FX, i rather like the typical synth-music and their overall atmosphere but here...
I definitely don't want to deny the movie had a couple of very good moments, namely the beginning and the end of the movie were just great but what was in between was just the thing that makes B-horror movies ridiculous rather than scary.
It was my first Fulci movie and I was quite looking forward to seeing it after all the great things I read about him, but this really disappointed me, especially all the gore. Or more exactly, not the gore itself (e.g. I loved Braindead!!!) but the fact that in this movie, it is absolutely useless and in many cases I realized the detail of an eye popping out of somebody's head actually completely destroyed any suspense, tension, fear or horror the scene was trying to build up.
So overall rating - don't expect too much and you'll get a good, not TOO scary (for the tougher ones, not scary at all), popcorn-video horror movie you might enjoy when you're in the mood for some easy entertainment...
I definitely don't want to deny the movie had a couple of very good moments, namely the beginning and the end of the movie were just great but what was in between was just the thing that makes B-horror movies ridiculous rather than scary.
It was my first Fulci movie and I was quite looking forward to seeing it after all the great things I read about him, but this really disappointed me, especially all the gore. Or more exactly, not the gore itself (e.g. I loved Braindead!!!) but the fact that in this movie, it is absolutely useless and in many cases I realized the detail of an eye popping out of somebody's head actually completely destroyed any suspense, tension, fear or horror the scene was trying to build up.
So overall rating - don't expect too much and you'll get a good, not TOO scary (for the tougher ones, not scary at all), popcorn-video horror movie you might enjoy when you're in the mood for some easy entertainment...