So Sweet So Dead.

A chap in the classic giallo outfit of black mack, hat and gloves is on the rampage stabbing slutty housewives to death who have been unfaithful to their husbands and leaving photographic evidense of their cheating next to the corpses. And farley Granger is the Inspector who is trying to stop the killers murder spree.

From director Roberto bianchi this is a pretty decent giallo effort. okay, not up there with the stylish Argento and Fulci's, but still a very entertaining film that moves along nicely with hot babes and great kills, including a suspenseful sequence on the beach.
Foxy Nieves Navarro aka susan Scott also has a small part too before falling victim to the killers knife. and that weird blond chap with the long hair from death Walks in High Heels, who plays a creepy morgue attendant who has a weird fetish for dead bodies. :lol:

definately well worth a watch for giallo fans 74 out of 100.

The Mole People (1956)

John Agar leads a Tibetan expedition to an underground cave system where they come across human size moles. Untypically it's not the moles which are the threat, it's their pale skinned human captors who live in a typical Hollywood lost city and use the mole people as mining slaves.

Not the best example of it's kind, at times it's like watching a stock footage climbing expedition and it's as cliche as they come as Agar and co race against time to free the mole slaves but it's made watchable by the mole people and their well conceived burrowing method.

The Great Outdoors (1988)

From the John Hughes stable of films, The Great Outdoors is fun but a little silly in places mainly due to an OTT performance from Dan Aykroyd.

However the always likable John Candy is on hand to add warmth and a more subtle humour to proceedings. Although a few set pieces are good this lacks the laugh out loud moments of an Uncle Buck or Home Alone.

Special guest star Bart the Bear and some playful Raccoons naturally steal the show.

It's a while since i've watched this and for a PG i was surprised how much swearing and sexual references were in it.

The Eagle Has Landed 1976.

In Germany 1943, the Nazi's have a plan to send a troop to England and Kidnap prime minister Winston Churchill.

Decent WWII film filmed from the Germans view from the arrival of the Jews and a soldier showing sympathy them to the plot of kidnapping and tasking the man to send in to infiltrate the area of disguise.

Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Donald Sutherland play their parts well as the soldiers, and Donald Pleasance plays Himmler very creepy and is very realistic to the real Heinrich Himmler who was a total B@#&erd. Decent film to watch but can be a bit slow at times. 7 out of 10.

Really disappointed with Halloween 2018, especially considering all of the positivity that the film generated. The film struggles to provide any real tension and it all feels quite forgettable imo. I honestly thought that H20 was better and I don't even own that. After viewing this, I immediately felt like rewatching the vastly superior original Halloween II.

btw It's certainly not a popular opinion but I honestly thought that the two Rob Zombie entries were superior (although the kid Myers segment of part one is fairly excruciating). I couldn't award Halloween 2018 any more than a six out of ten, the John Carpenter score is the best thing about it.

Nice one. I thought I was alone in being disappointed with the movie.
It did nothing for me at all and to be honest I was bored.
I saw it at the cinema and won't be seeing it again. And yes, I agree the music was the best thing about it.
I'm sticking with the original Halloween and Halloween II. They are the only films in the franchise that mean anything to me.

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GRIZZLY (1976)

Great entertainment. Another movie I had not seen in quite a while.
When I saw the film years ago it must have been the version cut for an 'A' cert here in the UK because I certainly don't remember the film being so violent.
The Grizzly attacks are good and what is even better is that it is a real bear on show here and not the man in a suit variety.
Good fun for nature gone wild fans.

Lords Of Chaos

Bad News with knives. Varg is fat. Euronymous is thin. Literally jaw dropping. Treat it like a comedy. Be warned. Death scenes unrelenting.
Watched Green Room same night as mate hadn't seen that .. a slightly more user friendly tale of music and murder.

Lords of Chaos was a weird one, it seems like they made Varg into a buffoon character because he wouldn’t be involved. I enjoyed but can imagine loads won’t. First 20 mins was like a frat party with corpse paint. Great soundtrack though, fake Burzum song not included!

They're the best two for sure (by a long way!) but I also happily own Season of the Witch, and Zombieween 1 and 2 (theatrical cut for 1, director's cut for 2). The other Halloween franchise films are all quite forgettable imo.

Strange Shadows in An Empty Room.

Stuart Whitman stars as a Dirty Harry style cop that goes to montreal to find out who has murdered his sister.

Another very entertaining film in deed from director Alberto de martino. Featuring a great cast, with John Saxon and martin Landau, and my favourite Zombie Flesh Eaters actress tisa Farrow as a blind girl.
definately worth a watch, with a good giallo style mystery and murders and great action and superb car chases. And Stuart Whitman even gets to beat up a bunch of kung fu kicking transvestites. :lol:
Top stuff. maybe not a masterpiece, but a solid recommend. 73 out of 100.

Amory Cohen a shoo in for the Bill Hicks biopic certainly. I had to spend most of the film explaining why I was laughing so hard. Lawdy!!

I’m surprised by the lack of enthusiasm for Halloween ‘18. I watched it last night and enjoyed it. A little tonally uneven with some of the scenes with the teenagers, but I found it to be pretty tense once it got going and I found central performances to be really good.

I want it but see no point buying it now when i won't be watching it until the end of October.

Does the dvd have a slip case? That would persuade me cos they'll probably all be gone by October.

It does yet, looks nice. When I watched it yesterday I actually thought about you and how you’d never dream of watching it in the spring haha.

Ha! I'll pick a copy up this week then if the slipcase is nice. Cheers.

I saw it at the cinema so maybe that made it more effective, but i really enjoyed the new Halloween film.

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The Monster of London City (1964)

A well produced West German psycho thriller or Krimi. The Monster of London City brings the Jack the Ripper murders into the modern day as prostitutes are stalked and murdered across London's foggy streets.

A nicely constructed 'whodunnit' which focuses on a Ripper play being performed by an Edgar Allan Poe theatre group and the signs point to it's producer being the killer.

The German Krimi's were definitely forerunners to Italian Giallo films and this is no exception. You only need to look at the film poster to see typical Giallo motifs. The kills are brutal (for the time) and there's even mild nudity and the style of the film harks back to London by gaslight evoking a sense of the Gothic.

Sons of the Desert
Laurel and Hardy plan to go to a convention, however are unable to persuade their wives, so they lie to their wives and go anyway. Leading to them being in a sticky situation.
Another enjoyable comedy from the duo. The moment where laurel eats the wax fruit without realising alone is a chuckle.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer. On Graduation Night, four schoolfriends accidentally hit a man in the middle of the road with their car. Fearful that they will be blamed they dispose of the body and try to get on with their lives... but a year later someone has other ideas. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jnr and Ryan Phillippe star in this late 90s post-Scream teen slasher flick that I haven't seen for ages. I've never been a massive fan of this one, and I think it's because it's very tonally inconsistent, starting out as an essentially serious drama/thriller that wants to play with adult themes of guilt and responsibility, only to then turn into a silly slasher flick in the second half (this is what happens when you lift the premise from a serious book and then try to rip off Scream!), with a very dumb ending to boot. It's okay, the actors are good, and it does look superb on Blu ray (glad I got it) but gimme Urban Legend any day to be honest.

Urban Legend doesn't have Type O' Negative's Summer Breeze on the soundtrack as the camera does a great coastal tracking shot though. :lol:

Last week's viewings:

Star Time (1992)

A confused misfit becomes suicidal when his favorite TV show is cancelled. An agent promises to make him a TV star if he kills certain people, so he becomes 'The Baby Mask Killer'.

There is a Videodrome-vibe which permeates this one and it is chock full of industrial-grue and manic decay, so naturally I bought into it in a big way. A real surprise.

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76/100


The Untamed (La región salvaje) (2016)

A dramatic and raw tale of relationships and family interspersed with Lovecraftian sexual terror. Recommended.

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74/100


Snapshot (1979)

A coming of age tale with a twist as a young hairdresser enters into the modeling world while fearing retaliation from her puritanical mother and stalker ex-boyfriend - who drives a pink ice-cream van.

In an attempt to riff off of Halloween, this one was titled The Day After Halloween in certain territories but has absolutely zero to do with the season or a masked killer. Instead this is a fascinating character piece chock-full of oddball characters with a De Palma vibe running throughout. Another pleasant surprise and yet another recommendation.

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67/100


Bewitched (1981)

Crazy Shaw Bros. black magic tale as a Thai woman hexes her 'holiday' lover to the extent that he ends up killing his own daughter and sprouts some choice fur from his stomach. It is then down to a monk to try and break the curse.

Not quite as ostentatious as The Boxer's Omen but there's plenty of cup-fulls of crazy to be had here.

The ending is pretty hilarious as the film tries to summarise the craziness that came before it via the morality coda of: 'Don't have casual sex' and 'Don't use Voodoo for revenge'. Spoilsports.

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67/100


Tag (2015)

A lesser Sono film, but still a Sono film so plenty of enjoyment to be had here. A lean running time aside, this was beginning to over-stay its welcome a little by the end despite an anticipation to know what the **** was happening... a little anti-climactic to say the least and not quite what I expected, but a fun ride and one for the re-watch pile of the near future.

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70/100


Black Widow (1987)

Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can’t prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.

Whilst a little far-fetched, this is a pretty decent thriller overall with some great location shots and whilst the two leads are pretty good in their roles some of the ensemble cast are a little wooden.

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65/100

Sold!

Literally. Saw your post. Bought new from MM for a fiver. :D

I hope you enjoy - it may be a bit arty-farty for your tastes though! ;)

CEX give three quid cash so it's no great loss.

I'm expecting great things after seeing We Are the Flesh recently. On a roll with Arrow porn i hope. ;)

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ZOMBIELAND (2009)

With the sequel out in October, I thought I would watch this one again.
Great fun from start to finish. All the cast are great and the appearance of Bill Murray tops it off. Apart from the comedy elements, the zombies look great and there are some good scenes of deserted highways etc.
Excellent. :nod:

Rewatched it myself last week, still love it and can’t wait for the sequel now it’s confirmed all the cast are back :nod:

Yeah, so much looking forward to the sequel..
Zombieland was 10 years ago. WOW!

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I'm probably on my own here but i thought Zombieland was overrated and actually got worse the longer it went on.

By the time they reached the amusement park i was willing it to end.

I'll get my coat...and make sure the doors locked on the way out. :axekiller:

Bill Murray's cameo was the only good thing in it. :nod::tongue1:

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I’d gladly watch Emma Stone in anything, I’d even start watching that BBC show we have an entire thread dedicated to if she was announced as the next star :lol:

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Overlord (2018)

:laugh: Loving this. Back soon schweinhunds!! :lol:

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974)

I'm sorry but i just can't generate much love for this Hammer / Shaw Brothers co-production. The plot, if there even is one, is just an excuse for a series of fights between Van Helsing's traveling party and the 7 golden vampires from the film's title. Yup! That's pretty much it a series of near identical martial art combat sequences broken up by Peter Cushing, Julie Ege and Robin Stewart's exposition.

As a Hammer film it's a poor excuse and was made solely for the ailing company to break into the Asian market but it's also lacking as a classic Run Run Shaw film too.

It is often classed as the ninth Dracula film but sadly Christopher Lee is absent altogether so we have to make do with a dubbed look alike in John Forbes-Robertson.

I can see that fans of Hong Kong cinema will enjoy this more than me who found it completely uninvolving and lacking in everything that Hammer are famous for. One look at the UK quad poster should tell you all you need to know as both Cushing and Julie Ege are conspicuous by their absence.

Murder obsession.

Michael(Stefano Patrrizi) a mentally disturbed actor with a childhood trauma, goes to visit his mother(anita strindberg) at her creepy mansion in the country. together with his sexy girl friend Deborah and acting friends including Laura Gemser from the Black Emanuelle films.
And strange things start to happen including weird dreams and a black gloved maniac on the rampage.

I have to say that i quite enjoyed this giallo from director Riccardo freda. sure, it's a bit all over the place and some of the gore special effects are laugable, including the most unconvincing axe to the head that i've ever seen. and also the hilarious rubber spider and bats in a satanic black mass dream sequence. :lol:
But it is a lot of fun and actually quite stylish. and has some very attractive euro babes in their birthday suits as well. ;) What more can you ask for?

So i will award this gothic style giallo a respectable 72 out of 100.

Oi!! :laugh:


Overlord was great. Utter nonsense from beginning til end. Ouchy bits and all.
Next!!

The Defender

6/10

Decent Jet Li film. Typical Jet Li style action with an annoying child. Jet Li still couldnae lace the boots of Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao etc, he'd need wires to climb a flight of stairs.


Ghost

7/10

Quality Swayze that only the most cold hearted of cu*ts wouldn't shed a wee tear at the end.



Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon

5/10

Really no a fan of this one. Karl Maka is annoying as fu*k in it. Decent fight with Sammo and Lau Kar Wing though.



House of Whipcord

7/10

Sheila Keith plays a right gid bad bast*rd as usual. There's also a complete dick that cuts about like an evil 70s Keith Richards called Mark E. DeSade. Very subtle. Also a blonde lassie that has some of the worst acting ever.

I laughed all the way through Ghost. Sorry!


Commando (Mark L Lester, 1985)

They do not make them like this anymore. A better Queen tribute than that film wot they just dun did imho, this rollicking tale of revenge and violence is still quite jaw dropping.

The Devil Rides Out (1968)

The best Occult film bar none. Based on Dennis Wheatley's best selling novel, The Devil Rides Out is one of the best British horror films of all time.

On inspection The Devil Rides Out is possibly more akin to a period James Bond film than it is to a typical Hammer Gothic horror melodrama. Terence Fisher directs with consummate ease as the story positively zips along under the spell of James Bernard's terrific looming score with various action sequences along the way. Christopher Lee makes Wheatley's Duc de Richleau character his own with a performance of power and heroism. In fact the whole cast, from Charles Gray's devilish Mocata to Sarah Lawson's seemingly put upon wife who wins through in the end, are uniformly excellent.

The film sports set pieces to kill for and images that have gone down through the generations as classics of horror, from the magnificent Angel of Death to the pièce de résistance, which comes half way through the film as we witness at a terrifying Occult ceremony the Goat of Mendes, (Baphomet), the Devil himself, take form and watch over proceedings. It's a stunning piece of film making and the best version of the Devil put on film to date.

The Transporter: Refuelled

I was dreading this film as no Jason Statham, but the person who took over wasn't that bad. His voice and line delivery was monotone but action sequences he was involved in wern't that bad.

Best actor in the film was Ray Stevenson playing Frank's dad and he got "kidnapped" so Frank had a reason to be there lol. It wasn't that bad.

One of my favourite Hammer films, absolute classic and far more enjoyable than the source material :nod: