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The Silent Scream. College students move into an off-campus boarding house run by a reclusive woman and her teen son. Heads start to roll. This horror flick with Rebecca Balding (The Boogens, Soap) feels very creaky and old-fashioned, often feeling like it was made in 1970 rather than 1980, and is so agonisingly slow and filled with uninteresting characters I often felt myself losing the will to live. A bit of a snoozer, tbh.
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URGE TO KILL – Dick Randall had his hand in this one. It’s flabbergasting, as though a fourth rate Ken Russel had been charged with the task of “Stock, Aitken and Waterman; the Untold Story” and decided to remake “The Demon Seed” instead. Confused? You will be. A sleazy record producer lives in a flat controlled by proto-Alexa surveillance system known as S.E.X.Y (red flag number one – the acronym doesn’t even stand for anything). He chats up girls, watches sci-fi porn plus or minus mud wrestling, is visited by dominatrices who end up in a hot-tub nightmare starring the most inspired severed limbs I’ve seen this side of ‘Tenebrae’ (don’t get your hopes up, it’s utterly bath-etic). A number of other fairly horrible computer-driven deaths occur. Somewhere along the line, S.E.X.Y materialises as a naked living statue impersonating Siouxsie Sioux. “This movie is like a fever dream” is a phrase used too often these days, but it’s accurate in this case. Not having much cash for blu rays has sent me scuttling in search of bad VHS rips on youtube; thank goodness for that, because mind-blowers like this are the reason I’m still watching screens. I realise I’m asking in vain, but can’t BFI or Vinegar Syndrome put out a nice refurbishment I can at least drool over in HMV shop windows?
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Phantom Of The Open Mark Rylance stars in the story based on the world's worst Golfer and how he manages to play in the British Open and other tournaments in disguise after he is banned. Really enjoyable with a special mention to the Commentator who is able to insult people without realizing the reactions of their faces as they are watching the TV. Exam Several people are having a Exam as the final part of an interview but there isn't a written question. Very decent effort with definite Cube vibes (Without the violence) |
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Eyeball (1975) A killer in a red plastic mac murders a bus load of American tourists visiting Spain, removing their right eyeball as he goes. Whilst parts of this Umberto Lenzi directed giallo work other times a visit to the optician and reading the eye chart is more exciting, especially during the many mind numbing conversations that bring the films pace to a near halt. Some of the kills are sweetly done, the largely female bus passengers all seemed happy to shed their clothes and the final pay off caught me by surprise. However I'm not sure which Umberto Lenzi turned up to direct this but i'm pretty certain it wasn't the same one as made the excellent Nightmare City, Violent Naples or Rome Armed to the Teeth. So all in all not one of Lenzi's better efforts but watchable all the same even if some scenes drag. The 88 Films Blu-ray was a huge step up from the Marketing Film dvd i'm about to throw away. |
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