The Nightcomers. 1971.

Groundskeeper at a secluded estate Peter Quint has a strong hold over two children Miles and Flora and governess Miss Jessel.

Somewhat prequel to the story The Turn Of The Shrew, this focuses on Peter Quint who seems quite mild and loving round the children but also has a dark sinister side. Marlon Brando plays Irishman Quint who seems to enjoy a bit of BDSM with Stephanie Beacham who plays the governess. Director Michael Winner does try to add the element of gothic to the story and a form of witchcraft which does seem to blend in well in some parts but was a bit surprised with the downfall of Quint on how that was portrayed, it does have the elements of being a psychological horror rather than point horror.

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BARBARELLA (1968)

Great fun movie. Jane Fonda looks awesome in the various costumes she wears throughout the movie. This was Fonda's 'sex kitten' era and she looks fantastic. A bit of nudity, sex references, comedy, low budget effects and groovy soundrack, the film has become a cult classic.The movie is also pretty fathful to it's comic strip origins.

What's the Blu like Dave? Good transfer?

Still not got the Blu ray. The DVD upscales very nice.

Right, thanks, Dave.

The Nun And The Devil. 1973.

A young girl is sent to a convent to prevent her from seeing her lover, two nuns are eager to become the new abyss while witch finding occurs in the area.

This is a so called nun-exploitation, one allows her lover to come in and have a rendezvous in the grounds, one nun who is told by another she can be the next mother superior by her lesbian companion and all the medievii torture devices even though a nun is totally stripped naked.

This is like wealth and politics rolled into one with who has the wealth to bribe someone for the top post and accuse the others of being possessed and being a witch, this isn't like behind convent walls more towards Flavia, the plot around the film is interesting and entertaining to some but may not be everyone's cuppa.

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I'm pleased you posted about The Nun and the Devil Mr.B.

I was going to buy that limited edition at some point, saw your review and thought i'd Google the film to see pics on Google images and the first pic that showed up was of the Argent dvd which i used to have and got rid of.

The title when it was announced didn't ring any bells but the dvd cover sure did. That was a lucky break for me.

It's the limited pack i got and I ain't complaining, I went on a blind buy with this and to be honest it was certainly enjoyable for being more drama than psychological thriller.

If i remember rightly it wasn't quite the nunsploitation film i was hoping for. :lol:

Yeah it does have that motion to it, there was one or two scenes that seem to go that way then skipped to another scene so dont get your hopes up :lol:

The Bloodstained Shadow. 1978.

The body of a schoolgirl is found murdered and the killer is never caught. Years later a young man Stefano visits the area to see his brother, the local priest who fills him in on the locals, Stefano keeps seeing visions of a young boy and tries to uncover why he is seeing the boy.

Watch Me When I Kill was Antonio Bido's other 70s Giallo, it may not be everyone's favourite but I enjoyed it and this one was a lot better. It has the POV shots of the killer, main actor meets a woman and tries to romance her and eventually does, but there seems to be a odd ball of residents on the island that seem haunted by the past tragedy and fears there is a copycat or the killer has returned. There is a slow build up to the story but does play out well towards the end.

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IRON MAN (2008)

The MCU gets off to a good start in this really enjoyable movie.
It's a great fanboy moment to see the original Iron Man armour when Tony makes his escape from captivity.
The after credits sequence hinted at the forming of The Avengers, and here we are some 23 movies later.

Cyborg. 1989.

In the future, a plague hits the world, woman named Pearl is a cyborg who holds information of a cure and hires a slinger to escort her to Atlanta. A band of pirates lead by Fender wants the information so he can keep the cure for himself.

Another Cannon released movie where the set was designed for the upcoming He-Man 2 movie that was to be made, instead Albert Pyun used it for this film and made it into a classic. Van Damme who starred in Black Eagle and Bloodsport which helped him get lead actor status and able to show some decent fighting skills even though he may have caused injury but the end fight was well choreographed. Vincent Klynn who played Fender may not be the best antagonist, he does try to be tough and creepy at the same time but doesn't really go well. With the new 88 release it's nice to see the picture and sound quality cleaned up and more sharper .

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Imagine if this Film flopped, I'm pretty sure that the next Film in the series is The Incredible Hulk and if I remember correctly, it didn't exactly set the world alight.

Things could be a lot different.

Death Race 2

Straight to DVD prequel to the Jason Statham Film which sees how it all began. Starring Luke Goss, Sean Bean, Danny Trejo and Ving Rhames, this is a decent effort with entertaining Action sequences.

Naked Gun 33 1/3: Final Insult

Frank Drebin is retired but goes back undercover to foil a terrorist plot. Full of humor and very enjoyable. Great slapstick fun especially the scenes in the Fertility Clinic (Funny misunderstandings) and The Oscars Ceremony (Where he pretends to be Phil Donahue)

Death Race: Inferno

Another enjoyable straight to DVD prequel which sees the stars from Death Race 2 transported to South Africa for a Race across the desert. Again a decent effort but I would have liked more scenes with the Governor of the South African Prison (She was terrifying)

Miracle

True story based on The U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey teams improbable success at the 1980 Winter Olympics. Kurt Russell stars as the tough Coach in a good but overlong Film.

From Paris with Love (2010)

Bonkers Luc Besson action fest in which John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers thwart a terrorist cell in Paris.

Directed by Pierre Morel who also made Taken (2008), The Transporter (2002) and District 13 (2004), this is high octane action packed fun all the way with Travolta in glorious over the top form. He even eats Royale's with cheese.

For those who haven't seen it i can assure you that shit blows up and the odd bullet is spent.

I've seen this a couple of times on dvd but seeing the Blu-ray today, well, that was the best 50p i've spent in ages.

Oooh, now I'm annoyed. Had a copy of the UK dvd in the shop forever (finally binned it ahem) and was always appalled by that bald head :lol:

Demerited Demon. :lol:

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GI JOE THE RISE OF COBRA (2009)

Movie based on the action figure and comic books.
Nearly two hours of explosive escapism mayhem.
Sit back and go along for the ride. Great fun!

Love the Paris chapters in this.

WEDLOCK. 1991

Frank is betrayed after a robbery by his colleagues and sent to a unisex maximum prison where the prisoners have a collar around their necks and if they step out of a boundary line the collars explode or separated by more than 100 yards. Each collar is paired with a partner they do not who with. Frank and a female prisoner who are partnered escape and are chased by his old colleagues to find the missing loot.

This is one of those movies that does rip off the prison restraints from The Running Man and yes you do see two heads explodes, director Lewis Teague does take it further with some tense moments. Rutger Hauer takes the lead of Frank who is betrayed by James Remar and Joan Chen who become like guardian angels and keep him alive so they can get the rest of the diamonds. Mimi Rogers stars as Tracey who seems to have some whit about her and manages to help Frank escape. Early 90s science fiction film that is still enjoyable.

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Midnight (1982)

A glorified travelogue from director John Russo. He may have written Romero's Night of the Living Dead but you can tell from this evidence he sure as shit didn't direct it.

I previously saw this ten years ago when Arrow released it on dvd with a booklet, reversible sleeve, poster etc but you know the old saying. You can't polish a turd. And this is a real stinker.

The Suicide Squad (2021, James Gunn)

A lot betterer. Recommended. :nod::pop2::hail:

This review really made me laugh my mate text me last week asking should he pick up the new Midnight blu ray i said ill give you a loan of the dvd first. A few days later he returned the dvd and we never spoke of the film at all :lol:

I liked it but admittedly I ain't right in the head.

Had a Mother nature strikes back/don’t **** with the animals marathon last night....

SHADOW OF THE HAWK
NIGHTWING
PIRANHA (Dante)
DARK AGE

You missed out on 'Grizzly'...


...and 'Frogs'

Drifting Classroom (1987, Nobihuko Obayashi)

Easily the strangest kids film I've seen this week :lol:
From the Hasu helmer no less. So you whats to expects (???).
When an entire school falls into a vortex or summat, it's up to the survivors to make the best of a bad scene maan :nod:.
Recommended.

Is that one on Youtube Demoncrat?

L'inferno (Dante's Inferno). 1911.

Poet Dante is lost in the woods and finds a light at a mountain and is lead through a portal, Virgil rescues Dante and shows him the portals of hell.

I have always been fascinated on the story of Dante and the portals of hell and even though this is just over a hour long the depiction is truly amazing with the cinematography and a background score that was re-mastered by Tangerine Dream that depicts the realms of going to hell and then finding paradise. It's amazing how silent movies from this era are still regarded as a great piece in cinema that still entertains.

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AYE, enjoy!!

Wild Geese II (1985, Peter Hunt)

Scott Glenn? Larry Olivier?? Derek Thompson??? :nod:
Ahem.
Pulp thriller with an insane premise. What it boils down to is an oddly configured wee thing indeed. The plot seems to have tides. Regardless I enjoyed this one, as I had never seen Glenn with long hair :laugh:
Ahem.
... and that nice Chaaaalie from Casualty playing a bog trotter :rolleyes::lol:
A different level of madness to Codename: Wild Geese.

Miracle Mile. A young man (Anthony Edwards) finally meets his dream girl and after spending the day together, arranges to meet her after her work shift at 12:15am, only to fall asleep and end up very, very late. Arriving at the all-night diner where she works, he makes the mistake of picking up a ringing phone only to overhear a garbled message from a frantic soldier - who thinks he's calling his dad - that nuclear war is coming and the missiles will be there within the hour. Edwards tries to find his girl and somehow get out of the city, but as word spreads chaos erupts all over, with no one even sure if the call was real or just a sick joke. This paranoid late 80s thriller remains very effective, having the feel of a nightmare that the main character is trapped within. :nod:

I actually like this one too. It's no Wild Geese though, that's for sure [emoji23]

Not at all, as the wee reprise at the start blatantly shows. Fox is great as the no nonsense sidekick though ... will definitely revisit at some point! :nod:

THE STYLIST – Would be lazy to call it a kind of feminist answer to ‘Maniac’, but since we’re in the territory of scalpings, undeniable mania, and possible ripostes to the patriarchy… Claire is a timid but obviously quite angry hairdresser who envies her clients, seeming to view their hair as a symbol of the status that has eluded her in life. Fortunately, her matchless talents with a pair of thinning scissors enable her to diversify into serial murder. ‘The Stylist’ is more a study of obsession than an out-and-out bloodbath, and its approach winds slowly between gauzily lit scenes of Claire in her killer’s lair, surrounded by deftly excised bouffants, and sequences in which she pursues and stalks a new friend who seems to have it all. Needless to say, the latter relationship doesn’t end well (in fact it ends in an excellent ‘Pan Books Of Horror’ type set-piece which caps the movie with a bit of classy grand guignol). ‘The Stylist’ is big on atmospheric erm stylistics and long on run-time, and it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but I really rate it as a fine ‘slasher-as-character-study’.

MANOS, HANDS OF FATE – This blistering bolt of cinematic wrongness is regarded by some as the ultimate Badfilm. ‘Manos’, a film that defies easy rapport, draws on a whole palette of emotional colour, being by turns tedious, funny, unintentionally surreal, and even eerie. There are some striking images, like the cult leader’s cloak with its embroidered hands of scarlet, and scenes that challenge human sense-making capabilities, such as the endless shot of a burning hand accompanied by incessant shrieking laughter. And how about the bit when the members of Manos’s harem (he’s kind of unreconstructed as cult leaders go, even for the sixties) howl for ages about whether to sacrifice a child or not? So much else besides flutters by like the thoughts of a mind on the brink of sleep, which might not be far off the mark if you have limited tolerance for badly made relics like this. With an open mind, it’s a haunted curiosity shop of incomparable bafflement, so from me it gets a recommend.

As always sir :hail:
Great defence of the M film. I takes a man to go there in my humble opinion :rolleyes::lol::laugh::nod::hail:

Ah, what the hell ....


Condename: Wild Geese (1985, Margheriti)

I was right, this is a different beast alrighty, sticking closer to the formula etc etc ....
Some chaps go off to do something rather dangerous. They all have their reasons. Ernest Borgnine lends a hand in that weaslely way of his, with the Kinski practicing his RP in the background what what.
Recommended highly.

writing reviews is so yesterday, besides i cant read...
 

recent views, all good im my opinion..

Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)

One of my favourite Marvel movies. There's no angst or convoluted plotting here in the second Fantastic Four film in which the superhero family must thwart the fabled guardian of the space ways as the silver foe wreaks havoc on Earth from his legendary flying surf board.

As the four, Ioan Grufford, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis are all excellent and nicely at home in their roles whilst Julian McMahon is delightfully campy as the returning Dr. Doom.

There are some fantastic (cough) set pieces including one at the London Eye in a film that's a colourful and undemanding and perfect popcorn entertainment.

Nightmare City (1980)

An always thoroughly entertaining slice of Italian pulp horror, it has a sense of scale unmatched in Italian zombie horror and rates as one of the best of the mid tier splatter films to come out of Italy in the 70's / 80's.

Nightmare City is another Italian mish mash of a movie and like Fulci's Murder Rock, appears to be a reason for slaughtering wearers of spandex. The film zips along at an almost obscene pace as Hugo Stiglitz and Mel Ferrer try and make sense of things amid all the carnage. I wouldn't worry guys. It's all just a dream.

Come ON Ron, I want to hear in minute detail what you thought about The Evil for a bleedin' start ahem knickers and pears cor blimey guvnor ...:laugh::laugh::nod::rolleyes:

Ahem. :behindsofa: