What Films Have You Seen Recently? - Page 2327

gag · #**23261** 29th June 2013, 03:03 PM

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Very strange and jumbled film recorded from the Horror channel the other night; "Closed for the Season"! Couldn't quite get into it but couldn't stop watchin' it! At the end I gave up tryin' to work out who was and wasn't dead. Imaginative but garbled, I quite liked it as a way to waste time but not as an intellectual activity. 4/10 for trying hard.

I record a good half off the films of there and that was one of them , I agree gave up after a hr plus the cgi was realy bad as well.

Frankie Teardrop · #**23262** 29th June 2013, 05:50 PM

THE NIGHTS OF TERROR - A re-watch. My favourite Italo-zombie flick - beyond that, not much to say. I think this is great because of the non-stop zombie attacks, the weird soundtrack, the curdled sleaze (emaciated dwarf-man gets oedipal) and, despite the technical rubbishness of some aspects, the genuinely claustrophobic atmosphere.

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 - I don't rate Brian Yuzna, he's too pedestrian. 'Society' was good, but could've gone further. This is my favourite movie of his. It has that early nineties slickness, which I thought really worked here... in opposition to the smooth action-horror is a painful romance that actually feels quite evocative.

MOTEL HELL - Seems to divide people a lot, but I liked. There's something engagingly weird about it, something slightly sick. I don't think it's too gentile a movie, despite protestations about a lack of gore. Thankfully, the humour isn't played too obviously until the end.

THE SLEEPER - Retro-slasher pays homage to yesterday's gore. I really liked it. It rips off (sorry, references) 'Black Christmas' beyond all others, and I liked the aspect of a completely unexplained murderer (with inexplicably weird eyes) who just makes freaky phone calls to campus chicks (erm, bedsides killing 'em). The shot on video look can't support this movie's claim to be all 1981, but sometimes it almost does. Again, this seems to divide quite a lot but IMO is very good.

BAD MEAT - Bad teens get sent to boot camp run by Nazis who eat some infected stew and end up as zombie fetish-cannibals. This was stitched together from an unfinished movie by 'Wrong Turn' guy after he ran out of funding. I actually really liked it. It's gross and uneven, but it's nice to see some genuine latter day sleaze with an authentically grubby tone. The non-ending seemed quite mind-boggling... those looking for cheap thrills could do much worse.

THE GOAT MAN MURDERS - Yes, I jumped on the bandwagon and quite liked what I found. I mean, this is a total dog but, after wading through at least thirty mins of collegiate sex-drugs whinge we're rewarded with some surprisingly mean spirited gore, including the soon to be infamous climactic assault on the blind. Along the way are non-sequitors such as a mentally challenged man eating some human shit and close ups of a plastic cock surrounded by wild ginger pubes. "Seriously, we'll get this into Asda and everything will be fine", said the man when he made this.

BLOOD FOR IRENA - I thought that this was excellent. Some have made a case for it offering a kind of highly distilled essence of Euro-horror, but I don't think so - a certain SOV crudeness made it seem too no-budget American to be the next 'Amer'. I don't know what to compare it to... at certain points, a series of 'My Bloody Valentine' record covers sprang to mind. Whatever, this is a really brave move, a dialogueless trawl through the life of a vampiric prostitute living in the nameless rotting shell of a township caught under perpetual twilight. I totally recommend this and hope it becomes some kind of watershed.

Demdike@Cult Labs · #**23263** 29th June 2013, 06:24 PM

Just added The Sleeper and Bad Meat to my Amazon wishlist.

Nice one Frankie. Great little reviews as always.

troggi · #**23264** 29th June 2013, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

THE GOAT MAN MURDERS - Yes, I jumped on the bandwagon and quite liked what I found. I mean, this is a total dog but, after wading through at least thirty mins of collegiate sex-drugs whinge we're rewarded with some surprisingly mean spirited gore, including the soon to be infamous climactic assault on the blind. Along the way are non-sequitors such as a mentally challenged man eating some human shit and close ups of a plastic cock surrounded by wild ginger pubes. "Seriously, we'll get this into Asda and everything will be fine", said the man when he made this.

I'm quite glad that everyone's enjoying this pile of shite. I still believe that given a budget and some actors this could have been a great gross out flick.

Unfortunately the whole budget was spent on fake entrails, porridge, cigarette papers and ginger fun-fur, there wasn't enough left to pay a full cast and crew so friends and relatives had to help out. The "Goatman" was kitted out at the "Doncaster Ferret Rescue" charity shop and his make-up effects were achieved by taking a "Captain Kirk" mask, turning it inside out and leaving it on top of the toaster whilst making "Pop-Tarts". The, now infamous, ginger circumcised penis was actually knitted by the directors Aunt Grace, who also played the part of the visually challenged expectant mother, and finished off by painting an acorn pink and attached with Pritt Stick!

While buying clothes for the "Goatman" the director got the inspiration for his next film "The Ferretman Rampage" about an abandoned child brought up by wild polecats in the basement of Connisborough Castle who goes feral at a meeting at Doncaster Racecourse!

Nosferatu@Cult Labs · #**23265** 29th June 2013, 07:49 PM

You say all that like it's a bad thing! Doesn't it have the charm of other low-budget horror films like Bad Taste, for example?

troggi · #**23266** 29th June 2013, 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

You say all that like it's a bad thing! Doesn't it have the charm of other low-budget horror films like Bad Taste, for example?

Join the debate and watch the film yourself, I refuse to make anybody's minds up for them. I, personally, feel that "charm" is not amongst "The Goatman Murders" virtues (and it DOES have virtues, just NO charm, nyet, nien, non).

CHARM!

SShaw · #**23267** 29th June 2013, 09:18 PM

Delta Force last night which I thought I had seen, but I didn't remember very much. Good if forgettable 80's action fare.

Tonight I went to the local Kino to see Brad take on Zombies in World War Z. I haven't read the book. I enjoyed the film, there isn't a great deal of originality but it was a fairly decent action film - much, much better than last weeks Man of Steel.