The_Plague Reviews

From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (1999 Video)

A piece of trash

[1/10 · 31 October 2002]

From Dusk Till Dawn 3 has a lame story about ridiculous-looking vampires trying to kill a bunch of people you don't care about. The whole thing is boring, predictable and not scary at all - the suspense and terror from the good vampire movies is instead replaced by gratuitous violence with no purpose at all. A common mistake, so, unless you're one of those who enjoys watching things like blood spilling everywhere and a person ripping off another one's testicles for two hours, you shouldn't bother watching this time waster.

Special effects are okay and acting is sleep-inducing. One good thing FDTD3 has is the photography, but it's not like this alone can save a movie from complete disgrace. I rate it 1.

Mulholland Drive (2001)

This film is NOT like a dream...

[1/10 · 29 July 2002]

... because dreams are filled up with symbols which uncertainly indicate desires and anguishes, and it's contexts aren't clear, nor linear. This movie is actually based on a straight-forward, symbolism-free story that tricks you with the idea it's a dream by adding mysterious characters doing things you can only guess how and why, but indepedently of their reasons you can clearly understand their intentions, and by adding multi-explainable plot twists that all in all lead to nowhere.

So it's basically a film that acts like mindless suspense and soap opera at times. MY OPINION ABOUT THAT: I hate both genres, and find the represented situations in this turd unoriginal and uninteresting, so watching it soon got boring. Since it lasted two and half hours, it was quite a pain. Nevertheless I enjoyed the sex scenes.

It can be enjoyed by people who like the genres I listed above plus mindless guessing on what's happening. The photography and direction are great, the plot is awful and the "Dream-like movie" idea behind it turns out a total disaster, just like the overall quality of this one. I give it 2/10.