Shadowman

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Audience Member It's difficult to sum up how shit this film is. 'Les Yeux Sans Visage' by the same director is one of the great European horror/sci-fi films - and this is one of the worst. Horribly shot, terrible acting, awful music and compared to what was going on in Italian genre cinema at the same time, mind-bogglingly banal. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Yes, it does have a pulp atmosphere with a curious improbable plot involving the Knights Templar to marine archaeology to remote-control zombies. Georges Franju continues with the theme of disguise preceded by Eyes Without a Face (the faceless girl in a porcelain mask), Judex (the bird-masked murderer at the ball) and here - a red-masked villain! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Despite the awful dubbing and some random soundtrack selection I quite enjoyed this one. Yes at times it was rather slapstick and amateurish but there were some great visuals (particularly the red masked villain) and had a slick pace about it. Worth a look. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member If given a bigger budget and not television quality film this would be one of the coolest movies ever made. Aside from those simple restraints, this is still a cool crime flick and it wouldn't be as good without it's far out plot or characters. And zombies! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm really growing fond of Franju's style, it's very eccentric and pulpy without sacrificing skill. Nuits Rouges is a unique piece of work, it transcends time. Essentially a caper film but layered with oddities that kept me engrossed. Would make a fantastic companion piece with Mario Bava's Danger Diabolik. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Mike M Deeply eccentric crime caper... some part of it is a flics et robbers affair a la Melville, only - instead of paring away at his material, as Melville might - Franju keeps on accruing layers of oddball, unreal flourishes. Certain scenes (notably, our heroes' encounter with an army of marching mannequins) resemble Tom Baker-era "Doctor Who"; and most bizarrely, it all takes place against contemporary (for 1973) locations: a Pong videogame can be glimpsed in the corner of one assignation in a London cafe, yet it's still the sort of film where the villains use poison darts and smokescreens rather than guns to effect their getaways. "Nuits Rouges" remains a curio, but one that now looks so far removed from time or place as to be all but meaningless; you'd never guess it from looking, but this was released one year after "Tout Va Bien". Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/11/08 Full Review Read all reviews

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