Hoo boy, this was a mess. A guy is cryogenically frozen and then revived except he has no soul when he’s brought back. There’s barely even an interesting story there so it’s not like you can blame Wes too much because he really had nothing to work with.

The cast is decent but not even Jill Schoelen can do enough to make this that memorable even though she raises the star rating just by being in it. And Beatrice Straight hams it up quite beautifully. Also, there are actually some nice gooey practical effects which was part of what made 80’s TV movies so good, but there are plenty of them out there with better special effects and a better story so.....yeah I got nothin here. It’s all just very blah, but hey at least some people got paid right?

Film #17 of Hoop-tober 3

It's tough work being a Wes Craven completionist.

Day 21. Jill Schoelen.

Was Wes involved in this?, perhaps for the demon eyes, and skin bubbles. I'd have liked more demon eyes, or crypto nightmares.

Plus side, I can look at Jill Schoelen all day.

After that I need reviving.

really cool and fun and scary the vhs rip i watched def adds to the movie a lot

This is another one that I couldn't recommend to anyone ever, because it's slow, nothing happens and it feels like it was made in 1971 rather than 1985. But I like TV movies because they make me feel warm and gooey, and there's some cool actors sleepwalking their way through this so I dunno, waddya want. I am curious about why Wes Craven was making TV movies with a budget of like, ten dollars the year after Elm Street was released though - does it really take that long for the money to come through from movies? The Biz is a cruel mistress.

The only existing transfer (to my knowledge) borders on unwatchable; the image, which looks like a badly degraded VHS, is passable, but the audio track is blown out and almost inaudible at times. As others have noted, someone needs to make a restoration happen ... Vinegar Syndrome? Arrow? Scream Factory?

Craven is restrained by the television format, but this is a really interesting and cogent depiction of corporate soullessness (made in the middle of Regan's presidential term). It's actually quite elegantly structured and staged, much stronger than all the dismissive reviews led me to believe. I dig the synthesizer score and the brief flashes of Stan Winston's artistry.

Right from the title card, which directly rips off the technique used for John Carpenter's The Thing, I sensed the promise fade. Chiller, one of Wes Craven's forays into TV movies, is a relatively bland sci-fi horror effort that attempts to articulate the cut-throat nature of corporate business after a CEO is thawed out of medically-induced cryo-stasis ostensibly without his soul. It's a sound concept and fits thematically with the litany of anti-Reaganomic parables the '80s gave us, but Craven fails to interject any of his usual stylistic wit and Michael Beck's dull villain doesn't particularly inspire any lasting chills. Though it probably didn't help that the quality of my DVD looked like it had been sourced from a third gen VHS found at the bottom of a swamp.

5.25

A lesser known Wes Craven flick about cryogenics and the possible repercussions.

really cool and fun and scary the vhs rip i watched def adds to the movie a lot

Beden ruh ikiliği tezi sağlam çıksaydı hayatımız.

Ruhsuz kapitalistler ruhlu kapitalistleri Ferdi Tayfur gibi sürüklüyor.

i was warned that if you're a wes craven fan this will disappoint and disappoint it did

this was not even close to good

Wes Craven getting that paycheck for this one

This very much seems like a movie meant to mildly scare 1980s Christian conservatives watching this on TV. A CEO comes back to life with no soul only to kill a dog, tell his workers there's no God, fire some of his workers, try to get with his sister, and put a guy in the hospital.

The real horror is the boringness of it all

Another Wes Craven 80s Horror I have not seen in a very long time. This was a completely dull and mess of a film from start to finish. I could not believe that Wes directed this! Craven's distinctive directing style and spirit was totally lacking in this movie. I liked the cryogenics element but too bad it never really went anywhere. Even the acting was as stiff as a wooden board and even veteran actor, Paul Sorvino, phoned in his performance.

Sorry Wes, but not your best work.

Incredibile la roba che hanno prodotto negli anni '80, erano audaci. Critica al neopositivismo scientifico e al capitalismo spietato, ragionamenti sull'immortalità dell'anima e bioetica; il tutto in un horror-thriller sci-fi estremamente trash

The only existing transfer (to my knowledge) borders on unwatchable; the image, which looks like a badly degraded VHS, is passable, but the audio track is blown out and almost inaudible at times. As others have noted, someone needs to make a restoration happen ... Vinegar Syndrome? Arrow? Scream Factory?

Craven is restrained by the television format, but this is a really interesting and cogent depiction of corporate soullessness (made in the middle of Regan's presidential term). It's actually quite elegantly structured and staged, much stronger than all the dismissive reviews led me to believe. I dig the synthesizer score and the brief flashes of Stan Winston's artistry.

DNF. Good Lord, I cannot possibly put it in words how much this sucks. Just the most drab, lifelessly slogging, boring-as-hell execution of an otherwise fun sounding premise, lacking any sense of style, urgency and suspense. A catastrophic waste of everyone who was involved in it especially Paul Sorvino and make-up legend Stan Winston. The first scene alone is so wooden it makes you lose all interest. One, if not the worst thing Craven has ever directed and if you think I'm too mean just because its a TV movie, please remember that Spielberg's Duel was also made for television.

I guess I should’ve known that Craven did TV movies (well, I did but I should’ve figured out that the majority of what I have left to watch is mostly TV movies). This is just an absolute slog - drivel that played for no reason other than to take up airtime between ads. It’s just lifeless and dull and boring and so fucking slow. Also, the transfer that is on Prime Video is atrocious so that definitely didn’t help the experience. I have so little to say about this movie. It’s barely worth discussing.

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