Top Ten Tuesdays

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

In all honesty Waddell and Newman were correct first time round. The cannibal genre is a load of rubbish. Sure some of it is entertaining rubbish but they will never be good films.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

I've been meaning to pick up Calum's CH book for awhile now, I enjoyed his Taboo Breakers book, which features a discussion about CH

If you thought that was good, you are most certain to find a great deal to appreciate in the Devil's Advocates one.

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It is what it is. Exploitation.

If you truly believe what you have typed then it really is exploitation at it's finest from a hack director.

We'll never see eye to eye on this subject, Nos.

I don't dispute that it is exploitation, but I also think that just about every film (and book, music album etc.) says something about the people behind its creation and the society it represents and in which it was made. Examining those aspects and seeing what can be gleaned to offer the different interpretation on the finished product is something which I thought was fascinating when studying film academically.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

In all honesty Waddell and Newman were correct first time round. The cannibal genre is a load of rubbish. Sure some of it is entertaining rubbish but they will never be good films.

Yeah, I like the majority of them, not entirely sure why, and own multiple copies of Holocaust and Ferox, but I'd never class them as good films, entertaining in parts yeah, but also pretty damn rubbish

Same can be said for a lot of the films that make up the bulk of discussions on here

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

Yeah, I like the majority of them, not entirely sure why, and own multiple copies of Holocaust and Ferox, but I'd never class them as good films, entertaining in parts yeah, but also pretty damn rubbish

Same can be said for a lot of the films that make up the bulk of discussions on here

I think what separates the cannibal ones from the rest of Italian exploitation is the forty minutes + of jungle wandering where nothing happens.

Films like Zombie Creeping Flesh are no better produced than the cannibal films but they keep the entertainment levels up constantly which is where the cannibal films fall down in my opinion.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I think what separates the cannibal ones from the rest of Italian exploitation is the forty minutes + of jungle wandering where nothing happens.



Films like Zombie Creeping Flesh are no better produced than the cannibal films but they keep the entertainment levels up constantly which is where the cannibal films fall down in my opinion.

Completely agree

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I think what separates the cannibal ones from the rest of Italian exploitation is the forty minutes + of jungle wandering where nothing happens.

Films like Zombie Creeping Flesh are no better produced than the cannibal films but they keep the entertainment levels up constantly which is where the cannibal films fall down in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Rik

Completely agree

That's three of us in agreement!

[Demoncrat]

CH is still for me a cut above the rest. The relentless negativity. The animal 'stuff'. That ending. From the first time I saw it, it's stayed with me. Boring? Respite is the word methinks Ferox is nastier in tone but its execution blunts the edge. Fcuk Srpski and the like. This is the shit. As I believe da kidz used to say 20 years ago



But then I class Brief Encounter as Extreme Cinema ... so what do I know?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Top 10 Time Travel Films:

• Army of Darkness
• Back to the Future
• Donnie Darko
• Groundhog Day
• Interstellar
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Safety Not Guaranteed
• The Terminator
• Time Bandits
• 12 Monkeys

The 10 that nearly made it:

• The Girl Who Lept Through Time
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Looper
• The Navigator
• Predestination
• Primer
• Timecrimes
• Source Code
• Star Trek (2009)

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Thanks everyone for your contributions in the last seven days. This week's topic is a bit different:

If you are unsure as to whether the film fits the topic, I am using this loose definition from Wikipedia:
"A home invasion is an illegal and usually forceful entry to an occupied, private dwelling with violent intent to commit a crime against the occupants."

I hope this will pre-emptively avoid any misunderstanding.

[MrBarlow]

Inside 2007
Funny Games 1997
Black Christmas 1974
The Silent House 2010
Panic Room 2002
The Collector 2009
You're Next 2011
The Purge 2013
Hate Crime 2012
Dont Breath 2016

Some mentions
Hard Candy
Home Alone
See no evil 1971 version
Knock knock