Just fin watching untold story
Would have enjoyed it better if the actor was a tadge better, i mean the police what was that all about they made them act like simpltons at times and made keystone cops looks good, the transfer of the dialouge could have been better...accosionaly i barely read 1st word and it went of and sometimes mistakes like y did u kill his family .. why dud u kill his hemily or bastard become bustard very bad and clumsy

you never know
 

:laugh:maybe thats why its called untold story:laugh:

ha ha

I still need to watch it.
got a copy on DVDr somehere :ack:

I heard so much about untold story and the scene with the kids i didnt find that disturbing at all. i found the scene with his female worker more disturbing i didnt say what because nekromantik hasnt seen the film and i dont want to spoil it

Not bad-wanna trade it?

Sure, you want one of mine? Click on me signature link to see what I have :)

I think its great as well, I wouldnt call it 'lesser' compared to the stuff that came later. Great fun.

I recently watched 'Lucker the Necrophiliac' & 'The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada'

This weekend I watched Tony, Eden Lake, Harry Brown and Not quite Hollywood. Check out my Diary page for the reviews

"Not Quite Hollywood" -
Documentary on Aussie exploitation films.
Pretty damn good, would like to see the hour of footage removed though. Some choice clips of those movies I have seen and those I now want to see!



"Gonza: The Spearmen" -
Japanese Samurai movie that's 2 hours long and contains ONE, 20 second of screen time, fight at the very end!

The rest is a barely interesting story of Gonza scheming to learn the method of the scared tea service (I kid you not) by tricking various women until a mess up with one who is married (but has done nothing at all with) sees him and the woman having to flee.

This is meant to be the tragic love story part of the plot. But it appears very late, is set-up purely on bad luck with no similar feelings from Gonza's side at all towards the woman (whose fault it all was, due to her overheard shouting, that they had to flee any way) so any tragedy (and thus emotion and power) is non-existent.

Crap DVD transfer did not help the tedium flow any smoother.

Got all those mate....:(

Watched City Of Rott tonight - the animated zombie film I ordered a while ago. I thought it was pretty good, quite funny and very enjoyable - nice and bloody too! You can tell it's made by a fan of zombie films too, since it's filled to the brim with (not so subtle) homages and references. It's amazing to think that one person wrote, directed, voiced, animated, produced (and EVERYTHING else) this film! This is about as close to true auteurship as you're going to get, IMO, if he keeps making similar films.

Check it out if your a zombie fan - just for the novelty value alone.

I watched this a couple of weeks ago, was good fun. Was continuously gorey from beginning to end. A fantastic effort from just one guy

new films
 

got mesrine part1and 2.

Oh yeS!! Vincent Cassell is one of the best current actors and Mesrine is so cool you wouldn't believe :heh::D

megan fox and susan george
 

watched megan foxs body last night [she can eat me any day] the bonus when the film was over sam peckanpahs straw dogs was on channel 5 :happy::happy::happy:thanx oaxaca that reminds me i think ill watchthem both tonite [i kept puttingit of so many to watch so little time to watch them

I watched straw dogs last night on C5 too. I'm pretty sure half the cast out of The Sweeney were in it :p

"Scream of Fear" -
Ho hum.
Has some one or two shock visuals (the swimming pool scene is class) but lacks any real horror aesthetic or macabre content and as such plays far more like a drama/thriller then most of the other 'Hammer' mystery films. Very TV movie like in fact.

Okay stuff, but the plot is muddy (given the planned outcome of the scheme, why all the 'trying to scare her' bits beforehand, unless I missed something) and the bungled way the finale is shot/edited makes it look like everyone, including the police, was simply watching this guy do what he did and said or did nothing to stop him!

Poor Chris Lee had only a few lucky moments with 'Hammer'.
He either has no dialogue, only a tiny bit of dialogue, or has to speak in funny accents when he actually has a lot of dialogue. Hi ho. Must be why he likes "The Devil Rides Out" so much.




"The Whisperers" -

60's British drama that's as dour and bleak as they come.
The barely touched upon at all reason for the titles is that the old lady of our plot , Mrs Ross (superb turn by Edith Evans), hears whispering voices in her house (we don't).
This sounds like a psychological horror premise but its not as these few and far between 'whispering' moments are indeed all in her head (this is never in doubt) and have no more plot importance than any other aspects of her general state of mind.
As such it's a strange, rather misleading, title for the film.

Really this is a grim, 'kitchen sink', 60's drama about an old lady becoming more and more senile and being ignored by and taken advantage of by those around her. Including a seemingly kind middle aged woman (in a shocking scene of blatant cold blooded thievery), her off the rails son (a typical weasel turn by Ronald Fraser) and her wayward Husband (nice scheming turn by the great Eric Portman) and a cold, brow beaten, young neighbour (a good acid turn by the cinematically underrated Nanette Newman).

Director Bryan Forbes (Newman's husband) does a good job guiding the performances and layering the film with grim hopelessness...but it's hardly a barrel of laughs and the overly long running time and deliberate pacing mean it can be a bit of an uphill climb. But worth a look for yet another underrated stab at British life by Forbes.

I watched intruder last night a film i havent seen for ages...
For the amount of gore and killing in this im surprised it hardly been mentioned on here...the uncut version has def got plenty of blood guts and gore to offfer to keep fans of this gener very happy

The Touchables

Rare swinging 60's stuff with rock star David Anthony finding himself kidnapped and held hostage in a giant plastic dome by a quartet of Britchicks wearing smiles & hot pants (among them Judy Huxtable). Even worse the mad fool tries to escape instead of just lying back and thinking of England. :dance:

Typical psychedelic madness with a cast that includes James Villiers, Peter Gordeno (!), Joan Bakewell (!!! - aka the Thinking Man's Crumpet) and a bunch of gay wrestlers (don't ask). Awesome soundtrack featuring Wynder K Frog and Nirvana (the 60's band), and very typical of its type but still good fun.

Great review and fully agree. One of Forbes's most 'down' movies. Even John Barry appears to have been in a depressed mood with this one. It's a good film but at times resembles more of a Ken Loach than a Bryan Forbes.

A couple of films I picked up in Hong Kong, Purple Butterfly with Zhang Ziyi (Lust Caution is a complete rip off of this)
Also the hilarious We're Going to Eat You from Tsui Hark. It's in cantonese with french subtitles but theres no real need for understandable dialogue

I remember when this was released originally at a time when the MPAA were clamping down big time so when I saw it on the shelf with that wonderful word 'Uncut' on the cover I snapped it up. A great slasher that doesn't take itself serious at all.


I watched Torched The char boiled edition.
Damn this is a violent movie(45 mins). One of those rare occasions where its a gorehounds wet dream...not much filler in here just gore and buckets of blood. Well made and not much hammy acting for a low budget flick.
Features one of the most 'painful to watch' scenes I've ever witnessed.:eek:

how far a joke can go in a cell
 

i saw a film called stoic with edward furlong i thought just an indy based on a real event but i actully vomited a little and found some bits emotionly painfull to watch if youve seen it then you know what i mean if not then look it up i think ewe boll directed.

'What films have you seen recently?'‏
 

It's from one of my fave directors Brian De Palma.
I have the French dvd with documentary,
Brilliant.

Just watched Zombi 3 (US Shriek Show DVD of it)

Hadn't actually seen it before.

Really enjoyed it. It's got a certain amount of creativity to some of the scenes. Looks nice. Good amount of gore too.

Some of it is kind of stupid to the point of being funny like the flying head scene. Which only adds to the entertainment a bit.

The interviews on the disc are great too. Very informative on how it was made. Which is particularly interesting due to the way it had loads of stuff added to it after Fulci declared it finished. You know, like it's cool to hear Mattei and Fragasso explain what happened, how Fulci reacted and what they think of the movie.

watched films.
 

watched dont look in the basement 1973sf brownrigg.quite good.its a bit like the great 1972 amicus film asylum.cant beat those amicus films.

Not Quite Hollywood is great fun. Plenty of tantalising clips that I just know are going to prove expensive!

Going to have to get hold of Patrick and Mad Max for a start, never mind the films I haven't even seen!

"The Town that Dreaded Sundown" (1977)

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

The sadly late Charles B. Pierce will always be best known for two films (both semi-documentary style with delightfully earnest narration by Vern Stierman) the long time drive-in favourite “The Legend of Boggy Creek” and “The Town that Dreaded Sundown”.

The look of ‘The Phantom’ killer with his dirty sackcloth mask (a sadly forgotten, pre-Slasher movie, slasher performance by stuntman Bud Davis), is delightfully sinister and brutally simplistic and to say that “Friday the 13th part 2” owes as much to “Sundown” as it does to Bava’s “Bay of Blood” is an understatement.

And the attack scenes are just as brutally straight to the point as the killer and Pierce never pulls back from the sadistic, drawn out, violence of them.
Despite the ‘good ol’ boy’ energy and comedic styling of the rest of the film the attacks are full on horror movie creations and very cruel.
A guy gets shot in the head twice but still manages to gurgle and writhe around before dying, a woman gets shot twice as well (once in the face no less) but agonisingly tries to drag her blood caked body to safety.
In the film’s most infamous moment of warped sadism a woman is tied to a tree, her face to the trunk, and is repeatedly, slowly, stabbed with a knife that's tied to her dead boyfriend’s trombone!
It’s a truly bizarre and twisted sequence that will stay with you forever.

The comedic aspects sometimes sit a bit uncertainly with such scenes of pain and death but when added to the great location cinematography, sunny small-town hokum, drive-in aesthetics and energetic performances they do manage to blend together most of the time.
And hell, they just make the film more fun in that 70’s drive-in way that you simply don’t get today.

Performances are all good, with versatile 70’s favourite Andrew Prine giving the only fully serious turn in the movie (away from the victims) as even the mighty and stoic Ben Johnson yuks it up on a couple of occasions when he comes off worst at the fully comedic hands of his designated dangerous driver "Sparkplug" Benson (Charles B. Pierce himself).
The comedy and low brow slapstick never (crucially) water down the horrific aspects of the plot though.

So not without its flaws (although how much those flaws annoy are purely down to how you react to the comedy) but generally “The Town that Dreaded Sundown” has remained a firm favourite for over three decades for very good reasons and is essential viewing for any fan of bygone era, low budget, drive-in movie making and the violence still manages to pack a punch even today.

Rip Mr Pierce, may your celestial boggy creek never get drained to make way for Angel-designated condos.

Crimes of the Black Cat, a giallo that rips off Psycho's most famous scene ( in a very graphic way) and is very similar to the early work of Argento (even using the blind detective motif of Cat O'nine Tails) However it is quite absorbing in the way it is done and worth watching in the gore :chainsaw: stakes for the above mentioned scene. I won't talk about the plot as I don't want to spoil it. See it if Giallo is your thing.....

Bad Inclination, a modern Giallo (2003) not as good as the above and made worse by the appalling dubbing. Some very unconvincing gore scenes (stabbing very obvious plastic torsos) And several old giallo actresses turn up to add to the proceedings including the transexual from Tenebrae! Not the best but worth looking at if your a completeist like myself......:pop2:

I watched 'Not quite Hollywood' as well and found it informative about a couple of films I wasn't aware of. Good documentary.

I been wanting to watch Seed and Stoic for a while now and see what the fuss is about but Boll makes utter crap so it puts me off :lol:

What films have you seen recently?
 

The director of THE UNTOLD STORY, Herman Yau, says in the commentary he injected some humour into the film, because he thought it was too depressing!

Many Hong Kong film scrips are written as they're filmed. Sometimes results in inconsistency of style or story. Often makes for entertaining viewing though. THats my excuse for the untold story. I hear there's a sequel too. If you like that then try The Ebola Syndrome. My bag was searched on the way back from China and the customs guy found the lurid and horrible video box of this movie!

Just watching Q: the winged serpent! This is some awesome film! Moriarty scatting to jazz then robbing a jewellery shop called "Neil Diamonds", a window cleaner had his head lopped off, a bloke was skinned alive and a nude woman sunbathing was grabbed by a winged serpent, killed and everyone got a blood shower. Not to mention Carradine & Roundtree are in it!!

And its only been on for 15 mins!! :p

Yeah..."Q" is good old school fun. Larry Cohen was on a roll.



A couple of stinkers....

"The Strange World of Planet X" -

1950's British sci-fi flick with that stars Forrest 'I love England' Tucker as a scientist.

Magnetic experimental shenanigans have let in those naughty cosmic rays and thus some people have been turned mad and the insects have all become giant!

Now that sounds like a right winner does it not!?
Sadly though it takes about an hour for anything to happen aside from scientific babble and workplace romance (with a woman dubbed over with an 'Allo Allo' French accent) until we eventually have some truly dire insect attack scenes that are simply footage real bugs blown up and superimposed next to the actors ("Empire of the Ants" would still be using this crap method decades later).

But actually such mind-blowing FX sequences are a rarity here. Most of the 'action' is a handful of soldiers in a field shooting their guns off to the left or right of the frame before we cut to a completely separate 'National Geographic' scene of a real insect scuttling about.
And that's your lot!

This print was sadly missing the one moment that sounded slightly interesting (a soldier's face pulled off - a mask pulled off a joke store plastic skull supposedly!) so I was left with nothing but truly dire acting, plodding acing, go nowhere screenplay, crap FX and a shoe-horned in Alien saviour sub-plot that gives us the floppy nothing of an ending.
Bah!


"The Indestructible Man" -

Lon Chaney Jr slums his way through a film that had potential as far as the idea went (a ruthless crook comes back from the dead, finds out he is indestructible, and goes out for revenge) but is let down by the cheap-ass production values, crap support cast, invisible directing and a screenplay that stupidly makes Chaney mute so we have to put up with a droning 'Noir' narration by a boring puddle of nothingness Cop who's on the case.

Despite the fast start in getting him revived the film then has Chaney take an awfully long time bumping off two of the three men he's after (the third he never even gets!) and then has him do it in very boring ways.

In-between a mute Chaney stumbling around, while his eyebrows and face wildly overact (in close-up, the same close-up reused no less then three times in three different scenes), we have to put up with 'Noir Cop' romancing the leading lady and endlessly repeated scenes of people in offices having the same 'in can't be true' conversation about Chaney coming back to life.

Only the end entertains, where Chaney is in the sewers and gets repeatedly shot at and roasted by flamethrowers.
This results in a strikingly burnt-up face for Chaney as he stumbles around some more to reach the rather 'did that go wrong or was it intentional' finale for himself, before we go out on the 'Noir Cop' smooching with his new love. Yuk.

So we have 5 minutes of entertainment in a 70 minute film.
Ho hum.

I've just finished watching Blood Diner. A completely intentional rip-off of HGL's Blood Feast, but it's non-stop gore-soaked capering from start to finish makes it a real blast. I lost count of the times I laughed out loud! :lol: - can't recommend it enough. :nod:

Unfortunately it's only available on DVD in Germany; this needs a UK release baaaaadly. One for Arrow to consider, perhaps? ;) :biggrin:

Watched Wiederhorn's RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD PART II again last night.
Not a patch on the first,but still a lot of fun with some cool zoms.:nod:

Glad you enjoyed Blood Diner BE! :)

Including Michael Jackson. :banana:

Not a fan pf Part II though it has its pluses. Namely Suzanne Snyder. :nod:

Yeah it is a bit 'Thrillerish'.

I watched THE DESCENT PART II tonight and as far as sequels go,I was pleasantly surprised.:nod:

Interesting opinion on Descent II, reaper. I haven't seen it yet but am looking foward to it. The reviews haven't been forgiving about it...but its a sequel. Most sequels to a relatively mainstream horror film of this type are usually much maligned but for some reason I always end up really enjoying them. Feast II is a recent example, as is Wrong Turn 2.

I watched Ninja Assassin tonight. I really enjoyed the sillyness.