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Barricade (2007)
Solid no-budget Hills Have Eyes clone
If you liked The Hills Have Eyes remake or the slasher movie Wrong Turn, you will probably like Timo Rose's Barricade. The only catch is that you have to love no-budget movies. This movie obviously had a tiny budget. They use it really well, but it still really shows.
The story involved a woman (Raine Brown) visiting her friend in Germany. They go on a camping trip and end up getting attacked by a family of mutant cannibals. There is not much plot, but there are a lot of gory scenes that are great. The first five minutes are pretty much nonstop gore and then we get extreme scenes of gore through out the rest of the movie. Heads are cut off, a man's face is melted, and in one totally nasty scene, a woman has her breast mutilated beyond comprehension. Totally sick!!!
In the end, the cannibals are defeated - but it is still a nice bleak ending.
I would give this movie a six or seven out of ten (still deciding). Even though it is not great (the plot is really simple), the effects ARE great and it was just what I wanted from a no-budget gore movie.
Way better than Troma stuff, I can swear to that!
Dèmoni 2... l'incubo ritorna (1986)
A great sequel to a great film, regardless of the naysayers!
Demoni 2 is a wonderful sequel to Lamberto Bava's Demoni. It is about a young woman who becomes a demon on her 16th birthday and then proceeds to turn everyone in her high-rise building into more demons! It has a fun, goofy feeling to it, they spare no victims (even children!), and the soundtrack is great.
While most people try to compare it to the original, this film is best viewed on its own. Forget the comparisons and enjoy Demoni 2 for what it is - a grand 80s monster movie with a lot of style and excitement.
I love this movie and watch it very often. The DVD is bare-bones, but still has some great extras on it.
If you're a fan of splatter, pick it up!!!