What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Coming of Sin (1978)

Disappointing effort from director José Ramón Larraz that's nothing more than a softcore sex romp in the style of Walerian Borowczyk with it's languid pace and very soft focus photography whilst any weirdness lacked Borowczyk's trademark filth.

Although one or two sequences were mildly erotic, thinking of the light bondage scene here, on the whole it was a bit of a slog. Tinto Brass is so much more skilled at this kind of stuff.

[troggi]

Just viewed the GREAT Ron Ely as "Doc Savage, Man of Bronze" (1975). You may well wince at the thought of this piece of movie ephemera but I love it!



This is a great big slice of hokum all wrapped up in complete baloney. I am not going to spoil it for the folk who've never clapped eyes on it but I have to say that the showdown between The Doc and Captain Seas is so infantile it's hilarious.

As George Pal's swansong it was a bit of a dead duck but it is still a bucket-load of Star-Spangled S*^t to be enjoyed with a peg on your nose.

There are no redeeming features to the film, it is truly awful, so awful that it becomes watchable for it's attempt at being camp and kitsch. Souza must be spinning in his grave at the thought of his music being attached to such a vehicle! This film is a gloriously overpolished turd of such dimensions that it deserves to be viewed!

17.35/5 (it gets the extra 0.05 just for the "eye twinkle" bit!

!!!Warning!!! DO NOT VIEW WHILST EATING POPCORN, THERE IS A DANGER OF CHOKING ON INHALED KERNELS EVERY 12 MINUTES (OR SO)!

[Demoncrat]

A welcome return good sir!! I too wait eagerly for the long promised sequel .....

[Demoncrat]

Two musical efforts ... well ....

What We Do Is Secret (2007, Rodger Crossman)

Never in my life would I have ever thought I would one day sit and watch a Darby Crash biopic. Niche or what??
Some young miscreants band together with a song in their hearts, and a needle in their arm ahem.
As with most of these things, it's a bit ... tarted up ahem. Pat Smear did at least oversee the score, so it sounds mostly faithful, if a bit polished in places ahem.
For the uninitiated, this is the story of the singer with The Germs, an infamously ramshackle LA punk band. They were featured in the first Decline And Fall Of Western Civillisation film if that helps. The film doesn't paint over Crash's abrasiveness, so there is that.



Daydream Believers (2000, Neill Fearnley)

TVM biopic of ... go on, guess
On a par with Summer Dreams ( a Beach Boys laugh riot) imho. Meet the guys as they travail fame and misfortune whilst trying to remember their dignity along the way. Hilarious in its earnestness. I may watch Head later tbh ....

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Coming of Sin (1978)

Disappointing effort from director José Ramón Larraz that's nothing more than a softcore sex romp in the style of Walerian Borowczyk with it's languid pace and very soft focus photography whilst any weirdness lacked Borowczyk's trademark filth.

Although one or two sequences were mildly erotic, thinking of the light bondage scene here, on the whole it was a bit of a slog. Tinto Brass is so much more skilled at this kind of stuff.

Yep a prime example of a cover being misleading.

I'm sure the 'Violation of the Bitch' version was put out in Italy with hardcore inserts.....
And of course,Hokushin put that classic cover out on VHS back in the day...

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Watched SCREAM '22 last night-a worthy addition to the franchise,although if like me,you've seen the other films umpteen times,you won't have too much difficulty figuring out who the culprits are.....

Highly enjoyable,and a fitting tribute to Wes.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by The Reaper Man@Cult Labs

Yep a prime example of a cover being misleading.

I'm sure the 'Violation of the Bitch' version was put out in Italy with hardcore inserts.....
And of course,Hokushin put that classic cover out on VHS back in the day...

I cunningly reversed my Arrow cover to showcase the Bitch artwork. Best thing about the film - the poster. Although that scene actually does happen in the film. It's just not quite as lurid as the poster makes out.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Yeah it does,but that cover makes you think you're in for a Ms.45/I Spit On Your Grave type movie....

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

I watched BULLITT on BD yesterday,Jesus does this film need a new scan/transfer.

On a 4k player it looked terrible no matter how much ****ing about with settings....

[MrBarlow]

Scrubbers. 1982.

Took a break from watching Death In Paradise and stuck this on, Half the actresses in this I don't even know or recognize except solvent sniffer Kathy Burke. Some people say it's on the same wave length as Scum, yeah there is the one woman who tries to be the "tough One". There is violence that is tame now but probably a bit upsetting back in the day and a graphic scene of a suicide. Were the makers trying to do a English version of Woman In Prison that didn't pan out the way they thought, Enjoyable enough to keep me quiet.

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