The deliberate stranger. TV movie with Mark Harmon based on Ted Bundy. |
Tales Of Frankenstein One of the extras on the Curse Of Frankenstein BD, this pilot show sees Anton Diffring hamming it up, creating a guy in a Boris Karloff Halloween mask. A great 'extra', but it's easy to see why it wasn't made into a series - it's a load of old bollocks :D |
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Watched Giallo A Venezia again. Sordid and stylish, this gets better every time....official release is a must, cough cough Shameless.....**** that Garrone flick hahaha ahem;) |
Comrades, from 1986, Bill Douglas' 3-hour epic about six 19th century farm labourers deported to Australia for organizing a workingman's union - intelligent, stylish, beautifully shot, designed and directed, and featuring an impressive cast, among them Keith Allen who's surprisingly good. If you're like me and like reading history, the excellent BFI Blu is highly recommended. http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/5035673011409.jpg |
Second film of the day (although I should have saved it for a midnite screening) - finally got a hold of Arrow's Blu of Funhouse and was very impressed - a big improvement over my Universal DVD, the film looks like it's had a fresh lick of paint. (I haven't watched the extras but they look great). Funhouse reminds me a lot of Argento - on a visual level, the film's candy-colored lighting recalls Suspiria, but also Elizabeth Berridge reminds me of Jessica Harper (and strangely enough, Berridge's character's name is Amy Harper). Also, I think the film has the same kind of irrationalilty as Suspira and Inferno - the funhouse itself with it's weird geography is completely unrealistic with it's upper and lower levels, blind alleys and infernal engine room, but in Hooper's hands, it's not so much a funhouse, but a house of the damned... http://www.magazinedown.com/upimg/20...210330922.jpeg |
The blob,best of the lot IMO. |
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Hallowed Ground.....not a bad little film actually:pop2: |
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I haven't seen the 1988 Blob since it first came out on video... Great moment when the guy is sucked down the garbage grinder. Didn't Frank Darabont write this or am I thinking of Elm Street 4 ? Plenty of splatter too if I remember rightly, and a film from an era of great anamatronic special effects. Kill Of The Day #12 - The Blob - Sink Kill - YouTube |
Darabont co wrote the screenplay with Chuck Russell the director. Not sure about elm street 4,but Russell directed elm street 3. One of the better elm movies IMO. Would love arrow or some other company to give The Blob 1988 a bells and whistles release. All the main players from the movie are all still with us,Jeffrey demunn,Kevin Dillon,Shawnee smith Michael kenworthy and Russell and Darabont,would love to see them all featured in a retrospective documentary sometime in the future. I live in hope. It's one of my favourite movies of the 80's. |
Shock- One of Bava's greatest. Love it.:nod: |
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His worst by a mile. Not just his horror films, all of them. |
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Now there's a nice one. ;) |
Just settling down to watch the Redemption bluray of Hatchet for the Honeymoon with a cold beer and some garlic mushrooms cooking in the oven :pop2: |
Started work on the Bond Bluray set by watching the two Dalton film's. |
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DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE - A somber and sleazy fave from the late seventies, this one's sordid glow remains undiminished with time. Not that it's very explicit - it derives its power from its unrelenting gloom, which is offset slightly by the disco era fashion and some wooden performances (not Dan Grimaldi though, he's very convincing as the tortured flame throwing psycho householder with a babe in chains in a steel room). There were also aspects of the narrative arc which just left me thinking 'yeah right', but then how often does that happen with exploitation potboilers such as this? - I get like that when a film casts a spell then breaks it slightly. But anyway, great to see this one again, it's obviously very well known so I'll say little more except to note that I'm always left intrigued by the weird supernatural angle it seems to potentially suggest at points throughout. |
It's onions for me. I rather like garlic, but onions are:ack: |
I hate garlic http://i49.tinypic.com/21473nl.jpg |
A rare thing just happened, I've turned a film off without making it to the end. The film was Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things and I lasted 40 minutes before I couldn't take anymore, I may try again at a later date but I highly doubt it, absolute garbage. Hopefully Dead of Night/Deathdream is an improvement otherwise I've wasted just under a tenner! |
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Skip to the last 20 or 30 minutes with CSPWDT, and then things get better. |
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