The Pottsville Horror

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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 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A nice 80s toxic waste creature feature Rated 3/5 Stars •  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 3/5 Stars •  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 2/5 Stars •  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 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member Idaho. "The Gem State." Major exports: Potatoes, lumber, and TERROR! The radioactive waste that is being dumped into the town's water supply has taken form as The Being, a mutant monster with a taste for blood that is killing off the locals. Detective Mortimer Lutz is the town's last defense against the evil menace, but local politics prevent him from contacting the National Guard. Why? Potatoes. Mayor Lane won't let anything stand in the way of Pottsville's lucrative potato business... Not radiation, not untimely death... Nothing! Jackie Kong's feature film debut is a bloody mess that only gets by thanks to its absurd plot and gallons of gore. Jose Ferrer and Martin Landau are wasted on this pathetic B-movie, but the poor writing in the script allows for several unintentional moments of hilarity from each of them. Landau's role as the environmental chemist is to prove that dumping toxic waste into the town's drinking water will have no adverse effects. Really? Where do you even start dissecting that? In all of Idaho, there is no place else to dump toxic waste but in the water supply? Who does Mayor Lane think is going to pick the potatoes, the mutants? Where does Idaho even get toxic waste to begin with? Thankfully, The Being comes along and rips off a few heads, tears out people's hearts, and slimes everything in sight. As far as terrible B-movies go, THE BEING rates at the top of the charts, but it is enjoyably bad from start to finish. -Carl Manes I Like Horror Movies Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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