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THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED. ( 1969 ) A young girl is sent to a reform school for wayward girls, and soon finds a strictly run home full of sexual tension and severe punishments. Complete with a peeping Tom son and a head of the school with some strange feelings of her own. Then the killings start… Aka LA RESIDENCIA, this Spanish flick has a great reputation and it’s easy to see why it’s held in such high regard. Beautifully filmed, this gothic gem is like Hammer Films doing a Giallo. Lovely presentation of the full international version from Arrow. THE SUNDAY WOMAN. ( 1975 ) A man gets bludgeoned to death with a large clay phallus ( no, really ). Jean Louis Tritingnant and Jaqueline Bisset are the main suspects in this Giallo like film, where everyone seems to have something to hide. Great performances all round here and great to discover a movie I’d never seen before. Plus, there aren’t many movies that include dialogue such as “ You broke 18 of my cocks! “ This Blu Ray ( my first purchase from Radiance ) looks stunning. Here’s hoping they have more borderline Gialli ( or actual Gialli ! ) on their books. |
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Bully. 2018 Over weight teen Jimmy and two of his friends are constantly bullied by the school jock. After a encounter with a former boxer, Jimmy decides to train and fight back. I'm sure we enjoy seeing bullies getting a bit of karma in any way shape or form, Tucker Albrizzi plays the shy Jimmy who has some over bearing parents and meets Action Jackson Ron Canada who introduces him to Danny Trejo and toughened him up. There are some good moments with laughter with one guy commenting on a fight to his friend and basically calls someone a 'fairy kid' and gets scolded for it. The acting is decent but think the makers wanted to make a comedy then switched it to drama and back to comedy, but you got to ask yourself where were the teachers when a few things are going on? bully (1).jpg
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Manhunt (2007) (Orig title Rovdyr) Grueling Norwegian survival horror set in 1974 in which four young people are hunted in remote woods by a band of backwoods locals. In truth there's nothing here that you won't have seen before and the plot is quite conventional. What is different is the whole thing is laugh free. There's no humour, no camp thrills, Don't go looking for fun here, for Manhunt is an atmospheric horror film, with a slow burn beginning that transforms into something that is hard to watch on the lines of Last House on the Left with relentless terror and brutality. A film from the same era of splatter as Severance, Botched and Wilderness, that i keep coming back to time and again. Manhunt would never have survived the 80's uncut. Recommended to those who enjoy Backwoods Horror |
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