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Summary: Really scared me when I was little
Comment: Everybody gives this movie bad reviews, but it really freaked me out when I was a kid. I remember the scene when they go to dispose of the first infected body, that pervo guy, who drank the vodka. Just before they go to blow him out of the submarine hull, or whatever. A limb, tentacle thing spews out of it, and scratches one of the crew. Really creepy. Than one of the girls is so traumatized, by the whole thing, she's crying in the shower, scrubbing herself. It's a fairly intelligent, trippy horror film.
The overall feeling of the movie is creepy, on a psychological level.
All though there is some good old organic gore.
Pre-computer graphics era.
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Summary: Kind of old but still fun
Comment: I saw this film 18 years ago and I was scarred, Now that I saw it again I found it not bad. Effects now seems kind of cheese but have nice tension.
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Summary: leviathan
Comment: GOOD SCI-FI FLICK UPDATING VIDEO COLLECTION HAD IT ON VHS AND WANTED IT ON DVD.
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Summary: Leviathan
Comment: Again, not up to par with todays special effects, but really good all the same. I'm a sucker for the horror movies of the 80's and early 90's. I have to put this one above Deep Star Six, although that was a terrific movie also. Leviathan will have you jumping and scared.
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Summary: Silly and funny underwater version of "Alien" that still works
Comment: Coming in the late 1980s with all the momentum sprung from the "Alien" original and first repeat, "Leviathan" sought to take the alien model underwater, where a group of trash collectors fights on-board monsters with saws and flamethrowers.
The producers of this film knew a good model when they found it and obviously allowed the audience to laugh at their copycat ways by creating aliens that alternately look like tongues with teeth and moving intestines. There's also a paean to the real "Alien" near the end that Peter Weller does away with by squishing it's head in an elevator shaft.
And, in the final scene, you won't believe how hokey and stupid this kind of movie could be just a few years before the advent on high tech and high gloss computerization became de riguer in this type of thing. It's worth it to sit through the whole thing just to see that unbelievably dumb final scene.
Weller "starred" in this vehicle two years after his biggest hit, 1987's "RoboCop". This didn't do much for his reputation even though the cast included some great eye candy in Amanda Pays and the steely blue eyes of Meg Foster. A solid supporting cast headed by the great Richard Crenna, Ernie Hudson and Hector Elizondo offer a high level of acting credibility.
Still, they can't make sense of this mishmash which, oddly and fantastically, still works as horror. Leonard Maltin says to, "Skip it" on this one but I'd disagree. I think there's enough humor, whether intentional or unintentional, eye candy, schlock horror and fine acting to give you your money's worth. It didn't work as a big release in the theater but it's pretty good entertainment on a Tuesday night on your home system.
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