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Netherworld

I give the producers of this movie credit for great type casting. The actors did a great job in helping to make this unique movie and enjoyable. I hope someday someone will come along and remaster it to be seen in HD. I really like horror movies that rely on great story lines instead of gratuitous cheesy special effects.

This movie seems to be a surprisingly gentle film for its genre.I think the sound track lures you into this feeling.With the music luring you into such a tranquil feeling. There are a few surprises in the form of rushes that will catch you totally off guard.I found that my main interest focused on the sound track.Some very " comforting" sounds.On a scale of 1 to 10, I would give the movie an over all rating of 7 1/2 to 8.I would also like to locate a copy of the sound track for home use.

I actually thought I was in for something interesting during the first few minutes of this film, the section I'll call "the prologue". It was atmospheric and strange enough to hold some promise. Unfortunately, I kept waiting for something to happen for the rest of the movie, and very little does, except for the last 10 minutes when I finally learned what the title really means, and that I had been had, big time. This isn't scary, suspenseful or even erotic as the trailer suggested, the only positive thing I can say about it is that it's well photographed. I certainly expected more from the director of Tourist Trap and the original Puppet Master. Netherworld is an infuriating disappointment.

Other reviewers were right on the mark - it had promise and atmosphere, but really went nowhere. I recall one genre reviewer dismissing one Full Moon release as "another talkfest" and I have to agree - their scripts and sometimes the direction just weren't well paced and seem padded out. However, you have to at least watch the end credits for an in-joke that you'll get if you didn't fall asleep. It was the best laugh I had that day.

I was so pleased to find a copy of this film in the bargain bin at Walmart last weekend. I'd been watching my old VHS copy I'd purchased from my local movie rental place in the early 1990s for the last couple of decades. This film was underrated in my opinion. It makes me wonder if it was just never properly marketed in a way that it could find it's audience? Everyone that I've ever shown it to has loved it. The film is the perfect amount of voodoo mysticism, great gore effects, and an entertaining plot all in a beautiful but eerie setting. It contains an extremely talented cast and director. The plot line is very well written. I always hope there is really a place like Tonk's out there and I'll stumble upon it someday.

Poor movie, some nasty special effects and several beautiful girls are the ingredients of a horror movie that makes you smile, unintentionally, at how bad it was done.

Corey Thorton (Michael Bendetti) inherits a very large estate from his estranged father with instructions to resurrect him from the dead with the help of a prostitute named Delores (Denise Gentile). Delores operates out of Tom's Place, a bayou brothel, an odd place that could have been invented by Sarte. He is warned to stay away by the young flirty Diane (Holly Floria) the daughter of his father's housekeeper (Anjanette Comer). There is a continuous light fog/mist during much of the film. The idea was good but the execution is about a B-. Michael Bendetti was simply wrong for the part. While this is classified as a horror film, it is light on actual horror. Not exactly a thinking man's horror film, perhaps a mid-brow horror film would be the best description. Porkey's meets the Hellraiser of the Beasts of the Southern Wild. This is part of a Wal Mart 20 film pack available for $5.00. Parental Guide: F-bomb, sex, nudity (Helga Cavignac, Nicole Barren, Gloria Richardson, Helena Kramer)