What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[MrBarlow]

Duel To The Death 1983.

Every 10 years a great swordsman from China and Japan face each other in duel of honor, this time round there is a plot to rig the duel now the two enemies uncover the plot and decide whether to fight or not.

This is one of those cheesey type martial arts movies that does a lot of high flying with strings attached movies with the bad dubbing and some comedy added with bendy katana swords and plenty tomato sauce for blood. The acting is good as well as the sword fights are good choreographed. It's good for a watch for fans of this type of movies 6 out of 10

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

You're welcome, J.



Have you actually seen Penetration Angst or the 2005 one Isolation?

No mate I haven't so thanks for the recommendations. When i think of the past two or three years I can't think of much. The Ritual was the only distinctly British one that came to mind. And while i liked it I'll be honest I didn't think it was a patch on Ghost Stories.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

No mate I haven't so thanks for the recommendations. When i think of the past two or three years I can't think of much. The Ritual was the only distinctly British one that came to mind. And while i liked it I'll be honest I didn't think it was a patch on Ghost Stories.

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I'll give it another go sooner rather than later and see if my thinking changes.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Personal Shopper (2016)

Kristen Stewart plays a young woman who is a personal shopper for a celebrity she barely sees, picking up hugely expensive clothes for said star to wear for charity events and gala dinners. Stewart also professes to be a medium and wants to talk to her now dead brother following a pact she made with him prior to death that whichever of them died first would come back and contact the other from the after-life.

Not the most conventional supernatural horror story i'll grant you but it's certainly interesting especially as it goes behind the often closed doors of someone who works for celebrities. Tension builds slowly but the film hinges on a great performance by Stewart as events gradually fray her nerves. The film dares to defy genre conventions and i don't recall any of the usual jump scare techniques so often employed by Hollywood thrillers, just an atmosphere that gradually intensifies, culminating in some original ghostly manifestations.

The director Olivier Assayas does a great job, especially with some elongated sequences of texting, somehow allowing reams of tension to build rather than making the viewer nod off.

The end result is a film that's mysterious, ever so slightly arty-farty and very compelling.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I'll give it another go sooner rather than later and see if my thinking changes.

I'll catch up on a few of the recommendations. Can get a copy of Isolation from Amazon for under 2 quid and it does sound promising.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I'll catch up on a few of the recommendations. Can get a copy of Isolation from Amazon for under 2 quid and it does sound promising.

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Good choice, J.

[Paul Zombie]

The Doll of Satan.

Elizabeth(Erna Schurer) is a young girl who has just inherited her uncles castle after the reading of his will. and after arriving there with her fiance and meeting the strange occupants she begins to experience strange erotic dreams were she is tortured in a medievil dungeon.

Not a bad effort, and quite stylish and atmospheric in the old castle. the story is a bit average though and rather slow. and although there is a black gloved killer on the rampage, the film is actually rather tame and bloodless.
Erna Schurer is very nice on the eye though. an actress who has a look of a young Catherine Denerve who is actually rather good in the lead role.

An okay watch. a film for undemanding giallo fans. 71 out of 100.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Watched the Japanese MARTIN blu ray yesterday.
Easily the best looking I've seen it.

[Demoncrat]

Noted R!!


Assassination Nation

Witch hunting 2.0
4 high school friends enter the void when a hacker runs amok in their community. Recommended?

[MrBarlow]

The Equalizer 2018.

Robert McCall is enjoying the quiet life as a uber driver, when his friend is killed he is drawn back to his past.

This was a decent Sequel, not as fast paced as the first movie and can drag on in places, but the action fighting sequences are good, Denzel portrayal is same as the first movie troubled young person and trying to keep them on the straight path and hiding his past that slowly resurfaces, blended with a good background score mixed in. 7 out of 10.