What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

Anyway who ever heard of an educated hillbilly

look! Just stop with the hillbilly wise cracks okay!

You'll be making MTDS redundant.

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

look! Just stop with the hillbilly wise cracks okay!

You'll be making MTDS redundant.

Just trying to fill the void his absence has left in my life he never even writes to me the way he used to

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Green Inferno (2013)

The Green Inferno is a cannibal film, a throwback to the 70's exploitation days of Ruggero Deodato, Umberto Lenzi and Sergio Martino. Days adored by fans of gut munching horror and reviled by censors. In many respects these films offered nothing more than a few folks from western civilisation out of their comfort zone and very much out of their depth, trecking through miles of South American rain forest before being captured, tortured and finally eaten by the natives...and The Green Inferno stays true to these roots.

Coming some 30 plus years after the cannibal film explosion, The Green Inferno, along with 2008's Vinyan, makes a nice footnote to a once seemingly dead genre.

Recommended.


Full review here -

Green Inferno, The (2013)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Spectre (2015)

At the end of every Bond film, somewhere in the credits comes the announcement - James Bond Will Return. Well, since the end of Die Another Day some four films back he doesn't actually seem to have made it back to our screens, although with Spectre it seems he might just be waiting at the bus stop to return.

Spectre is a well constructed action film (albeit, again 20 minutes too long) with a few Bond traits added, such as the famous Monty Norman theme on sporadic occasions, together with a some nice one liners from Daniel Craig, and a few gadgets thrown in, and even a hidden base in the desert in which Christoph Waltz's cat stroking uber-villain runs his dastardly operation. It isn't quite a return to the glory days of Goldeneye but ever so slowly we might be getting there. Lets hope Craig catches that bus to Pinewood sooner rather later so that James Bond does return in time for the next film.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

A Couple of Beauties.

A short film that reduces Some Like It Hot into a 30 minute showcase for drag artist Bunny Lewis in 1971 Manchester! Pat Coombs and James Beck add star quality with a little cameo from Bernard Manning for local flavour.

I am not sure who would want to watch this today other than fans of Britshit or social anthropologists! Recommended for those brave souls who travel the cinematic landscape without a map and a willingness to watch anything.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

A Couple of Beauties.

A short film that reduces Some Like It Hot into a 30 minute showcase for drag artist Bunny Lewis in 1971 Manchester! Pat Coombs and James Beck add star quality with a little cameo from Bernard Manning for local flavour.

It also has Colin Crompton, who was a Manchester stand-up comedian, and is probably best remembered as being the chairman at the 'Wheeltappers And Shunters Social Club'

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

It also has Colin Crompton, who was a Manchester stand-up comedian, and is probably best remembered as being the chairman at the 'Wheeltappers And Shunters Social Club'

He does a great joke about a toilet brush!

[mr 420]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

He does a great joke about a toilet brush!

Do tell.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by mr 420

Do tell.

A bloke wins a toilet brush in a competition but returns it a week later saying, I think I'll stick with the paper.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Last Shift (2014)

Rookie police officer Jessica Loren (Juliana Harkavy) is given the unenviable last shift at a police station before it is closed down. Ordered not to leave as she waits for a hazmat team to arrive to collect the final cases of crime scene evidence, strange events start to occur and Jessica realizes she might not be alone in the seemingly deserted police station.

Last Shift is basically a one woman film and stands or falls on that one woman's performance. Luckily Jessica Loren, who was one of the Governor's women at arms in season four of The Walking Dead is an accomplished enough actress to pull it off.

Obviously there are other characters but their scenes last no longer than a few minutes and i do want to avoid spoilers so i'll leave it at that.

The film is low budget but the old police station is a creepily effective set and what money was available was obviously spent on ghostly FX and make up. The film is a slow burner which gradually allows suspense to build, and director Anthony DiBlasi, who also directed the rather good Clive Barker adaptation Dread, makes great use of light and shadow in a very Lewton-esq way, rather than the usual lazy jump scares. Being a big fan of Val Lewton i don't say this lightly, so keep watching the shadows.

The film is flawed but the eerie, unnerving, atmosphere allowed me to forgive and forget.

Far superior to many of the big budget ghost stories doing the rounds such as The Woman in Black: Angel of Vengeance, Last Shift is a ghost story similar to Absentia , money wise, that other low budget film makers should aspire to and realize what is achievable with limited sets and a small cast.

Recommended to all lovers of no-budget film making (You know who you are) and to others i'd say it's worth a risk.