What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Vampix]

Originally Posted by Bringer Of Funerals

Vault Of Horror starring Tom Baker, I bought the film ages ago without hearing anything about it. Ive watched it every Halloween since and still enjoy the film.

I do have a few niggles. 1 why is Tom Baker in eternal damnation rather then the men who were ripping him off? and 2 when was it bad to want a clean and tidy house?

I love Vault of Horror and would like to see it given a decent DVD or BD release using the BFI's restored print of the film.Also, I personally think Terry Thomas deserves his gory comeuppance in 'The Neat Job'.

[Frankie Teardrop]

THE BEING - Early eighties monster action from the director of the lamentable 'Blood Diner'. Despite its mediocre reputation, I really enjoyed it. It kind of put me in mind of things like 'The Deadly Spawn', 'Nightbeast' and 'Humanoids From The Deep', although it's not quite as satisfyingly trashy as all those. Beyond the bad effects and the cardboard characters is a strangely haunting quality which hinges on the movie's backstory about a boy who goes missing around a toxic waste dump, only to return as a wretched cyclops mutant, and, although it's a little tongue-in-cheek in places, it has that creepy, numb feeling I always associate with films made around its time.

SEXANDROIDE - Three horror porn vignettes come together in this French shot-on-video oddity. The episodes are more akin to minimal grand guignol performances than stories, and manage to be simultaneously nauseating and laughable, particularly the second skit which features a guy in bad monster make-up subjecting his female victim to some pretty heavy DIY piercing. 'Sexandroide' is also fairly notorious for its final section which is basically ten minutes of a nude vampire dancing to Tina Turner. Theoretically stunningly bizarre, but oddly uninvolving, at least on my second viewing. Maybe a film that should only ever be seen once, as it lives in the memory more vividly than it plays in real time. Only available on 'the grey market', and I can't imagine that ever changing.

HELP ME... I'M POSSESSED - Films like this are kind of the reason I still bother with movies, or at least explain why I watch as many weird flicks as I do. Just when you feel jaded enough to throw in the towel, something like this comes along and blows away the cobwebs... actually, I'm cheating a bit as I've seen 'HM...IP' before, but I forgot how utterly and charmingly mental it is. And yes, unlike the previous entry, 'stunningly bizarre' actually works in this case. I can't begin to summarise what goes on in this movie, despite its apparently simple 'plot' (evil scientist operates a fake asylum in a desert, and there's a monster)... it's more like a dream than a film, a fractured collage of scenes that go nowhere but make sense on some way abstract plane. There's even the most effectively Lovecraftian entity I've ever seen on film, which is basically just a load of red string being waved in the night... OK, I realise I'm coming from a very subjective angle when I advocate for this lost jewel of bad filmmaking, but I'd go as far as to say that it's required viewing for anyone interested in the notion of horror cinema as unintentional nightmare psychedelia.

EVIL DEAD - Doesn't seem like it's had a very good reception on this board, but I quite liked it. I'm going to have to reserve judgement in a way due to making the mistake of deciding to see it whilst massively hungover. But yeah, I quite liked the decision to go for a blackly serious approach whilst throwing in loads of blood and guts, and I have to admit that in a few instances the film did generate a genuine sense of something quite disturbing happening, which I think was mainly down to the use of sound. It's not going to survive comparisons with the original, which made an impression by virtue of its cartoon delirium (I never think of 'the Evil Dead' as 'comedy horror' by the way, it gets way higher than that) and, without that essential madness, what we have is just another bunch of guys and gals being slaughtered by demons in a cabin in the woods. But for all that, I think 'Evil Dead' still has an intensity, and, as with 'Maniac' recently, it's nice to see something like this dirtying the multiplex.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by sawyer6

Why's that ?

Either because I don't watch that many or because there aren't that many with a similar theme and aesthetic which had been made. I'm not an expert, so I don't exactly know why!

[Bringer Of Funerals]

I watched THE FIGHTER - it was good but didn't deserve all the hype it got. Bale steals the show from the rest of the cast

[Dave Boy]

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

ALIENS

Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom

On blu ray.

[gag]

Tried watching momento but gave up a hr into it it was blagging my head. The way it kept going forward back repeating itself etc etc, just a curious Q.? Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but if he can't remember anything and had to keep reminding himself then how come he remembers all about his wife..?

[J Harker]

He remembers everything up to the attack. His long term memory is fine. He simply can create any new memories.

[Rik]

I watched The Crow last night for the first time in a while, I can't believe how similar it is to The Dark Knight! Parts of Lee's performance reminded me of the equally tragic Heath Ledger's, we have a character mentioning anarchy, disorder and chaos (in a similar voice to the Joker too), a character saying "He does that a lot" after Eric Draven disappears suddenly, the City vaguely resembles Gotham and more things that I'm struggling to remember now, I'm wondering if Nolan and Ledger used this as inspiration, or is it purely coincidence

[Prince_Vajda]

Originally Posted by Rik

I watched The Crow last night for the first time in a while, I can't believe how similar it is to The Dark Knight! Parts of Lee's performance reminded me of the equally tragic Heath Ledger's, we have a character mentioning anarchy, disorder and chaos (in a similar voice to the Joker too), a character saying "He does that a lot" after Eric Draven disappears suddenly, the City vaguely resembles Gotham and more things that I'm struggling to remember now, I'm wondering if Nolan and Ledger used this as inspiration, or is it purely coincidence

Call me a heretic, but Lee was a better actor than Ledger. Lee's performance in 'The Crow' still moves me. He was cute, he was charismatic, he was tough. I felt with him. His love story is so tragic... I'm always close to tears whenever I watch this movie.

But you're right - the city looks quite a lot like Gotham City.

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[Rik]

Originally Posted by Prince_Vajda

Call me a heretic, but Lee was a better actor than Ledger. Lee's performance in 'The Crow' still moves me. He was cute, he was charismatic, he was tough. I felt with him. His love story is so tragic... I'm always close to tears whenever I watch this movie.

But you're right - the city looks quite a lot like Gotham City.

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Both films are sad because you know it's their final performance, TBH I've only seen Lee in Showdown in Little Tokyo and The Crow, whereas I've seen Ledger in a few other films, both excellent performances IMO, and not just because of the tragic circumstances regarding them.
I've never bothered with the Crow sequels, but from what I've read they aren't very good anyway.

I also watched Scream 4, or SCRE4M if you like, for the first time and actually enjoyed it, enough so that I've been working my way through parts 1-3 this afternoon