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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Great film, nauseatingly awful transfer!, 14 April 2007
This review is a warning for people like myself, who didn't know that Werewolf vs. Vampire Woman has been released under a different title by Anchor Bay, namely Werewolf Shadow. Not the easiest thing in the world to figure out by yourself (the two different titles do not even remotely match one another). Anyway, the film itself is absolutely fantastic, but this is BY FAR, the worst transfer of any film i ever seen. It sort of looks like the print is the result of somebody recording it with an incredibly cheap & bad camcoder from a cheap television with a 2nd rate, 3rd generation piraced VHS tape. AND I AM NOT EXAGGERATING. When it is dark you can not make out anything. To give you one example, there is one shot of a grave, and a hand plunging through the soil. I thought it looked like a very badly captured star sky at first. Then I saw that it started bulging. Very bizarre, then something plunged out of what I thought was a star sky. After a few moments of speculation I realised it was something resembling fingers. The sound is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO UNBELIEVABLY bad, that 90 percent of the time you have no idea what the characters are saying! This transfer is criminal, I almost cried that I had been ripped off so badly buying it. I will not even re sell this copy, I will just throw it in the garbage, because I think it would be profoundly immoral to subject anybody to this atrocious transfer; the most disgusting thing to ever happen to dvd cinema!!!!!!!! STAY AWAY FROM IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOYCOT MADACY!!!!!!!!!!!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
DEFINITELY UNDERRATED, 11 Jun 2007
I'm not sure why this movie is rated so low. The possibility that a lot of the reviewers have short attention spans is an explanation.
Some spoilers in this review.
The basic plot involves a woman brought to the mansion of her new husband right after their marriage. The husband's first wife met a tragic end on the grounds of the estate. The new wife, Jeni, starts to see things and experience terrifying episodes involving a skull. The movie hints at a double plot going on. The first plot is the husband trying to scare her into a breakdown. The second is the spirit of the first wife manifesting in the house and on the grounds. For obvious reasons it can be hard to tell which is which until the end.
Jeni has a history of mental problems based on her parents drowning in front of her when she was younger. She met her husband after being released from a sanitarium. It also happens that she is very wealthy and therefore a target for her husband, Eric. There is a obligatory strange gardener, Mickey, who grew up with the first wife and was very close to her. He's also mentally retarded or appears that way.
The movie is slowly paced, for a reason. Most of the slow periods deal with the reactions of Jeni to something happening. For example she enters a room and sees the skull for the first time. She screams and runs from the room, which also contains a portrait of the first wife. She runs to her room and bolts the door and sits on the bed. The next few minutes consist of her listening to noises from outside the room caused by various things. The tension really notches up during the scene and the longer it went on the higher the suspense went.
The end was somewhat predictable when the spirit of the first wife gets revenge on Eric, however they did a good job with it.
The film makers didn't have a large budget obviously, although they did have Eric driving a beautiful Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing that is worth a few hundred thousand today. Even without the budget they did an excellent job with the lighting and the pacing.
Overall I really liked this movie, which is something that I didn't expect based on the description. Quite a few people on here didn't like it but I think that has more to do with their preconceptions of the movie from the fact it was on MST3K. If they saw it by itself without the stigma of it being a bad movie they might very well have a different opinion of it.
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