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Title: blasphemy
Review: This 30th anniversary version of NOTLD is a grotesque and venal deconstruction. Here is one of the few truly great horror films ever made; yet John Russo &co. thought it needed improving. So they cut out some of the "slow" scenes and inserted several new ones. The result is an unqualified disaster. These new segments--talky, poorly shot, and poorly acted --subvert all the carefully built-up rhythms of the original. And speaking of rhythms: the new musical score by Scott Vladimir Licina does have a certain eerie, languid beauty; but it's all wrong for this film, and often--as, for example, in the early cemetary sequence--works at cross-purposes with the images it's supposed to be enhancing. I bought this video figuring that there must be something here worth seeing. What I saw instead was a shameless act of cinematic violation. It isn't even worthy to be laughed at--only ignored.
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