The Resident Evil series ended last year with Resident Evil: The Final Chapter. The movie is written and directed by Paul W S Anderson. He's been the writer of all 6 films, he directed the first and numbers 4 to 6. I enjoy his work, especially a couple of his earlier films, Event Horizon and Soldier. I hear there's going to be a reboot of the Resident Evil series.
The story picks up after the last movie and it's one long battle back to Raccoon City for Milla Jovovich. She wakes up in Washing DC, not dead like it might have looked in the last film. The Red Queen pops up and fills her in. Most human's are dead, but there are a few that need saving. She tells Milla that there's a cure to the T-virus and it's in Umbrella Corporation's Raccoon City facility, The Hive. That's where it all started and that's where everything ends.
Practically everyone dies in the running battle with Umbrella CEO Dr Alexander Isaacs. He's a religious fanatic that decided he should end the world and store away some of the rich to revive when the planet has settled down from the release of the T-virus. He's operating out of The Hive and he wants to stop Milla from releasing the cure.
The zombies infected by the T-virus will all be killed by the cure and that means death for Milla. In the mean time Isaacs has brought a horde of zombies to the city to stop Milla and the gang. There's plenty of shooting and fire but the numbers are vast. It's pretty exciting, especially when Milla blows The Hive up. So long frozen rich people. Ha ha.
It was a fun enough end to the series though I think you've got to be into the series to sit though all the carnage. I've been picking up used Blu-rays of the series and recently got the last of the 6 live action films. I need 2 of the 3 animated films yet but those aren't as important to me. I'm planning to watch the whole series again, but not for a while, there's so much clambering for attention as it is.
Monster High is an 1989 horror comedy that's somewhat short on comedy. Sperhauk picked up The 4-movie Thrills & Chills Collection from Hamilton Books for $3.95, it's nearly 3 times that price on Amazon. Not bad for 4 movies, each on their own disc. Hamilton has a good number of cheap DVDs and I've already placed a couple of orders. They do better on their movies than the TV shows. Of course, they have a lot of books too.
It's the only feature film for director Rudiger Poe, he went on to mostly produce Playboy videos. As practice he puts a good number of bare breasts into Monster High. It was the first feature for the writers, Roy Langsdon and John Platt, they co-wrote two other films I've never seen. Since then they've both gone on to producing reality shows. It's good, those guys seem to have little talent for the writing and directing.
Monster High is an alien invasion movie. That's not the alien there, the gray guy with the horn, that's a statue that was in front of the school. The school's basketball team is called the Demons. Anyway, it comes alive and later plays in the big basketball game. If I made a joke about those teenage basketball players being horny, it would be a better joke than anything in the movie and I would be ashamed that I told it for much longer than this movie will be around.
Two dim witted idiots from space steal the doomsday device and it winds up on Earth. The doomsday device takes on a human shape and starts playing with the citizens.
Some students fight back and the world is saved. That's them above, the stoner, the pretty girl, the hansom jock and the geek. They battle the doomsday machine. Basically, a workable story line, but the script did not deliver. You can laugh at it's low production values, the flubs and goofs, the poor acting, but not at the jokes. It gets a 3.3 on the IMDb and that's better than I gave it. Some people, in the IMDb comments and other sites reviews, say they have fond memories of this movie from their youth, and you could see where an 8-10 year old might get more laughs out of this. Especially if they got to see it on cable, or tape, and all the titties were still there. Titties aren't any reason to see it and they certainly don't make up for the lack of gags. Still, for me, another movie added to the Watched Movie List.
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