Gone Fishin' - 1997 *

'Gone Fishin' is not a good film. It's not funny, it's got Danny Glover in it (who cannot act for toffee) and it's just all round boring.
Two fishing enthusiasts go on a trip together to Florida and get caught up in a criminal ring when their car is stolen. I think putting these two actors together is a big mistake and I really didn't enjoy it.
Bad.

The Ex - 1997 ***

It's quite bizarre that Yancy Butler has actually been in serious trouble with the police in real life. It sort of adds to her downright terrifying character. Here she plays a psychotic ex wife who cannot accept that her husband has moved on and married someone else despite years of being in a mental institution. Its actually quite scary how unhinged she is.

Night Scream - 1997 *

I made a mistake of assuming that if I liked Candace Cameron Bure in her Lifetime films, then I would like her in something else. This was, pardon my French, bloody stupid. Bure plays Drew, a girl from San Francisco who inexplicably turns up at a small town that she has never been to in a trance and sees what appears to be a portrait of herself in the harbour. Apparently, one year ago, a girl named Laura, who is the splitting image of Drew, was murdered there, supposedly by her boyfriend and the townsfolk are all commemorating this. They are somewhat shocked therefore, to see 'Drew' appear in their midst.
It sounds like it might be good, but it's actually not.

Parasite Eve - 1997

An incredibly depressing and mournful film about scientific discoveries into deadly parasites interspersed with death and despair. The Japanese aren't exactly known for cheerful, upbeat films, but even this was taking the biscuit a bit.

Nightwatch - 1997 **

This movie starts off in a promising way. It's scary and intimidating but then slowly turns into a big mess with Ewan McGregor wandering around in a state of fixed shock. McGregor takes a job in a morgue as a night watchman and begins to hear and see strange things that start to implicate him in various murders. Just weird.

Cube - 1997 ****

For a film that I had barely heard anything about this was surprisingly good. My boyfriend said it wasn't brilliant but was quite interesting and I should see what I thought. I found it pretty intense and very captivating. A group of people find themselves trapped inside a cube in the middle of the night with no  way of knowing how or why they are there. All they can do is attempt to work out what they all have in common with each other and how they can get out before they all go mad. Excellent character developments (except towards the end when it gets a bit silly). You can see where the director of Saw got ideas from.

The Canterville Ghost - 1997 ****1/2

I remember having a tape of this story which I listened to avidly when I was 10 or 11. It never scared me despite the subject matter sounding quite eerie, but actually used to help me get off to sleep. And I remember it still to this day (I'm 25 now).
Patrick Stewart plays the ghost of Sir Simon De Canterville who finds it impossible to get any peace once a loud and brash American family move into his house. Added to which, he is destined to walk through the house groaning and clanking his chains for eternity until a curse put upon him by his late wife's family is lifted. which doesn't go down very well for anyone. The only people who believe in him are the three children, (the two young boys and the teenage girl played very well by Neve Campbell) leading them to set up an elaborate production of Hamlet (with him playing the ghost of Hamlet) to show the parents that he does in fact exist.
Campbell soon becomes close to the ghost who recounts to her the nature of his and his wife's death and she realises that only she can lay him to rest forever after finding the riddle of Canterville hall in an old book in the library.
I just loved this film, and I loved Patrick Stewart, he was just the epitome of who I imagined Sir Canterville to be when I listened to my audio tape all those years ago. It also made me cry bucket loads. Lovely film. And no blood or half naked people in it. The film simply had a great storyline instead...