What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[MrBarlow]

Death Wish 3 1985.

Paul Kersey returns to New York to help out an old army friend, when his friend is killed by a gang in a home invasion, the locals are scared of the gang and police do very little, Paul decides to lend a helping hand.

The Last collaboration between Michaele Winner and Bronson for the Death Wish series and this was more of standing your ground and defend your home type of film. Gavan O'Herlihy stars as Fraker, leader of the street gang, alonside Alex Winter (Bill and Ted), Barbie Wilde (Hellraiser II). Martin Balsam stars as the new friend and Neighbour of Kersey and Ed Lauter as the policeman who recognises him and keeps him upto date. This wasn't as violent as the previous film but can have its moments that lead upto a big street fight/riot.

[MrBarlow]

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown 1987

Paul kersey living the simple life with his girlfriend and step-daughter, when his step-daughter dies due to a drug overdose, Paul goes after the pusher. He is contacted by a business amn who can help him take care of the drug problem and main dealers.

J.Lee Thompson who directed some Cannon films takes the helm in the 4th instalment of the Death Wish film, Bronson is back at aged 66 and still fighting fit. John P. ryan (it's Alive)plays the shady businessman who hires Kersey to take care of the drug dealers Ed Zacharias (Perry Lopez, Chinatown) and jack Romero (Mike Moroff, Robocop). This was an explosive movie from start to finish, plenty action and good shoot out scenes, may be the same and nothing new but still entertaining.

[bleakshaun]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Death Wish 3 1985.



Paul Kersey returns to New York to help out an old army friend, when his friend is killed by a gang in a home invasion, the locals are scared of the gang and police do very little, Paul decides to lend a helping hand.



The Last collaboration between Michaele Winner and Bronson for the Death Wish series and this was more of standing your ground and defend your home type of film. Gavan O'Herlihy stars as Fraker, leader of the street gang, alonside Alex Winter (Bill and Ted), Barbie Wilde (Hellraiser II). Martin Balsam stars as the new friend and Neighbour of Kersey and Ed Lauter as the policeman who recognises him and keeps him upto date. This wasn't as violent as the previous film but can have its moments that lead upto a big street fight/riot.

Death Wish 3 is glorious

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Puppet Masters (1994)

A very enjoyable take on Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel of the same title, in which Donald Sutherland's Chief of Scientific Intelligence and his team attempt to prevent an alien race of parasites from taking over the Earth.

The aliens are squishy creatures - Think Island of Terror (1966) style creatures but nearer to the size of a large hand - which attach themselves to human spines and take over their minds by boring tentacles into their hosts brain.

Set mainly in a small town in Iowa where the invasion begins, the film races along from first to last with very good action sequences and a heightened sense of paranoia throughout.

A lot of fun, The Puppet Masters is a film that quietly grips you and doesn't let go. Anyone who likes Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) or eighties classic The Hidden, should get a lot out of The Puppet Masters.

[Nordicdusk]

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Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to kill the daughter of Laurie Strode. After escaping from a seemingly routine transfer he awakens and murders then medical team taking him to Smiths Grove. With Dr Loomis in hot pursuit can he stop a massacre and save the life of an innocent child.

I can't explain why i have only seen this film once and i feel even more stupid now because i loved it. Some great kills lots of action and plenty of suspense with Michael lurking around every corner. Donald Pleasence is great i love that you believe he is actually terrified of Michael. I remember hating the mask the first time i saw this but it makes scenes now that he just grabbed it off a shelf in a discount store. I really loved the ending also.

Way more fun than i remember what a fool i have been all this time. This will be more of a regular from now on.

8/10

[gag]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown 1987

Paul kersey living the simple life with his girlfriend and step-daughter, when his step-daughter dies due to a drug overdose, aul goes after the pusher. He is contacted by a business amn who can help him take care of the drug problem and main dealers.

J.Lee Thompson who directed some Cannon films takes the helm in the 4th instalment of the Death Wish film, Bronson is back at aged 66 and still fighting fit. John P. ryan (it's Alive)plays the shady businessman who hires Kersey to take care of the drug dealers Ed Zacharias (Perry Lopez, Chinatown) and jack Romero (Mike Moroff, Robocop). This was an explosive movie from start to finish, plenty action and good shoot out scenes, may be the same and nothing new but still entertaining.

Tbh you know for some reason there is films you've just never seen but should of but don't know why, we'll death wish films are one of those I haven't.

[Nordicdusk]

I love all five Death Wish films so entertaining.

[Nordicdusk]

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After Halloween 4s traumatising events Jamie is in a medical facility for kids under the close watch of Dr Loomis. Jamie hasn't spoken a word since that faithful night she attacked her step mom but now she can sense when Michael is close and who is in danger. Michael is back once again to kill Jamie but with his ever growing determination to massacre everyone he comes into contact with Dr Loomis is equally as determined to stop him.

Another entertaining entry and just like 4 it has plenty of great kills and suspense and again Donald Pleasence steals the show as the films go on his mission to stop Michael is increasingly taking its toll on him as he acts crazier and crazier becoming more and more obsessed and consumed by Michael. My one problem and its small was the two dumb cops even thought they didnt do much to make them stupid but it felt like they were the comic relief with stupid music playing when they were on screen.Oh i almost forgot about the bendy knife in the forest scene

Halloween 5 is a solid film but i didnt like 4 just a bit more.

7/10

[Frankie Teardrop]

A minor Halloween round-up;

NIGHTWISH – A ‘one that got away’ type film from the late eighties – I say that because it’s never been around that much, I mean I’d sort of heard of it before Unearthed put it out on Blu-ray recently, but I’d certainly never clapped eyes. Being from the late eighties, it has that stone-washed-jeans-under-desert-skies look to it, a kind of ad-style slickness even though it’s low budget. That dollar deficit betrays itself in some pleasantly rickety visual effects i.e badly animated ectoplasmic worms, but we also get some good, authentically gloopy stuff from KNB back in their heyday. There’s not really enough of that particular good stuff, but it is worth sitting around for because even the draggy bits are elevated by a certain hokeyness / weirdness – it’s not quite ‘Hellgate’ bizarre, but it is loaded with things going on that feel like they’ve accidentally walked in from other adjacent B-flicks and have decided to stick around to see if it works. It doesn’t, really, but there’s enjoyment to be had in the lop-sidedness of a constant clash between random bugs, cannibalism, finger-hacking and an unreasonable amount of wandering around endlessly with psychic giger-counters. It’s an alternate reality / dream-within-a-dream type set-up, somewhere between ‘Nightmare on Elm Street 3’, ‘Flatliners’ and ‘The Cell’ (though it predates the latter two), in which some dream researchers experiment on themselves to find out what consciousness is like at the moment of death (or something). I liked it.

DHOGS – A sort of meta-movie about some people in a cinema watching a flick about a man abducting a woman and tangling with a murderer before a kid starts messing around with a computer and controlling characters in the movie that he happens to be part of (I think). It’s definitely a comment on media consumption, societal power relationships and representations of violence, but beyond that I can’t tell you. Well made and interesting, but if you just want tits and ketchup I doubt you’ll be that happy.

MANHATTAN BABY – I dunno, I just really like this moronic, senseless film. It’s borderline genius, the way it’s so portentous and yet so flimsy – how did he get away with things like this? It’s really just a load of steals from bigger, better flicks like ‘Poltergeist’ rammed together with total narrative carelessness – “Oh, let’s have some lasers coming out of someone’s eyes in this bit, then maybe someone can get lost behind a mirror or something and come out later as if nothing’s happened” – but maximum cheap style. As always with Fulci, maybe it’s all about those obsessive little trademarks, those close ups of the eyes, the whole look of the thing, the ways the music works. And, of course, the pre-eminence of total f?ck-off bits like the mental stuffed bird attack. Light on gore but heavy on Fulci, and in my (massively zoomed in on) eyes, a success.

3 FROM HELL – Rob Zombie is back with his personal little gang of desperados (minus S Haig, for the most part) for another wallow in a butcher shop world of cool psychos versus fascist squares. It’s pretty entertaining, with some mean-spirited gore in places (though not that much), but it all feels a bit samey. Maybe I shouldn’t grouse, but I get the sense Zombie had another kind of film in mind. I do prefer him when he tries for much more visionary, pretentious stuff – ‘Lords of Salem’, for example, was flawed but on some levels excellent – and the only bit of that kind of playfulness here is a very effective snippet where Baby hallucinates the cat-man personification of her ‘lost innocence’ whilst in prison, a wonderful bit of inspired surrealism.

WOUNDS – Unexpectedly good Nathan Ballingrud adaption – I say that because I wasn’t convinced Ballingrud’s elegant prose and shadowy scenarios, with their pained relationships and sometimes off-page horrors, would translate all that well into Netflix terms. Well, I was wrong on that count – ‘Wounds’ builds a very convincingly ominous atmosphere that finally erupts into disturbing WTFery in its rendering of a New Orleans barkeep’s tangle with weird and inexplicable forces. I really don’t understand all the bad reviews on IMDB at all, this is very moody stuff and I found it quite compelling, I guess with Ballingrud you just need to know that a lot of the time it’s about estrangement and discordant undercurrents rather than people being stabbed by killer dolls, though there is still a bit of gloop in places, esp. cringy if you don’t like cockroaches. Worth a watch, and a read too definitely if you haven’t (it’s based on ‘The Visible Filth’.)

[MrBarlow]

Death Wish V: The Face Of Fear

Paul living a life under the witness protection as Professor Paul Stewart, is dating fashion queen Olivia who was married to mobster Tommy O'Shea, when he muscles in on her business, Paul goes to the D.A. and Olivia is killed, he decides to wage a war on the mobster and his gang.

The final chapter for Bronson to be Mr Vigilante, even though a 6th was planned but never surfaced to anything, at 71 it shows Bronson can still pull a decent punch and have the skills to put down a few people. Michael Perks stars as the mobster Tommy who thinks he can outsmart Kersey. Leslie-Ann Down plays the fashion model Olivia and Robert Joy plays henchman Freddie with a dandruff problem. This was listed as a poor ending but I beg to differ.