tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605980.post7336472626162432146..comments2024-03-16T18:31:16.417+00:00Comments on BLACK HOLE REVIEWS: HOLOCAUST 2000 (1977) and DAMIEN: OMEN II (1978) - spot the differenceMark Hodgsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08744056312268440003noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605980.post-4656254111858958342015-06-26T08:09:34.105+01:002015-06-26T08:09:34.105+01:00These are great movies..love the old school..These are great <a href="http://www.alluc.com/stream/movie" rel="nofollow">movies</a>..love the old school..Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02041376004163139068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605980.post-33746435854801889482014-05-08T19:00:56.530+01:002014-05-08T19:00:56.530+01:00I will try and get my hands on Holocaust 2000 as s...I will try and get my hands on Holocaust 2000 as soon as possible, looks like one of the better Exorcist rip offs. Franco Macabrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10994905312221715861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605980.post-42734248338443855672014-03-13T13:00:22.087+00:002014-03-13T13:00:22.087+00:00First of all the Omen 2 is a Good but not great fi...First of all the Omen 2 is a Good but not great film and serves nothing more than a line up of bizarre deaths trying to top the decapitation and imaling scenes from the original, which is far more superior and darker movie. The reviewer says the score to DO2 is almost better than the first... I'm sorry, but it wasn't that good. In fact the score during Aunt Marion's death and Teddy the bully's flapping is arms under Damien's spell is so awful it's embarrassing. It almost seemed that Jerry Goldsmith knew the film was inferior to the origional and his art was not in it. <br /><br />And Mile's comment discrediting Richard Donner? I'm having a nice day so I won'y tell you what I really think about you for saying that!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605980.post-9806604087012749502010-10-26T05:05:28.611+01:002010-10-26T05:05:28.611+01:00I'm not sure why Don Taylor was hired, though ...I'm not sure why Don Taylor was hired, though Bernhard does mention he had worked with Bill Holden on STALAG 17 so perhaps the actor recommended him? He had, of course, previously done a professional job with the third APES film, and probably this approach was just what the producer was looking for. He mentions Dick Donner being his favourite director...someone I've always dismissed as artless, his films lacking any kind of personal signature or style.<br /><br />Later, Hodges was actually a replacement himself - for Nic Roeg! - on FLASH GORDON.Milesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605980.post-78406768319519551712010-10-25T10:50:10.107+01:002010-10-25T10:50:10.107+01:00Sounds like a kuicy commentaty track, Miles! Stran...Sounds like a kuicy commentaty track, Miles! Strange that they hired Taylor as a replacement - Lloyd Kaufman ripped into him on THE FINAL COUNTDOWN extras. And how come Hodges got FLASH GORDON after all that?Mark Hodgsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08744056312268440003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605980.post-59958935261210716642010-10-25T01:40:00.510+01:002010-10-25T01:40:00.510+01:00Just watched this again on DVD...I saw the first a...Just watched this again on DVD...I saw the first and third films theatrically, but I don't recall going to see this, and perhaps just caught it later on TV.<br /><br />It's quite watchable, but like the first film, almost feels too respectable for a horror film. Most interesting was listening to the producer Harvey Bernhard's commentary which revealed than Mike Hodges began the film before being fired for being too slow and exasperating the producer by taking hours to get a single shot of a flag blowing in the wind and wanting the top of a truck to be cleaned for an overhead shot. The producer rips into pretty much every scene in the film that Hodges shot, but there's clearly a visual elegance that put them a step above what Don Taylor shot. <br /><br />Odd that both Leo McKern and Ian Hendry go uncredited; I think Bernhard says that Gil (not Don) Taylor directed this scene...curiously he shot the first OMEN and Hodges FLASH GORDON but not the rest of DAMIEN. Wonder if this was done before or after Hodges was fired or if it was simply done as a second-unit while the rest was being shot in the US.Milesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605980.post-9335417148222341992010-04-17T05:25:16.125+01:002010-04-17T05:25:16.125+01:00I still think the highlight of Damien is the death...I still think the highlight of Damien is the death of Lew Ayers under the ice. Most of the film is pretty cheesy, probably more so given the (relatively) huge budget, but this is a genuinely chilling sequence. I especially like the long pan-out shot at the end, with everyone spread out looking for him.<br /><br />And, of course, the Jerry Goldsmith score is exceptional, just as it was in the original. There's something altogether unsettling about that chanting - My wife hates it, for the same reasons that I love it!Reg Langfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08963138287172311425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16605980.post-70554050454611730542009-09-29T16:08:20.353+01:002009-09-29T16:08:20.353+01:00I like Holocaust 2000. Seen it to many times :)
S...I like Holocaust 2000. Seen it to many times :)<br /><br />Someone, sometime, mentioned that Kirk was quite fond of this movie. I wonder where he said/wrote that? He surely gives a good performance in it.Ninja Dixonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13211571098475743546noreply@blogger.com