What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Make Them Die Slowly]

"Bowanga Bowanga", a 1951 trip into the dark heart of Africa which is full of out of place animals courtesy of a lot of stock footage, girls in shammy leather and animal print bikinis and a comedy Italian. Not too bad as these things go, plenty of singing and dancing, cat fights and tastefully posed women against jungle backgrounds.

"Forbidden Daughters" a silent short nudie cutie from the 1920s. A woman travels to Africa to win back her man from a native Princess. Though set in Africa, the majority of the film is taken up with women dancing in a harem. The whole thing is a pleasure from start to finish.

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by thehamish

Snowtown
Can i just say this is the film of the year?
chilling true account of notorious Oz criminal that leaves Chopper in the dust, gasping for air.
funny story, this was the film i wanted to go and see in London but was outvoted for the over stylized ....Kevin poo fest. im not often wrong, but certainly wasnt on this ocassion!!


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I loved it too but would not call it film of the year.

I just seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Very average I thought, the CGI apes were kinda let down but I knew this from the trailer. Could have been a better movie but I still prefer the last one to this.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by nekromantik

I loved it too but would not call it film of the year.

I just seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

Very average I thought, the CGI apes were kinda let down but I knew this from the trailer. Could have been a better movie but I still prefer the last one to this.

ok then, its MY film of the year
only because i never got to see Tree of Life....
otherwise the film i most enjoyed seeing was THC2...

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by thehamish

ok then, its MY film of the year
only because i never got to see Tree of Life....
otherwise the film i most enjoyed seeing was THC2...

fair enough

[Prince_Vajda]

Maniac Cop. An excellent mixture of a police thriller and a horror movie. Great pace, good actors (Tom Atkins! ), clever dialogues, and a nice car chase in the end - add quite a bit of gore, and you'll understand why this is a really enjoyable movie.

3 out of 4

Recommended.

Greetings!

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

Maniac Cop. An excellent mixture of a police thriller and a horror movie. Great pace, good actors (Tom Atkins! ), clever dialogues, and a nice car chase in the end - add quite a bit of gore, and you'll understand why this is a really enjoyable movie.

3 out of 4

Recommended.

Greetings!

That's why I like it so much I think, it's a bit of a slasher, bit of a thriller bit of an action film and with an excellent chase at the end. Really must pick up Arrow's bluray of this soon.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I watched Silent Night Deadly Night 3:Better Watch Out. last night.

Very poor. Ricky the killer from the first film is woken from a coma and pursues a blind girl and her relatives at their Christmas retreat.

Its best described as a slasher film without any slash or any of the ingredients that make a decent slasher flick. The killer appears to be wandering about with a goldfish bowl on his head to boot.

As my first Christmas film of the year its a poor start.

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by PaulD

That's why I like it so much I think, it's a bit of a slasher, bit of a thriller bit of an action film and with an excellent chase at the end. Really must pick up Arrow's bluray of this soon.

It has good picture quality, no signs of an overuse of DNR or the like, and - most important - an excellent uncompressed Stereo soundtrack!

I think I'll post some Blu-ray stills later today.

Greetings!

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by Demdike

I watched Silent Night Deadly Night 3:Better Watch Out. last night.

Very poor. Ricky the killer from the first film is woken from a coma and pursues a blind girl and her relatives at their Christmas retreat.

Its best described as a slasher film without any slash or any of the ingredients that make a decent slasher flick. The killer appears to be wandering about with a goldfish bowl on his head to boot.

As my first Christmas film of the year its a poor start.

I think I'm gonna work my way through all of these over the coming weeks. I remember seeing the awful Pinocchio Toymaker one years ago with Mickey "I'm going to write to the producers and condemn Silent Night, Deadly Night" Rooney*


* I mean, he was in it, I didn't go to see it with him as a date or anything. Honest

[Gold6082]

watched The Lift aka the elevator last night ,not a bad film quite enjoyed it rather silly and slow at times but overall good original fun.

I also had the misfortune to have 90 minutes of life wasted watching the diabolical pile of crap known as colony of the dark,the print made vipco look like Blu-ray!! no colour to it at all,the audio was muffled,the acting and camera work a joke,and the film as a whole pathetic

And finally saw He Knows you're alone,not a bad classic slasher but I found it started off with promise and fell flat fast too slow moving also.