With the whole of NYC being invaded, this is much larger scale than the other films but with that the threat becomes less immediate and personal, though there’s more than enough tension.
For me especially, that tension was increased greatly by the presence of feline Frodo as I love cats. He is a great addition and a very natural animal actor but some of his scenes are a little hard to believe, to put it mildly. It’s lucky he’s the…
With the townspeople all hiding out in the church and a few guys with guns guarding the doors I thought this was going to become a critter-based take on Assault on Precinct 13.
We were certainly surprised when it turned out to be more rollerball…
Still lots of fun, we enjoyed this sequel as much as the first, though I think I slightly prefer the original perhaps due to nostalgia as I saw that one a few times on TV…
A masterpiece of tension through expert direction of scenes where threat is all around but violence is unpredictable, sometimes exploding out of nowhere and other times menacing for excruciating periods before simmering down and letting us breath again.
The actions carried out by the main protagonists in this bloody war are quite awe inspiring but also fairly terrifying and more than a little disturbing. Whatever it takes?
Highly recommended.
This is a tricky one to rate because it has an excellent cast, a fantastically well-realised and atmospheric setting, effective soundtrack, and a wonderfully unsettling early scene (you know the one, if you’ve seen this). As a period piece it’s great, but for much of the time there was very little sense of threat beyond the harsh realities of life and sometimes misdirected religious fervour in that time and place. So as a horror film I didn’t find it particularly…
