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Man from Deep River (1972) In which Italian hack director Umberto Lenzi attempted to rip off A Man Called Horse (1970) using Ivan Rassimov instead of Richard Harris, and Thai jungle tribes instead of native American Indians and inadvertently created the cannibal horror film. Overloaded with animal violence - the slaying of the alligator is particularly nasty as they slice open it's stomach as it flails about, although my dog Milli loved the mongoose / snake fight, absolutely glued to the screen she was - Man From Deep River isn't actually that interesting exploitation wise, The cannibal action is limited to a single scene and isn't at the forefront of Lenzi's ambition. The film is largely about Rassimov - a white man from the city - his induction into a primitive jungle tribe and his subsequent love affair with tribes girl Me Me Lai. (If ever a name came from a Frankie Howerd sketch it's Me Me Lai). Whilst nowhere near the best work of either Rassimov, Lenzi or the seemingly stoned throughout Lai, Man From Deep River has more going for it than the majority of Italian cannibal films. The Shriek Show dvd positively sparkles, so good is it's picture quality, so i can only imagine how good the truncated Blu-Ray from 88 will look. |
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I watched Don't Open Til Xmas again, followed by The Long Good Friday (w/comm this time). DOTX still redolent with that British stiffness that I loves, Alan Lake looking a bit "tired and emotional" at times ahem. The TLGF comm is a bit of a disappointment, Mackenzie hasn't seen the film "in 20 years", and spends most of his time describing what's on screen. Meh. Also rewatched Friday The 13th (1980). A film that may be familiar to those on here. Say what you like, Sean, you couldn't have made Halloween, as you have no love for the genre. Still contains one of my favourite "You're all DOOMED!!" scenes.
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The Stuff (1985) ***1/2 out of ***** Warcraft (2016) This was a lot better than I expected it to be considering how crap the trailers were and the mostly mixed to negative reviews. I actually quite enjoyed it. *** out of *****
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Satan's Baby Doll (1982) Even at a measly 74 minutes, Mario Bianchi's La Bimba di Satana is a hopelessly padded, muddled mess where a few sex scenes aside nothing of note actually happens. Yes it has a nice Gothic atmosphere and a cast of fine Euro starlets intent on taking their clothes off but that really is everything. It's not scary, gory, nor is it especially sexy. Shameless to their credit have produced an edition as complete as can be minus the hardcore sex, but all that's added is additional soft core nudity from a ropey film print that in truth adds nothing to what is a virtually plot less story. |
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Recently watched that new Ghostbusters movie.. wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but then again it wasn't great either lol probably give it a 4/10
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