I've read that it was still being written (or rewritten) during filming. Normally that spells complete disaster but the end result is amazing.

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The Appointment. 1982.

A girl disappears while walking through the woods and the area is sealed off, 3 years later a man is tormented by supernatural forces that causes him to experience strange dreams.

A British horror movie that doesn't rely on blood, gore, or jump scene moments but more psychological. The character build up around the family of Edward Woodward, Jane Merrow and Samantha Weysom is good and does leave you with with some unanswered questions after the interaction between father and daughter. As the day goes on for the Edward and his car journey goes get somewhat tense until the finale and how he managed to be alive. I'm not gonna lie, after the opening this film does go slow but it somehow manages to keep you intrigued.

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Dragonwyck. 1946.

A young farm girl is contacted by a distant relative to be a governess for a young girl in a remote mansion.

Thanks to Dem for posting a picture in his Gothic thread that I went on the hunt for this, it's one of those I only partially watched and forgot about the plot. This is a lushly Gothic melodrama; abound with themes of social class; centring on the struggle between the rich and the poor in nineteenth century America. The most striking thing about Dragonwyck is the beauty of the piece. The sets are brilliantly Gothic which keeps the atmosphere thick and foreboding, which in turn ensures that the film succeeds in capturing the best of it's mood and story line.

The Gothic romance with supernatural touches shows the confrontation between an atheistic arrogant man and his naive religious wife. The performance of Vincent Price is top-notch and the gorgeous Gene Tierney performs as a naive character but with strong principles. Walter Huston is also amazing. A great Saturday morning feature.

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Finishing off my PA round-up.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 - The series takes a detour into the lives of some other boring suburbanites who live in a similar house. This time there's a sinister child from across the road - will he bring supernatural doom to the etcetc Maybe all the box office competition from the wave of 'Insidious' clones (arguably semi-inspired by the original 'Paranormal Activity' anyway) sharpened the makers' pencils a bit, because I found 'Paranormal Activity 4' quite effectively eerie in patches, with a nicely sustained build up and enough little visual skits to offset the expected rattling and glimpses of people running past doorways. The ending's a bit meh, but if it's the journey that counts then this one's pretty good.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES - Part five. Two goofballs get on the wrong side of the woman downstairs; she's pretty good at dark sorcery, so that's their hard luck really. I suppose half the point of being a kid these days is that you're a twenty-four-hour recording device anyway, meaning the 'need excuse for camera' thing is pretty much catered for there. Apart from the slight levity provided by the two doofuses at the heart of this demonic shitstorm, it only really stretches beyond the series's basic pattern when it stages a frenetic runaround in the occultist's hangout at the end, a climactic blowout that's quite atmospheric if you like big shadowy rooms full of furniture covered in sheets and rocking horse silhouettes in windows (I do). Seems quite well regarded by some - me, I thought it was OK.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION - I pretend not to be influenced by what people say but I am really, so as the credits rolled I put my growing feeling of apprehension down to the fact that the general consensus on 'The Ghost Dimension' is that it's shite. Did I try to prove the naysayers in my head wrong? After I clocked all the shit CGI, I'm not sure I did. The problem with 'The Ghost Dimension' is that it trades what 'Paranormal Activity' does well - ham-fisted 'suggestive' spookery that looks alright when geed up by the false urgency of found footage - for a stab at something that could only ever reveal it as the poor relation of a James Wan-involved flick. Usually I can find the good in the truly bad, but this sits more in the category of films that are too bland to be worth fighting for. The backstory felt unwieldy and silly too. Actually, I fell asleep for quite a bit of it. I must stop talking about it now.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: NEXT OF KIN - Well, it looks like I've made it. I have to admit, I had a lot more fun when I did the 'Friday The 13th' and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' binges last year, but now I'm at the top of the mountain the journey here doesn't seem so bad. And we leave things on a relative high, as 'Next Of Kin' is actually pretty good. A documentarian visits a religious community somewhere deep in the sticks to film her newfound biological family, who claim to be Amish. Just look at those big sinister barns, though - might these symbols of archetypal midwestern horror be hiding some kind of awful secret? 'Next Of Kin' builds slowly and follows firmly in the footsteps of its forebears in ticking off a plethora of low wattage bump-in-the-night cliches on the way, but, and I know this defeats the object a bit, at least it has the poise, feel and aesthetics of a 'proper film'; no scummy mid noughts trash cams here. More to the point, those sinister barns, the desolate location, the midnight gatherings in the church in the woods all boil up a fairly menacing atmosphere in places, enough to make the running around at the end feel like a pay-off. It works pretty much as a standalone film too, so I wouldn't really blame non-PA completists for skipping most of what lies between this and the first one.

The Marked Ones I liked a lot, Ghost Dimension is a hit or a miss, but need to re-watch Next Of Kin. Will you be jumping at the chance to see Paranormal Activity 8??

The Innocents. 1961.

One of the best adaptations of Turn Of The Screw, this one sees Deborah Kerr playing the governess to Pamela Franklin and Martin Stephens as the orphaned children while the spirits of Peter Wyngarde and Clytie Jessop are tormenting the governess.

Is The Innocents a ghost story or something psychological like a game to drive the new member of staff to brink of loosing her sanity...either way it does play on your mind as a audience member as everyone involved do play their part well especially with Miles who seems to have a troubled background and who knows how his mischievous mind works while being assisted by his sister or is it just him altogether and being influenced by the late vale Quint. Darlk gothic and atmospheric sets in well and created brilliantly by Jack Clayton and Freddie Francis.

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The Elephant Man. 1980.

Something different from David Lynch who likes to confuse his audience yet with Mel Brooks producing this film we can understand the plot as even to actually feel sorry for the title character on how he became a side show freak, to being somewhat rescued, treated as a human only to be exposed by a hospital worker. Then another circus/freakshow owner then returned back to the doctor.

Anthony Hopkins plays the doctor who is interested in John Merrick and seems to have empathy side towards John and helps him to adjust to new surroundings while John Gielgud has a sharper side and then slowly understands what the doctor is doing. John Hurt plays John Merrick and really went into this role with everything he could even down the make up process and how to actually master the speaking parts.

This is basically a unseen movie for me as I have only seen bits of it but watching it all the way through I have truly enjoyed this film.

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I haven't seen a single Paranormal Activity film after the first one so was intrigued by what your consensus would be of the whole series, Frankie.

Well after reading your write ups i won't be shelling out for a Blu-ray box set anytime soon. So i'm pleased that idea has been laid to rest.

Plane (2023)

Gerard Butler plays a commercial airline pilot forced to make an emergency landing on Jolo island in the Philippines. Together with a prisoner being escorted on the plane (Mike Colter) they must protect themselves and the passengers from rebels intent on capturing or killing them.

A hugely enjoyable action thriller in which i was immediately invested. Part disaster movie, part Rambo like shoot 'em up, Plane is one of the most gripping films from recent memory. The airliner coming down was terrifically tense and the final acts a white knuckle thrill ride.

Both Butler and Colter are very good and aided by some suspenseful action sequences helmed by French director Jean Francois Richet. Plane plays like a piece of classic 90's popcorn cinema so if you love the likes of Con Air and The Rock as i do then this should be right up your street.

I really liked Plane. Think it was actually one of the last things I reviewed before I hit a wall again.

Just done a search. You reviewed it favourably on May 18th last year. I said the same day that i'd be hopefully watching it that Christmas. :lol: I did buy it to watch over Christmas but never got round to it and i've basically watched it a year on from yourself.

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Spawn Of The Slithis. 1978.

A nuclear waste manages to create a monster that attacks a community in Venice Beach California.

So to be clear this monster doesn't care who it attacks, normal people, bums, hippies, animals, as long as it's slicing and dicing the monster seems happy. We got a man in some sort of rubber suit that is almost on the same par as Humanoids from the deep on a cheaper budget. The start does give it away that it's not to be taken seriously with the two boys throwing a frisbee with near comedic music in the background. The acting is certainly not the best and almost comical with the delivery of the dialogue, but the make-up for the kills almost saves the film from becoming a disaster.

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Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)

You get Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, Doctor Who's Celestial Toymaker and Marco Polo, a muscular body builder in a leather thong, a whip wielding Amazonian babe wearing studded nipple pasties and a green skinned and very horny Barbara Steele.

What's not to love?

In the Earth (2021)

As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run.

I was so disappointed in this so called Folk horror from Ben Wheatley. Whilst the first half delivered horror, black comedy (That foot amputation scene - wow!) and tantalising tit bits of some ancient dark force in the woods, the second half failed to do it justice as it gave way to extended unwatchable sequences of strobe lighting and kaleidoscopic psychedelia that was more annoying than frightening

Parts of the film work wonderfully well. In particular the soundtrack of the forest. The sounds of nature reverberate around the room utilising a surround sound system brilliantly in the way The Blair Witch Project failed to do. It's a shame that these true creepy sounds of Folk Horror gave way to the mess that was the second half.

In a way the last half hour felt like Wheatley was reimagining his earlier A Field In England using strobes and a kaleidoscope rather than any genuine imagination.

This is the first of Ben Wheatley's works i haven't enjoyed.

I bought the Blu-ray of this last year from HMV and it is still on my watchlist! As much as I enjoyed your review, it's dispiriting to read that you didn't like it, but I'll still watch with an open mind.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the awful casting of Joel Fry as the research scientist. Despite being one of Wheatley's lesser works anyway for me it was this that broke the film.

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He didn't convince as a scientist at all. Actually none of them did.

Only Reece Shearsmith, who played the role he always plays, was any good.

I wrote this last year and I stand by it.




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All true. However the scientist in the woods. She seemed more like a Doctor Who companion than an expert on crop efficiency.

L.A. Heat

When a Millionaire's Daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom, a Detective is chosen by him to deliver the ransom but after it goes wrong and his friend is killed, he goes for revenge.

This is PM Entertainment Films first release and their original content was Made For TV and it showed, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs shows promise as the lead but the Action Scenes weren't good (But they certainly improved from 1991 onwards) There was a good death scene in this however. It was a good attempt.

As you may have gathered, I am a fan of most PM Entertainment Films and I went on YouTube to see if there were any videos on their history but there wasn't, however there were some lists with some uploads of their finer efforts.

Dead Pool

Last of the Dirty Harry Movies which sees a game played the Crew of a Film Production where they guess which Celebrities are going to die. When Harry appears on a list and others on it start dying, he investigates in his usual way.

Made in 1989, this could have been one Movie too far and possibly out of it's time but it works, it's entertaining along with Eastwood's sarcastic delivery. This also has a bit of a Cast in it also, Liam Neeson, Patricia Clarkson and a person named James Carey who plays a Drug Addled Rock Star. I have a feeling that a few years later, he might be a star. All kidding aside, he showed flashes of his goofy comedy in this Film.

Ring Of Steel

When a Fencer accidentally kills an opponent, he is enticed into a sort of Underground Fencing Circuit. After he wants out, they kidnap his Girlfriend.

Joe Don Baker is the main star, Darlene Vogel (Pacific Blue, 98 TV Show) is the love interest and Gary Kaspar (You may not know the name but know his face) is the Bad Guy Fencer but it's Robert Chapin who also wrote the Script (Passion Project) who showed poise and some acting ability, he had potential.

This was my 1st ever DVD I bought and it's very tame especially when you compare it to the synopsis on the cover and similar Films like American Samurai (UK BLU-RAY PLEASE) but it's still enjoyable. I would like this on BLU-RAY.

I know Joel Fry from the films Paddington 2, Yesterday, and Cruella, and the TV shows W1A, Twenty Twelve, and Game of Thrones.

I think Hizdahr zo Loraq is the only serious role I've seen him play, so it will be called to see him playing a research scientist in a horror film.

In all three of those films he's fine. Roles that suit him. I'm sorry but a research scientist just doesn't work for him and jars the whole film. Although Dem is right, he not the only bit of miscasting. Just for me the biggest error. Nothing against him as an actor I must add. Just a role that really doesn't suit. Which is a problem as the lead character.

We watched Lucio Fulci's Murder Rock for the first time. Pleasingly this actually had a proper budget, it looked like a real movie. It was a very much fun bank holiday film. Huge lapses in logic at times (which might be a given with much of Italian genre cinema) but highly entertaining.

Being a giallo that's influenced by Flashdance and Fame, there's quite a fair amount of footage of dancing, something I never thought that I'd see in a Fulci movie. Although to be fair, he did seem to be enjoying showing us how much the dancers were suffering when repeatedly practising their routines.

Highlight of film was probably the Ray Lovelock dream sequence. It was enjoyable to recognise various actors in this. My only serious criticism is that we both guessed who the killer was around three quarters of the way through. :) Would much rather that UK Arrow release something like this rather than Demonia.

The Mummy (1999)

I'd forgotten what an entertaining film this is. Sitting somewhere on the fence between adventure and horror film, Stephen Sommers film is a vibrant, fast paced action adventure even though elements have been recycled from other movies.

This is more a reimagining of 1940's The Mummy's Hand than the original Karloff classic eight years earlier with Brendan Fraser and John Hannah in similar roles to Dick Foran's adventurer and Wallace Ford's comedic sidekick. The likable Fraser is ideal and has nice chemistry with Rachel Weisz as the heroine whilst Arnold Vosloo is perfectly cast as the reanimated mummy Imhotep.

Made in 1998 this was spectacular in it's use of special effects, albeit effects that are ten to the dozen nowadays, but thankfully they still stand up today and it all looks visually stunning on Blu-ray.

I Spit On Your Grave 2

Sequel in name only to the remake which sees an aspiring Model played by Jemma Dallender go on a Photo shoot only days after gets brutally Raped, shipped off to Bulgaria and buried alive. Only after some luck where the container falls through some ground and it reopens, she regroups and gets her bloody violent revenge. She is befriended by a Priest and a Police Detective.

By the name of the Film, you know what to expect. Dallender's performance is really good and the bad guys were so evil, you wanted her to get her revenge and boy does she. One scene made me heave and one seen actually tops Casino for using a Vice as a weapon.

The Rape scenes are very hard to watch so be careful if you are watching with someone and I'd rather those scenes were shorter and the revenge scenes longer. but it's worth a watch if your tolerance levels are high.

The BBFC trimmed almost two minutes off the UK release in comparison to the US dvd i have.

https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=69182

Windtalkers (2002)

Nicolas Cage stars as a Marine sergeant assigned to protect a Navajo radio operator during an operation to take the island of Saipan away from Japanese control. Protection isn't his only order though as he's also not to let the code breaker get into Japanese hands via any means possible.

Directed by John Woo, this is certainly action packed but it all feels so heavy handed. It lacks the humanity of say Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge, and just feels too clunky and cliched all round. The heroic finale should have the viewer close to tears as Gibson's film did but the only tears here would come from laughter.

Despite buying the US dvd when it first came out over twenty years ago, tonight was only my second ever viewing. I was never remotely bored by the film but i doubt by this time next week i'll remember too much about it either.

I've been exploring the wonderful two disc Second Sight release of Censor (2021) across the last couple of days rewatching the film and appreciating it even more than i initially did when i first saw it in early December and then with the commentary from director Prano Bailey-Bond and producer Kim Newman.

Also watching the various documentaries, interviews and short films also on the release as well as the feature length Ban the Sadist Videos! documentary and half hour interview with Severin Films head David Gregory about the video nasties and what it was like in the UK during that ridiculous period in the eighties and nineties.

I Start Counting. A teenage girl's everyday life and adolescent crush on her much older (adopted) brother start to go awry when she begins to suspect he might be the serial killer stalking women in her community. A very young Jenny Agutter stars in this early 70s British drama/thriller. Enjoyable enough, though it's a bit more coming of age drama and less thriller than I was hoping for.

Good Film but it gets weird at the end.

Regarding the Documentary, I loved the part where the MP wanted to ban all 15 and 18 rated films from Video Shops and that James German had to step in and basically imply that it's going too far.

Schindler's List and Chaplin were the examples given

Dagon. 2001.

A couple become stranded on a Spanish island where the locals worshipped a ancient sea god.

Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna team up again to bring us another H.P. Lovecraft story to the screen. Set on a Spanish island that is engulfed with a storm coming over quickly that throws the sailing boat on to the rocks trapping a friend with her husband while another couple try and raise help from some strange bizarre locals with webbed fingers and gills.

Ezza Godden is the lead character who seems to have a dream of a strange woman while underwater, his acting is a bit wooden at the start but does slowly improve as the film goes on. We are given a back story halfway through that sets the tone of the film a bit darker. Isolation, atmospheric, and a nod to Cthulhu type creature. For a blind buy for me a few years back, this is still a enjoyable film even though the original story was only 6 pages long the makers did create a great film.

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High Hopes. 1988.

Mike Leigh's take on the working class and middle/upper class, Phil Davies and Ruth Sheen are the working class Cyril and Shirley who get by in live with little yet still able to keep each other happy and smiling no matter how tough the times are. Phillip Jackson and Heather Tobias play Cyril's sister and brother in law who have the fancy house, cars, and not so perfect life that Valerie wants and in the middle is Edna Dore who is the old ageing mother who lives next door to the posh high sex drive couple Leslie Manville and David Bamber.

This is a bit of comedy and drama mixed in together that shows the concept of living in London that never really gives you the happy ending that you normally see except for the mother on the roof top garden thinking she is on top of the world. The daughter seems to be living in her own fantasy world where everything is perfect when it really isn't. This may not be for everyone but certainly take a gander at it.

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MY HEART CAN'T BEAT UNLESS YOU TELL IT TO - This latter-day indie takes a definite post-'Martin' approach to vampirism. A brother and sister lure locals back to their rundown house in the suburbs, where they kill to feed their sickly sib's blood addiction. Grotty and dowdy in a lovely-to-look-at sort of way, its academy ratio boxes us in and makes us feel the claustrophobia of a dysfunctional family in a dead-end town. I loved it, and what I loved most was the absence of melodrama; you can argue the toss either way about 'elevated horror', but for me there was something a little magical about its bleak Bloody Mary of meditative calm and muffled slaughter vibes.

HALLOWEEN 6 :THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS - Fed up with butchering babysitters, Mike tries his hand at fatherhood. Actually, there's a pretty good noughts / twenty tens gross-out comedy in there if they'd waited, but we're still in the nineties with contractual obligations to meet, so... Donald Pleasance looks old. Tommy Doyle is now a creepy guy with a telescope-and-curtains fixation, though proves himself a bit of a hero when he's left holding the baby, a stalker with a heart of gold if you like. A 180 degree turn away from the metaphysical horror of the original, but in a way so what? There's enough mid-nineties slickness with blue lightning flashes and candlelight to hook me in, plus a quantity of gore and no small amount of babble about druids.

INFESTED - I'm all for a bit more 'animals and insects attack' stuff these days. Maybe not the animals so much after all the shit shark films we've ended up with, but count me in for spiders. Even though I don't fear spiders, I could be persuaded after seeing 'Infested', they definitely get them right. It's all in the movement, the scuttle that ends in a vicious bite. 'Infested' happens in a French tower block, where the residents get by and get along or don't, and we know this because we spend quite a while with them as people rather than as spider bait. This slow burn may have human drama on its mind, but after a while we're back to the seventies with masses of swarming arachnids and screaming in the corridors. I liked it, maybe not as much as the many currently heaping praise online.

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes

Years after Caesar's passing, another Ape takes over and rules with a iron fist but after his henchman destroys a village, a Ape teams up with a human to take him down. It's long and it's boring, not much really happens. It felt like this was to set up and establish some new characters as the ending seems to indicate.

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Meantime. 1984.

Second of Mike Leigh film viewing this weekend, Tim Roth plays Colin, a mentally challenged man living with his parents and brother played by Phil Daniels and is good friends with local skinhead Gary Oldman. Colin is given a small cleaning job by his aunt and jealousy ensues between the brothers..

Leigh examines lives of a poor family claiming benefits trying to get by while the family is disorganised and constant arguing and fighting with each other. Roth's portrayal is amazing and you can feel the sympathy for his character. Pam Ferris is brilliant as the mother trying to hold things together and dealing with a lay about husband. Marion Bailey plays the rich aunt dealing with hubby Alfred Molina who thinks his wife is going through the change in life. The direction is perfect and never goes off the rails with this and keeps you entertained right from the start to finish. Certainly a good drama recommendation.

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Tower Block. The remaining residents of a due-for-demolition tower block find themselves under attack from a sniper with a score to settle. Sheridan Smith and Jack O'Connell star in this 2012 British thriller. Been trying to watch this on Shudder for bloody ages but for some reason it was refusing to play. They seem to have finally fixed the issue though so I watched it last night. Not bad.

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Cross Of The Devil. 1975.

A British writer travels to Spain to visit his sister only to find out that she has been murdered and discovers a devil worshipping sect called The Devil's Cross.

Ramiro Oliveros plays the writer in this one directed by Brit director John Gilling that was made as a unofficial sequel to The Blind Dead movies that was made by Paul Naschy who got fired and Ramiro was brought in. There is mentioning of The Templar and then towards the end we see the zombies, but there is way too much talking in this and tends to drag on a bit too much, the story does shift about as to is it all real or just someone smoking a bit too much of the "Wacky Baccy". I went into this with a open mind and still unsure whether a second viewing of this will happen or not.

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Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)

Six aspiring movie makers dig up a corpse named Orville then experiment with witchcraft and voodoo rituals in an attempt to bring him back to life... only to be surprised and shocked when they actually do awaken the rotting dead from their graves.

A very low budget film where the first hour is slow and it's also very talky and the aspiring movie makers seem to be led by Frankie Poulain from The Darkness. This first hour has a marvelously hedonistic feel to it, a vibe that still very much washes over from the previous decade and is helped by a constant stream of chatter that is both witty and audience friendly. The film is well cast and the script avoids many of the cliches that affect teen movies to this day, utilizing likable and (mainly) believable characters.Whilst this is always great the fact there isn't any zombie action until the final fifteen minutes means it can also become a test of patience.

On the plus side the beautifully disturbing avant-garde score is wonderful and really brings a macabre ambiance to the atmosphere that director Bob Clark oozes into proceedings

Clark doesn't really seem hampered by the low budget when it comes to the scares. The ghouls rising from their graves is superbly executed with a spooky atmosphere, well produced practical effects and clever photography.

The final half reels are grim in comparison to what's gone before. Characters sacrifice one another in a bid to escape the ghouls and all signs of friendliness quickly dissipate. In fact the scene as group leader Alan pushes a female friend down some steps into the zombie hordes in a bid to escape is as mean spirited as horror gets.

Although coming a full four years after Romero's groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead CSPWDT is the first movie to ride on it's coat tails. Having said that, this films final scene depicting the ghouls entering the city suggest that this, (together with the whole resurrecting the ghouls via voodoo idea which had been done before but not with flesh eating zombies) may have influenced Italian film makers - especially Lucio Fulci who basically steals this scene for his closing shot on Zombie Flesh Eaters- more so than the Romero classic.

I definitely need to research what the 101 Films Blu-ray is like because this dvd from Nucleus is wildly variable in it's image quality.

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KING OF THE ROCKET MEN (1949)

Jeff King dons the Rocket Man suit to try to stop Dr Vulcan from using the sonic decimator and taking over the world..

My favourite movie serial from seeing it for the first time waaaay back.
The Rocket Man flying effect looks good. The same dummy effect on a wire used for The Adventures Of Captain Marvel serial in 1941.
The scenes of Rocket Man heading straight for the camera look very good.
Lots of punch ups and furniture smashing each episode.
Climatic scenes of New York being destroyed by a tidal wave were lifted from DELUGE (1931).
The Rocket Man suit was used in three later un-related serials.

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Not Of This Earth. 1957.

A alien disguised as a human lands on Earth, hoping to extract blood from his victims in order to save his dying planet.

A nice little number from Roger Corman (R.I.P) taking in a small story, low budget and a handful of cast members and making what would appear to be a crap movie but makes it enjoyable. Paul Birch plays the stranger Mr Johnson who needs a transfusion of blood and uses his white pale eyes for his victims. Beverly Garland plays Nadine the nurse who by her doctor is staying with Johnson and uncovers a secret. Morgan Jones plays the young deputy sheriff and has mixed feelings on the new stranger, and we get a small cameo by Dick Miller playing a hoover salesman. For a film that runs 67 minutes this one certainly keeps you entertained and it does hold your attention on the acting and direction and does make you think how it will end.

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