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The Card Player Review

November 1, 2012 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

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Plot: Police officer Anna Mari tries to stop a card playing serial killer in this chilling tale from Dario Argento. Anna’s forced into a dangerous game with the maniac, and if she loses, she must witness the gruesome deaths of the man’s victims via webcam.

Review: Many things in life are seemingly determined by luck.  Meeting the girl of your dreams on a random stop at a coffee house or hitting the daily lotto numbers are two great examples.  However, in the Dario Argento film The Card Player, a serial killer uses luck as the ultimate form of terror.

The premise of the film revolves around a serial killer that goes by the name of The Card Player.  He kidnaps women and kills them over the internet based on the outcome of a single game of Video Poker.  If the killer’s opponent loses the hand, the person on screen is tortured and then killed.

As the film progresses, the film winds up being a game of cat and mouse between the serial killer and the local police.  The killer presents several potential victims to the police and each time they play against him, they lose and the victims are killed.

When the commissioners daughter is kidnapped, the police enlist the help of a poker prodigy to try and free the girl.  The poker pro is successful in securing her release but the killer is now suspect something is amiss and things go downhill from there.

This films sees the police use state of the art technology and criminology in order to track down this killer.  Overall, this film comes across less as a horror movie and more like an episode of the hit TV series CSI.

That is not necessarily a bad thing as CSI is one of the highest rated shows in CBS history.  Those looking for lots of blood and gore will be a bit disappointed as this film does not take advantage of that as other films created by Argento in the past.

However, The Card Player is a solid attempt to integrate the madness of a serial killer with modern technology.  If one does not go into watching this movie expecting a classic horror movie and approaches it more like a psychodrama, it should prove to be a rather enjoyable experience.

Overall Rating – 6.5/10

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Filed Under: Horror Movie Reviews Tagged With: Argento, card, cunningham, dario, liam, listings, medusa, muccino, player, poker, pokerlistings, produzione, rocco, silvio, stefania, video

The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) Review

November 5, 2011 By Horror Palace 2 Comments

The Human Centipede 2 - Full Sequence Cover PosterMovie: The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
Year: 2011
Studio: Six Entertainment Company
Director: Tom Six
Language: English
Length: 85 Minutes
Sub-Genre: Torture, Thriller

Plot: Disturbed loner Martin is so obsessed with the shock horror film The Human Centipede that he decides to replicate that film’s grisly experiment. In this meta-sequel, the stakes are raised, with 12 unlucky souls enduring surgical hell.

Review: I want to start off by saying that I really enjoyed the first movie, it was highly original and I found it to be very entertaining, sick and demented and I rated it as one to watch. When I heard there was going to be a sequel, I was ecstatic and couldn’t wait to get my hands on it. I was pleased to find out that Amazon’s Video on Demand was playing this film.

For my review I will start with the negatives of The Human Centipede 2; number one and foremost the film is in black & white. The writer/director Tom Six thought that this would raise the bar in the scare factor of the movie and make it out to be more believable. I totally disagree! I think it would of been so much better in color, there were so many kill scenes and blood spattering that color would of made it so much more intense. I love gory movies and the gorier the better and with this movie being in black & white I think it takes away from that so that it doesn’t seem as gruesome.

Another negative I had was there was very little talking in the movie. The lead character does not speak a word, he utterly mumbles a few things and makes some sound effects. It is not so much that I wanted to hear him talk because I think that it made him out to be much more deranged and psychotic, but I think there should of been a little more conversations throughout.

One final negative, I wanted to see more of the actual surgeries of attaching 12 people together. There were only a few brief scenes where you see some cutting and some stapling of the mouths to the anus. I am the type of horror fan that likes to see everything, the gorier the better. Just would of liked some more in there.

Now for the positives; I really like how they incorporated the first movie into this one with the lead character watching the actual movie and attaining his disgusting sadistic and inhuman idea. Also I liked the fact that they had one of the actual stars in the first one, which is Ashlynn Yennie. This sequel is much more vulgar, disgusting and downright nauseating. Plenty of bashing in heads and blood spattering kills.

The lead role played by Laurence Harvey was perfect! You could not of gotten a better person for this role. He had me convinced that he was totally out there I mean outer space out there in his role. His demeanor, fat belly, bulging eyes and evil sick little chuckles made this the perfect part for him.

I will finish up by saying that the director left the film open for another sequel. This movie is definitely not for the weak or faint hearted and you might want to have a vomit bag handy especially for one of scenes near the end of the movie. I really liked the ending, I was surprised and shocked! True horror fans, this is one movie you will want to see, that is if you can stomach it!!!

Reviewer: ChrisiFix
Date: 11/05/2011
Rating: 6½/10
Recommendation: Stream It
Trailer: Watch
VOD: Amazon Instant Video
BluRay: N/A
Social Media: Wikipedia

Filed Under: Horror Movie Reviews Tagged With: amazon, amazons, ashlynn, centipede, company, demand, entertainment, full, harvey, human, instant, laurence, martin, sequel, sequence, six, tom, video, vod, yennie

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