Happy New Year, 1985! This movie gets the honor of being my final review of 2011 based solely on the title. Unlike New Year's Evil or Terror Train, this film is really not about ushering in the new year. Why is called this? Good question, actually. On the plus side, it doesn't feature David Copperfield for no discernible reason! The movie comes to us from England, a country known for class and style. This movie...features a rock band, a confusing tale involving time travel and an exploding zombie airman. Did I pique your curiosity? If so, put down the champagne for a few minutes read on...
Our heroes get involved in a fight at a fair and flee for their lives. By the way, they also grab an American young lady to, who just kind of gets dragged along for the ride. Hello, innocent victim.
It sure was nice of them to give screen time to Fiend Without A Face, even if it probably was Public Domain by this point. While I like the movie, how many teens would stop everything to watch this movie?
This movie has an interesting slew of monsters in it, including an actor who jumps out of a Silent Film and this Seaweed Monster. Odd.
Remember that part in my intro about the Zombie Airman? Well, he's no Zombie Dad, but he does do this...
Your body a-splode! I won't question why that guy exploded when hit with a tree limb. I mean, why would I? Especially considering the science that runs the plot...
You see, the British government was doing an experiment on Christmas involving a time-travel machine in a plane. Things went awry, apparently trapping the people at the party in limbo...and making monsters. No, really.
After lots of death and a musical performance that nobody asked for, our Final Girl makes it away in a boat. I'm sure that she'll be...
...trapped in a twist ending that would later be used in another movie (which is definitely not Mirrors). The End.
It's bloody something alright! The plot of this movie is, well, weird. I say that a lot, don't I? This one especially takes the cake for spending so little time actually explaining the plot...and then does it in such a silly manner. Seriously, a major explanation of the plot comes in a TV that inexplicably plays in the background of one scene. Who does that?!? This whole idea is just silly. A plane crashes with a time-travel device and this causes an inescapable time loop? Did someone think this up, pitch this to someone and they actually did it without laughing? Aren't you the guys that wrote the Magna Carta?!? Even getting past the movie's bizarre, time-travel plot thread, there is no clear rhyme or reason to the monsters. How does a time-loop allow a character to come out of a Silent Film, slash a guy's face and apparently poison them to death within seconds? How does it allow people to come back from the dead as half-gold people? How does it allow wooden figurines to come to life? The point is that none of this movie makes a lick of sense really. Furthermore, the pacing is really weird and the acting is kind of crappy. All in all, it's no Terror Train...which was at least weird in a fun way. Take us away, effects shot revealing that you aren't swinging a real blade...
Up next, 2012 begins with a batch of Japanese films- just like 2011 did. First up, a movie about killer bees- my God. Stay tuned...
Haha, I watched the same today. Better than I expected but still far from being a masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Alec!