I watched the restored version of Island of Terror (the film with the killer cow pats with attached vacuum nozzles :lol: hey look like that to me) :nod: the extra seconds restored was a hand is chopped off with an axe.

And

Haywire Starring Gina Carano.

Next up will be Norman J.Warren films and Pete Walker films......yep I am ready.:woot:

Probably why i think they're better than the original films.

Devil Girl from Mars (1954)

Creaky black and white British sci-fi about a space craft from Mars that lands in the Scottish Highlands. It's inhabited by a woman, clad head to mini skirt in black leather / pvc who has arrived with the sole intention of taking human males back to Mars to help repopulate the planet.

The effects are quite primitive but charming to boot and the film sports a fine cast of scream queen actress types in the lovely Hazel Court and Adrienne Corri as well as Patricia Laffan as the 'not really a devil girl' from Mars. It's a shame the script doesn't give the cast more to do other than stand around a hotel bar talking. Proceedings liven up when the Martian woman brings out her robot - a dodgy relative of Robbie the Robot maybe, and it begins zapping all in it's path. There's also a tagged on subplot about an escaped convict, a former lover of Corri's who hides out at the hotel.

A film i constantly return to even though i acknowledge it probably isn't very good.

Burnt Offerings (1976)

***1/2 out of *****


Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

**** out of *****

EVOLUTION – On a remote island inhabited only by male children and female adults, one young boy finds the body of another on the ocean floor and is drawn into a world of midnight experiments taking place in a derelict-looking hospital. 'Evolution' is Lucile Hadzihalilovic's follow up to 'Innocence', another surreal exploration of a cloistered community of children. This time, the director conjures up a more obviously nightmarish atmosphere – 'Evolution' might be the kind of movie that has critics of a higher brow than myself delving around for epithets like 'dark fairy tale', but the tone is uniquely oppressive and uncomfortable in places, enough to push it well into the horror bracket. There are echos too of familiar genre touchstones such as Cronenberg and Lynch, even Lovecraft with his 'Shadows Over Innesmouth', which should give you a notion of the fishy tone that prevails here, especially when we're talking about those creepy surgical procedures which seem to be about impregnating youngsters with starfish. As menacing as all this sounds, 'Evolution' tilts towards a more bitter-sweet undercurrent in the end, and is moving in its depiction of the central kids maternal yearnings (although these are certainly ambivalent, witness the resus scene). Despite its imagery and its oneiric tone, both of which are thickly laid on though with an art-house frostiness, 'Evolution' is I guess a film about the trials of life's awakenings. It's a beguiling and intoxicating film, one that I recommend strongly as probably one of the best I've seen this year, certainly the most interesting.

Sorry, Frankie.

I'm going with Amazon reviewer Jackie Bloomfield's review. It's far more accomplished. ;)

Spy (2015)

***1/2 out of *****

I didn't think too much of Spy. Too sweary at times - not to say that i care too much about swearing, but as a comedic device it is very limited. Yeah, we get you're pretending to be bad-ass, no need to over-do it. The Stath did reveal an unexpected talent for comedy though.

I agree the constant use of “****” was unnecessary. I don’t have a problem with swearing either but I thought it was excessive here and the material often didn’t require it. Other than that though, I thought it featured fine comic performances across the board and there were many laugh aloud moments. Simply put, it was a comedy that made me laugh a lot; it worked for me achieving what it set out to do. And yeah, Jason Statham is hilarious in it.

I enjoyed Spy and can't say i noticed it to be that sweary, though i know what you mean, sometimes it feels like an excuse for a script. It was the cock scenes i didn't care for in Spy. Attempting to get laughs through crass attempts at shock.

A Serbian Film (2010, Srdjan Spasojevic) UK dvd.
Had to see what they had taken out. And they gut it, but left more than I thought.

It is only a film.
L&DOAPG still the better watch IMHO!!!

Shadowchaser: Gates Of Time (Marc Roper, 1996)
Or Shadowchaser In Africa. Confusing mess. cut the two swearwords and you have a perfect afternoon film on THC haha. Zagarino still really wooden.

To me writers put swear words in trying to disguise the fact their writing just ain't funny.

It depends on the writing and how it fits the context. For example, there are some expletive laden scenes in Kevin Smith films which feel perfectly natural because that fits the characters in the environment they operate – Randall and Dante in Clerks, for example.

There are times when expletives are used in dramatic context – Martin Scorsese's films are full of them – which also fit the subgroups and the nature of the exchanges.

However, there are some films which just relying on 'dick and fart' humour and extreme exaggeration, such as more swearing than usual, to amuse the audience. Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't. Most of this depends on the quality of the writing, the acting, directing and how you respond to different types of comedic material.

I went to see Ghostbusters, it wasn't bad at all, it looks like they had extensive re-shoots after the mauling the first trailer got. It was good to see Melissa McCarthy not go so overboard like she has a tendency to do lately. Some jokes fell flat it has to be said, but over all it was good fun and reminded me of the recent Goosebumps movie in spirit.

:star: :star: :star: :halfstar: out of 5

In A Glass Cage (1986, Agustin Villaroma)

Another The Servant variant really. A new nurse takes over a household in this grim Argentinian arthouse shocker. Whilst not as graphic as some of the filmsI've perused over the years, it is still not an easy watch! ;)

Watched a film called Body on Sky M̶o̶v̶i̶e̶s̶ Cinema On Demand last night. Standard thriller premise - 3 girls break into a mansion for shits and giggles only for their problems to escalate quickly when they have an altercation with the groundskeepr (played by genre stalwart Larry Fessenden). Moral dilemmas are had, friendships are ruined...fairly standard stuff. At 72 minutes (about 6 of which are credits) it's actually a little too short, even for a film of this nature. Needs some sort of subplot or something else to happen. But that said it's enjoyable enough and ably directed.

Watched this last night. Probably the third time i've seen it, but not for a few years. The gloss kind of wore off on this viewing - still decent, but not quite as good as i remember it.

Hi guys,

Haven't done this in a while so it's about time I shared my latest viewings with y'all...

My personal highlights of these past 40 movies, have to be...

• The Hallow - EXCELLENT Irish folklore horror film and the tweet-a-long I hosted with the Fetch gang was awesome, as always
• The Sartana movies - Huge Spaghetti Western fan...although they do kinda blur into each other in my mind :cowboy:
• Blind Man - Great Spaghetti Western starring Ringo Starr as the baddie and a blind gun-toting hero
• Seeing Jonny Guitar on the big screen at a local cinema
• The Conjuring 2 on the big screen. Not as good as the original but still excellent
• Men & Chicken - one of the strangest, most depraved 'comedies' I've seen in ages

A couple stand out from your list:
A Shot in the Dark – the best Pink Panther film, and
Kind Hearts and Coronets – probably the best Ealing comedy and one of my favourite films.

Loved both of those two, Nos! I hadn't seen Kind Hearts before and thought it was excellent. The ending is perfect too!

It's probably the blackest of all black comedies.

"I shot an arrow in the air, she fell to earth in Berkeley Square".

Alec Guinness (rightfully) receives a lot of praise for his multirole performance, but I think Dennis Price is absolutely magnificent in the lead role.

:amen: to all of that. :nod:

@iluvdvd's

Was Johnny Guitar any good?

Supposed to be quite infamous due to Joan Crawford's performance.

The Slaughter Tapes (2011)

Three documentary makers decide to make a doc about the cheaper side of the porn industry. As they delve deeper into things they stumble upon what could possibly be a snuff film.

This part found footage film is dire. For 75 of it's 91 minute runtime it's a case of talking heads and long car journeys. It's not violent, it barely registers as soft porn and it certainly isn't a horror film. Poorly acted without any pay off whatsoever.

Stay well away from this one.

Thanks for the warning – will do.

Couldn't agree with this one more, The Hallow is a fantastic creature flick with some excellent old school practical fx. [emoji122]

Suspected Person (1942)

Following a $50k heist in New York a couple of the suspected robbers escape to England in search of the money they believe is with their former accomplice Jim Raynor (Clifford Evans). Unfortunately for Raynor, Scotland Yard (including William 'Billy' Hartnell) are also on his and the cash's trail.

A solid if unspectacular British B-picture, similar in style to the Film Noir coming out of America at the time. Long coats and wide brimmed trilby's the required fashion, night clubs with chanteuse the preferred entertainment and lots of shooting from the hip both verbally and ballistically.

After a slowish start the film kicks into gear in it's second half with a lot of double crossing, to'ing and fro'ing on late night trains and a suspenseful, bullet strewn climax

The Network dvd looks and sounds splendid.

I think The Pink Panther Strikes Again is the best Pink Panther film. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64yianfGvzc

It's one I rate highly, but I don't think has the sharp dialogue, memorable set pieces (Clouseau and his guitar in the nudist camp, for example), overall construction, or as good a performance from Peter Sellers as A Shot in the Dark. If I was to do a top three, it would be:

1. A Shot in the Dark
2. The Pink Panther
3. The Pink Panther Strikes Again

The Dentist 2 (1998)

** out of *****


The Purge: Anarchy (2014)

***1/2 out of *****

I like the purge films, looking forward to new one, i had thought 2nd one would have been first, only downfall i had with first one was idea and concelt was new and different but ended up going down the route of seen it all before, where people defend their house to help someone straw dogs is one eg

Yeah the first Purge film had a great concept but it didn't fulfil its potential. Instead, it was just a bland by the numbers home invasion flick with cliché after predictable cliché. 'Anarchy' is the film the first one should have been and was what people were expecting that first time around. I think the writer and director James DeMonaco considered those criticisms and gave the audience what they wanted this time. I'll be watching 'Election Year' later.

About a week or two back i tried watching hateful 8 gave up after a hour.
Now finished it of tonight, it was ok still think bit over rated and nothing like i was expecting, problem is i find with his films now is i think he knows he good and clever but got to big for his boots in the films he make he kinda ruins them, he does to much of same cliche and certain style that can spot his film a mile away, and he concentrates to much on drawn out scenes and long speaches with to much dialogue. That now its more about the dialogue than the actual film itself, Instead of actual concentrating on a film. He definatly talented no two ways about it, ive not been much of a fan of his films since Kill Bill.

I remember my brother recording this off the telly when i was a kid and i've watched it several times through the years. Its cheesy as hell but still brings back good memories, so i'm still fond of the film despite it being far from perfect.

Just watched the 'making of' documentary and i was surprised how big the production was for what is, lets face it, a B movie. Interesting stuff.

I don't think i've ever seen Beastmaster.

Leave here. NOW!

It's great Dem.

Tanya Roberts gets her norks out.