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Stephen@Cult Labs 29th March 2010 11:14 AM

Very true Vince.The film works perfectly well without the scene.

vincenzo 29th March 2010 11:26 AM

The old TV showings were complete, and featured both the Beatles track and the cinema cut (Caine & Dorleac tussling). :ohwell:

Stephen@Cult Labs 29th March 2010 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by reaper72 (Post 68785)
Yesterday's movie marathon consisted of;

FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET-One of Argento's best,now that I've sat and watched it-that ending is the operatic of macabre


I had a quick scan through my Four Flies On Grey Velvet dvd and was wondering,is that really Michael Brandon's voice on the english soundtrack? His voice doesn't even sound the same as it did on Dempsey & Makepeace.

re.form 29th March 2010 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Gojirosan (Post 70199)
A very under-rated flick, I reckon. Wish there was a full ratio version of it around. I have an oft-watched 4:3 pan & scan on Boulevard I got for £1 from a charity shop. It's great fun even in such cropped form!

I totally agree. Mine's the same version. I picked it up second hand for a few coins as well. Cool soundtrack. I am unapologetically the type of person that usually has some fun with most films that have zombies of whatever description in, however.

Which brings me too Survival of the Dead, which I watched last night and thought was good fun.

BioZombie 29th March 2010 11:41 PM

In preperation for watching Dead Beat at Dawn I watched 3 of Jim Van Bebber's short films.

Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin

A Texas Chainsaw esque short about a lunatic who kills people that he picks up from the roadside.

My Sweet Satan

A 20min mocumetry about a drug addled satan worshipper. The doumenty style really adds to the reality of this at one point I forgot that it wasnt actually real.

Chunk Blower

A promo trailer for a film that was never made about a pick up truck driver who slaughters people who break down on the road.

All of these films have a very distinct style and astmosphere. The violence is extreme and gory. Now I cant wait to see Deadbeat at Dawn as I havent read a bad review. After that I'll probably also get hold of his 2003 film The Manson Family.

Deat Beat at Dawn Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOMSBgU5Fxk


Manson Family Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H21V4vaBjvA

nekromantik 29th March 2010 11:46 PM

anyone seen haunting in conneticut? lol
not a very liked movie but I enjoyed it at cinema.

Basketcase 30th March 2010 12:08 AM

The last movie i saw in the cinema was last saturday when i saw kick-ass overall i thought it was a very good movie and has to be the second decent comicbook movie ive ever seen. For a 15 rated movie i was suprised how violent kick-ass was in addition to that kick-ass is also very funny.

Sargento 30th March 2010 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by nekromantik (Post 70405)
anyone seen haunting in conneticut? lol
not a very liked movie but I enjoyed it at cinema.

I quite enjoyed the movie ... not quite The Amityville Horror, but still better than a lot out there in a similar vain.

:cool:

Sargento 30th March 2010 03:33 PM

Last night I managed to get down to watching:

"Pontypool"

My first impressions, based on the first hour were very promising. The film reminded me of a cross between NOTLD and TCM 2 (the zombie virus and the radio station relaying the live happenings). However, when the apparant cause of the virus began to come clear (based on the characters theory at least), I felt the movie became incredibly silly and kind of a let down. I won't spoil it for any one yet to see it, but I think the writer should have took the traditional route of infection of victims. It's not that I wouldn't recommend it, because it is a very interesting little movie, but I feel it went in the wrong direction.

Oh, and when you do watch it, make sure you stay until the end of the credits ... what the hell was going off there!!?!?!?!?

Sargento 30th March 2010 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by BioZombie (Post 70403)
In preperation for watching Dead Beat at Dawn I watched 3 of Jim Van Bebber's short films.

I watched some of Jim's film when Deadbeat first came out all those years ago .... and found them grim and depressing and not in an entertaining way! I was a little more open minded to very low budget films back then, and I am not sure I could stomach them at all these days.

:ack:

42ndStreetFreak 30th March 2010 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Sargento (Post 70565)
Last night I managed to get down to watching:

"Pontypool"

Oh, and when you do watch it, make sure you stay until the end of the credits ... what the hell was going off there!!?!?!?!?

Yeah. Sums up the whole 'the jokes on the audience' schtick from the makers the last half of the film became.
**** 'em

Sargento 30th March 2010 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by 42ndStreetFreak (Post 70567)
Yeah. Sums up the whole 'the jokes on the audience' schtick from the makers the last half of the film became.
**** 'em

It seems I couldn't agree more! It seems the second half of the movie had either a different writer or director! :(

oaxaca 30th March 2010 04:01 PM

Watched "let sleeping corpses lie" ("living dead at manchester morgue") last night. Great fun and good hippy/enviro message :p

Sargento 30th March 2010 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by oaxaca (Post 70571)
Watched "let sleeping corpses lie" ("living dead at manchester morgue") last night. Great fun and good hippy/enviro message :p

That really is a great little gem of a movie ... ooooh that sonar machine thing! Gave me creeps when I was a kid!

AB released a great print of the film in the UK:cool:

Gigantor 30th March 2010 04:43 PM

COMING TO AMERICA
BEVERLY HILLS COP 1 and 2

vincenzo 30th March 2010 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by oaxaca (Post 70571)
Watched "let sleeping corpses lie" ("living dead at manchester morgue") last night.

One of my all-time favourite zombie films. :nod:

oaxaca 30th March 2010 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Gigantor (Post 70587)
COMING TO AMERICA
BEVERLY HILLS COP 1 and 2

Hehe... You've gotta love a bit of 80s Eddie! (I watched Trading Places not long ago for the first time...looked like Eddie and Dan had so much fun making it!

I thought Judge Reinhold's character was great in the beverly hills movies; I wonder whatever happened to him!?

The Reaper Man@Cult Labs 30th March 2010 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by pedromonkey (Post 70191)
GI joe is an absolute masterpeice. how dare you call it a steaming pile of shit, i was like a 10 year old boy watching this, i was in awe of what was on the screen because i've waited nearly all my life for this to come to the big screen. I am completely insulted....:laugh::laugh:


Yeah and when I was younger I had Action Forced which morphed into GI Joe-what they doing killing Storm Shadow?
As I say-bollocks!

Duke?-Duke nuke him!:lol:

The Reaper Man@Cult Labs 30th March 2010 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by stevoj (Post 70194)
I watched The Beyond on saturday.A couple of guys with great taste is what we are Reaps. :D

Absolutely mate.
Just falls in behind Fulci's City of the Living Dead.Just.;)

nekromantik 30th March 2010 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Sargento (Post 70563)
I quite enjoyed the movie ... not quite The Amityville Horror, but still better than a lot out there in a similar vain.

:cool:

I thought it was much better then Amityville remake.

DeadAlive 30th March 2010 06:25 PM

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Edmond
A brilliant performance from William H Macy makes this an engrossing drama as you see his decent into madness. Sadly the final third loses momentum and does get a little overly talky. An impressive support cast, many playing little more than cameos, actually becomes a little distracting at times rather than adding to the overall effect. (I almost didn't recognise Jeffrey Combs as the hotel clerk.) Minor quibbles aside this is a worthy effort from Stuart Gordon.

Stoner
It's not the first time for me to watch this film, but it is the first time for me to watch the HK version. Previously I'd only seen the dubbed International scan and pan print which actually runs around 10 minutes shorter. This is still a lot of fun and was originally conceived as the film that would team up Bruce Lee and George Lazenby. For me the highlight is still Angel Mao fighting Whang In-sik in the film's finale while Sammo Hung does everything in his power to make Lazenby look like he can actually do some martial arts. A lot of fun in that typically cheesy seventies way.

Stephen@Cult Labs 30th March 2010 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Gigantor (Post 70587)
COMING TO AMERICA
BEVERLY HILLS COP 1 and 2

What,no Beverly Hills Cop 3?

re.form 30th March 2010 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Sargento (Post 70574)
That really is a great little gem of a movie ... ooooh that sonar machine thing! Gave me creeps when I was a kid!

AB released a great print of the film in the UK:cool:

I'm a big fan of Manchester Morgue as well.

I watched Umberto Lenzi's 'Ghosthouse' & Hammers 'Scream of Fear' last night. Both brilliant.

oaxaca 30th March 2010 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by re.form (Post 70640)
I'm a big fan of Manchester Morgue as well.

I watched Umberto Lenzi's 'Ghosthouse' & Hammers 'Scream of Fear' last night. Both brilliant.

Love Scream of Fear! its an excellent little thriller and not a very well known Hammer film. I've recently ordered the Blue Underground 'Nightmare City' disc, never having seen a Lenzi film before. I hear its a really fun zombie-fest. Have you seen that one?

oaxaca 30th March 2010 09:05 PM

Watching Abel Ferarra's film 'King of New York' tonight. Not seen it before but IMDB says its a modern and ultra-violent retelling of Robin Hood :p

vincenzo 30th March 2010 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by reaper72 (Post 70602)
Just falls in behind Fulci's City of the Living Dead.Just.;)

I rewatched both back to back recently and agree. City Of The Living Dead edges The Beyond. :nod:

Gojirosan 30th March 2010 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadAlive (Post 70629)
Edmond
A brilliant performance from William H Macy makes this an engrossing drama as you see his decent into madness. Sadly the final third loses momentum and does get a little overly talky. An impressive support cast, many playing little more than cameos, actually becomes a little distracting at times rather than adding to the overall effect. (I almost didn't recognise Jeffrey Combs as the hotel clerk.) Minor quibbles aside this is a worthy effort from Stuart Gordon.

Wanna see! Love me a bit of Stuart Gordon!


Er...so to speak!

oaxaca 30th March 2010 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Gojirosan (Post 70688)
Wanna see! Love me a bit of Stuart Gordon!


Er...so to speak!

Incredible film. Think 'falling down' (michael douglas) but edgier, more current and no-holds barred! (What do you expect with Stuart Gordon directing! :coolblue:)

pedromonkey 31st March 2010 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by reaper72 (Post 70601)
Yeah and when I was younger I had Action Forced which morphed into GI Joe-what they doing killing Storm Shadow?
As I say-bollocks!

Duke?-Duke nuke him!:lol:

Action Force is how i really remember it, they even changed the feem tune too. Fave character was shipwreck he was cooool.

42ndStreetFreak 31st March 2010 10:26 AM

"Helga: She Wolf of Spilberg"

http://www.beardyfreak.com/rvhelga.php

Ohhh…dear. Welcome to the stinky world of Eurociné once again.
Here they have blatantly ripped off the classic Naziploitation movie “Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS” (although avoiding any Nazi connection) and done it with all style you would expect from Eurociné...which is of course no style at all.

Even in the world of slip shod dub jobs on Euro trash the dub here stands out as one of the worst.
Nothing comes even close to matching the actor’s lip movements and once again it sounds like a bunch of psychotic mice recorded on a crinkled cassette tape.

Before we ship off to the prison we see that Helga has a personal showering assistant who rubs her bubbles for her before she gets down to a spot of clumsy screwing with her main guy, a thug named Hugo, who’s a hairy dude with a bad porn moustache all of which makes him look like Harry Reems crossed with a Mexican bandit.
The eroticism is of course cranked up big time by the music, which sounds like you’re stuck in a 70’s lift.

When we got to the ‘dreadful’ prison we find it’s actually just an old farm with a Doctor who selects prisoners for some ‘welcome to the farm‘ hay rape.
“Ahhh! No, leave me alone! Noooo”! cries the unfortunate victim in clipped English tones as we take no less than 3 different scenes to finally get her damn raincoat off!
When we finally do though it’s worth it as far as pleasant on the eye nudity goes…but not so welcome when it comes to the less than pleasant sonic assault on the eardrums (yet again!!) when the soundtrack to this ravishing is revealed to be nothing but an excited baboon falling into a drum kit.

Thankfully gratuitous nudity does rear its hairy head in various scenes (including an extended, ever essential, medical check-up) strategically placed to keep the audience awake.
Damn fine naked ladies too.
But quite frankly to have such beauty in this film is like putting a delicately sculptured icing sugar rose on top of a turd cake.
As far as being gratuitously beastly to women goes, “Helga” certainly joins the ranks of those Naziploitation films even if it’s not remotely as violent or generally twisted.

To be fair though the film does come actually come alive at one point, as far as delivering some true exploitation goes at least, during a ‘naked blonde girls gets flogged with a belt’ sequence that does get pretty raunchy due to the fact the whipping looks quite hard and is in fact leaving distinctive red lines on the poor suffering actress’s poor pale arse.
I’m sure the BBFC would still have a problem with this scene today.

The underrated Malisa Longa as "Helga" looks as good as ever and her ‘uniform’ of crimson silk top and tight, black silk trousers looks quite striking, if a little absurd.

But, away from these few grubby lumps of exploitation nutrition that are tossed at us, the movie is hampered not only by its technical ineptitude but by endlessly repeated sequences which are nothing but blatant padding and also gives you the hideous impression, , if you happened to have looked away for a minute, that the movie’s started all over again and that you’ll never be free of it!
And being stuck forever in the presence of a ceaselessly looped “Helga” would be a cruel fate indeed.

Nothing much at all happens as far as any real plot progression goes in fact until things suddenly pick up right at the end, where all of a sudden (in a burst of plinky plonky piano backed war movie stock footage and brief, badly done, original action scenes) an entire civil war suddenly comes to an end in a matter of minutes.

And if I thought the end of Eurociné’s “Elsa: Frauline SS” was an anticlimactic mess, then the freeze frame final shot in “Helga” puts it too shame.

So overall “Helga” is stuck with almost non-existent direction, hysterically random and awful library music, erratic editing , truly horrendous dubbing and a leaden pace.
We do have a certain ‘so bad it’s quite amusing’ charm to things and the constant nudity and occasional exploitation moment liven things up…but really sitting though this non-Nazi Naziploitation knock-off is a dreadful chore indeed.

vincenzo 31st March 2010 11:13 AM

Jack The Ripper (1988)

Widely regarded TV movie which tells the Ripper story with such wild inaccuracies (despite the opening statement) that you wonder why they bothered.

Good points: Michael Caine & Lewis Collins work well together. Strong supporting work from Hugh Fraser, and veterans Ray McAnally (underused) & Ronald Hines. Accurate recreations of Hanbury Street and the reverse of Miller's Court (though the street sign was above the entrance, not stuck on the side wall).

Bad points: Most of it. Horrendously overlong. Truly boring and nonsensical sidestories involving Jane Seymour (the usual bland performance), an annoying newspaper team (led by the even more annoying Jonathan Moore), and a dull Armand Assante as a Jekyll/Hyde stage actor (who somehow uses an air bladder effect on stage 100 years before it was invented). A miscast Susan George and Lysette Anthony (who attract no sympathy whatsoever). Riper than ripe performances from the usually reliable Michael Gothard & George Sweeney. Unaccurate recreations of Buck's Row (the murder site is on the wrong side of the street) and Dutfield's Yard (somehow spelt as Duffield's Yard here). The 'accurate research' also messes up the murders of Mary Ann Nichols (whose uterus wasn't removed) and Liz Stride (whose body itself wasn't mutilated). Even the infamous 'Juwes' spelling on the Goulston Street graffitti is never explained by the finale.

Don't bother. Watch Murder By Decree or even From Hell for a better reading of the Ripper story.

antmumford 31st March 2010 12:04 PM

@42ndStreetFreak - LOL!, you did make me giggle. Great review :laugh:

Phats 31st March 2010 12:13 PM

I watched John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness last night. I enjoyed it but I wouldn't say it was my favourite Carpenter movie. If I had to make a list - out of those that I've seen - it would go as follows:

1) Halloween
2) They Live
3) The Thing
4) Escape From New York
5) Big Trouble in Little China
6) The Fog
7) Prince of Darkness
8) Dark Star
9) Village of the Damned
10) Ghosts of Mars

Only including movies he has directed.

Sargento 31st March 2010 12:32 PM

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Originally Posted by oaxaca (Post 70645)
Love Scream of Fear! its an excellent little thriller and not a very well known Hammer film. I've recently ordered the Blue Underground 'Nightmare City' disc, never having seen a Lenzi film before. I hear its a really fun zombie-fest. Have you seen that one?

Nightmare City isn't the goriest or the greatest zombie flick .. but it is more than watchable. My favourite scene has to be the zombie falling from the helicopter and bouncing off of the rollercoaster!! Trippy!

oaxaca 31st March 2010 12:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Phats (Post 70748)
I watched John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness last night. I enjoyed it but I wouldn't say it was my favourite Carpenter movie. If I had to make a list - out of those that I've seen - it would go as follows:

1) Halloween
2) They Live
3) The Thing
4) Escape From New York
5) Big Trouble in Little China
6) The Fog
7) Prince of Darkness
8) Dark Star
9) Village of the Damned
10) Ghosts of Mars

Only including movies he has directed.

Prince of Darkness is one of my favourite horrors of all time! :D

My list would be:

1) The Thing
2) Prince of Darkness
3) The Fog
4) Vampires
5) Escape from New York
6) They Live (Rowdy Roddy Piper!! haha)
7) In the Mouth of Madness (interesting take on lovecraft!)
8) Assault on Precinct 13
9) Halloween
10) Big Trouble in Little China
11) Escape from LA
12) Village of the Damned
13) Ghosts of Mars (I think Sean Connery's Outland was a better sci-fi - not that I've watched much sci fi)

Gojirosan 31st March 2010 02:34 PM

Ooooh! Interesting, not sure this is the right thread, but...Carpenter, Carpenter...

I think I'd have to go with:

1) Assault On Precinct 13
2) Escape From New York
3) The Thing
4) Halloween
5) Dark Star
6) The Fog
7) In The Mouth Of Madness
8) They Live
10) Someone's Watching Me!
11) Cigarette Burns
12) Prince Of Darkness
13) Big Trouble In Little China
14) Christine
15) Elvis
16) Starman
17) Vampires
18) Escape From LA
19) Ghosts Of Mars
20) Body Bags
21) Village Of The Damned


You can tell I'm stuck home ill, can't you! :lol:

Oh, and Memoirs Of An Invisible Man never happened, right? :mad::lol:

oaxaca 31st March 2010 02:38 PM

I forgot about Christine! (doh, call myself a stephen king fan!?). I'm meant to be revising but the procrastination never ends... :rolleyes:

42ndStreetFreak 31st March 2010 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by vincenzo (Post 70731)
Jack The Ripper (1988)


Good points: Michael Caine & Lewis Collins work well together. Strong supporting work from Hugh Fraser, and veterans Ray McAnally (underused) & Ronald Hines. Accurate recreations of Hanbury Street and the reverse of Miller's Court (though the street sign was above the entrance, not stuck on the side wall).

Bad points: Most of it. Horrendously overlong. Truly boring and nonsensical sidestories involving Jane Seymour (the usual bland performance), an annoying newspaper team (led by the even more annoying Jonathan Moore), and a dull Armand Assante as a Jekyll/Hyde stage actor (who somehow uses an air bladder effect on stage 100 years before it was invented). A miscast Susan George and Lysette Anthony (who attract no sympathy whatsoever). Riper than ripe performances from the usually reliable Michael Gothard & George Sweeney. Unaccurate recreations of Buck's Row (the murder site is on the wrong side of the street) and Dutfield's Yard (somehow spelt as Duffield's Yard here). The 'accurate research' also messes up the murders of Mary Ann Nichols (whose uterus wasn't removed) and Liz Stride (whose body itself wasn't mutilated). Even the infamous 'Juwes' spelling on the Goulston Street graffitti is never explained by the finale.

Don't bother. Watch Murder By Decree or even From Hell for a better reading of the Ripper story.


Yep, agree with all that. It is pretty dire and yes those ****ing stupid bladder effects have been seared into my brain for years.
I also thought Caine (for whom I bow in honour) was also OTT here because he spent half the time crying!

Yeah...Tis a stinker.


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antmumford
@42ndStreetFreak - LOL!, you did make me giggle. Great review
One aims to please! Tis indeed another stinker...but thankfully a very nude one.

pedromonkey 31st March 2010 05:55 PM

got me a copy of Bitchslap for my viewing pleasure tonight, gonna review it when im done...

Sargento 31st March 2010 06:50 PM

Ooooh my fave Carpenter:

1. The Thing
2. Halloween
3. BTinLC
4. The Fog
5. Christine
6. Prince of Darkness
7. Escape from New York
8. They Live
9. Dark Star
10. Starman


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