De Johnsons (1992)
Genre: Horror
Duration: 96 minuten
Alternative title: The Johnsons
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Rudolf van den Berg
Stars: Esmée de la Bretonière, Monique van de Ven and Kenneth Herdigein
IMDb score:
6,1 (896)
Releasedate: 14 February 1992
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De Johnsons plot
Victoria Lucas, freelance photographer, gets an assignment to shoot nature in De Biesbosch. Victoria's fourteen-year-old daughter Emalee is plagued every night by nightmares in which seven boys smear walls with blood. They always make the same symbol. According to her therapist, Emalee is just worried about her first period not being able to get it. However, Victoria now prefers not to leave her daughter alone and Emalee goes with her.
Actors and actresses
Victoria Lucas
Emalee Lucas
Professor Keller
De Graaf
Vader Keller
Angela
Tante van Peter
Jansma
Majoor Jansma
Fotograaf
Reviews & comments
Donkerwoud
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- 8850 messages
- 4033 votes
Amazingly atmospheric with those strange occult rituals and the continuous cityscape full of garbage bags. There's even some successful gore here and there. It's just such a shame that all the clichés of American horror classics had to be followed. Now it is automatically placed in the shadow of instead of getting its own face. In that sense, an Alex van Warmerdam knows how to get more out of his horror settings.
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Quentin
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- 10218 messages
- 8596 votes
There are a few ridiculous scenes in it, especially the one with the inflatable boat (Monique's lung capacity is exceptional) and the bread knife (a socket would have made more sense than this MacGyver action), but this film is so atmospheric !
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Shadowed
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- 11670 messages
- 6867 votes
How terrible.
Nederhorror, a concept that some of us may know. The description is therefore fairly obvious. I can be brief about it, not everything is broken, but none have really convinced me very much. I believe a six was the highest number.
This film is in any case one of the lesser among the nederhorror. I had never heard of it before the KO. And it soon became clear why. This lasted for a very long time in my opinion and never got a little interesting.
I'm already not enthusiastic about Dutch acting. But this is even a level below that. It almost seemed to come from Asia at times. It was so terribly theatrical at times. No one exceeds a little normal acting level.
The film is very tiring, considering that it is only 96 minutes long. Visually very ugly. Poor shot and poor quality. Looked straight out of the 60's. The "dreams" are also mostly clumsy and have a swearing use of color.
Bad camera work and no real tension. The course of the film is confusing. Sometimes scenes seem to come out of nowhere and add little else. The relationship between mother and daughter is laughable, sometimes way too theatrical.
However, the film also has some decent moments. The soundtrack is strong at times and in the final phase there may also be some blood flow. For the rest there is not much to it unfortunately. No tension, no atmosphere, no decent acting. So the number is there. And I still feel generous.
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