What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

BACKWOODS MASSACRE – Some really quite unlikeable post-uni kids get iced by a guy in a reptile monster mask in this disposable microbudgeter. There's a back story about them meeting in the wake of their friend's suicide – but don't expect 'The Big Chill', this one's strictly about knobheads being vile, running around in some woods then getting their guts pulled before the ugly irruption of a risible twist. All fine, in principal. I was hoping for something like that CL fave from a few years back, 'The Goatman Murders' – remember it? 'Backwoods Massacre' looks much glossier and HD, but is unfortunately not crazy enough to massacre a school bus full of blind kids. There is some gore, lots of it in fact, although somehow it all seemed neither repulsive nor thrilling and I probably won't watch it ever again. But anyway.

I think it's called Backwoods Bloodbath over here. Wonder why they changed it? Is massacre too sensitive for this little island?

I agree with you, it's not up to much.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I think it's called Backwoods Bloodbath over here. Wonder why they changed it? Is massacre too sensitive for this little island?

I agree with you, it's not up to much.

It is, I bought it from Amazon in one of my many 1p bargain hunts, and yes it's easily forgettable

[Justin101]

When you watch a film almost all the way the end before you realise you have seen it before...

I was convinced that I have never seen One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and I recently bought the BD and watched it last night, it all seemed vaguely familiar but I chalked it up to being one of those films that is lampooned and referenced multiple times in various TV shows and films. But then it got to the pivotal scene at the end with Billy and I realised I have seen this before

It was good though!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Autumn (2009)

Dexter Fletcher stars in this zombie apocalypse pic with zombies that don't actually kill anyone. The dead come back to life and slowly regain their senses rather than go on a brain munching killing spree.

This might have made a reasonable short film or anthology segment but at almost two hours it's far too long and way too talky, without the zombie threat there isn't much tension.

The fact the survivors have to live in constant darkness and be rather quiet as the dead become attracted to light and sound suggests this idea is due to budgetary constraints rather than interesting storytelling.

David Carradine pops up towards the end nursing a decaying corpse. For 7 minutes screen time he needn't have bothered.

Poor.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Final Girl (2015)



The core story here is about trained killer Veronica, who poses as a sweet and innocent girl next door type in order to turn the tables on a group of guys who like nothing more than taking young girls out into the middle of the woods in order to hunt and kill them.

A mish-mash of styles, Final Girl seems to spend most of its running time working out what kind of film it wants to be, however that said, it's not without its charms (I especially liked the retro setting) and you can certainly waste 90 minutes of your life watching worse things.



59/100

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Final Girl (2015)



you can certainly waste 90 minutes of your life watching worse things.

Autumn for one!

[Frankie Teardrop]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I think it's called Backwoods Bloodbath over here. Wonder why they changed it? Is massacre too sensitive for this little island?

I agree with you, it's not up to much.

It's called 'Backwoods Bloodbath' everywhere else, too. You can tell I think I've watched some total shite when I can't even remember the title.

[Buboven]

Picked up Spirits of The Dead for a blind buy, and it proved to be one of my best.

I have heard that Fellini's segment is the only one worth watching in this anthology, but I found all the segments enjoyable in their own way.

Fellini's is certainly the best by a mile (in it's story, visual and performances) but i found the second story William Wilson equally impressive in its slight of hand narrative and the first story has some amazing cinematography.

All in all a 9/10!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

It's called 'Backwoods Bloodbath' everywhere else, too. You can tell I think I've watched some total shite when I can't even remember the title.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Yet more 'gialli'!

The Sensuous Assassin (Qui?) (1970)



Weirdness and cheesy French pop songs abound in this French set 'gialli' starring the lovely Romy Scheider, who plays a troubled young woman plagued by memories of her lover's death plunge from a cliff in a speeding car in which she escaped from. What better way to try and deal with it by hooking up with his brother... but as per usual things aren't always what they seem. Rather talky, and plot-wise purposeful complex - although Scheider does a great job carrying this strange and at times a tad silly curio of a film.



67/100


Eye in the Labyrinth (L'occhio nel labirinto) (1972)



Despite some bad acting and dialogue which often shook me out of the proceedings a little, Eye in the Labyrinth is a serviceable giallo from Mario 'Nightmare City' Caiano. There are shades of sleaze, some red-herrings plus some nice camera/editing work on display. Oh, plus Sybil Danning co-stars (yes, really!)

For such a cool poster I expected a bit better though.



60/100