What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[SymbioticFunction]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Has dialogue ever been Argento's strong point? I don't think so.

Discuss.

I think the animal trilogy and Deep Red have some very witty dialogue that is genuinely admirable. In this instance (Hitchcock), it seemed far worse than in the other Argento projects. IMHO of course. btw I'd definitely be interested to read people's thoughts on this topic.

[MrBarlow]

2010: The Year We Make Contact. 1984.

During tensions between governments, a joint American-Soviet expedition travel to Jupiter to find out what happened to the U.S.S. Discovery and H.A.L.

I won't say this was a great sequel nor the worst sequel made but does give out some reasons as to why H.A.L. went a bit nonfunctional and killed the crew from the Discovery. Peter Hyams takes control of the director for this as Kubrick didn't want to make a second film, Roy Scheider plays Floyd who is coerced to join the American team with John Lithgow and Bob Balaban who was the creator of the computer. Helen Mirren Joins the Russian team captain who likes to remind everyone of the government tensions.

As with Kubrick who had the sets destroyed and everything had to be re-created from pictures , they are well constructed well even though they are few flaws with some bits that are left with a head scratching moment in the pod area, there is some good camera work and the background score returning, Keir Dullea and Douglas Rain do make a return to the film.

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[MrBarlow]

eXistenZ. 1999.

A game designer targeted by assassins tries out her new virtual reality creation as she fears it may be damaged.

Jennifer Jason Leigh plays the creator of her new game eXistenZ and fears it may have been tampered with by a unknown source, aided with Jude Law as her bodyguard to find the answers. David Cronenberg brings his mind to it with bodily mutation only way he can create with low key gore that isn't Cronenberg's style as it does seem mild compared to his other stuff. The film does get a bit confusing and does get better as it goes on with great acting from everyone involved.


Mr. Vampire. 1985.

With the planned reburial of a village elder goes wrong as the corpse forms the spirit of a vampire, a local priest and his assistants try to stop vampire, only for one to be turned into a vampire and the other being a target of a ghost.

A mixture of Chinese superstition horror, martial arts and Kung Fu makes this one of the decent 80s films that some of us grew up knowing and still enjoy it. Lam Cham Ying plays the mortuary owner and Taoist priest who knows the ways of zombies and vampires, Siu-Ho Chin plays the assistant Chou who becomes haunted, Ricky Hui plays Man Choi who seems to be the biggest trouble maker and slowly becoming a vampire. Only downside with the Eureka release is the American dubbed version it seems to draw out the background score switched it back to the original subtitled version. Still a classic film.

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[Dave Boy]

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MANHATTAN (1979)

Not slapstick Woody Allen but a humorous story of love and relationships. Shot in black and white with Woody's love of Manhattan at the forefront.

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CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN (1955)

A gangster and a scientist resurrect dead bodies using atomic radiation and use the ghouls to take revenge..
Enjoyable romp with some good looking robotic zombies.

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[Demoncrat]

Raiders Of The Magic Ivory (1988, "Anthony Richmond")

Another YT find. JAMES Mitchum and a second tier Peter Hooten go on that one laaaast mission etc etc. A solid Exploito recommend. Festooned with the usual plot contrivances that jungle actioners contain.
From the director of Panic (1982) and Days Of Hell (1986), which was one of my first 23rd Century dvds ahem. So you know what you're getting.

Short and sweetly pretty like a real filmie should (Jap laserdisc??)
A hoot.

[Justin101]

Dracula A.D. 1972



Far out, man!

But just think how much cooler it could have been if Dracula had embraced the 70's London vibes and was seen walking down the King's Road wearing tight jeans and a brown suede vest rather than just being holed up in the dusty old ruined church!

[nicholasrope]

Cannibal Women In The Avocado Jungle Of Death

The U.S. government, eager to protect the nation's Avocado supplies, recruits feminist professor Shannon Tweed to make contact with the Piranha Women, an all-female tribe who believe men are only good as a source of food. Accompanying her on the trip are Bill Maher, a guide of questionable competence and sufficient at male chauvinism (As well as calling people wimps), and a female student who displays unquestionable incompetence.

This is very silly, but incredibly fun. what would be even more fun would be finding out someone watched this first then watching Cannibal Holocaust and/or Cannibal Ferox, not realizing just how different they are.

Live And Let Die

Roger Moore is Bond investigating several deaths which leads him to a Drugs Gang using Voodoo.

This is enjoyable made even better by the fact that they made the bad guys credible and dangerous which was something I felt the Pierce Brosnan films lacked.

I absolutely loved the deaths disguised by a Funeral Procession.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Closed Circuit Extreme (2012)

This Italian film is quite possibly the cheapest film i've ever seen. The whole thing was shot using the feeds off two CCTV cameras set up in a house and one outside and all we see is a fat guy sitting down, getting undressed, eating takeout, brushing his teeth, that sort of thing then to make it 'extreme', killing a prostitute pretty much off camera.

This is as piss poor as film making gets and should be avoided at all costs.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

An instantly forgettable, sanitized, multiplex saturating supernatural 'thriller'.

If people thought the torture porn genre became derivative and dull back in the 00's first decade then they ain't seen nothing yet because what now constitutes modern studio jump scare horror is by and large f*cking dross

[nicholasrope]

Drive (1997)

Action film starring Mark Dacascos as a prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with Kadeem Hardison , and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time and then teaming up with Brittany Murphy (Who appears to be a sex crazed dippy Motel owner)

A lot of quirky characters in an ok movie, Dacascos has some great fight scenes but it didn't really click for me.

Eight Legged Freaks

An homage to the B-movie level giant animal movie starring David Arquette and Scarlett Johansson (In a earlier role) where a small town is infested with giant Spiders.

Another film that I forgot existed until I came across it and it's a fun movie, some funny deaths including an imprint of a Cat whilst in Wall Plaster.