The other day, i was down at my mate Mug's place for a cheesy movie day.
This entailed watching a few cheesy movies and just hanging and having a laugh.
The movies watched were:
Battle Beyond the Stars starring Richard Thomas (The Waltons), George Peppard (The A-Team) and Sybil Danning (Howling II).
The Naked Gun starring Leslie Nielson (Airplane, Due South).
Smokey and the Bandit with Burt Reynolds (Hooper, Cannonball Run).
And we also watched the movie i'm going to discuss.... The low budget 2016 80's style horror movie....
Beyond the Gates.
Beyond the Gates is a story of two brothers (Chase Williamson and Graham Skipper) who while packing up their missing father's video store, come across an old video cassette board game (think Atmosphere). They decide to watch the video which is something they will soon regret.
This movie was recommended by our mate John, so we sat and gave it a watch.
When i was told about this movie, the first thing that popped into my head was a horror version of Jumanji. Sounds good doesnt it.
The end product kind of is but as its low budget it also falls short and its also a bit slow at times.
Even though it is very low budget, thats not to say its utter crap.
It has a lot going for it.
From the start, the movie imbraces its 80'd horror roots, with an 80's style theme tune. Very nice.
It also has Barbara Crampton (From Beyond, Chopping Mall, Re-Animator) as the video Avatar of the Game who advises the brothers and girlfriend Margot (Brea Grant) what they must do to move forward in the game.
Although her role is quite small, she does move the story forward.
It also had a few scenes where i thought one thing was gonna happen and it wasnt, which was a nice surprise.
The premise of the movie itself is quite good and its been done a few times (Jumanji, Jumanji 2 Zathura to name the main ones) and this had the potential to be an excellent little horror movie, but alas the low budget and some stilted acting meant that it never reaches its full potential.
Its also a quite short film at about 84mins but it felt a lot longer at times again this is probably due to the poor acting and the script needing beefed up a bit and padded out.
At the end of the day i'd probably give it 3 out of 5. I've seen worse and i've seen better and it had the potential to be something a lot more.
Its defo worth a watch but its a missed opportunity.
This entailed watching a few cheesy movies and just hanging and having a laugh.
The movies watched were:
Battle Beyond the Stars starring Richard Thomas (The Waltons), George Peppard (The A-Team) and Sybil Danning (Howling II).
The Naked Gun starring Leslie Nielson (Airplane, Due South).
Smokey and the Bandit with Burt Reynolds (Hooper, Cannonball Run).
And we also watched the movie i'm going to discuss.... The low budget 2016 80's style horror movie....
Beyond the Gates.
This movie was recommended by our mate John, so we sat and gave it a watch.
When i was told about this movie, the first thing that popped into my head was a horror version of Jumanji. Sounds good doesnt it.
The end product kind of is but as its low budget it also falls short and its also a bit slow at times.
Even though it is very low budget, thats not to say its utter crap.
It has a lot going for it.
From the start, the movie imbraces its 80'd horror roots, with an 80's style theme tune. Very nice.
It also has Barbara Crampton (From Beyond, Chopping Mall, Re-Animator) as the video Avatar of the Game who advises the brothers and girlfriend Margot (Brea Grant) what they must do to move forward in the game.
Although her role is quite small, she does move the story forward.
It also had a few scenes where i thought one thing was gonna happen and it wasnt, which was a nice surprise.
The premise of the movie itself is quite good and its been done a few times (Jumanji, Jumanji 2 Zathura to name the main ones) and this had the potential to be an excellent little horror movie, but alas the low budget and some stilted acting meant that it never reaches its full potential.
Its also a quite short film at about 84mins but it felt a lot longer at times again this is probably due to the poor acting and the script needing beefed up a bit and padded out.
At the end of the day i'd probably give it 3 out of 5. I've seen worse and i've seen better and it had the potential to be something a lot more.
Its defo worth a watch but its a missed opportunity.
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