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I guess I must be a bit of a masochist as I actually enjoy watching really bad movies. I watch the Sci Fi channel movies for just that reason. They’re so bad they’re actually funny.

Ankle Biters is just such a movie. The quality is well… really, really, really bad. So bad it’s frigging hilarious. The whole movie revolves around a bunch of vampire dwarfs. The script is crap, the acting is crap and the plot is crap. It makes the Sci Fi channel original movies look like Oscar material, which is no mean feat!

How and why this movie got made is beyond me. How on earth did they ever persuade someone to finance it? I don’t think it’s meant to be funny – the cast seem to be taking it seriously enough but I seriously suggest that anybody involved with this movie should not contemplate giving up their day job for a career in Hollywood. The funny thing is that the movie got upgraded from VHS to DVD and then was distributed. Read the rest of this entry »

Death Note is one of those movies that you may well gloss over when browsing – I came across it by accident. It’s Japanese and is the live action version of the anime TV series of the same name. Japan has produced some wonderful movies over the years and there is a great deal of talent over there in the movie industry.

The basic plot revolves around Light Yagami finding a book that has supernatural powers. If a name is written in the book whilst picturing the face of that person then they will die as written or die of a heart attack if no manner of death is specified. Not only that but touching the book gives someone the power to see the Shinigami (God of Death) associated with that particular book. Light decides to make the world a better place by disposing of “evil” elements within the world. Read the rest of this entry »