"But tell me, what gods protect you?"
"None.. now"
They just don't make them like they used to. Big, epic and sprawling with adventure with enormous amounts of Harryhausen doing what he does best along the way. The skeleton fight is honestly one of the coolest and most impressive sequences in a movie ever.
"Where are your eyes? Did we gouge them out? Did you blind yourself to not observe us humans fall more and more into the abyss?"
Amazing stuff happening with a saxophone and an entrancing use of the organ. Top tier score work.
Moody and nude Franco-esque erotic giallo that takes place on the gorgeous Italian coast and features numerous beautiful women, a ghost dad, ass eating and plenty of hot and heavy sleaze while exploring voyeurism, scheming and betrayal in…
"This is some shit"
Weird choice to turn Ben into a side character.
This moves from MAJOR plot point to MAJOR plot point with absolutely nothing in between, no joke, there is zero substance here. There's no set up/build up, there's no time spent with characters, there's no mystery, the Marsten house has lost its entire menacing punch, Straker is non-existent, Barlow is shown off FAR too early, its dead in the water when it comes to atmosphere and there's…
"Our intentions shape this world quietly"
The switching back and forth from found footage to good ol' regular filmmaking has its annoyances that sort of take you out of the immersion and the unconventional way of telling its story is odd.... but, the strength of its other qualities such as its creepy mountainside village, spooky use of sound, dive into supernatural evil that is black, vile and covered in weird magic and its surprising emotional weight keep it held above water enough to be a good addition to this little corner of the genre that gets a lot of hate.
