What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[keirarts]

Hell I also love amityville 4, the one with the posessed lamp. Part 2 has always been my favourite. Andrew Prine as an exorcist and the lovely Diane franklin. The tacked on exorcism scene to cash in on the exorcist. I had the thorn emi x rated tape of this for years, now i'm on the special edition with kim newman commentary and will definately be upgrading to the blu-ray!

[Delirium]

I watched the Redemption blu of Virgin Witch yesterday. Even the opening credits has copious boobage - a taster of things to come, as its nubile leads end up in various states of undress throughout. It's a relatively shlockly tale of a virginal girl ('Allo 'Allo! star, Vicky Michelle) being freshly recruited into a dodgy model agency, which is actually a front for a witches coven. Heading off to her first shoot with her sister in tow (real life sister, Ann Michelle), we soon discover that rather than being terrified at the true purpose of her employment, she takes to the idea like a duck to water, jealously turning on her high priestess in the process.

So lots of nudity and silly dancing as the coven go through the ritual of deflowering the newly inducted, pretty young things. There's a great moment when our lead casts a spell on someone's photo, only for their expression to change in the photograph to one of pain as it catches fire.

[troggi]

"Solomon Kane"
I read Robert E. Howard as a teenager. Conan is the big one of course but among his lesser heroes is Kane who always struck me as an interesting character and should have had more adventures. So it was with trepidation that I put this into the drive last night as I have been disappointed by heroes before ("John Carter", "Kull", Sly Stallone's "Dredd", etc).

It could have been much worse and I am glad I saw it, enjoyable movie.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Despite its title i wasn't really expecting the hit anthem from Survivor to kick into gear as the opening credits roll on Eye of The Tiger (1986). I sorta thought it was a Rocky III exclusive and found it a pleasant surprise.

The next pleasant surprise was how good the movie actually was. The tale of an ex-con returning to his home town to find lawlessness has taken over and the local sheriff is as corrupt as the nasty biker gang are viscous.

Yes its been done a million times since, but none of them showcased the underrated Gary Busey in the lead. Usually remembered for his bad guy performances in Lethal Weapon and Under Siege, Busey takes to the role of hero rather well, his hero being the everyman type rather than the decorated former Navy Seal who's at home taking on the worlds wrongs.

The film boasts some fine action set pieces and its always great to see former Bond villain Yaphet Kotto in a film, here, as Busey's old time mate helping him get the town back in order.

The film because of its many imitators has a slightly formulaic feel but its a tried and tested formula that tends to always make for an enjoyable ninety minutes with me.

The dvd from Shout Factory is part of its Action Packed Movie Marathon and boasts a quite beautiful print. I'd not heard of Eye of the Tiger until i made this purchase, and really bought the set for Exterminator 2. If the films keep at this level it will have been £7 very well spent.

[SShaw]

Last nights film Sightseers was a lot of fun. I found it worked better at home than on the big screen.

This evening I watched the German blu-ray of Under the Bed another film I saw at last years Fright Fest. As you can read on my diary thread (where I also discuss Sightseers) I was largely underwhelmed by this film and am sad to report that a repeat viewing has not changed my opinion.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by troggi

"Solomon Kane"
I read Robert E. Howard as a teenager. Conan is the big one of course but among his lesser heroes is Kane who always struck me as an interesting character and should have had more adventures. So it was with trepidation that I put this into the drive last night as I have been disappointed by heroes before ("John Carter", "Kull", Sly Stallone's "Dredd", etc).

It could have been much worse and I am glad I saw it, enjoyable movie.

I'm a big Robert E. Howard fan and have always found Kane to be a much more interesting character than Conan. In fact, Soloman Kane was on my list of names to call my son before he was born as was Conan. As you can imagine he was called neither once Mrs MTDS looked at the list and decided what we were going to call him. I managed to get Kane as a middle name for him though spelt Cain. If you can't name your kids after biblical murderers...

[J Harker]

R.E.Howard is one of my favourite authors. Some of his horror tales are awesome, I love Pigeons From Hell and Graveyard Rats.

[Rik]

Pirates of the Caribbean:The Curse of the Black Pearl-despite my son having the first 3 Pirates films in a DVD boxset for the past few years, last night was the first time I'd watched this, thought it was brilliant and I wish I'd watched it sooner. Johnny Depp is IMO the best actor of my generation, I can't think of a film of his that I've seen that I haven't really enjoyed.

Fancied some cheesy slasher action after, so I watched Sleepaway Camp, been a while since I last watched it and I'd forgotten how creepy the cook is, borderline Coronation Street cast member material
Endings still ****ed up though, I can imagine the amount of shock people had when this first came out in 1983!

[Bringer Of Funerals]

Not a film but an hr long episode

I watched Cigarette Burns last night

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

Pirates of the Caribbean:The Curse of the Black Pearl-despite my son having the first 3 Pirates films in a DVD boxset for the past few years, last night was the first time I'd watched this, thought it was brilliant and I wish I'd watched it sooner. Johnny Depp is IMO the best actor of my generation, I can't think of a film of his that I've seen that I haven't really enjoyed.

I watched On Stranger Tides (2011) on Sunday night.

I love the first film like you, but the sequels lost the enthusiasm and became tired. On Stranger Tides has all the ingredients but doesn't really have much of a story to tell. Penelope Cruz makes you realize how good Keira Knightly was in the original films, and yes, you do actually miss Orlando Bloom as well.

Ian McShane as Blackbeard had a promising opening few scenes then his character really went nowhere at all. The film whilst having one or two decent set pieces felt like it was treading water. On the whole it was very disappointing.