Adams Movie Reviews

One hot looking girl and the other 3 were average. Probably a good rental flick.

Made in 1995 this film is showing it's age. This film wasn't rated. Mostly topless scenes with nothing explicit. Nothing you couldn't see on cable. An PG-17 rating would be a better fit.

Gave it 2 stars for the storyline not for the sexiness (lack thereof). Camera tends to pan too quickly and closeups are too brief. Edward Holzman has made better movies like "I Like to Play Games Too" which is way-hot. I thought this would have the intensity of that, but alas it pales in comparison.

Good for a night out with your girlfriend.

I know small companies will never be able to technically match big ones like Dreamworks, 20th Century Fox etc. but they could at least make some effort.

"Body Strokes" looks, for all it's worth, like a bad copy of a VHS tape. The film is blurry, the colours are smeared and washed out. Overall picture quality is horrible.

Sound is your basic stereo, and there are no extras on the disk, but it was the lousiness of the picture that got me the most. I should have bought the VHS version...

What posessed me to buy this drivel I don't know. It was so bad it could have been made by Aaron Spelling. A combination of bad acting, bad script, bad direction/makeup/production. Completely lacking in tension or horror and full of cliches.
Until now the worst film I had ever seen was "Raising Arizona" - until now! Thank goodness there were no extras - the mind boggles as to what they might have done with a "making of"!
Pity that Amazon.com doesn't permit no stars in the review - cos that's what this would have scored.

As only the B&W classic drive-in movies could do, or a Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie could do, this is the classic, cheesy,and fun B movie. Deadly Species is funny and dopey and almost good. It's got all the elements.....bad sound, bad music, gratutious nude scenes with pretty girls, some blood and gore, and of course foam-rubber customed men running around killing people. It won't be up for any awards but Deadly Species is a fun movie to sit around and make fun of on a Saturday night with some friends, some chips and beer.

I will admit I bought this mainly for the appearance of Debbie Harry, but, believe me, unless you are a completist it's not worth it! This black and white (ultra)low budget art film is badly recorded, the script and acting are terrible, and the ponderous direction makes the film crawl at a pace that would bore a snail.

Absolutely dire. If you want an interesting film from the punk generation go for Jubilee instead.

Okay, this is a little amateurish and slow, but where else can you see gorgeous Deborah Harry circa 1976; filmed before Blondie's first album was even in stores? Unfortunately, she's not the star of the film, and director Amos poe doesn't give her much to do in her one scene where she has 6 or 7 lines of dialogue before launching into an a capella number called "Sweet Thing". Then she's gone, and you press STOP on your DVD player! I can't say the rest of the movie is bad because I never get past Debbie! Amos also made three other films at around the same time, THE FOREIGNER (also with Debbie in a small singing cameo), BLANK GENERATION (documenting 1976-era CBGBs also including a section on Blondie), and NITE LUNCH, another docu-style account of the early scene circa 1975 with short clip of the Blondies. I recommend all of them for Blondie collectors and affecianados of the NYC punk era.

i bought this dvd and i regret it completely... it sounds really bad for what i had expected

I was excited about seeing this movie because I am a huge Jim Thompson fan. Unfortunately, the people involved in producing this movie were unable to replicate the feel of the novel.

Keach plays a deputy sheriff in a small town who's everyone's buddy. He's the kind of guy who settles barfights and counsels couples and gets kids cats down out of trees. Thing is, he's also a psychopathic killer who's quickly losing his grip on reality, and his ability to fool the people around him. KILLER INSIDE ME follows him through his rapid decline and ultimate doom. I looked for YEARS to find this movie, because I'm a HUGE fan of the book of the same name by Jim Thompson (who also wrote THE GETAWAY, THE GRIFTERS, and a number of other gritty, suspenseful books that became solid films). Ultimately, I was a little disappointed with this movie. In the book, the main character (it's told in first person from his perspective) is pure evil personified. He knows what he's doing is wrong and doesn't care a bit. In fact, he gets off on it! Hollywood had to make Keach a "poor victim" by pitching him as a nice guy whose terrible childhood catches up with him, and that kind of blew is for me. I mean, we're supposed to be rooting AGAINST this guy! That's the whole irony of the book! That said, Keach's performance is great (the way his eyes glaze over when his evil side comes out is just perfect), as is Susan Tyrell's performance as a scheming hooker. (Tyrell also co-starred with Keach in John Huston's wonderful FAT CITY, a film I HIGHLY recommend.) There aren't ANY extra features on this DVD (no production notes, commentaries, etc), and it's in full-screen, but you can't beat the price! In short, I'd recommend this movie if you're a Keach/Jim Thompson fan, but you should read the book (which I'd just bet you could find right here on this site) first.

I saw this movie on tnt and it was horrible. The story was ok, but the acting was sad and pathetic. I am a Cary Elwes fan, and of all the great acting he did in Glory, Princess Bride, etc. this is bye FAR the worst I have seen of him. This is a sign that the Princess Bride 2 should be released. About Eric Roberts, I never liked him and always thought was a bad actor. Bottom Line, the story was right, but the movie was badly directed and produced.

Sad. Eric ROberts starred in some good movies, but this one is not one of them. It's definitely one of the worst movies ever produced. Why ? Because it contains only the worst cliches, bad acting. It has a good concept, but badly developed by the producers.

Elwes and Roberts are definitely going downhill in this production full of bad acting and cliches. The movie is a total failure since the beginning, wasting an interesting premise ( in the future - 2008 -, people would be free to sell their own lives ). Sorry....

It would be easy to dismiss Le Guin's novel as unfilmable, except for the fact that it has already been done and done well, managing to capture the subtleties of shifting histories and universes without having to rely on adding melodramatic subplots or spelling out blatantly what was handled with style and grace in the text.

All of which is a roundabout way to say that you can't watch this movie without comparing it with either the 1980 film or with the original novel and that this version is extremely disappointing. Nuance is replaced with blatant acting and a heavy handed score, slow discoveries replaced by melodrama and all humanity reduced to the emotions of a soap opera.

While it's obvious that many changes would have to be made in order to turn a fairly cerebral novel into an accessible movie, the changes made to this are extremely disappointing and I couldn't recommend this movie to anyone on any level. Leave it well enough alone and hope you can find either the 1980 movie or, preferably, the original book.

The Lathe of Heaven refers to the dreams of George Orr, a seemingly ordinary young man whose dreams shape the waking reality of the world. In fact, his dreams change the entire past, present and future history in such a way that only he and his puzzling friend Manny seem to have any memory of an alternate past after he awakens. Afraid that he may dream some horrible fate upon the world, George turns to drugs for dream suppression --- only to overdose and earn himself court-ordered therapy with appointed psychiatrist Dr. Haber.

Haber starts out with the best intentions, but as their dream therapy sessions progress he finds himself believing Orr's fantastic claims, and temptation leads him to manipulate George's dreams for his own advancement. George soon catches on to what his doctor is doing, confronts him, and sets in motion a race not only for his own freedom but the future of humanity.

TLOH works on the level of a psychological thriller rather than action-based science fiction. A somewhat surrealistic atmosphere underlies every scene, leading us to question whether or not each incarnation of reality after Geoorge wakes may be yet another extension of his dreaming. The philosophical questions provoked by George's unique situation (Is all reality but a dream? Is Manny even a real person? Is George the defacto God of his universe?) have an unmistakable existentialist slant.

I admit to never having read the novel by Ursula K. LeGuin upon which TLOH is based. Therefore, I approached this made for cable TV adaptation with no particular expectations. I thought it was well done for what it was, although by no means could it compete with a high-budget feature film production. Still, the small cast of main actors were exceptionally well chosen for their roles: James Caan was comfortable as Dr. Haber and convinced me that he may well have been a psychologist in another life; Lukas Haas was the perfect innocent; Lisa Bonet, while playing the same character type as always, really seemed suited to the role of coolly mysterious attorney/ dream girl Heather LaLache. In all, the cheerless gray future of @ 30 years from now is realized very plausibly, mainly through set and wardrobe design, with little attempt at "sci-fi-isms" such as robot servants or aliens (which I understand made an appearance in the original version).

If you can suspend your disbelief and appreciate toned-down, philosophical science fiction, you will be able to enjoy the Lathe of Heaven.

-Andrea, aka Merribelle

This update remake of the Ursula LeGuin science fiction classic,
has half way decent performances, but it's hardly as good as the
original, it's been toned down a bit, it does have an ironic twist. Lukas Haas and James Caan are fine as Orr and the doctor.
Lisa Bonet is cute as Heather. Try to check out the original though, which is a better version.

This Movie had great color and surrounding content. The Actors were of better than usual sincerity, but could have done better. As for the accuracy of Scripture, much was lacking. A lot of historical events of more importance were omitted and should have been given more consideration. There have been few movies where the Bible is presented that Scholarly concerns have been at the forefront. For the mosy part , the movie was of some importance and did shed some light on what scripture was trying to say. Since no one is perfect, I guess there is always room for improvement.

This Movie has great color and background content. It is lacking in authenticity of facts as recorded in the Bible. There was a lot left out and not covered as concerning the Life of Samson and others. The Ten Commandments of Cecil B. Demile was much better and had more factual content than a movie of this caliber. It seemed as if the Producer was trying to create a fast event movie that would attract a less informed audience than those who are Bible Scholars.Accuracy is a must with Bible Scholars. R.C. Timms

I picked up this movie at my local video store cause I thought it could be a sleeper horror pick. What I got was just the tired out scares many of today's horror movies give you. You know the friend popping out of nowhere scare, or the mouses making noises scare etc.

I always complain that they remake good movies (Planet Of The Apes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and never deliever. Why don't they remake movies that just missed. "Long Time Dead" was little more then "just missed", but it had strong potential to be a very good horror film.

Plot is a bunch of kids decided to play gjijui (sp?) board. Of course the spirit or in this case the demon the bring up wants to kill them. For some reason they could only bring up this deman "Dijin" who is a fire demon and wants to kill all of them. So what happened to the good ghosts? Did they get pushed aside by the big bully Dijin Demon? Guess these kids are just unlucky. So the kids get killed one by one.

The ending you could see a mile away. Why do they continue with these horror movies do this type of ending where you the film watcher is just sitting thinking "Ok, this is going to happen now." You want to be suprised, and even the writer and director must have realized that the ending that everyone including Stevie Wonder could have seen coming.

Oh well, rent at your own risk.

This movie felt like a low budget, made for TV movie. It was pretty weak.

This might be a good film. I found it impossible to tell, due to the incredibly bad soundtrack. At first I thought it was something the matter with my sound system, but no, it was the DVD. It sounds as if several layers of cotton and a few sweaters were put around the microphones during the making of the film. There is absolutely no excuse for the DVD being released with a soundtrack as muddy as this one has.

Don't buy this DVD.