What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Vipp]

Someone on the forum mentioned these movies some time ago and i had a free day today, it's been a while since i had a pinhead fix and honestly i miss the guy so i decided to movie marathon the crap out of the four films (Currently all on Netflix UK)

Hellraiser: Inferno
The film in a nutshell – A police detective tries to find a missing girl and winds up opening the box whilst taking a break from doing lines off a crack whores breast… He fails, goes mad and winds up re living his worst memories for the rest of time. You could take Pinhead out of this flick and change him for nearly any creepy character. Not a brilliant film at all. Skip it.

Hellraiser: Hellseeker
The film in a nutshell – A guy wakes up from a car crash after driving off a bridge and crashing into a lake, his wife (the lady from Hellraiser 2!) is missing presumed… He wonders in and out of memories in a ‘Momento’ style movie that has a great deal of nothing at all to say until a tiny twist ending wraps the movie up. Of the four movies i watched today this is the only one that calls close to the original feel of the Pinhead movies, not bad and worth your time on a rainy day.

Hellraiser: Deader
Wow, What a pile o’ shite – a poor excuse to show crap tits and fake lesbian action, in a world with super fast internet and free porn this kind of lack lustre bollocks will be long forgotten in the future (I hope) forget this film and don’t waste your time guys/girls, instead grab a VHS copy of Jacobs ladder and Hellraiser 3 and enjoy something worth your time and energy.

Hellraiser: Hellworld
A guy runs a competition via a video game of the hellraiser films, he tries to bring the best of the best players to a secret house, where they get no phone signal and one by one they... OH SH*T I WENT CROSS EYED!
Forget this uber steaming pile of warmish poo, watch Saw and then house on haunted hill and you will have saved yourself from this sleep inducing shambles of a movie.

Other opinions are welcome on this set of films but they may be lies. lol.

[Vipp]

Originally Posted by gag

Watched The maze runner last night I enjoyed it but couldn't help thinking really it was the cube trilogy told a different way

They all no idea how they got there after suddenly waking up .
Memory loss
All trying to escape
Escape through a puzzle eg cube \ maze
The puzzle keeps moving and changing
Someone who help design it appears .
When escape find its all a experiment .
At end someone come to collect them all.

Plus other things u could go into so techniclaly is the cube remake really

MAZE RUNNER SPOILERS, DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM. (and want too)

I enjoyed this movie so much i asked the other half to get me the set of books for christmas. It is a little like the cube with one exception - the ending to the first film opens this up to a world of Science fiction that the cube doesn't. I personally adore sci-fi stories about the sun ending it's life cycle and what happens to human kind in this process.

MAZE RUNNER SPOILERS, DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE FILM.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Vipp

Hellraiser: Inferno
The film in a nutshell – A police detective tries to find a missing girl and winds up opening the box whilst taking a break from doing lines off a crack whores breast… He fails, goes mad and winds up re living his worst memories for the rest of time. You could take Pinhead out of this flick and change him for nearly any creepy character. Not a brilliant film at all. Skip it.

I really like Inferno (it's actually my favourite sequel after Hellbound), but agree with you in respect to Pinhead feeling like a 'spare part'.

[R-T-C Tim]

Originally Posted by Vipp

Hellraiser: Inferno
The film in a nutshell – A police detective tries to find a missing girl and winds up opening the box whilst taking a break from doing lines off a crack whores breast… He fails, goes mad and winds up re living his worst memories for the rest of time. You could take Pinhead out of this flick and change him for nearly any creepy character. Not a brilliant film at all. Skip it.

I rather enjoyed P5 but I had been told it wasn't really a Hellraiser film and went into it expecting something different. Not as good as the original series but far more enjoyable than most other DTV horrors.

Amusingly 'Children of the Corn 5' (also from those sequel pedlars Dimension) is quite similar - an unrelated but enjoyable storyline with a little of the original mythos stuck in that is best enjoyed if you ignore all the other films.

[Vipp]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I really like Inferno (it's actually my favourite sequel after Hellbound), but agree with you in respect to Pinhead feeling like a 'spare part'.

It was the second best of the four i felt, it felt more like one of the House movies than a hellraiser movie. haha.

[trebor8273]

Battle beyond the stars

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243378.484469.jpg


The magnificent seven set in space, John Boy Walton sets out in his titty ship to find warriors to help his people against the evil Sador and his army. Unlike Star Trek the motion picture which I watched yesterday this is a whole lot of fun that never takes its self to seriously with none stop action and interesting characters. 8.5/10

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243767.482543.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243773.585442.jpg
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243781.583436.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243787.109096.jpg
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243796.374478.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243804.300656.jpg
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243812.387571.jpgImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243819.804320.jpg
ImageUploadedByTapatalk1418243826.996352.jpg

Now watching this festive classic

ImageUploadedByTapatalk1418244096.753014.jpg

[antmumford]

Bit of a coincidence but I've also watched The Maze Runner recently and thought it was great. Wonderful cinematography, great acting and tense set pieces. A much more professionally crafted film than I anticipated it to be.
Really looking forward to how "phase 2" pans out in the upcoming sequel

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Night of the Big Heat (1967)

Christopher Lee, Patrick Allen and Peter Cushing star in this science fiction / horror romp about a remote Scottish island coping with a heat wave...in the middle of winter.

Directed by Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher, Night of the Big Heat, truth be told really isn't that riveting. The odd heat wave is only matter of factly mentioned until Lee and Allen really start investigating it's circumstances around the half way point. The bulk of the film is practically a kitchen sink drama dripping with sexual tension mainly due to Jane Merrow, as a former lover of Allen's, turning up at his hotel and turning up the heat on their relationship to his wife played by Sarah Lawson from Hammer's The Devil Rides Out. Claustrophobic and sweaty, yet despite the heatwave, Merrow is definitely the hottest thing in this.

The final half hour introduces the aliens responsible for events. Wisely Fisher keeps them out of sight until the last ten minutes, probably because, and i hate to say it, they look a bit crap, and certainly fare better off screen in the viewers imagination than they do in full sight.

Not a bad effort, but all involved have definitely done better.

[R-T-C Tim]

I'm doing some seriously obscure DTV sci-fi today, starting with:



Found this on a 'Replay' disc in my local poundland, a dodgy unbranded DVD release that seems to be re-using the BBFC certificate of the Elephant VHS release (although picture quality is pretty impressive and it does include a trailer).

The central idea (borrowed from novel 'Season of the Witch' (1968)) is that of a man whose conciousness is transferred into that of a dead woman, but while the novel sees this as his ironic punishment for rape and murder and explores his internal conflicts, the film just sort of sticks it into one of the most generic dystopias ever made - big corp runs the world, therefore bad guys, freedom fighters oppose evil corp, therefore good guys.

The production is decent enough for a low budget sci-fi, all the usual smoke and blue lights and Karen Duffy is good in the challenging lead role, but the film is just dull and the action scenes in the second half feel utterly gratuitous - potential for the film to descent into beautiful surreality is wasted on random super explosion guns.

Skip this (but feel free to read more in my full Memory Run review with pretty pictures).

[R-T-C Tim]

Ah that old staple, a double-bill of movies made in 1999, about a killer on board a space station with an unusually small crew. One underwritten, the other overwritten:



Escape Velocity (1999) has a good central concept - a convicted, lunatic killer, is sprung from jail and escapes in a space ship putting himself into stasis, 15 years later his ship is picked up by a remote observatory vessel manned by a man, a woman and her teenage daughter. He looks innocent enough but pretty soon his evil side comes out.

This might have been fine as a 45 minute teleplay, but just feels endlessly dragged out into a 90 minute movie, which is a pity since it has a pretty good 'rape and revenge' thing going on in the second half as the mum kicks some ass.

Oddly enough made by the director of the 'Bound Heat' series, but not containing any softcore leather whips...

If you have some patience, this is enjoyable - Escape Velocity review.



This Canadian film is a bit nutty. There is so much going on in the plot. A space shuttle damages the ISS while docking, it contains a cranky American pilot and a paying golf star (who is built more like a wrestler) on a promotional visit who seems to annoy the American a lot. One of the crew is suspected of murdering a Moscow prostitute, while one or other might be involved in a terrorist plot found by the military after explosively crushing an insurrection cell. Ultimately though, most of these parts just seem unnecessary when the real explanation emerges and it alone could have made for a perfectly good little film.

Quite European in its slightly surreal flavour, this is not one for everybody, but check out Michael Paré in a manic role - Space Fury review.