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The Pottsville Horror

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An Idaho scientist (Martin Landau) and mayor (Jose Ferrer) dismiss the theory of a creature from the nearby nuclear dump.
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Scott Weinberg DVDTalk.com 09/24/2005
1.5/5
Grungy, muddy-looking, and completely beholden to Alien for all its money moments, The Being is Z-grade schlock-slinging at its most obvious. Go to Full Review
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thiago s @Thiagostone 51m Filme fraco, o roteiro é fraco, as cenas são fracas, a história é fraca, o elenco é fraco, e ninguém ajuda a melhorar o filme, os personagens são fracos, e o filme deveria ter cenas bem melhores e relevantes, para fazer o filme ser bom See more justin t 02/16/2022 Not a good transfer, either that or the source material was really bad. It just looked soft the whole time. The cinematography is messy and has nothing interesting about it. It looks really flat and dated. The visual effects are rubbery! The sound is poor, technically it is really bad. The dubbing is awful, the sound effects bland and the clarity murky. The music is dated and lacks the subtlety that we expect today. The story is non-existent! It's a nuclear monster killing people. It reminded me of fifties monster movies but it was in colour and had a small amount of violence. A cheesy old-fashioned monster movie that has camp value and little else. See more 09/25/2015 A nice 80s toxic waste creature feature See more 04/19/2013 Cheesy,sleazy and greasy....the way a good early 80's killer creature movie should be. Complete with bloody gore and creative murder scenes. Lots of nude teen girls being chased and touched by creature and human alike.Is this movie going to win any cinematic awards? Hell no! Is that a bad thing? Fuck no! Just because a bunch of self important,pretentious suit wearing assholes doesn't give something an award...doesn't mean the films horrible. I find that to be the exact opposite with alot of oscar wining films. I grew up on so called "bad" movies such as this, and they gave me hours of enjoyment. So I always feel slightly offended when someone who never watches a movie like this....will dismiss it as "bad". It's movies like this and Blood Diner from 1987 that makes me really feel sad that Jackie Kong didn't continue to make more horror films. See more 03/31/2013 Junky monster-on-the-rampage movie with a cast of Oscar-winning veterans. See more 03/06/2013 A film that is not even close as bad as everyone makes it out to be. This film is part schlock, part horror, and part comedy and it does pretty well balancing them all without the whole film falling apart. Though it's not even close to being perfect its screwball nature and occasional atmosphere win out. Some scenes are so bad that they're good, other are hilarious, and others are chilling, and creepy. The score is occasionally silly but it knows how to get the job done in the suspense scenes and actually enhances them. In short a good but far from perfect horror film. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis An Idaho scientist (Martin Landau) and mayor (Jose Ferrer) dismiss the theory of a creature from the nearby nuclear dump.
Director
Jackie Kong
Producer
Bill Osco
Screenwriter
Jackie Kong
Production Co
Bill Osco Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 18, 1983, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
May 10, 2018
Runtime
1h 22m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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