What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[nekromantik]

Also just watched Society by Brain Yuzna.

Very weird weird movie. The ending is so surreal and messed up

Enjoyed it though was a good flick that has disturbing things like talk of incest which I thought was messed up

[Gojirosan]

Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer: I've seen this many times before but my girlfriend had never seen it and having just read a book about Henry Lee Lucas she wanted to watch it. I loved it as much as ever. I think it's a superb and powerful film - a fine and considerable achievement. The missis was less impressed. I don't think she was expecting something as "arty" as she got ("Too few killings"...she muttered!) and she would have prefered an actual biopic/procedural about the real Lucas case.

Mortuary: a very odd low budgeter from Tobe Hooper. Certainly no masterpiece, but thoroughly enjoyable and wonderfully strange. Quite atmospheric and dark at times, then funny and quirky the next - a bit like The Funhouse in tone(s), now I come to think of it...over all, I liked it, but it was not up to Toolbox Murders quality and certainly not up to his early stuff. Fun though.

Zombies (ie Wicked Little Things): what a great little film! Superbly atmospheric and really quite creepy and unsettling at times. Well performed and beeautifully photographed. A lot was achieved with little budget and a small story! I really enjoyed this.

The Todd Killings: look, here's the thing...this film NEEDS a proper release. It's a superb film, almost lost, and it truly deserves a nicely remastered, widescreen DVD release. I used to have a duff VHS dupe which took me years to hunt down and felt the search had been totally worthwhile. When I put this on this morning I realised I could barely remember the film and it was like seeing it for the first time again. A brilliant, brilliant film from the constantly under-rated director Barry Shear (his Wild In The Streets is also excellent and I would love to get another copy of that too!)

[Gojirosan]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

(his Wild In The Streets is also excellent and I would love to get another copy of that too!)

In fact, I just ordered one!

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by nekromantik

Also just watched Society by Brain Yuzna.

Very weird weird movie. The ending is so surreal and messed up

Enjoyed it though was a good flick that has disturbing things like talk of incest which I thought was messed up

Gotta love Society!

It's one of my favourite Yuzna films.

[DeadAlive]

The Foot Fist Way - I'm a sucker for this kind of embarrassment based humour. This is actually quite an emotional experience and actually ends on a rather feel good note.


Dororo - Japanese fantasy based on a Manga series about a Samurai swordsman who must defeat 48 monsters to get his body parts back. Some cool and some clunky FX as you would expect but at 2 hours 15 minutes it does over stay its welcome just a little.

[gag]

I watched maniac when it 1st come out yrs ago
Ive had it on dvd for ages but nvr watched it
I watched it again last night and to be honest i found it extremely dull and boring at 1 point i was more interested at noising at the pics on the wall in his room than what was actualy going on in the film

[42ndStreetFreak]

"The Spirit"

Holy hellfire and hamsters! Perhaps the most annoying movie ever made!

Seems Frank Miller decided to shove all the crap, really annoying, characters he had at the bottom of his waste bin after doing the wonderful "Sin City"...give them to actors who also decided to give really annoying performances...and gave them all really annoying dialogue to say.

Was this comedy? Parody? Homage? Slapstick cartoon? Thriller? Serious crime drama? 40's Noir?
It was actually all of those aspects, all done badly, and none of it fitted together and i actually gave up an hour in and skipped to the end.

Damn! This was just so annoying. Annoying in every way!
A pox on it!

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye

Gotta love Society!

It's one of my favourite Yuzna films.

Yeah it was good. :lol

Yuzna has made some good films, I seen both of his Re-Animator sequels and Society now. Next I need to see Faust: Love of the Damned and Dentist.

[pedromonkey]

Originally Posted by nekromantik

Yeah it was good. :lol

Yuzna has made some good films, I seen both of his Re-Animator sequels and Society now. Next I need to see Faust: Love of the Damned and Dentist.

Faust has a vary rare straight role for Jeffrey Combs. Not a bad film but not a great one either. Defo worth a watch.

I watched a great little low-budget Sci-Fi/Horror last night called Growth, it had an obiviously low budget but the cast and crew make use of all of it. It's a sort of Slither meets Dreamcatcher, minus the stupid mental aspect of the latter, kind of film, concerning gentic experiments with these small parasitic creatures. some good perfomanceses to.

[Gojirosan]

Girly (ie Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly)

I've wanted to see this curio for many years. Finally caught up with a washed out bootleg mastered from a VHS.

It's a gem, IMO. A strange tongue in cheek cross between Entertaining Mr Sloane and Theorem - Orton meets Pasolini, what's not to like! Though mostly black comedy the central premise is really quite chilling and it works as horror too. Superb performances all around and Freddie Francis must have loved it as it seems to have had a more caring hand on it than some of his other more thrown together horror efforts. It's quite beautifully photographed and rattles along at just the right pace. Character development is superb - You really get to know the distinct types of psychopathy each of the characters has!

Apparently, there is a legit DVD release due in a couple of months, so here's hoping they managed to track down a decent source (as it was largely presumed lost until recently)

See this film!