Pearce’s Film Reviews
224 Films have been rated or reviewed by Pearce.
Scanners (1981)
Cronenberg says this was made from an unfinished script – it shows. I was surprised to find that star Stephen Lack was great in an earlier movie, The Rubber Gun; he's terrible here. Ironside & McGoohan rule though.
Horror of Hammer, The - Too many of these are the inferior US trailers, but the audio commentary by a trio of experts is a lot of fun.
Burning, The (1981)- The first Miramax film and you'd believe a sex predator was involved in making it... brilliant gore effects.
Twitch of the Death Nerve (Bay of Blood) (1971)
Several of the deaths in this were ripped off directly by the first two F13 movies, though the filmmakers claimed not to have seen it. The connection is that the US distributor of this, Phil Scuden, produced those movies.
Evil Aliens (2005)
I feel slightly responsible for this because I read the original treatment and gave the feedback that it was unintentionally very funny – it was then turned into a weak intentional comedy.
Blood for Dracula (1974)- The cast & crew finished Flesh for Frankenstein, went for lunch and haircuts, then started this in the afternoon. If you like one you'll like both, I slightly prefer the other.
Depraved (2019)- One of the better modernisations of Frankenstein – there's plenty to choose from and this is Fessenden's second.
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
New York trash art + Italian trash horror = hilarious trash masterpiece.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)- Weird that the most sensitive Bond movie is also the most faithful to the book.
Shin Godzilla (2016)- Devastating satire of failed attempts to deal with disaster, spiced up with a grotesque body–horror take on Godzilla. Watch bureaucrats argue over which meeting room to use while Tokyo is destroyed.
- Blu-Ray $34.95
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