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nicholasrope 14th May 2024 10:02 PM

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I Spit On Your Grave (2010)

Sarah Butler is the woman whilst in the woods is brutally Raped by locals and the Sheriff and after faking her death, she gets her revenge in the most brutal ways possible. The original is extremely controversial and is down and out grimy and this has more of a budget. I certainly preferred this to the original, the bad guys were certainly deplorable and wanted them to get what they deserved and boy they do, in the most gruesome ways possible.

Last Kumite

Mathis Landwehr is a retired Fighter but after he refuses an invitation to fight in a Kumite (Run by Mathias Hues) his Daughter his kidnapped. After agreeing to fight, he finds out this other fighters loved ones have been kidnapped also. He ends up being trained by Billy Blanks and Cynthia Rothrock as he battles to free his Daughter.

When I first heard about this, I thought that it was going to be another generic modern Fight Movie, one where its about backstory and personal issues with the fighting scenes being secondary. Then I found out it was an homage to the 80's/90's Martial Arts Movies with a cast containing Blanks, Rothrock, Hues, Kurt McKinney (No Retreat No Surrender) and Michel Qissi with none of their roles being short cameos, they have significant roles. Blanks is really good as usual and Hues is really good as the cocky promoter who thinks he's untouchable. Normally he's the henchman (If it wasn't for Cobra Kai, I think Martin Kove would have gotten the role) Qissi has about 2 lines but he oozes menace. Oh yeah Paul Hertzog and Stan Bush provide the Soundtrack as well.

I loved this Film, it was everything it was advertised to be, this took me back to the good old days when I would look at the videos in the Martial Art Section and this would have fitted in, a real throwback to a genre I love.

Oh yeah there's no way, this should be a 15 with a certain scene.

I Spit On Your Grave 3: Vengeance Is Mine

Sarah Butler is back and after joining a Rape Counseling Group, she ends up getting revenge on the people who wronged the members. The revenge scenes are gruesome and there is a twist with the location of the one on one Therapy Session. A decent entry in the series.

Overall the Remake and it's Sequels are better than the original and it's sequel, Deja Vu. I would recommend them but with the warning that the Rape Scenes are graphic.

nicholasrope 15th May 2024 09:38 PM

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Midnight Run

Bounty Hunter, Robert De Niro is tasked with bringing Bail Jumper, Charles Grodin back to L.A. however Mobsers, F.B.I and another Bounty Hunter are on their trail. Really fun movie with some really good performances and some really good humor such as I'm Mosley and someone arriving just in time to create interference like when there were Snipers on a roof, a lot of Cop Cars show up before they could fire of a shot.

Cannibal Terror

Still completely terrible, quite unwatchable as it's so boring with some of the least intimidating Cannibals ever but the EuroCine Cannibal Documentary on the 88 Films Blu-Ray is rather good.

Dirty Harry

Clint Eastwood's most iconic role which sees him chasing after a Sniper. Still as entertaining as when I watched the Screen Classics VHS many many times. Eastwood's line delivery is incredible with his straight up sarcastic manner.

Upgrade

Futuristic Sci-fi Film which sees a paralysed man receive a implant which allows him to walk again and gives him fighting abilities. It's violent with some unique fight sequences and whilst it's good, it's slightly over rated.

Demdike@Cult Labs 16th May 2024 08:15 PM

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Doom Asylum (1987)

Comedy horror that is neither funny nor scary about a disfigured lawyer murdering stereotypical kids in the abandoned asylum where he was once held.

A second viewing of this truly terrible film in which the killer spends his time watching Tod Slaughter films on a loop in his dingy lair, that is when he's not dipping girls heads into acid baths or sticking drills into the jaw of Sex and the City's Kristen Davis.

It's absolutely nuts and only very slightly in a good way. The best thing Doom Aslyum has going for it are some hugely impressive practical gore sequences. Added to the fact it's shot on film it makes Doom Asylum appear a far better movie, at least aesthetically, than it has any right to be.

Honestly i should get rid of this but i just know i'd only end up buying it again at some point.

Rob4 17th May 2024 07:59 AM

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Doom Asylum (1987)

Comedy horror that is neither funny nor scary about a disfigured lawyer murdering stereotypical kids in the abandoned asylum where he was once held.

A second viewing of this truly terrible film in which the killer spends his time watching Tod Slaughter films on a loop in his dingy lair, that is when he's not dipping girls heads into acid baths or sticking drills into the jaw of Sex and the City's Kristen Davis.

It's absolutely nuts and only very slightly in a good way. The best thing Doom Aslyum has going for it are some hugely impressive practical gore sequences. Added to the fact it's shot on film it makes Doom Asylum appear a far better movie, at least aesthetically, than it has any right to be.

Honestly i should get rid of this but i just know i'd only end up buying it again at some point.

I watched it a couple of weeks ago and it went straight on my ebay pile.

The most amusing part was in the extras in regard to Ruth Collins negotiating a price for her topless scene - I think it was $100 per breast :lol: They're not bad mind you ;)

Rob4 17th May 2024 08:07 AM

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The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Where has this movie been all my life?

This movie is what the word 'Psychotronic' was invented for. It has bikini clad dancing girls wiggling it for the camera, rock n' roll (songs are actually pretty good, including 'Zombie Stomp'), bikers, mutated sea monsters with what looks like hot dogs for tongues, a slumber party massacre, and extreme (for the time) gore!

Masterpiece!!! Five Stars

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MrBarlow 17th May 2024 11:08 AM

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The Rite. 2011.

Colin O'Donoghue plays young seminary Michael Kovak who has a disbelief in himself is sent to Italy under the guidance of Ciaran Hinds who teaches exorcisms and sends Kovak to Anthony Hopkins who deals with exorcisms and his faith is tested.

I have only seen this a few times and still find it enjoying, yeah it does make a reference or two with The Exorcist with Hopkins refereeing to the spinning of the head, hot pea soup or "god is not here today priest" which was mentioned in The Exorcist Beginning. The plot of the film is done decently, testing the faith of a new comer who does doubt himself and doesn't believe in possession even being told a person is possessed and ends up doing a exorcism. The acting is on top notch especially from Hopkins who has adapted to the role that you wouldn't expect anyone else to do. There is a dark atmospheric tone once the film changes to the Italian setting which helps the film to be more engrossing and thrilling.

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Demdike@Cult Labs 17th May 2024 02:10 PM

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Boyhood (2014)

Shot over twelve years by director Richard Linklater using the same cast throughout, Boyhood depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke).

An experimental film that started in 2002 without a complete script other than the opening and potential ending with the rest constructed during the next eleven years.

Richard Linklater's films have a varied history with me. His second feature Dazed and Confused is one of my all time favourite films whilst i thought his debut feature - Slacker - was a load of rubbish and his acclaimed 'Before' series - Sunrise, Sunset and Midnight - overrated unless your idea of fun is watching an annoying couple squabbling across three movies. Boyhood is somewhere in between.

During the first forty minutes i was having difficulty relating to Mason and sister Samantha (Played by Richard's daughter Lorelei Linklater) growing up in a world of Harry Potter and Nintendo video games. It was okay, watchable but nothing really too interesting, until Mum marries her professor (Marco Perella) and the marriage slowly turns abusive which is when the real drama begins, although it is only a few chapters of this near three hour journey of growing up.

Following this the film becomes a lot more relatable as Mason gets older, goes to high school and later college, gains an interest in girls and photography (Although not necessarily in that order) and generally lives the life of a teenager going to all night parties, discovering booze and weed... Linklater's in familiar territory here as the second half of the film could almost be Dazed and Confused part two.

Although huge in technical scale and achievement (It was interesting to see the cast grow older. Arquette's hair continually changing, although Hawke always looked like Ethan Hawke, whilst Mason as a young man was virtually unrecognisible to Mason as a six year old boy) Boyhood is an extremely intimate affair which at times will have you on the edge of your seat, at others you'll feel like crying and and others laughing.

I did find it really amusing when Hawke's Mason senior remarries and takes Mason and Samantha to his new wife's parents for Mason jr's 15th birthday. A devout religious couple. The wife gives Mason a bible for a gift whilst grandpa gives him a shotgun. Typical America.

Demdike@Cult Labs 17th May 2024 06:47 PM

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Screamers (1995)

Christian Duguay's debut feature film is a hugely enjoyable science fiction action horror film loosely based on Phillip K. Dick's story Second Variety. Peter Weller stars as the classical music loving leader of a small band of renegades at war on a distant planet. In conflict with an army of soldiers from the New Economic Block in regard to mining rights on the planet. In order to protect themselves Weller's scientists developed small attack robots known as Screamers (The noise they make when they hunt) which inhabit the mining areas.

Unknown to Weller the robots are developing themselves via AI and are no longer simply sand dwelling robots which decapitate their enemies but have gained the power to copy the form of any living being in order to destroy them, this includes Weller and his crew.

Although seemingly fairly complex Screamers is a thrilling sci-fi film at heart. It's well enough scripted, acted and directed to engage from the off and manages to rise above any of it's perceived flaws. The opening half hour is genuinely thrilling stuff as the Screamers go on the attack zooming through the sand with devastating effect.

A film undeserving of it's box office failure.

Justin101 17th May 2024 07:22 PM

Viewings since last weekend, seems I've rewatched a lot, and looks like I enjoyed everything that I have seen in the last week - which is handy :lol: Particularly enjoyed going back to The Demoniacs in it's gorgeous 4k remaster from Powerhouse.

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iank 17th May 2024 10:28 PM

The Black Windmill. Michael Caine is an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped - and someone in his own agency may be in on it. Don "Dirty Harry" Siegel directs this late 60s British thriller that's pretty enjoyable and has a stellar supporting cast including Donald Pleasance, Joss Ackland and John Vernon, among many more recognisable faces. :pound:

Frankie Teardrop 18th May 2024 09:54 AM

FRIDAY THE 13TH (the remake) - For me, the highlights of the F13 series were the zany ones, but I suppose this remake is trying hard to harken back to the time before it all just turned to laughs. It was made when the genre was returning to a bleak mean-spiritedness - it's from 2009, year of torture porn and arguably the fag-end of all that French extreme stuff - so the pokerfaced gore approach makes sense. Shame then that director Nispel can't carry off the grim tone that elevated his 'Texas Chainsaw' remake. If the shadowy mood and woodland vibes convince for a spell, they have to contend with the opposition; characters are insipid, the plot too conventional, and, between the gore and sleaze, the whole thing just plods a little. It's never less than nice to look at in its 'visual horror tropes of the 2010s' kind of way, and the bottom line with the director's films, even the execrable 'The Asylum', is that they're stylistically quite immaculate, but this felt like a missed opportunity to play around with something more bracingly nasty.

SPECTRES - Back with the late eighties Italo. It amazes me that this stuff hasn't been mined dry yet, not that I'm complaining. And how could I complain about a film of its provenance starring Donald Pleasance? It seems that some consider 'Spectres' a bit of a bore, though. True enough, if all you're after is non-stop, then you might feel shortchanged by this wander through the catacombs and its dime store demonic ascent. What it has in spades is atmosphere, weird incidentals and higher-order stupidity, which are really all I'm after when it comes to this end of things. Allowing for that, there's plenty to ponder / marvel at - odd, out of place HR Gigerisms, a small plaster face extending a maggot tongue, weird silhouettes dancing on a wall in a very eighties-lit room, Donald Pleasance in a leather beret. You may find yourself recoiling at the notion of the latter but it's part of what moves me to give this one a big thumbs up.

MAYA - This is 'Spectres's companion piece on the recent Vinegar Syndrome double-disc release. It's by the same director, another horror film, this time set in Mexico, where a small town is beset by a Mayan curse. I quite liked the fact that for much of the time I couldn't really tell what was going on or where it was heading, lulled by the sultry vibes and my slight sense of perplexity at seeing Carlos Castaneda quoted in a late-era Italian trash horror flick. As is almost always the case with this kind of thing, far better to switch off the rationalising mind and just go with the strangeness, whether it comes in the form of an eel barfing ceremonial, tripped-out talk about the other side of mirrors, or pyramids aglow with late eighties optics. Something about the pace didn't quite connect with me, but this is still solid goof with plenty of oddball goodies.

MrBarlow 18th May 2024 03:21 PM

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The Task. 2011.

Six people compete in a reality show set around a abandoned prison are being stalked and killed.

A bit of a low budget that is near on same par as Halloween Resurrection except we don't have a famous rapper bustin' out some fighting moves on the antagonist. For a low budget B movie the acting is quite convincing although one or two of the characters you are literally begging to be killed off early. Perfect setting in a prison that sets the tone for something, dark, atmospheric, claustrophobia and nearly a maze to figure out along with the task and some decent kills. I haven't watched this in a fee years and forgot how entertaining it is.

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nicholasrope 18th May 2024 03:47 PM

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The Enforcer

Dirty Harry is back and on the trailer of a Domestic Terror group and this time he's partnered up with a Female Inspector (Tyne Daly) obviously he's happy about that. I really enjoyed this with Clint Eastwood's trademark sarcasm and scowls of disdain an highlight.

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The one complaint is that Daly's death was made to be very inconsequential


Nice Guys

Comedic Film Noir which sees Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling on the trail of a missing woman who is being pursued by a Hitman as she is trying to blow the whistle on a conspiracy which involves Porn Stars and a Film. A decent effort with some dark humor such as a neighbor accidentally getting shot as Crowe moved out the way and a Hitman's target just flags him down.

Nosferatu@Cult Labs 18th May 2024 07:34 PM

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Boyhood (2014)

Although huge in technical scale and achievement (It was interesting to see the cast grow older. Arquette's hair continually changing, although Hawke always looked like Ethan Hawke, whilst Mason as a young man was virtually unrecognisible to Mason as a six year old boy) Boyhood is an extremely intimate affair which at times will have you on the edge of your seat, at others you'll feel like crying and and others laughing.

Excellently review, Dem, where you clearly explained why I think it's such a remarkable film and watching it to be an emotional experience.:clap:

nicholasrope 20th May 2024 09:27 PM

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Strangers: Chapter 1

A couple on a road trip end up in a remote Cabin but come under attack from a trio of masked Killers. Apparently this is the first part of a series and the title suggests that there won't be a conclusion. TBH, if you've seen the original Stranger Movies, then you don't really need to see this as it's so predictable, then again if you are well versed in these type of Movies, then it's nothing you haven't seen before.

If

A girl starts seeing Imaginary Friends whose previous humans have grown up, so she teams up with Ryan Reynolds in order to try and pair them up with new friends. It's not a bad little Film but there are some slow parts. Lou Gossett JR. provides a voice in what I think is his last role.

Demdike@Cult Labs 21st May 2024 10:45 AM

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The Prey (1983)

A beautifully shot Californian nature film with some bizarre slasher inserts thrown in to bulk things out to eighty minutes.

MrBarlow 21st May 2024 10:58 AM

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Pharaoh's Curse. 1957.

A archaeology expedition team are being killed off by a a crazed Egyptian.

For some reason this one was never really shown that much or seemed to be forgotten about, but do remember seeing it, perhaps on the Legend channel, it is a take on the Mummy franchise and it isn't...doesn't make sense to me either. The mummy in this isn't quite wrapped up in bandages but does have a scary face if you let kids watch this. 66 minute running time seems a bit standard for this one, if it was longer running time then the film would certainly drag on to the point of being boring. Some good set designs in this considering the year and budget mixed in with some decent acting.

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Justin101 21st May 2024 12:16 PM

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The Prey (1983)

A beautifully shot Californian nature film with some bizarre slasher inserts thrown in to bulk things out to eighty minutes.


That is one of those nondescript Arrow slashers that I had to double check if I have seen it (or own a copy), no to both lol, probably won?t bother now :)

Demdike@Cult Labs 21st May 2024 02:30 PM

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That is one of those nondescript Arrow slashers that I had to double check if I have seen it (or own a copy), no to both lol, probably won?t bother now :)

I actually really enjoyed it once again. Yes it's padded out ridiculously - there's a conversation between two park rangers about cucumber sandwiches and the lead ranger, kind of the films hero, has his own porch front banjo playing musical interlude as well as telling a joke to a young fawn...and then there's the tons of beautifully shot HD nature footage.

Somehow it works though. There's an air of reality about the characters, as if they are real people not shitty actors in a shitty slasher film. I love the camp fire sequence. The camera drifts in and out of conversations in a way similar to Altman's superb opening of McCabe and Mrs. Miller. .

The finale is a genuine gripper and shocking to boot. I know my single line review was jokey but it's a film i've seen twice now and will return to in the future. For example, i'd prefer to watch it over The Burning any day.

Here's my review from Christmas 2022.

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The Prey (1983)

A minor slasher entry that played out like a sister film to The Legend of Boggy Creek thanks to a similar soporific atmosphere created by it's almost travelogue like nature and endless shots of critters in the woods as well as beautiful countryside. That eerie ambiance is enhanced by the first half hour or so seeming like the viewer is on the periphery of things. Snippets of conversation are heard but nothing more as the camera rolls along the group of six happy campers all chatting among themselves. It's as if it weren't actually scripted... which it probably wasn't.

It takes an age for anything slashery to happen and we never see the killer until the final moments. When we do he looks very similar to an unmasked Vorhees. Thankfully his kills are bloodier than Vorhees R-rated splatter.

And then there's the wide mouthed frog tale and the greatest advert for cucumber sandwiches i've ever seen...

The Prey certainly isn't your common or garden slasher but it is different enough and hypnotic enough to hold the attention, or put you in a trance. Whichever works best really.

:xmasnuts::xmasnuts::xmasnuts: / 5

The Arrow Blu-ray looks sensational.


Justin101 21st May 2024 03:43 PM

Comparing it to Altman has made it even worse haha but the rest of your review sounds OK lol.

Demdike@Cult Labs 21st May 2024 03:47 PM

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Comparing it to Altman has made it even worse haha but the rest of your review sounds OK lol.

McCabe and Mrs. Miller is a brilliant film. You are missing out if you haven't seen that now you are enjoying westerns.

Justin101 21st May 2024 05:20 PM

I like Westerns fine but I can?t stand Robert Altman?s style. I never say never though so be happy to check it out.

Demdike@Cult Labs 21st May 2024 05:28 PM

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I like Westerns fine but I can?t stand Robert Altman?s style. I never say never though so be happy to check it out.

It's a Premium Collection title so may well be OOP.

Besides i could swear you liked Altman's Gosford Park.

Nosferatu@Cult Labs 21st May 2024 07:51 PM

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McCabe and Mrs. Miller is a brilliant film. You are missing out if you haven't seen that now you are enjoying westerns.

I endorse these sentiments. McCabe and Mrs. Miller is a great film which everyone who likes westerns should watch.

Demdike@Cult Labs 22nd May 2024 04:50 PM

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The Chill Factor (1993)

Also known as Demon Possessed, The Chill Factor centers on a group of snowmobilers who end up trapped at an abandoned summer camp where occult goings on took place. Upon finding an awesome looking ouija board called the Devils' Eye...well you can probably imagine what comes next.

A film soundtracked by what can only be described as elevator muzak which is quite hypnotic at times meaning i was watching the on screen nonsense in a bit of a daze which is probably the best way to see The Chill Factor as on the whole it's a mixed bag.

Of course anyone who isn't captured and swept away by the atmosphere may find parts of this a bit dull and it needs to be noted that unlike The Prey i reviewed yesterday the acting here borders on the abysmal.

The murders when they happen are fun, especially the icicle through the eye, and the fact they all play out to the unearthly muzak back drop which is unflinching in it's constant drone gave them an especially eerie dream like nature as did the cabin which itself was very Evil Dead like, but Evil Dead in the snow. How cool is that?

Justin101 22nd May 2024 05:15 PM

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The Chill Factor (1993)

Also known as Demon Possessed, The Chill Factor centers on a group of snowmobilers who end up trapped at an abandoned summer camp where occult goings on took place. Upon finding an awesome looking ouija board called the Devils' Eye...well you can probably imagine what comes next.

A film soundtracked by what can only be described as elevator muzak which is quite hypnotic at times meaning i was watching the on screen nonsense in a bit of a daze which is probably the best way to see The Chill Factor as on the whole it's a mixed bag.

Of course anyone who isn't captured and swept away by the atmosphere may find parts of this a bit dull and it needs to be noted that unlike The Prey i reviewed yesterday the acting here borders on the abysmal.

The murders when they happen are fun, especially the icicle through the eye, and the fact they all play out to the unearthly muzak back drop which is unflinching in it's constant drone gave them an especially eerie dream like nature as did the cabin which itself was very Evil Dead like, but Evil Dead in the snow. How cool is that?

Definitely seen this one :lol: I liked it haha.

Demdike@Cult Labs 22nd May 2024 05:19 PM

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Definitely seen this one :lol: I liked it haha.

The scene with the two girls bickering as their friend lies bleeding to death was laughably shit. Other parts were fun. I find i can always go back and watch movies like this no matter their quality though.

:lol: I think i gave this four Santa's out of five when i reviewed it a few years ago.

Demdike@Cult Labs 23rd May 2024 01:18 PM

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Edge of the Axe (1988)

A late entry in the eighties slasher cycle courtesy of director Jose Larraz. One of those films (Pieces is another example) where Spain doubles as California, although they'd definitely filmed out of a car window in California. However that's not to say it's a poverty row slice of movie making. It really isn't.

Production values are high and there are some great sequences of location filming including a genuinely creepy stalk and slash scene with gorgeous use of colour which brutally ends at a railway line. In fact all the murders are well done even if they are kinda samey. I mean. An axe attack is always an axe attack.

Some lengthy scenes where two characters type endless lines onto primitive computers are deadly dull but on the whole Edge of the Axe is a well made, fairly effective slasher film in which second time round i'd forgotten who the killer was and once again guessed wrong. Well it was one or the other, maybe next time eh?

Nosferatu@Cult Labs 24th May 2024 10:52 AM

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Set many generations after the events in War of the Planet of the Apes, possibly in the 24th century, when humans have become feral and lost the power of speech, this film follows a group of chimpanzees who are skilled hunters and have mastered falconry.

While the leader of the group, Noa, tries to recover from a devastating attack from a rival clan, a tyrannical ape, Proximus Maximus, is building an empire. When a tragedy befalls Noa's clan and the family in attack where he is left for dead, Noa sets out to find his abducted friends.

I have thoroughly enjoyed watching the Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy (Dawn, Rise, and War) several times, so went into this film with high hopes even though I'd only seen one film directed by Wes Ball, The Maze Runner.

Although this has quite remarkable visual effects which make the apes photorealistic and so lifelike that I didn't think of them as digital creations, fully accepting them as apes that can talk, ride horses, raise and train falcons ? it's amazing how easily that suspension of disbelief can take place.

I didn't think this was as engaging as the previous three Apes films, possibly because Noa isn't as strong a character as Caesar and, in terms of motion capture and voice work, Owen Teague isn't as accomplished as Andy Serkis. Kevin Durand is well cast as the antagonist because his body language and voice give Proximus Maximus real authority and menace.

In some respects, although Kingdom the Planet of the Apes is a film I didn't want, now it's made and in cinemas, I'm glad I saw it and think the next one will build on this story in an interesting world with engaging characters ? I'll almost certainly go to watch that one as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdr5oedn7q8

MrBarlow 25th May 2024 06:25 AM

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Navy SEALS. 1990.

A elite teams of Seals go on the hunt for a terrorist group that have high tech weaponry.

Michael Biehn leads the team followed by trigger finger happy Charlie Sheen who is always on high adrenaline and like to bend or break the rules with "going into silence mode" that never happens. Bill Paxton sporting a bit of a moustache and doesn't seem to enjoy a bit of golf and generally a bit tougher soldier than what he was in Aliens and doesn't buckle under pressure Rick Rossovich obviously wanted to try something new on the ground rather being in a fighter jet in Top Gun.

Terrorists would rather go for a biological/chemical threat weaponry missile but here they go for land to air stinger missiles that seems to go to. The acting is decent in this plenty of action/gunfire and few good kills but character writing for one or two does tend to make the movie go a bit OTT, but certainly does have some entertaining value.

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MrBarlow 25th May 2024 08:40 AM

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K2. 1991.

Michael Biehn and Matt Craven play Taylor and Harold, two experienced climbers who meet Raymond J Barry, a millionaire who is funding a expedition party to climb the second highest mountain.

The creation of the two characters is amazing, one a lawyer who is a arrogant wamanizer and the other is a happily married man and a scientist with doubts about the new hike up a mountain that has claimed a lot of lives yet both men willing to risk everything for achievement. Barry's character is what you would expect, a bit brass and cocky, remorseful that he didn't get to see the top and yet willing to leave everyone behind to save his own ass. The scenery/set design is how you would picture it, temperatures that would freeze the ball off a brass monkey and looking for a sign saying Death Awaits. Hanz Zimmer's background score is amazing and haunting especially during the last trek and you expect something to happen then it doesn't and then it does. A film i'd happily sit through again.

Frankie Teardrop 25th May 2024 11:34 AM

WHIRLPOOL - I have a lot of time for Larraz. He brought us two pinnacles of UK horror in 'Vampyres' and 'Symptoms', striking exercises in misty melancholia for the grotty seventies. 'Whirpool' is proto- all that stuff. It's about a 'sensitive young man' (read - a very specific kind of sixties / seventies English post-'Psycho' psycho a la Hywel Bennet in 'Twisted Nerve') who takes photographs in his 'Aunt's country house, where something bad happened to their last houseguest - we don't know what exactly but people keep mentioning it in hushed tones. Her replacement, a model there ostensibly for a weekend photoshoot, soon finds herself up to her neck in saucy mind games. I really like 'Whirlpool'. It has that early seventies 'NEL paperback' feel I adore in Brit stuff of its vintage - trashy psychosexual pulp dolled up in groovy glad rags, but with that tawdry, curdled postwar English vibe pulsating in the background; you can practically smell the incense curling around decommissioned stacks of ration-era Spam. It might be that the Eurohorror dialogue is at once stilted and over-ripe, the performances distracted and rickety, the flow plagued by stretches of nonaction and filler, and all of these misfires can seem charming or not. But there's this very slight magic in the air, and, in the forest, there's a mystery dude playing a flute! As soon as he appeared in the graveyard, I knew that this was the film for me. Threesome-based sleaze fades in and out, an hilarious encounter with the village drug dealer takes a dark turn, and the end is pretty brutal - I can see why people make LHOTL comparisons. It may not demonstrate the command of his better-known films, but 'Whirlpool' is a worthy precursor to those movies that have put Larraz on the map.

Justin101 25th May 2024 11:58 AM

Update since last week, not as many re-watches this week, trying to whittle my watch-pile down :lol: 'Twin Peaks' referring to just the 90 minute pilot.

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MrBarlow 25th May 2024 03:18 PM

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Alive. 1993.

Based on the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team heading to Chile and their plane crashes in the Andes Mountains. When food supply goes short and the rescue efforts called off, they decide to resort to cannibalism and find help on their own.

Considering the dramatic and sensitive theme of the film and with respect of the survivors and families of those that passed away in 1972, the screen play is very well written and the characters are portrayed very well and you can only imagine what exactly happened. Most of the time the pilots are to blame in the film and the decision to eat them is seen as a laugh until the survivors are in a huddle making the tough decision. it tough times they are a few laughs and comments made but nothing goes overboard and the film goes back to being serious. Not a film I can watch over and over but like to return to it every once in a while.

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gag 25th May 2024 05:28 PM

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Alive. 1993.

Based on the true story of the Uruguayan rugby team heading to Chile and their plane crashes in the Andes Mountains. When food supply goes short and the rescue efforts called off, they decide to resort to cannibalism and find help on their own.

Considering the dramatic and sensitive theme of the film and with respect of the survivors and families of those that passed away in 1972, the screen play is very well written and the characters are portrayed very well and you can only imagine what exactly happened. Most of the time the pilots are to blame in the film and the decision to eat them is seen as a laugh until the survivors are in a huddle making the tough decision. it tough times they are a few laughs and comments made but nothing goes overboard and the film goes back to being serious. Not a film I can watch over and over but like to return to it every once in a while.

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Society of the snow is Netflix version of the story, they did their research and interviews ppl etc, it?s very good and well made etc.
and they got praised for it.

nicholasrope 25th May 2024 09:11 PM

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Manhunter

William Petersen plays a Criminal Profiler who gets brought in to help catch a Mass Murderer. In order to do this he seeks help from a notorious Serial Killer, Hannibal Lecktor, who is played by Brian Cox. I originally watched this when I was much younger and now that I am older, I'm able to appreciate more especially the side story of the Killer, played marvelously by Tom Noonan trying to romance a blind Joan Allen and the slow methodical build towards Petersen and Co working out who the killer is.

Co-staring Dennis Farina and Stephen Lang, who had one of the more memorable scenes in this Movie. Another memorable scene is Petersen jumping through a window to In-A-Gadda-Vida.

Beverly Hills Cop

Classic Eddie Murphy Film in which he plays a Detroit Detective who goes to Beverly Hills to investigate the Murder of his friend. Whilst there he uses his trademark wisecracks, mannerisms and ability to annoy people to take down the criminals the Beverly Hills Police Department especially John Ashton and Judge Reinhold.

Still really funny especially the scene where he gets thrown through a window and gets arrested.

Demdike@Cult Labs 25th May 2024 10:12 PM

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The Haunting (1999)

Professor Liam Neeson gathers a group of people (Catherine Zeta Jones, Owen Wilson and Lili Taylor) at a huge estate in Massachusetts for an alleged volunteer study on insomnia, only to find themselves plagued by paranormal events connected to the house's grim history.

Jan De Bont's remake of the 1963 classic is a bit of a strange one. It ramps everything up on the earlier film including the special effects from Phil Tippett which are largely excellent whilst the sound design is magnificent in True HD surround and thankfully all the jump scares are based round natural sounds rather than musical cues. I can't really fault the cast - Taylor is good as the put upon heroine of the piece whilst Zeta Jones vamps it up, even Owen Wilson is watchable. The house itself is the star of the film. Filmed at Harlaxton Manor in Lincolnshire, it's beautifully grand and quintessentially Gothic, a stunning example of Victorian architecture.

And yet it doesn't quite work. Once you've done marveling at the technical aspects you realise the script lacks something and it's not in the least bit scary or thrilling.

Despite all this i enjoyed it when i saw it at the cinema, bought it on dvd and upgraded to Blu-ray so make of that what you will.

Demdike@Cult Labs 25th May 2024 10:20 PM

I'm interested in what other members think of the 1999 Haunting?

'Crap' is just not an answer.:lol:

gag 25th May 2024 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs (Post 699043)
I'm interested in what other members think of the 1999 Haunting?

'Crap' is just not an answer.:lol:

I hate that I?m in a few film forums on fb and twitter, and I feel ppl saying a film crap it?s like the latest craze ppl have to call every film crap, but never explain why ? Even if it classed as film of the year,
It was crap because it wasn?t horror enough,
Why was it not horror enough ?
Because it wasn?t scary, or not enough ppl get killed, or not gory enough, load of rubbish horror comes in many forms, and worst ones are ones that could actually happen,
Many times I?ve posted and asked why they think it was crap but they don?t responds or explain why, just say because it was.

Justin101 25th May 2024 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs (Post 699043)
I'm interested in what other members think of the 1999 Haunting?

'Crap' is just not an answer.:lol:


I like it, it?s the exact opposite of subtle but there is something about 90s horror films. The house was amazing.


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