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James L. ConwayKamera:
Paul HippMusik:
Bob SummersBesetzung:
Rebecca Balding, Fred McCarren, Anne-Marie Martin, John Crawford, Jon Lormer, Scott Wilkinson, Jeff Harlan, Med Flory, Marcia DangerfieldInhalte(1)
In a small town near Denver, two young men begin to explore a long-abandoned old mine recently re-opened by a group of minors. When one the men is discovered missing, his friends begin a search that leads them to horrifying consequences. They're all unaware of the evil that's been unleashed and soon, one by one, a monster that no one has seen snatches up the townspeople. Suddenly, the grisly truth is revealed and a young couple is forced to confront the unknown in order to save their lives... and the entire town. (Verleiher-Text)
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A predictable monster horror movie that, despite being full of horror clichés, so delightfully subverts the way horror movies treat pets. So that scene in which one of the characters leaves his poodle alone in a house with the monster hiding in the cellar will stick in your mind. For a few minutes, the dog becomes the main character we are really worried about, because we know that by all genre conventions he has it all figured out. But to our surprise, he repeatedly manages to narrowly escape death. We don't see the monster most of the time, which is a good thing because he looks ridiculous. But as long as he stays out of the picture, instead of letting the viewer's imagination work (as Jaws does so well), the film just feeds us cheap subjective shots from the monster's point of view, in which the cameraman “throws himself” at the actors. And that's pretty boring. What a shame the poodle didn't get more space.
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The American horror movie The Boogens is a nice example of its time, the 1980s, when slasher movies were all the rage and when they still had the right atmosphere. Even such a simple idea as monsters coming from mines was turned into something that worked, although there isn't much more to say about it. The Boogens is a movie that you are just going to watch once.
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