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HORROR: Ice Station Erebus / Sometimes They Come Back.. For More
REVIEWER: Shane Gavin
RATING: B
REVIEW:
As a film it could standalone.. There are no Greasy haired Chevy driving
leather jacket wearing 50s zombies in this film. The film is about Demons
and a satanic rising plot underneath the Ice in Antarctica.
A bunch of Straight to video talent and familiar TV faces litter the
screen. Chase Masterson from DS9 and General Hospital, DamianChapa from
Menedez, Faith Ford better known as Corky from Murphy Brown, Max Perlich
from Men with Guns, and the STAR of the show Clayton Rohner from the much
anticipated TV series GvsE also in "The Relic". I mention the
cast thoroughly because it is on them that the film focuses.. Not the special
Effects but instead Daniel Zelik Berk the director has focused our attention
on the characters.. Why are we to care about them.. That is a question
that I constantly asked myself while watching the film. Than it dawned
on me the characters were being built down so that the dismantling of each
of them in final 15 minutes would be both entertaining although clichedly
pickable.
Adam Grossman (Carnival of Souls) and Darryl Sollerh tackle the story
based on characters created by Stephen King. Who will be smiling at all
the cheques he is getting while recovering in hospital Now he has over
50 films based on his books (A $@#$ LOAD). This year alone, a CINEMA release
(The Green Mile), A Mini Series (Storm of the Century), TV (Rose Madder)
and Video this film Next year will see the controversial remake of his
book "The Body" originally made into the film "Stand By
Me" , the film will be called "Stud City".. And I just know
I'm gonna hate it.. But as for this film and the King in the title I can
not see how it relates to "Sometimes They Come Back". As it is
the 3rd in the film series.. I guess that was just a selling point of the
film.. Hence B.
B
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, 1998-1999.