Wonderfully offbeat film!
This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.
View MoreYes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
View MoreThis was a passable horror/sci-fi series. A pity it was canceled after the first season: while not ground-breaking, it was always watchable and sometimes even memorable. Most episodes were decent: I'd give an average rating of 6.5 out of 10. There were a couple of clunkers but also some little gems. My three favorite episodes are: A View Through the Window, with Bill Pullman. The Army finds in the desert a portal to another dimension; it seems like a fantasy romance, but there is a creepy twist.Patterns, featuring Malcolm McDowell as a patient with obsessive-compulsive disoder.Bitter Harvest, perhaps the darkest entry, with the late Jack Palance as a grim farmer.The biggest problem is how, once you realize nearly every episode has a twist ending, you start to anticipate it - and often guess it halfway through. 6.5/10
View MoreNight Visions, I remember watching this movie on Studio 23, a local channel that caters the taste of teenage viewers and of course the attention of many adults as well. This movie indeed is a chilling flick on different twisted natures of human mind or someare sorts of supernatural existence here in the world. The movie was toughly scary, to consider that it is duly aired here in our place every near mid of the night, I always scamper to my bed immediately wondering the things I witnessed in this movie. I wouldn't really tell everyone who manage to watch this film they would be frightened to their seats, but its genre in telling weird horrible stories of different strange nature, which concludes in an unsolved resolution, would irrefutably give the chills to everyone who watch it. Every time Henry Rollins start to invocate a short overture to the story the film is showing I instantly get the sense of Goosebumps, and most especially his final chant as well.I would really love to peer one more time with this movie when it comes back to Studio 23. TO other horror fans out there, this one isn't a waste of trying.
View MoreI knew when Fox started airing this show that they'd already decided not to make any more episodes of it, but I figured they'd at least air the ones they had and I could tape them. I missed one and then Sept. 11th happened before they could air the last three. When the schedule finally returned to normal, Night Visions was nowhere to be found. I kept hoping that they'd finally air them eventually and then I heard the Sci-Fi Channel had picked it up. I happily started checking the schedule each week to see if it was an episode I needed and finally the one I missed was going to be on. It wasn't, they played repeats of The Dead Zone instead. I figured that they'd play them eventually, even if it was in a lousy timeslot. Now they've done something so low, I have trouble expressing how angry I am. Tonight SFC aired a supposedly original 'movie' called Shadow Realm. I then discovered that this was nothing more than 2 episodes of Night Visions with the original titles and intros removed and SFC's name plastered on it. This is a bald-faced *LIE*. SFC had absolutely nothing to do with this 'movie' other than hacking up the episodes and slapping their name on it! I consider this outright theft. They'd probably argue that since they bought the rights to it, they can claim it to be an original, but how many people would accept it if I were to buy the Mona Lisa and proclaim it to be my original work? No, I'm not comparing Night Visions to a priceless work of art, but the principle is the same and it deserves to be seen the way the creators intended. Because of this, you can be sure that you will never see those two episodes (Patterns/Maze, Harmony/Voices) in their unedited form, because that would show the SFC to be the liars they are. That's not just an opinion, it's a fact. They lied about creating this 'movie'. I hope that the IMDB approves this comment because I think it's important for fans of this show to be aware of just how low the SFC really is.
View MoreIf I had to describe what I've seen of this series so far (4 episodes) in one word: pedestrian.I found the stories to be trite and predictable. There was little originality - mostly old stories as the basis. It's like 'The Outer Limits', but in the 'Young Adults' section. Henry Rollins, while I dig him well enough, does a rather unconvincing job with the 'punchlines' at the end.If you want a cute 30 minute piece with an actor or two you'll easily identify, go ahead. Otherwise, I say stick to 'The Outer Limits'.
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