BLACK PAST. This starts out as a mullet haired story of teen love before descending into utter madness and carnage. Olaf Ittenbach directs and stars in this, as school boy Thommy who spends his days arguing with his sisters and mooning over a girl in his class at school. He finally gets the girl of his dreams only to have her become possessed by an evil mirror on their second date and kill herself. After much moping about in his underpants all manner of chaos erupts in both his dreams and real life...

I really enjoyed this much in the same way I enjoy the pictures my kids draw which look nothing like the subject matter. Ittenbach is spot on with the gore and splatter but the scenes of Thommy's day to day life have a naive charm to them, that linger in the mind long after all the cock chopping and lady garden hacking mayhem has finished.

Bloody Mama (1970)

Falling Down (1993) <- My 87 (I can't remember his exact age, he's too old) year old Grandad watched this recently but had forgotten the name, he was trying to recall this comedy with Michael Douglas in it, from what he said I knew it was this but I couldn't convince him that it wasn't exactly a comedy. Great film though.

Death Wish (1974)

Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)

Play For Today: Nuts in May (1976)

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Every now and then if I tape a random film of horror channel I haven't heard of I google it, watched a film called tracked starring tony Todd I've looked this up on his filmography Wikipedia and imdb and cannot find any mention of this film anywhere maybe he wanted his name taken of this because it was pretty bad amateurish acting and made,

ADAM CHAPLIN.

I enjoyed this, even though it is just a series of images and set pieces looking for a plot. Wildly over the top and inventive in it's gore and splatter. Worth a look if you see it cheap.

I ordered a copy online and when it arrived it was in Italian but dubbed over in Russian by one guy doing every ones voice including all the women. You could also hear the Italian clear as day with Russian breaking in half way through a sentence. Chopping Mall was the exact same with the same voice dubbing it. It was sort of funny but i really wanted Chopping Mall. Needless to say i sent them back.

Hansel & Gretel -- on Film4 recently. Brilliant, wonderful looking dark fantasy from Korea which I thought was as impressive as Pans Labyrinth. It looks stunning. Will be going on the to-buy list.

Also had a rewatch of Bird with the Crystal Plumage.

VOICE OVER - Indie Britflick from the early eighties has unnerving subject matter and a grim atmosphere. Bizarre broadcaster Fats pedals anachronistic regency-period melodrama to jeering audiences. After a brilliant scene where he's humiliated by two punks he finds an injured, mute woman (one of the aforementioned punks, or at least the same actress) in an alley and appoints himself her guardian / keeper / oppressor etc. We follow their bleak non-relationship until he stabs her to death with scissors! The film swims in a fog of desolation... images of lonely streets at night, abandoned warehouses, down at heel nightlife feature heavily and project that dour vibe I always associate with media from turn of the decade Thatcher's Britain. There are some excellent sequences - Fats' overdriven tape blowout coda for one.
THE DAY AFTER HALLOWEEN - Otherwise known as 'Snapshot'. An odd little film which I found quite difficult to place - it plays like a weird hybrid of arty angularity, clunky B-movie and soap operatic almost-TV movie, and certainly won't please those wanting to find out what actually did happen 'the day after Halloween'. Mousy ex-hairdresser turns model and is harrassed by her vaguely menacing ice-cream man ex. Nothing much happens until the sleaze-lite climax, but I kept going with it, mainly for the appearances of disgruntled ex's 'Mr Whippy' van, which has a tendency to stalk accompanied by really florid 70s soundtrack music. I ended up quite liking it, but felt it needed to play on its eccentricity more. A few stabbings and some sexualised violence would have also helped.
HANNA - I enjoyed this tale of a genetically engineered teenage assassin, particularly because it avoided an obvious action-oriented approach and went more for an identity-quest type thing peppered with lightly surreal touches in places. Good performances from the likes of Blanchett etc, and Hanna herself was fairly endearing for a nascent psychopath. Maybe there was something a little slight about it, and I really wanted the irritating British family to be murdered in slow motion, but overall I thought it was good.
PANDORUM - Sci-fi horror set on a Noah's ark type spaceship. There are mutant cannibals and many scenes of people running up and down corridors trying to work out what's going on. I was reminded of my experience with 'Eden Log', a far superior headf*ck which had a lot more stylish weirdness going for it, but which too had a biblical spaceship thing happening. Well, I kind of liked it but I found myself drifting in a confused sort of way at points, perhaps because I was drunk and bored of watching films by the time I got round to it.

Zombie Flesh Eaters. the exodus after the "splinter in eye" sequence was priceless and just added to my enjoyment, FF was a real gentleman etc, overall Il be back-ck-ck. Ahem.

Who Can Kill A Child? I certainly could. Cough cough. Bleaker than Island Of Death! (well, I think it's bleak anyhow), not as much in b&w than These Are The Damned! Louder than St Trinians (??? -Ed)! I loved this nasty little film with a vengeance. Recommended!!

I was really surprised when about 10 people got up and left after that scene (they returned after a couple of minutes) as I thought everyone had seen it before and knew what to expect. It was a great event and, like you, I'll definitely go back up north for the next event.

NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR - Portmanteau bollocks assembled from the rags of three pre-existing movies and wrapped in some awful cranked out shit starring god, the devil and some refugees from MTV / Royal Variety 1984. If my description doesn't make sense, just buy the film and watch it - anything I write will be more coherent than this cinematic sputum, which in my book attains unintentional avant-garde status by being so badly edited it just doesn't make sense at all, and otherwise hits home by featuring an unknown quota of bandanas and legwarmers during the 'musical bits'. As for the 'episodes' themselves, the first features light bondage and organ trafficing in a psych ward, the second is a concentrated version of 'The Deathwish Club' (a weird little film from 1983 which I wholeheartedly recommend in its full version, by the way - has nowhere near the exposure it should enjoy, a genuinely bizarre oddity with a trashy Lynchian vibe, was quite available from Amazon last time I looked which was ages ago, must review it properly here some time but anyway), and the third is another good vs evil (vs Nietzsche?) throwaway thing derived from 'Cataclysm' with C Mitchell bulging his eyes at Nazis, the antichrist and some lovely stop-motion FX before an all-out surgical maelstrom at the climax. I really wish filmmakers (or, more realistically, producers, distributors and studios) thought they could still get away with pulling this kind of shit these days. When audience sophistication was less of a concern and the raging contempt of commerce for art was allowed to play its hand unabashed, weird rubbish like this sometimes followed. Suffice to say, I loved the results - cinematic waste, barely processed.
The version I saw (Laser Paradise) looked like it derived from a good VHS source (or possibly a video master) and was open matte and uncut as far as I could tell. I only say this because I'm aware that this public domain title is out there in various different forms, some of which may be rubbish.

Was at work today and several people was whistling to the tune from Twisted nerve couldn't understand why, I ask them all if they new what they were whistling and name the film it was from, not one could, found out why someone had it as his theme tune of his phone for messages, they went round asking older people to see if anyone heard of the film,no one had so thought I was making the film up,
Just logged into letter boxd and first thing I saw was what was watched by bizzare eye and it was twisted nerve I slightly chuckled to myself,

Crimewave by Sam raimi, wasn't over all impressed it was ok but nowt special ending car chase fight scene was stupid and over the top slightly ruined the film for me,

Blimey, haven't seen this film since I was a kid. I used to love it at the time and found it so creepy, would like to see it again now and see if it brings back any memories. Did you watch the DVD?

Inter-Pol aka Interpol 009 (1967)

Charming Shaw secret agent film. :)
Tang Ching is great as agent 009.
Much much better than Asia-Pol (1967) imho.

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I tried to watch "Leprechaun in the Hood" last night, but dozed off every 5 minutes or so after half an hour..... nuff said...:p

Same thing happened with me and The Driller Killer last night, in fact, I can't remember the last time I made it to the end without falling asleep :yawn:

@Rik: The only differnece being that "Driller Killer" - for all its faults- it's actually worth watching :nod:

I guess my late night film watching capaticity is alarmingly shrinking... or I should switch to a stronger dose of coffee...:loco:

Definitely, it just seems that every time I put it on I fall asleep half way through

PONTYPOOL. Fun words as virus film which plays not unlike TALK RADIO but with a mad doctor and more blood.

PIN. The first 30 minutes or so of this have all the makings of a scumbag classic with various scenes showing:children reading porn mags, a nurse shagging a life size anatomy doll whilst a child looks on and finally a prepubescent girl saying she going to have loads of sex when she's older! It settles down after that into a fairly standard split personality, loon on the loose story. Bizarre attitudes to sex keeps getting a look in every now and then, such as a doctor giving his 15 year old daughter an abortion and asking her slightly older brother to stay in the room as it will be educational! And said brother reading his sister and her boyfriend poems about incest and rape. It's all a bit wonky but very commercial at the same time and never fulfils the promise of out and out weirdness suggested by it's beginning.

WITCHFINDER GENERAL. One of my all time favourite films now looking truly amazing on Blu-ray.

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Arizona si scatenò... e li fece fuori tutti (English: Arizona Colt Returns) | 1970 | Italy/Spain

Very formulaic and rather dull western, only lightened slightly by the insanely preposterous music and the cast, including Anthony Steffen. Not much to see here although I did rather enjoy the character of Double Whiskey played by Roberto Camardiel (although others find his character irritating). If it weren't released by Koch Media or having had an interest in spaghetti westerns in general, I probably wouldn't have bothered. Perhaps the result of DVD and companies dedicated to releasing obscure westerns for fans like us mean that, sometimes, we will end up watching films that really aren't terribly good.

Watched the Koch Media R2 DVD from Germany. I had a hell of a time finding the English subtitles - both the cover and the menu both deny all knowledge of English captions. I started the film set on Track 2 yet the dialogue wasn't translated. I then had to cycle through every single subtitle track until I eventually found the English subtitles, which aren't even listed until after the title sequence!

As for the DVD - it's a decent release, although not fantastic. The picture quality is almost always very watchable if not superb and there are only a few very short sequences where there's a very noticeable degrading in quality and they soon pass. There are two interviews and a trailer, but none of them are English-friendly. A shame, as it would have been interesting to hear what the people involved in the film say about it.

It's a very forgettable western aside from the title sequence. The DVD is OK, but it wasn't half a nuisance finding those subtitles!

quite a few films viewed over the last two weeks...

QUATERMASS 2
Very good british sci-fi from Val Guest with a stern performance from brian Donlevy as Quatermass and very eerie atmosphere. Worth watching for the creepy SS Doom troopers who guard these massive domes.

LOCKOUT
What do you get if you cross the whit of John McClane, the anti-establishment mentality and badassery of Snake Pliskin, The Smoking habit of Cracker and the Special FX of a video game....LOCKOUT!....TOTALLY AWESOME BUT TOTALLY DUMB! 5/5

THE ROCKETEER
Incredible fun and harmless adventure film with a great premise and some good performances especially Timothy Dalton. Really good production design and the airship are pretty cool too.

RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS
This film was awesome, it was balls out action and some pretty cool post apoc sets. Why isn't it available properly in a remastered version.

ASYLUM
Pretty good Amicus offering ruined by final tiny robot finale and a obvious twist, best segment was the Peter Cushing bit but still a good fun ride.

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS
watched the dutch blu-ray which is of course a port of the Criterion transfer and wow did they do a great job on this. Very good film with some stunning cinematography and great direction from Byron Haskin (War OF The Worlds)

SHOCKWAVES
A little bit overrated but still pretty good fun. Brooke Adams in a bikini is a wonderous sight.

OUTPOST 2: BLACK SUN
As good if not better than the first which expands the Outpost universe and looks more into the rise of the new reich and more about the electro-machine. Some great direction and action scenes and some really good performances. Can't wait to see what they do with the 3rd film.

SAFE
Full throttle action with the Stath on top form, just mental action sequences with some fantastic action scenes and some great direction from Boaz Yakin
(repeated myself there)

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
Very good Carpenter movie with a fantastic central performance from Sam Neil and some great Lovecraftian monsters.

THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY
bit crap in all honesty, Bruce Willis is in it for like 10 minutes but Henry Cavill was pretty good it's just a shame we've seen all of this before and better.

THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER
Decent enough Charles Sneer production let down by abrupt inconclusive ending that confused me. Kerwin Matthews is good as Gulliver though.

ESCAPE FROM THE BRONX
bigger and badder than the first, top notch action and this time around Mark Gregory doesn't look like a fabio-esque male model. Pretty damn good stuff

THE NEW BARBARIANS
Decent enough Post-apocalypse action from italy, dragged down by low budget and over use of shoulder pads.

HARPOON: REYKJAVIK WHALE WATCHING MASSACRE
Actually pretty good Texas Chainsaw at sea horror film with some awesome gore moments and some pretty good performances.

THE HUNGER GAMES
Very good futuristic action thriller aimed at teens but obviously borrows heavily from 70s science fiction, most notably THX1138 and Logan's Run and mixes those with a Battle Royale style covered in Twilight sheen, but unlike the sparkly vampire, The Hunger Games is actually worth watch. Quite violent for a kids film though.

The Snow Devils (Antonio Margheriti, 1967)


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Ahem. Once in a lifetime comes the opportunity to witness one of the most spectacular haircuts in the entire history of cinema. Sculpted to an alarming degree, I hope to Cthulhu that it was merely a wig, but sadly brethren I fear not......
The film itself was a competent exercise, with some choice dialogue ahem, in Tibetan shenaningans involving aliens who all resemble dusty Canutes imo cough cough;).
Recommended!!

THE FUGITVE - one of the best ever chase thrillers
Tommy Lee Jones deserving his Oscar
VIDOCQ - i see this every month or so, fantastic French supernatural horror,
come on some UK company release this with extras w/Eng subs unlike my and every other dvds released, the companies have the money.....

Probably not the right place for this, but I can't wait until the 15th of September!

Going to watch Moon, then They Live followed by the Vengeance Trilogy (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy and Lady Vengeance) at the Prince Charles in London. 6pm until 8am. Oh my!

I more often than not have simillar taste to you Pedro, but this was absolutely terrible.

It's more likely they took the piece of music from Kill Bill – Elle Driver whistles is in the corridor on the way to The Bride's room.

talking of tunes
the opening music from INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS comes from so i read, WHITE LIGHTNING
but i was channel hopping the other day and the same tune was at the start of THE ALAMO by Dimitri Tiomkin

Final Fantasy......was drunk and was forced to watch
Masters of the Universe
Dirty Harry:cool:
The Incredible Hulk
Thor

Out of the Dark 1995

Don't be fooled by the trailer because this one is 80% typical Stephen Chow mo lei tau comedy and 20% more or less serious horror.
Luckily I knew this before going in... ;)
Not bad if you like the typical Chow humor.

OUT OF THE DARK (1995) Trailer - YouTube

ROMASANTA.

I really liked this Spanish werewolf film set in the 1850s. It had a nice, familiar feeling to it that I can't quite put my finger on. It reminded me of warm fires, toast and winter afternoons as a child. Which is odd as I don't recall serial murder and women being wanked with bars of soap made from the fat of their relatives as being part of my childhood.

But you do remember Julian Sands bathing you. :nod:

I like Romasanta, its like a Hammer film taken to the next level.

Sands is on my list of people to bathe with along with Dame Judi Dench, then I'd have completed my life long ambition to bathe with all the lead actors from "A Room With A View".

Yeah, I think it was the Hammer like feel of the film that felt so familiar to me. It's a shame that the film is part of the Fantastic Factory releases as the schlockiness of the other 3 films and the dvd boxes might put people off watching what is in fact, a progressive throw back to 60s and 70s period horror.

Spot on. :nod:

Aww, i'm jealous. Its a great cast. :(

I bet when you bathed with Helena Bonham Carter Tim Burton had his toe up the tap and Johnny Depp was playing with a plastic duck. :eek:

Oddly enough, I've only ever found HBC attractive as a monkey in "Planet of the Apes".

It was her best look. :nod:

Better than her "Sarah Brightman with her finger in a power socket" everyday look anyway.

Loved the trailer !!

just watched the blue underground dvd of companeros and absolutely loved it. would go as far to say its the best spaghetti western ive ever seen. also watched high crime and almost human in the last couple of weeks and thought they were nboth fantastic films, you cant go wrong with franco nero or tomas milian.
next up to watch will be the great silence and the cynic, the rat and the fist.:)

STASH HOUSE.

A young couple get the house of their dreams at a cheap price. The catch? It used to be owned by a mexican drug cartel and the walls are stuffed full of heroin! As the couple leave theyu are stopped by armed thugs (one of whom is played by Dolph lundgren) and must flee back into the house. Incidentally the house is armoured like a big panic room and has a top of the line surveillance system all installed by the previous owners, so the film becomes a cat and mouse siege movie.

Pretty decent, not astonishing but its a great way to pass 90 minutes. It's an after dark movie so fairly low budget, but Dolph makes a great bad guy.

Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress!

One of his best movies! Had not seen it since college but slowly getting through the BFI Kurosawa sets. The humour is better than most modern comedy, it really is obvious where Lucas got his inspiration for R2 and C3PO.

Had a day off yesterday so watched Phenomena and Police Story.