Uh... no. :pop2:

Anthropophagus - never seen this before one of the better video nasties in my opinion, hoping 88 films release the spiritual sequel Absurd now :pray:

Zombi Holocaust - seen this on dvd as part of the Zombie Flesh Eaters set ages ago just watched it for the second time on Blu-Ray, enjoyed it more this time than the last time i enjoy the bit in the city the most and wished that was longer... But it's a good film. I dont remember the DVD being so grainy though, grainiest Blu-Ray i've seen so far.:confused:

Killdozer! (1974)

Finally, being a fan of the band that took their name from this film it has sat on my YouTube watchlist for some time, finally I dedicated some time to watch it this evening. The quality of the copy of YouTube is really quite decent btw.

What could be a complete schlock fest this is actually a rather stylish, well thought out film. Seriously, for a plot that is basically bulldozer that kills it has some reasonable & likeable characters, interesting shots, sporadic but purposeful music and a sensible plotline (in one machine gone mad stage they actually just walk up a steep hill and watch from there rather than running around in circles flapping). Although, in a film like this, sensibility isn't necessarily a good thing but it really works and don't worry it lives up to its name, people are killed - the machine is really quite menacing, even though it is bright yellow. Another bonus is it comes in at a nice b-movie 70 minutes, I wish all films were this length.

Seriously worth checking out, and for those that don't know the band, one of their great covers.


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friggin' love Killdozer :tiptoe:

FIRST MAN INTO SPACE
Daring American astronaut becomes the first man to go into the far reaches of space, encountering strange cosmic dust that turns him into a blood slurping creature on return to Earth.
50s b movie sci fi with lots of close ups and pitch black backgrounds to hide the fact they couldn't afford to build the sets, this is still an enjoyable yarn, in a kind of 60s Dr Who kind of way, albeit a bit more gruesome. In fact the creature itself isn't unlike the Chameleon aliens in the second Dr adventure The Faceless Ones.

HORROR HOSPITAL
Eccentric ( as ever ) Michael Gough is conducting experiments on runaway 70s youth, turning them into pale faced zombies who obey his every command. But what is his own gruesome secret?
One of the most over the top and truly out there UK horrors of the 70s, this arrives on blu ray from Odeon. And it looks stunning, particularly in the outdoor scenes. Highly recommended.
And talking of Mr Gough, let's have blu ray releases of THE VELVET HOUSE and SATAN'S SLAVE.

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"Five graduates come together to celebrate their teacher Master Jude's 80-year-okd birthday. Th is includes York (Eric Tsang); Claude(Jim Chim); Sam(Wong Jing); Keith(Chapman To) and Charlie (Tat Dik). Master Jude (Richard Ng) is a bachelor who enlightened them on the matter of sex during their school days.

However, during the celebration party, they encounter 5 pretty, sexy young models: the uninhibited Tina (Chrissie Chau), the movie fan Audrey(Jessica Xu), the body-check addict Peril (Caroline Chu), the off-possessed by spirits Jeanne (Carol Yeung) and Eleven (Betrys KKong), who is to eager to give up her virginity. They fall for each other and have a love-fest in the hotel.

The five men group together to form "The Cheating Brigade" to continue their affairs with the five models. Their Wives, headed by hillary (Maggie Cheung), with Sze (Harriet Yeung), Nana (Monica Chan), Ling Ling (Mak Ling Ling) and Nancy (Jacquelin Ching), also group together to catch them on the act. An 'espionage war' between husbands and wives ensues. Who will be the final victors - the husbands or the wives?"

Wong Jing's films can be hit and miss but I still think they mostly hit the spot personally...I haven't seen that many of his "newer" films though so I mostly base my opinion on his older (pre-2000) work...

Unfortunately this didn't do much for me except produce a few (intended) chuckles from time to time.
Released the same year as Microsex Office and even featuring some of the same actors,it has a totally different feel and definitely lacks punch / a certain something to keep the movie together.
I must applaud Wong Jing for keeping the flame of good old Hong Kong screwball sleaze alive but this could have been so much better imho.

For a true (Cat III even) sleazeball fest about a lecherous "teacher" + his "pupils" and their wives,maybe just watch Stooges in Tokyo (1991) instead. ;)

RAWHEAD REX – I love 'Rawhead Rex'! It's a bit rubbish, though! In fact, it's awful. That's the brutal truth. To get into this adaption thing again, it really doesn't make any sense to compare Barker's short story to this woeful cast-off. I have a loathe-love relationship with Barker's prose at times – this goes back to 'The Books Of Blood'. I can find him awe-inspiring, or I can get dismissive, possibly out of jealousy, but sometimes out of frustration. 'Rawhead Rex' (the story) isn't one of Barker's more out-there numbers, but it does have the virtue of being straightforward enough to make for relatively easy visual translation. In principal. In reality, when the 'translators' (G Pavlou et al) speak the visual language of an Inspector Morse episode crossed with a shite rock video, perhaps something is lost. Or gained! Because that's what you get, a kind of late eighties / early nineties Brit-TV feel coupled with dismal visuals which, in collusion with often dire acting and a really horrible, inappropriate overblown orchestral score, make for quite a pungent brew, if one which Clive might not exactly have imbibed himself. For the uninitiated, it's about a pre-christian deity who rises from the earth in rural Ireland in order to lay waste to the countryside. Only the power of Danu herself can stop this guy! Some of the more subversive aspects of CB's story are left in the shadows and not fully drawn out, but we do get odd lurches into semi-transgression (piss-on-a-priest bit is there). Rawhead himself looks pretty sorrowful, a wolf-gorilla troll doll refugee from some kind of gypsy-metal video. It drags in places, but it's ripe enough to do it for me. Again, it's all about a specific feeling, one you don't get every day (because they got it so, so wrong). Never really got a definitive DVD / BD release, but the prices on Amazon are generally shocking.

NECROPOLIS - Pretty wretched bit of dreck which I have developed an unhealthy affection for, having sat through it three times over the years (which is three times too many for any reasonable human being). Sometimes I think I see things in these films that don't really exist – maybe bad should just be bad. But 'Necropolis', sloppily tacked together as it is, somehow for me has this elusive, off-hand quality to it which makes it seem elliptical when it should just be clunky. I guess that's because things happen in it which are all a bit out of sync, and sometimes just aren't explained. What's it about? A 17th century witch who is reincarnated as an eighties NYC biker-goth. When we meet her 'back in the day' she's wearing lycra and doing bombastic disco moves! Fast forward to the eighties and she's a leathered up crop haired punkette who goes around intimidating the owners of magic shops with her psychic powers. She has an entourage of icky zombie cultists who aren't in it much, and seems to make jizz leak out of people's heads when she snuffs them. A New York priest, also reincarnated from way back when, is on her case, and so is an uptight British reporter. It has that shitty, grotty New York eighties thing so beloved of myself because, well, it's not like I had to live there at the time, period synth music, and just that whole sketchy wonkiness. T Kinkaid's name crops up in the credits, and it does have something of a tinge of 'Breeders' to it. Christ, I actually wrote that last sentence. What's happening to me? How can anyone compare anything to 'Breeders' and mean it? Seriously, something's wrong!

£1.12 plus postage and you get Tales from the Darkside free.

Double DVD Collection - Tales From The Darkside The Movie, Rawhead Rex: Amazon.co.uk: DVD & Blu-ray

Great film by the way. I also really like it. The rubbish creature and OTT gore effects add to the slightly surreal vibe.

Well, maybe someone'll strike it 'lucky'. All the other ones seemed to be around thirty quid for some unfathomable reason.

Ha,ha. You can't put a price on monsters made from rubber suits.

Although From Vegas to Macau left me wanting,I can't resist to watch the sequel... :rolleyes:
Scheduled for tonight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AeKi15c7vE

Loved this when I was a kid!

Death Wish

Up there with The Sentinel as one of Michael Winners best films in my humble opinion. Charles Bronson stars as Paul Kersey, a New York Architect whose life is turned upside down when a group of street thugs (including a young Jeff Goldblum) break into his apartment and attack his wife and daughter. His wife dies from her injury's and his daughter slips into a catatonic state. Kersey decides to take on a project in Utah, he befriends the client who is a member of a gun club and reawakens a long dormant love for guns in the pacifistic upper middle-class architect. Heading back to New York with a gun and a head full of the old west and frontier justice, Kersey begins to wander the mean streets of New York gunning down muggers and rapists causing a dramatic decline in street crime. The mayor, worried this will make the city look bad asks that 'the vigilante' as Kersey has been imaginatively dubbed, be quietly run out of the city.

Winners film is adapted from a novel by Brian Garfield who also penned the sequel Death sentence. You may remember that being made into a film by James wan and starring Kevin Bacon, in the books Kersey is named Paul Benjamin and both books are used to make Winners film (some also carries over to Death wish 2) The James Wan film uses the material to make a stand alone feature. Death Wish is essentially a right wing fantasy about frontier justice that politically feels very out of date. Given the horrifying violence we have seen recently the films pro-gun stance feels a little off and studies have pretty much debunked the idea of guns as a tool for self defence, it's a film where one character even argues the poor should be put in concentration camps in order to solve the city's crime issues.

However politically dubious sentiments aside Death Wish is also a lot of fun, it has a real grim and gritty 70's New York feel to it and the street scenes are terrific. Its actually arguable that the film really takes off once Kersey is out plugging muggers. The film was a huge hit and Cannon revived the series with several sequels that became gradually more ludicrous. Death wish 3 is a prime example with New York descending into urban warfare. That said they are rarely dull. This one is still the best however.

I'm trying to delay my urge to dive into Autumnal watching but as the weather was incredibly cool today and I've had to put the blanket on the bed I decided it's time to start. The summer better not arrive now as there is no turning back.

I started with The Black Torment (1964), a film I have watched once before whilst multi-tasking, I sorely regret not giving it my full attention the first time. A totally atmospheric, gothic chiller. I really liked how dark the film was, it added to the menace, I always find full on bright lights in a film set in this period incredibly off-putting. The acting was subtle, the twists not too hard to guess but at least they worked. Plus there was plenty of frilly shirts and sword play.

Full on spooky, gothic intrigue. A nice opener to the autumn season. I think I'll move on to another from the Odeon Best of British collection.

What Films Have You Seen Recently?
 

*SPOILERS!*

Nightmare City on Arrow's new blu-ray. Watched the version from the camera negative after watching the small featurette about the two versions included on the disc. Never seen the whole film before, and ashamed to admit it. Totally crazy & dire makeup effects on the "infected", but it just all adds to it's brilliance. Totally bonkers. Although, I'd have stopped it before the final scene. Would've been a lot better, imo, if they had it all as a dream instead of hinting that it could all be a premonition of things to come.

Home at Seven (1952)

David Preston, a bank official goes missing for 24 hours and has no memory of the lost time, but when he learns that the steward of his local club has implicated him in a robbery, and has also been found murdered, he finds he has no alibi, and the police suspect him of both robbery and murder.

Despite an ending you can see coming during the last fifteen minutes, Home at Seven is an intriguing little British B-picture. Featuring some outstanding acting from Ralph Richardson and Jack Hawkins. It's the strength of the acting that makes it compelling and fairly gripping until the final denouement which sadly isn't quite as strong as the first seventy minutes.

As with all these Network releases the film looks quite delightful and has crisp clear sound. They really do deserve credit for releasing these obscure British efforts.

Well worth a look for those interested in British films.

WRONG TURN 4.

Fun and exploitative fourth entry in the franchise that bills itself as a prequel but feels like a stand alone film in its own right.

The film starts in the 70s with the Nordy brothers locked up in an asylum after killing and eating their parents. They quickly escape and free all the inmates not before butchering a couple of doctors by ECT and barbed wire quartering.

Years later a group of friends lost in a blizzard take shelter in the asylum...

This is trashtastic from beginning to end, full of ludicrous amounts of gore and blood letting between scenes of its female characters getting naked and having sex for no other reason than titillation of the teenage fanboy (and girl) in the viewer.

It is certainly an improvement on Part 3 and Tamer Hassan's American, via Bow Bells, accent.

I agree. Part 3 was piss poor in all respects. The censors would have had a field day in the 80's. Probably cut it by twenty minutes.

Poltergeist Remake.

I saw the trailer and thought that as far as remakes go this one might be good. I found upon watching it it was the general remake rule of thumb and would end up in one of 2 baskets "typical crap" and "nice try but no cigar" this one for me went into the latter. Remakes are seldom a wise idea with the extremely rare exceptions like The fly (1986). It wasn't too bad but I still deem it a pointless exercise but at least they "tried" to put soul and ideas into it without much result. 3/10


Breeders.

short & sweet. Which is probably a good thing. Not as bad as I expected but certainly no cinematic masterpiece or even rewatch value. Again the idea was there just poorly executed and all over the place like 3 films spliced into one. 4/10


Horror Hospital.

The odeon disc brags a gorgeous transfer but then again their blu's always come to the party in quality. Very odd film to say the least It was "ok" not really my thing but certainly not a "bad" film at least it was original. & Had Michael Gough. 5/10


Voices.

A Guy walks around having conversations with scottish Cats with worse Tourette's than me (Having tourettes I am allowed to say that!) and a sympathetic Dog that sounds like it has strep throat. He trys to impress the women he works with but instead manages to end up with their heads in his fridge informing him of what he should do about his future. There is an amusing scene (if you're warped like me) where a talking deer which has gone through his car windscreen begs him for mercy.

Original and amusing (if you're warped) but I would suggest a rental as for most this will probably be a one off viewing and not one for revisit. not bad but not fantastic then again it is poor taste really to mock schitzophrenia even for those with a sick sense of humour like me. 5/10


Milano Calibre 9.

Arrow have done a gorgeous transfer here. A Bloke called Ugo (Ugo your way Igo mine) who looks like the paramedic from Casualty who died last year, is wrongly accused of stealing money from a mafia man who looks like Barry Stuart Hargreaves from Hi-de-Hi with Water Retention. He can not decide whether to go it alone or work for Barry Stuart Hargreaves. In between many Conversations with a Tanned Ted Bovis Lookalike and the Scarf Seller from Torso blowing up someone then himself we come to a confusing conclusion.

Great Fun quite tame in violence for an Italian fare though... rabid dogs is up today so that will no doubt correct that area. 7/10


Population 436

A census investigator seems confused to why for 100 years the population of Rockwall falls is always 436 and anyone trying to leave dies. Children of the corn VS Downton Abbey with a splash of Dead & Buried. Not bad bit slow at times 5/10

Hitman: agent 47

Not much of an improvement over the xavier Gens one. Well choreographed action and a wafer thin plot short on characterisation and originality. Surprised this got to theatres as its perfect for streaming or Blu-ray.


Death Wish 2

Continuing with the Death Wish marathon. This one ditches Death Sentence, which was hinted at in the first film, even though they took a bunch of stuff from that for the first picture. Instead they move Kersey to LA where its proved lightening does indeed strike twice when a street gang breaks into his home and gang rapes his maid before abducting and raping his daughter. Already messed up from the assault in the first picture she jumps out of a window and is impaled on railings. Its a thoroughly nasty sequence that is cut in the Blu-ray releases as its the R-rated cut. The extended sequence is even nastier and ended up getting the film in hot water. After that its business as usual as Kersey takes to wandering the mean streets of LA. Unlike in part 1 he actually encounters the gang that crossed him and one by one he guns them down. The LAPD decide to call in the NYPD detective from part one to put a halt to the violence.
Death sentence, the novel, deals with the addictive qualities of violence and revenge and was something of an atonement for the right wing power fantasies of the first book. Here its pretty much a right wing power fantasy as Kersey goes about his business dispatching street thugs. There is a love interest who surprisingly isn't here to get victimised, instead she's another 'bleeding heart liberal' that Kersey gets to roll his eyes at whenever she talks about rehabilitating criminals and opposing the Death sentence. However like the first film its a lot of fun and very violent. I don't think its as well rounded as the first film and its certainly trashier though its not as OTT as part 3 (more on that in a minute!) Jimmy Page does the soundtrack however and its terrific!

Death Wish 3

The point at which any attempt at subtlety or restraint is even attempted ends here! Kersey heads back to the mean streets of New york 1985 to visit an old war buddy. He discovers his friend dying and a terrorised community victimised at the hands of a brutal street gang. Kersey is run in to the station at behest of the captain (Ed Lauter) who is sick to death of his forces inability to rein in the violence. He makes a deal to let Kersey have free rein to do what he wants without police obstruction and Kersey sets about going to war with the gang. First he sends for his pal Wildey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.475_Wildey_Magnum and sets up booby traps. Things begin to escalate real quick and soon the entire neighbourhood is at war. The final third is where things get really f*****g insane to the point the streets are all out war, people are running about on fire and 30 cal machine guns are deployed against the street guns. One bloke is even taken out almost point blank with a Laws Rocket leaving a portion of the building gone and a burning mess of a street thug.
If you haven't seen Death wish 3 then think a cross between Bronx Warriors and Tenement a game of survival. Its pure unadulterated over the top street violence of the most entertaining kind. Its the most outright ludicrous Death wish of the whole series but its also possibly the most fun. So long as your prepared to abandon logic, common sense and any sense of realism, Death Wish 3 is a cracking piece of exploitation. Once again Jimmy Page delivers on the score.

Death Wish 4

Michael Winner abandons the franchise at this point to be replaced by J Lee Thompson. Here the Regan administrations war on drugs is handed over to Kersey when a millionaire hires him to go to war against the cartels. Thompson dials things down a little from the nutty excess of 3 and delivers noirish LA set thriller where we see Kersey take the dealers down with ruthless efficiency. Part 4 is a great little film, but after 3 it feels a little too slick and professional and its hard not to feel the series peaked at 3.


No part 5 on the set and having difficulty finding my DVD. Needless to say its more along the lines of Part 4 but with the added bonus of michael parks as a villain.

It actually hints throughout the film that its all a dream. The scene with the statue is one point but there's various points characters talk about it being like some kind of bad dream

When I saw DEATH WISH 3 on its original cinema release, the audience cheered on every kill made by Bronson!

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Ok,I get it...this is not God of Gamblers (although the "Magic Hands" Ken character Chow Yun Fat plays is definitely somewhat related) and yes these are Chinese new year comedies...but a man can dream... ;)

Definitely somewhat better than the first one (or maybe I'm just getting more used to the newer style) but still not really what I was expecting...I always liked Chow Yun Fat doing comedy but nowadays I wish he would do somewhat "cooler" action films again.
Of course this isn't a straight action film (although there are some good action scenes).

Anyway,lots of cgi again (Chinese film makers seem to love it) but luckily not much in the gambling sequences (a big improvement) and the best action scene is also somewhat spared (Thailand safe house). Some crazy ideas (the robot butler) turn out great in the end (the upgrade certainly is cool) and there are some really funny scenes (like spoofing the God of Gamblers in the Thai casino and the kid who likes horror films).

Chow's co-star Nick Cheung also deserves an honorary mention as he is great as the accountant on the run.

Like in the previous entry Wong Jing likes to tease us again with an appearance of the God of Gamblers at the end of the movie (this time with Andy Lau in his red leather jacket returning as Little Knife)...which really had the nostalgia kick in and left me wanting more.

Apparently I'm not the only one who felt this way as Andy Lau is set to return in the next sequel (curious!). I do wish however that Wong Jing would contemplete making a somewhat straight God of Gamblers film in the near future.

The ending that (again) leaves you wanting more:

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Scheduled for tonight:

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THE WICKER MAN – What a joy it was to see 'The Wicker Man' on the big screen the other night at Leeds's very own Hyde Park Picture House (one of the last indies standing, just a few doors down from Casa Frankie). I'm sure I needn't go on about its unearthly brilliance, all you labbers will be well acquainted with that. Seeing it on Saturday night was like watching it for the first time – cliché I know, but true. All its more oblique moments were amplified, and I took away with me so many strange little touches which had gone unnoticed (or forgotten) – a twisted face on a closing door, soundtrack twangs around a stuffed owl, frog in the throat etc. I'd forgotten how musical it was. I'd forgotten how much nudity there was! Just a great film really, with an atmosphere that's difficult to pin down.

Arrow's Nightmare City - it's like The Crazies on LSD.A remake is on the way.It's supposed to be a crowdfunded Lenzi/Savini collaboration.

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972)

Never has a film invoked such a wave of indifference in me. Last night I watched this film for the third time and still, nothing. I don't dislike nor like it. I can't work out whether it is truly a bland film or whether I just find Susan Hampshire incredibly irritating. Is her character supposed to be wet or is that just how she plays it? I also find her sex face offensive, so vanilla. There are just two things I would go as far as saying I love about this film, the setting is beautiful and very cooling and her wardrobe is amazing. Lovely trenchcoat and at one point a gorgeous headscarf. This will be my basic look for autumn now that I've (hopefully) found the ideal trenchcoat. But the film just does nothing for me yet I know I'll want to watch it again!

Watched
Tentacles (1977, Oliver Hellman)
Not as flipping out there as The Visitor, this is a big minus. Too slow to be really exciting.... it does include Bo Hopkins asking for help from some Killer Whales.:lol:

Cannibal Holocaust.
Still the most brutal film I have ever seen.:hide:


Carry On Abroad (1973, Peter Rodgers).
Still the most brutal film I have ever laughed at.:nod:

I have no idea what this film is but I know I want to watch it!

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It's not really hard to see why some don't like this movie, it moves at a slow pace, not a lot appears to be going on and its is confusing. But I'm not one of those for me it's a classic that is still beautiful to look at even after all these years with a story the provokes the mind. Nothing else that can't be said that has not been said a million times before. A classic 10/10

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Was not expecting much with the savaging this got From the critics, it's not going to win any awards( apart from special effects) but i really enjoyed it for what it was a exciting and fun packed roller coaster ride. 8/10

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In 3D by any chance?
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Off for a week so taking advantage:

The Beastmaster (1982) Last time I saw this I had to agree with my Dad....it was crap! However my fathers judgement was based on the fact that he didn't like Marc Singer's eyes! "To close together, he's always squinting" My view has changed I quite liked this, yes its cheesy but it does have Tanya Roberts in it, (she can't act and her deiivery of lines is bloody awful....but she's very easy on the eye!

Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991) The first had been crap but I had changed my mind this, however, is never going to change! Singer returns with a strange overly blonde hairdo and waving his sword about (!). This is more played for comedy....and it isn't that comedic!

Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996) With his hair more like it was in the first movie, Singer returns yet again in yet another crap entry, (I tried!) David Warner also appears doing his sneery best along with Lesley-Anne Down and Tony Todd.

Shameless Sunday became Shameless Monday this week, I just spent 12 hours rearranging my DVDs and Blu's....I should have picked a hobby that was easier to manage!

#13: What Have They Done to Your Daughters (1974) This is more like it! After weeks of viewing various Shameless titles, many of which are first time viewing, and not being overly impressed (Fulci..."Burn the Heretic!") I get to number 13 in the collection. Although my mind did wonder a few times I really did enjoy this one, and what a great score!

#14: Who Saw Her Die? (1972) Another good movie, this one starring George Lazenby and Adolfo Celi. Again first time seeing it and again mind did wonder, (but thats because I'm full of a cold, headache and running a temp).

Have you seen 'The Beastmaster' TV series? It will redefine the meaning of crap for you.

The Bloody Judge

First up today, first thing this morning is Jess Franco's take on the infamous Lord Justice Jeffreys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George...Baron_Jeffreys Aka the hanging judge. The film takes one or two liberties with the history, adding in witchcraft as it was post Witchfinder General so marketing itself on the back of that. It also has some of the trademark perversity and sadism that would become the hallmark of his later work, especially in the torture scenes. While Mark of the Devil gets the best rep for witchfinder knock-off's this one really deserves some credit. The battle scenes are exceptionally well staged and as one would expect, Christopher Leee brings plenty of Gravitas to the role of Jeffreys. It's not a proper Franco film without Howard Vernon either and he pops up here as the torturer.

Lesson of Evil

Heres one Asian film that I doubt will see a remake any time soon. Takeshi Miike delivers a superb, hyper violent tale of a psychopathic teacher going off the deep end and killing off disgruntled parents, faculty members and ultimately the students themselves. The film culminates in a shotgun rampage through the school that is likely to not win the film many favours state side. Especially as it suggests the teech learned his craft in America. To his credit Miike is a smart director and cranks everything to the level of hyper realism and pop culture mish-mash so the films isn't as offensive as it might have been in other hands. Some nice touches including the teachers flashbacks done as some kind of multi-media collage showing his early days learning the trade and the videodrome-esque transformation of the shotgun to show it talking to him during his rampage.

A girl walks home alone at night.

Like a mixture of Jim Jarmuch, Eraserhead and Abel ferrarers The addiction, AGWHAAN is a strange, occasionally surreal love story to cinema, music and love. Set in the strange netherworld of 'bad town' a grotty out the way burg some place near the Iranian oil fields a young gardener is struggling to make ends meet. He has a nice car, which he spent over five years saving for and...well... that's about it. His dad is a Junkie deep in debt to a local hood who comes to collect one night and takes his car. Heading over there he gets to the dealers place not long after a headscarf wearing vampire has offed him so he takes his car back, as well as all the cash and drugs. Things seem up until one night he's wandering home E'd out of his gourd and encounters the strange vampire girl and things progress from there. I suspect we'll be seeing one or two negative reviews up here as this is not a film for everyone. It has a strange night time feel, like mystery train or Only lovers left alive, I'm genuinely surprised it has an 18, because one or two parts aside I'd have classed it as a 15 as its not outrageously violent. The black and white photography is sublime and the soundtrack is wonderful as well. I would urge anyone with the opportunity to give this one a try.

Stretch

Finishing off with something a little trashy. This ones from Joe Carnaghan, and stars Patrick Wilson as a limo driver about to have the worst night of his life. If you have seen after hours or any other 'worst night of my life' pictures then you know what to expect. Things go from bad to worse and the heroes life is gradually destroyed before he discovers his hidden strength and true purpose and so on. That said its a fun ride however, Especially as Wilsons character, desperate for cash, ferries around a clearly f**** up Chris Pine who seems to be bent on self destruction.
Stretch has a real seen it all before quality that means it'll never be a truly great film, and certainly After Hours did things way better, its not even Joe Carnahan's best picture either (in fact its possibly his worst.) however its a damned fun little picture that's still worth your time.

Busy weekend :)

The Boogeyman - Seen this years ago remember hating it thought it was really slow and boring, i think it's becuase i was expecting a Halloween/Friday The 13th film and was disappointed. Watched it again on the 88 Films Blu-Ray and really enjoyed it.

X-Ray - another one of the Slasher Classics Blu-Ray's from 88 Films, never seen this one before as a fan of cheesy 80's horror's what's not to love. Fun little film and a great popcorn flick. :pop2:

Dead Of Winter - another one from the 88 collection, this one seems to be the odd one of the bunch as it isn't really slasher, it's as much a slasher as Misery or The Shining which is the cross i see this as and it's directed by a hollywood director (Arthur Penn) who directed Bonnie & Clyde and The Missouri Breaks. Pretty good film, never seen it before dont think it's a film i would watch again and the twist didn't really make any sense to me maybe i am dumb. :confused:

What Lie's Beneath - I like it but i like supernatural films it's slow and not for the easily bored but it's a good film. The budget suprises me a lot i dont no where the money went. I learnt the other day that this was filmed by Zemeckis (Robert) to allow time for Tom Hanks to lose weight and grow a beard for Cast Away.

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Tonight after learning of the sad passing of horror legend Wes Craven i decided to dust off my very large wes craven collection and went with.

Swamp Thing - fun little monster film, for some reason i can see Roger Corman producing this, not one of Craven's best but it's good.

Shocker - it's a shocker how underated this film is what's not to like enough kills to satisfy a horror fan and a killer soundtrack, sure it tried to be Elm St 2.0 but with its own take on it i liked it and would of liked to have seen sequels made that Craven planned had it of been successful. Had this of came out before Nightmare i reckon this could of become a franchise. I wish someone would release the uncut version i have heard so much about.

Nightmare City

watched both versions on the arrow disc. They have done the very best they could and it shows. I tried the dupe negative with the sharpness on full bore on my tv and it looked nearly as sharp as the other print without the damage. either way I am happy with the release you can see arrow worked hard to remove any damage they could. And at least it isn't a ridicolous squeezed ratio like a strip across the screen like the ec dvd release. Good work Arrow! film 7/10 transfer 7/10 extras 6/10


Madman

Good to see the slasher hit HD. Not much needs to be said about the plot as I'm sure it's very familiar to most here. The Transfer is a big improvement on the darker scenes which could barely be made out on the AB DVD and you get a more clearer look at Madman Marrs. Film 7/10 Transfer 8/10 extras 8/10

A classic victim of re-branding, originally titled 'Poor Albert and Little Annie' the film was re-named 'I Dismember Mama' to appeal more to the Grindhouse crowd circuit during the '70s.

Therefore, instead of an all-out hack up the family flick, we get a tale of a misunderstood youth with a chip on his shoulder in regards to his mama who he blames for his institutionalisation. That's not to say that Albert is in fact to be pitied; anything but, as he is a certainly a calculated and often deranged soul.

Aside from some blood-letting on Albert's escape from the asylum and some terrorising and murder of his mama's house-keeper, the film is a quite tame affair and concentrates more on the relationship between Albert and 'Little Annie' who is the house-keeper's daughter and whom he forges an unexpected bond with post killing her mother. This comes across almost as if Albert is trying to live out his lost childhood with Annie. Cue some strange almost 'date like' footage of the two cavorting around for the bulk of the film with Little Annie blissfully unaware that Albert has done away with her mother and the vendetta Albert has against his own dear mama often feeling like a sub-plot.

The notoriety that this film enjoys is however more down to the alternative title and some clever marketing (itself perhaps the truest 'exploitation' of all) rather than the content within.

Originally posted here: https://www.cult-labs.com/forums/460973-post398.html

I rented this a few weeks ago and absolutely loved it. Like you say, it looks superb and really benefits from the minimalist setting, dialogue and exposition, making the audience think and do the work. In those respects, it reminded me of Let the Right One In, which has a similarly dated and bleak setting, ambiguous relationships and doesn't spoonfeed the audience. It's definitely one of the best horror films so far this century and one I'll buy very soon.

I watched a handful over the weekend;

The Decline of Western Civilization
I've seen some x-gen copies of this in the past and it was scuzzy to say the least, the BD upgrade from Shout Factory/Second Sight is great, it's quite soft still because the negative has been long since lost but it adds to the era it was documenting. Great talking-heads interviews, good 'at home with...' segments and some of the bands are great but others are so wasted on stage they can barely play and and it distracts from the film. I enjoyed Fear coming on stage already pissed off and aggressive before even playing and the crowd hated them!

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
There isn't much more to be said about about this notorious film! Some have said it was the catalyst that ended glam metal and started grunge, I personally think there was more too it than that... Stand-out performances from Faster Pussycat and Megadeth. Seeing the 'queue' of people at the side of the stage ready to stage dive was embarassing :lol:

The Falling
A very odd tale of teenage hysteria that took a while to get to it's destination in a meandering and artistic way, then neglected to let the audience in on the punchline...
That's not to say it's a bad film, I loved it!

Death Becomes Her
Standout performances from Meyrl, Bruce and Goldie :lol: I LOVE this film...

The Pit (Jug Face) (2013)

A young girl in an old backwoods community ends up pregnant with her brothers child and discovers she is to be sacrificed to a creature in a pit out in the woods.

A slow burner of a film that i really enjoyed. The central premise of ancient custom and folklore is nicely explored and the idea that when a face is created on a clay jug then that person should be sacrificed to an ancient creature is quite Lovecraftian in it's execution.

The film is clearly low budget yet is so small scale you don't really notice. Larry Fessenden, the director of Wendigo and The Last Winter is one of the actors here, but due to the thick atmosphere and ambiance you'd swear he also directed it too. The film boasts strong performances all round giving the whole thing a very believable air which all culminates in an original and interesting horror movie.

Be warned though. If you thought the aforementioned Fessenden films were not to your taste i'd stay clear of this too.