I watched Cube last night. I'd forgotten just how good this movie is. I've never seen the sequels. Anyone know if they're worth bothering with?

i really like Cube 2: hypercube but found Cube Zero to be a bit pants.

Cheers. I'll definately check them both out (bit expensive on Amazon though)

Watched Monsters last night. I had seen it before but fancied watching it again (and my girlfriend hadn;t seen it). Still absolutely loved it - she did too (even though I think she was expecting a Syfy channel monster movie at the start). I know it has its detractors and a lot of people find it too slow and lacking in action but I honestly think it's a fantastically-made film which an incredible feel to it.

Gonna watch it again later this week with the commentary on.

Top film and one I plan on watching again soon.

I've just started a Paul Naschy Blu-ray double bill of Night of the Werewolf and Vengeance of the Zombies.

I really liked the commentary as I found it informative and well delivered by Gareth Edwards and the two actors. When he points out some of the visual effects, you'll be astonished.

Yeah, I saw him do a Q&A at at preview screening at Tyneside Cinema last year and some of the stories he had about the films' making were really interesting so I'm hoping to relive some of that in the commentary. He comes across as such a nice and humble guy too which always helps.

I watched House by the Cemetary for the umpteenth time yesterday: still love, and have NO idea of what's going on!

Just seen a French flick called Black Heaven

its sorta a drama/thriller about this guy who finds a mobile with his girlfriend, and they find out the owner is a gal and she hangs around with this guy. So he follows her and then finds out she plays a online game. Then things start to escalate as they do :lol:

Was a pretty good flick, recommended if you want something a bit different as parts of the movie are played out through the game.

Yesterday I watched Watch Me When I Kill! by Antonio Bido. I was surprised in a very positive way - I think is is quite difficult to shoot a movie that pays homage to Dario Argento's early flicks AND successfully avoids being a mere copy. The score of the movie is quite Goblin-like (I would have never found out without the statement on the Shameless cover :eyebrows:); the main theme reminded me of Deep Red, one of my Argento favourites. :nod:

Good actors (although I more than once thought that the leading actor looked a bit like Charles Bronson "light" :lol:), good pace and a clever story - highly recommended! :clap:

Greetings!

Check your local CEX (or cex.co.uk), they're only £1 each there :nod:

Cheers. Just ordered Cube 2.

Watched Lamberto Bava's Macabre last night. I was a little disappointed to be honest, it was good but not as good as I was expecting. Certainly prefer A Blade in the Dark and Demons.

I was going to get very angry at Arrow for their cover spoiling a big reveal but it seems that most of the posters for it seem to do the same thing so I'll let them off the hook :)

Just watched What Have They Done to Your Daughters. Along with Torso and Night Train Murders this is my favourite Shameless release to date I think. Really fantastic giallo/police thriller with some great tense scenes (especially the one in the parking lot). The long car chase with the killer was also utterly immense. Great soundtrack too! Are other Poliziotteschi films like this?

Just watched John Carpenter's much maligned and badly distributed The Ward.

Perhaps I'm just an apologist fanboy, but I thought it was decent - well made, great setting, good performances, nicely paced. Like a very agreeable Shutter Island-lite.

No Halloween or Assault On Precinct 13, but then far from a Memoirs Of An Invisible Man!

i've heard some people say it's pants but it's had quite positive reviews,, but yeah i too am a bit a Carpenter fan boy so i may be a bit biased when i watch it..

In contrast to the pleasant surprise of The Ward, I have just been let down by Irish folk-horror effort Wake Wood.

It's not bad per se - some elements far from it - it's just that it is an unpolished clash of its parts. Some of it is excellent and compelling, other parts amateurish and clumsy. The photography is glorious and moody one minute, then the worst kind of hand-held, sub-Dogme amateur video crap the next. Likewise the three main leads are good yet the little girl (a key part) is awful and a few supporting characters are amateur dramatics level.

I wanted to like this film as the idea and setting are splendid, but it doesn't make it. Worth seeing for the good aspects, but highly flawed as a whole. A shame.

Just watched Corman's The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (1957).
Very low budget peplum adventure from AIP...I'd say it's instantly forgettable.
It has a certain charm though and luckily stars Susan Cabot (probably the best thing about this film).
There's some nice matte paintings and the "sea serpent" is ok I guess but expect some terrible background projection scenes when they are at sea (thank goodness most of the movie plays on land! ;) ).
And don't get me started about the long ship used! :loco:

YouTube - ‪Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (1957) - Trailer‬‏

i think the opposite :lol:
was disappointed by ward and loved WW

30th anniversary of NOTLD. It was amazing......ly shit.:lol:

What films have you seen recently?
 

Luc Besson's THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADELE BLANC-SEC, a charming comedy fantasy
Stuart Gordon's excellent KING OF THE ANTS

I don't think I've ever been so disappointed as I was when I bought Anchor Bay's Trilogy of the Dead boxset. Not only was Dawn of the Dead cut but having to have the NOTLD 30th Anniversary edition was just painful and it was awful to watch. Thank god I sold it on eBay and upgraded to the Arrow BD's and the Elite Milennium edition

It is quite a bad boxset. Even the pictures on the back are wrong! Day has a picture from Dawn and vice versa. :lol:

I own two colourised versions of Night of the Living Dead, both of which came in multi-DVD box sets where the price works out as less than £1 per DVD!

Still overpriced if you ask me.

I have just sat through last year's Legion.

What a load of utter crap.

Possibly the worst thing I've seen this year. Certainly a contender.

Hateful.

You can say that again! The original Night of the Living Dead and colour - that's like having Château Mouton Rothschild and a Big Mac together. Some people will love it, but it is indeed disgusting. :eek:

Just imagine: all those old fantastic moody black and white flicks in colour versions. Ninotchka in colour - baah, I am shivering from head to toe considering such an abomination. :shocked:

Greetings!

My thoughts exactly. I was sent the BD to review and I watched it then wrote the review and haven't touched the disc since! In my review, I gave it two stars out of five and figured I was being more than generous. I think I was comparing it to the likes of Marley & Me, Bride Wars and Max Payne, which are all far worse films.

Legion Blu-ray

True indeed 'Prince', the way tech is evolving our generation may be the last to see things without 400 different digital 'fixes' to make them more appealing. I remember when they first colourized vintage B/W films, what a stupid idea. And rightly said, nothing wrong with fine wine or a Big Mac, but not on the same menu. Gad, just imagine 100 years from now. On second thought don't, just watch a good film instead.

Seen that film once, never again, i cried my eyes out for the last twenty minutes, not just a tear or two.

I've had labradors ever since i was born, still own one now (Hi Bramble, if you're reading this - probably unlikely)

It was just too much. :(


The following day i cried my eyes out again as i realised i had watched an entire Owen Wilson film. :shocked:

Best post ever.

Slaughter High
Funhouse

Any one seen a film called rubber if so what u think of it ?

Rubber is a very weird movie as it follows the adventures of a sentient car tyre which is able to kill people by telekinesis! I imagine it's a 'Marmite' film, but I thought it was great:

Rubber Blu-Ray Review

Sounds like a road movie!

watched Despicable Me....very conservative message wrapped up by some neat sight gags...6/10
The Human Centipede....not as laughable, or as gross as i was led to believe, my mates are in for a rough ride when i bring them to task for "plugging" (nae pun intended) this pointless little film...5/10
Demons of the Mind....started very predictably, it heats up when M Horden turns up as harbinger of god, great ending, pity about R Hardy's "oo arrr" comedy turn, 2nd oddest film in Hammer boxset so far...
also showed mate part of War of the Robots, he agreed that it was THE worst print he'd seen as well...;)

It's definitely something different and the ending is something else entirely! If you fancy trying something new and are prepared to watch it with an open mind, it's really worth watching.

After Legion yesterday and now My Soul To Take today, the gods of film owe me BIG!

You try to use a period of illness to catch up on some films and you get stinker after stinker!

We've just got a 3 month subscription to Cinema Paradiso (LoveFilm type online rental service) for £6 thanks to a Groupon offer so I'm expecting to go through a ton of films over the next few months. The first one was Sunshine which we watched last night. For some reason I had avoided it as I was sure I'd heard it was rubbish but I thought it was incredible to be honest. Really enjoyed it.

Also, just watched the Cat O' Nine Tails before as it was on The Horror Channel

the whole diner part of legion was awesome! but then it went down fast as soon as they left the diner. I LOVED the old woman!

Only good thing about My Soul To Take was Max Thierot :lol:

I didn't think Legion had any redeeming features at all. At least My Soul To Take had Zena Grey*! :nod::lol:

However, I got my reward for sitting through two such awful films: just watched Outpost for the first time, which was just wonderful.




* Hubba hubba, rowr etc...