What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[nicholasrope]

Great White Hype

Samuel L. Jackson does his best Don King impression as a Boxing Promoter who hypes up a former Amateur Boxer to be a credible challenger for his Heavyweight Champion. Not a bad little Movie, which I guess does show what happens behind the scenes in The Boxing Business.

Day Of The Dead

George A. Romero's 3rd Film of the then trilogy sees a group of Scientists and Soldiers holed up in a Underground Bunker try to figure out what to do and whilst arguing between themselves.

This was the 1st Zombie Movie, I ever saw and TBH, this is my favorite. It's full of gore and the F/X is far superior than some modern efforts. I heard that it ran out of budget but really, you wouldn't have known. This Film in my opinion, still holds up to this day.

Also that Video Cover, very distinctive and very unmissable.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Mission Impossible (1996) 25th Anniversary Remastered Edition.

Stunning picture quality, very film like and a wonderfully clean print with gorgeous detail. The 5:1 Dolby TrueHD soundtrack makes superb use of all three front speakers whilst the rear is used sparingly but when it all comes together such as the room shaking theme music and the helicopter / train sequence it's something to behold...actually the helicopter / train sequence is frightening.

You'll know if you love or hate this film by now, if like me you love it then this remastered edition is far, far superior to any other Blu-Ray previously released and at £7.99 a mission worth taking. Should you choose to accept it?

[MrBarlow]

Wake Of Death. 2004.

Ben Archer is a club enforcer who wants to retire, when his wife is killed and son kidnapped, Archer wages a war against those who have wronged him.


This is by no means a masterpiece, but when you have Van Damme as the main lead you are in for a treat, his films have been straight to dvd/BD but here he does try his best to bounce back his career. Taking on the the Japanese mafia Yakuza is something others have tried to do in movies and never make it look great but this one goes further and make it look real, this is certainly a decent movie he has done in a while.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Widow's Point (2019)

Craig Scheffer stars as an author who spends a weekend in an old lighthouse as a publicity stunt for his new novel finds he's not alone in the old place.

Utterly dire spooker, woefully filmed, it's colours look like it were a terrible tv movie. The lighthouse is inland and looks brand new not the lonely desolate rock you'd expect. It's badly acted and scripted and I couldn't tell you how events unfolded because by the halfway point i was losing the will to watch it as boredom really set in. The ghosts were simply actors in old fashioned clothes....

Ah forget it. It's just bollocks.

[Demoncrat]

Inuyashiki (2018, Shinsuke Sato)

A tale as old as time. Man at the end of his tether is gifted with an unique ability. I will be watching the tv series of the same name very shortly. Fcuk all that Marvel shite and strap in.

[MrBarlow]

The Tomb Of Ligeia. 1964.

A man obsessed with the death of his late wife drives a wedge with his new bride.

This was a unusual tale from Edgar Allen Poe that Roger Corman brought to the screen, yes it does have the dark gloomy atmospheric house but also set during the day and at night but also filmed a lot outdoors especially at Stonehenge. This is more what is real and what isn't with life and death, and can a body enclosed in a tomb manage to find a way out when it was designed and built for the specific person. Vincent Price as always plays a good part as the man questioning his own sanity and able to make the character believable that what he is seeing is real.

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[trebor8273]

A highly enjoyable double bill for a bank holiday Monday. Wonderful feel good spoofs of James Bond with so many iconic quotable lines and hilarious moments. Yeah Baby!

After surprisingly enjoying the last drive of castle freak now watching the next episode, Society. Hope I'm not some sort of closet red neck that I enjoyed the first episode and agreed with some of his rantings.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

After surprisingly enjoying the last drive of castle freak now watching the next episode, Society. Hope I'm not some sort of closet red neck that I enjoyed the first episode and agreed with some of his rantings.

You're probably not a red neck, just turning into an old man

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by Justin101

You're probably not a red neck, just turning into an old man

Became a old man the moment I turned 30, it's just gotten worse each year!

[MrBarlow]

Howling II. 1985.

Karen White's brother joins a cult investigator and a colleague of his sister to Transylvania to stop a werewolf tribe lead by Stirba.

I know we all love and Christopher Lee and this may be his low point but for anyone that has watched Funnyman, we can forgive him in this, even though he apologised to Joe Dante for starring in this. This may not be the best werewolf movie but you gotta admit Mr Lee had some style in clothing.

Sybil Danning plays the mother of all werewolf Stirba, she was a bit of a bombshell in her hay day and probably just manages to save the film with Marsh Hunt this is 80s classic cheesy fun with a not bad background score, why didn't the makers try to stay close to the original source novel.

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