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APRIL 23 VHS MOVIE REVIEW : SHARK
From classicbeemovies.net

The DVD I watched was distributed by the guys from Troma. This is the most awesome fake skyline ever, I LOVE it!

A young Burt Reynolds and sharks in a movie directed by Samuel Fuller! Hoo boy, did I get all excited for nothing. In his autobiography A Third Face, Samuel Fuller describes sitting through a private screening of the final film with Peter Bogdanovich. "What a horrible shock I had!" he writes, "They'd completely recut my movie, retitling it Man-Eater, refashioning almost every scene to suit their tastes, which were lousy... Over and over, the producers butchered scenes, destroying all trace of timing and subtlety. I was flabbergasted with their reediting." Shark! is one of a string of B-movies Fuller directed towards the end of his career where the arrangements with his producers turned out badly (Fuller eventually petitioned to have his name removed from the credits to the film). I can't believe Fuller actually sat through the entire film.

APRIL 23 VHS MOVIE REVIEW : DOLLY DEAREST (1991)

Eliot Read (Sam Bottoms) moves his family from Los Angeles to Mexico to start production on a line of dolls he hopes will make him rich (NAFTA raises its ugly head again). His assembly plant is located next to a Mayan escavation site where a week before a man was killed opening a tomb, unleashing an evil spirit. That spirit occupies the body of Dolly, a life-like doll that Eliot gives to his daughter Jessica (Candy Hutson) when they tour the plant. Soon Jessica begin to act strange. She has an aversion to crucifixes and religious people, talks back to her mother Marilyn (Denise Crosby) and spends a lot of time conversing with Dolly in the backyard dollhouse. Jessica's suspicious brother Jimmy (Chris Demetral) teams up with an archaeologist (Rip Torn) to explore the opened tomb. They discover that it is the tomb of the Devil Child, leader of a group of ancient Satan worshippers known as the Sanzia. Marilyn also joins forces with the archaeologist when she realizes that her daughter is becoming possessed by the Sanzia (Jessica threatens to kill her mother if she takes Dolly away from her). Satan plans on making Jessica the new Devil Child. It's a race against time as Marilyn and Jimmy try to separate Jessica from Dolly, while Eliot has to contend with a factory full of Dollys come to life. The comparisons between this film and CHILD'S PLAY are so obvious that nothing else needs to be said on the matter. The flick's main distinction is that it has a woman director (Maria Lease), a rare commodity in the horror film business (Mary Lambert's PET SEMATARY [also starring Denise Crosby], Marina Sargento's MIRROR, MIRROR and Hope Perello's HOWLING 6: THE FREAKS are other examples). DOLLY DEAREST was produced by Daniel Cady, who also produced 1972's GRAVE OF THE VAMPIRE and GARDEN OF THE DEAD. Lee Frost (PRIVATE OBSESSION - 1995) was the production supervisor. While too derivitive to be original, DOLLY DEAREST is nonetheless worth a look if nothing better can be found of the shelves. Rip Torn is one of the few actors that can appear in video fodder like this and still remain respectable enough to appear in A films. A Vidmark Entertainment Release. Rated R. { text from critcononline.com }