What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Inspector Abberline]

Fright[1971]
A total coincidence that i was watching this the other day,before George Cole sadly passed away,and it also has his old playmate Dennis Waterman.In fact it has a fantastic cast with Honor blackman and Ian Bannen and a very saucy Susan George as 1970s eye candy.Basically its your baby sitter stalked by a nutter scenario but Peter Collinson gives us a very creepy if slow burner of a psycho thriller and no one does nutter like Ian Bannen.(see also his performance in The Offence)

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly.[1970]
A film that had totally passed me by ,but due to the recommendation of the buoys and ghouls on this forum I recently purchased.I was totally surprised by this film by Freddie Francis,I was expecting more of a What ever Happened To Baby Jane style Gothic thriller,(not sure why)What you get is a a bizarre story of strange sexual games and upper class perversion.In some regards its ahead of its time,filming there games on 16mm so they can be re-watched like some Victorian snuff movie (obviously Peeping Tom got there first) and using Girly (the daughter, Vanessa Howard) as a honey trap to lure there next victim are all well worn themes today. It has a mouldy air of perversion and strangeness that you only get from British films from the 1970s and some internet forums.

"In a Lonely Place" (1950)
Another film that i had missed but had heard mentioned on the forum is this great thriller from Nicholas Ray, that tells the story of struggling screen writer Dixon Steele( Humphrey Bogart ) who may or may not be a violent nutter.Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame) plays his sexy neighbour who gives Steele his alabi.A remarkable film that kept me guessing right till its very end.Bogart is as always brilliant and Gloria Grahame sexy as hell.No surprise Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential) is a fan.

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
Made in tandem with King Kong and sharing cast and crew and some sets this great little thriller (running time only 63mins) never stops to take a breathe.From the start with the shipwreck and Joel McCrea managing to swim to an island, (called Ship-Trap Island,who would of guessed)owned by Leslie Banks playing Count Zaroff who gives a great performance but reminds me of a more psychotic Ernest Thesiger as Doctor Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein.And the lovely Fay Wray who with her brother played by Robert Armstrong also survived the treacherous sea.The film has such an atmosphere of its own and theres some great scenes including Zaroff's trophy room and the swampy marshes of the foreboding Ship-Trap Island,a real gem.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Great reviews, Inspector. Glad you seemed to take to Girly too.

[mlock76]

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation

I did enjoy it overall, but not as much as the last entry, Ghost Protocol. I hesitate to go into too many specifics for fear of spoilers.

Pixels

Being a fan of most everything 80's, it wasn't too hard to enjoy the hell outta this one! Say what you will about Adam Sandler, I have to givew credit where credit is due, and had a blast while watching it. I will definitely buy the 3D blu ray of this one when it comes out. Despite its PG rating, I have a feeling people my age will enjoy it more than kids today who know nothing about 80's pop culture.

Vacation (2015)

While the original will always be a true classic, this remake certainly had its moments. While few and far between at times, I would give it a passing grade overall. Who knows? Maybe when the blu ray is released with the seemingly inevitable "UNRATED" version, it'll be even funnier. At least it wasn't watered down to PG-13!

[trebor8273]

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People can laugh and ridicule but I really like this movie. A wonderful and charming feel good movie. Even Dick Van dykes atrocious Cockney accent adds to its charm. A practically perfect movie. 10/10

[Rik]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

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People can laugh and ridicule but I really like this movie. A wonderful and charming feel good movie. Even Dick Van dykes atrocious Cockney accent adds to its charm. A practically perfect movie. 10/10

My youngest son adores this film, so I took him to see it at our local cinema last year, he was made up seeing it on the big screen

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

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People can laugh and ridicule but I really like this movie. A wonderful and charming feel good movie. Even Dick Van dykes atrocious Cockney accent adds to its charm. A practically perfect movie. 10/10

Originally Posted by Rik

My youngest son adores this film, so I took him to see it at our local cinema last year, he was made up seeing it on the big screen

I strongly recommend Saving Mr. Banks. The recent film with Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks showing how Mary Poppins came to be. Genuinely excellent. And i've never seen Mary Poppins either but it made me want to watch it.

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

Whilst waiting for Windows 10 to download and install I took the opportunity to see a few comedy shorts:

The Vagabond (1916) A Chaplin 'Mutual short'. Thats somewhat in two parts! In the first part he's a busking violin player who must compete with a rival busking band, the second part is like the further adventures of the vagabond, in which Chaplin hooks up with the abused girl of a pair of gypsies, however the girl is actually the long lost daughter of a rich woman. The picture isn't too bad however its not one of Chaplins best.

Thundering Fleas (1926) An early 'Hal Roach's Rascals' short in which 'Babe' Hardy appears. This was a mixture of live action and animation with the animated sections involving the fleas. Its a good laugh as the kids go searching for the flea circus owner's star attraction who has made good his escape.

Brats (1930) Laurel & Hardy. Absolute comic genius this one! With one of the best lines in any movie "Remember the old adage: You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead".

The Electric House (1922) Buster Keaton is given the task of electrifying a house after being mistaken as an electrical engineer, (he's actually a botanist), he does a pretty good job TBH, although the escalators could do with having their speed cut down. However the real engineer who should have gotten the job tries to sabotage the wiring.

As for Windows 10.....Absolute pile of crap....Nice to look at but my lappy refused to get along with the OS! Slow, temperamental, Clumsy! And after having to reboot several times to try and get the OS the play ball I had enough andwent back to my old Windows 7! A word of advice...unless you have a Windows 8(+) dont bother!

[Frankie Teardrop]

EVIL DEAD TRAP – How's that for a title? Take two unrelated horror names and splice 'em together, like a dodgy car. More films should be christened in this way, especially if they're cheap, unroadworthy rip-offs from unscrupulous dealers. Then the audience would know what to expect. 'Evil Dead Trap' carries the cut 'n' shut of its moniker into its content, and very blatantly fuses some odd, slightly antithetical bits of genre film together to come up with a curious hybrid. I don't know much about the work of Toshiharu Ikeda, but didn't he do 'Sex Hunter', that slightly baffling exercise in nasty porn set in an Argentoesque ballet school? If he was swayed by Italian horror tropes for that one, here they've well and truly come home to roost. 'Evil Dead Trap' is flooded with gelled lighting, and is obviously very much in love with the whole Bava / Argento school of filters. I suppose as much could be said for any eighties horror film (EDT hails from '88) which looks like it's about to transform into a rock video. Here the Italo influences are laid on even more thickly, with some Fulci-referencing eye violence thrown in before the first reel is out. It's basically about a TV journalist who, convinced snuff movies are being made on site in an abandoned factory / warehouse / military complex (we're never quite sure), sets out with her entourage to investigate. All her mates end up being offed in the first half hour in kill scenes of varying explicitness. There's also a sleazy rape. Much more than this, there's lots of wandering up and down corridors and in and out of empty rooms, often accompanied by enigmatic conversation courtesy of a mysterious dude who keeps popping up to warn people / ramble in a vaguely opaque manner. The climax is quite – Cronenbergian? This is where the 'anithetical' bit of the horror fusion comes in, the marriage of cranked up but essentially gothic Italian influences with contradictory techno-medical concerns. Anyway, suffice it to say that the killer-duo is basically a guy with a warped baby in his stomach, who manifests at the end in quite an out of kilter way. So, 'Evil Dead Trap' is a beguiling stew of various horror odds and ends, a little bit 'Argento' here, a little bit 'Videodrome' there. But it has a magical incongruence all of its own, not mention a hard, weird edge, and that's something I often find myself thinking about a lot of Japanese stuff (very possibly the result of cultural ineptitude on my part). Bit too much running around in corridors perhaps, but in the end this is fairly full-on, atmospheric horror. The disc from Synapse looks good – but it's non-anamorphic. Surely a candidate for HD treatment now that the floodgates have opened.

[SharonLynette]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

Fright[1971]
A total coincidence that i was watching this the other day,before George Cole sadly passed away,and it also has his old playmate Dennis Waterman.In fact it has a fantastic cast with Honor blackman and Ian Bannen and a very saucy Susan George as 1970s eye candy.Basically its your baby sitter stalked by a nutter scenario but Peter Collinson gives us a very creepy if slow burner of a psycho thriller and no one does nutter like Ian Bannen.(see also his performance in The Offence)

Fright is my go to movie for Halloween, it never fails to impress - I've watched it with several friends and they've all enjoyed it. It was the first film that sprung to mind with the passing of George Cole.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

EVIL DEAD TRAP – How's that for a title? Take two unrelated horror names and splice 'em together, like a dodgy car. More films should be christened in this way, especially if they're cheap, unroadworthy rip-offs from unscrupulous dealers. Then the audience would know what to expect. 'Evil Dead Trap' carries the cut 'n' shut of its moniker into its content, and very blatantly fuses some odd, slightly antithetical bits of genre film together to come up with a curious hybrid. I don't know much about the work of Toshiharu Ikeda, but didn't he do 'Sex Hunter', that slightly baffling exercise in nasty porn set in an Argentoesque ballet school? If he was swayed by Italian horror tropes for that one, here they've well and truly come home to roost. 'Evil Dead Trap' is flooded with gelled lighting, and is obviously very much in love with the whole Bava / Argento school of filters. I suppose as much could be said for any eighties horror film (EDT hails from '88) which looks like it's about to transform into a rock video. Here the Italo influences are laid on even more thickly, with some Fulci-referencing eye violence thrown in before the first reel is out. It's basically about a TV journalist who, convinced snuff movies are being made on site in an abandoned factory / warehouse / military complex (we're never quite sure), sets out with her entourage to investigate. All her mates end up being offed in the first half hour in kill scenes of varying explicitness. There's also a sleazy rape. Much more than this, there's lots of wandering up and down corridors and in and out of empty rooms, often accompanied by enigmatic conversation courtesy of a mysterious dude who keeps popping up to warn people / ramble in a vaguely opaque manner. The climax is quite – Cronenbergian? This is where the 'anithetical' bit of the horror fusion comes in, the marriage of cranked up but essentially gothic Italian influences with contradictory techno-medical concerns. Anyway, suffice it to say that the killer-duo is basically a guy with a warped baby in his stomach, who manifests at the end in quite an out of kilter way. So, 'Evil Dead Trap' is a beguiling stew of various horror odds and ends, a little bit 'Argento' here, a little bit 'Videodrome' there. But it has a magical incongruence all of its own, not mention a hard, weird edge, and that's something I often find myself thinking about a lot of Japanese stuff (very possibly the result of cultural ineptitude on my part). Bit too much running around in corridors perhaps, but in the end this is fairly full-on, atmospheric horror. The disc from Synapse looks good – but it's non-anamorphic. Surely a candidate for HD treatment now that the floodgates have opened.

Great review. Perhaps the only film I have seen where a director uses a rape scene to provide exposition. There is a sequel that has bugger all to do with the original as well.

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