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Posted by DVD Verdict on 10/06/81 11:31
Today, DVD Verdict posted reviews of BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD: THE MIKE
JUDGE COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE, BOLLYWOOD DREAMS, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS:
UNRATED EDITION, FOR YOUR HEIGHT ONLY / CHALLENGE OF THE TIGER,
IMAGINING ARGENTINA, THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON,
PLAGA ZOMBIE: MUTANT ZONE, SACRED FLESH, WOMEN'S PRISON MASSACRE: UNCUT
EDITION, and YES:
BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD: THE MIKE JUDGE COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE (reviewed by
Brett Cullum, overall score 88/100):
"Beavis and Butthead: The Mike Judge Collection -- Volume One presents
the short cartoons, but not the entire episode. Missing are the video
commentaries, which were often the funniest part of the show. They do
include 11 videos in this format on the third disc, but it seems short.
I'd like to see more of these on future sets, but seems rights issues
make it cost prohibitive."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/beavisbuttheadvol1.php
BOLLYWOOD DREAMS (reviewed by James A. Stewart, overall score 83/100):
"Hollywood doesn't make movies like this, but it used to. The
exaggerated expressions and gestures remind me of Hollywood's silent
era; the throwbacks to Technicolor musicals (the DVD case compares this
one to Singing in the Rain, with good reason) are even more obvious."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/bollywooddreams.php
THE DEVIL'S REJECTS: UNRATED EDITION (reviewed by Patrick Naugle,
overall score 82/100):
"The Devil's Rejects is a bloody mess of a movie. There are shootings,
impalings, multiple deaths, and scenes of torture and mutilation that
would make Ed Gein flinch. This movie is not a pretty sight."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/devilsrejects.php
FOR YOUR HEIGHT ONLY / CHALLENGE OF THE TIGER (reviewed by David
Johnson, overall score 80/100):
"What a great, fun, profoundly weird movie. A far-out take on James Bond
films (featuring strangely similar music), For Your Height Only is
hilarious -- but I'm not entirely sure it was supposed to be a comedy."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/heighttiger.php
IMAGINING ARGENTINA (reviewed by Bill Gibron, overall score 80/100):
"The fact that Carlos can 'see' what is happening to various members of
the 'disappeared' is one of the weirdest ways of presenting the pain of
a country's cruel past ever created. The narrative really doesn't need
this ditzy device -- a standard switch back-and-forth behind Cecilia's
trials and Carlos's search would have been perfectly fine."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/imaginingargentina.php
THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON (reviewed by Cynthia
Boris, overall score 90/100):
"Though the show appears to be about a famous singing group, it's really
about a family who just happens to be famous, which is what makes the
show quirky and different from your average family sitcom. Sure, they
have their showbiz problems, like the time the skunk sneaked on to the
tour bus or when they played host to a contest-winning fan. But they
also had the typical suburban sitcom problems such as tonsils that must
come out, teenagers with impossible crushes, and the tribulations of
being a single parent."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/partridgefamilyseason2.php
PLAGA ZOMBIE: MUTANT ZONE (reviewed by Bill Gibron, overall score
98/100):
"This bravado brainchild of Argentinean auteurs Pablo Pares and Hernan
Saez is like watching Peter Jackson's private personal video
experiments, or Sam Raimi's first forays into Evil Dead-based fright."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/plagazombie.php
SACRED FLESH (reviewed by Rob Lineberger, overall score 84/100):
"Do all of these soft-core shenanigans, modern touches, and highbrow
religious ruminations meld into a cohesive movie? Not quite. But they do
meld into a memorable one that will single-handedly resuscitate the
nunsploitation genre. I mean that in a good way."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/sacredflesh.php
WOMEN'S PRISON MASSACRE: UNCUT EDITION (reviewed by David Johnson,
overall score 80/100):
"Pure, unapologetic trash. That's what this film is. And it makes no
excuses for its position high atop the Sleaze Barometer. Whatever you're
expecting to get with a film titled Women's Prison Massacre is what
you're likely to get."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/womensprisonmassacre.php
YES (reviewed by Joe Armenio, overall score 84/100):
"Most of the writing is quite good, and one set piece, Sheila Hancock's
internal deathbed monologue, is truly majestic. He and She's amorous
wine bar exchange is intended to be another bravura passage, but sounds
like a passage from a breathless, high-toned romance novel, intoned with
a deadly humorlessness."
FULL REVIEW: http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/yes.php
Mike Jackson
Editor & Webmaster, DVD Verdict
www.dvdverdict.com
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