![]() ![]() ![]() With a better script, maybe this movie could have been good, but it's still watchable. One such plant is Mandragora officinarum, better known as the mandrake. Seriously, this movie is a live-action Captain Planet episode, with the same heavy-handed moralizing and 2D villains. Valentine’s Day may be past, but down the centuries plants have had mythological connections with the feeling of love. How do you make a movie about a CGI monster that hunts down a ruthless CEO and his nameless mercenaries, without it becoming one huge, boring cliché? I'm surprised the CEO didn't try to personally burn down the Amazon rain forest just for laughs, like a Captain Planet villain. I'm not sure how much of the blame lies on the director, either, because he, too, probably did the best he could with the material he was given. I can't really blame the actors, because their characters were written to be really stereotypical, barely-developed fodder for CGI monsters. The production values and special effects maintain their comparatively high standards (approaching the quality of a ST:TNG episode), but the acting, directing, and, especially, story end up dragging down the score substantially. Usually, in the first two minutes, I can tell if made-for-TV movies are worth watching or not, and, frankly, most of them aren't. 13 A witch in the moonlight Credit: Wellcome Library, London. The production values are high (comparatively speaking), the acting is good, the sound is synchronized with the video, there aren't any glaring, amateurish CGI effects, and the actors' names may tug at long-forgotten memories of low-budget movies you've seen in the past. The mandrake is a rather frequent trope in his work, surfacing in Othello, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and King Henry V1, and appeared alternatively as a curse, a charm, and a sedative. 2022: Alraune is an unlockable demon and weapon in Bayonetta 3.The beginning of this made-for-Siffy movie starts out with a lot of promise, as far as Siffy Original movies go.She is portrayed as a demoness who is later sealed into floral whip-like weapons. 2014: Alraune is a character and boss in Bayonetta 2.2003: Alraune is the name of the final boss in P.N.03.2000: Arlownay (アルラウネ) is a monster card in Yu-Gi-Oh!.The main character is cursed and must live as if she is Alraune until she can find a way out from under the curse. The comic books deviate significantly from the novel. 1998–2004: Alraune, a series of black and white German comic books illustrated by Tony Greis.1995: Professor Ten Brincken, the 'mad scientist' who creates Alraune, is a character in Kim Newman's vampire novel The Bloody Red Baron.1987: Alraune is a demon in the Megami Tensei series.This had an all-star German cast including Hildegard Knef as Alraune and Erich von Stroheim as the scientist. ![]()
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