What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by pedromonkey

I will be pre-ordering it soon, I love that film.

Me too – it's been far too long since I saw it last.

[bdc]

Fantasy Mission Force (1982)
Ok...HK films are often crazy but this HK-Taiwanese production is insane!
Although not really a Jackie Chan film,Jackie somehow gets to be the hero of the film.

I watched the remastered Malay dvd which unfortunately has the wrong audio and some terribly confusing subs,still it's the best dvd out there...I actually watched it and then started watching it again which helped in making somewhat more sense of the plot.

Read more here:
Fantasy Mission Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Make Them Die Slowly]

DRIVE. Fantastic film, though it did remind me of "Shane" with satin swapped for buckskins.

[nordicdusk]

Insidious.... A lot better than i taught it would be. I was avoiding this for ages because i taught it would be all the best bits in the trailer and nothing in the film. But i was surprised with the result had some really creepy bits but i wish they changed the face of the evil guy taunting the kid.

Captain America.... Not bad just mindless fun leave your brain at the door and just sit back and relax. Im looking forward to the Avengers except for Thor i hate the guy that plays him.

[Gojirosan]

Fata Morgana - WOW!

That's all, just WOW!

[Demdike]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

DRIVE. Fantastic film, though it did remind me of "Shane" with satin swapped for buckskins.

I hate that bloody kid in Shane.

[Sam]

Snowtown - bleak, depressing but really quite brilliant. Feel like I neeed to watch this again with the commentary to fill in some of the gaps but the overall feel and mood is perfect for the subject matter.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

Fata Morgana - WOW!

That's all, just WOW!

I would say that about a lot of herzogs stuff, but fata morgana is indeed impressive

[Frankie Teardrop]

PETER, PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER - The Sutcliffe case laid bare via a strange hybrid of found footage, TVesque psycho-drama and arthouse surrealism. Not for every palate, but I liked it, despite the rubbish title. Benefits from its non-linear approach and features startling use of FGTH's 'The Power of Love' (soundtracking a particularly bereft psyche ward day room!) Captures the true essence of early eighties W Yorks scuminess... Red Riding only came close on the page. Look forward to more from director Skip Kite, if possible.
DRESSED TO KILL - The epitome of stylish eighties bad taste, featuring what must be the sleaziest ever opening sequence in mainstream movie history. De Palma has made better films and I prefer him elsewhere (ie in Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise, Blow Out), but this is still good crazy stuff with some inspired passages - the gallery sequence for one. Like the (possible) sense of Giallo spiralling another notch - from Hitchcock to Italian rip off to Italian rip off-rip off masquerading as Hitchcock homage?
VIOLENCE IN A WOMEN'S PRISON - WIP trash from Mattei. Not as sleazy as some of its kind, but entertaining anyway. Laura Gemser goes undercover in an Italian jail, hoping to expose corruption... predictably, a triumvirate of tits, ass and beaver is exposed instead. The flimsy plot serves only to roll out a series of more or less exploitative scenes, my faves being a fairly mental rodent attack and DeSalle turning on after an episode of queasy forced sex voyeurism... not to mention a baffling sequence during which Gemser is imprisoned within a cylindrical 'bell' and subjected to assault via metal percussion (I'm sure I clocked Blixa Bargeld stroking his silky villain's moustache in the background). Regardless, this one features on exemplary synth soundtrack which plays in my mind's ear whenever I lay back, close my eyes and whisper the letters 'V-H-S' over and over...

[Pete]

VIOLENCE IN A WOMEN'S PRISON is great fun and the soundtrack is great. Not so sure about that song that plays over the end credits though! Some parts of the soundtrack were also used in HANNA D: THE GIRL FROM VONDEL PARK (which was edited by Mattei)

Mattei's EMANUELLE IN PRISON (aka WOMEN'S PRISON MASSACRE) is even better.