What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demoncrat]

Solid review there Duke!

Any film that inspires such sentiments


No Man's Land (1987, Peter Werner)
Only mentioning this rather run of the mill thriller for it's UBER80s main theme by the ubiquitous Basil Poledouris. It's a keeper !!! What a pity it is saddled to such a crumbly pile of cliches ....

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

House of Mortal Sin (1976)

One of director Pete Walker's more underrated efforts. Starring Anthony Sharp in an extraordinary performance as a Catholic priest who gets off on his own desires by violating the trust of the confession booth and torturing those he is supposed to help across the other side of the curtain with guilt. Naturally anyone who decides his methods are less than ethical are murdered in a diverse series of kill sequences, be it poisoned holy water or battered and burned to death with an incense burner. Lovely Susan Penhaligon soon becomes Sharp's victim and Stephanie Beacham and Norman Eshley give good support.

Walker stalwart Sheila Keith is of course on hand and gives another clever performance, this time with a sting in the tail of this warped parable of morality.

House of Mortal Sin may not be as well known as other Walker efforts like Frightmare and House of Whipcord but in it's own way it's just as good.

I couldn't find a good image of the original theatrical poster so decided to go with the US poster under it's alternate title of The Confessional.

[Demoncrat]

Film! Kudos D!!

[gag]

Curse of chucky

I'm glad they kept a storyline in this of why chucky turned up there instead of him terrorising someone without good reason, and it kept more to the serious side (if there was one ) of the originals and not going down the comedy \ humour route, I thought this was a decent effort of rebooting chuck franchise only one bit of the film wasn't thought through.
The bloke who was checking the camera on laptop to see his wife cheating with the nanny why did he not think why is the camera moving around the house or why the doll its attached to moving .
Overall a good effort and a welcomed back for chucky it could of been a hell of a lot worse like vast majority of reboots seem to do, and lose the concept of the original films now to check last years chucky out .

[Demoncrat]

Liked Cult Of Chucky. Enjoy!!

[Demoncrat]

Insidious: The Last Key

People got paid for this shit? A series of sound effects duel with a disparate band of lighting effects whilst the script sits at the side partaking in 'the wacky baccy' . Great for inducing heart attacks in ailing unwanted relatives ... but that's about it.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Nostalgic

Watching the Del Toro/Romero interview on season of the witch blu ray, please watch it, if you a fan of either filmmaker. Del Toro is a very erudite film analyst, and I would gladly pay to hear him interview any number of other film makers.

10/10

If ever there was someone I'd love to sit and have a chat with its Guillermo del Toro. The guy seems fascinating.

[MrBarlow]

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones 2014

After the death of his neighbour Anna, Jesse who joked that she was a witch is starting to believe he is targeted by a melevolent force, and tries to figure what it is before it takes a hold on him.

This one differs from the previous 3 movies in a way, there is bout 10 seconds of seeing Katie from the first two movies also its more like a spin off rather than a sequel.

Unlike the previous films, this does have a bit more tension and suspense with better jump scenes and unexpected turns.

It does start off like a home movie, end of school and fooling around and mischief with spying on a old neighbour then things take a dark turn, there is hardly any shaky camera scenes which does help and wont make you feel sick, this was enjoyable flick. 7 out of 10

[Demoncrat]

Did like The Marked Ones. Apart from the bit with the cat

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Frankenfish (2004)

A surprisingly good monster on the loose flick that deals with a genetically engineered killer Snakehead fish tearing things up in the bayou.

It's nothing particularly new but it's superbly photographed and the Alabama swamps make a brilliant and nicely atmospheric setting. It's a film with good characterisation, decent dialogue and reasonable suspense. Imagine Anaconda but without the 'Look at me' performances and you've got a decent hour and a half's entertainment. Lamberto Bava's 'go-to' guy Tomas Arana is among the cast. The Frankenfish itself looked great, not like some CGI monstrosity, and was happy to chomp limbs and heads off everyone in delightfully bloody fashion. All very enjoyable.

A welcome addition to the collection.