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 Madhouse (DVD)
Description: Genre: Horror / Suitable for 18 years and over / Director: Ovidio G. Assonitis / Actors: Trish Everly, Dennis ... more  Madhouse (DVD) ... Robertson, Michael Macrae, Morgan Hart, Richard Baker ... / DVD released 2004-04-19 at Film 2000 / Features of the DVD: PALNewest Review: ... to the visual style and most of the acting, and while there are a few scenes of quite unpleasant gore, there are also several ... more ... murders that are understated or not shown at all, suggesting a film that can't decide what it should be.
The acting from the leads - especially Julia and her dull doctor boyfriend - is generally uninteresting. Few of the actors rise to the occasion, although the material doesn't really lend itself to any serious histrionics. There are a couple of really fun OTT psycho performances towards the end, but that's too late to make me care. The ending actually goes some way towards redeeming the film; it's endearing...more |
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Madhouse (DVD): Dullhouse (742 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 10.04.08 (Very useful, 82 readings)
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A review of the Film 2000 DVD. This is a deservedly obscure video nasty from 1981. Originally called There Was A Little Girl, it was released as Madhouse in the UK for reasons that are far from clear - there is no madhouse anywhere in the film. Although an Italian film, it at least features US actors, so the usual problems with lip-synching aren't present. Julia is a teacher at a school for the deaf. She has an uncle who's a priest and a twin sister who's confined to a hospital with some kind of disfiguring virus. This sister used to terrorise Julia as a child with her scary dog. The sister vanishes from her hospital and soon enough people close to ...
