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nicholasrope 20th April 2023 09:07 PM

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The Woman

A controlling Husband kidnaps a feral cannibalistic Woman in order to domesticate her. When Arrow launched their latest Sale, I made a list of potential targets to watch the Trailers of. This one made the cut and it's rather enjoyable and made me think why I never picked up on this one before, it's disturbing and violent.

I think that if this was made in the early 80's, it might have landed on the Video Nasties List, a lot tamer Films made it.

Bad Blood

Abigail Breslin takes up a job as a Drug Runner for her Uncle played by Sean Bean but is caught in the middle as her Sister starts dating one of her customers played by James Purefoy. It's not bad but the cover description made it seem a bit more violent and action packed.

J Harker 20th April 2023 09:09 PM

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Slashy Ashy goes to a secluded cabin in the woods with his friends and girlfriend , when Ash plays a tape recorder everything literally goes too hell. It's still very gory but it's quite tame by today's standards as we see worse on TV. A classic , it always 50/50 in which I enjoy more this or the sequel .

Now for something completely different and no it's not Monty Python.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlnmQ...hvdyB0cmFpbGVy

I love The Evil Dead. It's my favourite of the trilogy, it has some very dark humour but it's played straight enough to not be comedy. I do adore the sequels but the original is one of my earliest experiences of real horror cinema and I hold it in exceptionally high esteem.

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Demdike@Cult Labs 20th April 2023 09:39 PM

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High Lane (2009) aka Vertige.

French backwoods shocker in which a group of climbers are hunted in the mountains by a crazed poacher.

A film genuinely of two halves. The first is survival horror on the mountain with an incredible set piece taking place across a long highly unstable rope bridge. The tension is almost unbearable and even on last night's second viewing i was literally on the edge of my seat.

The second half of the film is more formulaic survival horror in the kill or be killed vein that we've seen many times before, be it Just Before Dawn (1981) or Wrong Turn (2003) and the countless imitators before and since.

It's still good value for money with outstanding scenery that would make this well worth a Blu-ray purchase but the villain is instantly forgettable especially in comparison to the movies first half.

Demoncrat 20th April 2023 10:19 PM

Every time that I have ever revisited The Evil Dead .... tame is not the word that springs to mind.

MrBarlow 20th April 2023 11:21 PM

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The Exorcism Of Molly Hartley. 2015.

Six years have passed, Molly is 24 years old and living the dream until the demon that was summoned by a cult is still tormenting her. A fallen priest tries to do battle with the demon and save Molly's soul.

This seemed to borrow some elements from previous horror flicks, a fallen priest, a tormented girl and a psychiatric hospital. Sarah Lind plays Molly in this and Devon Saw a as the priest who is forced to face a demon for a second time round. To be honest this was better than the previous film, the writer obviously took notes from the first film and though we can do better. The make up effects of the possessed Molly isn't great nor the demonic voice but does have some good visual effects and a little curve ball added in.

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MrBarlow 21st April 2023 01:42 AM

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The Fog. 1980.

A old fashioned ghost story created with a good imagination by John Carpenter and Debra Hill who got the idea while holidaying by Stonehenge and watching a fog go by.

The movie has a good and original creepy story with awesome ghostly figures and gore, without any blood. It is notable that this movie had a low budget which works perfectly for the dark, depressing atmosphere. The opening is great with John Houseman sitting round a campfire telling a tale then the opening shot of Antonio Bay with a great background score.

The acting is brilliant with Tom Atkins taking the lead male role and assisted with Hal Holbrook as the town's minister who discovered the old family secret. Jamie Lee Curtis is the newbie in town who quickly builds up a relationship with Atkins. Janet Leigh as the town Mayor who doesn't believe what lie the town has been built on. Adrienne Barbeau is the town's late night DJ who helps build up the suspense and tension while guiding people to sanctuary and detailing where the fog is and screaming for someone to help her son. The film is 43 years old and still a great classic film.

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Demdike@Cult Labs 21st April 2023 12:42 PM

FFS!

Despite The Fog being one of my top twenty films of all time i never remember about the 21st of bloody April.

I always treat it as a classic Halloween watch type of film.

I suppose i could always watch it tonight seeing as it's still the 21st.

Demdike@Cult Labs 21st April 2023 12:53 PM

Anyone who would simply like to listen to the camp fire tale. Here it is as a Gothic song with Machen's story and Carpenter's theme interwoven.

The Vision Bleak - Elizabeth Dane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YqoQbMfkAk

The Death Ship has a new Captain (2003)

J Harker 21st April 2023 01:48 PM

The Irishman. Martin Scorsese. 2019.


The story of Frank Sheeran, the titular Irishman of the title. How he goes from a meat truck driver in 50's Pennsylvania to becoming involved with the notorious Buffalino crime family and rising through the ranks of organised crime to become a top hitman and close friend and confidant of the legendary Union leader Jimmy Hoffa.
We have events told through the eyes of a now elderly Frank as his last years drift by, forgotten in a nursing home.

Scorsese's mob epic is a long leisurely affair. For a three and half hour film I wouldn't say an awful lot really happens, even with a story spanning decades. In terms of mafia films, The Irishman is more akin to The Godfather or Leone's Once Upon a Time In America than to Scorsese's own Goodfellas or Casino. An intimate, look at relationships within the mafia, the role friendships plays, the impact on families. Sheeran isn't a man raised in this world. He's a working class family man who just happens to drift into this world.

Much has been made of the digital effects used to de-age the leads, Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino. Claims that younger actors being used for earlier stages in their lives would have worked better, I disagree. The events don't take place over a long enough time period for that to be necessary and by and large the effects used are perfectly acceptable. To be honest Pacino's Hoffa doesn't seem to look much different at any point to me, not helped by Pacino's usual shouty performance, it isn't a bad performance but it's nothing he hasn't done before.

Joe Pesci is on fine form playing the head of the Buffalino family, Russel Buffalino. An understated turn as a calm, calculating orchestrator of events. Much much subtler than say Goodfellas wild unpredictable Tommy DeVito or Casino's Nicky Santoro. One never doubts the ruthless predator lurking behind the calm demeanour though. The star of the show though for me is De Niro. It's his film through and through with him delivering the best performance in years, possibly since Heat.

For me Frank Sheeran never feels anything more than a pawn, manipulated by the higher ups around him and I think DeNiro got that playing the guy with a sort of naivety. Russel Buffalino is a friend but there's no doubt whatsoever that he is willing to play Frank to get what he needs even up to the tragic conclusion.

We end up with Frank in his twilight years as the last man standing in a world that doesn't know or even care who he is. A point driven home by his interchange with a young nurse in his care home who has never even heard of Jimmy Hoffa, a major character in not just Frank Sheerans past but American history.

Through all this though there's never any semblance of remorse from the character, even as he converses with the priest assigned to the care home. He admits to feeling no particular regret, it was what it was. Frank Sheeran is a cold murderer, there's a certain charisma to DeNiro's performance but ultimately he's an irredeemable killer.
IMDB would tell you that Robert DeNiro only played a man-made monster once, I disagree.
An excellent film.

Demdike@Cult Labs 21st April 2023 02:13 PM

Excellent review, J.

I bought The Irishman when it first came out on dvd, from Asda of all places, and i still haven't watched it yet.

I'll have to move it up the to-watch pile.

J Harker 21st April 2023 02:34 PM

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Excellent review, J.



I bought The Irishman when it first came out on dvd, from Asda of all places, and i still haven't watched it yet.



I'll have to move it up the to-watch pile.

I watched it on Netflix last week. Really want the blu but I'm not biting til it gets well below £20.

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gag 21st April 2023 03:09 PM

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The Woman

A controlling Husband kidnaps a feral cannibalistic Woman in order to domesticate her. When Arrow launched their latest Sale, I made a list of potential targets to watch the Trailers of. This one made the cut and it's rather enjoyable and made me think why I never picked up on this one before, it's disturbing and violent.

I think that if this was made in the early 80's, it might have landed on the Video Nasties List, a lot tamer Films made it.

Bad Blood

Abigail Breslin takes up a job as a Drug Runner for her Uncle played by Sean Bean but is caught in the middle as her Sister starts dating one of her customers played by James Purefoy. It's not bad but the cover description made it seem a bit more violent and action packed.

I bought the woman a while back and only watched it recently, I don’t know what it was but I just couldn’t get into it and was bored so turned it off around the hr mark .

trebor8273 21st April 2023 06:34 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlnmQ...bWFuIHNob3c%3D

My favourite Jim Carrey movie . Here he plays Truman a man who doesn't release his entire life is a TV show and everyone he knows is an actor, this includes his wife and best friend . He slowly begins too release Their is something strange about his life. Carreys performance is fantastic and proved he wasn't just a comic but good actor. He see a lot comedians who turn out too be great actors but you don't see a lot actors that make good comedians . A heart warming classic .



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smTK_...AyMiB0cmFpbGVy


Well what a pleasant surprise this far exceeded my expectations. It's very very gory and violent and the big plus it's practical effects , we have literally gallons of blood and guts. The tension builds and builds until it reaches breaking point. See if you can "spot" Bruce . A worthy spiritual successor too the original . Lots of nods / Easter eggs too the movies we even have one to the shining.

Now watching , for the first time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZVj...JhaWxlcg%3D%3D

Demdike@Cult Labs 21st April 2023 09:47 PM

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The Golden Child (1986)

Fun Eddie Murphy fantasy in which he plays an LA social worker assigned to track down a Tibetan boy with mystical powers who has been kidnapped by Charles Dance and his diabolical cult.

The first half all set in Los Angeles is superior to the Tibetan set second half, especially when Murphy takes out a biker gang as Ratt's Body Talk video blasts out of the tv. Murphy is great in social worker mode when he guests on a tv show with a moron of a presenter and you care about his relationship with Charlotte Lewis' character who enlists him to find the Golden Child.

The film's second half isn't really a patch on the first other than a battle with Dance who transforms into a winged stop motion style demon at the finale. In fact it's practically a poor mans reworking of Big Trouble in Little China which hit cinemas the previous summer.

J Harker 21st April 2023 09:59 PM

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The Golden Child (1986)

Fun Eddie Murphy fantasy in which he plays an LA social worker assigned to track down a Tibetan boy with mystical powers who has been kidnapped by Charles Dance and his diabolical cult.

The first half all set in Los Angeles is superior to the Tibetan set second half, especially when Murphy takes out a biker gang as Ratt's Body Talk video blasts out of the tv. Murphy is great in social worker mode when he guests on a tv show with a moron of a presenter and you care about his relationship with Charlotte Lewis' character who enlists him to find the Golden Child.

The film's second half isn't really a patch on the first other than a battle with Dance who transforms into a winged stop motion style demon at the finale. In fact it's practically a poor mans reworking of Big Trouble in Little China which hit cinemas the previous summer.

I haven't seen this for years. Always enjoyed it though. Have to be honest I don't actually remember the first half you mentioned Dem. I remember the more Indiana Jones themed second half. Although as I say it's been so so long.

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iank 21st April 2023 10:27 PM

M3gan. A computer programmer suddenly forced to look after her nine year old niece following the death of her parents is inspired to build the ultimate toy in M3gan, a lifesize robot doll with AI that can provide companionship and guidance to children. But M3gan soon begins to develop her own ideas... This 2023 sci-fi horror is okay, but nothing more than that despite the hype. The first half is actually better than the second, with some genuinely unnerving ideas and moments as well as commentary on our obsession with and reliance on technology, but the second half just goes for cliche slasher type horror and gets a bit silly. Not bad.

MrBarlow 22nd April 2023 08:24 AM

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Wrath Of Man. 2021.

Patrick Hill known as H starts working for a cash moving company after foiling a robbery he is praised for his work, his colleagues are unaware he has other plans.

Jason Statham plays the new comer teamed with Holt McCallany and Josh Hartnett that starts the day with some light work humour then takes a on a serious tone with flash backs scene that shows why Statham is feared by a gang who try to rob his van. It's not over the top for a action thriller and decently written and directed by Guy Ritchie and manages to try and throw in a curve ball but it can be obvious who the insider man can be and decently played shootout. Worth a watch.

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Nordicdusk 22nd April 2023 10:29 AM

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On a road trip for some fun at the lake a bunch of friends get lost after picking up a hitch hiker and decide to spend the night in an old abandoned mansion before setting out to find the lake the next morning but the only lake this crazy bunch will find is a lake of their own BLOOOOOOOOOD.

I got a good feeling from the start even with the terrible acting and even worse dialogue but that good feeling rapidly went away and what started out as entertaining just started to annoy me the acting keeps getting worse and the dialogue gets embarrassing. The first hour of the film absolutely nothing happens it's just them messing about in the house but once the kills start it's all done very fast but none of it is worth the wait every kill is the same grabbed from behind in the dark throat slit and stabbed in the chest. There is no proper onscreen kills just obviously blood in the blade trick and there is lots of blood but obviously thrown on them off screen so it's just boring.

The soundtrack is terrible too a real product of the 90s hard to explain but if you just heard the music without any knowledge of the film you would know within seconds it was just some generic 90s crap here's a cheap Casio keyboard just mash the keys... Perfect that will do cheers mate.

It's a pretty stunning looking blu ray and this film doesn't deserve this sort of treatment which always blows my mind that these sort of crap films get releases like this when so many great ones don't.

Absolute GARBAGE

MrBarlow 22nd April 2023 10:38 AM

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Heavenhurst. 2016.

Jackie a reformed alcoholic takes up residency in a building for people who have left the clinic and uncovers a dark secret.

Julie Benz takes the lead alongside Fionnula Flanagan as the owner of the gothic style building who sets the rules and if they are broken then its eviction in a different way. Partially based on the back story of serial killer H.H. Holmes that is decently corporated in the story. Aside from seeing the after effect of someone getting sliced and a noticeable goof with a acid shower, this seemed to have a decent star cast but fails on some levels. There is no tense or suspenseful moments that made me wanna be on the edge of my seat, the director had good intentions then must have just said "go with it". Didn't do much for me.

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Demdike@Cult Labs 22nd April 2023 12:41 PM

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On a road trip for some fun at the lake a bunch of friends get lost after picking up a hitch hiker and decide to spend the night in an old abandoned mansion before setting out to find the lake the next morning but the only lake this crazy bunch will find is a lake of their own BLOOOOOOOOOD.

I got a good feeling from the start even with the terrible acting and even worse dialogue but that good feeling rapidly went away and what started out as entertaining just started to annoy me the acting keeps getting worse and the dialogue gets embarrassing. The first hour of the film absolutely nothing happens it's just them messing about in the house but once the kills start it's all done very fast but none of it is worth the wait every kill is the same grabbed from behind in the dark throat slit and stabbed in the chest. There is no proper onscreen kills just obviously blood in the blade trick and there is lots of blood but obviously thrown on them off screen so it's just boring.

The soundtrack is terrible too a real product of the 90s hard to explain but if you just heard the music without any knowledge of the film you would know within seconds it was just some generic 90s crap here's a cheap Casio keyboard just mash the keys... Perfect that will do cheers mate.

It's a pretty stunning looking blu ray and this film doesn't deserve this sort of treatment which always blows my mind that these sort of crap films get releases like this when so many great ones don't.

Absolute GARBAGE

Totally agree! :nod:

Demdike@Cult Labs 22nd April 2023 01:02 PM

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The Fog (1980)

John Carpenter's classic ghost story set on the 21st of April. Arguably i should have begun the film at 11.55pm on the 20th April to tie in with the telling of John Houseman's wonderful campfire tale, rather than the same time on the 21st, but i'll argue that it doesn't take the supposed five minutes to tell just a mere 3 mins 49 seconds so when Houseman's watch chimes midnight that's fast too.

I must have reviewed this several times over the years so ignore my waffling. The Fog is brilliant. It always has been and it always will be.

I adore the re-release restoration new artwork from Matt Ferguson (below) as well.

Nordicdusk 22nd April 2023 01:50 PM

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The Fog (1980)

John Carpenter's classic ghost story set on the 21st of April. Arguably i should have begun the film at 11.55pm on the 20th April to tie in with the telling of John Houseman's wonderful campfire tale, rather than the same time on the 21st, but i'll argue that it doesn't take the supposed five minutes to tell just a mere 3 mins 49 seconds so when Houseman's watch chimes midnight that's fast too.

I must have reviewed this several times over the years so ignore my waffling. The Fog is brilliant. It always has been and it always will be.

I adore the re-release restoration new artwork from Matt Ferguson (below) as well.

This is the perfect film acting story setting atmosphere that bloody soundtrack :hail:

This is one of the films that when I think about it it makes feel sick in my stomach like it's fluttering I think they call it ...... Love :loveeyes:

Frankie Teardrop 22nd April 2023 02:07 PM

BAD CANDY – There aren’t many Easter horror films, are there? There are probably loads, but none of them sprung to mind t’other week, so with Halloween I guess being the seasonal default for horror fans I went with one from the pile that didn’t get a viewing last Oct. ‘Bad Candy’ is a portmanteau job with numerous interconnected stories a la the superior ‘Trick r Treat’ (still the best Halloween anthology to my and probably everyone’s mind). It centres on an alt.horror type radio show whose DJ happens to be ex-Gremlins guy Zach Galligan, on hand to provide threads and a bit of continuity before everything gets a little baggy. There are some nice skits, including a crazy woodland hunt which involves people with jack o’lanterns on their heads being stalked by a massive vampire, and there’s an overload of nice seasonal imagery to match quite a strong visual tone overall. It didn’t quite mesh and, by the time the final storyline tried to pull it all together, things felt a little tagged-on and free of much tension. OK though, a decent enough watch.

SOMETHING IN THE DIRT – I still regard Benson and Moorheads‘s first three features as their best so far. ‘Synchronic’ I thought was OK, you couldn’t say it wasn’t solid, but it lacked the weird verve of ‘The Endless’. Here we have two guys, one of whom has blood on his shirt during their first encounter, who team up to explore supernatural stuff going on in their apartment building. A crystal floats mid-air, the web is consulted, and before long B&M, to quote MES, “uncover secrets and scandals of deceitful type proportions.” It's about connections, labyrinthine conspiracies, wheels within wheels, a deep dive that starts to feel sketchily contrived, or maybe just like a more manicured youtube video about people into weird stuff. Then it does a u-turn and mutates into a pseudo-documentary about its own making. Going meta might’ve been the final nail in its coffin – it certainly wants us to know how self-reflexive it is, it’s always giving us the nod - but this works in a way because it narrows things down and introduces a gradually dawning sense of there being a drama behind the scenes. The crux of all that becomes as slippery and elusive as the grand conspiracy the pair seem to be searching for, but it’s more interesting because of the hint of murder in the background. That’s my theory, and it is just a theory, right? I’m no David Ike. But it might be all it takes to stop SITD being essentially a movie about having an internet connection and too much time on your hands.

Nordicdusk 22nd April 2023 04:03 PM

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Room to rent ? Well this won't end well.

Medical student Dan and his girlfriend are plunged into a living nightmare when fellow new medical student Herbert West rents a room from Dan. Alarm bells start ringing when Dan's cat goes missing and they discover the body in Herbert fridge as if that's not bad enough that night the cat is back prowling the house intent on revenge attacking Dan and Herbert.

What the actual hell is going on?

Herbert shares his secret research with Dan that he has discovered a serum to bring animals and people back from the dead but no one comes back normal and it doesn't take long before the situation escalates out of control.

Re-animator is always a blast and this is actually the first time I have seen it on blu ray and it looks amazing the lighting the colours everything just pops off the screen it's a beautiful looking film. The gore and practical effects are amazing it such a fun time the film never gets old and always puts me in a great mood. Jeffery Combs is fantastic as always he was just perfect for the roll and Barbra Crampton is brilliant as always you have to hand it to her for what she went through in this film especially the head scene which is hilarious and pretty uncomfortable to watch so in an imagine how she felt laying on that table :lol:

Look most people if not everyone has seen this Its a must see and as I said if your ever in a bad mood throw this on its gaurenteed to perk you up.

This is one of those films I'll upgrade to 4K no question I can only imagine how amazing that will look.

MrBarlow 22nd April 2023 05:27 PM

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Room to rent ? Well this won't end well.

Medical student Dan and his girlfriend are plunged into a living nightmare when fellow new medical student Herbert West rents a room from Dan. Alarm bells start ringing when Dan's cat goes missing and they discover the body in Herbert fridge as if that's not bad enough that night the cat is back prowling the house intent on revenge attacking Dan and Herbert.

What the actual hell is going on?

Herbert shares his secret research with Dan that he has discovered a serum to bring animals and people back from the dead but no one comes back normal and it doesn't take long before the situation escalates out of control.

Re-animator is always a blast and this is actually the first time I have seen it on blu ray and it looks amazing the lighting the colours everything just pops off the screen it's a beautiful looking film. The gore and practical effects are amazing it such a fun time the film never gets old and always puts me in a great mood. Jeffery Combs is fantastic as always he was just perfect for the roll and Barbra Crampton is brilliant as always you have to hand it to her for what she went through in this film especially the head scene which is hilarious and pretty uncomfortable to watch so in an imagine how she felt laying on that table :lol:

Look most people if not everyone has seen this Its a must see and as I said if your ever in a bad mood throw this on its gaurenteed to perk you up.

This is one of those films I'll upgrade to 4K no question I can only imagine how amazing that will look.


That line always cracks me up :lol:

Demdike@Cult Labs 22nd April 2023 05:59 PM

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Withnail and I (1987)

No matter how many times i watch this most beloved of films (Twice this year already) i always think one brief scene stands out for it's bizarreness.

And this in a film crammed with bizarreness.

The scene in question is towards the end of the film when Withnail (Richard E Grant) and I (Paul McGann) return to their cottage deep in the Lake District countryside to find the poacher has left them a Hare nailed to the cottage door with a note that reads "Here, Hare, here". The guys have to say it over and over to get it and i find it so comically bizarre.

"Here, Hare, here".

Demoncrat 22nd April 2023 07:30 PM

Their terror at the uncle's unbidden arrival always makes me larf D.

Ahem.

Bloodsport (1988, Newt Arnold)

Cannon caper.
JCVD and Bolo Yeung? :nod::pop2:
One of their more conventionally structured films is what I came away initially.
Lots of fun here as the buff Belgian makes his way through various opponents in a film that is basically an extended version of the tournament sequence from Enter The Dragon cough.
Yes, it is sort of a biopic of this chap Frank Dux as I discovered, but that doesn't get in the way of the kicking and ting. Bolo plays the bad guy shock horror I'll get a mop etc.




Amityville In The Hood (2021, Dark Inifinity)

Word. Using that house to grow your stash ... it's bound to go well innit? :pound:
After a mate confronted me with the fact that he didn't know about all them darn Amityville sequels, what's a demon to do but ruin someone's day? :nod::laugh:
About as arsequakingly awful as you'd expect. Sub Asylum shiiiiiite.
Back to Indonesia methinks!!! :nod:

trebor8273 22nd April 2023 08:24 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaZVj...JhaWxlcg%3D%3D

A mathematics professor sets a problem for his class , when it is solved but none of his class say it was them he finds out it's the university's janitor who solved it , he soon learns that they are a one in lifetime genius but their is a problem he has a problem with authority after a failed attempt to help him with various psychiatrist he turns to ex friend Robin Williams to see if he can help Will a complex relationship develops between the two , that helps both with the issues in there lives .

We also have Ben Affleck as Wills best friend and Minnie Driver as Wills love interest . A fantastic and ultimately uplifting film that gave a most deserving best supporting Oscar too the late great Williams , Damon and Affleck also received a Oscar for best script.

No watching , which is another I've not seen before.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md6Dv...JhaWxlcg%3D%3D

J Harker 22nd April 2023 11:06 PM

Good Will Hunting is a film I really need to revisit. I remember enjoying it immensely when I first watched it.
World War Z annoyed me. I won't say anything now but I look forward to your thoughts Treb.

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MrBarlow 23rd April 2023 08:16 AM

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The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism. 1967.

A count executed for the murder of 12 young women returns from the grave to exact revenge on the decendant who tried him and to find another victim.

Lex Barker plays the young new Baron coming to claim his inheritance unaware of the castle and area that may be cursed and joined by priest Vladimir Medar who seems a bit hot under the collar or hot under the belt area. Karen Dor and servant Christiane Rucker join them on their journey after being robbed and Dor being the one for the next sacrifice.

We see Christopher Lee or the man in the mask at the start of the film and then he shows up in the last 30 mins resurrected by servant Carl Lange, but certainly does bring his acting charms to the screen as the demented Count Racula (say it three times fast :lol:). For someone who has returned from the dead is a bit grayish and evil demeanour but certainly enjoyable to watch without being dubbed over.

Like every Euro horror involving a castle this certainly keeps its gothic style from the journey through the woods and trees that look like have human bodies engraved in them. The castle itself does have the dark atmosphere that a certain scene does make it feel like its taken from a Poe story even though one title for rhe film Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel roughly translates to The Snakepit And The Pendulum. A nice little entertaining chiller.

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Frankie Teardrop 23rd April 2023 10:53 AM

SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE – One good thing about life is tracking down eighties slashers I haven’t yet seen. Another generally quite good thing is the Concorde logo, it’s not always harbinger of a good time but it sometimes is. SHM is as shameless and cheapshit as they come. It’s basically just a stilted rip-off of 'Halloween' and any generic slasher movie set on a campus. It’s from the mid-eighties, and a straightforward mid-eighties slasher really is the definition of turning up late for the party with an empty bottle. Why do I like it so much, then? It’s just so f*cking silly. I don’t have time to run through the plethora of stupidity on show, but I just really like stuff such as the bit where the Michael clone decides he needs a knife, so he walks into a hardware store in broad daylight, smashes open a glass cabinet, grabs a blade and stabs the owner – all done as a throwaway aside with the dramatic tone of a TV ad for a local car showroom. Or the bit where someone takes care descending a ladder, but then in the next shot doesn’t seem to notice the serial killer standing a few rungs down. Or the bit where a house we know to be quite small starts to seem infinite just because they needed people to run around endlessly for half an hour etc etc. The surrounding ambience is leg warmers, PiL posters and clunky dream sequences. I could watch this kind of shit for hours. You could almost put it in the same zone as ‘Evil Laugh’ and ‘Moonstalker’, but it’s played dead straight, which makes it so much better.

Demoncrat 23rd April 2023 11:24 AM

Another expert evaluation FT!! :nod::hail::nod::hail:


The Ark Of The Sun God (1984, Antonio Margheriti)

David Warbeck? John Steiner? Go on then.
Tasked with an interesting job, DW finds that a cult also has a stake in this enterprise. Still, he drags the wife along for a nice holiday ahem.
Teaming up with the John Rhys Davies he ordered off Wish and the father from Yor (:hail:) who was involved in an earlier attempt on this treasure. A hoot. Car chases, model work and stunts aplenty in this romp.
Recommended.

Demdike@Cult Labs 23rd April 2023 01:13 PM

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SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE – One good thing about life is tracking down eighties slashers I haven’t yet seen. Another generally quite good thing is the Concorde logo, it’s not always harbinger of a good time but it sometimes is. SHM is as shameless and cheapshit as they come. It’s basically just a stilted rip-off of 'Halloween' and any generic slasher movie set on a campus. It’s from the mid-eighties, and a straightforward mid-eighties slasher really is the definition of turning up late for the party with an empty bottle. Why do I like it so much, then? It’s just so f*cking silly. I don’t have time to run through the plethora of stupidity on show, but I just really like stuff such as the bit where the Michael clone decides he needs a knife, so he walks into a hardware store in broad daylight, smashes open a glass cabinet, grabs a blade and stabs the owner – all done as a throwaway aside with the dramatic tone of a TV ad for a local car showroom. Or the bit where someone takes care descending a ladder, but then in the next shot doesn’t seem to notice the serial killer standing a few rungs down. Or the bit where a house we know to be quite small starts to seem infinite just because they needed people to run around endlessly for half an hour etc etc. The surrounding ambience is leg warmers, PiL posters and clunky dream sequences. I could watch this kind of shit for hours. You could almost put it in the same zone as ‘Evil Laugh’ and ‘Moonstalker’, but it’s played dead straight, which makes it so much better.

I've actually got Sorority House Massacre on dvd. Evil Laugh as well. However Moonstalker is a new one on me. I take it it's a VS release and would cost £30 for some unutterable tripe.

Demoncrat 23rd April 2023 01:23 PM

Moonstalker is in all honesty a third tier slasher (dark print losing it second place ahem). Twas neither worse nor better than some. IMHO.

Demdike@Cult Labs 23rd April 2023 01:32 PM

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Moonstalker is in all honesty a third tier slasher (dark print losing it second place ahem). Twas neither worse nor better than some. IMHO.

The killer looks a hoot from pictures. Looks like he's literally escaped from an asylum five seconds after having his clothes at the launderette. Cloth mask and all.

Nordicdusk 23rd April 2023 03:07 PM

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Sick of the same old town the same old faces and the same old shit four friends scrape together enough money to go to spring break by both honest and illegal means. This is the trip of a life time for these girls more than just partying but a chance to see something different and find themselves and discover who they really are. This is one voyage of discovery that these teens won't like what they find and will change them for the rest of their lives for both good and bad.

I watched this for the first time about a year ago and instantly fell in love with it after avoiding it for years thinking it was some crappy teen drama a prime example of don't judge a book by it's cover.

This is my second time watching this and it still blows me away everything about this is amazing honestly. The party scenes at spring break are full of jocks and assholes but the way it's shot is perfect so we don't have to listen to any of their macho talk. The first half of the film is filled with plenty of uncomfortable scenes with the girls in some not so ideal situations that could go badly every fast and these can be a hard watch but sadly that's a reality of what goes on much too often.

Spring breakers feels like your dreaming it feels like your not watching a film but it's like your there witnessing it all first hand it's hard to explain but you find yourself on the same voyage of discovery as the girls we all want what's over there but sometimes what you have going on here is much better you just need to to be shown but sometimes you can't come back.

The cinematography is amazing the sun sets on the beach the neon drenched streets at night the mesmerising way the violence is shown with some amazing music playing over these slow motion scenes taking you even further into the dream. The film is pure artistry and has lost none of its impact from the first time I watched it.

James Franco is brilliant as Alien he is seedy and dangerous he is brash and full of himself but you can see this is a tough front he uses to hide the fact that he is lost and scared and these girls are changing him because they are not just there for the money and all the fancy things he has they are just as crazy as he is and they feed off the danger and he has finally found what he has always been looking for and no he is terrified to lose it. All this is no more evident than the Brittany Spears scene which is one of my favourite scenes in any film I have very little knowledge of Brittany Spears music but this is a touching scene that really exposes Aliens vulnerability again how this scene is shot is breathtaking the sun setting on the beach the pink balaclavas the way the girls dance with the guns it's just amazing.

I love this film I bought the blu ray straight away after I watched this on Netflix that first time because I just knew this was a special film and watching it again today I still feel that way.

Beautiful haunting and very thought provoking.

:hail:

Demdike@Cult Labs 23rd April 2023 03:35 PM

I too love Spring Breakers, Nordy.

The visuals showcasing the masked bikini clad girls on the pier wielding various fire arms is unforgettable.

Not in a sexy dreamy way. More like a neon drenched nightmare.

Looks fantastic on Blu as well.

Nordicdusk 23rd April 2023 04:14 PM

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I too love Spring Breakers, Nordy.

The visuals showcasing the masked bikini clad girls on the pier wielding various fire arms is unforgettable.

Not in a sexy dreamy way. More like a neon drenched nightmare.

Looks fantastic on Blu as well.



There is lots of nudity and scantly clad ladies but it's not erotic or sexual or exploitative but it is beautiful if you get what I'm saying and I don't mean that in a pervey way help me out here you know what I mean :lol::lol:

Demdike@Cult Labs 23rd April 2023 06:47 PM

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Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Faye Dunaway plays a fashion photographer who takes kinky images of stylized violence for her spreads. Things take on a slight supernatural nature when she begins seeing real time murders through the eyes of a killer of her colleagues. The police including a young Tommy Lee Jones are sceptical to say the least.

An American giallo if ever there was one. If truth be told, if you are a fan of Italian murder mysteries then there's absolutely nothing here you won't have seen before, except with less gore. The story (John Carpenter co-wrote) is enjoyable enough and full of red herrings and it's great to see the likes of Dunaway and Jones in a film of this ilk. Irvin Kershner's direction is slick in what is a stylish thriller, if very seventies with that style, yet it's also a style that's very much ahead of the story's substance although even back then it took a dim view of exploiting sex and violence for mass consumption.

MrBarlow 23rd April 2023 07:37 PM

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Subspecies. 1991.

Three American students get caught in a battle between of good and evil between two vampire brothers.

Anders Hove plays the vampire Radu, son to Angus Scrimm in a small appearance as The King of the undead, even though he is only on screen for the first few mins he never fails to disappoint with his presence. Shot on location around Romania, the cinematography has been greatly done, even the exterior and interior shots is how you would expect it to be in a vampire's lair of a castle. Having viewed this on VHS and DVD, The Blu-Ray does not disappoint with the sharpened up picture quality and the sound, good job on the transfer Full Moon.

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