What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

I hear Black Swan is very Argento-esque.

I wouldn't necessarily call it Argento-esque, but it is a great film. After 3 viewings, it still manages to captivate me - Portman is excellent, too.

[sawyer6]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

I hear Black Swan is very Argento-esque.

Well It's not but check this spot

[Frankie Teardrop]

PSYCHOMANIA - Amazing 70s Brit-trash: a total revalation for me, having watched and dismissed on late night TV ages ago... all I can say is, time has taught me how anomalous and weird this undead biker movie is. I say 'undead biker movie', but 'Psychomania' sidesteps genre and sub-sub-genre to occupy a fantasy zone entirely unto itself. And yet it encapsualtes so perfectly a certain vision, a sense of post-hippie English strangeness, but the plastic version reflected back by the straight culture at large, which somehow folds back into the weirdness it attempts to commodify... the whole thing feels like a NEL paperback sprung to life in a newtown cinema. A very specific atmosphere. But you don't have to be a hauntological archivist fixated on arcane England to enjoy this freaked out oddity - it may not offer much by way of gore and full on gothique, but it trashes the tepid post-Romero likes of 'Living Dead at Manchester Morgue' for sheer whacked out fun in the UK provinces with zombies.

[PaulD]

Oddly enough, Portman was tipped to star in a remake of Suspiria before going on to do Black Swan too

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by sawyer6

Well It's not but check this spot

Ha! That's inappropriately excellent.

[Hawkmonger]

The cinematography does look spectaculare. I keep meaning to pick it up, but may wait till it's on ITV 2 (when it stop's showing Jurrassic Park!).

[sawyer6]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Ha! That's inappropriately excellent.

[Gojirosan]

Originally Posted by sawyer6

Well It's not

Except that it is!

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

Is that the French version? The one where Freddy surenders?
HOWZAT!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I wouldn't necessarily call it Argento-esque, but it is a great film. After 3 viewings, it still manages to captivate me - Portman is excellent, too.

When I saw it at the cinema, I left the screening and the two people I saw it with, who aren't horror film fans, didn't like or understand it. I tried to explain how the main theme of obsession were present in Aronofsky's previous films and how the cinematography had clearly been influenced by filmmakers like Mario Bava and Dario Argento.

Their blank looks with priceless!