Indeed. Started with THHPII, working my way back etc .... May I Please Enter ? tonight etc :nod:

A Black Veil for Lisa (1968)

An enjoyable hybrid of giallo and poliziottesco movies in which a Hamburg detective played by John Mills (Another watched with English dub) is on the trail of a killer who always leaves the murder weapon (A knife) with the body. However he seems as concerned that his wife (Luciana Paluzzi) is cheating on him.

I'm going to say no more story wise as it would spoil it for any potential viewers in what was a cleverly constructed thriller with many surprise story elements. Director Massimo Dallamano keeps the wheels turning throughout and i found A Black Veil for Lisa a thoroughly engaging movie with some good location work in and around Hamburg.

The 88 Films Blu-ray looked okay but nothing special.

The Prey. 2018.

Chinese police officer Xin undercover in a mob ring gets arrested and thrown in jail. The warden and his friends decide to release some prisoners into the jungle and hunt them for sport.

A corrupt prison warden, sadistic people with guns and prisoners used for sport, i'm pretty sure there was a film made like that before...that's right Turkey Shoot. I know the Japanese can go over board with their death scenes but this was mild compared to other films they have brought us. Gu Shangwei plays Xin in his first role is not bad for a lead actor, there is some decent fights but not OTT, go into this with a open mind.

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Sorcerer (1977)

William Friedkin's take on Georges Arnaud's 1950 French novel The Wages of Fear.

Four wanted men (Including Friedkin fave Roy Scheider) from various locations all end up together in a South American village, where they are assigned to transport cargoes of poorly kept dynamite that is so unstable that it is sweating nitroglycerin meaning any sudden jolt could blow them and their trucks to smithereens.

(I don't think i've ever typed smithereens before.)

The first hour is pretty unremarkable with minimal story following the first fifteen minutes but it really kicks into gear come the fifty minute mark. The journey is terrifically tense as the four men and two trucks negotiate treacherous cliff top roads, bridges you wouldn't want to walk across never mind take trucks across, thick jungles and barren desert plains. It's an hour of genuine palm sweating tension and is compulsive viewing.

I did think the final scene kind of left me deflated though which was a pity.

The Blu-ray from E One Entertainment looks superb with real depth to the imagery.

Chosen Survivors. 1974.

A group of people are taken to a bunker just outside Mexico, a mile below the surface. There they find out they have been chosen by computer to continue the human race as a nuclear war breaks out.

I have never seen this film before and didn't know what I was going into with it, very tense claustrophobic atmosphere of a film, the actors do a good job posing with a fear of nuclear war and able to make moments look tense and stressful. The film does have it's feel of being low budget, it may not be a classic but certainly worth a look at.

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Have you ever seen Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 adaptation, also called The Wages of Fear, Dem?

As much as I like Sorcerer, Clouzot's film is a nerve-shredding masterpiece, a phenomenal piece of filmmaking.

No, i keep meaning to get it but just never get round to it. With seeing this one only yesterday i'll leave the Clouzot film for a while.

I have the Criterion Collection US Blu-ray and DVD releases and they are both superb. As the UK ones will be virtually identical, I highly recommend buying the Blu-ray when it is in the 2 for £25 offer.

It's a fully loaded Blu from a 4K restoration from the BFI in the UK.

A new 4K restoration of the original French theatrical release, available for the first time in the UK

Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition

Interview with Assistant Director Michel Romanoff (2005, 23 mins)

Interview with Clouzot biographer Marc Godin (2005, 10 mins)

interview with Professor Lucy Mazdon (2017, 35 mins)

The Guardian Lecture: Yves Montand in conservation with Don Allan (99 mins, audio only): recorded in 1989, the star discusses his distinguished career

Audio commentary with film critic Adrian Martin

Original theatrical trailer

Illustrated booklet with a new essay by Andy Miller, original reviews by Karel Reisz and Penelope Houston, an appreciation of Clouzot by Paul Ryan, and full film credits

I bought it on the day it came out and I still haven't got around to watching it, however I did really love Sorcerer!

It's in one of my boxes I'm going to get it out this week, before the horror marathon starts.

Wages Of Fear is worth the wait folks. :nod:


Ahem

Free Guy (2021, Shawn Levy)

Mildly diverting nonsense. Ever felt sad after killing NPCs? This is the movie for you then. Literally about self actualization, this had me laughing from the start. Much like Old :laugh:

Well, I guess I'll be buying it for the third time before the year is out!

Does this have a UK release?

I found it on Shudder, its on Amazon prime aswell

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good bullwhip at your side, kid.”

A film that for me improves with age. Whilst the final forty minutes stretch belief and credibility a little, the first two thirds are as exciting, funny and thrilling as you'll get in 21st century cinema.

I only watched that one for the first time this year, with all the crap it gets, I actually really enjoyed it, yeah some of the CGI is terrible but it's still high octane thrilling action like the other three! Even Shia isn't as bad as people make out. Yeah I liked it.

Arcadia (2017)

I'm not sure exactly what i thought of this 'new' film that plays like a strange folk horror olde school look at life in Britain. It felt to me like a sister film to Requiem for a Village (1975) in the way it explored the magic, madness and general wyrdness of our green and pleasant land.

Where this differs though is in it's construction. It isn't a film and has no central narrative. This English exploration, directed by Paul Wright with musical arrangements by Portishead's Adrian Utley and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp, is basically clips from the BFI's archives of more than 100 years of Britain on film. Some of the material is ropey as hell others beautiful in their high definition, linked purely by title cards as were the norm in the silent era.

The images on show together with the music make for a genuinely hallucinatory experience and proves quite thought provoking at a time when many would want us to forget and ignore our past. We get ancient rituals (Legend of the Witches), folk dancing, punk gigs, raves, flowers, stone circles, crops, horses, nudity (full frontal both male and female), wildlife, ale, industrial machinery, village greens, maypoles... you get the idea.

It made for a heady delight and an assault on the senses and i drank way too much Highland Park when i watched it in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Humpty Dumpty. 2021.

Wendy is in early stages of dementia, her two daughtrs take her to the family country home, where she comes across a old doll that seems to have a life of it's own.

I knew by the title this was gonna be bad but didn't think it would be that bad
http://www.cult-labs.com/forums/atta...1&d=1632784339 this sums it up of a hour and half of my life wasted completely

A doll that looks about a foot tall some how seems taller when it's not being carried, blood splattered about...waste of good ketchup, acting seems a bit delicate with the subject of what Wendy is suffering respect for that. But it's the added in plot twist that messed it up. Always give a film a chance even if it's independent, think I may appreciate it more either drunk or on a acid trip.

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The Heroin Busters (1977)

Enzo G. Castellari's pacy crime drama sees Fabio Testi undercover trying to stop a drugs ring whilst getting not too much help from David Hemmings.

Castellari has always been good at action and he shows it here with a terrific final showdown utilising motorbikes and light aircraft whilst Goblin provide a highly enjoyable score.

All that let's the film down is a lack of characterisation as Testi is too often on his own and we aren't really provided with enough quality character traits to actually become involved with events.

Damn! That's a shit write up.

I have never seen this but always thought will I or won't I, if the character build up is lack then maybe I can skip by it

It's still a decent watch, i always enjoy Castellari films, it's just that there aren't enough scenes with Testi and Hemmings to build up any chemistry or mismatched buddy movie feel to it.

One of those type of movies, will maybe give it a go, :thankingyou:

Surprised at how much I enjoyed THOSE WHO WOULD WISH ME DEAD.

Nice to see an action movie with some originality.

Thoughts folks?

Not seen it yet got it on my watch list it does look good,

Also watched a GRINDHOUSE RELEASING DOUBLE BILL the other night.

PIECES and I DRINK YOUR BLOOD/

Both outrageous.
Both classics.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShYV_jTxijs


www.youtube.com/watch?v=2utB1RDV4gc

It's one i have penciled in to watch over the festive period as i think there may be a dearth of movies like this which i usually really enjoy.

Deadtime Stories. 1986

A young boy being baby sat by his uncle who tells him twisted fairy tales Of
Peter and the witches, Little Red Runninghood, Goldi Lox and the three bears.

I watched this last year March/April time and really wasn't thrilled but never hurts to re-watch it, the stories are daft but do give a macabre twist to the stories, even though the acting is mediocre, no one will get a award for their acting, it was entertaining with some good make up effects done in the first segment.

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I've watched nothing recently.
I've been on here too much.:behindsofa:

I always liked this as Freaky fairytales on VHS, sure it aint no masterpiece but it's a good hour and an half of goofy nonsense with a few decent effects thrown in.
For the time as a straight to video kerfuffle i think it was above average at least.

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First time I watched it I wasn't impressed but second time round it kept me entertained, never seen the vhs cover for it thanks for sharing that one

Game Of Death. 1978.

From the Bruce Lee Boxset I got for my birthday I held off watching this as I thought it was in poor taste how this was done, don't get me wrong the fight scenes in this are good, and had used the footage that was made with Bruce Lee going from level to level facing different opponents. But to use footage from his funeral to co-operate with the plot of the film that hopefully was permitted to use.

Through out the boxset all the films have really been touched up with the picture quality and sound is amazing, think I need to get my hands on Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story at some point.

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viewing over the past wee while
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Isn't White Fire just a whole heap of fun b? :nod:

****ing terribly hidden fetish porn

:lol::pound::nod::rolleyes::laugh::laugh::hail::ha il::pound:

Saw Zombieland last night, first time in well over a decade. Still think it's a bit overrated - and as a zomcom not a patch of Shaun of the Dead - but it's amusing and entertaining enough throughout.

Watched george and Mildred since I bought it other week for 50p

It was a bit more miss than hit,
The storyline and plot was bit to daft and silly to be entertaining,
Most decent part was when George booked the restaurant for old time sake only for it to turn out to be a greasy spoon cafe for bikers ,
Nowhere near as entertaining as the tv show, it was ok at its best ,
Sadly it was Yootha Joyce final appearance before she passed away, such a shame she was talented actress and a delight to watch in anything she was in.

I fukcign love that film. It's so different from the parent material ETC. REWATCH.

Casino Royale (2006)

Daniel Craig's introduction to the role of James Bond and what an introduction it is. Directed by Martin Campbell who also directed Goldeneye, Pierce Brosnan's debut as Bond, Casino Royale is as thrilling as movies come.

From the breathless free running chase through Madagascar's docklands to the equally breathless poker game with the bloody teared Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), Campbell keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat throughout.

Craig himself is brilliant, bringing a grittiness, removing much of the refinement of earlier Bonds, and in true Fleming style made him a ruthless killing machine, yet also giving him a more human aspect especially his relationship with Vesper Lynd (Eva Green).

It's not quite a perfect film. For a start it's perhaps ten or fifteen minutes too long and Le Chiffre who was a very good villain is disposed of by unseen assailants off screen which was ridiculous. There's also a lack of Monty Norman's classic Bond theme in the film (Again Goldeneye was the same so maybe it's a Martin Campbell thing). However it does sport my favourite Bond song. The fantastic You Know My Name by the much missed Chris Cornell and takes it's musical cues from this so i'll not say too much.

Casino Royale seen fifteen years on from release remains fresh and the series revitalized. It's status as a top three James Bond film never deteriorating. Such a pity what was to come would be such a let down.

The Jungle Book (2016)

A movie bought at Poundland when i was in a Blu-ray buying frenzy. Did i really want to watch this?

The answer was i suppose so, i guess.

You know what. The Jungle Book is pretty good. There are a couple of thrilling set pieces and the CGI animals look very good for the most part. Young actor Neel Sethi was also good as Mowgli. He was the only actual person in the movie the rest of the cast were voice actors with Idris Elba magnificently evil as killer tiger Shere Khan, Bill Murray performing Baloo with subtle humour and then there was Christopher Walken. A wonderful singing Christopher Walken as the King Kong like King Louis.

Occasionally the dialogue had me cringing. For all the quoting of the mythical lore of the jungle from author Rudyard Kipling there were too many times characters came up with shite like "Hey guys, this is cool" and "Isn't this awesome".

On the whole though i rather enjoyed this and thought it better than Disney's original animated cartoon from the late sixties.