I survived "Sole Survivor"

Eager for the challenge of reviewing some good movies I glanced over the titles all lined up perfectly on the shelf of my living room. With 300 titles it took about 20 minutes before I had seen all the titles and picked out the first movie to watch.

"Sole Survivor" (1982)

Sole Survivor was put on video by Vestron Video based out of Stanford CT. Written and directed by Thom Eberhardt. With the Running time at 85 minutes and a rating as R, this movie seemed like a good place to start.

The box art (as seen in the picture above) The cover depicts a Airplane Radar with a scull and some ghostly hands . The radar comes in to play in the movie in a great way showing how less can be more in filming when done right.

We start this movie with some interesting cut scenes of a plane taking off and a women in her bedroom having some sort of episode to really annoying screaching music. Finally suspense builds as we cut to the air traffic controllers and the radar as they we follow the plane and it disappears off the radar. Cut to panning over limbs and dismembered bodies as we focus on out main character, Denise Watson. shes just sitting in her chair stiff as a board (we can only assume that she was the only one who had there tray table up and there chair in the upright position) As she gets brought to a hospital she mentions that the other weren't dead that some of them were moving.These exclamations are dismissed by the hospital officials but seem to hold very real significance to Denise, as they are the beginnings of odd feelings that slowly find their way into Denise's awareness.

Ghostly specters seem to follow Denise, always staring creating suspense for the viewers, as well as causing paranoia for Denise. The Doctor assumes the she is just suffering from "survivors syndrome" and the police think she is a whack job. The only person who believes her is a crazy actress who claims to be psychic . The actress tries to explain to Denise that death wont stop it will chase her until it finishes its job. Thus Denise and anyone who figures this out must die.

A dead man brakes in to Denise's house later that night and ends up killing the neighbor and things start to pick up until everyone is dead and in the morgue. The coroner putting the pieces together starts to document the events when you notice in the background a body sit up as the credits roll.

The movie was really more suspenseful than scary but it really worked well in a creepy way because no one likes to be stared at. I attribute that to a bit of the animal in us all where we feel challenged or threatened by a person just staring at us. Defiantly a movie to watch if you can get your hands on a copy. I couldn't help but notice a similarity to the final destination series from 2000 as well as a movie called "soul survivors" (2001) with the actress Elisa Dushku, as the plot idea was very similar. Both of these films have the same idea based off this original, some one cheats death and now death wont stop until it kills them. But nothing compares to Original source material.

Next up lets take a look at a summertime classic ..........lets take a bite out of the Jason franchise with Jason V