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The Witches. Gentle and moody Hammer Horror. Joan Fontaine is excellent; the same goes for the rest of the cast. Little action, few shocks, but nice suspense moments and an unsettling atmosphere. Spoiled by incredibly ridiculous final scenes. :fear: Recommended. *** out of **** Bigger review will follow on the Cult Labs Members Review Club thread pretty soon. Greetings! |
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Seriously, I'm surprised to find someone who didn't like it as it's one of the great overlooked '80s slashers. Still, to each their own. |
Finally got round to buying the Arrow release of Street Trash (something I've been meaning to do for months) and watched it last night. I had the cut version on VHS back in the day and I loved that. Then a mate gave me an uncut copy and I was in heaven. I was a bit worried that the film wouldn't appeal as much as it did when I was younger but I needn't have been. Just as much fun as I remember. Low budget film making at it's finest. Looking forward to watching The Meltdown Memoirs next. |
Deliverance........Squeal piggy :shocked::eek: |
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Wolf Creek and Snowtown are based respectively on the 2 worst serial killers in Australia. Now if it was Wolf Creek we were talking about, then i would understand you not wanting to come here. Snowtowns victims are locals, where as Wolf Creeks are tourists. :fear: |
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SKYSCRAPER crap low budget and DIE HARD wannabe - no chance of that! Anna Nicole Smith as an unlikely helicopter pilot, couldn't act, no one could esp the leader of the terrorists and it his first film and the last I would think! She was covering up as much as she could, and the rape scene was cut but it was one of these films which was terrible overall, acting, directing, editing, script..... |
Last House On the Left remake. I was not impressed by this at all just sort of bored me. |
9 Attachment(s) Another film night with a close friend of mine. Our regular meetings (every three or four weeks) not only consist of movie marathons. There's also lots of chatter and decent meat and drink; that is why we only watched three films, before falling asleep at 5am. :smokin: Natural Born Killers - The Director's Cut (1994). Nice mix of crazy editing, quite a bit of violent action, and social criticism/commentary. A modern version of Bonnie and Clyde. Both Harrelson and Lewis play their roles with enthusiasm - he's really cool and she's really hot. Juliette Lewis never looked better - and she's a very convincing crazy criminal chick. Tom Sizemore's and Tommy Lee Jones' performances are (positively) over the top. Great soundtrack, too. The strange editing and the visual gimmicks (graphic novel look, red filter, black and white,…), some of the film's merits, get a little bit repetitive, though. --- Mallory: That's the worst ****in' head I ever got in my life! Next time don't be so ****in' eager! Scagnetti: Oswald might've been a pussy, but he was a great shot. [Studying Mallory's imprint at a crime scene] Jack Scagnetti: Now that is a perfect ass. Mallory: Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad! --- *** out of **** Commando (1985). Non-stop action, a myriad of one-liners, humour, and Arnie – what’s not to like? Seriously, I think this is one of the best Action films of the 80s, and maybe my personal favourite of this genre. Of course, you have to accept the fact that our hero is almost invincible - but the same goes for almost all 80s Action flicks, and Arnie most certainly does look invincible. :nod: Look out for a The Prowler style kill in the final scenes. :lol: --- Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? Sully: That's right, Matrix! You did! Matrix: I lied. Cooke: You scared, mother****er? Well, you should be, because this Green Beret is going to kick your big ass! Matrix: I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now, I'm very hungry! Gen. Kirby: Keep on the airwaves and let me know if you hear anything unusual. Soldier: I'll keep at it. What are you expecting? Gen. Kirby: World War Three. --- *** ½ out of **** High Tension (2003). One of the finest modern Horror films. Really creepy, with fantastic cinematography, a great amount of gore (Giannetto De Rossi!), and a convincing (and cute-looking) Cecile De France in the leading role. Philippe “The Butcher” Nahon (Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible and I Stand Alone) takes a low-key approach to the role of the sadistic killer – perfectly proving that less can be more. As for the final twist: if you really payed attention to the movie, you’ll get it and applaud loudly. I got it, I forgot about a few little inconsistencies, and I loved it till the very last seconds. Mr Ebert, go get yourself some brain cells!* *** ½ out of **** All three are highly recommended. As for my friend: he did like Natural Born Killers (although he thought it was a bit too crazy; he also had to put up with me constantly praising Juliette Lewis' lovely bum and her flithy voice; we both adored the orange Challenger), he very much liked Commando (and loved Sully's yellow Porsche, and almost burst into tears when it was heavily dented; we both loved Arnie's Austrian accent and could not stop imitating him afterwards), and he loved High Tension (he was 'dead tired' (wink, wink) and yet he managed to keep himself awake till the end; his first words: "She (i.e. De France) is a lesbian, isn't she?") Greetings! * Quite a few of Ebert's reviews are highly entertaining and spot-on, but his High Tension review is a disgrace. :mad2: PS: I moved this post from another place (see page 1310 of this thread) - you'll find a mini review of The Witches there. |
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A perfect night in my eyes great films and a crap load of MEAT. |
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Cindy's comment: "These guys eat too much red meat." Both my friend and me had eaten beef steak for supper! :lol: Greetings! |
I see in your score for Commando you gave 3 1/2 hope the half point off was that the movie had to end thats the only downside to that movie for me ;) |
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4 Attachment(s) I watched a few Richard Kern short films earlier. They no longer hold the transgressive power they once had and now seem rather quaint. DEATH VALLEY '69. Basically a video to the song by Sonic Youth. RIGHT SIDE OF MY BRAIN. Lydia Lunch narrates a series of sexual fantasies and acts them out on screen. The fantasies become increasingly violent and less sexual as the film progresses. Look out for Henry Rollins beating up a child and Jim Thirlwell getting XXX with Lydia. YOU KILLED ME FIRST. Highly funny tale of a dysfunctional family eating a huge turkey whilst berating the odd bod family member before she kills them all. I couldn't tell if this was meant to be serious or not. However Lung Leg is great, a mass of twitches and barely suppressed rage. THE BITCHES. Two women compete to get a man's attention before they dress him up as a girl and spit roast him with jizz spurting strap ons! Very graphic but warm and fluffy at the same time. THE SEWING CIRCLE. Using only deep breathing to numb the pain, a woman has her labia pierced before having her vagina sewn shut.Ouch. X IS Y. A montage of girls and guns. It will seem very familiar to those who post on the random pictures thread. FINGERED. Truly awesome and foul story of phone sex, fisting, anal sex, violence, guns, knives, cars and general mayhem. Imagine NATURAL BORN KILLERS made for £10 with the same mentality as FORCED ENTRY. Hunt it down now, it's great and deserves to be seen by more people. |
Henry Rollins beating up a child ha ha now that i gotta try see. |
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Watched a couple of Alberto De Martino flicks, Blazing Magnum and The Antichrist, all good fun! Gave Lizard In A Womans Skin a second viewing, Cirio H Santiago's Sisterhood, Fulci's AWESOME Contraband, Castellari's The Big Racket and Martino's The Violent Professionals, QUALITY!!! |
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VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS - Can't believe I left it so long to watch this! Wonderful. The dude in the cloak looked like the love child of Death from BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (or is it BOGUS JOURNEY? I forget) and the Emperor from STAR WARS. RAWHEAD REX - Not bad, some the acting was pretty naff and it had the look and feel of a TV movie but overrall worth a look. |
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This morning I tried to watch Killer Elite. It was so awful I had to stop it after 35 minutes. I don't know if I can bring myself to watch the rest. |
URBAN EXPLORERS. Okay slasher/torture flick with the usual gang of unlovable characters getting bumped off. It does contain a quite spectacular foot shooting scene, that's the "Maniac" of such scenes. |
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WATERMEN. Very generic backwoods/hills have eyes/texas chainsaw rip-off but set on the ocean with inbred hillbilly fishermen raping and killing a bunch of rich slackers on a boat and carving them up for bait. So long as you can get past the feeling you've seen it all before its not terrible, just mediocre. |
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Honestly, I don't count Halloween as a Slasher. It's so much more than just the first Slasher - but that would be worth a discussion on its own on another thread. ;) Greetings! |
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Lourdes - Another slow moving bullet into the brain from Jessica Hausner. I'm not a Catholic, in fact I'm not religious at all and I find all the arcane rituals and liturgical music somewhat creepy. This movie is a serious exploration of this world and gripped me despite (because of?) the glacial pace. The director has a very personal style, she's definitely an auteur based on the 2 movies I've seen - this is like Hotel - a succession of beautifully composed medium/long shots, static but with multiple movements within the frame. Check the opening scene for a perfect illustration. The lead actress is fantastic and is surrounded by a great gallery of flawed characters all with their own agendas. Lourdes itself is part Catholic Disneyland part Vegas - I'II never visit it so it was fascinating to see. Inspired choice of closing music - randomness of fate mirrored in randomness of sound! In case you haven't guessed I'm loving the cerebal, subtly creepy films of Jessica Hausner and look forward to seeing more. |
1 Attachment(s) Just seen Code of Silence. An excellent Chuck Norris action film with a little more going on in the storyline than many films of this ilk. In this case a side story regarding corrupt cops from Norris' unit which gave the main rival mobs storyline a run for its money. Nice violence, with a seedy turn from the great Henry Silva. Possibly gave the makers of Robocop an idea as well. Recommended for action fans. |
Just finished watching last series of prison break ... Shame its finished i highly enjoyed it but wasnt keen on series 4 got bit daft and stupid and ridicolous to be honest in my opinion So many things annoyed me about it.. I highly enjoyed series 3 despite the critism it got .... I still think the last bit the 1 and hr special would have still been a pretty decent watch even if it was recycled same story line as series 1 and 3 and was a whole series of trying to break sarah out.. |
FRANKENSTEIN GENERAL HOSPITAL - Very silly comedy in which the great, great grandson of Baron Frankenstein continues is grandfather's experiment and creates his own monster, who then escapes, rampages around the hospital and ends up having kinky sex with, and then eventually marrying, the sexy Hospital Psychologist. Amusing, but could have been so much better. Still, it's not a bad way to waste a afternoon. ZACHARIAH - Dubbed the worlds first 'electronic' western, and plays like a glorified music video for several late 60's/early 70's mostly obscure (well to me anyway!) American musicians. The story is about two boys (one played by Don 'Miami Vice' Johnson) who decide to leave everything behind and become outlaws. Had this played as a straight western without the music gimmick it would have been ok but the musical interludes prove to be nothing but a distraction. |
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