What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Deadite]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

Runaway (1984 film)

I love this film!

It certainly is cheesy, but it's good cheesy! You can carbon date the big hair and shoulder-pads to the eighties.

[bleakshaun]

Watched The Thing (1982)
Our film opens in the antarctic with a helicopter chasing and attacking a dog, the dog and the chopper end up at an american reseach base where the 2 guys in the chopper get killed. the americans then investigate the norwegian base and discover the place is completely wrecked. they find a very strange body and bring it back to do an autopsy and figure out what's going on. the dog from the beginning is put into the kennel with the other dogs and then begins to mutate.
I'm pretty sure everyone here has seen it, the film is nicely paced, there is a great sense of tension and paranoia, brilliant score by ennio morricone and some of the finest gore effects ever to be emblazoned on the screen.
10/10

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by bleakshaun

Watched The Thing (1982)
Our film opens in the antarctic with a helicopter chasing and attacking a dog, the dog and the chopper end up at an american reseach base where the 2 guys in the chopper get killed. the americans then investigate the norwegian base and discover the place is completely wrecked. they find a very strange body and bring it back to do an autopsy and figure out what's going on. the dog from the beginning is put into the kennel with the other dogs and then begins to mutate.
I'm pretty sure everyone here has seen it, the film is nicely paced, there is a great sense of tension and paranoia, brilliant score by ennio morricone and some of the finest gore effects ever to be emblazoned on the screen.
10/10

its that rare film which is superior to the original(which still a good film)

[bleakshaun]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

its that rare film which is superior to the original(which still a good film)

oh absolutely, just like the fly

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by bleakshaun

oh absolutely, just like the fly

also The Blob.

[bleakshaun]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

also The Blob.

not seen it yet, need to

[LaughingWindows]

Neon Demon(2016) Young and impressionable actress Jesse moves to L.A. only to find a group of beauty obsessed women and other offbeat characters trying to suck the life out of her and her soul. Really hard to describe it as it better to be watched and figured out on your own. Visually stunning including all the female stars here too, fascinating new turn on a somewhat familiar story, and exceptionally well done and made. I really don't have any serious criticisms I just wonder if anything still could have worked as well as it did if they trimmed the run time about 15 minutes just seemed a little longer than necessary but that is about it. I really enjoyed it, again the visuals and stars keep you mesmerized to where it ultimately ends up. 9/10

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by bleakshaun

oh absolutely, just like the fly

No not like The Fly. Cronenberg made a damn good film but missed the heart of the original. At least that's my opinion.

[MrBarlow]

For part of my viewing tonight at work two classics from David Cronenberg.

Shivers.

In a deluxe tower block a parasite is loose and when it attaches itself to a host it heightens up the sex glands after a mad doctor wanted to turn the whole world into one big orgy.

Rabid.

After a near fatal bike crash Rose (Marlyn Chambers) goes under skin graff procedure but it's goes wrong and is now a host and carrier to a RABIES strain infecting everyone she comes into contact with.

[LaughingWindows]

Time Out of Mind(2014) Story of a homeless man(Richard Gere)walking and sleeping in the streets, in bathtubs, and getting drunk here there when he can befriends another homeless man(Ben Vereen)and spends the rest of the time trying to mend fences with his estranged daughter(Jena Malone). At first thinking Gere as a homeless is both a miscast and doesn't have the right look of a homeless man you'd be completely right but after a couple hours he turns out to be quite convincing in his role. He doesn't say much compared to Vereen or any of the other characters but relies on physical/facial twitches movements to give off the impression this is a tortured man with some demons he can't erase. Vereen and Malone add solid support. Story and direction(from Oren Moverman) is engaging if you go in this expecting nothing much or exciting and kinda rewards you in the end if a bit predictably. 7/10