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Originally Posted by Rik  I was gonna watch this the other night, I enjoyed the Collector, I'm guessing this isn't as good then? |
I'm going to give a differing opinion and say the collection is well worth watching. I wouldn't go so far as to describe it as torture porn. It has some nasty sequences but imagine a slasher picture set in jigsaws house. Its no classic of the genre but a lot better than some of the junk out there.
Last night I watched
THE BOGEY MAN
Uli Lomell when he was still making films worth watching delivered this gory knock off of films like Halloween and Amityville. Here a young brother and sister are tormented by memories of a tormented childhood that somehow manifests itself in a haunted mirror. The mirror is broken and the fragments cause some fairly nasty deaths.
Re-watching the film in a frankly stunning HD presentation I'd almost forgotten how f*****g random the film is in places. Not only in sudden violent deaths of incidental characters but in things like plot and character motivation. Biggest WTF came when suzannah love's characters husband admits the mirror may be possessed but says that's its absurd that its the ghost of their mothers dead lover.
For me this total weirdness is part of Bogey man's charms. It got watched to hell on VHS from the legendary vipco, the Anchor bay DVD remains on my shelf thanks to the presence of DEVONSVILLE TERROR on the B side but is also well watched. I'm guessing 88 films Blu will be the same!
Night train murders.
Two girls take a night train to terror at the hands of a pair of junkies and a sadean middle class housewife who is using them for kicks. Not as good as last house mainly because its a technically more proficient film and lacks the DIY documentary level nastiness of Last house, its still a great film however and worth a watch. Rather than an allegory about the dehumanising effects on violence this seems to be a more politically class oriented affair with the real monsters as the upper middle class who either crassly attempt to categorise crime and violence as a result of not enough sports in schools or actively encourage it for their own kicks.
88 films looks great. Seems to be a little fuzz in the brighter scenes that may get some hot under the collar but it looks good to me and is certainly on parr with the Blue underground release.