What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Crimson Blade

If you enjoyed the others, you should like those as well.

Nightbeat is very good, a British noir type of film.

And Barbara Shelley from the Hammer films is in a couple of them as well.

I've tried to pick up all the ones she and Hazel Court are in.

[Crimson Blade]

At least you can pick them all up at reasonable prices off the Network website.

And speaking of Barbara Shelley, i still need to buy Cat Girl, which is another bargain at £3.15.

[Paul Zombie]

Rambo 2.

great action sequel with Sylvester stallone breaking rocks in prison for going on the rampage in First blood.
but Colonel troghtman turns up and says he will get a pardon if he goes on another mission too nam to take photos of vietnam vets.

things get complicated though when he disobeys his orders from his comanding officer Murdock and rescues POw's instesd of taking the pictures. and Murdock aborts the rescue mission and leaves Rambo to the mercy
of the Russians and viet cong.

this is a top notch action film with Stallone showing all his imitators like Dolph lungren how to do it. and i like the russian bad guy played by Steven berkoffs who gives rambo electric shocks and
is a very convincing bad guy.
Rambo also gets a girl friend as well a vietnese agent who saves rambos life, but it doesent last long when the VC shoot her.

top scoring indead for this film 91.8 out of 100.

[Demoncrat]

Watched that Ghost Stories last night. A debunker of fake psychics is handed 3 cases to investigate. I recommend this to any portmanteau fan. Whilst there is nothing new here for genre fans, I am more intrigued to see the stage show now ahem. Able performances from most of the cast.

[MrBarlow]

Psych 9. 2010.

Roslyn takes on a night job at a hospital that's closing down, having a troubled childhood she thinks the spate of Murders in the area are connected with the psychiatric ward.

This is one of those films that goes off the plot a bit and is it a ghost story or serial killer movie, with some twists and turns.

It does have a Session 9 feel to it and tries to imitate but never succeeded even though Michael Biehn, Carey Elwes and Colleen Camp make their characters a bit creepy. 5 out of 10

[MrBarlow]

Rosemary's Baby. 1968

Young couple Rosemary and Guy move to a new apartment block, but strange things occur, a young woman is found dead, Guy a struggling actor lands a big acting role and Rosemary is pregnant. Doubt falls on Rosemary as she believes a pact with the devil has been made or is it paranoia.

This was probably the best horror when it came out but now it's more psychological mind thriller movie by Roman Polanski with his loose tales of apartment dwellers with Repulsion and The Tennant.

Mia Farrow portrayal is brilliantly well acted as the shy happy girl to extreme frail looking girl that's slowly loosing her sanity and beliefs that there is something wrong with her pregnancy.

Ruth Gordon is great as the sweet old lady from upstairs who makes herbal drinks but is it something else in there but surely old ladies aren't that bad.

The movie moves at a good steady pace nothing seems to drag on, it's not one of those films where your screaming at it to get to the point and the haunting lullaby at the start gives the movie it's creepy tone.

[iank]

Volcano. Strange seismic disturbances in LA lead safety inspector Tommy Lee Jones to realise that an unexpected event has created a volcano under the city that's about to go boom! This late 90s disaster flick came out the same year as Dante's Peak, but unfortunately is nowhere near as good, and certainly hasn't aged as well. It gets real silly real quick, and the effects are also pretty poor and unconvincing and again haven't aged well. Mediocre.

[iluvdvds@Cult Labs]

Watched some 'great' cult films lately - here's the last 20...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iluvdvds@Cult Labs

Watched some 'great' cult films lately - here's the last 20...

I really enjoyed The Hitman's Bodyguard too. Great action and a lot of fun.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The House Bunny (2008)

Frothy sorority comedy starring Anna Faris as a Playboy Playmate who leaves Heff's mansion and ends up a House Mother at a failing geeky girls sorority house .

Despite sounding like any other teen movie The House Bunny is actually very good. As well as the usual hi-jinks it provides a useful commentary on the need to fit in and social acceptance.

Faris is as usual excellent and tops a fairly heavy weight cast for this sort of thing - Emma Stone, Kat Dennings, Beverley D'Angelo, Colin Hanks and of course Hugh Hefner in an elongated cameo. - All performances, together with a witty script, that lift the film out of the run of the mill sludge it could have been.