What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[J-7]

Watched the Blaire Witch remake. Don't know why I bothered because I didn't particularly enjoy the orginal but the remake was awful.

Watched Urge with Pierce Brosnon in it. A thriller about a weird club drug.
( don't want to say anymore because you know spoilers)
I enjoyed that

[Demoncrat]

Like Roth I consider Wingard the enemy within
One trick ponies cough

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Like Roth I consider Wingard the enemy within
One trick ponies cough

I really enjoyed The Guest but i think that's the only one i've seen of his aside from the VHS things that were dire.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I really enjoyed The Guest but i think that's the only one i've seen of his aside from the VHS things that were dire.

Still haven't seen that.
The cult segment in the second VHS about the best from that pile. Guess who directed it?

[Cinematic Shocks]

The Guest is excellent.

[gag]

Taken from wikipedia

Elite squad




Elite Squad (Portuguese: Tropa de Elite, pronounced [ˈtɾɔpɐ dʒi eˈlitʃi] lit. "Elite Troop") is a 2007 Brazilian crime film directed by José Padilha. The film is a semi-fictional account of the Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (BOPE), the Special Police Operations Battalion of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police, analogous to the American SWAT teams. It is the second feature film and first fiction film of Padilha, who had previously directed the documentary Bus 174. The script was written by Bráulio Mantovani (City of God) and Padilha, based on the book Elite da Tropa by sociologist Luiz Eduardo Soares and two former BOPE captains, André Batista and Rodrigo Pimentel.


Elite Squad was an outstanding commercial success, and became a cultural phenomenon in Brazil. The film won the Golden Bear at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. Its sequel, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, released in Brazil on October 8, 2010, holds industry records in the country for ticket sales and gross revenue

Highly recommended, ordered 2nd one

Also recent seen ,

Suspiria , and New York ripper , partner never seen them she liked them both

Lonely place to die
High places

[keirarts]

Blood Hunt

Set in Australia, a young couple head out into the wilds for some hiking. They run into a group of local thugs who kidnap them for a bit of rape and torture.
The film brings absolutely nothing original to the table. I literally must have seen a hundred of these things over the years. I won't totally write it off however as it does its thing fairly well. It has a great car chase, doesn't hold back with its nastiness and keeps the run time at under 80 minutes. Essentially its rescued by a level of competence from the film-makers that many of its type fail to deliver. If you see it on netflix, prime or poundland its worth a punt.

little devils: the birth

Early 90's trashy which feels like an attempt to ape the style of Charles Bands films. This has a weirdo stealing clay from some kind of demonic well at the local graveyard. Why? who the hell knows. However hes been using the clay to create little monsters and then arming them with tiny flamethrowers and machine guns. Why? who the hell knows. His neighbour, an aspiring writer who makes a living writing porno novels twigs somethings going on after the landlady is murdered and begins investigating with a stripper he's trying to screw and his best friend (Russ Tamblyn).
Its a hot mess, poorly written and the creature effects are very sub par. However this direct to video mess is still a lot of daft fun for aficionados of this kind of film. Its a tough one to get, previously only available on VHS. Shivers entertainment, a label dedicated to resurrecting Canadian horrors. Its pretty much a VHS rip but its not like anyone else is rushing out to release it.

[bleakshaun]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I really enjoyed The Guest but i think that's the only one i've seen of his aside from the VHS things that were dire.

your next is also great

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by bleakshaun

your next is also great

I like a lot of Adam winguard/simon barrett films. I even liked Blair Witch but I appear to be in the minority.
Then again I liked Beyond the Gates and I appear to be in a minority there as well.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Not so long ago, I confused Paradise Lost with The Ruins in a conversation on here with someone. This is not entirely unsurprising because it is a case of two films released two years apart with two word titles in which Westerners go to a South American country and bad things happen to them!

Due to that misunderstanding, I re-watched both, buying The Ruins on Blu-ray, and thoroughly enjoying both. I think I liked the 2008 film the most, simply because the horror is slightly more grotesque (people pulling vines out of their skin and a wonderfully realistic broken leg) and, aside from the broken leg incident and what follows, they stumbled across their fate by accident rather than antagonising those around them through gross cultural insensitivity. They are films where they have a lot going for them, whether it's the direction, the engrossing story with realistic dialogue or the good ensemble casts and, if you haven't seen either of them, they are both well watching.

Haven't seen The Ruins. But killer plant films are rare so noted. You would die waiting for me to rewatch that other piece of merde though