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1 Attachment(s) The Wraith. 1986. This was when Charlie Sheen was in his prime and starred as a ghost wanting revenge in the style of racer with a suped up sports car and a black leather bike gear wielding a shot gun. I always remember my dad wanted to rent this and the shop always had it sold out, you can tell this was a 80s film with the soundtrack, Randy Quaid was a bit more full of life and Clint Howard makes a appearance. This film still stands up for entertaining and the old nostalgia roller boots and the funky hair do's. Attachment 239011 |
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1 Attachment(s) Zombie High. 1988 This was the first time I have seen this, Virginia Madsen and Sherilyn Fenn play the new room mates at a prestigious school, yet the pupils seem to be well behaved. The first half just seems a bit slow and drag on with some character build up then goes onto the horror side which made me think of Horror Hospital and Disturbing Behaviour. There is some comedy mixed in and some good acting but felt the ending seemed to be a bit rushed, re-watch of this will happen. Attachment 239015 |
1 Attachment(s) National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) I bought this as part of a four film box set because i really wanted Christmas Vacation on Blu-ray which was £7.99 so for two pounds extra i got the other three films as well. I adore Christmas Vacation it's a real favourite of mine however i'd not seen the original film since the vhs days. Unfortunately it doesn't hold up well and seemed really dated. I know this came first but the SWAT ending seemed like a rip off from Christmas Vacation in fact the whole ending felt like a riff on Christmas Vacation. As i said i appreciate this came first but it seemed like a rip off because of my love for said Christmas film. Most of the jokes fail to hit home and i barely cracked a smile, although i did laugh out loud when Jane krakowski discusses kissing with Audrey. Cousin Eddie always tends to raise a smile too but in general i was pretty blank faced throughout. |
I don't dislike it, but personally I found the much-maligned European Vacation much funnier. ;) |
1 Attachment(s) Ghostbusters: Afterlife. 2021 All I can say if you love/like the first two movies....well this will be right up your street. The comedy with is basically like the original you can't help but laugh and a lot better than the 2016 film and nobody tries to out act anyone. The stars of the original except Rick Moranis show up as their characters and still able to bring a laugh with some subtle nods, and some good special effects. Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Logan Kim, Celeste O' Connor do play their parts well with Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon. Attachment 239022 |
4 Attachment(s) Arena In Space there is an intergalactic fighting competition in which no human has won in 50 years. Quite a novel concept but not much fighting. Still worth a look though. The Founder Michael Keaton is a Salesman who comes across what is the 1st McDonalds Restaurant and convinces the owners to start franchising it out. However things don't turn out well in the end. Not bad and I believe that the film tries to tell both sides of the story and that both sides had relevant points. The Martian Excellent Film which sees Matt Damon stranded on Mars and his attempts to survive and get back to Earth. This has a all star cast and what helps it out was the fact there was wit and humor as well as a good Soundtrack. This could have easily been another serious Sci-Fi Film. Wrong Turn The 2003 version which sees a group of people get stranded in The Woods but end up being hunted by Mountain Men. Some nice gore and it's shorter than I remembered. There was a annoying woman in it however. |
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Watched the new Dune film. Surprisingly, I have to say that it's incredibly boring, not even interesting on a visual level. And I was so sure that this would be a safe purchase. I'm not sure how the excellent Blade Runner 2049 tanked yet Dune was so successful amongst critics and audiences. Villeneuve's Dune fight scene moments are flat and tremendously unexciting and Stellan Skarsgard's Baron Harkonnen just seems to be a clone of Marlon Brando performances. I should probably mention that Once Upon A Time In The West is my favourite film to show that I'm not necessarily opposed to slower movies. I would much rather rewatch the flawed Lynch adaption than this newer version. I actually think this is the most boring big budget film that I have ever seen. And it was a terrible blind buy. |
I've watched Dune three times since it came out, I think it looks gorgeous and spectacular! Like the saying goes "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" everyone has differing opinions which makes things interesting! Funny though, the last time I watched it was with my friends over Christmas and they hated it. Especially Rebecca Fergusson's mumblecore performance. I'm going to pick up the UHD as soon as it drops into a multibuy offer as I'm not planning to watch it again in the next month or so, therefore paying £25 over £15 is ludicrous, even for me and my spending ways :D :pop2: :pop2: :pop2: :pop2: :pop2: / 5 for me :D |
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All the time watching it (Ghostbusters) I was thinking Demdike will hate this being a miserable git :lol: it's a shame because it really is a fun film :) |
1 Attachment(s) Dragnet. 1987. Straight by the book Sergeant Joe Friday is partnered with a laid back Pep Streebek and try solve unexplained crimes and a attempt kidnapping. Dan Arkroyd stars as the straight face by the book Friday while Tom Hanks plays the easy going Streebek who tries to get his new partner to be more like him and introduces him to the place where they serve good coffee...a stripper bar. Late Christopher Plummer plays the T.V. minister who also has his own agenda on crime and leads his followers of pagans. Dabney Coleman plays the publisher of magazines in a homage to Hugh Hefner. This does have some comedy provided by Hanks but just a shame Arkroyd didn't write in much comedy for himself except some facial expressions still entertaining. Attachment 239028 |
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1 Attachment(s) The Defender. 1994. One of Jet Li's films that looks like it was influenced by the 1992 film The Bodyguard, which was originally titled The Bodyguard From Beijing that comes with all the out of placed bad dubbing, this combines martial arts and gun shooting which is a first for Li to combine with. The plot is easy a spoiled woman who was a witness to a killing is assigned a bodyguard and becomes a major pain in the ass and slowly becomes a friendly person. The fight scenes were decently choreographed and some comedy elements added in. Attachment 239029 |
1 Attachment(s) Voice From The Stone. 2017. A nurse takes a job to help with a young mute boy Jacob and thinks there is something going on within the house. The premise of the film is something we have seen before but set in Tuscany and has a sinister Gothic mansion that seems to harbour a secret within the walls. Emilia Clarke plays the young nurse hired by Marton Csokas to care for his mute son who has never spoken since his mother's death played by Edward Dring. This was a very slow burner that seems to have a good direction with cinematography, perfect atmosphere setting but just falls flat towards the end that has certainly been done before. Attachment 239030 |
1 Attachment(s) V/H/S/ 94. 2021 A S.W.A.T. team raid a warehouse and find some tapes that a sinister cult have pre-recorded. Storm Drain. A small American town reports of a creature living in the sewers, a news reporter and a cameraman try to to uncover what is actually been seen by some residents. The Wake A funeral home assistant is working late during a storm and feels that something is wrong with the body in the coffin. The Subject. A doctor is kidnapping people and doing experiments on them only for a S.W.A.T. team to take him down unaware something else is coming to life and hunt them down. The Terror. A group of hunters are preparing to go on the biggest hunt only to fall foul to something else they have captured. The first two films were decent and something new, V/H/S/ Viral segments were ok apart from the bunch of people trying to find a ice cream van on the loose that made no sense what so ever to me. I been hesitant to watch this, The Storm Drain Segment has almost the same ending as a classic 80s film. The Terror almost feels like the creatures have the same effects from Blade II. The Wake was more tense and felt like it was supposed to be on the premise of the occult. The Subject even though it seemed to drag on a bit has to be the best segment out of this film, will give the makers credit for the blood and gore effects. Attachment 239031 |
1 Attachment(s) Attachment 239039 RESIDENT EVIL WELCOME TO RACOON CITY Mmm.. okay.. This is a quite slow moving adaptation of RE 1 and RE2, sort of! A lot of work has been put in to make a lot of what happens here a mirror image of the video games and I have to give it credit for that. I think this is very much aimed at the video game fandom rather than a casual viewer and some may get a kick out of looking for the herbs in the background etc.. The movie does has it's moments but there is a lot of slow build up and too much back story about Chris and Claire. Also they made Leon Kennedy a complete idiot for some reason.. just for laughs I expect. By the time the movie sorts itself out it comes to an ubrupt end. There was a teaser in the end credits but I doubt another movie will be made? It's just a popcorn movie and if you just go along for the ride it's enjoyable enough. |
1 Attachment(s) The Crazies. 1973. A toxin called "Project Trixie" is released over a small town polluting the main water and turning those infected psychotic and the military are sent in to contain it. This was George A. Romero's attempt on mixing a toxin virus and a battle of survival and is able to do it on a budget and it pays off well, with some decent acting. Do often think who is crazy, the towns people for trying to escape or the military giving out orders to contain and eliminate those infected with a so-called cure that may not even work or the right time to administer it. Right from the start we are basically thrown into the madness and paranoia on who to trust with some tense moments. Attachment 239040 |
DOCTOR SLEEP – The Overlook gets a revisit in this Mike Flannagan adaption, which I guess nods as much to Kubrik as it does to King’s sequel. Ewan McGregor plays Danny, who has grown up to be a barfly but finds his special powers calling him to assist super-shiner Kyleigh Curran in her struggles with creepy Rose The Hat. I found ‘Doctor Sleep’ to be lengthy but engaging, immersive enough to lull me into being able to Overlook the fact that it feels (and aesthetically resembles) a big Netflix series squashed into one handy feature; also, although it contained some surprisingly dark scenes, I couldn’t detect the disturbing atmosphere of, say ‘Occulus’ or ‘Absentia’. But – a good film. SIREN – A group of stag-do guys go off to find the last-chance strip-club of their dreams… but is it the strip-club of their nightmares? Maybe it’s not even a strip-club really, there’s an awful lot of occult stuff happening. I checked this out on Netflix at the end of a long Friday and basically wondered if I might just yawn and fall asleep, but ‘Siren’ is oddly nightmarish and surprisingly creative in its little horror tableaus, with wormy-haired medusas and soul-to-soul memory transplants via off-brand tequila or something like that. Hannah Fierman, the titular Siren, has wide, creepy eyes and runs around naked. Based on a segment of ‘VHS’ that I have no recollection of. HITCH HIKE TO HELL – Post- Norman Bates type drives a truck and strangles (with a coat hanger – he delivers laundry!) young runaways who remind him of his errant sister. ‘Hitch Hike to Hell’ was made in the late seventies but feels at least five years older than that. It has the creaky, grainy charm of knackered drive-in reels about it, and all the threadbare limitations of that kind of filmmaking – off-beam performances, minimal staging, a feeling of vast cheapness. Also, as is the case with many of those films seen in the cold light of day, its bark is worse than its bite. But you could retort by saying that a lot of those obscure drive-in movies had a very definite atmosphere, and that’s true here. There are only three or four sets in it, each appearing one after the other in pretty rigid repetition, and it conjures a peculiar claustrophobia which is very much in keeping with its subject matter. Also, there are classically ‘off’ grindhouse touches, like sudden outpourings of surreal music on the soundtrack, and the obvious comedy of Norm when he fiddles with his glasses before doing a brutal assault. And despite all I’ve said, there’s something fairly well-made about it, it doesn’t lurch around or drag. I saw this maybe thirteen or so years ago and found it slight but haunting – that’s pretty much what I thought of it after watching the Arrow blu ray. SURF 2 – Sunny Californ-i-a type dudes hang out and surf (2) whilst an embittered nerd seeks vengeance against the Beautiful People via his brand of toxic cola, which happens to induce zombie mutation. If you’ve got this far without screaming “this obviously resembles something from Troma’s reject bin and I should avoid it at all costs,” well, good luck to you. I actively despise a certain kind of broad, T&A fuelled eighties teen comedy – mostly because I tend to watch movies whilst playing a harpsichord, smoothing the creases in my velvet smoking jacket and trying to look like Vincent Price – and this is basically one of those, made badly and spliced with what I guess are supposed to be nods towards horror; “The feeling is bad, the feeling is bad,” as Eddie Grant once said. Even low-brow hopes for gore are scuppered by zombies who do absolutely feck all, leaving me with jack shit to hang onto apart from the look / feel of eighties ripeness, a sense of giddy incoherence and a handful of weird bits. Do I think that those latter three qualities are worth the price of admission? No. For fans of the excruciating only, although at least you could say that it predates a couple of films with similar themes and has a good soundtrack. |
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The King's Man (2021, Matthew Vaughn) I loved the first film. Thought the second was overblown and not as exciting. This? Woke drivel that looks worse than the first film. A fantasy set in the early part of the 20th century, with all the due care and attention shown to that era :pound: Demon says AVOID. |
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4 Attachment(s) Eddie Really fun Whoopi Goldberg Film in which she becomes the Head Coach of the struggling New York Knicks Basketball Team. Whilst it follows all the usual clichés, it does them really well. Bloodsucking Freaks A Theatre Show Producer and his assistant basically torture Women in ways that are quite creative. Remember first coming across this whilst it was being shown on The Horror Channel and couldn't believe what I was watching. Got the Troma DVD of this and whilst I'm not sure if it got released for Rental and if it did I'm surprised that it didn't end up on the Video Nasty List or that 88 Films got released for Blu-Ray. Salo What to say about this one other than if The Fun House got banned, then based on the content, it's a no brainer that if it was around on Video during the Video Nasty Era, then it should have had it's own feature on Nucleaus's Video Nasty Definitive Guide inbetween Nightmares In A Damaged Brain And Snuff. I do know how it managed to avoid being banned and it's quite ludicrous and I watched it with the English dubbing. I'll give it that it did lead to a crescendo at the end and that there was no happy ending. Dragnet Wanted a nice palate cleanser and after Mrbarlow's recent review, this got the call as it was a favorite of mine when younger (Watched it many times after taping it when it was shown on BBC 1) and it's easy to forget that Tom Hanks starred in Comedy Films in the 80's. Still really enjoyable with good performances from Christopher Plumber and the Actress who played The Police Commissioner. |
Bloodsucking freaks is a unsung masterpiece. Salo is also a F*cked up Sadean nightmare...guess which i prefer. Salo is an arthouse classic, but i'd rather defend freaks in court. Story of my life... |
Once showed a mate Salo, with the dub, and he laughed all the way through it :nod::lol: Takes all sorts. |
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