What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

Bay is a modern day master of exploitation ruthlessly seeking the baseline in cinema and culture. I personally think this is a noble cause, giving the masses exactly what they didn't know they needed. Had he been making films in the 60s he would have been a David Friedman style chancer wacking out T&A flicks for the hicks. God bless him and his films and Megan Fox bending over.

Amen brother! Bays films entertaining as hell (by and large) and for me that is the most important factor in any film. None of this script, cinemobollockraphy arty farty academic nonsense.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Charmless comedy horror that aims low in the humour department, and scores even lower.

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Watched this with the little MTDSs...they sided with the Sawyer family and felt sorry for Leatherface and Hitch Hiker when they were being hit by the Cook and didn't really care one way or the other for the kids being killed.

I am now wondering if I am a good parent or a really bad one!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Charmless comedy horror that aims low in the humour department, and scores even lower.

TCM

Watched this with the little MTDSs...they sided with the Sawyer family and felt sorry for Leatherface and Hitch Hiker when they were being hit by the Cook and didn't really care one way or the other for the kids being killed.

I am now wondering if I am a good parent or a really bad one!

Clearly a good one as you prepared them for the upcoming zombie apocalypse.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Clearly a good one as you prepared them for the upcoming zombie apocalypse.

We have weekly survival drills to defend against every type of monster.

[iank]

I found Scouts Guide really fun and entertaining personally. Certainly far superior to the likes of the very overrated Zombieland.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by iank

I found Scouts Guide really fun and entertaining personally. Certainly far superior to the likes of the very overrated Zombieland.

Haha! We are a Zombieland family. My kids watch it all the time.

[Rik]

Love Zombieland, last time I watched it, I listened to the commentary track for the first time, Woody Harrelson is piss funny on it


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[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

I preferred The Void too but thought both over hyped which to me suggests there are too few good films about if these are the best.

I'm still plugging The Lobster .... a different sort of 'horror' film imho.

[nosferatu42]

Beatrice Cenci (1969) Lucio Fulci

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I'd often heard of this but it has never been widely distributed in the U.K or U.S so i never thought i'd get to see a decent version, (like Argento's '5 days in Milan' another historical film) and being a period film i wasn't sure what i would make of it.

Beatrice is from a rich family living in 16th century Italy, she and the rest of the family hate her tyrant father, ( he sets dogs on people, mistreats everyone, including his family and is a scheming evil bastard.)

Beatrice finds some comfort in the arms of a servant who is deeply besotted by her, but she tells him she must leave to get away from the family situation, she asks her father if she can go into a convent.

Being an evil twat he throws her into a cell in his castle and tells her she will stay there till his death, his reasoning being that it's basically the same as convent life anyway.

Eventually he releases her because he is celebrating the death of her two absent brothers with a debauched feast, upset she turns up to the party wearing a mourning dress, this annoys him and he sends her to her room telling her to change.
Later and drunk he comes up to her room and rapes her.

This starts a chain of events that leads to Beatrice plotting her fathers death with her servant boyfriend.

I'm not going to say much else about the story but thought i'd set the scene because i was unsure what to expect going in to the film.

This is unlike any other Fulci film i've seen, the budget is obviously high and it shows, the costumes are lavish and really set the tone of the film, the cinematography/lighting is great and the acting is also very good. ( although obviously the english version still suffers from synch problems. )

The lead actress Adrienne La Russa is good and very pretty and elicits a fair amount of sympathy (even though in some instances she comes across as being fairly manipulative.)

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The storytelling is fractured, flickering back and forth in time without warning, so you have to pay attention but this makes the film more involving and builds up tension.

As to Fulci's trademark gore, there isn't much although an eye impalation foreshadows his later work, also there are torture scenes that although not bloody are pretty powerful in the context of the story.

I thought this was a very good film and i was surprised how much i liked it because I am not really one for historical films (this is based on a real life story), but i enjoyed the grim realism of it's execution.

Another aspect to the story is the Catholic church's corruption which shares themes with 'Don't torture a duckling', and even though there are torture scenes this never stoops to the level of 'Mark of the Devil' and is a far better film.

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So definitely recommended as long as you are not after another Fulci gore fest.
8/10

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[nosferatu42]

Part two of last nights Fulci 1969 double bill

Perversion story ( One on top of the other)

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An early Giallo from Fulci and one that is pretty much devoid of bloody mayhem, although there is a corpse shot that is quite grisly.

This one is a murder mystery and one that is really nicely shot and well paced, with lots of 60's style kitsch and groovy fashions.

The main guy owns a clinic but is not much of a doctor, he's much more interested in bedding his girlfriend whilst his wife is dying of a breathing related illness.
While away his wife dies and he becomes implicated in her death, during this time her runs into a stripper at a local swinging joint who seems to be the spit of his deceased wife, although she has is blonde rather than brunette and has different coloured eyes.

He becomes obsessed with the idea that she is his wife and soon finds himself caught up in a complicated mystery, trying to clear his name as the police close in on him.

I enjoyed this, the design and cinematography are great, there's plenty of nudity and the mystery surprised me as it unravelled on screen. There's also a nice jazzy soundtrack which is featured on a CD with Severin's dvd.

The only problems were that there's not much in the way of murders so it is slightly anemic as a Giallo film, also the finale is a bit convenient and the way it is wrapped up is a little on the dry side.

Still an enjoyable film and worth watching. 7/10

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Oh and also Fulci pops up in a nice cameo as a police scientist guy and for some reason he reminded me of a young Benny Hill.

Benny Hill
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Lucio Fulci
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