B-MOVIE OF THE MONTH - GULAG (TV 1985)

This month B-Movie Gazette dives into the prison genre and who doesn't like a good prison flick? Gulag is an extremely well-produced TV movie originally made for HBO before wandering out to obscurity-land. David Keith is in top form as a sportscaster and while covering an event in Moscow is framed by the KGB. Unable to prove his innocence a prison escape is now inevitable, just how will he do it? Malcolm McDowell co-stars, this is a good one folks! 2.75 stars/2.75

Monday, October 25, 2021

VAL KILMER IS "THE SUPER" (2017) - A CREEP WHO LIKES TO DABBLE IN BLACK MAGIC, SPEAK TO HIMSELF IN TOUNGES AND SCARE LITTLE GIRLS IN BASEMENTS - SERIOUSLY?

 


A retired cop takes a job as one of three supers in a huge high rise in Manhattan. People have been mysteriously disappearing and all clues point to the strange one of the three played by Val Kilmer. Now it looks like the super's harassing one of the cop's two little girls. There's only one solution - the super's gotta go down. I mean, if you were a retired cop with two little girls and a guy that looks like Kilmer chasing them around the basement, wouldn't you?

However, this is a supernatural thriller so there's much more going on here that I don't want to spoil. Suffice it to say - keep your eye on the daughter's clown toy because it's a puzzle that acts as a key to the puzzle of what's really going on in this apartment high-rise the size of the Chrysler Building.

Kilmer proves once again why he's one of the greats, acting mostly with his face and strange utterances. Love the music and production design. Most of the reviews were not as kind but I found this to be a quality, enjoyable and genuinely scary horror thriller. Streaming free on Vudu, Tubi and YT.  3.0 stars/5

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