quite a few films viewed over the last two weeks... QUATERMASS 2 Very good british sci-fi from Val Guest with a stern performance from brian Donlevy as Quatermass and very eerie atmosphere. Worth watching for the creepy SS Doom troopers who guard these massive domes. LOCKOUT What do you get if you cross the whit of John McClane, the anti-establishment mentality and badassery of Snake Pliskin, The Smoking habit of Cracker and the Special FX of a video game....LOCKOUT!....TOTALLY AWESOME BUT TOTALLY DUMB! 5/5 THE ROCKETEER Incredible fun and harmless adventure film with a great premise and some good performances especially Timothy Dalton. Really good production design and the airship are pretty cool too. RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS This film was awesome, it was balls out action and some pretty cool post apoc sets. Why isn't it available properly in a remastered version. ASYLUM Pretty good Amicus offering ruined by final tiny robot finale and a obvious twist, best segment was the Peter Cushing bit but still a good fun ride. ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS watched the dutch blu-ray which is of course a port of the Criterion transfer and wow did they do a great job on this. Very good film with some stunning cinematography and great direction from Byron Haskin (War OF The Worlds) SHOCKWAVES A little bit overrated but still pretty good fun. Brooke Adams in a bikini is a wonderous sight. OUTPOST 2: BLACK SUN As good if not better than the first which expands the Outpost universe and looks more into the rise of the new reich and more about the electro-machine. Some great direction and action scenes and some really good performances. Can't wait to see what they do with the 3rd film. SAFE Full throttle action with the Stath on top form, just mental action sequences with some fantastic action scenes and some great direction from Boaz Yakin (repeated myself there) IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS Very good Carpenter movie with a fantastic central performance from Sam Neil and some great Lovecraftian monsters. THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY bit crap in all honesty, Bruce Willis is in it for like 10 minutes but Henry Cavill was pretty good it's just a shame we've seen all of this before and better. THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER Decent enough Charles Sneer production let down by abrupt inconclusive ending that confused me. Kerwin Matthews is good as Gulliver though. ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX bigger and badder than the first, top notch action and this time around Mark Gregory doesn't look like a fabio-esque male model. Pretty damn good stuff THE NEW BARBARIANS Decent enough Post-apocalypse action from italy, dragged down by low budget and over use of shoulder pads. HARPOON: REYKJAVIK WHALE WATCHING MASSACRE Actually pretty good Texas Chainsaw at sea horror film with some awesome gore moments and some pretty good performances. THE HUNGER GAMES Very good futuristic action thriller aimed at teens but obviously borrows heavily from 70s science fiction, most notably THX1138 and Logan's Run and mixes those with a Battle Royale style covered in Twilight sheen, but unlike the sparkly vampire, The Hunger Games is actually worth watch. Quite violent for a kids film though. |
The Snow Devils (Antonio Margheriti, 1967) CONTAINS SPOILERS SORRY Ahem. Once in a lifetime comes the opportunity to witness one of the most spectacular haircuts in the entire history of cinema. Sculpted to an alarming degree, I hope to Cthulhu that it was merely a wig, but sadly brethren I fear not...... The film itself was a competent exercise, with some choice dialogue ahem, in Tibetan shenaningans involving aliens who all resemble dusty Canutes imo cough cough;). Recommended!! |
THE FUGITVE - one of the best ever chase thrillers Tommy Lee Jones deserving his Oscar VIDOCQ - i see this every month or so, fantastic French supernatural horror, come on some UK company release this with extras w/Eng subs unlike my and every other dvds released, the companies have the money..... |
Probably not the right place for this, but I can't wait until the 15th of September! Going to watch Moon, then They Live followed by the Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance) at the Prince Charles in London. 6pm until 8am. Oh my! |
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the opening music from INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS comes from so i read, WHITE LIGHTNING but i was channel hopping the other day and the same tune was at the start of THE ALAMO by Dimitri Tiomkin |
Final Fantasy......was drunk and was forced to watch Masters of the Universe Dirty Harry:cool: The Incredible Hulk Thor |
Out of the Dark 1995 Don't be fooled by the trailer because this one is 80% typical Stephen Chow mo lei tau comedy and 20% more or less serious horror. Luckily I knew this before going in... ;) Not bad if you like the typical Chow humor. OUT OF THE DARK (1995) Trailer - YouTube |
ROMASANTA. I really liked this Spanish werewolf film set in the 1850s. It had a nice, familiar feeling to it that I can't quite put my finger on. It reminded me of warm fires, toast and winter afternoons as a child. Which is odd as I don't recall serial murder and women being wanked with bars of soap made from the fat of their relatives as being part of my childhood. |
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