Boy Eats Girl (2005)

Hugely entertaining Irish zombie rom-com with a witty script performed by a charming cast. The humour really works for me in a way many horror comedies fail and it totally engages me. Last night must have been my fifth or sixth viewing.

It's kinda Shaun of the Dead like in that the action takes place in and around typical streets and schools but for me that's where any similarities end, well, other than zombies chowing down on residents of course.

At 80 minutes Boy Eats Girl doesn't outstay it's welcome. It's lively, breezy and fun from first to last and culminates in an outrageous bloodbath involving zombie hordes and a tractor with a hedgerow cutter, as body parts fly through the air in gory delight.

However for all the fun and games there's a strong depiction of suicide early on that some may find upsetting.

Rituals. 1977.

I thought I would give this film another look at, first viewing was a hit or a miss as it was a stupid badly edited version which for a Hal Holbrook film is disgraceful. It does have rip off feeling from Deliverance but doesn't have anyone making another man squeal like a piggy but does have a man scream out with a bear trap. The film does have a tone of atmosphere as the main group have no idea of the backwoods yet the stalker knows every hide away place and short cuts, this is slowly becoming a appreciative film for me now.

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I thought it was so over rated the first time i saw it. Never bothered to give the Code Red dvd a second watch.

If i remember rightly bugger all happens.

Showed a mate Harold & Maude, as he has one of those "1001 films you have to see ..." tomes.
Regardless, who needs an excuse to revisit this charming little tale of two souls finding each other in this crazy, mixed up world.
I suppose I should mention the comedic portrayal of suicide attempts, but since we're all adults here, and the film is 50 years old ffs.

I would agree it is overrated but was more the tense atmosphere I enjoyed the most and of course Hal Holbrook.

I wouldn't normally mention a suicide like i did for Boy Eats Girl as it's 'one of those things' that are in movies, i suppose i did because the Irish censors went to town on the film and actually banned it. It basically shows step for step how to hang yourself in your bedroom. An 18 cert over here of course.

Still a wonderfully fun film though.

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WATERSHIP DOWN (1978)

Excellent animated adaptation of Richard Adams novel. Super animation and background paintings with a good music score.
Rated a U cert by the BBFC, they still get complaints about the low certificate being given to such a dark and bloody movie.
I remember seeing this on release and for some reason, at least in the cinema I saw it, the trailers came after the movie had finished! I know there was a trailer for Moonraker but we had to hurry out of the cinema to catch the bus back home.

The film that scarred a generation , it's a lot more disturbing than most video nasties!

I watched the new Scream film, it was pretty good, not amazing, but not terrible. VERY meta, like in-jokes galore, even to the point of someone watching a YouTube podcast and it's the famous 'Dead Meat' podcast discussing Stab 8 :lol: also taking the piss out of 'elevated horror' a term that we all hate haha

Er' what's 'elevated horror'?

Horror with a moral, like 'Get Out' and the ilk, not slashers and zombie films etc.. Not the fun stuff, the stuff that makes you think... haha

This!

Very good :lol: but no... that's Elevator horror :lol: similar but not the same :D

The Evil Down The Street. 2019.

A family begin a new life by moving into a new house that isn't haunted but possessed by evil forces through a old Ouija Board.

Most indie movies can be great and have a long line of cult followers but I have done it again...found another cheap movie that turned out to be a waste of time. With the low budget they obviously tried going for a budget doppelganger of Elon Musk who has a hard time trying to act, then suggested we can get a woman who resembles Lin Shaye who was even worse. The back ground score does try to make it more tense but just seems to be the same note played that never leads to anywhere. This was meant to be inspired by true events, next indie movie that will be inspired by true events will be my production of sticking my Vype pen up my ass, i'm sure I will get more pleasure out of that than watching this film.

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Valentine. A bunch of slappers start getting sliced up by an enraged former high school contemporary. This early 2000s slasher starts off okay, and has a reasonable cast, but just gets more and more mediocre as it goes on, and the characters are so deeply unlikeable that I was rooting for the rightly enraged killer. :tongue1:

Surprised that no one mentioned or reviewed Netflix TCM.

I thought it was rubbish, can’t for the life of me see how anyone can like the original TCM and this in the same breath is unbelievable, I honestly think it’s an insulting film to original TCM,
It's ok if the film is not meant to be taken seriously but they keep dumbing down-some films and some are so bad these days that ppl seem to accept any trash as decent, Cashing in on franchises isn’t getting better they’re getting worse if going to carry on a film at least have the decency to have some redeeming feature that the original had, and not just make a film for the pure hell of it, some films has nothing to say but it’s just there because it can be.
It lacked everything, interest, characters, tension, atmosphere, like a lot of films just cash-in, Fed up of these soulless sequels, prequels, reboots, remakes etc.
Not all are rubbish there is some decent ones but sadly imo this isn't one of them, the ending of the trailer with the kids taking pics was enough to put me off, if I wanted comedy horror then id have watched scream or something, but I thought I'd still give benefit of the doubt and give it a whirl, sadly I gave up about halfway.

Here a link to a online review of Netflix tcm

https://wegotthiscovered.com/reviews...horror-sequel/

The Inspector General. 1949.

Give Danny Kaye the limelight and he can do wonders, here he is cast as a leading actor and shows his acting abilities and singing, a corrupt town official mistakes Kaye as a investigator and ensues a fun time to prove himself that he is right. There are some funny gags, musical numbers and high jinx of laughter and of course Kaye able to conduct a orchestra in his own way.

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Lady Terminator (1988, Jalil Jackson)

Indo exploiter. When an ancient curse comes to fruition, hold onto your hats!
A trio of cops are saddled with a deadly foe (on a night off and all :laugh:) and all bets are off. Some hilarity and familiarity here cough cough.
Lived up to it's reputation tbh.

Dangerous Seductress tonight!!! :nod::nod::nod:

CARNIVAL OF BLOOD – Sketchily assembled and pretty much ad-libbed in places, ‘Carnival of Blood’ treats us to the sweat and the grime of Coney Island, where sausage-fingered women bitch at hunchbacks and a mysterious killer is etc etc. Mumbled conversations and twilit wanderings aplenty, but then you have the sheer craziness of the killer’s purple tinted psycho-dramatic regression in the final reel, plus other oddities such as a teddy bear full of offal and just the whole creepy atmosphere of fairgrounds at the fag-end of hippy. Knackered old drive-in fodder delivers the flea-bitten goods… if you really want them…

PHOBE: THE XENOPHOBIC EXPERIMENTS – When all the other kids in the neighbourhood went off to Hollywood to make ‘Predator’, the one who stayed behind kept on running around their backyard with a camcorder and came up with this. A delight of cruddy late-nineties computer graphics and massively underwhelmed ‘performances’, P:TXE’s homegrown charms are painful and heart-warming at the same time, the true measure of cult goodness IMO.

THE HALFWAY HOUSE – Boasts the mild sleaze of a semi-WIP film, a papier mache Lovecraftian tentacle beast in the cellar, a small statuette of the Virgin Mary wielded in the manner of a dildo, and Mary Woronov as a dark priestess… how could it fail to be total classic? Slightly disappointingly it comes across as merely amiable trash, and Mary (both of them) is really the best thing about it, but enjoyable nonetheless and worth a look if you don’t have to resort to expensive imports.

DEAD HOUSE – I’ve overstepped my budget on this new flat I’m renting, hence less costly splashouts and more viewing of obscure drivel on Prime. Well, obviously there’s some total rubbish on there but the fun of it is in stumbling on a ‘find’, which brings me to ‘Dead House’. It’s a nasty, grimy Italian (/British?) horror flick which merges the grot of a brutal home invasion with pretty gory zombie action; the ludicrous monster they throw in is just the icing on the cake. It’s as silly and nonsensical as it sounds, but an underlying nastiness prevents it from being too much of a good laugh – which makes it more interesting in my eyes. Definitely worth a punt if you’re browsing Prime and happen to be in the mood for some grim zombie sleaze.

SHADOW IN THE CLOUD – Chloe Moretz hitches a ride aboard a WW2 fighter plane and finds that its crew of sexist yahoos is the least of her worries – yep, that’s a real-life gremlin perched on that there fuselage. ‘Shadow In The Cloud’ is a lot of fun, popcorn riddled with metaphors but more bothered about ridiculous plane-wing acrobatics; I actually wanted it to bring out more of the weird fairy-tale tone that occasionally surfaces, but it’s amusing and entertaining enough as it is.

THE CLOVEHITCH KILLER – Smalltown boy is worried that his pa might be the local serial killer – cue investigative fumblings and, stashed beneath the floorboards, boxes full of dadporn. ‘The Clovehitch Killer’ is measured and subdued in its approach, and what it does really well is capture the strange, still atmosphere of little suburbs full of neat lawns, bungalows and religion. It perhaps slips up a little when it veers away from claustrophobic atmospherics for the sake of some on-the nose dramatics; but I do recommend it, it’s compelling enough to work as a more serious, downbeat answer to “The Summer of 84”.

I like the sound of Dead House and Shadow in the Cloud.

I thought Carnival of Blood was awful. Couldn't wait to get rid of it.

Awesome write ups as per the norm, Frankie Smoking Jacket. :woot:

Was particularly impressed by 'Dead house' because it pandered to my hankering for mean-spirited semi-sleaze with monsters thrown in... by no measure is it a 'good film', whatever that means these days, but at least it doesn't skimp on lurid. 'Shadow In The Cloud' is just quite fun, a mainstream B-movie with nice visuals and action that seems to get a kick out of being daft.
Me and my harpsichord have always had a soft spot for COB but yeah, it is pretty awful ha ha...

Didn't stop me buying the second set of Arrow's American Horror Project though. It'll be a keeper even though i haven't yet watched it as i already own The Child on dvd and love it.

Ah, you're thinking of 'Malatesta's Carnival of Blood'... I was reviewing t'other Carnival of Blood, the one by Leonard Kirtman (which is significantly worse than Malatesta!)
Agreed, 'The Child' is an oddball classic.

There's two of the f*ckers? :shocked:

And this ones worse?

Nurse! Fetch my pills!

If you catch them both on a double bill, you may want cyanide instead...

I've had six dry martini's just thinking about it.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Hammers superior version of the Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes classic stars Peter Cushing in a superb portrayal of the Baker Street detective, Andre Morell is his assistant Doctor Watson, and Christopher Lee who despite his prominent roles in Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein taking third billing as Baskerville as he wasn't seen as leading man status by Hammer just yet.

More effective than the earlier film versions of the classic novel and it grips your interest from the get- go. Hammer's location work is impeccable, the swampy marshland is frightening in itself even before the spectre of the titular dog rears its terrifying head. Hammer give the whole area an atmosphere of sinister malevolence, especially when you take into account the tales of an escaped murderer on the loose.

Although the story in itself is familliar, a family living under a dreaded curse, Hammer do add new elements whilst Terence Fisher once again proves himself the best of Hammer's in house directors as he firmly holds the viewers attention throughout.

My only reservation with the film is the fact that Holmes goes missing for a great swathe of the running time, though this is a fault of Conan Doyle's story rather than the script itself.

Excellent film and an underrated turn from Christopher Lee in my opinion.

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I still have this one on vhs, but then I would :pound:
HUG
REWATCH
:lol:

The Zero Boys. A bunch of paintballers and their girlies trek off into the country, only to become the prey of sicko serial killers. This mid 80s horror with Kelli Maroney (the younger sister from the wonderful Night of the Comet) throws in a bit of an 80s action feel to it with the paintballers having real guns and knowing how to use them, making the situation a bit more of an equal fight than is the norm. This was a lot of fun, though I thought the ending a tad abrupt.

Delirium

A former Model turned Magazine Owner has her Models being murdered and pictures sent to her. Not a bad little Film but I don't think it explained why the Murderer kept on seeing Alien faces?

Delirium

A former Vietnam Veteran goes on a killing spree whilst Detectives are investigating Suicides which are committed by a group of Vigilantes. A former Video Nasty in which the Director tagged on a 2nd storyline to an existing Film. I believe it was the rampaging Killer that was the tagged on storyline and I preferred the other storyline myself.

It doesn't help that some of the Music used ended up being the Mastermind Theme (You couldn't take it seriously even though it wasn't the Film Makers fault) Imagine Cannibal Holocaust having the same theme as University Challenge lol.

Yes, 88 Films have released 2 different Films with the same title, surely nothing can go wrong with online ordering.

Pity they haven't released the best Delirium - The Renato Polselli sleaze-fest.

Dem hits the nail on the head,
It's a classic.:clap: (found my copy in a charity shop about 6 years back, Anchor Bay...noice):cool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z2nx3jDSbA

I've just dug it out for a rewatch.:rockon:

Strait-Jacket. 1964.

A woman who killed her husband and his lover is released from a asylum into the care of her daughter 20 years later, and begins to question her sanity.

This was a blind watch having seen a trailer that reveals the psychosis of one's mind in a room and straight jacket with Joan Crawford screaming and panting had me intrigued.

Joan Crawford plays the woman who axe's her husband and his lover while their daughter sees everything, and is released into her care hoping to start over but somethings don't seem to be helping. Diane Baker plays Carol who owns a farm and the audience can only smirk at the comments made when describing what they do to the animals. George Kennedy plays the young farm hand and a first early appearance from Lee Majors in a uncredited role.

This isn't as tense as I thought it would be for a William Castle film, Joan Crawford does play a good part and had things written to suit her needs, the film can be a good drinking game every time we see Pepsi take a drink. The film does deal with being released back into society but there is a good turn at the end. Due to there being more talking than action some may not enjoy this but it is worth a watch for the acting.

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Hatchet For The Honeymoon. 1970.

A bridal dress designer murders his models, when he murders his wife he begins to feel haunted by her.

Give Mario Bava something to work with and he can create masterpieces, first time seeing this one and not what category it will fall under, we see the killer and know who he is but slowly uncovers his mind as to why he kills then towards the second half it's either a ghost story film or a psychological Giallo that plays on the mind.

For a running time of almost 90 minutes, Bava packs a lot of suspense and tension into the film right from the start to finish with great cinematography and acting from John Harrington as the fashion designer and killer, along with Dagmar Lassander and Laura Betti as the wife who anyone would gladly get rid off. Some of it can have you edge of your seat film but certainly entertaining.

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Have you got the 88 Films Ltd edition or did you just stream it?

Just wondered if you thought the 88 edition was worth getting and / or value for money at £24

I found it on youtube on a decent upload.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHVg77l0kro&t=1736s

Thanks. I already have it on dvd i was wondering really about the limited edition.

Been checking some of the reviews and some people really aren't praising the Deluxe release yet other people are for the extras, but maybe some don't appreciate a good Mario Bava film.