Are you going to give it another go?

Yes. Probably some time next week.

100% agree, a feel good film thats highly entertaining even tho like you said not exactly lol momemts but a heartfelt film all the same. More enjoyable than i was expecting. But also was slightly amused how they fitted in mentioning of the Jamacian team from cool runnings because they where both the same year.

Starve, 2014. 7/10

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Closed For The Season, 2010. 5/10

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The Legend of Tarzan, 2016. 7/10


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The Herd, 2014. 7/10 {short film.}

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Twisted Nerve, 1968. 9/10



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TW is something else isn't it? Apart fae seeing Timothy West with hair that is haha...

Watched 2010 (1984, Peter Hymans)
Just maybe if they had left the old Strauss til the end.....:rolleyes:
Whilst adapting this book was a thankless task, it still manages to carry off its main conceit adroitly. Lithgow less annoying than I remembered. Looked a bit faded though....ho hum.

Tower of Evil
while explorering a small island two men discover 3 naked dead bodies one of which is missing a head, they soon discover a crazed naked young woman who kills one of the men, the other man managers to subdue her. The woman ends up in a hospital where a doctor trys to find out what happenrd . flashbacks show the girl and her friends arrvinvg on the island and end up being dispatched by an unknowing assailant.

Its at this point a group of archeologist become interested in going because of the weapon the girl used to kill the man with, its a relic of a cult that worshiped the god Baal. Soon after arriving they are slowly killed of in gruesome fashion by an unknowing assailant . a very early slasher the predates Halloween and Friday the 13th. More brutal than I was expecting and surprisingly effective. 8/10

Superman vs Batman directors cut

Still not a great film but the extra footages improves it with it being less disjointed and even though its 30 minutes longer it flows better and actually feels shorter than the theatrical release. lex's motivation still makes little sense and batman should of figured out something was wrong espically by the time of the explosion. Superman/Clark has a few more scenes and I do like the whole god/ mythology thing but Cavill still lacks any charisma. Both Batman and Wonder woman are still highlights of the film as is the battle against Doomsday's. 6.3/10

Nowing watching trancers followed by splatter university

Last week's viewings:

Yet more slasher trash including a revisit to Aussie shocker Nightmares, a revisit of Horns, which is still as good the second time around, creepily enjoyable yarn Ghost Story, mediocre Bond, '90s Nunsploitation and ridiculous but fun '80s actioner Kill Squad.



Revenge (AKA: Blood Cult 2) (1986)

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33/100


Edgar Allen Poe's Buried Alive (1990)

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61/100


Horns (2013)

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73/100


Ghost Story (1981)

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72/100


Spectre (2015)

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59/100


Deadly Sins (1995)

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41/100


Night of the Dribbler (1990)

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17/100


Cries in the Night (AKA: Funeral Home) (1980)

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42/100


He Knows You're Alone (1980)

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50/100


Nightmares (AKA: Stage Fright) (1980)

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61/100


A Day of Judgment (1981)

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53/100


The House Where Death Lives (AKA: Delusion) (1981)

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48/100


Girls Nite Out (1982)

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57/100


Kill Squad (1982)

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58/100

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, the so-called 'moonlight murders' begin again.

What a clever film this is. Basically a remake of a fairly obscure mid 70's slasher, this film acknowledges the original at every turn. Being a slasher there's plenty of blood and guts as well as gratuitous sex and nudity but the film is much more than mere exploitation.

Concentrating on the original murders this film intelligently uses footage from the original film as it plays at a drive-in theatre and even recreates the murders as copycat killings in the present day. It's not cliched nor derivative but original and makes for a very compelling horror film. The performances, including veteran character actors Gary Cole and Ed Lauter, are strong all round and it all comes together startlingly well in what proves to be a breath of fresh air in how to construct a slasher film.

I've still to check this one out but it's one I'm looking forward to watching. :nod:

Actors having charisma is probably "cheesy" to today's generation. :laugh:

Tales of Halloween. Mediocre 2015 anthology horror which has too many tales for the runtime, most of which are pretty uninteresting anyway. To be fair, the one with the kidnappers who abduct a millionaire's son only to find it's not a child but a malevolent little demon he's been trying to get rid of was fun, and the one with the Friday the 13th style killer getting his comeuppance from a ticked off alien was absolutely hilariously OTT, but again too brief. I'll confess to a snicker or two at the closing tale with the killer pumpkin too, but again it was woefully underdeveloped. All three of those were in the last half hour too, and the ones in the opening hour or so were all largely completely forgettable.

I was very pleasantly surprised at how good it was.

It makes as much sense as any other villain in a superhero film, he says several times throughout the film WHY he's doing it, and he's also clearly mentally unstable.

Twisted nerve is a under rated gem that a lot of people don't know about unless you like you're films or a bit of a buff, And its films like these eg Peeping tom and similar films of why i complain they dont make thriller/horror like they use to
Films use to be well films. Now its all about big Budget, wow factor, cgi who who, ott action, with very little storyline or plot or likeable characters, films like these just go to show you can keep it simple and end up with a masterpiece, or go all blown out guns blazing and end up being shite and a mess of a film.
Give me films like this any day of the week, over 90% of any Hollywood / Blockbuster film

Pity. I was looking forward to this.

I was hoping to like it as much as A Christmas Horror Story, which wasn't fantastic but fairly decent. There was too much in it, really; should have taken the last three stories and expanded them to be the whole film.

Evil of Dracula

Third & final part of the bloodthirsty trilogy. Made in 1974, several years after the previous two the film ups the gore and nudity quotient to keep pace with the more graphic 70's Japanese cinema. A teacher heads to a new job at a remote girls school and if that wasn't clue enough that he's walking into a horror movie the locals are as hostile as one would expect. It seems the school is being plagued by a vampire, a christian missionary who was captured and tortured back during Japans isolationist period. Turning his back on his faith he became a vampire and now uses the school as a feeding ground. While not as OTT as later 70's material it has some fairly severe scenes including a female vampire removing a girls face in order to wear it and become her. It has some great atmosphere and set design including a gothic sepulchre in the basement.

Devils Rain

After his brother Mark Preston (william shatner) and mother (Ida Lupino) are claimed by satanist Corbis (Ernest Borgnine) after the shat loses a contest of wills, Tom Preston (Tom Skerritt) must head out into the desert and face his family legacy and Corbis with everything on the line!
Apparantly made in collaboration with Anton laVey of the Church of satan this film has a great atmosphere and some meomorable imagery including the eyeless disciples of corbis and some grisly melting scenes. It also has a cameo from a young John Travolta who would give up satanism to become a scientologist. Ironically L Ron Hubbard nicked a lot of stuff from satanism when he came up with the idea.

IMHO, better than the original which I'm not a big fan of anyway.


Cell (2016)

*1/2 out of *****

Not good!

can't say i'm surprised as the trailer was awful

It’s a bottom of the barrel Stephen King adaptation - one of the very worst. I would've given it my lowest rating of * out of ***** but I gave it just half more because it actually starts out promisingly as it’s pretty intense and Samuel L. Jackson gives the only good performance of the entire cast.

Wasn't Eli Roth supposed to direct 'Cell'?

I also had the misfortune of watching Cell a few days ago. It is easily the worst movie I have seen this year and can't believe it is being released in cinemas in the UK. It is also playing next week at Frightfest on opening night and will be enjoying from a few pints instead of sitting through it again. Avoid!!!

Watch the original and new one back to back, it really adds to the already excellent remake and creates something bigger than watching the two films separately.

I've never seen the original.

It is an okay slasher done in documentary style but the two films back to back make an unique viewing experience.

Yep.

If that is the case it would probably would have been worse!

Been checking out some of Edgar Wright's fav films, including Night Moves, Homicide and The Parallax View

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It's currently on the way to me courtesy of Love Film so will hopefully be checking it out shortly.

I quite enjoy the original film and watched it not too long ago so it's pretty fresh in my mind.

Kingdom of the spiders

Not one for Aachnophobes, Kingdom stars William shatner as a vet who teams up with a hot insect expert played by Tiffany Bolling in order to stop an Invasion of deadly spiders displaced from their natural habitat through the use of pesticides. These days a film like this would be purely CG but here it uses genuine spiders in every scene dousing the cast in torrents of tarantulas at every given opportunity. Director John "Bud" Cardos delivers the goods in a brilliantly directed, well paced and surprisingly harsh nature gone amok film.


Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhall plays an outright sociopath who Decides he's going to corner the market in crime scene footage for local news. Fortunately he lacks any sense of ethics or morality so he quickly rises to the top. Possibly one of my top 10 films from 2014 it still holds up today. Gyllenhall plays a classic screen psycho and the film is great at ratcheting up the tension in scenes like the aftermath of the home invasion and the final pursuit of the criminals.

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Emma watsons new film only made £47
Not sure where to post this.

Personaly i honestly dont believe things like this.
Ok to say a film major flopped is one thing, but to say film made less than £100 in opening weekend is one hell of a statement.
Even if it states only got released at 3 cinemas
But personaly what did they expect?
I mean 3 cinemas????
Whats that all about. Thats roughly 2 people in each cinema.

Der Fan (1982)

**** out of *****

It was also available On Demand from the month before that release.
I believe this is what is known as a "non-story". :tongue1::rolleyes:

Awesome film. Glad to see you rate it as highly as I do.

LOVE ME DEADLY – Whilst explorations of necrophilia aren't exactly unknown in the genre, 'Love Me Deadly' stands out as being somehow one of the most affecting. It doesn't go for the horror hard-on like 'Nekromantik', 'Lucker' or 'Beyond the Darkness', but, in its low key way 'Love Me Deadly' seems more sickly than any of the above. Mary Wilcox features as a young woman with an addiction to funeral services. She's a bit coy about her unwholesome stirrings, and tends to limit her own necro activity to the odd kiss snatched at the side of a casket. It may be difficult to swallow, but her fave funeral parlour is host to an underground society of necrophiliacs headed by the local mortician, and it isn't long before before the former parties are scoping her out as a potential inductee. On the plus side, Mary's perhaps more 'overground' love life presents her with an opportunity to get down with a nice gallerist – he looks a bit like her dad, though... 'Love Me Deadly' is, as I mentioned above, pretty restrained in terms of graphics, but is just so 'off' in tone. From the outset, we're aware of the incestuous daddy connection through a series of sepia tinted childhood flashbacks. They cast a shadow throughout the movie, and, whilst these sequences are a bit heavy handed, they are also eerie, especially near the end of the film. There are a few other moments which are genuinely disturbing – for example, the rent boy murder that occurs in the first twenty minutes or so, a scene which had me really on edge. Typically for a seventies semi-grindhouse feature, this intensity isn't really sustained, and large parts of the movie are taken up with the lead character trying to find (legit) romance to the sound of a swingin' easy listening soundtrack. These atmospheric shifts are somehow accommodated by the whole however, and in fact 'Love Me Deadly' has a kind of languorous flow to it where scenes simply drift into one another without all that much heed for consistency of either plot or tone etc etc. It's all about feel, and 'Love Me Deadly' 'feels' like few other films I've seen recently. Definitely recommended, you may find it slow burn if you're after something more harcore, but 'Love Me Deadly' is certainly creepy enough to cut it even these days. Plus, being from the groovy age of horror it has its own theme tune (as in song, with relevant lyrics)! Wish they did that kind of thing these days.

Well, Heavy Metal finally arrived (took its own sweet time though) and i watched it tonight. It was a strange experience to be honest. I sort of knew what to expect going into it, and it predictably struck me as puerile in places (all right, in most places), with pneumatic animated tits galore. Yet, i couldn't help be swept up in nostalgia as it played out - its like a time-capsule of the period, aided and abetted by a killer soundtrack. By the end of the film i found myself strangely inspired, as though my mid-teens were rushing back at me.

Now where's my +5 vorpal sword?

3 1/2 out of 5.

Visions (2015)

A young couple, including expectant mother, Isla Fisher, buy an old vineyard deep in the Californian hills. It's not long before Fisher starts seeing things, ghosts from the past, and the feeling that all may not be as idyllic at the vineyard as the couple hoped.

Visions had a promising concept however the overriding feeling as it played out was one of complete emotional unattachment and the feeling that the usually reliable Fisher was wasted by a script that offered nothing aside from by the numbers plotting and uninspired direction.

Despite the film coming to a satisfying conclusion, all that precedes in the build up is tired and cliched. It's as though the director had a checklist and made sure he ticked each and every box - hallucinations, tick, odd neighbours, tick... Even the films two biggest selling points Fisher's co-stars Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory) and Eva Longoria between them barely have enough screen time to register.

So whilst the story itself is really not that bad, Visions lacks vision in all other departments and ends up watchable but very run of the mill.

I think you mean Big Bang Theory, not 3rd Rock. ;):dance:

Black Dhalia

For me the combination of James ellroy & Brian DePalma works far too well for me not to like it, however I can evisiage people complaining about some pacing issues. Aaron Eckhart & Josh Hartnett play LA cops drawn into the real-life Black Dhalia mystery while dealing with the typical LA corruption. Eckharts character is locked in a downward spiral obsessed with the murder and hiding a dark secret from his partner while Hartnett is torn between his partners wife (scarlett johansson) & a rich bisexual socialite played by Hilary Swank. Talk about difficult choices!
Pacing issues aside, DePalma delivers his typical virtusos camerawork and set pieces, the cast is mainly decent and I genuinely have a soft spot for the setting (see also Chinatown, LA confidential ect). Overall if you like DePalma its well worth seeking out.

Black Rain

Michael Douglas plays a potentially bent new york copper investigated by internal affairs. with his laid back partner, played by Andy Garcia, they are tasked with transporting a prisoner back to Japan. Upon arrival they end up handing their prisoner to disguised Yakuza and must navigate late eighties Japan.
Possibly Ridley Scotts last great film (unless you rate Gladiator) its filmed in a pre bubble crash Japan, an over-ripe neon Tokyo that feels ripped direct from Blade Runner. Add in some great Japanese casting the film is a slick, beautiful thriller that remains entertaining today.


Sole Survivor

A crashed American world war 2 bomber somewhere in the Lybian desert is haunted by its crew who are unable to rest due to their bodies being lost. When the Airforce come to finally claim the plane it looks like the crw might be able to pass on but their navigator who bailed out and survived in an act of cowardice seems determined they dont recover the crew in order to support his lies about what happened. The dead crew must find a way to pursuade the team to find them. This one is a terrific 70's TV movie with a compelling story and a great transfer on blu-ray by mediumrare.