What Films Have You Seen Recently? - Page 4571

keirarts · #**45701** 2nd March 2018, 02:04 PM

Murder obsession.

Michael takes some time from shooting a horror movie to spend a weekend at the family home. A good thing though as he's showing signs of cracking, nearly strangling the lead actress for real. It seems Michael has a few bees loose in the bonnet as he relates to his missus how he stabbed his father to death in a psychotic rage as a child. Unperturbed, the director and some of the cast also make their way to the family mansion for a weekend away and surprising no one in the audience people start to get murdered one by one.
Ricardo Freda has not had the same attention from international critics as Mario Bava but there are those who feel his work is certainly worthy intention. This film is late in the game for him at 1981 perhaps but its still a lot of fun to watch. It feels a little old fashioned with its Gothic mansion setting, chamber music score and pacing however its a highly memorable and inventive Giallo that plays as you would expect before introducing some real weirdness into the mix including some psychedelic dream sequences featuring a huge spider, Satanism and a thoroughly messed up inversion of the Oedipus syndrome that leads into a genuinely strange end scene that feels ripped from someone's nightmares.

keirarts · #**45702** 2nd March 2018, 02:17 PM

Slaughter hotel

Set in a rural villa modified into a sanatorium for wealthy female clients and run by the enigmatic Dr. Francis Clay played by Klaus Kinski. The film has the various 'troubled' guests including an incest driven nymphomaniac, a suicide case and a lesbian all of whom are being stalked by an axe wielding maniac who is terrorising the area.
From Fernando Di Leo, Slaughter hotel is a greasy, sleazy, thoroughly entertaining slice of mayhem with enough in it to recommend it to trash enthusiasts. Given the quality of his Poliziotteschi its hard at times to reconcile this as the same director as Calibre 9. It's fun but as its been edited from numerous different prints its incredibly choppy in terms of editing and soundtrack. However Euro trash enthusiasts will still have a good time.

Stunt Squad

A mafiosi is sending warnings to people not wiliing to pay protection money by setting off bombs in their place of business. Naturally the police are not happy with this so an inspector is given permission to set up a special team of bikers to kick organised crimes arse.
As trashy as it sounds, the actual experience of watching stunt squad is a good one. Its balls to the wall mental in terms of stunts, violence and revenge. Genuine fun.

Cinematic Shocks · #**45703** 2nd March 2018, 02:33 PM

Turbo Kid (2015)

**** out of *****

Demoncrat · #**45704** 2nd March 2018, 02:40 PM

This is the 88 SH k aye? Am looking forward to that ....

Great reviews as always btw ...

keirarts · #**45705** 2nd March 2018, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Demoncrat

This is the 88 SH k aye? Am looking forward to that ....

Great reviews as always btw ...

It's the Raro release. Bought it ages back.

Demoncrat · #**45706** 2nd March 2018, 04:40 PM

So you did.

Demoncrat · #**45707** 2nd March 2018, 06:46 PM

Jigsaw (2017, Spierig Bros)

Even more witless than DOTD: BL ... one of the characters resembles Gary Olsen ... so that didn't help either

Le Porno Killer (1980)

Look that's what it says on the disc

. People give me the strangest things sometimes. Ostensibly smut with the shagging brutally shorn ... or it's like a poor Franco film. 2 bints outwit a variety of 'hunks' ... sure Harry Reems was one of them

...the ST is either outsider art or just disco tat

... in a weird way it's quite refreshing

trebor8273 · #**45708** 2nd March 2018, 07:51 PM

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/de...&pf_rd_t=12401

Noticed this on prime , any one seen it is it worth a watch?

Demoncrat · #**45709** 2nd March 2018, 08:00 PM

The Villainess (2017, Byung-gil Jung)

I love Asian genre cinema me. Korean take on Nikita that it maybe, this still has many many highlights ... some eyewatering camerawork/editing just piling up the overall effect.

Demoncrat · #**45710** 2nd March 2018, 10:10 PM

The Ghost Breakers (1940, George Marshall)

Scarier than The Cat & The Canary to my mind, Hope's 'cowardy custard' persona better intergrated into the (sliiightly) gothic atmosphere here for me. And it is chock full of casual racism .... ahem. From the chap at the helm of How The West Was Won etc ...