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Wednesday, May 21, 2025

SPECIAL EFFECTS 1984 (TUBI)

I decided to check this out as it is a Larry Cohen film, and boy did I get a shock.
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The man who brought me a ton of great entertainment such as "Q", "The Stuff", and "It's Alive" made this movie which is supposed to be a crime drama, but I don't think it really knows what it is.

The plot concerns a movie director named Neville (Eric Bogosian) who kille a woman and then decides to make a movie about the very same murder he is guilty of.

I'm not really sure what Cohen was trying for here, but there are times when it's hard to tell what is the movie and what is the movie within the movie.

The acting is ok but Zoe Tamerlis takes the bad acting award. I really tried to like this movie, but it just falls flat so many times, and the ending is, well, no too cool in my opinion.

The New York locations are the best part of this movie as you get to see what a great city it was before it became a garbage pile that it is now.

I'll have to say avoid this one unless you're a die hard Cohen fan.

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