For all of its many flaws (emphasis on MANY), Lucio Fulci's 1979 B -
movie near masterpiece «Zombie» (a.k.a. a slew of other titles) has enough worm - ridden zombie flesh, horrendously fake yet appalling gore, and completely superfluous female nudity to make this a winner.
Not exact matches
This
movie was nowhere
near as terrible as the avalanche of load your gun, pre-canned bad reviews are, nor is it close to a brilliant
masterpiece as some here have countered.
As an example of Aristotelian storytelling techniques married to the commercial imperative, The LEGO
Movie was a
near masterpiece.
I suppose I'm just a little frustrated that a good
movie could have been a
near masterpiece with just a bit more focus and effort.
The story behind how a director with a vision, an A-list actor under a sheet and a pie - binging star turned a little
movie into a
near -
masterpiece
The script, which while akin to his
masterpiece, Pan's Labyrinth fails to engage or entertain us anywhere
near as much as that
movie did, and the dialogue, particularly some of Hiddleston's lines, are very clichéd and corny, and you can also almost guess where proceedings are going to lead to next.