So bad u gotta see it (to figure out how not good it was)


I won't bother regurgitating the plot, because the movie didn't seriously try to have one. It had an idea for a plot, but... well, read the reviews in the comment section.

This is going to be an analogy of how not good REINCARNATION OF ISABEL played.

It was as if... the producers had arranged a train wreck killing the entire cast and crew (including Renato Polselli) on their way home from location to collect on a life insurance scam. The wreck also destroyed all copies of the finished script but spared 90% of the exposed negatives. Not satisfied with just the insurance money, the producers then hired an undergrad film student to edit the footage into a releasable film by the end of spring break. With neither a script nor a budget, the student calls his girlfriend at the college radio station to borrow a few albums nobody at the station will notice missing and then join him at the editing studio. The two then spend the next week cutting the film and dubbing in the music and dialogue by themselves. Finishing just in time, they suddenly realize that one missing can of film rolled behind the refrigerator and was ruined before they could make use of it.

Thus, we are left with a finished product that is haphazardly structured, inappropriately scored, and buffoonishly scripted. We have a scene in which a doctor character is molesting his patient in one room while simultaneously applying a vampire bite to a different woman in a completely different room. SIMULTANEOUSLY, dude! We have a virgin-raping 3-way scored to ragtime harpsichord. We get a Donald Pleasance impersonator thrown into a snakepit with only TWO snakes in it and one is already DEAD. Even at the denouement when Laureen runs down the stairs, she's barefoot, but once outside she's wearing bedroom slippers. WTF, was she keeping them by the front door?

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Nice :-)

"It's getting pretty late, doctor"
"Later than you think."

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Agreed. To say it was badly plotted and thought out is an understatement.

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I might as well add one thing to this. During the execution of Isabel the dude holding the stake makes a goofy smile every time it is hit with the large hammer. They hit it over 50 times to pierce it into her heart. Then she seemed to be ok afterward. 😀

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Well, what did you expect from a Mickey Hargitay movie?

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Looking at his filmography, I’ve actually seen 3 other movies he was in. I never knew his name until now.

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