What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

I really liked 'Absentia', a slightly weird film which could've taken a way more obvious approach but thankfully didn't. It was a bit grating and clumsy in places, but at least tried to approach things 'at an angle'.
Have you seen 'Livide' yet? If so, what did you think?

No, I've not watched it yet. If I get a chance (and access to the telly), I'll try to watch it over the weekend.

[Frankie Teardrop]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

No, I've not watched it yet. If I get a chance (and access to the telly), I'll try to watch it over the weekend.

It's good, one of the better things I've seen this year. Bit of a boring first 40 mins justified by a pretty mad second half.

[gag]

Just watched house on straw hill / expose


TBH everything I've read over the years about its hype notoriety and was on the nasties list and how hard to get hold on a uncut copy etc I think there wasnt much to the film or in the film at all completely over hyped and lot of worse films out there and yes this was the uncut version I saw,
Wasn't impressed and expected more,

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by gag

Just watched house on straw hill / expose


TBH everything I've read over the years about its hype notoriety and was on the nasties list and how hard to get hold on a uncut copy etc I think there wasnt much to the film or in the film at all completely over hyped and lot of worse films out there and yes this was the uncut version I saw,
Wasn't impressed and expected more,

Hmmm. What people tend to forget I find, is that this hallowed list wasn't compiled by genre savvy types, so obviously what they found "corrupting & depraving" won't necessarily "offend" everyone (adults etc). Hence some of the titles will "disappoint" some modern viewers.

Stick to Giallo A Venezia cough cough.

[pedromonkey]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Hmmm. What people tend to forget I find, is that this hallowed list wasn't compiled by genre savvy types, so obviously what they found "corrupting & depraving" won't necessarily "offend" everyone (adults etc). Hence some of the titles will "disappoint" some modern viewers.

Stick to Giallo A Venezia cough cough.

90% of the stuff that was on the list is shit.

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by pedromonkey

90% of the stuff that was on the list is shit.

90%? That's a bit harsh. There's some terrific films on the dreaded list...

Tenebrae
Inferno
Flesh for Frankenstein
Anthropophagous
House by the Cemetery
Zombie Flesh Eaters
The Beyond
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain
Absurd
Night Train Murders
A Bay of Blood (Bloodbath)
The Burning
The Bogey Man (The Boogeyman)
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Apocalypse
Dead and Buried
Don't Go in the House
The Evil Dead
The Funhouse
House on the Edge of the Park
I Spit On Your Grave
Last House on the Left
Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue
Possession
Shogun Assassin
The Witch Who Came from the Sea

That seems a bit bigger than 10%. Are you really saying that all of the above are shit? There's a fair few Shameless/Arrow titles on that list. So you hate what Shameless and Arrow release?

[James Morton]

THE X FILES - I WANT TO BELIEVE
the first is brilliant and i wasn't thinking of a better film and it wasn't
imo the film makers after about 10 years, Chris Carter et al should of made this more exciting with a better storyline, it dragged at even 95 mins
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
one of Cronenberg's best films, Mortensen's character wanting to forget the past, but can't after his heroic deed in the cafe which sends round a scarred Ed Harris who wants to take him back
there is a scene which Stall (Mortensen) kills one of William Hurt's bodyguards and blood spurts out of his mouth but after all the violence which went before the MPAA cut this out! the UK dvd is uncut
Cronenberg should make more films like this or go back to horror
oh yes and Maria Bello

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by James Morton

THE X FILES - I WANT TO BELIEVE
the first is brilliant and i wasn't thinking of a better film and it wasn't
imo the film makers after about 10 years, Chris Carter et al should of made this more exciting with a better storyline, it dragged at even 95 mins
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
one of Cronenberg's best films, Mortensen's character wanting to forget the past, but can't after his heroic deed in the cafe which sends round a scarred Ed Harris who wants to take him back
there is a scene which Stall (Mortensen) kills one of William Hurt's bodyguards and blood spurts out of his mouth but after all the violence which went before the MPAA cut this out! the UK dvd is uncut
Cronenberg should make more films like this or go back to horror
oh yes and Maria Bello

I thought I Want To Believe would've worked better as a Millennium movie. Had more of that shows vibe.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by gag

Just watched house on straw hill / expose


TBH everything I've read over the years about its hype notoriety and was on the nasties list and how hard to get hold on a uncut copy etc I think there wasnt much to the film or in the film at all completely over hyped and lot of worse films out there and yes this was the uncut version I saw,
Wasn't impressed and expected more,

Just out of interest, where did you get an uncut copy from?

[James Morton]

the producers/director etc of X Files wanted the sequel to be a standalone thriller and concentrate on Mulder/Scully relationship
disappointed and expected to be anyway, at the least the original is a great film