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One of the best starring Lou Diamond Phillips
I have loved this movie ever since it first came out and was waiting for it to go on sale at the local video stores! Well, never did see it on sale--can't even find it anymore, except on i did find it on Amazon. Not only does the movie have a terrific cast, with REAL NATIVE PEOPLES starring in it, the movie itself is at times moving, touching, humorous, heart-breaking, and shows what still happens to some of the Indigenous Peoples. The soundtrack is great (I do have that--:D ) and listen to it frequently. Now I'm finally going to buy the video so I can watch it whenever I want to do so.

Sioux City
This is a awesome movie. Lou Diamond Phillips does it again. Great acting and story line. Held my attention all the way to the end. A must see. ... Read more

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lover/killer
Lou Diamond Phillips cowrote and directed this "erotic thriller" which wants to be 9 ½ Weeks, and LDP's self-casting as a womaniser, providing himself with a full frontal nudity shot partially obscured by opaque glass in a shower stall, seems the ultimate in conceit. 9 ½ Weeks was bearable because of the presence of Kim Basinger, and here LDP casts a Basinger-look alike in Kate Vernon, but Vernon has none of Basinger's natural appeal, even when dressed in Donna Karan. As a psycho-analyst with a best seller entitled Guilty Pleasures, her own radio talk back show, and a private practice, Vernon is a success waiting to be de-pedestalled. So LDP takes the cue from her radio theme tune Sexual Healing and enscribes "I want you" in the copy of her book he shows her at a signing. As we have seen that Vernon has a secret uninhibited sex life, she soon jumps at LDP's advances, and they engage in risky sex - at a party, at a stranger's home, in the open. Vernon psychoanalyses LDP as a "hustler" yet still continues to see him, so when he demonstrates his "career criminal" behaviour by blackmailing her after a lesbian sex romp, the playfulness turns nasty. The problem that LDP never overcomes with this treatment is that he and Vernon are equally unsympathetic. Naturally we dislike him when he tells her things like he can "see right into your soul" but he also tries to hedge his bets by having himself harassed by mob thugs from his past, and Vernon is pushy about her own sexiness - she's far more attractive towards the end when she's not trying to be, and in one scene is styled to resemble Rita Hayworth in Gilda. The screenplay cowritten with Kurt Voss features 2 unintentional laughs with Vernon's "you need serious counselling" to LDP, Vernon's manager to Vernon "He's blackmailing you and he doesn't want your money?!", and the idea that one of Vernon's patients is a mob boss because of a guilt complex. What is inexplicable is the furore about the lesbian sex scene, which is pretty tame. LDP's pacing is snail like but he comes up with a noteworthy Hitchockian high camera angle as he walks the length of a swimming pool, and some snazzy edits - cross-cutting between his first seduction of Vernon and the playing of a violin, the darkened screen from his black jacket moving from one face to another, and Vernon's writhing in freeze frame to her in a photo shoot. ... Read more

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lover/killer
Lou Diamond Phillips cowrote and directed this "erotic thriller" which wants to be 9 ½ Weeks, and LDP's self-casting as a womaniser, providing himself with a full frontal nudity shot partially obscured by opaque glass in a shower stall, seems the ultimate in conceit. 9 ½ Weeks was bearable because of the presence of Kim Basinger, and here LDP casts a Basinger-look alike in Kate Vernon, but Vernon has none of Basinger's natural appeal, even when dressed in Donna Karan. As a psycho-analyst with a best seller entitled Guilty Pleasures, her own radio talk back show, and a private practice, Vernon is a success waiting to be de-pedestalled. So LDP takes the cue from her radio theme tune Sexual Healing and enscribes "I want you" in the copy of her book he shows her at a signing. As we have seen that Vernon has a secret uninhibited sex life, she soon jumps at LDP's advances, and they engage in risky sex - at a party, at a stranger's home, in the open. Vernon psychoanalyses LDP as a "hustler" yet still continues to see him, so when he demonstrates his "career criminal" behaviour by blackmailing her after a lesbian sex romp, the playfulness turns nasty. The problem that LDP never overcomes with this treatment is that he and Vernon are equally unsympathetic. Naturally we dislike him when he tells her things like he can "see right into your soul" but he also tries to hedge his bets by having himself harassed by mob thugs from his past, and Vernon is pushy about her own sexiness - she's far more attractive towards the end when she's not trying to be, and in one scene is styled to resemble Rita Hayworth in Gilda. The screenplay cowritten with Kurt Voss features 2 unintentional laughs with Vernon's "you need serious counselling" to LDP, Vernon's manager to Vernon "He's blackmailing you and he doesn't want your money?!", and the idea that one of Vernon's patients is a mob boss because of a guilt complex. What is inexplicable is the furore about the lesbian sex scene, which is pretty tame. LDP's pacing is snail like but he comes up with a noteworthy Hitchockian high camera angle as he walks the length of a swimming pool, and some snazzy edits - cross-cutting between his first seduction of Vernon and the playing of a violin, the darkened screen from his black jacket moving from one face to another, and Vernon's writhing in freeze frame to her in a photo shoot. ... Read more

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lover/killer
Lou Diamond Phillips cowrote and directed this "erotic thriller" which wants to be 9 ½ Weeks, and LDP's self-casting as a womaniser, providing himself with a full frontal nudity shot partially obscured by opaque glass in a shower stall, seems the ultimate in conceit. 9 ½ Weeks was bearable because of the presence of Kim Basinger, and here LDP casts a Basinger-look alike in Kate Vernon, but Vernon has none of Basinger's natural appeal, even when dressed in Donna Karan. As a psycho-analyst with a best seller entitled Guilty Pleasures, her own radio talk back show, and a private practice, Vernon is a success waiting to be de-pedestalled. So LDP takes the cue from her radio theme tune Sexual Healing and enscribes "I want you" in the copy of her book he shows her at a signing. As we have seen that Vernon has a secret uninhibited sex life, she soon jumps at LDP's advances, and they engage in risky sex - at a party, at a stranger's home, in the open. Vernon psychoanalyses LDP as a "hustler" yet still continues to see him, so when he demonstrates his "career criminal" behaviour by blackmailing her after a lesbian sex romp, the playfulness turns nasty. The problem that LDP never overcomes with this treatment is that he and Vernon are equally unsympathetic. Naturally we dislike him when he tells her things like he can "see right into your soul" but he also tries to hedge his bets by having himself harassed by mob thugs from his past, and Vernon is pushy about her own sexiness - she's far more attractive towards the end when she's not trying to be, and in one scene is styled to resemble Rita Hayworth in Gilda. The screenplay cowritten with Kurt Voss features 2 unintentional laughs with Vernon's "you need serious counselling" to LDP, Vernon's manager to Vernon "He's blackmailing you and he doesn't want your money?!", and the idea that one of Vernon's patients is a mob boss because of a guilt complex. What is inexplicable is the furore about the lesbian sex scene, which is pretty tame. LDP's pacing is snail like but he comes up with a noteworthy Hitchockian high camera angle as he walks the length of a swimming pool, and some snazzy edits - cross-cutting between his first seduction of Vernon and the playing of a violin, the darkened screen from his black jacket moving from one face to another, and Vernon's writhing in freeze frame to her in a photo shoot. ... Read more

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lover/killer
Lou Diamond Phillips cowrote and directed this "erotic thriller" which wants to be 9 ½ Weeks, and LDP's self-casting as a womaniser, providing himself with a full frontal nudity shot partially obscured by opaque glass in a shower stall, seems the ultimate in conceit. 9 ½ Weeks was bearable because of the presence of Kim Basinger, and here LDP casts a Basinger-look alike in Kate Vernon, but Vernon has none of Basinger's natural appeal, even when dressed in Donna Karan. As a psycho-analyst with a best seller entitled Guilty Pleasures, her own radio talk back show, and a private practice, Vernon is a success waiting to be de-pedestalled. So LDP takes the cue from her radio theme tune Sexual Healing and enscribes "I want you" in the copy of her book he shows her at a signing. As we have seen that Vernon has a secret uninhibited sex life, she soon jumps at LDP's advances, and they engage in risky sex - at a party, at a stranger's home, in the open. Vernon psychoanalyses LDP as a "hustler" yet still continues to see him, so when he demonstrates his "career criminal" behaviour by blackmailing her after a lesbian sex romp, the playfulness turns nasty. The problem that LDP never overcomes with this treatment is that he and Vernon are equally unsympathetic. Naturally we dislike him when he tells her things like he can "see right into your soul" but he also tries to hedge his bets by having himself harassed by mob thugs from his past, and Vernon is pushy about her own sexiness - she's far more attractive towards the end when she's not trying to be, and in one scene is styled to resemble Rita Hayworth in Gilda. The screenplay cowritten with Kurt Voss features 2 unintentional laughs with Vernon's "you need serious counselling" to LDP, Vernon's manager to Vernon "He's blackmailing you and he doesn't want your money?!", and the idea that one of Vernon's patients is a mob boss because of a guilt complex. What is inexplicable is the furore about the lesbian sex scene, which is pretty tame. LDP's pacing is snail like but he comes up with a noteworthy Hitchockian high camera angle as he walks the length of a swimming pool, and some snazzy edits - cross-cutting between his first seduction of Vernon and the playing of a violin, the darkened screen from his black jacket moving from one face to another, and Vernon's writhing in freeze frame to her in a photo shoot. ... Read more

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Based on the Short Story by George RR Martin
...and I bought it for just that reason. I hadn't watched Outer Limits before, and this episode was rather well made, featuring Beau Bridges, and his father Lloyd -A Twilight Zone type of show.

But as I said, the sole reason I bought this video was because it was based on the 1979 Hugo AND Nebula award-winning novelette, "Sandkings" by George RR Martin- My favorite author to date. DO NOT expect as I did, for this to be a movie version of that amazing story.

While it was well scripted and decently made, it had VERY little in common with Martin's 25-page short story. Outer Limits used a different plot, setting AND cast of characters all together, and the only similarity was the Sandkings themselves... but even *they* were vastly different!

Bottom line- Many Outer Limits fans consider Sandkings to be one of the best episodes, so if you like the show, give it a shot. But if you are a fan of Martin, you should find the short story ANY way you can. Unfortunately this may prove difficult.

Terrifying...
SANDKINGS is one of the scariest pieces of sci-fi I've ever seen.
I rank it with original INVASION of the BODY SNATCHERS because it's literal,cut-no-slack, NIGHTMARE. Beau Bridges acting as Madder Max/March Hare scientist,Dr.Simon Kress is superb.The theme drips Freudian anti-myth,as Kress in defiance of God, Nature and the most ordinary paramters of human love and responsibility "cultivates" an alien race of INSECTS. [The Insects were initially brought to Earth in soil samples garnered on Mars by a Rover-like space vehicle.] Kress nurtures this anti-race in untrammeled will-to-Power when he realizes the BREED worships him. [Sand castles are made with ICON portraits of him worked into altar-like minnaret towers. When Kress/Bridges...in exultant hubris...strides into the midst of the DisneySand experimental environment he has fashioned into Alien Eden,thousdands of the insects divide/ bow in obeisance doing him homage as GOD.] Ritual war; sacrifice and finally cannibalistic murder follows as Kress renounces attachment to family,friends and humanity.

Suspense builds into sheer terror. If the climax is a bit "predictable", the tale of terror getting there isn't.
The(revived)OUTER LIMITS used "Sandkings" as premier offering. Director Stuart Gillard, and sriptwriter Melinda Snodgrass have done magnificent jobs rendering George Martin's PM sci-fi shocker.Forget what the movie may lack compared with its literary progenitor.THE SANDKINGS'TV-movie stepchild is masterpiece of blood; cold sweat; and FEAR...

Ant-Farm From Hell
This brilliant contemporized adaptation of George R. R. Martin's award-winning sci-fi novella was the ideal choice for debuting the new Outer Limits T.V. series, since it hearkens back to original OL episodes "The Zanti Misfits," "The Invisible Enemy" and "Wolf 359."

Beau Bridges is the senior scientist on a Department of Defense project studying insects discovered by NASA probes in the Martian soil. The little beasties nearly break free into our biosphere, and the project is terminated - but Bridges, not about to see his potential Pulitzer Prize taken away, smuggles some of their embryos home to start up his own little alien insect ant-farm in a specially built terrarium in the barn out back. Bridges' power over the intelligent little creatures unhinges him - he becomes addicted to being their God, encouraging them to territoriality and war, and eventually even using them to murder colleagues who cotton-on to what he's doing.

This is a great OL creepy-crawlie, in every sense of the word. It's too bad the rest of the series wasn't up to the level of this especially good entry.

Pretty Good Episode
Well written exciting episode. One of the best of the new series.

If All Subsequent Episodes Had Been This Good....
The premiere episode of the most recent incarnation of the sci-fi classic was the show's finest hour. It features a great performance from star Beau Bridges and magnificent support from father Lloyd. The state-of-the art special effects enhance this tale of a scientist so obsessed with his work that all else matters not. This show was so good that the following episodes paled in comparison. ... Read more

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One of the best starring Lou Diamond Phillips
I have loved this movie ever since it first came out and was waiting for it to go on sale at the local video stores! Well, never did see it on sale--can't even find it anymore, except on i did find it on Amazon. Not only does the movie have a terrific cast, with REAL NATIVE PEOPLES starring in it, the movie itself is at times moving, touching, humorous, heart-breaking, and shows what still happens to some of the Indigenous Peoples. The soundtrack is great (I do have that--:D ) and listen to it frequently. Now I'm finally going to buy the video so I can watch it whenever I want to do so.

Sioux City
This is a awesome movie. Lou Diamond Phillips does it again. Great acting and story line. Held my attention all the way to the end. A must see. ... Read more

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lover/killer
Lou Diamond Phillips cowrote and directed this "erotic thriller" which wants to be 9 ½ Weeks, and LDP's self-casting as a womaniser, providing himself with a full frontal nudity shot partially obscured by opaque glass in a shower stall, seems the ultimate in conceit. 9 ½ Weeks was bearable because of the presence of Kim Basinger, and here LDP casts a Basinger-look alike in Kate Vernon, but Vernon has none of Basinger's natural appeal, even when dressed in Donna Karan. As a psycho-analyst with a best seller entitled Guilty Pleasures, her own radio talk back show, and a private practice, Vernon is a success waiting to be de-pedestalled. So LDP takes the cue from her radio theme tune Sexual Healing and enscribes "I want you" in the copy of her book he shows her at a signing. As we have seen that Vernon has a secret uninhibited sex life, she soon jumps at LDP's advances, and they engage in risky sex - at a party, at a stranger's home, in the open. Vernon psychoanalyses LDP as a "hustler" yet still continues to see him, so when he demonstrates his "career criminal" behaviour by blackmailing her after a lesbian sex romp, the playfulness turns nasty. The problem that LDP never overcomes with this treatment is that he and Vernon are equally unsympathetic. Naturally we dislike him when he tells her things like he can "see right into your soul" but he also tries to hedge his bets by having himself harassed by mob thugs from his past, and Vernon is pushy about her own sexiness - she's far more attractive towards the end when she's not trying to be, and in one scene is styled to resemble Rita Hayworth in Gilda. The screenplay cowritten with Kurt Voss features 2 unintentional laughs with Vernon's "you need serious counselling" to LDP, Vernon's manager to Vernon "He's blackmailing you and he doesn't want your money?!", and the idea that one of Vernon's patients is a mob boss because of a guilt complex. What is inexplicable is the furore about the lesbian sex scene, which is pretty tame. LDP's pacing is snail like but he comes up with a noteworthy Hitchockian high camera angle as he walks the length of a swimming pool, and some snazzy edits - cross-cutting between his first seduction of Vernon and the playing of a violin, the darkened screen from his black jacket moving from one face to another, and Vernon's writhing in freeze frame to her in a photo shoot. ... Read more

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One of the best starring Lou Diamond Phillips
I have loved this movie ever since it first came out and was waiting for it to go on sale at the local video stores! Well, never did see it on sale--can't even find it anymore, except on i did find it on Amazon. Not only does the movie have a terrific cast, with REAL NATIVE PEOPLES starring in it, the movie itself is at times moving, touching, humorous, heart-breaking, and shows what still happens to some of the Indigenous Peoples. The soundtrack is great (I do have that--:D ) and listen to it frequently. Now I'm finally going to buy the video so I can watch it whenever I want to do so.

Sioux City
This is a awesome movie. Lou Diamond Phillips does it again. Great acting and story line. Held my attention all the way to the end. A must see. ... Read more

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One of the best starring Lou Diamond Phillips
I have loved this movie ever since it first came out and was waiting for it to go on sale at the local video stores! Well, never did see it on sale--can't even find it anymore, except on i did find it on Amazon. Not only does the movie have a terrific cast, with REAL NATIVE PEOPLES starring in it, the movie itself is at times moving, touching, humorous, heart-breaking, and shows what still happens to some of the Indigenous Peoples. The soundtrack is great (I do have that--:D ) and listen to it frequently. Now I'm finally going to buy the video so I can watch it whenever I want to do so.

Sioux City
This is a awesome movie. Lou Diamond Phillips does it again. Great acting and story line. Held my attention all the way to the end. A must see. ... Read more