Mojin: The Worm Valley 2018 Screenplay by Muye Zhang and directed by Xing Fei. A Chinese film that is a sort of sequel to Mojin: The Lost Legend.
Some cursed people set out to find the Mu Chen Orb. It's supposed to break the curse and cure the afflicted. They have some adventures on the way to the mountain they have to travel under. There's plenty of giant critters once they get below the surface. There's also a lot of talking and slow patches. The giant sets are nice and the action scenes are exciting.
I'm thinking it might play better if it was trimmed a bit. It also ends with a gaping open door for the sequel that never materialized. I enjoyed it but no where near as much as the first film. I bought the Blu-ray and I'll keep it but when I get around to watching it again I'll have my finger on the speed control.
Grotesque 1988 Story by Joe Tornatore, screenplay by Mikel Angel, directed by Joe Tornatore. Joe's been an actor and stuntman since he appeared as a gorilla in the the 1968 Planet Of The Apes. Except for a short film in 2012 he hasn't been acting since 1994. He wrote 8 films and directed 14 films. I don't recognize any of his work and none of his films gets more than a 4.9 on the IMDb.
Linda Blair and her best pal go visit her mother and father in a house in the mountains in California. Her father is an effect makeup guy who works on horror movies. In the middle of the night some punks break into the place and demand the money, jewels or drugs they mistakenly think are there. Hardly anyone survives the night. The movie switches from horror comedy to slasher to monster film to police procedural to revenge flick.
I watched this film on YouTube a couple of weeks ago and it made me laugh a good bit. Not from being funny but from being ludicrous. It's generally just a below average low budget film with a poor script, a poor director and a cast with limited talents. Some of the older actors, Guy Stockwell, Tab Hunter and Charles Dierkop are a bit better than some of the other cast. Despite all that I ordered the Shout Factory DVD with 3 other films.
There's a slightly better copy on TubiTV and I've linked to it in the title above. From what I can gather the movie was released to the theaters at 79 mins, you can watch that version on YouTube. The movie was padded out for TV and about 14 mins was added. You can check out both versions and see what you think. I'm thinking it might be a while before I get back to it.
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