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The Alchemist 1981
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Film Title: The Alchemist
Director: Charles BandYear: 1981Archived: 28/05/04 BT |
Film Review:
As much as I enjoy my films cheesy and as much as I love Charles Band for Empire and some of his own fine films, this one should have stayed on the shelf. It wasn't released for 3 years after it was made.
Nonsensical, slow and plodding at 80 minutes it feels a lot longer. Not a lot really happens - but its worth a look for some early glimpses of those wonderful 80s effects that Empire cornered the market in - flashing lights and bits and some nice goblin make-ups.
Obviously the budget didn't stretch to making the dimensional gate set look like anything other than some badly painted and constructed wooden effort. But hey - it has Robert 'Exterminator' Ginty in it as a cursed immortal - what more can you ask for? 80 mins of my life back would be a good start.
Video Capture Comments:
Another early capture marred by highly saturated colour and noise caused by the bad placement of the capture equipment. Lots of colour bleed and grain. One day if I get the chance hit could do with running through some Vdub filters to render it a lot cleaner.
| Rating Out Of 5: | ||
| Video Quality: |   |
3 |
| Cheese: |   |
4 |
| Film: |   |
1 |
Specificatons:
Duration: 01:20:31 (120,767 fr)
Video Codec: DivX 5.0 Resolution: 512x384 (1.33:1) =4:3 Bitrate: 962 kb/s FPS: 25.000 |
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