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Interesting alternative to Twister
This TV movie was obviously a direct ripoff of Twister and aired on the Fox network mere days before Twister came to theaters. However, it was mildly entertaining, considering the tornadoes didn't make many appearances. Bruce Campbell and Ernie Hudson were decent in their roles. Personally, I would've preferred to have Campbell in Bill Paxton's role in Twister. Special effects (what you see of them) are okay.

It was better than Twister. IMHO.
I seen Twister first in the threatres and then Tornado on TV. I must state that Twister had some romance(not enough), the characters seemed to me to be just reading a script to you. No feelings or emotion they seem flat and lifeless, the special effects were great but there was some scenes where the truck's windshield wasn't even BROKEN when the next scene it was. D'OH! Tornado has alot more romance than Twister did, the people seemed more realistic, and the threat of the Tornado was there and yet unpredictable to know when they show up which they are. The special effects were really kool and not too many scenes where there was anything wrong like a broken windshield of the stormchaser's red pickup truck in Twister. There was only about three to four tornados showing up in this movie and there was six or more tornados showing up in Twister. Twister you knew when they were going to show up even watching it the first time you knew when it was going to show up. In Tornado you never knew it was coming and that is how a real one acts. I recommend buying this movie first and then watching Twister second. You won't be sorry.

HOT AIR
Amazing how Noel Hesseck's direction could make a tornado seem so insignificant. With little special effects of any note, this Twister wannabe suffers from flat, laconic performances, most notably Bruce Campbell and Ernie Hudson. Even L.Q. Jones seems winded and lifeless. An obvious made for TV soapie, that never shows the tornado at its worst.
Rent don't buy.

I just had to comment...
I haven't seen the movie, but Bruce Campbell's the sh*t, so it has to be interesting. Anyhow, I couldn't help but laugh for ten minutes on Azien's "I love tornado movies" line. I love tornado movies? I LOVE TORNADO MOVIES!? I have to put that on a shirt.

Ok, go ahead and check "This review is not helpful"

Wow..lol
Azien...where in the world did you see an F100? That meso must have been at least twenty miles wide...hehe=)
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Read the book first!
Ok listen this movie was based on the book 'French Silk" by Sandra Brown, an excellent romance novel writer. I recommend you read that first before you take any percaution into seeing the movie. JUST READ IT! ... Read more

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CASPER THE FRIENDLY GHOST
Video hunk Casper van Dien surfaces as a wrongly accused murderer in the made for TV Night Scream. A muddled script and a less than marvelous cast hinder the overall effect of this baffling mystery. Candace Cameron Bure plays the dual role of Laura Fairgate, a young beauty murdered..supposedly by her boyfriend van Dien. She also plays Drew, a double for the murdered girl, who mysteriously shows up in Laura's hometown on the anniversary of her murder. We find out Drew's really van dien's new girlfriend, who he has asked to go through this charade in order to clear his name. Teri Garr appears as Laura's grief-stricken mother, and that's about it..she appears. Garr, a capable actress, has little emotion in her weak and lifeless portrayal. Garr has remarried a man who didn't approve of her late husband's plans for the little town of Shrevestown, Oregon..hint, hint.
Cameron is not a strong enough actress to carry off this duplicity convincingly, and it is ultimately her lack of real talent, that sabotages this movie.
It has a few twists, but little suspense, and has all the markings of a t.v. movie. Not that that's bad, but it hurts this one! ... Read more

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it¿s a thin line between good and evil
Richard Thomas is perfectly cast in this TV movie, since playing a creepy sociopath utilises his weakness as an actor. As a homeless man who insinuates himself into the life of Bruce Davison, like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction but without the sex, Thomas is first seen in Charles Manson beard and long hair. This getup hides his facial mole which defines him as much as the cleft in Kirk Douglas' chin. One may find the presentation of the homeless as greedy psychopaths offensive, particularly when Thomas demonstrates an accumulation of money from begging. However once we learn how Thomas has become homeless, with the suggestion that he hasn't been on the street for long, the shaming stereotype lessens. The first resentment of Thomas' street behaviour is a test for the audience's tolerance. Is Thomas harassing or is the person he approaches over-reacting? Since we have seen that Thomas is accumulating, and his reaction to the man's refusal, we are more likely to read Thomas as dangerous, even if the title didn't already say so. Director Noel Nosseck even makes a demonic parallel, though specifying it would spoil the climax, and I could have done without one close-up with Thomas' face half lit. Thomas claims that he "knows people", which is always the excuse of the sociopath, and his in-your-face technique creates the opposite desired effect to any reasonable person -anyone who doesn't see through the banality of his trying to be friendly act deserves whatever happens to them. Nosseck actually uses this effect when Thomas has a tirade which reveals his intention. The teleplay by Carey and Chad Hayes is streamlined. Nothing seems superfluous, everything feeds the narrative, and Nosseck keeps things moving. We get a standard hiding so as not to be discovered when Thomas' room is being searched and he returns unexpectedly but without an obvious conclusion, some off-camera killings, and the jovial smile of a detective falling from his face when it is no longer required. Davison can play this kind of nice guy family man in his sleep but thankfully he is given limits when provoked. ... Read more

Description

Twenty-five years after she witnesses her brother's drowning death, and despite her successful career as a psychologist, Laurel (Lisa Rinna) turns to a local swimming instructor for help in conquering her paralyzing fear of the water. For Susan (Gail O'Grady), the pool is her salvation, the only place she's ever felt confident and successful.

As Susan helps Laurel tackle her phobia, the two begin developing a bond. As the student learns to swim, the teacher learns to confront her own lifetime of troubles. The two share a special friendship created by trust and openness. They experience the ultimate test in friendship when they find out that they also share something else: the same man. Based on a true story. DRAMA. 91 Minutes. ... Read more

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Typical TV Movie
It is indeed. A boring housewife/swimming instructor, Gail O'Grady, makes friends with a Psychologist, Lisa Rinna (you know, the one with the lips) while teaching her to swim as she tried to come to terms with her brother drowning years before (phew). However, Rinna is dating O'Grady's husband, Dale Midkiff, in his usual husband gone bad role.

O'Grady is very good, Rinna is her usual stilted self and Midkiff plays his part admirably. Not a bad story. Both find out about each other and, in typical feminist style which really belongs to the early 90s, they kick the husband into touch, telling him to hit the highway while they go back to being best chums.

Not bad, but not really worth buying unless you're a bit fan of the three leads. Although saying this, would you kick Dale out of bed for eating potato chips? No, I didn't think so.

Lisa Rinna & Gail O'Grady share the same man (w/o knowing)!
Lisa Rinna and Gail O'Grady become best friends..not realizing that they share the same man! Both women perform very well in this movie...I have been a big fan of both of them since Melrose Place and NYPD Blue. Sally Kirkland also does a great job in this movie as Gail O'Grady's mother. This movie is filled with so many different ingredients: intrigue, lessons on overcoming fears, and it helps one become stronger in believing inside what can truly make your life happy. I've seen it a few times, and enjoy it more each time. ... Read more

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un-SCARY movie....alley sheedy needed work?
this a waste of film and man power, the movie starts out with a old geaser feeding a pit bull with unbloody meat ,ahh chicken? anyway these kids sneak over his fence two get apples off his tree, the dog brakes his chain and goes after them ,they get away? the old geaser gets a heart attack and dies... the animal controll with the police find the old geasers body,they filmed the scene with a little blood spot on his shirt, the animal controll guy tells alley sheedy the dog ate nibbled the old geaser, the dog and the old geaser go after ally sheedy, the dog alive.....the old geaser a ghost........this movie cuts away went you might see anything bloody? alley sheedy must of needed money the week she read this script, this is a dumb dumb dumb movie,the filming is not worth watching for free! its work to watch it!

mind over matter
Director Noel Nosseck directs the action sequences of this thriller so well, with particularly good editing, that it's a pity that the script is so weak when it comes to interpersonal relationships. Ally Sheedy stars as the mother of two children, being divorced by Costas Mandylor, who is a victim to some paranormal harassment. When it is believed that the behaviour is being triggered by a poltergeist agent, who has no control of the limbic part of the brain which is the source of primitive drives and the unconscious "phantom dog", this thriller takes on a sci-fi horror movie tone. However, unlike titles like Scream where the killings are all there is, the script pauses to consider the affair Mandylor is having with Jodie Dry. Dry at least tries to add some depth to her cliched character but she's up against Mandylor's dull presence. Nosseck seems to have no appreciation of Mandylor's hunk appeal, since he positively desexualises him, to such an extant that we think Sheedy should be grateful to be rid of him. Sheedy is another problem. Although her role in High Art allowed for a breakthrough from her previous vacuous presence, here she can't make the leap to be a convincing mother - she's more like a concerned older sister. Horssek uses her well in the first visit of the phantom dog, focusing on her stillness and strength, and she is able to suggest the pain of her predicament but there is an essential falseness in her interaction with Mandylor, even allowing for his ineptitude. She is given one contexually funny line after she is hurt, when the force pushes a fridge into her during a kitchen free for all. When asked how she feels, she answers dryly - "like I got hit by a fridge". The subsequent paranormal events are inconsistent - one where graffiti is written on a wall is undermined by the height of the writing and the shortness of the person who is accused of doing it - and another where a basketball goes riot turns out to be a red herring - but there is also a pleasing lackof hysteria in the reactions. When Sheedy is discovered holding a gun by her maid, the maid is calm and logical when she asks why Sheedy has it. When we finally see the phantom dog materialised it is disappointing that it appears to be a computer-generated monster, even when the idea of a vengeful id comes from Freud and Shakespeare's The Tempest via Forbidden Planet. The conclusion is acceptable if flawed but the wrap-up maudlin and unbelievable. Even the expected hereditary evil-never-dies idea would be preferable to the compromised choice. However in spite of these, one is left with the anticipation of Nosseck's next project, with a better script and improved casting. The film was made in Queensland which explains Dry, Steve Bastoni as a physics and paranormal scientest brought in to help, and the appearance of other Australian actors in the cast in supporting roles. ... Read more

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Give It A Go!
Give it a go, Silent Preditors is not a bad movie.
When this movie was shot over here in Australia I was in it, I played Lance Parker a young boy who trips into a pit of snakes.
I am sick of hearing all the time that it is a bad movie, I would like to see any of you reviews get off your fat slobby butts and make a better one!
Give it a go, that's all I ask.
Michael

COULD HAVE BEEN A GREAT COMEDY
Luckily for this revewier the plot is so simple I can dispense with it quickly and then concentrate on the derisive parts of the movie. Guy's breaking up dirt for a housing development. Disturbs rattlesnakes, understandably. The connexion with this and the rattlesnakes becoming mutants, an impossibility is never explained.Now follow closely. These mutants, again for some unknown reason, start attacking humans, killing a bunch of'em. Enter the herpetologist who obviously knows nothing about snakes, ut gives the viewer a sense of the SCIENTIST. As a balance to the VILLAIN , we have the ECOLOGIST, who makes sage remarks. The good guys cant get the stupid guys to realise ow dangerous this is until a few more people are killed. Eventually, the snakes are cornered in a mineshaft and blown uo, ironically just what the VILLAIN was trying to do.

Being an amateru hesrpetologist, when these movies are played seriously I want to scream a the director, "Did you ever see Hitchcock's BIRDS -- he did the same thing but put large dollops of fun in it. This movie has no humor AT ALL! You can play this kind of movie straight.

Just a few examples. There are no tropical rattlesnakes. It would be impossible for one of these snakes to become instantneously mutant; this takes place over thousands of years, and snakes have never been, nor will they ever become mutant. The genetic structure of a gene does not allow it.

The snakes they showed were usually Texasrat snakes , harmless, or computer-simulate western diamond-backs. None of the snakes showed any proclivity to be a mutant. Snakes, even "mutant" ones do not maleovently ones go on search and destroy operations for people. King snakes, and other constrictors, rarely fool with rattlesnakes; this is rare. And when they do, the outcome is by no means a sure thing for the king snake.

The stereotypical woman trapped in her car surrounded by EVIL MUTANT SNAKES, screaming her head off was annoying. It must have been a fun role for this actress, though.

Finally, EVERYONE leaving town because there are a few MUTANTS aaround was laughable. This would hardly happen in desert country where people are almost as armed as in Mississippi.

Had the movie not taken itself so seriously and injected a few quirky characters, like the old prospector warning everyone in the town hall that he had seen all theis before, ettc. that would have been good.Mel Gibson, if you're readding this, do one of you wonderful saties on these mutant animals gone crazy movies.

RATTLE MY CHAINS
The snakes in SILENT PREDATORS are some nasty critters, to say the least. We first meet them twenty years earlier, when a truck carrying this genetically bred rattlesnake wrecks, and the snake kills its two passengers. Fast forward 20 years and we meet Harry Hamlin as the new fire chief in a small town. Jack Scalia and Shannon Sturges portray the greedy land developer and his assistant who refuse to stop their bombing in spite of unleashing thousands of this newly bred snake. Suffice to say, the snakes do get loose, Scalia usurps Hamlin's power by bringing up a shady past, and veteranarian and Oscar-nominee Patty McCormack spouts out the balance of nature speech. A tense ending in a deserted mine shaft has sufficient chills and overall the cast and crew perform yeomanly. An above average TV movie.

GREAT SNAKE MOVIE!
I first saw this movie on Fox a few years ago.It was great!It is probably one of the most suspenceful movies you'll ever see.When a truck carrying a deadly snake crashes,the snake is set free on a small town.It begins to breed with the common rattle snakes in the area resulting in thousands of poisonous snakes!Can the local authorities and nature specialists stop the snakes before it's too late?I give it an A+!

Look out when you walk in the woods
This movie was probably the best snake movie I have ever seen but the title didn't match with rattlesnakes though. I mean rattlesnakes aren't really silent their rattles give you a warning to stay back but in this movie the boy who got attacked by the snake in the beginning didn't care about the rattle. The movie all in all was good. It had good acting and best of all the rattlesnakes atleast looked real because in some movies like Anaconada and Python the snakes look so computer made but Silent Predators made the rattlesnakes look real. The other thing about the movie is that mainly most of the snake movies happen on some remote island in the middle of an ocean but this movie takes place in a normal town in California. The only other thing wrong with the movie was that more people could have gotten attacked and thats whats wrong with many dangerous animal movies like JAWS, Lake Placid and Anaconda only a few people get attacked and the other thing is lot's of the people who get attacked survive. Besides that problem the movie was good ... Read more

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Great Murder Mystery!!
This movie is a great murder mystery when a high priced call girl is murdered with a revealing video tape of her affluent clients.It's a must see!! ... Read more

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Great Murder Mystery!!
This movie is a great murder mystery when a high priced call girl is murdered with a revealing video tape of her affluent clients.It's a must see!! ... Read more