What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Vampix]

I watched the Synapse DVD of Frank Henenlotter's Brain Damage.An enjoyably bizarre and funny flick with one particularly gruesome moment where the main character hallucinates about pulling a long strand of brain matter out through his ear!

[James Morton]

Italy's first horror film
I VAMPIRI - Bava took over when Freda left and its a very good 50's horror, though nothing to do with vampires!

THE SQUEEZE - when is this great Brit thriller going to have the sp. ed. treatment it deserves?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Watched The Italian Connection last night. A terrific 1972 Italian crime thriller from director Fernando Di Leo.

The second in a trilogy, it follows the trail of two American hitmen played brilliantly by Henry Silva and Woody Strode as they set out to kill small time pimp Luca Canali (Mario Adorf) who supposedly double crossed the American based Mafia. luca's problem is nobody told him what he was in trouble for.

The film is a witty, well filmed piece and the plot roars along at a fair gallop.

Part of the 4 disc Fernando Di Leo crime collection from Raro US, i would heartily reccomend this set to anyone with a passing interest in crime or Italian cinema.

[gag]

Originally Posted by Vampix

I watched the Synapse DVD of Frank Henenlotter's Brain Damage.An enjoyably bizarre and funny flick with one particularly gruesome moment where the main character hallucinates about pulling a long strand of brain matter out through his ear!

I tnink this is a underated gem of a film

[James Morton]

I think BRAIN DAMAGE is excellent and better than BASKET CASE,
wasn't a fan of FRANKENHOOKER

[broonage]

Originally Posted by Demdike

Watched The Italian Connection last night. A terrific 1972 Italian crime thriller from director Fernando Di Leo.

The second in a trilogy, it follows the trail of two American hitmen played brilliantly by Henry Silva and Woody Strode as they set out to kill small time pimp Luca Canali (Mario Adorf) who supposedly double crossed the American based Mafia. luca's problem is nobody told him what he was in trouble for.

The film is a witty, well filmed piece and the plot roars along at a fair gallop.

Part of the 4 disc Fernando Di Leo crime collection from Raro US, i would heartily reccomend this set to anyone with a passing interest in crime or Italian cinema.

The "chase" scene in this is gold!

[James Morton]

so far....
my favourite Italian crime thrillers are RABID DOGS, THE BIG RACKET and CONTRABAND
seen ALMOST HUMAN, STREET LAW etc but not that impressed by them

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Demdike

Watched The Italian Connection last night. A terrific 1972 Italian crime thriller from director Fernando Di Leo.

The second in a trilogy, it follows the trail of two American hitmen played brilliantly by Henry Silva and Woody Strode as they set out to kill small time pimp Luca Canali (Mario Adorf) who supposedly double crossed the American based Mafia. luca's problem is nobody told him what he was in trouble for.

The film is a witty, well filmed piece and the plot roars along at a fair gallop.

Part of the 4 disc Fernando Di Leo crime collection from Raro US, i would heartily reccomend this set to anyone with a passing interest in crime or Italian cinema.

I had the Italian edition and it is indeed superb

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by gag

I tnink this is a underated gem of a film

Agreed. It's been several years since I saw Brain Damage and, like Society and Frankenhooker, it's so memorable I can picture bits of it now.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Pete

I had the Italian edition and it is indeed superb

It has a much quicker pace and feel to it than the first film i saw - Calibre 9.
That was quite languid and sedate in comparison.