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Old 23rd June 2017, 12:56 AM
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Lakeview Terrace(2008) 8/10
Demolition Man(1993) 8/10
Of Boys and Men(2008) 7/10

Tomorrow might see It Comes At Night at the theatre. Heard some good things about it. Maybe. That or stay home watch some depraved shit from the horror genre.
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Old 23rd June 2017, 08:16 AM
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I Spit on Your Grave 3

Excellent third entry that links back to the first in the series. Basically a rehash of Death Wish and Ms45 with excessive levels of violence and gore.

This is a great piece of exploitation cinema mixing vague social commentry with a self contained rage while delivering brutal killing on cartoon characterisations of predatory males. Worth a look.
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Old 23rd June 2017, 11:55 AM
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Watched XX this morning
Horror anthology consisting of 4 shorts films.
anthologies are always going to be a hit and miss, the first 2 stories are great. but the 3rd and 4th stories are lacking in substance i felt.
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Old 23rd June 2017, 07:44 PM
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The Shout

Often overlooked 70s English fantasy/horror that oozes style and artistic merit from pretty much every frame of film. Alan Bates plays a mysterious stranger who forces himself into John Hurt and Susannah York's lives and home. Once there he tells of how he can kill by a magic shout taught to him by aborigines when he lived in Australia.

There is a really menace to Bate's performance that is balanced beautifully by Hurt's decline into fearful weakness. However York steals the show as she transforms from upright middle class, house wife into a woman with no control over her lust for Bates.

The film has a wrap round story involving a cricket match in the grounds of a mental hospital that adds to the ambiguity of the action, leaving more questions than answers. Highly recommended.
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The Shout

Often overlooked 70s English fantasy/horror that oozes style and artistic merit from pretty much every frame of film. Alan Bates plays a mysterious stranger who forces himself into John Hurt and Susannah York's lives and home. Once there he tells of how he can kill by a magic shout taught to him by aborigines when he lived in Australia.

There is a really menace to Bate's performance that is balanced beautifully by Hurt's decline into fearful weakness. However York steals the show as she transforms from upright middle class, house wife into a woman with no control over her lust for Bates.

The film has a wrap round story involving a cricket match in the grounds of a mental hospital that adds to the ambiguity of the action, leaving more questions than answers. Highly recommended.
Mate mentioned in passing a fondness for Bates ... so I got her this for Xmas
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If you weren't in the Navy, were you the builder, Indian Chief or cop. I can never remember.
Which was the one with the feather boa?
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Old 23rd June 2017, 08:35 PM
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Which was the one with the feather boa?
Was there one? I think you are just projecting your own sexual fantasies on my post!
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Was there one? I think you are just projecting your own sexual fantasies on my post!
What sort of dodgy euphemism is that? You keep your filthy thoughts to yourself.
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Old 23rd June 2017, 10:07 PM
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Freddy vs Jason. Freddy Krueger has been forgotten by his killing ground of Springwood, deliberately excised from history and removing his power to terrorise the young in their dreams. Incensed by this impotence, he resurrects infamous serial killer Jason Voorhees and sends him to his home town to kill a few youngsters in the hope he'll get the blame, thus spreading fear and allowing him to return. His plan works, but when Jason won't just then bugger off and keeps taking out "his" victims, it's evil vs evil for a final showdown... A passable slice of cinematic crossover fan-fiction, the film has a mediocre start and characters but does get rather more entertaining in the last half hour when the two horror icons go head to head. Jason X is better, though!
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TNT Jackson (1975, Cirio H Santiago)
Highkicking mayhem from the Phillipines. The print on this GMVS dvd is ... not anamorphic
The editing style is somewhat brusque.

Life (2016, Daniel Espinoza)
Liked this. Proper ending as well. Worth a look.
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