B-Movie Reviews: August 1994
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The Unnamable (1988)
The Unnamable is one of the many H. P. Lovecraft tales brought to the screen without much success. An indescribable horror has been conjured
up in a haunted house after 300 years of dormancy from the book the Necronomicon. The unnameable creature is alive and looking for some teens to kill. So, when some college kids go to the house on a dare, it’s slaughter time. A boring twist on a Friday the 13th slasher-style film, it has all the typical sex-starved teen scenes, and you couldn’t care less when someone dies. The unnameable creature finally shows itself, and it’s a pretty cool-looking creature, but the story sucks. So does The Unnameable.
Trancers (1984)
Three hundred years in the future, Los Angeles has been destroyed by an enormous earthquake and Angel City is all that remains. Tim Thomerson (Rhinestone) plays trooper Jack Deth, a trench coat-wearing loner. His latest assignment is to catch Martin Whistler, a super villain who has gone back to the year 1985 to kill the ancestors of the government (the Ruling Council). Jack follows him back in time and enters one of his relatives’ bodies, Phillip Dethton. Jack then teams up with Phil’s girlfriend, Leena (Helen Hunt). Together, they contend with Whistlers’ army of mutant freaks or “trancers.” The whole concept is similar to The Terminator and other back-to-the-past-to-change-the-future concepts. There’s very little budget, but thankfully the cast and crew seems to have put in a lot of effort. Director Charles Band has made three sequels since this modest attempt at the action film genre. – B-Zilla
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