What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Deadite]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Agreed. And that's not perfect by any means. To me Matheson's story is one of those unfilmable ones. Or at least so it seems.

The novel itself is a tale of human loneliness more than it is a horror or sci-fi thriller.

Agreed. Also, the ending is a bit too downbeat for Hollywood.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Deadite

Agreed. Also, the ending is a bit too downbeat for Hollywood.

Not for Will Smith though.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Just Before Dawn (1981)

Campers with a deed to a section of wilderness ignore the warnings of forest ranger George Kennedy not to go into the woods. They decide to venture anyway and are terrorized by mountain men.

Jeff Lieberman's film is a beautifully photographed affair with one or two nice moments of suspense, but ultimately it offers nothing new nor any particularly memorable protagonists. George Kennedy is good in a limited role and the youngsters under threat lead by Deborah Benson and Gregg Henry are all decent enough as are the odd gory kill sequences and Lieberman gives the film a nice foreboding atmosphere.

Although Just Before Dawn isn't anywhere near top tier it's still recommended to those like me who love their backwoods horror films.

[bleakshaun]

Amer
The film follows Ana from her life as a child to her time as a teen(?) to life as an adult.
Strange one, the first act is fantastic, same with the 3rd, the middle segment seems off for me, but it's still great.

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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Just Before Dawn (1981)

Campers with a deed to a section of wilderness ignore the warnings of forest ranger George Kennedy not to go into the woods. They decide to venture anyway and are terrorized by mountain men.

Jeff Lieberman's film is a beautifully photographed affair with one or two nice moments of suspense, but ultimately it offers nothing new nor any particularly memorable protagonists. George Kennedy is good in a limited role and the youngsters under threat lead by Deborah Benson and Gregg Henry are all decent enough as are the odd gory kill sequences and Lieberman gives the film a nice foreboding atmosphere.

Although Just Before Dawn isn't anywhere near top tier it's still recommended to those like me who love their backwoods horror films.

I think it's underated gem , and I need to buy it .
Great sound track that blends in well with the film .

[Frankie Teardrop]

KILLER NERD – A Troma film / pick-up starring “genuine nerd” Toby Radloff, who some may know as Harvey Pekar’s buddy from various ‘comix’ back in the day. Radloff plays, well, pretty much himself going by his overall ‘media aesthetic’, although I imagine he stops short of murder IRL. Yes, Toby is a downtrodden nerd who gets angry, then gets even in this early nineties probably-shot-on-video exercise in deliberate bad taste. It’s no John Waters flick, but it may win some over with its smart-dumb overstylised woodenness, which has all the blank allure of a badly made industrial training video. There’s a good bit where Toby dresses as a baby, then ties up and tortures his mother! I liked it, even though I think ninety percent of comedy horror sucks.

TERROR – NJ Warren doing a Suspiria rip and coming up a bit short, maybe. It’s still pretty good. I’ve seen it two or three times in the past, and liked it better on previous viewings. Dunno what to say about the ‘plot’ – there’s a house with a curse involving a 17th cent witch, a latter day film director and a bunch of stuff happening that doesn’t really join up. A challenging stripper does her act in a bar that looks like the kind of place where people just sit around eating fish and chips until they go home (i.e it's not particularly edgy or sleazy), things go a bit ‘horror’ when a window semi-decapitates someone whilst things move around in the background, and over in the studio some softcore porn people introduce a vibe of ‘Confessions Of…’ era Britain. In fact, ‘Terror’ probably works best now as exactly that kind of nostalgia piece, as its tawdry seventies Englishness is unforced, true and drably loveable, whereas the tendency towards coloured lighting doesn’t really elevate it to the heights of Euro-goth.

BRAIN DAMAGE – BD grows on me every time I see it. It’s always been a fave, but I see it now as a mini-masterpiece that splices together so many of the things that fascinate and captivate me – stylised depictions of NYC shittiness 70s / 80s, movie psychedelia, that whole carny / exploitation vibe of flicks twenty or thirty years older than it, Zarcherle, brain eating parasites, threesomes with suckers… so many great scenes, I mean how inspired do you have to be to conceive of a blow-job lobotomy at a Swimming Pool Q’s gig? And Elmer / Aylmar totally makes it. Just great, really - nothing more to add beyond “come back, Frank!"

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Final destination 4

Another great film to the series , enjoyed all these and the fact that each film based somewhere completely different add good elements to the film, even tho the predictions are seen the killings aren't quite clear cut or 100% predictable in exactly how they are going to die.
Each one gets better than the last (even tho I think 3 the weakest still a good watch) I've read fair amount on Darwin awards and seen things like 1000 ways to die and unusual death to know that a fair amount of the deaths in the series are based around real deaths .
I think the CGI on part 4 can be a little ropey in the beginning but doesn't really spoil the film,
But I like the fact that each film doesn't skimp on action and goes the full hog on some of the scenes and the gore is plenty as well. Overall the whole 5 films are worthing of being in anyone film collection.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Death Wish 4 - The Crackdown (1987)

Paul Kersey is out to avenge the cocaine induced death of his girlfriend's daughter, so he tracks down who supplied the drug and pits two rival drug gangs against each other as the violence spills onto the sidewalks of LA.

Probably my second favourite Death Wish film following the action packed urban warfare of Death Wish 3. Although The Crackdown retains the violence it feels like a somewhat lighter watch than what preceded. Naturally bad people do bad things but it's just not as glorified or seedy as the film strays more into action movie territory rather than Vigilantes R' Us and thus comes across more of a crowd pleaser than typical Death Wish thriller. Most likely due to J.Lee Thompson - an action specialist - taking over the directorial reigns from Michael Winner.

[Demoncrat]

Just back from Deadpool 2. Whilst I wasn't enamoured with the story as such ... I laughed a lot again. Will look forward to rewatching. Jurassic World trailer btw

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I watched Deadpool 2 on Wednesday and loved it. All the action sequences works perfectly, there is a real heart to most events and it's occasionally quite moving, and the humour was laugh out loud funny, the film has no shortage of sight gags and lines which I probably missed and will catch on a second viewing.

Ryan Reynolds has really fallen on his feet with this role and uses it to show his natural comic tendencies (he's one of the writers) and recommends for previous misdeeds during his career! The supporting cast are all very good and, given the casting of Avengers: Infinity War, it was probably inevitable but also funny to hear Deadpool refer to Cable as 'Thanos'.

For those who have seen it, did you notice the cameo by Stan Lee? I didn't and was wondering if this was the first Marvel film in which he hasn't appeared, though he did have a role in one of the teaser trailers.

There are numerous scenes through the credits (though oddly not one after they've finished) which are worth sticking around for.