Apparently this doesn’t take place on planet Earth as we see two moons in the sky.
It didn't hit me until the last episode but this series also introduces the Swordsman character, Jack Duquesne (Jacques Duquesne in the comics). In the comics this character was the one who first trained Hawkeye and they've always had a connection.
You're supposed to be a phantom thief but most of the criminals you've come across have seen your face, and there's no kind of repercussions from that? I guess the writer stole the idea from the Black Cat character from the Spider-man comics, but at least that one wore a mask.
Yea in the very first scene we see a Muslim teen wearing a habib but with a short sleave shirt. If a Muslim girl is religious enough that she'd wear a habib, she'd her arms and legs covered as well.
It looks like all the voice actors were changed from the previous episodes and they are horrible, especially Frankenstein's, also horrible Asian stereotypes and voices, it was a headache to listen to.
What the hell, an hour into the movie and there's a musical number in what is supposed to be a horror movie? This isn't bollywood.
In Ghost of Frankenstein Bela Lugosi played Igor, who's brain ended up being transplanted into the monsters body, and in this movie, the follow up, Lugosi plays the monster.
In the scene where the hunters find the monster in the home of the blind man, they yell that it's the monster created by Frankenstein, yet prior to this no one knew that Frankenstein was the one that created the monster.
I saw this a couple of years after it first came out on TV and it was actually the very first zombie movie I ever saw so much of what I knew about flesh eating zombies came from this movie.
The first scene takes place in 1993 and has Natasha as a little girl living in the mid west, Ohio. Her character has multi color hair which would be unusual for a girl of that age today, let alone one in the mid west during that time period, especially one who was supposed to be undercover and thus should not be drawing attention to herself.
This series is what happens when you allow otaku writers to create a live action series. A lot of troupes that you normally only see in ecchi anime / manga
I know it's a plot device for the female lead to be such an idiot, but it gets to the point that you have no sympathy for anything that happens to her at this point. Every bad thing that has happened to her was a result of bad decisions on her part. She keeps getting involved in a game where you need some brains to win and she's a complete moron.
This story is full of idiots, the husband is an idiot, he agrees to take care of a client's pet knowing that he could get evicted for it, worse you got a one woman HOA who complains at the drops of a dime. As for the son, let's say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. And the biggest idiot is the original owner of the penguin, an exotic pet, you don't just entrust the care of an exotic pet to just anyone, you leave them with professionals.
They overdo it with the blurred backgrounds and scenes in this thing, the blurs often go too long.
I hadn't seen this movie since the late 1970's and didn't remember Barbara Eden and Frankie Avalon being in it. I did remember Walter Pidgeon and Peter Lorre being in it. Del Monroe was only actor in both the movie and in the series. Overall a good movie and it might be one of the earliest ones to later become a TV series. If I recall correctly the main plot this movie was also the plot of one of the TV episodes. I noticed that in both the movie and TV series characters would sometimes smoke cigars or cigarettes in the submarine which is not allowed in submarines today and might not have been allowed back when the movie came out.
I didn't know that Cat's Eye was in the same universe as City Hunter but all the series here are from the same writer, Tsukasa Hojo. From the Cat's Eye wiki:
In contrast to Angel Heart (which is set in alternate universe, despite sharing City Hunter characters), both Cat's Eye and City Hunter series are set in same universe. The titular City Hunter character, Ryo Saeba, is acquaintanced with them. He also has rivalry with them because he was helping police capture Cat's Eye. Despite their rivalry, they have great teamwork fighting against criminals. The sisters come to Ryo's rescue in City Hunter the Movie: Shinjuku Private Eyes when Ryo has trouble defeating his enemy.
Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama) from the Trick series (https://trakt.tv/shows/trick) appears in this episode, trying her failed magician tricks and getting insults about her lack of boobage.
Yabe's dumb luck to the extreme, 5 different assassins' trying to kill the person he's pretending to be and dumb luck has them kill each other off.
In this series we sometimes see product placements, usually the "MM" brand labels, but this time we see Nikon cameras. This episode was in 1988 so they slide with this, now we'd see the camera names changed by a letter or two to something like Nikan or Nokon.
Yabe was bad enough in the previous season, taking credit for other people's work, this season he now blackmails his superiors in order to get promotions.
The cult symbol shown in this episode reminds me of the cult symbol shown in the movie 20th Century Boys, https://trakt.tv/movies/20th-century-boys-3-redemption-2009
Naoko Yamada (Yukie Nakama) from the Trick series (https://trakt.tv/shows/trick) has a cameo in this episode.
"The Night of the Undead" doesn't belong on this list as it doesn't have zombies, a pandemic nor is the apocalypse happening, just aliens. I think the title refers to characters appearing to have gotten killed but then coming back.
At first glance, the title would make it seem like this is a zombie movie, but there are no zombies, just aliens. The title more likely refers to characters appearing to have been killed but then coming back. I see that someone included that on a list of zombie movies, it really doesn't belong there.
In the scene with the cat editor, his staff makes references comparing him to Puss N Boots, Felix the Cat, and the cat from the Smurf series.
The plot of this is pretty much the same as the anime series Horror News, https://trakt.tv/shows/horror-news , except this one is live action
Note to people visiting Infant Island, radiation suits won't do you any good if you neglect to wear the included gloves and head gear. Also it looks like Godzilla gets to destroy the another castle as he did in King Kong Vs Godzilla, this time by tripping on it. the guy just loves to destroy landmarks.
Really, the best fighter in the comics, Cassandra Cain, is reduced to being pretty much a helpless victim type. In the comics Cain could beat any of the other ladies in this group. She even beat her mother, Lady Shiva, a person that Batman was never able to beat. She was pretty much Batman's surrogate daughter for a while.
Why do otaki writers think that wearing shorts while representing your college professor at a professional assignment is considered proper? Really you're supposed to be presenting your professor and college and you wear shorts?
This short movie was later made into the series "Death Parade". https://trakt.tv/shows/death-parade
