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Genres:
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Horror
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Release:
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Actors:
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Ken Russell,
Scott Heindl,
Lara Harris,
Mina E. Mina,
Scott Lowell,
Rachel Veltri,
Glynis Davies,
Michèle-Barbara Pelletier,
Jayce Bartok,
Henry Gibson,
Dick Miller,
John Saxon,
Richard Ian Cox,
Rob deLeeuw,
Winston Rekert
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Duration:
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105 min.
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Rating:
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(5/10)37.5
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Plot Summary:
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Seven strangers on a Hollywood flicks studio spell are trapped incarcerated an shameful Ill fame of Horror and forced to positive their most terrifying stories to lay one's hands on out alive.
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Tags:
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Trapped Ashes
In Ryuhei Kitamura's dystopian prison sci-fi, it is not just the humans who are trapped inside and looking to get out
If Ryuhei Kitamura exploded into the world of cult cinema with his low-budget feature debut Versus (2000), a moviegeek's wet dream of yakuza gunplay, samurai set-pieces and zombie gore, then Alive is what Americans would call a sophomore effort.
Like second albums, second films can be a tricky business and while Alive certainly seems to form a conceptual continuum with Kitamura's first feature, it also repeats several of the earlier film's flaws (chiefly poor dialogue and near non-existent characterisation), without being able this time around to cite an ultra-low budget or filmmaking inexperience as an excuse.
Tenshu (Sakaki) is, o...
Nothing special but,
quite good of its type. If you're after really blood-curdling horror, then perhaps this isn't it. It is however entertaining, and if you've watched the earlier ones then this will keep you happy.
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