FLESHBURN
German Titles:
Fleshburn - Im Banne des Voodoo-Zaubers / Fleshburn - In der Hitze der Wüste
USA, 1984
Director: George Gage
3,5/10
German Titles:
Fleshburn - Im Banne des Voodoo-Zaubers / Fleshburn - In der Hitze der Wüste
USA, 1984
Director: George Gage
3,5/10
Based on "Death Wish"-author Brian Garfield's "Fear In A Handful Of Dust", this really could have been an absolutely kick-ass outdoor/survival thriller. Unfortunately, untalented writer/director George Gage turned the promising story into a boring and hugely disappointing drama-thriller that never really gains momentum.
The first and the last 20 minutes are fairly tense and action-packed, but the 50 minutes in between are so incredibly dull and slow, it almost made me fall asleep. Countless scenes of people eating catusses, digging holes and complaining about the heat - yawn!
The characters are all stupid or annoying, but at least the acting is fairly solid. It's packed with idiotic plot points, the non-ending completely sucks, camera work and editing are mediocre and the soundtrack is lackluster. Skip!
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Saw this on VHS a million years ago. Liked it about as much as you did. It's preferable to a real fleshburn, but not by much...
ReplyDeleteso lemme get this straight. it's a man who kidnaps some psychiatrists and left them in the dessert, only for him to hunt down?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it's that bad...
@Craig:
ReplyDeleteHaha, you nailed it. Not by much :)
@Kai:
It's not that bad, it's just lame and boring.