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FILTH. I couldn't really warm to this tale of a policeman spiralling out of control via guilt, sex, drugs and alcohol. Not sure why, though I suspect that as the first half is played as a very broad and bawdy comedy before switching to darker hues in the second half might have something to do with it. Overall I enjoyed it but found it lacking something... NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2. Not as clunky as the first one and with excellent gooey effects, I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. MY BLOODY VALENTINE. Hugely enjoyable slasher film from the 80s that features Cult Labs very own shoegazer B_E going apeshit on a thrill kill rampage in what looked like to me, the opening third of "The Deer Hunter" populated by overgrown rejects from a teen sex comedy. |
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Goal of the Dead (2014) Olympique Des Paris turn up in a small town to play a cup tie against a lowly fourth tier team. However as the game gets underway a genetically engineered zombie style virus leaks out and a football match turns into a fight for survival. Hyped Here in the UK as Shaun of the Dead at a football match, this is a lazy depiction of the film. If i was to describe it i would say it was a horror film produced in the style of the excellent Taxi movies from the Luc Besson stable. Serious subjects broached with a certain type of laugh out loud humour which has a French twist rather than the lads down the pub approach to the English Simon Pegg film. The success of the film lies solely with the writing as it certainly isn't a conventional zombie film - there is no flesh eating for a start. The script is so well written that even very minor characters appear to be well rounded and therefore memorable during the brief scenes in which they pop up. Billed as a film of two halves which is a play on the old football cliche of a game of two halves, the film makers don't disappoint. The first fifty or so minutes is all getting to know you chat among the team, fans and a couple of really funny tv pundits, this half boasts some blackly comical humour and is a pleasure to watch. Once the match is over the film stops and the second half begins. It's totally unnecessary, but wholly original and a fun idea. The second half of the film is a little run of the mill as various characters we already met in the first half, hole up in a bar and the fight for survival against the infected begins. Whilst still fun and darkly funny the horror aspect is upped and in a way it really isn't anything new to seasoned horror fans, the odd moment of laugh out loud humour aside. On the whole Goal of the Dead is a wickedly, funny and most importantly original horror comedy. Highly recommended, to football fans especially. |
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Sabotage (U.S. Bluray which is region free) Given the run of form he has had since returning to his film career I found this entry in the Arnie Cannon a little disappointing, there are three great action scenes but otherwise it is lacking on the action front.
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That it is, went and saw it Saturday night, for me one of the best marvel films to date, the time flew over it felt like had just sat down and the movie was finished. None stop action and comedy, but the real stars are Rocket and Groot, without them the film would not of been half as good. 10/10
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Haven't really been watching much recently, though I hope to rectify this soon. Anyway, I had a lot of fun with JULIA X, which is kind of about a battle of wits between two serial killers (or even three). It doesn't waste much time messing about with set up and back story, just cuts to the chase with a certain amount of zest and verve. It's bloody without being full on, and satisfyingly twisted (lite) in places. My attention span is dwindling these days, so I appreciate films which try to be smart and snappy and succeed. Cult Labbers who read my posts will be aware of how massively 1) pretentious 2) miserable I am, so naturally I have a big-style aversion to dreadful 'horror comedy', but that's exactly what 'Julia X' is... thankfully it's not too broad or laugh out loud. Pretty good and well worth seeing. I definitely wouldn't describe UNDER THE SKIN as any kind of comedy, but you probably all know that already. I was a bit apprehensive about seeing it, thinking it couldn't possibly live up to the internal hype I'd surrounded it with... maybe it didn't, but it came pretty close. It's a film of two halves, the first being about performance, seduction and annihilation (and, as MTDS pointed out, an alien sex killer). The second part is more about a being who suddenly finds itself vulnerable and without an identity, stranded in a landscape she can only begin to fathom. I liked the second bit more. It has a really bleak, claustrophobic but somehow almost touching feel, as horny alien siren with black hole for a heart begins to emote and question its place in the world but alas just can't relate and ends up dead in some godforsaken wilderness. I wanted to watch it again as soon as I'd finished it, and I can't say that about many I've seen in the last couple of years. Speaking of bleak and claustrophobic, how about Mike Leigh's brilliant MEANTIME? I think I prefer it even to 'Naked' in the tortured underclass uber-angst stakes - possibly because it has that early eighties, 'Play for Today' type feel which always seemed a bit disturbing to me when I was a kid, kind of loose, downbeat, elliptical, almost documentary. Anyway, it's great, a truly grimy slice of life which bears witness to the day to day struggles of switched on but cynical Phil Daniels, his learning dis brother Tim Roth, and strangely balletic skinhead Gary Oldman, who all pick their way through the Hogarthian landscape of recession-bitten London, simultaneously flattened by and lashing out at their down at heel locales. All three are excellent and just shine in their respective roles - the dynamics between the two brothers are particularly well worked out. The film as a whole leaves you angry at the state of things, but with enough of a glimmer that there might be something beyond the carnage. |
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