What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Edge of Terror is my personal fave.

Wings Hauser
Meg Foster
Steve Railsback
Robert Morley

enough
said

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Love HTK. Reed looks stuffed at points
Most of Mastorakis' American output is gaga btw

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Edge of Terror is my personal fave.

Nightmare at Noon sounds like a good un. Has anyone seen it?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Nightmare at Noon sounds like a good un. Has anyone seen it?

Yes. It's good fun.

I picked up gorgeous copies of quite a few of his US films a couple of years ago on the cheapo Hollywood dvd label.

Don't laugh - they have beautiful widescreen prints.

Blind Date is another good one.

[Demoncrat]

What he said
NAN worth it alone for George Kennedy

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Yes. It's good fun.

I picked up gorgeous copies of quite a few of his US films a couple of years ago on the cheapo Hollywood dvd label.

Don't laugh - they have beautiful widescreen prints.

Blind Date is another good one.

I do recall you reviewing one. I have a feeling it was Hired to Kill but i may be wrong. Arrows blu looks incredible, but then its hardly a 40 year old giallo we're talking bout.

[Demoncrat]

Just to prove a point.
Now at the sequence where Tippi Hedren goes upstairs near the end.
Have seen this replicated at least 100 + times ...pacing ... lighting ... shots
The whole shebang

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I do recall you reviewing one. I have a feeling it was Hired to Kill but i may be wrong. Arrows blu looks incredible, but then its hardly a 40 year old giallo we're talking bout.

Here you go.

What Films Have You Seen Recently?

What Films Have You Seen Recently?

What Films Have You Seen Recently?

What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Here you go.

What Films Have You Seen Recently?

What Films Have You Seen Recently?

What Films Have You Seen Recently?

What Films Have You Seen Recently?

Cheers Dem. Just ordered the Hollywood dvd of Nightmare at Noon for the extortionate sum of £1.27 from Amazon. The two Hollywood Classics dvds I've bought up til now (Spontaneous Combustion and The Gladiator) have been practically unwatchable so hopefully you're on the money with this.

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

The Birds (1963, Hitchcock)

What can you possibly do after you've reinvented the horror film?

Do it again ..... in colour.

Originally Posted by gag

Get wes craven to reinvent sev times

Be like George Romero, and re-invent what you have already invented

[keirarts]

The Keep

There's a HD version of this on Netflix so gave it another watch. Given most people have seen this by now it seems pointless to go over the plot in any major detail. The basic idea is that a detachment of Nazi's in Romania in 1941, a turning point for the war as everything is about to start going wrong for the third Reich. They set up base in an old Keep with an unusual design including silver crosses around the interior, the Keep seems designed to keep something in. Naturally the soldiers release the creature and its up to a mysterious stranger to stop it.
The Keep is a flawed film. Intended as a 3 hour epic fairytale, the 'finished' product is a disjointed 95 minute film that feels quite messy. The special effects technician died leaving effects unfinished and the film was cut to ribbons. The plot as a result feels disjointed and the effects work feels a little sloppy in places. The film is still well loved, perhaps in part to the magnificent Tangerine Dream score. There are lots of scenes as well that still are visually arresting in spite of the films troubles. Ian McKellen as Kouza, taking the artefact out of the keep, then confronting the creature about its true nature still sends chills down my spine. Gabriel Byrne is chilling as the brutal SS officer sent to bring order to the keep and Jurgen Prochnow is excellent as the conflicted commander who does not share the political ideals of the Reich and considers himself a soldier first. Prochnows Arc however feels like it was cut from the film and he just seems to fade from the film in the third act. Overall though in spite of its flaws its still a memorable film.