What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Sargento]

Watched Saw 6 last night. After all the slagging off it got, I was expecting it to be terrible, but I rather enjoyed it! Unfortunately the traps were a bit unimaginative and predictable. But then again after 6 films, the viewer becomes a little more astute to them.

[Sargento]

Originally Posted by Ste67GB

just watched Train - a Hostel rip off...you guessed it - set on train. Not to bad with some decent gore and another good advertisement for eastern Europe.

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Getting a bit tired of the torture porn movies. I did avoid this for that very reason. Bit same old same old I suspect .....

Then again in my post above, I did watch Saw 6! Not quite torture porn but a bit samey nonetheless.

[vincenzo]

Theatre Of Blood

Hammy Shakespearean actor Vincenzo Price is so disappointed to not receive the 1972 Actors Award for his season of The Bard that he throws himself from the balcony of Jeffrey Archer's apartment in Peninsula Heights (Lord Jeff wasn't there at the time as he was detained elsewhere, probably in Wandsworth) into the Thames. However all is not lost. Vinnie develops a brief taste for metholated spirits (about 6 secs) after submerging at the Thames Lock in Brentford, and sets about repaying his critics in assortedly bloody ways while dressing up in strange garments.

In the spate of 100 mins he becomes.....

Caesar
A policeman
Achilles
A gravedigger
Arviragus
A surgeon
An expert fencer
Shylock
Richard III
A masseuse with a ropey accent (think it's Welsh crossed with Swedish)
A camp hairdresser called Butch (one of the greatest images in horror ever)
A chef

Eat your heart out Mike Yarwood.

Delightful, delicious, delectable and dedicated daughter Diana Rigg (who possesses much M-appeal) also dresses up. Mostly in a heavy beard (which makes her look like a member of ZZ Top) but also in a miniskirt and white go-go boots (to which I drooled uncontrollably and went -> for several hours).

A cast to die for (and most of them do), Milo O'Shea & Eric Sykes as the dumbest cops in London ("What's the next murder, Inspector?"), an outstanding Michael J Lewis score, some surprisingly graphic murders, splendid location work, and a pie to equal anything made by Ginsters. For me this is a perfect film, and still remains one of the greatest British (or anywhere) horror movies of all time. Horror with a genuine & knowing sense of fun. Something rarely seen in recent years.

Now I might go for a haircut. Something in flame with ash highlights......

[nekromantik]

Watched the classic Fright Night yesterday. I heard alot of good things about it and as its getting a remake, I thought il check it out.

It had its funny moments and was pretty good overall. I would have liked it to be 10 mins shorter though as I lost interest during the end.

[42ndStreetFreak]

"The land that Time Forgot"

This long time fave and ever popular title still holds up today.
The dino FX are cheesy, as are some of the model effects...But some of the model work is okay and the film is packed with great images and spectacle.

I remembered about the end as far as the fate of 2 characters was concerned (something that would lead onto the less successful sequel and make it even bleaker than it already is) but I forgot what happened to everyone else. Man, this has to be one of the darkest, dour and grim children/family films around.
They don't make family films like this now...especially ones with child pleasing monster action.

All of these 'Amicus but not' Kevin Connor films had a slightly dark edge to them ("At the Earth's Core" was much lighter in tone than "Land" but had some pretty violent moments and multipe deaths for a kids film), but here the entire film is dark.

The first 30 minutes is simply a very cold-blooded, serious, war film with plentiful deaths.
The monster part of the film is equally as serious in how it is played, the dinosaur scenes are often a bit bloody and not done as thrilling spectacle...more like constant death and warfare that matches the existence of the human characters.
Basically a whole hell of a lot of people die (often at the hands of other people, even stone age people) by being shot, beaten, stabbed, hacked and chewed.

It all ends on such a ferociously nihilistic, doom-laden, note that you have to wonder how well kiddies slept in 1975 after seeing it!

Generally good stuff, with a good cast all in fine form and packed with incident and spectacle..but amazingly not that much actual fun at the end of the day.

[pedromonkey]

Originally Posted by 42ndStreetFreak

"The land that Time Forgot"

This long time fave and ever popular title still holds up today.
The dino FX are cheesy, as are some of the model effects...But some of the model work is okay and the film is packed with great images and spectacle.

I remembered about the end as far as the fate of 2 characters was concerned (something that would lead onto the less successful sequel and make it even bleaker than it already is) but I forgot what happened to everyone else. Man, this has to be one of the darkest, dour and grim children/family films around.
They don't make family films like this now...especially ones with child pleasing monster action.

All of these 'Amicus but not' Kevin Connor films had a slightly dark edge to them ("At the Earth's Core" was much lighter in tone than "Land" but had some pretty violent moments and multipe deaths for a kids film), but here the entire film is dark.

The first 30 minutes is simply a very cold-blooded, serious, war film with plentiful deaths.
The monster part of the film is equally as serious in how it is played, the dinosaur scenes are often a bit bloody and not done as thrilling spectacle...more like constant death and warfare that matches the existence of the human characters.
Basically a whole hell of a lot of people die (often at the hands of other people, even stone age people) by being shot, beaten, stabbed, hacked and chewed.

It all ends on such a ferociously nihilistic, doom-laden, note that you have to wonder how well kiddies slept in 1975 after seeing it!

Generally good stuff, with a good cast all in fine form and packed with incident and spectacle..but amazingly not that much actual fun at the end of the day.

and it stars Doug McCLure.....Cool review...,this the only one in my boxset i've got left to watch. ive seen warlords of atlantis and At the Earth's Core, both Cheesy but hella fun to watch...

[DeadAlive]

I was just going to ask if Doug McCLure was in that?

[Sargento]

Originally Posted by pedromonkey

and it stars Doug McCLure.....Cool review...,this the only one in my boxset i've got left to watch. ive seen warlords of atlantis and At the Earth's Core, both Cheesy but hella fun to watch...

I clearly remember my mum taking me to the movies to see these!!! I loved them all .. except perhaps People ..... (there weren't enuff dinosaurs in it!)

Looking back, and just how bad they really look, I reckon they must have all been the Saturday matinee movies ..... ah memories!

Even if they are bad, it doesn't make em any less fun!

[42ndStreetFreak]

"Land" is damn downbeat fun though.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Yesterday's movie marathon consisted of;

FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET-One of Argento's best,now that I've sat and watched it-that ending is the operatic of macabre!

ABSOLUTION-Interesting little thriller with a nice twist at the end.
Transfer was crap though.

VIGILANTE-Still disturbing.....

INVASION USA and CODE OF SILENCE-A cheesy Chuck double bill to finish off the day!
IUSA-Is preposterous!