Just Acquaintances

More FF. Another web series from the past in my endless quest to find the biggest idiots-with-cameras :lol:
When me and some others did our "ghost hunting" bit, we tended to err on the side of caution, but cemeteries are creepy at night imho, whether tis osmosis from a lifetime of watching Hammer and the like ... who can tell?
Ahem.
A mutual friend finds he had acquired some footage that may explain the disappearance of two brothers ... what he finds was certainly less flabby than that Marble Hornets, but was a tad underwhelming all the same. Is it possibly fatigue on my part? Probably, but still ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx6F46-_3Ec

Easily the best of the prequels thanks to better pacing and action. Anakin's turn too the dark side does seem quite sudden but thankfully we have the clone wars series which goes into his fall. Some great action scenes including the battle between Anakin and Obi wan . We still have some dreadful dialog, " he killed younglings" you can see Ewan can barely keep his face straight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkmSNt4moNg

A lot of people didn't seem to rate this , a young police man becomes trapped in a hospital which is surrounded by a strange cult, with some other people also trapped. But the the cult is not the worst of their problems when they are attacked by strange outer worldly Lovecraft creatures. Some great practical gore and creature effects, which reminds me of the thing. I really enjoyed it

Now watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAch6dyaCrQ

Wrong Turn. 2021.

Friends hiking in a remote part of America stumble upon a group of people living in the wilderness.

If you are thinking of this being like the original movie with cannibalistic inbred hillbillies the you may as well watch the original, this is way different. There is a decent amount of gore, but the killings have been seen and done more but there is a good amount of suspense and tension built up from the first ten minutes of the film, there is some decent acting involved but sadly not one I would come back to anytime soon. If anyone is going to watch it avoid the spoiler part and maybe you can enjoy it better than I did.

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So is it not cannibal mutant types then?

Not in the slightest Dem

The Foundation eh?

I think i'll leave it until it drops to three quid on dvd in Asda and ignore the blu.

Good idea Dem

I read a brief synopsis and it sounded like more of a rip on Midsommar. Seems like they just used the Wrong Turn name to cash in.

It does go one way then verves off to another direction I wasn't expecting and that's was disappointed, it's like the film makers have tried to add a mixture of films that have been done before and that was the result a messed up film.

Pity as i was looking forward to it. I'm glad you said it wasn't inbred cannibals or i'd have been sorely disappointed had i bought it.

Criminally Insane. 1975.

Ethel is discharged from a psychiatric unit into the care of her grandmother, all what Ethel wants to do is eat, her grandmother fearing for her granddaughter locks up the cupboards which makes Ethel snap and kills anyone who stops her from eating. With the body count going up, police asking questions Ethel is running out of time and stories to make up.

Filmed with what seems to be a low budget and a lot of tomato soup and sauce for blood or red paint, and very amatuerish cinematography, poor editing that seems too show the same scene a few times with some WTF moments you gotta love the 70s movies.

Priscilla Alden plays the overweight Ethel who goes to the extreme just to get food and lashing out at those who stop her eating, and turns mentally unstable with having no food and resorts to different measures towards the end, there is a bit of did she or didn't she just do a bit necrophilia or is she just happy to have a guy lying next to her with a splitting headache. At a hour long this is just daft but mildly entertaining.

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The Shout. 1978.

At a psychiatric unit, during a cricket game the new score keeper is told a story about a man who uses Aboriginal magic to gain into the life of a musician and his wife in Devon.

I came across this one years ago and have never really paid much attention to it and decided to give it a re-watch, this is a bit of a slow burner yet it is played out well with the acting of Alan Bates, John Hurt and Susannah York as the main leads to the story. It is weird, bizarre yet haunting as Alan Bates slowly shows his true colors as what he wants and John Hurt will do anything to protect his wife. There is some pieces that can add confusion to the plot but then it's easily forgotten about five minutes later, this defiantly requires a open mind and no distractions to watch.

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“31”
Dir. Rob Zombie

I really love House of 1000 corpses. And I really want to enjoy another Rob Zombie movie as much as I enjoy House of 1000 corpses. But, oh my god...

I feel like he’s trying to be the horror equivalent of Quentin Tarantino - like constantly turning everything up to 11. The bad language. The extended pseudo intellectual dialogue. The violence. Every single one of the characters just ends up so unlikeable it’s hard to stay focused on any aspect of the film.

Anyone else have an opinion on this one? Am I the odd one out?

Another one for the “I watched it so you don’t have to” file.

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It's a disappointment i agree but one i've enjoyed a hell of a lot more on my two rewatches.

3 From Hell was a terrific return to form after this.

Didn't you like The Devil's Rejects, Lords of Salem or Halloween, Mucky?

Above the Law (1988)

Steven Seagal's acting debut is a fairly basic direct to video action thriller but it's easy to see why it elevated the star to the big screen as it was a massive hit on home video and despite not being the strongest actor Seagal had charisma and a fighting style largely unseen in the movies.

Andrew Davis' film has good Chicago location work, in fact the synth score and waterfront photography gives the many night time sequences a Miami Vice feel to them.

Seagal's supporting cast also gives the film credence with decent turns from Pam Grier, an unknown at the time Sharon Stone and Henry Silva at his sneery best.

There are better Steven Seagal movies out there, but here and now in 2021, some 33 years later, Above the Law is still pretty good violent fun.

I like Above the Law, but the problem I have with it is that it just seems to fizzle out. I remember watching it for the first time amd was surprised when it just sort of ended.

I think I probably like the trailer for this one more than the film [emoji23]

The Blood On Satan's Claw. 1971

17th Century England after a partial skull is found in a field a small village comes under a spell and children slowly convert to a coven of devil worshipers.

Is it just me or is this what Friday night's are all about, relax, chilling and watching a good classic British horror flick, don't know why but every time I watch this one I just feel submerged to my seat and really can't take my eyes off the screen with the atmospheric tone of the film. The acting in this is brilliantly done and how the evil that has been unearthed and a curse has been released and effected people along with a eerie background score.

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SILENT SCREAM – A bunch of college kids get stabbed in an old mansion by the sea. It’s a picturesque mood piece that goes more for a sense of windswept mystery than bloodbath excess – I was reminded of ‘Black Christmas’ in a way, that kind of pre-slasher feel together with a certain off-handedness of tone, the setting and the back-story both lending a semi-gothic accent. It’s maybe a little too drawn-out to be utterly engrossing, although there are plenty of long shadows and cobwebby corners for those who, like me, enjoy a certain kind of atmosphere. The whole thing shifts up a gear when Barbara Steele enters the stage. She’s just such a magnetic persona that her presence can’t help but transform the very nature of the film.

THE DORM THAT DRIPPED BLOOD – Yet more early eighties American college students, this time doing something in an old campus building, I forget what exactly. Everything’s closing down, there’s a vague ‘Assault On Precinct 13’ feeling in the air; that’s as far as the comparison goes, this is strictly by-the-numbers-slasher territory when all’s said and done. What marks it out is a kind of grotty feel. Its landscape is made up of deserted buildings of a concrete brutalist hue, and the 16mm production brings a gritty, slightly soiled texture to everything, amping up a rote exercise into something that seems a bit more atmospheric. There is a little bit of gore alongside your basic corridor-wandering.

WE SUMMON THE DARKNESS – Despite an interesting setting (late eighties US, at the height of the ‘heavy metal is satanic’ debacle), ‘We Summon The Darkness’ doesn’t quite pull it off. There’s a bit of gore here and there, a few nice curveballs and a satirical (but not very well elaborated) context that seems to want to deal with the horrors of the religious right, but the main flaws are around narrative clunkiness and an abiding sense of ‘it just wouldn’t happen that way’. I’m obviously no stranger to films where ‘pretty much all of this shit just absolutely would not happen in any way whatsoever’, but WSTD is well-made and aspires to present a cursory realism for its audience to sink into whilst the horrors unfold, so something a bit tighter and less ‘convenient’ was required. For those willing and able to overlook such drawbacks, WSTD may still hold a bit of entertainment value, so I say it’s worth checking out.

SCREAM FOR HELP – Speaking of unlikely stories… what the f*ck was Michael Winner on when he made this?! I might have to rewatch it sober just to be certain, but from what I recall, ‘Scream For Help’s’ utter bizarreness seems beyond doubt. And it all sounds so basic… a girl in a small town is convinced her step-father is scheming to off her mother, so she goes detective to find out what’s going on. The conventional plot is a Trojan Horse whose strange interior is as hard to define as it is to fathom, but in the end the weirdness is about tone – ‘Scream For Help’ is shrill, disjointed, and has the same cloying unreality as a couch made of marshmallow in a lounge overstuffed with foul trinkets and strange statues… come to think of it, that might even have been a scene in the film. There is a sudden and decisive shift in atmosphere as we head into the film’s latter phase, and the fact that the last half hour is nothing other than a straight, tense and well-oiled home invasion sequence reveals the first hour as a deliberately contrived exercise in bad-taste baroque… but why? A hugely enigmatic movie, please someone else out there watch it and give an opinion to prove I’m not going mad.

I agree. In a way there's no big finale. One of those films where the best set pieces - the church bomb and Seagal on top of the car - ended up in the middle of the movie.

Is this out on disc, Frankie? Sounds up my street being a British horror...and Winner makes at a winner.

Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)

Blu-ray gave this previously unloved by me movie a new lease of life last night.

As much as the picture quality of blu-ray is a step up from dvd it's the surround sound that is the true difference and makes HD viewing such an immersive experience.

The opening twenty minutes as Alice (Milla Jovovich) and her clones attack the Tokyo based Umbrella HQ was stunning. Bullets richochet from speaker to speaker, knives whoosh around the room and explosions shake the walls, but it's the quieter sounds that are the real joy such as smashed glass windows tinkling to the ground around my head and the sound of a shower as though i'd just walked into it myself. These Resident Evil discs are a fabulous showcase for a quality 5:1 surround sound system.

Perhaps watching Afterlife so soon after the previous three films helped enhance my enjoyment of it. I've always felt it was a make weight entry to the series and one that doesn't really carry the overall plot much further along the line, but last night it made more sense, had some excellent set pieces (The Axeman and his thundering axe) and i had a good time with it.

As a final thought. Why is Wentworth Miller always imprisoned? Talk about type cast.

My blu-ray comes via Shout Factory, which probably means it's region A (it's at the bottom of a huge bagful of stuff now, otherwise I'd check).
It's set in America, so doesn't have much of a Brit ambience, and I don't really know what makes a typical 'Winner flick' although it has something of the atmosphere of his more over the top stuff. Speaking of over the top, my review probably got a bit overheated in stressing the weirdness angle, but there's no denying there's something gloriously garbled (and just plain bad) about it.

Lovely Molly. 2011.

Molly and her new husband move into her childhood home, with her husband away and Molly being a ex drug addict, memories from her childhood come back and believes she is being haunted by a demon.

This is the second time watching this and still find it confusing, don't get me wrong the acting from Gretchen Lodge as Molly is brilliant and is able to play a ex addict decently, but the plot of the story is confusing, is she really being haunted or is she relapsing or is the stuff her and her sister smoking causing them to hallucinate and bring back repressed memories for them both?

The tone of the film is dark which helps generate the atmosphere of the story within a secluded house and does a have similarity of the film The Entity to it, like where Molly goes she seems to be followed and create a lot of suspense and tension to the film, maybe a third watch will help at some point.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6wlp5-M0_E

Herbert West is back too his old tricks after a brief stint in South America , as well as creating strange creatures , he has a wife beating copper not on his trail is making a girl friend for Dan from various body parts as well as the nobody Doctor Carl Hill whos not as dead as Herbert thought. A enjoyable and gory sequel but just how did Herbert survive he was strangled by zombie intestines in the first


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPEYpryMp2s

The more I seen it the more I've enjoyed it, first viewing wasn't impressed but enjoyed it more each viewing , thanks to the great cast of character's top among them Donald Glover as Lando who shines in the role , he's one superfly space mother trucker with a fine line of space capes andwho's also a robosexual. I think they should of went with the story of Han from the trilogy of books I've read, but over all it was still enjoyable story .

Now watching .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vssvkhvq6O0

Elements of it are interesting, but as you say it's just overload for overloads sake imho.

SFH is an odd beast alright. I sat agog, reminded partly of Betrayal and partly of Deathtrap in places, Possession in others .... REWATCH.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unk5sYX_Or0

This is a enjoyable Irish horror/comedy . A small Irish village is home to a vampire legend which was partially responsible from Stokers ,Dracula Just don't mention his name too the locals. A vampire is released after roadworks and an accident damages a burial mound. A very different take on the vampire legend and more enjoyable for it. It's up to a farther and son and there friends to save there village from a great evil. Likable characters and quite funny in places.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frdj1zb9sMY

By far the best of the new movies, I put it up their with Empire. This is a star wars movie in ever sense of the word, felt closer to all the characters in this than any of the new lot in the new trilogy . K-2SO be my favourite, it's great how it fits perfectly into a new hope, nearly seamless branching the two together . Easily the darkest star wars movie (not picture wise that's Solo which was so dark at times you couldn't see anything) and boasting one of the best battles.


Original trilogy up later this week, I will be watching the none bastardised versions .

Must admit, I'd rather enjoyed this one.

From what I hear, the film isn't bad, they would have been better off giving it a different title instead of Wrong turn

National Lampoon's Dirty Movie

Comedy film in which a Christopher Meloni is a Director wanting to make a film which acts out the most dirty/offensive jokes imaginable. Similar to Movie 43 and The Aristocrats, this certainly has it's moments and some of the jokes are actually funny, therefore if you are into this kind of thing, give it a shot.

Jurassic Park

Sam Neil, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum are taken to Jurassic Park in order to give it a seal of approval for investors but the Dinosaurs start going on a rampage. Classic film, still a good watch. I still remember the warning it was scary for anyone under 8, must admit it I didn't think it was all that scary and I thought that the kids were made of sterner stuff back then lol.

Buddy Games

A group of friends reunite and restart a competition between themselves. The only thing that's good about this film is the idea.

On the other hand, this is one of the worst movies, I've ever seen, none of the characters are even remotely likeable, it's not as if they realize that they haven't therefore need to grow up either. I really believe that this film either didn't have any test audiences or it was done in front of a Fraternity.

Jurassic World

Jurassic World has opened and a newly designed Dinosaur has run amok therefore it's up to Chris Pratt and Dallas Bryce Howard to save the day. I really like this film, so entertaining.

Porky's Revenge

The Angel Beach gang are back and they have to save their Basketball Coach from Porky who has started to run a Gambling Riverboat. Not bad, has it's moments but not as good as the other 2.

Grown Ups

Adam Sandler and his friends take their families to a Summer Cabin when their old Basketball Coach dies. Another enjoyable film which while has a couple of gross out moments, they don't dominate the film.

Social Network

Story based on the formation and fallout of Facebook. Really enjoyable and a easy watch thanks to making any potential computer and legal terms easy to understand.

Sword Of The Valiant (1984, Stephen Weeks)

Miles O'Keefe as Sir Gawain? Must be Cannon time again then .... :nod:
Brits litter this semi mystical landscape as a man with a right bleedin' heraldic barnet :lol: sets off on the obligatory quest and that.
Steptoe! Bond!! Van bleedin' Helsing!!! among many others ....
Ahem. Decent enough production values, it's just a tad flat imho. The lead exudes his usual teakness. All it needed in places were some French kniggets to tip it right over into parody ;)
Another one off the list for all that.

Wake of Death (2004)

A decent Van Damme effort made just before he crossed over to the dark side of direct to dvd actioners, which sees him up against Chinese Triads who killed his wife and kidnapped his son whilst at an LA restaurant.

Although it takes a while for the action to take off this is actually a decent effort and Van Damme gets to actually act as well as fight whilst Hong Kong legend Simon Yam makes for a quality adversary.

In comparison to the likes of Bloodsport (1988) and Universal Soldier (1992), well it doesn't, but the action scenes are frenetic and brutal, including a rather fun car chase, and on the whole this was a classier affair than you might expect.

The Kaleidoscope blu-ray looked impressive to me.

The Survivor. 1981.

A 747 crashes not long after take off killing 300 on board, pilot Keller escapes and is unharmed, wracked with survivor's guilt he teams up with a psychic Hobbs and a priest to uncover the mystery.

Based on James Herbert book of the same title, it was a great read, very dark and intense ghost story/mystery,I watched the film on BBC 2 about 10 years ago, wasn't really mesmerized by the film and came across it today on YouTube and gave it another chance. No disrespect to Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, their acting has always been great to watch or to David Hemmings for directing this, but this was a bit slow to watch, yes there was moments where suspense was built up then fizzled out, the climatic finale was tense in the book but in the film it really didn't play off very well and pretty much disappointed, very glad I didn't buy in the sales last year for Angela.

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The Being. 1983.

A mutated creature created by toxic waste goes on a killing rampage, a police chief and a scientist try to stop it.

For someone who had no experience in writing or directing a film, Jackie Kong really did try, you have to start at the bottom and work your way up got to give her credit for that. There is the usual suspense built up with keeping the creature partially hidden and seeing small snippets right up to the finale then it's revealed with a something of a wiggly eye. Whoever did create it obviously had no high hopes for the film. Aside from the poor lighting used, the bad acting and a good appearance by Martin Landau, this was a bit entertaining.

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Turkish horror film 'Baskin', via the Severin blu. Really, really liked this. I love ambiguous supernatural stories, they work so well for me. Will definitely be rewatching this, as well as the short film it's based on, which is an extra on the disc.
4/5

Watched Christopher Nolans Tenet last night. What the hell was that about? I've enjoyed all of Nolans movies with the exception of Dunkirk which I've yet to see. I wasn't overly keen on the end sequence of Interstellar either but the film as a whole managed to succeed I thought.
Tenet however, well hands down the most confusing plot I've ever come across. I can't say it isn't an entertaining film but so much time is spent trying to work out what the hell is going on it becomes almost impossible to keep interest. It also felt like for all I know it was chock full of plot holes but it would be impossible to identify them for all the overcomlex toss going on.

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Got this on my shudder list , might watch it tonight!

I wasn't a fan at all, but a couple of scenes were very exciting, the opening in the Opera House was one, and the backwards car chase was another. Over all though, it was annoying and confusing.

My main gripe with that Tenet is that Tesco have still got it for sale since release (dvd/BD/4K) since obviously nothing else has come out of note :laugh:

And it's shit :pound::behindsofa:

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THE TELL TALE HEART (1960)

Good (very loose) adaptation of the Poe story which I think is somewhat forgotten, what with all the Corman movies. Nicely shot in black and white.
Edgar spies Betty in her bedroom window. Shy Edgar manages to pluck up enough courage to ask her out where she works at a flower stall. At first clumsy Edgar, not good with the ladies mucks things up somewhat by being too forward.
Betty gives him another chance and soon they are out dancing. Edgar introduces Betty to his best friend Carl, and soon Carl and Betty are having a secret affair. Edgar spots them both from his window. While visiting Edgar, Carl is murdered by Edgar and hides him under the floorboards. Soon Edgar hears a beating heart through the house..