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Pretty good sci fi if you know nothing about the story. As part of a trilogy, it helps a lot if you can take what is given with your own story writing to it, especially right before the credits start rolling. Does a pretty good job with referencing "Dawn of the Dead", both directly and in concept for that part of the movie. An 8.0 but again, it helps if you don't know the story.
Good stalker that leaves one guessing to the very end. A nice surprise at the start to see Carol Lynley, just past her teenage years in casting and other familiar faces, so young then. How did Michael Byrne age so much in just 12-13 years? An 8.3.
Carol Lynley was a real beauty during her young years. As she aged, unfortunately the years weren't kind to her.
Rest in Peace, Carol. I like to remember you as a spunky young lady...
Decent serious/comedy story BUT the translated delivery is rather the pits. The movie can be basically figured out though I am still at a loss to what part the second hero was playing. Actor Gianni Garko is the Man in Black to die for, on the same ground as John Phillip Law. A 6.0.
I know I have seen this flick before because I recognized the opening and the closing but did not recall anything else. Now that I have seen it fully awake, I still didn't miss anything.
Production wise, it is a cross between 4th Dr. Who (Tom Baker) and Time/Life Hamlet. Sure, the background would not stand up to a true movie but treating it with the eye like one would if watching Hamlet, it falls right on in. Equally, on that note, the characters are rather believable, one can get into them. Further, as that my Renfest world starts up in less than a week, I was even more motivated by it. The sword fights are marvelous.
THE PROBLEM IS.......it never gets going. One watches them go from place to place, one sees more people added to the mix, but it never picks up speed, never gets going. Since it is based off some role playing game, I guess if one was involved with that game, it would all make sense but as I am not, I am lost to what it is trying to accomplish. There is a bit of irony to it, though, where one of the heroines tells the boy following her like a lost puppy, "This isn't a game,"......
The ending may have been like they were hoping for a sequel (imdb trivia says it was a TV pilot) but not having that, it is to write in one's own ending between "off fighting evil in another dimension" to "and they all lived happily ever after!".
Sort of The Dirty Dozen meets The Daughters of Joshua Cabe. Despite the sexploitation orientation of the movie, it is not really so. Toplessness is sparse and indeed, The Dirty Dozen was probably more ridiculous than this movie. For a decent movie for an evening's getaway, a 6.4.
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