Excellent stuff Joe... Tiny Town is well worth an hour of anyone's time and Showcase TV on Sky show this 10 times a week. There's some pretty vicious fisticuffs in this one as the smallies duke it out !

In October, I watched a lot of films and, because of the quantity, these collages are split into 10 day periods (with one containing 11 days of films).

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I'll try and do the same in November and December, but posting every week or 10 days rather than a month at a time!

What the **** are you banging on about? You've been making some odd postings on here. Care to explain..?

We might need a bit of security on the door here - I noticed the latest blog entry is by somebody blowing off Timberland (?) I hate it when this happens to forums. The Mondo Movie podcast forum was swamped with this kind of stuff for a while, and I kinda bolted from there because of it...

He won't be able to explain as he's just been banned.

The Room: Tommy Wiseau's masterpiece. People often refer to Plan 9 From Outer Space as "the Citizen Kane of bad movies" but this is something of a poor description since no film better highlights the peril of the director as auteur than The Room. Written, directed and starring Tommy Wiseau this insanely odd melodrama about a love triangle just beggars belief. There's little plot to speak of, characters come and go without any real relevance, whole subplots are abandoned as immediately as quickly as they are conceived ("I got the results of the test back and I definitely have cancer"), most of the dialogue is batshit silly ("You don't understand anything, man. Leave your *stupid* comments in your pocket!"/"You're right, the computer business is too competitive") and most of the scenes featuring Tommy's character are there purely to highlight just what a great guy he is (including a perplexing scene where he buys flowers from a flower store - "you're my favourite customer Johnny!") which does nothing but highlight the ego of yer main man Tommy Wiseau. This was about the fourth time I've seen it and the second on the big screen and I don't think I have ever had as much fun at a screening in my life. I was apprehensive because the Rocky Horror-style audience interaction had annoyed me the last time due to a few audience members severely lacking in a sense of humour and constantly pre-empting the films lines but this time it was genuinely fantastic. Far more immersive an experience than 3D, you've never lived until you've seen this film in a battered 35mm print (the only one that exists in the UK I believe so it constantly degrades as it goes up and down the country), with the crowd cheering and clapping along to the soft love music in the sickeningly shot love scenes, throwing plastic spoons at the screen whenever an inexplicable picture of a framed spoon in the living room was in shot or shouting "Who the **** are you!" when a new character is introduced about 50 minutes into the film as if he's been there the whole time.

Alien - the second in Saturday nights double bill at the cinema (they were showing cult classics all night at 75p a ticket but since I was at work in the morning I only stayed up until 4am and caught 2 films). It's been a few years since I'd seen this and the first time on the big screen and I had forgotten how incredible this film is. Every shot is incredible and even though I really enjoyed Prometheus and am looking forward to seeing it again, seeing Alien made me realised just how much Scott missed the mark with his quasi-prequel. You really root for every character in Alien, the set design is awe-inspiring, the model work incredible and it has a genuinely creepy atmosphere for the whole of the film. An absolute joy of a film to watch and by far my favourite of the series.

My thoughts exactly

What started out as an intriguing thriller tuned into something laughable

*Sigh*

Please take notice of what I have been writing, Nos

He is not banned. He's BARRED!!!

Your starting to sound like Peggy....

????

kenny everett & su pollard - the hi - de - hi chalet maid sketch - YouTube

Livid

Thought I was in for something special with the opening scenes full of atmosphere and intrigue, and the Stephen King-ish coastal town setting worked a treat. Unfortunately, about 20 minutes in, we had the 'oh, it's that kind of film' moment, when the three kids enter the spooky old house armed only with torches, looking for hidden treasure - Scooby Doo basically. I got bored very quickly with the rest of it, rubbish scares and a silly half-arsed ghost/vampire/monster (not sure exactly) backstory. A big letdown after Inside...

...and what the hell is Bustillo & Maurey's obsession with scissor stabbing :shocked: ? It's probably my main memory of Inside, and it happens in at least three sepearte scenes here. A little variety in the stabbing please . . .

You know, the Eastenders land lady?....

Oh, her!

Carry on Camping - YouTube

Night of the living dead 3d.

Bizarre disisions abound in this remake (mr coooper is a pot farmer!) and at least one racist one (Ben recast as a white guy) and generally very dull. Not one I can reccomend.

The prequel with Jeffrey Combs and Andrew Divoff is shite too, Children Of The Living Dead is a masterpiece compared to it.

These special messages are photographic obscenities on visitors message pages, I've got one, anyone else?

I got nothing. Twat. Well done to the staff for getting the git booted off here.

Its gone, shame really. I was wondering what singled you out for special treatment?

How come I got no porn?!

I feel somewhat unloved. :(

ALIEN 3000 - More Jeff Leroy. This one has a CGI alien stalking commando types in a forest. Satisfyingly amateurish splatter prevails, together with rubbish acting and (again) some bad model work. Welcome in that fuzzy glow as high-carb trash floods your system once more. Not as 'Leroy' as 'Hell's Highway' or 'Witch's Sabbath', but a fun time likely for those unfortunate enough to be tuned in to this kind of schlock.

A DAY OF VIOLENCE - High gore quota on display in this tawdry dip into the unwholesome realm of the British gangster. Really benefits from the cheap SOV look and shots of old Johnny Morghen working a bong... despite being a lilly livered type ultimately, I appreciated the way this flick made me feel slightly scummy, particularly during a vicious castration and the desperately cheap climactic night club shoot out. Speaking of scummy...

MANIAC - I remember when I was seriously getting into horror, maybe twenty years ago when I was in my early teens, and of course everyone was into Fulci, Eurohorror, anything extreme or non-mainstream enough to stem the tide of the F13 sequels and 90s tedium... but mention 'Maniac' and you'd be met with a slowly shaking head and a sorrowful look in the eyes. No-one used to touch it with a bargepole. It's strange how things change over the years. "We like horror, but we're not into this misogynistic shit". Who were they trying to kid? No doubt owning a bootleg of 'Zombie Creeping Flesh' was the epitome of TLS reading respectability back then.
I really like 'Maniac'. I think it's a bleak, vicious near masterpiece. It reminds me of what horror should be, NEEDS to be, at base - unremittingly disturbing. No laughs, no concessions. Just something really dark. Misogyny here is somehow less of an issue than an exploratory misanthropy - Frank Zito hates his mother and all women, but the ambience of his world is cold heat, New York, early eighties, an icy waste, a cruel, pulsating pressure uninterested in gender, all fed to the mincer (I'd love to see this billed with 'Ms 45'). OK, there are some tonal flaws, but Joe Spinell is riveting as the lead - his cracked monologues really lift 'Maniac' into another dimension. Long live 'Maniac'. It's a poisonous delight. Surprisingly I've heard really good things about the remake and wanted to check it out at the Leeds fest, but I think I've missed it.

He would be, but there isn't an option to use that term!

By the way, if any of you have received an unwanted Visitor Message from him (if you have, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about), please send me a PM.

Damn, I got nothing... There's a follower on my blog and his avatar is a co*k giving the five knuckle shuffle. Strange...

I can check what people type into google that brings 'em to my page - here's a sample:

sadistic women
female nazi corpses
genital torture
nazi girl snuff
whipping christ

and my favourite

stick a hot poker up denver's ass

I don't know what that means...

thats abit cruel,is'nt it enough he died in a plane crash,now he's got this to deal with.

Frankie, we probably discovered the movie at the same time and I too remember the disdain for the film. It's been amusing to see its reputation turn over the years - for a long time I only knew the film in a watered down version courtesy of the Intervison tape but even sans gore it was still a masterpiece. Can you imagine seeing this at a late show around Times Square back in the day and having to make your way home afterwards ?

I used to go on there. I left when it got too dead after they stopped recording new podcasts. Heard today they've just recorded a new one though, which should be up later in the week.

Sound on Sight's 'Sordid Cinema' podcast is my main genre podcast of choice now . . .

I really like maniac as well for all the reasons you've already articulated, have just ordered the blu ray in fact and yes the remake is receiving some good notices. It played at Leeds fest on the 2nd, I was supposed to be going but had to back out at the last minute. I'm hoping it'll get some sort of release on the big screen soon.

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Being f*cking fantastic! I can't help it, it's just the way God made me.:tongue1:

Tonights film was the annual showing (at least in my house) of V for Vendetta. I am still surprised that Alan Moore refused a credit for this film. For me it is one of the best, if not the best, comic book adaptations and while perhaps its not 100% faithful to the graphic novel I think it manages to retain the core ideas whilst updating them in a way that is more relevant and interesting for the post 9-11 world (the book is of its time, I am not sure if the Thatcher references would really have stood up in 2005 and that becomes truer as the the years pass). For me this is an essential film for Bonfire night.

Deadhead or whatever he was called obviously agreed with you. ;)

THE DEVIL'S RAIN. This is a very odd film. It starts with a 20 minute opening scene featuring William Shatner which feels like it should be the films climax. The viewer is thrust into the middle of the plot with no real understanding as to what the hell is going on. There's a book, a beardy bloke, Bill Shatner delivering lines like he's doing an amateur production of Shakespeare for the hard of hearing and a bloke who suddenly melts into a tiny puddle of wax. Combined with the woozy feeling I'm having from a head cold, it was all rather pleasing.

Next thing you know Bill's out in the desert in a ghost town which as the film progresses seems more and more like another dimension, inhabited by black cloaked figures who on occasion stand in wonderful poses against the desert background. Bill then offers to test his faith against the head Satanist in a wonderfully decorated Satanic church, complete with Church of Satan inverse Pentagrams inside Trapezoids. Of course, this is understandable as Anton LeVey, head of CoS, not only plays a High Priest in the film but is also credited as Satanic adviser. Though to be fair, I'm not sure what advice he gave the makers of the film. He uses the film as a propaganda piece to promote the philosophy of the CoS which are at odds with the films hell and brimstone ideas and story. Still it's nice to hear Ernest Borgnine recite lines from the CoS's Black Mass.

Some other stuff happens with a new set of characters until the infamous meltdown scenes at the end. These are truly great in the general yuckiness of them and the sheer length of time they are shown for, it feels endless yet never boring or over used. Some images for me hinted at sexual excess but I'm not sure why, nor do I wish to delve into my psyche to find out.

I watched this on the 23rd Century DVD release which had the added bonus of making me want to get up and adjust the tracking every now and then as it's a VHS rip.

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well if you ever want to upgrade i can highly recommend the Dark Sky release.

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I've thought about it but it just not that great a film. For all it's weird structure and semi artiness at times, it misses a certain something that would make me upgrade.

some reason i have fondness for Shatner's over acting in this,and if im feeling really mental I go for a double with Kingdom of the Spiders,twice the shatner action.
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Fully agree! Outside of WRATH OF KAHN, KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS (needs a blu-ray release!) and DEVIL'S RAIN (also needs one) are my two favourite Shatner movies. KINGDOM was re-issued a year or so back in a lovely special edition, great PQ and some interesting extras. The spider wrangler on the movie was certainly a brave fella!!

Holy Virgin Versus the Evil Dead is such a fantastic title!

Have you even seen The Comet Strikes Bruno? If so what are you thoughts?

Just watched Pulp Fiction again for the umpteenth time, despite being able to quote it pretty much verbatim these days, it still holds up as being probably my favourite film, even inspiring my choice of wallet a few years back which is in tatters now!
Watching the NOES remake now which I know most people hate, but I happen to really like it :p

toupee or not toupee
 

Im no trekkie,but I can watch WRATH OF KAHN and appreciate Mr Shatner's fine scenery chewing performance,special mention to the toupee as well it does a fine job also.

Today I had the day off work so watched:

The Lost Boys - still holds up as one of my favourite films. I loved it as a child and I still love it now. Looks great in HD too. Wish Near Dark looked this good in HD ;)

Robocop - another absolute favourite of mine. Also looks great in HD.

Marebito - Weird but fairly enjoyable. A cameraman obsessed with wanting to experience true fear travels to an alternative world below the ground. There he finds a chained up naked woman who he brings back up to the surface to look after. Hhhhmmmm yeah okay, is there anything just plain strange that hasn't been thought up by someone, somewhere? ..... doubt it.

Bug - Wow! What a film. How Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon weren't Oscar winners with this performance is anyone's guess. A powerhouse that is up there with Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine. I really need to see more Friedkin films after this (only seen The Exorcist), next stop Killer Joe

Shatner overacting? Surely not :D