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Show Horror Movies By JAMES CLINTON Of the two new horror movies currently playing Salt Lake City, the best concerns some nasty little creatures who reak havoc on a small Colorado Colora-do town. The other concerns a manovolent being which seems to delight in the torture of a career woman. "BOOGENS" and "The Entity" are the current movies attempting to put Salt Lake City viewers under their collective col-lective seats in fear, and both movies succeed to a point. "The Entity" concerns the tribulations of a young woman, superbly played by Barbara Hershy, who has attracted the wrath of an invisible being from another dimension. This being seems to derive pleasure out of raping and beating Miss Hershey. THOUGH THE "Entity-claims "Entity-claims to be based on a true incident, it is a safe bet the film makers took some liberties with the incident inspiring the movie. The trouble with the "Entity" is it tries too hard to be realistic. The climax of the movie, which involves a mock house in a college gymnasium and a liquid helium trap designed de-signed to imprison the creature, crea-ture, is totally beyond any semblance of reality. The "Entity" tries too hard to be something it isn't. Its theme of the invasion of a family fami-ly by a supernatural force was done much better in last summer's sum-mer's "Poltergiest." The "Entity" is too pretentious for its own good. After a scary first 30 minutes the movie loses steam, getting lost in its ramblings about a woman under siege. Though Barbara Hershey is good as the harras-sed harras-sed woman, by the end of the movie most viewers will find they have lost interest in her plight. "BOOGENS, on the other hand, makes no pretensions in its tale of little nasties inhabiting inhabit-ing a closed down mine, and consequently it is the better movie of the two. Firmly intrenched in-trenched in the monster on the loose movies of the 1950s, "Boogens," is a movie which requires viewers to leave their intelligence at home. Filmed at Park City, "Boogens" concerns a mining company which reopens a mine which was closed down several decades earlier due to mysterious circumstances. By reopening it the miners unwittingly unwit-tingly release the "Boogens." THE TITLE creatures are best described as teeth with legs, and the little buggers are decidedly of an anti-social bent. They terrorize and kill several people in the course of the 90 minute movie before being resealed in their cave. "Boogens" is well made and acted for an independent feature. The filmmakers seemed to really enjoy making the movie, and the fun is infectious. infec-tious. "Boogens" is a monster movie which provides mild scares and guarantees a good time for monster movie affici-nados affici-nados provided they don't let their intelligence get in the way of the fun. |