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      The Pottsville Horror

      R Released Nov 18, 1983 1h 19m Horror List
      Reviews 19% 100+ Ratings Audience Score An Idaho scientist (Martin Landau) and mayor (Jose Ferrer) dismiss the theory of a creature from the nearby nuclear dump. Read More Read Less

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      Scott Weinberg DVDTalk.com Grungy, muddy-looking, and completely beholden to Alien for all its money moments, The Being is Z-grade schlock-slinging at its most obvious. Rated: 1.5/5 Sep 24, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      justin t Not a good transfer, either that or the source material was really bad. It just looked soft the whole time. The cinematography is messy and has nothing interesting about it. It looks really flat and dated. The visual effects are rubbery! The sound is poor, technically it is really bad. The dubbing is awful, the sound effects bland and the clarity murky. The music is dated and lacks the subtlety that we expect today. The story is non-existent! It's a nuclear monster killing people. It reminded me of fifties monster movies but it was in colour and had a small amount of violence. A cheesy old-fashioned monster movie that has camp value and little else. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A nice 80s toxic waste creature feature Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Cheesy,sleazy and greasy....the way a good early 80's killer creature movie should be. Complete with bloody gore and creative murder scenes. Lots of nude teen girls being chased and touched by creature and human alike.Is this movie going to win any cinematic awards? Hell no! Is that a bad thing? Fuck no! Just because a bunch of self important,pretentious suit wearing assholes doesn't give something an award...doesn't mean the films horrible. I find that to be the exact opposite with alot of oscar wining films. I grew up on so called "bad" movies such as this, and they gave me hours of enjoyment. So I always feel slightly offended when someone who never watches a movie like this....will dismiss it as "bad". It's movies like this and Blood Diner from 1987 that makes me really feel sad that Jackie Kong didn't continue to make more horror films. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Junky monster-on-the-rampage movie with a cast of Oscar-winning veterans. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A film that is not even close as bad as everyone makes it out to be. This film is part schlock, part horror, and part comedy and it does pretty well balancing them all without the whole film falling apart. Though it's not even close to being perfect its screwball nature and occasional atmosphere win out. Some scenes are so bad that they're good, other are hilarious, and others are chilling, and creepy. The score is occasionally silly but it knows how to get the job done in the suspense scenes and actually enhances them. In short a good but far from perfect horror film. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review bradley p One kill and onto the next, a typical body count film that of lacks any of the redeeming qualities of a slasher/monster movie. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis An Idaho scientist (Martin Landau) and mayor (Jose Ferrer) dismiss the theory of a creature from the nearby nuclear dump.
      Director
      Jackie Kong
      Screenwriter
      Jackie Kong
      Production Co
      Bill Osco Productions
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Horror
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Nov 18, 1983, Original
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 10, 2018
      Runtime
      1h 19m
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