What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I think you'd like it, Justin.

Makes me want to watch The Cremator from the same director straight away but i'll hold off for a few days.

Hopefully I get paid tomorrow, if I do I'll pick it up, I'm aiming to buy The Cremator this payday too! Also Witchhammer has finally been dispatched after being out of stock at HMV.com for 3 weeks, so I could have a Czech triple bill!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

Hopefully I get paid tomorrow, if I do I'll pick it up, I'm aiming to buy The Cremator this payday too! Also Witchhammer has finally been dispatched after being out of stock at HMV.com for 3 weeks, so I could have a Czech triple bill!

Ha,ha! Those are the three i have.

[Rik]

This just happened, so I can officially get into the Christmas spirit now

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

I hate this film. It always makes me cry. Damn you George Bailey!


Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Not a patch on the first Avengers film, but is carried along by it's star powered ensemble cast despite an instantly forgettable villain and plot. There's chemistry between Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow and Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner / Hulk which gives the film a more human aspect than the typical building smashing antics deserve. The jumbled movie poster below tells you everything you need to know.

We're No Angels (1955)

Classic heartwarming Christmas fayre in which Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray excel and play off one another with wicked glee as three convicts who might just be angels to a lowly store keeper as they hide out in his home and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises.

[Demoncrat]

Dominique (1978)

Cliff Robertson heads a cast of Brits in a Gaslight/Spiral Staircase style caper. A bit stolid in places. Enjoying it nonetheless .... that's my lot btw
Back before Xmas!!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

I hate this film. It always makes me cry. Damn you George Bailey!

I'll be watching that next Sunday night; I consider it my compulsory Christmas Eve viewing. I'll probably cry several times because I always do!

[Crimson Blade]

Firecracker (1981).

I had vague memories of watching this on an old VHS under the title Naked Fist when I was a child. And was pleased to find that it had been released by Shout Factory as part of the Lethal Ladies Collection.

It stars the late Jillian Kesner, who sadly died at 58, as a female martial artist who travels to the Philippines to find her missing sister.
Although the film is disposable and cheesy, it is fun, and has a certain charm.

For fans of exploitation films there is also a great scene were Kesner slowly loses pieces of her clothes during a chase scene. Resulting in her having to fight topless

Dir: Cirio H Santiago.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

December 15th - Don't Breathe (2016)

This tale of three young burglars who take on more than they bargained for when they try to steal a wad of cash from a blind army veteran.

Merely okay. I felt it would have worked better in a 25 minute slot in an Amicus anthology film as repetition kicks in as we seem to be treading over the same ground throughout - keep quiet and still and hope the blind man doesn't shoot you. It's all fairly derivative and cliche in the way early plot points are laid on thick just so you don't forget them forty minutes later - Ladybirds, anyone?

As for the three burglars? I wanted them dead. Robbing folk, smashing their things, pissing on the floor of their victims. Deserved everything they got and more!

The film poster suggests that this is the best American horror film in twenty years. If it is then God help us!

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

December 15th - Don't Breathe (2016)

This tale of three young burglars who take on more than they bargained for when they try to steal a wad of cash from a blind army veteran.

Merely okay. I felt it would have worked better in a 25 minute slot in an Amicus anthology film as repetition kicks in as we seem to be treading over the same ground throughout - keep quiet and still and hope the blind man doesn't shoot you. It's all fairly derivative and cliche in the way early plot points are laid on thick just so you don't forget them forty minutes later - Ladybirds, anyone?

As for the three burglars? I wanted them dead. Robbing folk, smashing their things, pissing on the floor of their victims. Deserved everything they got and more!

The film poster suggests that this is the best American horror film in twenty years. If it is then God help us!

I actually really liked it, is it the best horror in 20 years , will it be a classic? No but it's better than most of the crap that passes for horror nowadays and for me was for better than it follows and the Babadook which many seem to love.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

I actually really liked it, is it the best horror in 20 years , will it be a classic? No but it's better than most of the crap that passes for horror nowadays and for me was for better than it follows and the Babadook which many seem to love.

Totally agree that it was better than It Follows and The Babadook.

I think every film i've seen this Decemberdike has been better than The Babadook. (Perhaps not Beyond the Gates)

Not a patch on other American offerings like The Witch, Oculus and Bone Tomahawk though, to name but three.