Don't know what on Earth you were "looking for", but it's got Hammer's production values, atmosphere, sets, a story with a plot, beautiful twins, Cushing, etc. Maybe you're expecting Orson Welles? Or perhaps Japanese anime' is more to your liking? How about turning on the TV & watching Springer- is that "you"? Hammer put out a great vampire product, usually WITH the services of Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing, & their other horror movies are also better than average, et al. Why you've bothered to return to ask "HOW" after already badmouthing it (in a decidedly MINORITY opinion), shows you are outnumbered. Give it up! Nobody's FORCING you to see it again, are they? Case in point- I refuse to look at the "new" Pink Panther films, not only because I find Steve Martin unfunny, but he's laboring in vain trying to even REMOTELY come close to the late great Peter Sellers. So I have not seen anything but ads for them- I won't go look at them. If you hate THIS movie so much, QUIT WATCHING IT! But the rest of us happen to LIKE it- & I hope Anchor Bay releases it on DVD soon, too.
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TheDeepSoundOfBobbyPeru
15 years ago
Wow! So many GOOD questions to answer.
I was not looking for anything. I did not expect Orson Welles. Yes, I like SOME anime. Springer as in Jerry Springer? Is he still on tv? Not in Norway anyway, oh, lots of ways there.
Why all these silly, irrelevant questions?
Maybe I'm outnumbered, but I won't "give up". And no, nobody's FORCING me.
So you won't see Pink Panther. OK! Thanks for sharing.
I can't QUIT watching it. Saw it once, hated it, and wanted to know why people like this crap.
Elga,baby! Damn! No,I FOUND something!
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johnnyparker
15 years ago
Perhaps because us Hammer fans don't consider TOE to be "crap". I certainly don't. It was the first film dear old Peter Cushing made after the death of his beloved wife Helen, and as such has a particular resonance for those of us who revere the great man. Cushing manages to make Gustav Weil, evil religious fanatic and sadist that he is - a believable character, and the film is worth watching for his performance alone. But, as others have pointed out here, TOE dishes up all the usual Hammer fare, although the gore is much stronger than usual, and the nudity less overt than was becoming fashionable in Hammer's movies of the time.
If you didn't enjoy TOE that's your prerogative, but I'm puzzled as to why you bothered to watch it in the first place. It's pretty representative Hammer, and if you don't like Hammer films, you don't have to watch 'em!
If they move, kill em!
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rgaretho
15 years ago
"Cushing manages to make Gustav Weil, evil religious fanatic and sadist that he is - a believable character, and the film is worth watching for his performance alone."
Exactly. An excellent performance from Cushing - one of his scariest. It may not be a great film but it surely isn't the worst horror film ever made, not even close.
(It's annoying how some people say things like "how can anyone like this crap" as if they just don't get how someone can have a different opiion.)
"I don't need to fight to prove I'm right. I don't need to be forgiven."
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surfink
15 years ago
So when are you going to reveal to us all the superior vampire movie you have written and directed? It's very easy to sit on your sofa and criticize, much more difficult to actually create something. Twins of Evil is not the best vampire or Hammer movie I have ever seen, but there are some excellent performances, great photography, beautiful sets and visuals, and rich atmosphere. Perhaps modern dreck like Twilight is more your speed. And your critique of TOE—"it sucks"—is rather simplistic, not to mention juvenile. I was going to continue this reply but I thought about it some more and can't even figure out why I would bother to waste any more time on your cretinous statements. Mindlessly negative posters like you should just go jump in a hole and stay off IMDb.
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