Dark Tower

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Steve D Never even approaches intense. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/31/23 Full Review Audience Member You'd think that Michael Moriarty would have had enough of window washers falling off of high rises, but he's back — well, he's playing a security expert instead of a thief, this time Dennis Randall — and he's trying to figure out why people keep dying inside a possessed high rise. The mystery that I will solve for you is that director Ken Barnett is really two people. Original director Ken Wiederhorn (Shock Waves) was replaced by Freddie Francis. Yes, the Amicus director, making his last movie. He wasn't the only replacement. Moriarty replaced Roger Daltrey and Jenny Agutter (An American Werewolf In London) replaced Lucy Guttridge. Released in the U.S. as The Curse V and as Demons 7: The Inferno in Japan, this movie starts with some great deaths — and Agutter in some of the most ridiculously unrevealing lingerie ever seen in a movie — and becomes a haunted high rise movie that can't compete with Demons 2 or Poltergeist 3. It does have Kevin McCarthy playing a psychic trying to investigate what's happening as well as a finale that has Agutter's hair and wardrobe looking different in nearly every scene. This was a Sandy Howard production, just like Blue Monkey, so it definitely was on the shelf of your video store. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member I only watched this out of boredom but it was horrible. Hilariously horrible. A good movie for horror laughs and giggles at the corniness. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Incredibly boring, with a numbingly bland and uninvolved performance by Michael Moriarty. Jenny Agutter seems totally uninterested in the whole affair. Anything frightening about this "horror" movie? Yes. That it got made. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member Good, not great. I was mostly entertained Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member I really liked the set-up for this film, with a window washer on a brand new skyscraper in Barcelona fighting some sort of invisible entity and falls to his death, which was wittiness by the building architect, Jenny Agutter, and is investigated by detective Michael Moriarty. The film then unfortunately begins to crawl at a snails pace and never has any real suspense or scares. On the plus side, Moriarty is great as always doing one of his oddball jazzy naturalistic performances. And speaking of music, there was a surprisingly good score by Stacy Widelitz, who is a composer I'd never heard of before. The film's original director was Ken Wiederhorn, who made the cult classic underwater Nazi zombie film "Shock Waves" but who never really made any other good films. Wiederhorn was removed from the film and veteran horror director Freddie Francis (who was also an award winning cinematographer) took over. The tip off that this is probably not a good film is that neigh Wiederhorn or Francis put their name on the film and instead "Ken Barnett" is the credited director. The end product here really just becomes a laughable mess. The film does come to life a bit towards the end when Kevin McCarthy shows up as some sort of psychic to fight the evil entity. McCarthy seems to know exactly what kind of film this is and goes into full ham mode for his performance, which is exactly what this film needed. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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