It's coming back to me now.

Your sordid ways to lure me into something apparently sleazy has unravelled. Isn't it to combat a jelly fish bite or sting off something?

Haha...yes.

Seconded!

When the three amigos all recommend a film then it has to be bought.

Plus i like Kidman's hooker look on the cover.

Zac Efron deserves pissing on.

Although i've heard of him i wouldn't know him if he was stood next to me.

Poor Zac he's not that bad!

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I started last week with Fulci's The Black Cat a film which I do enjoy despite it's flaws, mainly that the story is bloody bonkers and makes little sense. I really liked the new transfer on the Arrow 'Black Cats' set and watched a couple of the supplements too, I always enjoy Stephen Thrower talking about movies and Kim Newman too!

After that was a Hammer triple, I didn't watch these all in one night, it was one a night for 3 nights :lol:

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First up was Dracula Prince of Darkness which I will admit I was slightly disappointed by, however this is probably because I went in with expectations that were simply not met, but also because the finale was a limp fish! I did enjoy it though, it was a romp from start to finish and the touches like the carriage with no driver and the creepy butler were great fun!

I followed that with Plague of the Zombies which has quickly become one of my all time favourite Hammer films. I think in part because it's unlike any which I have seen and unlike an zombie film I have seen. It was almost perfect for me apart from the thing which really annoys me about 60s/70s films and that's day for night filming. I think it's worse on the DVD than it is on the bluray but it's so obvious that the night scenes are filmed in daylight, even to the point of the some characters having shadows :lol:

The Nanny followed these and you know what, I bloody loved it. Nothing at all like I was expecting and I warmed to it right away. At first I just enjoyed the boy being naughty and upsetting Nanny but then the flashbacks started and everything got even more interesting! Naughty Nanny!

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I also watched 3 films which aren't particularly Cult-Labs so I wont talk in depth about them. Fassbinder's Querelle the story of a sailor on shore leave who gambles with a brothel owner and after fixing it to lose has to sleep with him, to see what it was like obviously... Very interesting film with art direction like you've never seen, looks like one of those old French postcards.
A quirky film staring Lukas Haas and Winona Ryder called Boys which starts with Ryder waking up with a hangover to the police knocking on her door asking about a stolen car, she goes for a horse ride to clear her mind and gets thrown off the horse only to be found unconscious by Haas, a local student at the all boys boarding school in town. It's a gentle film that's easy to watch but not great by any means.
Also Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, I'd never seen it... Admittedly I was put off by the running time of 3 and half hours but I took the plunge yesterday when I found out there was an intermission after 1hr 45 mins. I LOVED IT! Seriously the pacing is so good the time flies by. Everything about the movie is right. The acting, the direction, the editing, the action, the story, everything!

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Finally, I watched Class of 1984 another first time for me. Awe Michael J Fox as a chubby short-fry with a bowl cut! I loved this one too, I went in with misconceptions, I thought it was an 80's exploitation actioner but it was actually played straight. A social commentary on Reagan's America? It's coming out very soon on BD in Australia, I'm going to grab it I think - I'd be able to watch this film pretty often I think!

An excellent post Justin.

Glad you are enjoying the Hammer films. Personally i really like Dracula Prince of Darkness. For some reason i find the throat slitting sequence quite gruelling even though you don't see an awful lot. Perhaps it's one that grows on you over time. I've owned the film on vhs, video and now dvd.

I was going to watch Boys last night but it got too late so watched a Children's Film Foundation film called Night Ferry instead.

Arrow should do 'Class of 1984', surely would be right up their street.:pop2:

Creepshow

George A Romero teams up with Stephen king to give a terrific anthology film based on EC comics. Anyone familiar with the earlier Uk efforts Vault of Horror and Tales from the crypt or the now infamous comics on which they are all based should get the gist but I'm sure everyone here already knows that. I really love this and its sequel and the stories are mostly pretty damned good.
Its got a terrific cast including Ed Harris, Adrienne Barbeau and Hal Holbrook as well as a surprisingly good turn from King himself as Jody Verill, a low IQ petrol station owner who finds a meteor that's both tragic and actually pretty funny.

Creepshow 2
Not as many stories here but they are all gold including George Kennedy as the kind hearted store owner who gets avenged by old chief wooden top, the absolute classic The Raft as well as some terrific black comedy in the hitch hiker. The animated interludes are well done and the film feels admittedly better paced than the first.

Knife for the ladies

A frontier town is beset by a serial killer in a film that's no were near as sleazy and nasty as promised. It's still a fun film in its own right but these days feels tame. Nice to see a western horror once in a while though I still recommend Bone Tomahawk that I championed last year.

Couldn't agree more. My thoughts exactly. :nod:

The weekend's viewing:



Conspirators of Pleasure (Spiklenci slasti) (1996)

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83/100


The Disco Exorcist (2011)

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56/100


Blood Rage (1979)

(no, not the Arrow one)

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42/100


Savage Weekend (1979)

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53/100

Ghoulies (1984)

Tediarse creature feature with a bunch of Garbage Pale kid rejects that do nothing except open their mouths and occasionally roll their eyes.

There's some sort of plot about a bloke who moves into a new house, becomes possessed and attempts some wicked witchery. Don't bother, it's just bollocks.

There are publicity stills showing one of the puppets in the toilet which is ironic really as that's where they belong.

I'm going to attempt to watch the second film next Sunday. Pity really as Part 4 is pretty decent.

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Not much more that I can add that Keirarts has already said about this great anthology. A great cast of well knowing names that appeared to have had a lot of fun with this film. None of them are scary but thanks to the cast are a lot of fun and never get old 8/10

Tonight's viewings

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Had this for years and apart from the The devil rides out, quatermass, one million years BC and the Dracula and Frankenstein films I've not watched the other films on the set, so with the talk about this set not long ago, thought it was about time I watched it

:lol:

Since this came out on BD today and I was feeling nostalgic I almost bought it, but then I thought no a) it's probably shit and and b) I'm pretty sure it was Critters that I was fondly remembering anyway :lol:

Thanks for making the decision not to buy it easier.

I picked it up a couple of weeks ago in a charity shop in Preston as a twin set with part 2.

I can always tell i'm not loving a film when i start wondering half an hour into it how much CEX might give me for it.

The answer is between 5p and 10p :lol:

:lol: You're way out. They'd give me 50p store credit. Is it wrong to think you're robbing CEX?

You never know Ghoulies II might be wonderful.

Talking about CEX some lad came up to me in there today with a bag of DVDs asking if I could sell them for him as it's his "mum's birthday tomorrow" and he needs to buy her a present and not to worry because "they're not stolen" I kindly sent him on his way :lol:

You sure it wasn't Trebor? ;)

Damn I've been found out! But all kidding aside that type of thing has happened to me on a couple of times

Must be a right pain in the arse and something you can do without.

I disagree about ghoulies, i like it, guess you had to be about 10 at the time.;)

Or ten now. :tongue1:

I think the Ghoulies(ahem) toilet/ balls vibe sold it to me as a kid.:lol: :critter:

Eye in the Labyrinth

Julie is disturbed by the disappearance of her Psychiatrist lover, more so when she has a weird nightmarish dream of him dying. She heads off to find him and ends up at an artists commune run by Gerta (alida Valli). Everyone there has something to hide, and as Julie investigates further she finds evidence of drug running as well as indications her lover, Luca was something of a bastard and a rapist who terrorised everyone at the commune. As the investigation proceeds various attempts at Julies life are made including an attempt with a spear gun from a speedboat.
As a Giallo this ones something of a slow burner but ultimately rewarding. It has a weird sense of nightmare logic in scenes and while the final reveal is genuinely baffling based on what preceded it, its in keeping with the general nuttiness of the film.
Seeing as its code red, obviously unless you going to splash out its one that might prove dear but its also worth a look if you ever get the chance.

The dead 2

Essentially more of the same from a plot perspective as like the previous film we follow a stranger in a strange land making his way across country through an outbreak of a zombie epidemic. The only real differences here are that this is set in India, and that the protagonist is heading to rescue his pregnant girlfriend.
That said, its still a film that's way ahead of a lot of other zombie films on the market. the photography and effects work are mostly great, and the film only really shows its budget when the lead character gets to Mumbai. Like the previous film its worth picking up on Blu-ray for the lovely visuals.

Sennentuntschi

A mysterious woman comes down off the mountain and into a small Swiss town on the day of a priests funeral. The local Cop takes her in and tries to find out what happened to her. A problem made more difficult by the woman being mute. Meanwhile a couple of shepherds up on the mountain are lonely one night and drunk as hell of Absinthe. They decide to make a Sennentuntschi based on a myth of a woman brought to life from a doll construct by the devil, and proceed with an absinthe fuelled ritual. The ritual appears to work and a woman that looks a lot like the one in town seems to have appeared to have arrived. Then things get nasty as the shepherds decide to have their way, in spite of the grisly end to the tale.
Both plots come together in a dark twist that reveals a dark secret hidden beneath the town.
Its a great, if a little over-long, European folk horror that was a blind buy for me. I'm glad to say I didn't regret my purchase as the film is terrific and surprisingly original. Worth keeping an eye out for.

This one sounds very interesting K.

Its not perfect but definitely worth looking for. There Is a German release that I think has English subtitles.

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There is one film (watched it again recently) that I feel you guys must see, it is one of my top recommendations and will I think blow your socks off as it is fantastic. The Worlds Fastest Indian:

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It is currently only available on import but deserves a UK release.

Scarlet Fry's Junkfood Horrorfest. (2007)

Ultra low budget portmanteau horror presented by zombie like yokel, Scarlet Fry.

Six tales play out over 65 minutes and range from the good and even inventive to the totally risible and frankly rubbish. However, the tales of murder, cannibalism and all round mayhem are so brief you never get bored, although i did wish one or two could have been expanded upon. From arm chewing gore to a cross dresser who likes to be spanked by kids with skateboards, whilst taking in murderous junkies and sick torture porn in the suitably titled segment Love is Blind.

Filmed in digital it often looks bright and gives the odd queasy impression that some of it looks just a little too real, yet there always that feeling anyone with a video camera and a bit of imagination can do this shit approach to it which adds to the all round grottiness of Z-grade film making such as this.

Found this earlier on today
The Return of the Killer Klowns from Outer Space - Killer Klowns Wiki - Wikia

And dont know if ive already mentioned this either ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’ TV Show Happening with Original Director

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A group are rehearsing a play, one of the actress injuries herself and gets treated at a psychiatric hospital are all places on cue One of the loons kills a orderly and hides in her car and sets about killing the members of the play in some gory and gruesome ways. Found this to be very atmospheric with a very creepy killer. 8.5/10

GRADUATION DAY – Looking back on all those first wave slasher films, it's in a way surprising how many of them seem quite odd and not just the linear stalk-teens-and-kill affairs suggested by prototypes like 'Hallowe'en'. I say this partly with reference to a raft of recentish releases from the likes of Arrow and 88, including 'Madman', 'The Mutilator', 'Blood Rage', 'X-Ray' etc etc. Of course, the anomalies will always be the exceptions, and many slashers were just the by-the-numbers run throughs my memory tells me they were. Where does 'Graduation Day' fall in the scheme of things? Maybe it treads a middle path, but I think it tilts more towards freakdom. Either way, there's a hell of a lot wrong with it, for both good and bad. I have to say that it really does set its stall out right from the opening credits, where awful eighties funk cheese gilds a collage of shots of pumped up athletic high school fascism presided over by a frothing-at-the-mouth Christopher George. From the evidence available at this stage, we suspect we might be in for something a bit high school, something a bit gonzo, and potentially something a bit badly made with absolutely no sense of taste. Thankfully this turns out to be 'Graduation Day's exact trajectory, and before long we acclimatise to a strict classroom regime of wonk which includes killers timing kills as if they were track events, flickering montage effects that seem unjustly psychedelic, cops sniffing flowers, dudes with extensive flick knife collections etc etc... 'Graduation Day' boasts many minor eccentricities. But it's a film which, like its adolescent charges, may be in the throes of identity crisis. The tone is all over the place, with swampy atmospheres giving way to light hearted hi-jinks at the switch of a blade. Lugubriousness wrestles ludicrousness, which normally I'm OK with – I am here too, but there are some scenes of chilling gravity (i.e an effectively creepy locker room sequence) which are essentially undermined by the film's inability to follow one true path and, like, find itself maaaan. The benefits of this lack of filmic self knowledge come in the form of flights into mania such as the whole song and dance thing – not only can 'Graduation Day' not get the atmosphere right, but somewhere around the midway mark it threatens to leapfrog genre status and morph into a musical. So we get little outbursts such as 'The Graduation Day Blues', a classroom sing-along, followed by a high school roller disco prom with a band who play hard rock whilst looking New Romantic! Again, these weird, weird mismatches and dichotomies. If I smoked as much reefer as the dudes in this film, I might start to think that all those crack lines were deliberate attempts by the filmmakers to say something about the state of the contemporary American adolescent's psyche. But I'd probably get distracted by an Argento-esque choreographed chase / kill scene involving the killer in fencing gear which ends in the victim being betrayed by a dog. 'Graduation Day' – might not make the grade as anything like a good, well made film, but it gets at least an A-level in slightly crazed cinematic tripe management.

It's beyond me why dvd companies don't nick your lines for their cover quotes.

I know i bloody well would. :nod:

Just watched girl in the photographs didnt realise till end credits roled it was last film wes craven worked on before his death.

I can just see some of them on a Vipco box.

I'm not suggesting that if you had a DVD label, it'd be Vipco.

I'd hope to have left Vipco far behind by now. More like, say...Pendulum Pictures. :pop2:

The Lobster

Colin Farrell plays a chubby singleton who is shipped off to a resort to find a partner. It's the 'near future' aka tomorrow and everyone is required to have a partner. At the resort, if you can't find a partner then you get turned into the animal of your choice. Farrell has chosen a lobster as they live to 100 and have blue blood like the upper class. The atmosphere at the hotel is weird to say the least with some unusual rules including having your hand burned in a toaster for masturbation. After a terrible attempt at a relationship with a psychopath fails, Farrell cheeses it into the woods to live with the 'loners' people hunted by the residents of the hotel who have sworn off relationships and have equally draconian rules about anyone who deviates from the rules. This causes problems when he falls for one of the loners, played by Rachel Weisz.
As weird as it sounds the experience of actually watching the film is stranger. The performances all appear deliberately stilted and forced. The dialogue is at times frank and bizarre. The tone feels more bleak than whimsical and just when you are enjoying it as a strange comedy the film throws in something disturbing. Its probably going to rub some people the wrong way but I really enjoyed this. I must admit I also enjoyed the directors previous film Dogtooth as well. Its worth checking out before you buy it if possible but its a really great little film.