lost-in-limbo Um, yeah. It's puerile… not wonder why the fetchingly detailed video artwork is eye-catching as it draws you in (and how many times have we've been fooled by that?) to only to find when you watch it. Boy what a mistake! Hey a friend gave this one to me (with a smile on his face), but in all honesty I don't know what to make of 'Appointment with Fear'? If this was supposed to be a supernatural slasher, it wasn't much of one. So randomly bizarre and tacky, but even more so deadly dull. It does seem to have a lot going on with something always happening, but the terribly thought-out material (it's a wonky script) is a complete shambles with numerously pointless developments (what was the deal with bum they virtually kept as a pet?) and unrelated padding that throws out ideas with nothing to entirely back it up. All of this build-up and all we get is one abysmally meandering set-up after another with no real groundwork. Tacked on is a lame climax, with an even lamer freeze ending. Ugh! The concept which has a criminal lying in hospital in a coma, but managing to leave his body in a spiritual sense and go after his baby (no not teleporting, but in his mysteriously white van in psychical form) to murder it for the reason of staying the king (something of a Egyptian Demigod) for another year. He takes care of his wife, but the baby finds itself in the care of some hopeless teenagers that spend the night at forlorn house in the desert. Soon they find themselves caught in the terror in trying to protect the baby, as a lone, worn-out police detective is the only one who they can turn to.I guess you call it plain dumb, or simply an interesting idea poorly realized, which has got to count for something. Director Alan Smithee (yeah I wouldn't blame them not wanting their real name tagged to this project) shoddily puts this low-end feature together with blotchy imagery and distracting techniques. The unhinged music score is overkill, editing around certain sequences is jerky and it seems to lose concentration with the camera closing in on redundant images… e.g. dolls? However it demonstrates a fluid glide in some looping camera shots when centering on the action at the remote villa. Then you even begin to question that! Atmosphere is non-existent with inept staging of the deaths (as most of them occur off-screen) and what we do see is impulsively ramshackle. They're bloodless and tensionless… oh no that's not good and our good old villain looks quite plain (while trying hard to evoke a serious face of pure evil!) and what he does is no better… driving about or just loitering around. As for the performances they're mainly annoyingly drab and oddball, however I didn't mind Michele Little as the main heroine, even though her constantly recording sounds with her microphone got numbing. The cast is made up by some faces that appeared in other horror/teen features like Debi Sue Voorhees, Kerry Remsen and Michael Wyle. James Avery shows up in minor part too."Appointment with Fear" is a drawn-out and hackneyed appointment that's well worth missing.

callanvass This is one of the worst pieces of junk I have ever seen, as not a damn thing happens until the final 10 minutes. All the characters are boring and stupid, and the story is incredibly boring, plus the music score was way too cheesy for my liking. I stupidly bought this for a $1 at a pawn shop because Moustapha Akkad was the executive producer for this, but I regret spending even a dollar, and the ending was just plain stupid, plus the surprise at the end with the baby was completely predictable. There is tons of walking around, lots of boring dialog, and hardly anything happening to keep you interested and, there is absolutely no gore what so ever, plus the acting is extremely bad!. There is no one to root for, and most of them I wanted to get killed off, plus it was also very hard to pay attention to at times as well. The dialog is very bad, and it's extremely cheap looking and amateurish, plus it's got no imagination or creativity at all either. I have nothing else to say about this turd, other then this AVOID!. The Direction is terrible. Ramzi Thomas does a terrible job here with inept camera work, and keeping everything moving at a snail's pace. The Acting really isn't even worth mentioning. Overall AVOID!. BOMB out of 5

waha99 Horrible, dreadful stuff. You know you're in for a film with little inspiration behind it when a mid-80's dance number in inserted in what could have turned out to be the best scene of the whole flick-the sex scene! Sad and insipid; it makes other horror films of the 1980's look great in comparison.

Ed Cowell I fast-forwarded through most of this movie searching for something, anything interesting,but never found anything. A bunch of bland morons stalk around in the dark and some guy lies around in a coma,and he's possessed by a tree spirit or something. Moustapha Akkad went from HALLOWEEN to THIS. A complete waste of valuable celluloid.