What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demoncrat]

Whilst not as outright entertaining than his Hercules, I rather enjoyed this silly movie.

[trebor8273]

A very poor man's hammer/ amicus. In a small Cornish village people are disappear and then up dead, we soon learn the local doctor is responsible and that was disgraced and disbarred for the experiments he was conducting eternal life which he is continuing. 5/10



You could be forgiving from thinking this is a John Grisham type movie but as it goes on we find it's a supernatural thriller. Lawyer Keanu Reeves is head hunted by a huge new York firm , the firms/company's head takes a keen interest in him , as the film goes on we learn that as well as being his farther he also the devil and Keanu is a vital part of his fight against God. Keanu gives a surprising good performance but it's Pacino who steals the movie with his performance of the devil , where he eats up scenery and lays on the ham thick. 8/10
Now watching Screamers.

[Demoncrat]

Hard To Die (1990, Arch Stanton)


Five "hot babes" are trapped in a ... tower block. Forry Ackermann pops up in a cameo. Having temporarily run out of Andy Sidaris films to watch, I leapt at this, and it paid dividends. The hilarious "acting" on display is more akin to porn at times (as is the ST ).
They all work for ACME Lingerie btw

[nicholasrope]

Ilsa The Tigress Of Siberia

Dyanne Thorne again returns to work for 1 of the world's nastiest people. This time she's in charge of a Stalin Prison Camp in Siberia where prisoners are drowned, electrocuted and sometimes fed to her pet Tiger in order to break the prisoners will. When she fails to break a particular prisoner and a prison break is successful, she re-locates to Montreal (She certainly got around) and runs a Massage Parlor, she encounters the same prisoner she was unable to break, both vow revenge on the other. As with the other 2 films, Thorne is convincing and there are plenty of nasty scenes as Ilsa makes her presence known.

Countdown

A newly qualified Nurse downloads an App which accurately tells you when you'll die. Even if you change plans and change your destiny, you still die. Definite shades of Final Destination but it isn't all that bad, having a running time under 90 minutes certainly helps even though the sexual harassment storyline is a bit un-necessary. I also base enjoyment on how much I paid for it and paying all 5 Pound makes this a tollable.

Battle Royale (Special Edition)

This is the Tartan release (Remember those guys) the story of a Japanese School Class forced to kill each other on an island. Takeshi Katano is the School Teacher in charge. This was the 1st subtitled film I bought and whilst good, I felt it dragged 3 quarters in.

Snowpiercer

Set In the future where global warming has frozen Earth, a Train keeps the remaining survivors alive however a class system is in effect and this causes Chris Evans to lead the other people considered lower class into a revolution.

Directed by the man who did Parasite, this is a brilliant film, very tense, some very good action scenes with 1 in particular makes me think that someone was inspired by Men Behind The Sun. Watch if you can.

[Dave Boy]

Only one movie to watch on todays date..

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

Only one movie to watch on todays date..

I take it you don't mean Beverley Hills Chihuahua (2008)? Which was the movie i just watched and thoroughly enjoyed.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Snowpiercer (2013)

Having owned the US Anchor Bay two disc dvd for a couple of years i thought it was about time i watched it.

Parasite's Bong Joon-Ho epic is thinking man's science fiction portraying a dystopian future every bit as apocalyptic and uncompromising as you could imagine.

Set in 2031 with the world plunged into a new ice age following a failed worldwide experiment to alter global warming and the planet uninhabitable, the last survivors live, if you can call it that, on what appears to be a self sustaining super train - the Snowpiercer. The train is inhabited with a strict class system with the poorest at the furthest end of the train. Led by Chris Evans, in one of his less wooden performances, the poor revolt in a bid to prosper.

Bong's film shows a lot of invention with exciting set pieces and a story line that both intrigues and invigorates the senses aided by a good cast on top form especially the bonkers Tilda Swinton with her strong Yorkshire accent.

If the film fails at anything it's in the FX department. Not the inside of the train which is superbly realised but the train traversing the frozen landscapes and 'piercing' ice walls in it's way. It all looks a bit too animated. However that's a minor fault really and it's an absolute blessing that a beautifully crafted work like this exists and someone like Bong Joon-Ho can both entertain and stimulate an audience among the dreck that the Hollywood studios (And Weinstein, but that's another story) throw at us.

[Demoncrat]

[Frankie Teardrop]

WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE – Russian black comedy about someone’s boyfriend taking on the murderously bent copper dad of his duplicitous other half. Who do you root for? No-one, unless you’re convinced of the inherent goodness of a roomful of total arseholes. Good job I’m just in it for the gore sometimes. WDYJD certainly throws in a bit of the old ultraviolence here and there as per such gag-baiting delights as a drill to the knee and a boudoir-cum-abattoir scene. In the end, though, it’s not that full-on. Much touted along the lines of ‘the first Western set in someone’s living room’ by critics who all say the same thing, it’s more like (a mostly) one-set play dragged through layers of nineties-type cine-stylisation. WDYJD’s more interesting aspect is the cross-genre shoehorning of ‘meet the in-laws’ comedy tropes into the realms of splat-stick, but as for the whole – I came away thinking that WDYJD has been kind of overrated given that lots of people ‘with an opinion’ seem to have collectively wet themselves over it, but it’s enjoyable enough for that.

PROZZIE – From the Cocaine Cowboy himself, ‘Prozzie’ wears its Hitchcock on its sleeve only to come across a little bit like a shoestring DePalma ie sexed up and stylized, but basically owing similar cinematic debts. But I can’t really say that as Ulli Lommel was a genuine original, I think. ‘Prozzie’ is, well, I guess you could say it’s closer to the ‘Devonsville Terror’ end of Lommel’s particular spectrum rather than anything like ‘Tenderness of the Wolves’, and is at its best during its minimalist first half, which features a few greasy, down-at-heel sets, a rigid atmosphere of English claustrophobia, and a pervasive twilit ambience carried by the constant drones of distant trawlers and Big Ben chimes on the soundtrack.

THE BLOOD ON SATAN’S CLAW – This used to always be on TV when I was a kid back in the eighties… or maybe my folks taped it and I just used to watch it all the time, can’t remember, but TBOSC remains a favourite to this day. What marks it out is difficult to pinpoint, but there’s just a sort of grim undercurrent to it all, coupled with jolts of gore that seem a bit unexpected. The satanic hair thing might be borrowed from more folkloric sources, but I was always quite taken with the way that it spreads like an infection; reverse echoes of the modernity that was around the corner in horror cinema. It has a touch of curdled sleaziness that is more apparent to me now, and that demon face always really bugged me and to an extent still does, despite it being a bit shit. Of a time and a place; with the likes of Michelle Dotrice cavorting in the woods, you couldn’t really get more 1970s UK.

SEVEN DEATHS IN A CAT’S EYE – From Margheriti, who seems here to want to fuse two strands of the Italian tradition in horror cinema, the gothic and the giallo. Stylistically, it couldn’t be more lush, and has a look that’s big on cobwebby passageways and flickering candles (or at least their spiritual equivalents). There are a few other plus points, including an incredibly fake gorilla who’s kind of ‘just there’ and doesn’t really do much (bit of a wasted opportunity, but I was kept entertained by the fact that I genuinely couldn’t tell for a good portion of the run-time whether I was supposed to be seeing a guy in a bad gorilla suit). Jane Birkin is in a starring role and so of course Serge Gainsbourg isn’t far behind (though in the unlikely guise of a Scottish detective!). On the downside, it never really ignites, but it’s good to look at.

[MrBarlow]

Armour of God. 1986.

A ex-singer turned treasure hunter is asked by a old friend to help find his kidnapped girlfriend by a evil cult and find the missing pieces of a historical Armour.

This is like a Asian/Hong Kong version of Indiana Jones with more fight scenes and crazy stunts, Jackie Chan stars and directs this action/comedy packed with thrills, excitement, laughs and four Amazonian women who know where to try and kick a man in high heels. There is some noticable flaws in the film and does tend to go off during the middle part then picks up again. Always Enjoyable even though the main actor nearly died from a whacky stunt gone wrong.

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