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  Review byCropsy ★★★4

  In this sequel to the movieClueless, after Elton is rejected by Cher, he reverts to Satanism and becomes psychically connected to her father, bringing him closer to enact his revenge against the girl who broke his heart.

  At first I was thrown off by this sequel, because it has a completely different tone. Instead of a comedy, we have a horror thriller with an industrial metal soundtrack. It also conjures up scenes of heaven and hell, using Playstation One graphics. I was really thrown off by this, until I found out it was directed by the guy who didVirtuosity andThe Lawnmower Man. I learned to accept what this followup had to offer. I'm glad they replaced Cher's father with Jeff Goldblum. He's better looking and much more charismatic.

  Overall, it's a fine sequel, although I appreciate whatClueless has to offer more.

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  Review byrobyn ★★★★

  heaven is a windows media player visualisation

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  Review byRafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½2

  Look, this film, as Ebert himself pointed out in one of the few positive reviews this film received, is by no means a great film.

  The special effects are hilarious (like what's up with those spirit-looking farts). It also doesn't take long before the film decides to go meta out of nowhere and Goldblum's character makes a joke to his daughter played by Alicia Silverstone about the movieClueless and you could see Silverstone rolling her eyes. There's Jeremy Sisto as a Grunge, Stuart Townsend inQueen of the Damned-looking psychic psycho, Satan lover playing what you'd expect from a character of that description. Music consists mostly of industrial metal that sounds similar to Marilyn Manson and ORGY. Goldberg is…

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  Review bymatt lynch ★★½4

  Thank goodness for Jeff Goldblum, who turns in a fully committed mega performance in service of this deeply silly junk. Speaking of commitment I remain a big fan of the one Brett Leonard has to diabolically chintzy CGI.

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  Review byB E R T ★★★½

  Nothing like some mid-90s Jeff Goldblum for some nostalgia. An awesome and devilish little horror/thriller, I loved the 3rd act set in the theme park. Super fun.

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  Review bySonny_Jim ★★★5

  Feels extremely '90s in almost every conceivable way (Pearl Jam, car phones, expensive turtlenecks, Volvos, and VHS tapes all make cameos). In the interest of silliness, cool dad Jeff Goldblum becomes mind-linked with a Satanic teenage time bomb (Jeremy Sisto, whose look sort of splits the difference between Eric Draven and Neo). It'sThe Eyes of Laura Mars but with peak buffness Goldblum totin' a shotgun, hellbent on protecting his rave-curious daughter (Alicia Silverstone) from being the next victim of Sisto's serial killing spree.

  Goldblum is really good, Sisto is so comically terrible he's almost good, and everyone else (Silverstone, Christine Lahti, Alfred Molina, Kenneth Welsh, Rae Dawn Chong) is at least serviceable. If you can sit with thevery dated CGI, the ending is metal as fuck.

  Is it stupid? Hella. Is it kind of fun? Word.

  [There is an after-credits scene that manages to be both graphically violent yet also adorable.]

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  Review byTony the Terror ★★★½2

  I love Hulu’s auto play feature because most of the time it suggests a pretty good follow-up to what you were watching. This was suggested immediately followingSleepwalkers and I’m absolutely down for some Koontz after King! I don’t read a lot, I mean when would I with all the movies I watch, but when I do it’s mostly them plus Ketchum and Bentley Little.

  Anyway, I can’t remember if I read this or not and I really can’t remember if I had seen it before? Bits and pieces were memorable which makes me think I caught part of it on cable tv back in the day or something. It’s your standard “through the eyes of a killer” thriller, but hands…

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  Review bySlig001 ★★½

  Hideaway is like a nineties MTv version of Hellraiser with Windows Media Player style CGI sprinkled in for good measure. This is based on a book by Dean Koontz which I haven't read. I'm quite sure there is a good film hiding away somewhere in here but it's all ruined by some awful pacing and a poor script that has numerous holes and really drags in places. There's barely any suspense and the central plot idea is not made use of (which is a shame after a reasonably good start). Jeff Goldblum delivers an entertaining performance as always; but Jeremy Sisto is terrible as the central antagonist. The soundtrack is decent but really I'm not surprised that this has faded into complete obscurity.  

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  Review byJustin LaLiberty ★★★3

  between The Lawnmower Man and Virtuosity (both bangers), Brett Leonard made another deliriously CG addled 90s sci-fi riff that makes little sense but does feature Jeff Goldblum pulling double duty as a good dad and a raving psychopath with a “monument to hell” in an abandoned amusement park, which makes this feel like more of a cartoon than original writer Dean Koontz likely did on the page (and wanted his name removed from the film credits, as a result) — honestly, not bad!

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  Review byCarlo V

  jeff goldblum dies and is brought back to life and he makes the front page of the newspaper with this and it's basically a drawing that belongs in heavy metal magazine of a gigantic devil cradling goldblum so that's something I guess

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  Review byBen Peterson ★★★★1

  So yeah, this starts out super wacky with its Virtuosity tech moments but, by the end it actually winds up being one of the best of those “dude who is somehow seeing through the eyes of a killer” movies.It seriously gets better minute by minute.

  A couple reasons for that is because so many elements in the filmmaking are unexpectedly very good. Thesets and productionare top notch for this genre. There’s a few shots and sequences that they took their time on, likea car surf on the river.Whatever kind of transfer this islooks insanely good (again unexpectedly) - like 4K quality on Prime Video (although it doesn’t say that it is). The villain dude is awesome. And looks cool. Long black leather jacket and dark glasses to be perfectly 90s goth/alt. Goldblum is a legit great dad and passionately plays it to where you are fist pumping for him in the tense finale.

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  Review byᴬⁿᵗʰᵒⁿʸ ★★

  Everyone was psychic in the 90s. 🩸