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Beyond72 15th October 2012 11:23 AM

The deliberate stranger.

TV movie with Mark Harmon based on Ted Bundy.

Mojo 15th October 2012 11:25 AM

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

Rik 15th October 2012 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mojo (Post 282207)
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

My copy didn't arrive today, hopefully get it tomorrow or Wednesday

Nosferatu@Cult Labs 15th October 2012 12:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rik (Post 282175)
Dics number 3 of the Universal Monsters Blu Ray collection-The Mummy (1932). Another excellent transfer with good picture and sound quality. I'm planning on watching all the films before returning to each disc in turn for the extras, of which there's a fair bit to get through

That's exactly what I'm doing, but I've only seen Dracula and Frankenstein so far. I listened to the commentaries on the Legacy Collection DVDs but, as that was so long ago, they'll probably sounds quite fresh.

Demoncrat 15th October 2012 01:21 PM

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;)

Wes 15th October 2012 01:38 PM

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

Wes 15th October 2012 04:07 PM

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

bizarre_eye@Cult Labs 15th October 2012 04:26 PM

More 'seasonal' viewing:

http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://psycho.cf1.letterboxd.com/ass...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://predator.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://predator.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://psycho.cf1.letterboxd.com/ass...0-222-crop.jpg http://psycho.cf1.letterboxd.com/ass...0-222-crop.jpg http://psycho.cf1.letterboxd.com/ass...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg http://predator.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg

demonknight 15th October 2012 04:45 PM

The blob,best of the lot IMO.

Nordicdusk 15th October 2012 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs (Post 282323)
More 'seasonal' viewing:

http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://psycho.cf1.letterboxd.com/ass...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://predator.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://predator.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://psycho.cf1.letterboxd.com/ass...0-222-crop.jpg http://psycho.cf1.letterboxd.com/ass...0-222-crop.jpg http://psycho.cf1.letterboxd.com/ass...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg http://predator.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://elephant.cf1.letterboxd.com/a...0-222-crop.jpg http://memento.cf1.letterboxd.com/as...0-222-crop.jpg

Is Versus good?

mercury 15th October 2012 04:56 PM

Hallowed Ground.....not a bad little film actually:pop2:

Make Them Die Slowly 15th October 2012 05:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nordicdusk (Post 282336)
Is Versus good?

Yeah, it's great but slightly over long.

Nordicdusk 15th October 2012 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly (Post 282341)
Yeah, it's great but slightly over long.

Must seek it out cheers.

bizarre_eye@Cult Labs 15th October 2012 05:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonknight (Post 282328)
The blob,best of the lot IMO.

The Invisible Man, for me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly (Post 282341)
Yeah, it's great but slightly over long.

I concur with this - worth watching, but it definitely could of done with a bigger trim in the editing suite.

Nordicdusk 15th October 2012 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs (Post 282351)
The Invisible Man, for me.



I concur with this - worth watching, but it definitely could of done with a bigger trim in the editing suite.

The Invisible Man :thumb:

Wes 15th October 2012 05:46 PM

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

demonknight 15th October 2012 06:08 PM

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.

Hawkmonger 15th October 2012 06:10 PM

Shock- One of Bava's greatest. Love it.:nod:

Demdike@Cult Labs 15th October 2012 06:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger (Post 282369)
Shock- One of Bava's greatest. Love it.:nod:

:lol: Totally disagree.

His worst by a mile. Not just his horror films, all of them.

Hawkmonger 15th October 2012 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demdike (Post 282371)
:lol: Totally disagree.

His worst by a mile. Not just his horror films, all of them.

Different strokes and all. But your wrong.:p

Demdike@Cult Labs 15th October 2012 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger (Post 282372)
Different strokes and all. But your wrong.:p

I bow down to your superior taste. :hail:

Wes 15th October 2012 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonknight (Post 282368)
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.

Yep, Darabont wrote Dream Warriors... Yeah definitely a film in need of a revival. Sony own this one so who knows if Arrow could pick this up. Anyone from Arrow care to comment ?

bdc 15th October 2012 06:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs (Post 282323)

Matango!
Now there's a nice one. ;)

PaulD 15th October 2012 06:37 PM

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:

SShaw 15th October 2012 06:38 PM

Started work on the Bond Bluray set by watching the two Dalton film's.

Wes 15th October 2012 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PaulD (Post 282378)
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:

Very nice ! Getting back to something mentioned earlier about Bava and Shock, Demdike have you seen Bava's westerns ? I gotta say they're pretty disposable. I watched Road to Fort Alamo last week and it was a grind...

Susan Foreman 15th October 2012 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by PaulD (Post 282378)
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:

Garlic is the food of Satan!

Rik 15th October 2012 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by suziginajackson (Post 282428)
Garlic is the food of Satan!

Yep, can't stand the stuff, I must be the only half Sicilian that doesn't like garlic! :yuck::puke:

Frankie Teardrop 15th October 2012 09:07 PM

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.

Hawkmonger 15th October 2012 09:07 PM

It's onions for me. I rather like garlic, but onions are:ack:

sawyer6 15th October 2012 09:11 PM

I hate garlic
http://i49.tinypic.com/21473nl.jpg

Rik 15th October 2012 09:16 PM

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!

Make Them Die Slowly 15th October 2012 09:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop (Post 282455)
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.

I too like the supernatural element to the film especially when it is first introduced with a shot of one of the crispies watching Grimaldi which is not from his point of view.

keirarts 15th October 2012 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wes (Post 282376)
Yep, Darabont wrote Dream Warriors... Yeah definitely a film in need of a revival. Sony own this one so who knows if Arrow could pick this up. Anyone from Arrow care to comment ?

If sony own it they'll just ditch it on Twighlight time ltd to 3000 copies, all of which will be bought up by people with way more cash than me so i'll have to stick to my dvd release.

Rik 15th October 2012 09:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keirarts (Post 282480)
If sony own it they'll just ditch it on Twighlight time ltd to 3000 copies, all of which will be bought up by people with way more cash than me so i'll have to stick to my dvd release.

With crap photoshopped artwork and Freddy's jumper changed from red & green to brown & green to emphasise how much of a shitty person he is/was :lol:

fuzzymctiger 15th October 2012 09:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wes (Post 282263)
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

That's sounds excellent! Will have to watch it at some point

Demdike@Cult Labs 15th October 2012 10:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rik (Post 282463)
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!

Completely agree with you Rik, one of the few films i can think of where i ended up fast forwarding parts to get to the end quicker.

Rik 15th October 2012 10:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Demdike (Post 282491)
Completely agree with you Rik, one of the few films i can think of where i ended up fast forwarding parts to get to the end quicker.

Not just me then, I was expecting some backlash because of my comment. I've seen and own some truly dreadful films, but I've never not made it to the end before

Demdike@Cult Labs 15th October 2012 10:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rik (Post 282492)
Not just me then, I was expecting some backlash because of my comment. I've seen and own some truly dreadful films, but I've never not made it to the end before

No doubt there could be a backlash. We'll have to stand back to back and fight our way out of it. :fencing:

fuzzymctiger 15th October 2012 10:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rik (Post 282463)
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!

Deathdream's good, but rather depressing.
Skip to the last 20 or 30 minutes with CSPWDT, and then things get better.


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