Bloodlust Zombies. 2011..

A technician creates a virus that is let loose in a building turning those infected into killers.

Even by the title I knew this would b e bad, right at the start there is bad acting straight away, even after the first poorly stupid looking kill I turned it off and decided to watch this:

Caged Fury. 1983.

A group of Asian and American women are taken to a camp to be brainwashed into becoming suicide bombers.

Low budged Filipino movie that has busty blonde Bernadette Williams leading the all women charge against their captors and plan their big escape. Director Cirio H. Santiago obviously did try and do what Jess Franco would do in his movies and insert some nudity and some girl on girl action that really didn't make much sense, the cinematography was not the greatest but the women do know how to handle big guns.

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Alexis Texas. :loveeyes:

I wouldn't have turned it off.

Think everyone is going to be watching Jaws the weekend now :lol:

That was a hint that I should have avoided the film :pound:

Descending Angel. 1990.

A recently engaged man Michael wants to know his future father in law better by spending time with him and slowly begins to suspect he may be a WWII Nazi war criminal and begins to look into his past.

This was a decent thriller with Eric Roberts being engaged to Irina played by Diane Lane and is introduced to her father Florian played by George C. Scott and Bercovici played by Mark Margolis who believes Florian is the POW camp guard who helped slay the people. Some bits are decently built up with tension with Michael trying to uncover the truth but towards the end it does become a bit rushed, entertaining enough for a T.V. movie.

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House Of Whipcord. 1974.

In what appears to be a abandoned prison, a young man drugs a girl and places her in the building that's operated by a old judge and a matron who likes to get the girls there in trouble while watching sentencing being passed on to them.

One film I never thought it would have high expectations of but Pete Walker must have enjoyed the Eurotrash sleaze films and decided to do his own British version of one. There is no gore in this but we do see the aftermath of cuts and turned out bruising with some female nudity but not extreme or over the top. The acting is decent with Barbara Markham as the head of house Mrs Wakehurst who we really want to see being bitch slapped and Patrick Barr as the old senile Judge. Ann Michelle plays the somewhat heroine who goes in search of a missing friend who may be held within the prison.

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Have a good Friday everyone:nod:

It's an extremely effective jump scare on a computer or phone screen, never mind a big-screen TV. It's no wonder the popcorn went flying in cinemas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMFyo...hannel=Film365

The Child (1977)

An interesting and utterly bizarre regional horror about a young woman hired as a housekeeper at an old house in the sticks. She soon finds out that the 11 year old girl who lives there has a horrific secret.

Highly atmospheric, this low budget production (perhaps a reason for the wild atmosphere) is like some weird nightmare especially as Halloween approaches and the jack o' lanterns come into play, and then there's the old mill...and the zombies.

At times it has the feel of an old horror from the thirties along the lines of White Zombie (1932) with it's dream like ambiance. The whole film feels like watching someone else's nightmare and it gains even more power when there's actually a dream sequence happening on screen.

This review probably makes no sense so in that respect it suits the film to a tee, just go watch it and see for your self. Where's Frankie Teardrop when you need him to explain this shit?

It's available in Arrow's American Horror Project Volume Two box set and it looks a hell of a lot better than the old dvd i used to own.

Eye Of The Tiger. 1986.

Buck Matthews, a Vietnam Vet and recently released prisoner goes back to his home town which is besieged by a biker gang. When Buck's family becomes a target he calls on his friends for help.

Gary Busey in his prime as a great and lead actor plays Buck who just wants a quiet life, but biker group lead by William Smith ain't gonna let that happen especially when Buck's daughter played by Judith Barsi is left traumatised after a attack. Yaphet Kotto plays the good friend of Buck and at times it's like Yaphet is actually enjoying playing the co-vigilante and can help give out a smirk or a laugh.

For a film thathas the title of the song and yes it is used during the film, this was actually decent and enjoyable 80s flick, Busey is no Charles Bronson but does have a way in making people talk and bit creative with killings. One I certainly recommend.

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Honest Thief (2020)

Liam Neeson plays a former bank robber who decides to turn himslef in when he finds happiness with a new love (Kate Walsh). However it's when he contacts the FBI that things take a turn for the worse.

I really enjoyed this action thriller. It's not over the top by any means and concentrates on characters rather than blowing shit up and pounding fist fights. Neeson actually gives a credible performance here with some nice quirks to it. Walsh is also excellent as is Jeffrey Donovan as a recently divorced Fed who ends up with his ex-wife's dog, whilst Jai Courtney is in great villain mode but even he reigns it in with subtlety the by-word here.

At 90 minutes it doesn't outstay it's welcome and director Mark Williams maintains a constant pace that never lags. Whilst the film is certainly no Taken it delivered the goods as far as i'm concerned.

Re-watches are guaranteed.

The Antichrist. 1974.

Ippolita who is a young paralyzed woman is offered a hypnosis session that may help her with her illness. While under hypnosis she believes that in a previous life she was a with and slowly becomes possessed.

Lucky me I found another Exorcist rip-off, made in 1974 and released between Beyond The Door and Turkish version Seytan, I got no idea how hypnosis can cure a person who is paralyzed so I can ignore that part but as the film goes on it does get better. Don't expect the Exorcist make-up to appear but the make-up in this is good and yep it does have hot pea soup projectiled and a small masturbation bit with out a cross. The acting isn't that bad even Mel Ferrer is pleasant to see in this and Carla Gravina is able to act possessed decently.

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Lucky you?

I own it via a StudioCanal dvd. :lol:

In the last month think this is the third movie that's ripped off The Exorcist I have watched :lol:

There's a few more ..... ;):pop2::nod:

Tangerine

The Florida Project

(2015, 2017, Sean Baker)


Watched these last night, as the gory thing I had chosen bored the arse off me.
The first film centres around two friends who go on a rather low rent odyssey after one drops a bombshell of sorts. Some fun to be had here, even if it does devolve into cliche at the end.
Onto his second flick, which revolves around life for some pre teens during the holidays. Yet again we are at the lower end of society, with folks just trying to get by ... by any means necessary ahem. Decent performances from the kids and a total lack of oversight again gets deflated by a plot twist that reminded me more of Loach than anything else tbh.
Will try and watch Red Rocket shortly, as the poster promises something ... different ahem. We'll see ....

THE CARDS OF DEATH – Those mavens of macabre outsiderdom Bleeding Skull shone a torch on this SOV deep cut back in 2014 when they put it out on VHS (made in ‘86 but with scant exposure in its day). Stumbling into TCOD’s lurid underworld, it’s like ‘The Death Wish Club’ never happened. – Sadean New Romantics preside over an enigmatic but ultimately fatal card game in a warehouse where even the lighting, with its constant smears and flares, seems to teeter on the brink of nightmare. Or, if not nightmare, then at least the kind of bad dream where a man wears a hideous grandad mask, revs a chainsaw but then titters like a schoolgirl, which happens to also be the kind of bad dream where there’s a hilarious crushing machine just because it’s the sort of thing Sadean New Romantics might have lying around. Anyway, we’re pretty much breathing in this neon squalor for the duration – but hang on, there’s a ‘cops investigate’ subplot, the film’s half-hearted stab at genre normality, and it drags a little bit (even then it manages to amuse with a detective who’s just constantly “fock this fock that fockin fock argghhh… etc). But to point out the slack isn’t much of a quibble when it comes to ‘The Cards Of Death’. This little-known number has amazing vision and ambition considering its provenance, and even the more mundane aspects that I don’t usually care too much about like production values and acting have rare chops for this kind of fare. The reach of its strangeness goes pretty far, but beyond the mild bloodsports, the pound-shop gore and the wheezing industrial soundtrack there’s also my favourite seventies / eighties / nineties ‘thing’, namely the film-specific theme song – in this case a humorous wobbly synth number, so endearing.

AVENGING ANGEL – Sequels are usually mixed bags. We’re always harking back to the original and doing a costs / benefits analysis of the act of following on. Things pretty much balance out when it comes to ‘Avenging Angel’, namely - points off for not including a traumatic egg suckling moment, but points on for a long Bronski Beat themed montage which ends with some bad guys blasting the fock out of an apartment. Points off for not really having that same queasy mixture of sentimentality and curdled sleaze as the first one, but points on for a wealth of silliness involving gun-clicking, vase-dropping and baby-plummeting. I can’t say that the level of tonal breakdown is high because it seems obvious that ‘Avenging Angel’ is going for laughs, which is fair enough. Perhaps if this had been a Cannon film it might’ve gone the distaff Bronson route popular at the time, but AA is more interested in glittery buffoons playing low grade magic tricks and hospital breakout slapstick than in epic shoot-outs. I liked it, kind of. It didn’t wholly grab me and at times I caught myself wishing it’d go up a just a notch in the exploitation stakes, but AA is full of weird little swerves that make it worth watching.

YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER – Dublin housing estate horror nails it when it comes to simmering dread. In it, a schoolgirl is struggling with the disappearance of her distressed mum. When mum re-appears, familiar questions arise – is it psychosis? Is it the supernatural? It’s not exactly a gimmick this approach, but it’s so well done, a great tonal mix of the dowdy and the eerie. Films that rely on a sense of mounting horror tend to let themselves down after doing all the hard work. They might succeed in sustaining a macabre atmosphere, not an easy thing at all, but then blow it when it comes to a ‘big horror pay off’, which is why I think that films that are more about ambience shouldn’t really go in for the revelatory stuff at the end. YANMM takes this route but just about pulls it off. The switch from atmosphere to action, from creeping uncertainty to something more visual and basic, works pretty well. Overall it’s a very good, solid movie, one which I recommend.

I have this one on the AHP set. Haven't actually watched it yet but I did give the disc a quick spin a few weeks back. The foggiest sets I think I've ever seen.

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Black Magic Rites (1973)

A coven of satanic monks resurrect a witch burned at the stake four hundred years earlier. Once resurrected Isabel needs the blood of virgins to stay alive. (Or something like that)

Aka The Reincarnation of Isabel it's director Renato Polselli's follow up film to the deliciously sleazy Delirium. Polselli takes the nightmarish dream like sequences from Delirium and expands them into a full length feature of violent sexual fantasies. The plot, what there is, doesn't stand up to any scrutiny its just an excuse for Polselli to horrify the viewer as much as possible with his many scenes of sexual orgies and women being stripped, tortured and mutilated then finally burned at the stake.

Polselli uses the same stars as Delirium in Mickey Hargitay and Rita Calderoni and plunges them into a technicolor world of depraved hedonism shrouded in a lurid texture of bright vibrant colours, red in particular is frequently used in the coven scenes.

Its difficult to say if Black Magic Rites is a good film, it probably isn't especially if you want coherency or an exciting story. Its one of those films where you either go with it and enjoy all the ensuing madness or you just think its drivel. Once you get past the many scenes of sadism there isn't a lot to talk about, however surely thats what exploitation films are all about?

The Screenbound Blu-ray print is licensed from US company Kino Lorber.

Tale Of The Mummy. 1998.

In Egypt a prince was buried in his tomb under the sands, a archaeologist and a team finds the tomb and disappears. Years later the archaeologist's granddaughter and another team find the resting place and awaken the prince.

Anther take on The Mummy movie this time set in modern day time and London with Russell Mulcahy as co-story writer and director with a somewhat decent star cast with Sir Christopher Lee as the first team leader and doing a voice over at the start.

This did sort of resemble the team from 1923 dig with Lord Canarvon and his search for Tutankhamun's Tomb in The Valley Of The Kings. Sean Pertwee, Gerard Butler, Lysette Anthony, Louise Lombard and Michael Lerner play the present day tomb raiders while Jack Davenport and Jason Scott Lee play the detectives who think they are on a trail of a serial killer and Shelley Duvall as a medium.

The special effects were probably designed well in someone's head to be good but the early work of CGI can be a disappointment, the kills are done off screen so there is no gore just see the aftermath, there is two versions to this the original theatrical cut of 90 mins and extended 2 hour cut, in honesty the directors cut does not do the film any justice.

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(Also known as Talos The Mummy)

Great double bill with Lemora imho. :loveeyes::nod:

Like the way you think Demon, good idea :pop2::pop2:

Naschy's Exorcismo is a personal fave.

Just watched the trailer for it, another one for me to go searching for :pop2:

Jaws (1975)

What a way to celebrate the fourth of July weekend...going fishing for a twenty five foot Great White shark in a small boat.

Robert Shaw's telling of the USS Indianapolis is one of the greatest moments in cinema history.

Seeing the film in high definition for the first time was an absolute joy. I'm not sure if i watched the film or just looked at the pretty pictures.

Outstanding.

I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time. Amity, as you know, means "friendship". [emoji23]

Red Rocket (Sean Baker)

Well, I went for it. Grotty films seem to be my forte really, as I gravitate toward them like .... a demon possessed :laugh:
Ahem. Meet Mickey Saber. He's tryin' to get his life back in order, how he achieves this is hard to watch in parts. Yet again, Baker seems to get great naturalistic performances from his cast.
It was also refreshing to see some films where I wasn't being preached at constantly.

Killer's Moon (1978)

Four mental patients – who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they’re living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives – escape and find their way to an old dark house where a bus load of stranded schoolgirls have taken refuge for the night.

A difficult film to review, it's both seedy and clunky at the same time, acts of violence both sexual and not on school girls (Obviously school girls is a loose term as one of them is 21 year old Jane Hayden, sister of Linda). The Screenbound Blu-ray cover says this is worse than I Spit on your Grave. It isn't but it's still pretty degrading stuff as the girls are raped and their teacher strangled to death whilst a cat has it's leg mercilessly hacked off, and it's all from the pen of acclaimed play write and novelist Fay Weldon.

Killer's Moon is certainly a British oddity. For all it's nastiness it's also pretty inept and not especially scary not helped by the four escapees goofing around all the time as they are certain everything they do is simply a dream so nothing matters. It does have atmosphere in spades though in that A Clockwork Orange Droogs on the rampage sense.

Despite these inconsistencies it's a film i rate and watch every couple of years.

I was pleased to see the Killer's Moon Blu-ray at £3 in the Screenbound sale happening as i type. It meant i didn't have to buy the upcoming 88 Films release at £15, seeing as 88 have licensed the film from Screenbound anyway.

I have the Redemption DVD and Blu-ray releases, both with the commentary by director Alan Birkinshaw and actress JoAnne Good :nod:

Think I paid about £5-£6 pound for my copy of it from the Screenbound Sale last year...or was it the year before, old age kicking in...any way Dem you got a bargain better than what I did :lol:

Think a re-watch will happen in October time

There's no extras on this one other than trailers, but at £3 i'm really not complaining. :lol:

The Black Dragon. 1974.

A farmhand Tai-Lin goes to work at a factory in the Philippines and discovers his bosses are involved in a crime syndicate smuggling Opium operation. He quits his job and joins forces with two people to bring down the mobsters and his bosses.

This one I have never seen or heard of so gave it a glance, after the first 20 minutes of the best and worst dubbing we love from these movies, I was ready to switch it off and glance into space but stuck it out and glad I did. The fight scenes are well choreographed, martial artist Ron Van Clief is present but not as a leading man, Jason Piao Pai steps in as the lead actor and able to bring some comedy element, and also there is some background score borrowed from other films. Nice lightweight entertainment.

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Haven't watched this in over 20yrs, a star studded cast and excellent performance by Pam Grier, remember enjoying it when I first saw it, watched it today with my mum to be honest i found it dull boring, long arsed and winded and drawn out. Should have been shortened by at least half a hr.
Excellent soundtrack tho.

McBain (1991, James Glickenhaus)

Had to get back into the swing of things after all that acting :pound::rolleyes:
A joy to behold.
You want Exploitative elements in your movie?
Form an orderly queue then ...

ChrisTOPHer WalKEN is McBain. Next!
Seriously, haven't enjoyed myself in long enough. War is hell, so let's start our own one etc.
Only sour note being that Steve James was under utilized imho.
Gripe aside, why there aren't 5 or 6 more of these, yes, Walken would have baulked after the second probably, but David Bradley might have been free!! :nod::lol:
Ahem. Recommended.

Hey you never know. He was happy to do three Prophecy films.

The Corpse Grinders. 1971.

A cat food company goes into trouble with their food supply, the bosses decide to improve their meat by going into grave robbing and use dead flesh for their supply, the cats who eat the meat begin to have a taste for human flesh.

Actor Bryan Cranston's father co-wrote this movie with Arch Hall Sr, and they both must have known how bad it would be and probably chuckled writing it but at least they did try. Surprisingly no actors were nominated for best dialogue delivery or best actor performance, people are put into a grinder but mostly done off screen, some mild gore of when the cats do attack. If anyone is wanting to become a vet, there is a autopsy scene shown on a dead cat. Haven't made my mind up whether a re-watch will happen or not.

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I hated The Corpse Grinders. Never been back to it since that first viewing. Difficult really as i took it to Cex soon after

I never realised till a hour ago it spawned to sequels, think I will avoid them unless someone can convince me they will be good :lol:

I had no idea either. I also don't care. :pound: