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The only other Roberta Findlay movies I had seen before this were Blood Sisters and Tenement, which were both terrible. So my expectations for this going in were VERY low. However, this movie has shown me that she may be the most crazy female horror director ever. This is one of those "wtf?" confusing, bad horror movies filled with cheap special effects, terrible acting, and cheese. Glorious, glorious cheese. There's the killer that is obviously a woman that they try audiences make to think is a man for most of the movie before saying "screw it" and revealing she is a woman halfway. There are moments where the movie completely rips off Dressed to Kill and it's hilarious. The last half hour of this is just amazing. The killer is chasing the main character with an axe, and the killer becomes so inept that her asthma acts up and she can't hit her with the axe from two feet. There is an insane asylum with extras acting like idiots, a nice gory moment at the end of the movie that was very unexpected and out-of-tone with most of the rest of the movie, and a freaking cheap-looking zombie ghost. The plot makes no sense, there are some nice deaths, the acting is bad, and the directing, pacing, and editing is all nonsensical. This is bad movie trash at its finest.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/25/23
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To slow paced to keep your atention. A movie with a killer lesbian in drag should have been more fun than what this movie ended up being.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
01/29/23
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This movie is really slow... I don't think it's bad though. It stays coherent, has some interesting scenes and it has a hulking lesbian assassin! My real rating would be 2 3/4 stars if I had the option, but I don't so I will round up to 3.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/16/23
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Holy crap is this film an ungodly, wretched mess!
This film was released in 1985 but everything about it including those open-shirted hairy-chested guys indicates this was probably made in 1980 and sat on a shelf for 5 years until some dumb shmuck thought he could make a few bucks off of it.
I'm sure he didn't.
Oh well, what did I expect from half of the "creative" team that brought you 'Snuff'.
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Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars
01/26/23
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The Oracle is another "classic" Roberta Findley (Blood Sisters, Tenement) about a supernatural being reaching out from beyond the grave, demanding the help of a young woman (lead Caroline Capers Powers) who begins suffering a phenomenal breakdown that has her husband and friends thinking she's absolutely nuts, despite the fact that a lot of the ghostly actions are happening around them as well. The ghost wants Powers to track down his multiple killers, which includes his young wife, her lover, and a grotesquely butch female killer that looks, acts, and is mistaken for a man throughout a good bit of the film. The Oracle, in true Roberta Findlay fashion, is a bit of a sleazy film with plenty of horrific moments ranging from lots of moving objects, weird cannibal bugs, and an unseen demon that pull off some rather gory kills at times. Not bad for a Findlay film. It's definitely low-budget and has many hiccups, but the gorier and sleazier moments are fun to watch. What isn't fun to watch is the special feature interview with Roberta Findlay, who comes off as very ignorant and pretentious, especially when she boasts that she hates horror films (even though that's ALL she makes), she despises them (like F13, The Shining, genuine classics) and is an all-around bitch. I wish I hadn't have seen that interview now because my opinion of her is truly ruined. Still, I'm not gonna let her idiocy affect how I feel about her films. Overall, The Oracle is not a bad watch, especially for fans of sleaze and gore.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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Coming from one of the privileged few to see it on 35mm: Really slow, with occasional bursts of pure insanity. The Mexican character is awesome, as is his death scene; and there are a couple of utterly incompetent chase sequences that are hilarious. Plus some weird-ass monsters, cheesy gore, and a freaky Amityville-Horror type sequence.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/15/23
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