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Code Red DVD release


Anyone else enjoyed it? Apart from the feature itself, I especially apprecaited the interviews with Steven Furst and Craig Reardon. There is a certain cheapness to the look of the Code Red interviews, often done in makeshift, random locations, but nevertheless, they offer fascinating insights - Reardon and Furst both recall visits to a mental hospital, and Reardon seems somewhat uncomfortable with the characterisation of Junior as a person with Down's syndrome, while Furst delivers an amusing anecdote about eating in full makeup.

The feature itself looks good overall - there is some print damage, but it's not too distracting, and the colour tone shifts a little back and forth at one point.

Otherwise, this was a pleasant rediscovery for me. The first hour or so calmly establishes the scene and the characters, with a few truly oddball moments and two deaths creatively intercutting each other at one point. It is in the final act, where everyone seems to give it their all, that the film is at its best. The scenes between Barbara Bach and Steven Furst are electrifying. Furst manages to be grotesque and frightening while still garnering some sympathy with his uniquely challenging character. A couple of character shifts make the proceedings all the more enjoyable. I'd definitely recommend this to slasher afficionados and 80's horror enthusiasts.

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I enjoyed it too. Reardon's interview I enjoyed. I also enjoyed Tom Burman since it explains what Kim Henkel's involvement was and how Burman's input was cruical even though he had no input in the final product.

Would have been nice to hear Danny Steinmann's input, but given that he took his name off the project and a deadpit.com radio interview indicate that he's still angry that producer Anthony Unger didn't let him finish a final cut, I guess there was no way Steinmann was going to be involved.

It is funny that they refer to Junior as a Down Syndrome's case, since I saw him as a simply monstrous offspring due to incest. Also a shout out to the excellent acting of Sydney Lassick and Leila Goldoni as the brother/sister couple. My favorite scene is when Lassick is at the Museum staring at the corpse of his father and remembering how the scene happened.

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I picked it up today, I was looking for older horror movies from the 80's. I'll watch maybe tonight or tomorrow. Sometime soon, I tend to buy dozens and dozens of movies all at once.


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I need to buy it.

Scout Taylor Compton is the lead not Danielle Harris in Halloween 2. Thank GOD

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There is a certain cheapness to the look of the Code Red interviews, often done in makeshift, random locations


This is what I like about intreviews done for CR releases. They feel like they grabbed actor\actress\director\whoever, offered them a drink, talk to them and film it accidentally.

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