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Maniac Cop. A lunatic killer is stalking the streets of New York - a lunatic wearing the uniform of a police officer. Whether he's an impostor or a real cop turned psycho, the residents of New York are getting decidedly antsy. Young cop Bruce Campbell finds himself framed as the murderer and the police force is only too happy to accept his guilt, save for veteran detective Tom Atkins who is convinced the real madman is still at large... Very entertaining late 80s tongue in cheek horror thriller B movie that is still great fun. |
*American Pie* First time I've seen this since I was about 16. Took me the back. The soundtrack was nostalgic. The characters...I can't believe now that I used to relate to some of them! 3.5/5 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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1 Attachment(s) Film No. 7 Attachment 183366 Angela Baker is back but this time she is in charge she is now working as a councillor at another summer camp not far from the summer camp where she first reeked havoc many years ago. Angela has no time for any sexual behaviour from the campers and anyone she sees having too much of a good time gets "sent home" early from camp but will they ever make it home. Sleepaway Camp 2 is a fun slasher the acting is decent the boobs are plentiful and the mullets are a thing of genuine beauty seriously Pat Sharp could only dream of such mullet perfection. The big problem with Sleepaway Camp 2 is the kills there is a pretty high body count but most of the kills the camera pulls away from the action and all we see it the blood spray on the ground of walls or on Angela herself and it's more than obvious that someone is squirting the blood from a fairy liquid bottle. Still a fun film and worth a gander and that end credit song HELL YEAH :lol: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Qw6ufM5XA With less cutaway from the kills it would of got a higher score. 6/10 |
2 Attachment(s) Film No.8 Attachment 183370 After the murder of a member of the DELTA BI THETA fraternity by a serial killer known as Motherface his twin brother joins the fraternity to uncover the mystery of his " accidental " death. This film is full of bad acting hit and miss jokes tons of blood and stupid characters. Shot to look like a vhs this is supposed to be the last found vhs after the films were destroyed. As stupid as this film is its a really fun watch and i would recommend lots of alcohol sadly i didnt have any but films like this are made for those drunken nights. There are a number of commercials inserted in between scenes some of these last a couple of seconds and others are a bit longer the ones the work the best with the humour are the short ones whereas some of the longest ones are feel like they were trying too hard and didnt work. Couple of quick facts Fact No. 1 Despite the title there are no parts 1 & 2 we get a summary of the first two parts at the start of part 3 Fact No. 2 The film stars Greg Sestero who many will know as Mark from The Room. Funny thing is his acting in such a low budget film like this is still better than what he offered in The Room. Attachment 183371 OH HI MARK As fun as it was for me its not for everyone just look at it as a couple of steps below Troma and you know what you are getting yourself in for. 6/10 |
1 Attachment(s) Anarchy Parlor (2015) Whilst traveling in Lithuania a group of friends are duped into visiting a local back street tattoo parlor by an inked girl (Finnish tattoo artist Sara Fabel) where things go from bad to worse. You never know what you'll get from direct to dvd horror films. From poverty row hand held affairs to well produced films with a decent budget. Anarchy Parlor thankfully falls into the latter category. Shot entirely on location in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, which looks a stunning city from all the aerial views seen in this film, Anarchy Parlor could be construed as Hostel lite. The story feels slightly derivative to begin with, echoing the 'it's Eastern Europe so you're all going to die' racist style elements of Eli Roth's film. I ask you why do westerners visit these places if they all die? Have the authorities or INTERPOL not noticed yet? However as the plot slowly unfolds there's more going on than first imagined, it just takes it's time getting past the cliches to bring it all together. The students are at times as dumb as they come, seemingly in Europe just to take drugs, go to raves and get laid with the local talent. Their decision making at times is ludicrous, however i get the feeling the film makers knew this, i mean how else are you going to get your self brutally murdered on holiday unless you make stupid choices like antagonizing the locals and wandering off down dark alleys with tattooed harlots? The acting isn't bad although the lead girl (Tiffany DeMarco) does resort to crying the same "You're sick!" line as she watches her friend go under the knife. Other than that she's quite good in a role where her characters actions appear to get a bit of the old Stockholm Syndrome. The film belongs to Robert LaSardo though. An actor whose name you probably won't know but you'll be familiar with his face. A character actor who generally plays a tattooed heavy, prisoner or drug dealer and you may have seen in CSI Miami, Nip/Tuck and Death Race among his 119 acting roles. Coming across as a pleasant fella and the kind of man who puts you at ease as you go for your first tattoo, seriously, i couldn't believe it either, LaSardo's performance is excellent, and especially creepy as you think he's going to get up to lots of horrific acts. And he does! Whilst not a torture porn film like Hostel, Anarchy Parlor is very gory. The camera loves the slice of a knife in close up detail, and it's a film that would never have appeared in video shops in the early 80's, or indeed 90's, uncut anyway. Going under the title Killer Ink on UK dvd, Anarchy Parlor is a film i rather enjoyed. |
1 Attachment(s) Film No.9 Attachment 183404 Angela is back once again this bitch is getting worse than Jason at this stage In a new summer camp Angela this time enlists as a teenager using the false identity of a girl she murdered in broad daylight in the middle of New York in a garbage truck that a blind person could see but no one else noticed on a busy street full of people. The twist this time around is that its not normal teens at the camp but a sort of social experiment to see how spoilt rich kids get alone with underprivileged poor kids. Just like Sleepaway Camp II there is a high body count but constant cutaway from the kills and gore really lets things down and is a real shame because these are fun films. As is the case with II here the killing starts right from the start and does not let up until the very last second before the end credits. Oh and the boobage count is also pretty decent 6/10 |
Watched Telefon (1977, Don Siegel), a rather paranoid little film riding that post Watergate vibe nicely. "Vot?" "Ve only get play Russians Ven ze are plotting against ze Kremlin??" Ahem. Made a nice contrast with... Towelhead (2007, Alan Ball) Based on a novel, this coming of age tale is frank and quite controversial in it's frankness. Whilst not as skin crawlingly a watch as Happiness, it certainly has some stand out moments. None of which I'l be mentioning here haha. Dvd features some hysterically PC "discussions" which remind me in a roundabout way of the "furore" over The Life Of Brian |
1 Attachment(s) Film No.10 Attachment 183418 Next up we are off to the land of my father and my father's father and my father's father's father and my father's fa...... you get the pictures we are off to the dangerous countryside of County Leitrim here in lovely Ireland Martin and his girlfriend Helena are driving through the countryside when they knock a man down standing in the middle of the road. In a panic they pack the body in the back of his car but a few minutes down the road the passenger is less than grateful for the lift and bites into Martins neck. After disposing of the disgruntled passenger Martin sends Helena for help in a nearby farm house. Moments later Helena is attacked by the man she loves but she is left with no choice but to suck his eye out with a vacuum cleaner and escape into the wilderness alone and confused. Outside she meets Desmond the village gravedigger who explains that a local farmer was caught feeding dead animals to cows and since then the locals have gone crazy and started attacking anyone they see. Dead Meat looks like it was made with a budget of a couple of hundred euro which makes what it accomplishes even more impressive. The people here are obviously not actors it's like they went out into town and pick the first few people that showed an interest in making a few bob and put them into the film and even that works in favour of the finished product. Im not saying the acting was bad and of course im not saying it was good but there is no stuttering through the lines it's just like listening to farmers talking anywhere in Ireland and thats where the humour works with some of the conversations. This is not a horror comedy by any means its totally done straight but there is humour to be found maybe its just because i have encountered characters like these in the real world. Another impressive aspect of Dead Meat is the gore and kills for a small film with a tiny budget it's all practical gore from killing a cow with a hurley and sliotar ( what would an Irish horror film be without death by hurley ) or decapitating a zombie with a shovel it all looks great. The makeup effects on the zombies is nothing amazing but it does work really well. To be honest i was expecting this to be total shit but i was wrong it's great fun and the characters are very lickable because like i said they just seem like real everyday people no macho posers or pointless freaking out or falling for no reason when getting chased these are people dealing with the task at hand in a realistic way like you would envision it actually playing out if a zombie apocalypse actually happened. At times the score has a real Italian horror sound which was a nice surprise it's a pity they didn't use it throughout the film but when its there it adds a nice creepiness to it. I loved this film you can tell that it was a labour of love with some great attention to detail not just thrown together to make a zombie film they set out to make a serious film and achieved that goal i would love to see them make something else with a proper budget and see how they could handle that. The influence for the film are plain to see from Romero's the Crazies to Fulci's love of eye horror but nothing felt like a rip off just a nod to the films that influenced the film makers. Dead Meat will definitely get repeat viewings. 8/10 |
1 Attachment(s) Fight for your life. Attachment 183420 Still ploughing through the nasties when i have the urge, got about 8 left now.:pop2: I actually thought this was pretty decent,well shot and adequately acted. A film that follows the last house/home invasion template but mixes it with a good dose of blaxploitation. Not as harsh as i thought it would be due to it being on the nasty list, a lot of the grimmer stuff is hardly shown or filmed in a not particularly exploitative way. The main thing that sticks in the mind is the very racist way the leader of 3 escaped convicts treats the black family, but that's the whole point because we are on the side of the family and when they get their revenge it is pretty satisfying.:) The blaxploitation elements amount to some jive talking and a little funky music, the part where the grandma calls the white guy a mutha****a was priceless.:nod: A really entertaining film. 8/10 |
Just been to Grimm up North. Watched loads so a few to get through.... Thursday Let me make you a martyr Misery porn. Supposed to be revenge western but I suspect everyone involved was sat off set jerking off and crying. Maralyn manson is great in it however. Broken Morjana Alaoui frlom Martyrs plays a nurse escaping a dark past who is caring for a tetraplegic man. The client is a complete asshole, constantly doing drugs, complaining, holding partys ect and genujinely making his clients life hell. The private company the NHS has outsourced the care to is unsupportive and slowly the carers mind begins to snap. Nothing massively original but well acted all round and Alaoui has a few shower scenes. ;) Another evil Best of the evening. Another evil is a dark comedy about a wealthy family who discover their vacation home is haunted. The husband hires an exorcist who turns out to be a drunken, needy lunatic. Genuinely funny this one had me laughing a lot. The script is terrific and the performances deliver. |
Friday The unseen Its rare to see an invisible man film these days. Its even rarer to see one thats not a direct riff on H.G Wells book. This film then was a refreshing change. Possibly not for everyone as its quite slow-moving, its about a blue-collar bloke who trys to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Unfortunately he suffers from a strange genetic condition that is gradually turning him invisible. When his daughter disappears he discovers she has the same condition and shady underground scientists are hunting for them to study. We then had an interesting collection of short films including Hada, Adam Peiper, Quenottes, under the apple tree, The dissapearance of willir bingham & little boy blue. All fairly solid, little boy blue being the best of the bunch. The sunken convent A short Danish flick apparantly based on a hans christian anderson story. Its absolutely baffling. An old bloke works at a garage and drinks petrol. He then heads home and melts metal into freshly made wounds then he heads out into the woods to **** a corpse. A fathers day A short zombie flick from the UK with decent effects. A father and daughter reunite as zombies and spend the day together. Good fun with a sweet ending. What we become Danish Zombie movie. The residents of a middle-class Danish neigbourhood are alarmed when they are placed under quaranitine after the outbreak of a mysterious disease. Gradually things begin to break down and the family must make plans to escape. Doing nothing new, the film is still solid fun thanks to great direction, well realised zombies and a genuinely bleak tone to proceedings. My father die Like let me make you a martyr in that its a southern gothic revenge drama, my father die is an entirely different beast. Its a raw, grindhouse flick with suspense, ultra violence and humour as a deaf mute hunts his monsterous biker father (played by Gary stretch) after hes released early for the murder of his other son. It goes a little Terminator near the end but its great fun, brutal and trashy in a good way. Directors cut This is a difficult one to sum up. Essentially its a straight to video serial killer thriller thats been hijacked in the editing suite by a demented crowd funder who has also kidnapped the lead actress in order to make his own picture. Its well worth checking out as its genuinely funny. Penn jillette plays the mad crowd funder and delivers with a dead pan menace thagt really sells his character as a stalker. Train to busan Last film of the evening and one of the best. A zombie virus breaks out in south korea, a self centered father and his daughter are heading to Busan on a train when everything turns to shit and he must fight to keep his daughter alive. One of the genuinely best zombie films in many years, its totally unrelenting from beginning to end, has characters that are very likeable and has no qualms in killing them off. The zombies are well realised and move in disturbing ways, they have the ability to pile over each other like in world war Z but this is a much better film than that. |
Saturday Observance I need to watch this again. A private detective begins watching a woman for a mysterious client and things get weird. It was tough to follow and it seemed to put the narrative in the head of someone in the midst of a full blown mental break down. NSFW A short where a blogger heads into the woods to capture a peadophile and ends up getting more than he bargained for with a neat twist in the tale. The Burning Yes, the 1981 slasher. Nice to see it on the big screen. Some technical issues aside the film played well with the audience. It's a solid and entertaining slasher flick that looks great on blu-ray. The Chamber Four people trapped in a submarine under the ocean. An exercise in tension and suspense that while not a classic is very watchable Dearly beloved Another short. This one is a brutal, well shot tale of a wedding day coming to a brutal end. Pet Dominic Monaghan plays a loner who works at a dog pound who becomes obsessed with a girl he knew from high school. After being rejected he kidnaps the girl and keeps her trapped in a cage in the basement of his work. Just when you think you know where you are with the film it then throws a twist in that changes how you see the film. Much better than expected and worth keeping an eye out for. Trash fire Richard bates Jr, director of Excision and Suburban gothic continues to the trend of each new film being better than the one that preceeded it. Here a drunken asshole who discovers his girlfriend is pregnant decides to shape up. His first step in being better involves reconnecting with his horrid grandma and his sister who is disfigured by a fire he caused many years ago. The film then shifts gear from acerbic indie comedy to cruel and twisted family saga that get progressively darker as it heads to its conculsion. Highly reccomended. The tag-along Asian horror with a great central idea, badly damaged by shitty CGI. |
Sunday The final day had some of the best films! Darling A young woman named Darling agrees to house-sit a New york mansion with a creepy past that may or may not be having a malign influence on her. Its a no nonsense black & white chiller that feels like a blend of The shining, Rosemarys baby, Ms 45 and eraserhead ( someone else compared it to early Richard Kern in its style) I Absolutely loved it, from its stark black & white style, its soundtrack that moved from 60's style classical score to thrash metal (in keeping with its characters fragile mental state, to the superb performance from Ashley Lauren carter. This is highly reccomended. Beyond the gates Feeling like a homage to the types of film Empire pictures used to put out (we even get Barbara Crampton turning up) Two brothers begin boxing up the contents of their missing fathers video store and stumble across a sinster VCR boar game that offers them the chance to cross 'beyond the gates' and save their fathers soul. Not an absolute classic, I still liked this a lot. Great synth score and felt like the sort of stuff I rented from the local video store. Tonight she comes. Best film of the whole festival. Imagine It follows if It follows was full of gore, nudity and backwoods satanism. Its a surprisingly feminist horror that plays on male disgust over female bodily functions, especially with a ritual scene that will have at least half its audience wretching. Genuinely entertaining, bloody and beautifully shot it also has a lot of appropriately dark humour. I urge everyone to watch this. The Rezort Not really doing anything new for the zombie genre The Rezort manages to be worth it thanks to an interesting central idea (zombies meet westworld) as well as a tackling contemporary issues such as the refugee crises with a horribly plausible end twist. It wont set your world on fire but It'll entertain. Villmark Asylum AKA Villmark 2 ( the first is difficult to get but not impossible in the UK) You dont need to have seen the first (but it helps) A group of contract workers must check an abandoned asylum for hazardous waste before the state tears it down. As one would expect in a horror they soon discover they are not alone. Its a solid chiller with a great sense of space and atmosphere that slowly builds itself to a bloody conclusion. The rift A serbian Sci-fi/horror that has more ideas than its budget can cope with. A group of CIA operatives head to a remote part of serbia to recover a crashed sattelite only to discover something really weird. Tonally it has a lovecraftian feel to things and has a genuinely dark tone. It was followed by a Q&A from Ken Foree who seems like a genuinely nice bloke. |
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1 Attachment(s) Film No.11 Attachment 183450 Claire Ward wife of chemical engineer Charles Dexter Ward shows up at the office of private investigator John March hoping to get to the bottom of her husband's strange work and behaviour. Charles works long into the night in his lab from which there are some very strong stomach churning smells. After endless arguing Charles decide to leave and head to an old cabin in the country owned by his family. Charles's peace and quiet is short lived when the locals start reporting the strange smells from the cabin and constant late night deliveries arriving every night to local law enforcement. When police raid the house they find boxes of human remains which Charles convinces them the stuff was delivered to him by mistake. Can John March discover the truth and does he even want to ? This was a struggle to get through it's just all a bit too boring and none of the characters are likeable i would've expected at least the wife to have some emotions about the whole situation with her husband but like everyone else she was just going through the motions plus the fact its acted like a softcore porn thriller does not help matters. On more than one occasion i laughed loudly with some of the camera work zooming in on peoples faces in an attempt to create some sort of drama but failing miserably.Then when something finally happens most of the scene is in pure darkness with flashlights failing and matches blowing out in the draft only catching glimpses of the gore effects and creatures which was one of the worst stop motion animations i have ever seen. Clocking in at an hour and forty Five this is way too long the final scene is more of what i expected to happen throughout the film but it was too little too late to save this one. Boring badly acted and waaaay too long. 3/10 |
1 Attachment(s) The Loreley's Grasp (1974) Amando De Ossorio's brilliantly atmospheric film from 1974 takes this legend and ups the ante in horror terms. The Loreley in question, played by the stunning Helga Line, needs human hearts for a perverse ritual. Fearing for its students a nearby school for young women (ie -beautiful girls only too happy to wear transparent negligees and bear their breasts at the drop of a hat) hires a hunter, charmingly played by Tony Kendall to track down the Loreley and put an end to the murders. The film features graphic moments of flesh ripping horror amidst its otherwise beautiful Gothic trappings, De Ossorio bringing a fairytale like romantic feel to the production, lovingly created by his wonderful cinematography. Tony Kendall makes a fine heroic romantic lead and Helga Line is superb in what i think is her best performance as the seductive and deadly Loreley. |
1 Attachment(s) Halloween: Resurrection (2002) Three years after the events at Hillcrest Academy, Laurie Strode is now incarcerated in a psychiatric facility after it turned out she beheaded a paramedic and not wayward brother turned mass murderer Michael Myers. Now Laurie waits...waits for Michael to return for one final showdown. Halloween II (1981) director Rick Rosenthal returns to the franchise for this rather tasty 16 minute short film which finally brings the protracted journey of Laurie Strode to an end and gives actress Jamie Lee Curtis a fitting finale as she comes to an end at the hands of brother Michael. As it's only a short film the story moves along at a pace. Myers murders two guards in bloody style and also frames a Gacy loving inmate for Strode's death. As a short film Halloween Resurrection works well and brings the franchise to a fitting end. I'm just unsure why the producers stuck an hour of random outtakes from another movie on at the end. |
1 Attachment(s) Film No.12 Attachment 183474 Kevin has just lost his wife while giving birth to their first child. Descending on a rapid downward spiral Kevin contemplates suicide but he cant go through with it instead he heads to an underground store selling rare vinyl extreme films and occult objects. The guy behind the counter recommends a book to contact the dead but warns Kevin to be careful and prepared for what he is getting himself into but these words of caution fall on deaf ear Keven is only interested in contacting his wife. It does not take long before Kevins life turns into complete chaos involving murder sacrifice and mutilation. There is barely a word muttered through the whole film just a few exchanges here and there. The whole focus is on the mental breakdown of Kevin and how far he is willing to go to bring his wife back from the dead. The whole film feels like one big nightmare that he cannot wake up from. There is tons of blood from start to finish and most of the gore looks great for what budget they had everything is practical which shows no matter how little money you have you can still do it properly or at least make a good stab at it. We get everything from smashed faces self inflicted gunshot to the vagina to picking bugs out of a penis and more vagina based horror. This is not for everyone only for anyone looking for some over the top extreme gore so if thats not your thing better look else where for your horror fix. As for me i found it really entertaining not one you would watch over and over but well worth a revisit from time to time. 7/10 |
Offspring (2009) Not as good as Lucky McKee's excellent 2011 sequel 'The Woman'. **1/2 or *** out of ***** :confused: |
The Woman (2011) Lucky McKee is one of the best contemporary horror filmmakers. That is when he's not making crap like 'All Cheerleaders Die'. **** out of ***** |
1 Attachment(s) Frankenstein (1931) Frankenstein - a name synonymous with the horror genre for one reason - this film from Universal Studios, this film from nearly a century ago. Whole books have been written about this film, it's sequels and the Universal monster legacy as a whole, so influential are they not only on horror cinema but cinema in general. Frankenstein is a seminal film which belies it's age with each repeat viewing. A macabre masterpiece which fixed the monstrous image of the creature into the publics consciousness where it remains today. Frankenstein is a fascinating if primitive work that launched it's director (James Whale) and star (Boris Karloff or ? if you read the opening cast list) on interesting and in Karloff's case highly successful paths, and even though based on German expressionist silent works it established the horror film as a viable genre for Hollywood. The film was seen as shocking in it's day and still plays as a genuinely creepy experience. The idea of a man playing God as Colin Clive does with his 'It's alive' speech and the lakeside sequence with the little girl fell foul of censors for decades to come even though today it all seems rather tame. The film belongs to Boris Karloff. He breathes life into a career best and definitive portrayal of an on screen monster being both terrifying and sympathetic, witness Frankenstein's servant Fritz (Dwight Frye) torturing the creature with flames and the touching moment where the creature reaches up to grasp a ray of sunlight. James Whale also contributes to the grand scheme of things with his innovative direction and sometimes wayward camera angles that create an at times tense and at others melancholic atmospheres of Gothic horror mixed with science. Everyone on here who reads this should have seen the film, nay, everyone should own the film such is it's historical impact on cinema and the horror genre. |
1 Attachment(s) North Sea Hijack (1980) Roger Moore plays against type as an eccentric underwater saboteur who can't stand women but loves cats who is enlisted by the British government and Naval commander James Mason to come up with a plan to stop Anthony Perkins and his band of terrorists who hijack a cargo vessel with the aim of blowing up the largest oil rig in the North Sea unless his ransom demands are met. Absolutely terrific high seas adventure which although lacking in action is more than made up for by the level of suspense which rises with every passing minute. Often quirky and offbeat with a strong air of British humour, North Sea Hijack is one of the best thrillers of the decade and one i revisit at least once a year. |
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I do like Bride but i also find it a tad disappointing. They had the chance to create a second iconic monster, some will say they did, but Elsa Lanchester had so little screen time as the wild haired bride that it was barely worth the wait. I like the fact that Lanchester actually plays Mary Shelley, the author of the story, and she's the one who becomes in essence her own creation but the film revolves around Colin Clive as Frankenstein more than it does Karloff as the creature and i feel that's also to the film's detriment as Clive is less interesting both in character and as an actor than Karloff. It's still a work of great depth and i fully appreciate that people love it, but better than Frankenstein? Never! |
HIGH RISE – Ben Wheatley's take on J G Ballard's novel is a stylised glide through a parallel seventies. It centres on an apartment block and its new arrival, Dr Laing, a wry but ultimately somehow blank-seeming psychiatrist. This being the seventies, disaster isn't far away, and before long the social fabric of the high rise collapses in the form of some progressively unbridled parties before going a bit 'Shivers' meets 'Lord of the Flies'. It's quite a brave film – as far as narrative basics go, you could see it playing out as a kind of action thriller in hands other than Wheatley's. Since Wheately has a bit of vision and Ballard definitely does, 'High Rise' is far stranger than any mere 'outbreak' type movie, and seems more intent on capturing an abstract atmosphere of unease rather than explosions and gunfire. Visually it's very impressive, and really brings home the chilly vibes of a Ballardian world, all brutal angles and concrete vistas where humans are accessories and somehow the mere afterthought of some strange architecture. Its slow, deliberate unfolding is immersive and mesmerising – not the kind of film you'd watch for shits and giggles, but for an insight into the cold climate we now live in (there's a subtext about the rise of the media class, it seems to me, and the inclusion of a Thatcher speech at the end is heavy handed but accurate). These references are a bit scrambled, but I caught glimpses of Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Terry Giliam, Lindsay Anderson as well as David Cronenberg. Importantly, the film stays true to the spirit of Ballard's fiction, somehow. Hypnotic, eerie and definitely a recommend. Kudos also for incorporating The Fall's 'Industrial Estate' into the end credits! |
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SATAN'S BLOOD A man and wife are invited to stay at a strange couple's house, only to find themselves embroiled in satanic ogies and murder. The whole thing doesn't make any sense and the man and wife's lame excuses to keep going back into the house rather than legging it get pretty silly. But it does have some bizarre creepy moments and is well worth a watch on Screenbound's blu ray, who have to be commended for releasing such an obscure Spanish horror as this. EYE IN THE LABYRINTH Rosemary Dexter plays the lead role of a woman who has violent dreams about the death of her friend and her search for him leads her to an island populated by a small group of strange bohemian types, who all act strangely towards her. What I really liked about this Giallo was the fact that all of the characters seemed to have something to hide and there were so many strands going on, you couldn't really see where it was all going. Very enjoyable and recommended Spanish blu ray. |
1 Attachment(s) Tower of Evil (1972) When a group of tourists are found slaughtered on Snape Island, sole survivor, the sexy Candace Glendenning is suspected of the crimes. However when therapist Anthony Valentine shows her some multicolured lights the truth begins to come out about what happened. Meanwhile a group of archeologists head out to the lighthouse on Snape Island in search of pagan artifacts. Plot wise the first hour of Tower of Evil is all over the place. Some scenes showing what had happened and others showing what was taking place. Flitting randomly between identikit 70's youths distinguished only by the fact that Glendenning and Robin Askwith were with the original party. Fortunately there's a hell of a lot taking place. The film is chock full of nudity, sex and gruesome violence - and that's just the quieter moments. Heads roll, hands are severed and Askwith is speared by a pagan artifact and that's just for starters. The film then takes a left turn and decides it wants to be more than just a gory slasher so the script throws in the ancient god Baal - the god of fertility - perhaps that's why there's so much shagging taking place. Whilst it's a little simplistic towards it's pagan rituals it really doesn't matter as the whole thing is so balmy and wildly entertaining. The island and lighthouse is all fog bound and wonderfully Gothic in nature meaning that although set in the present day (70's) it feels like a classic old dark house film which takes it out of the realm of say, Pete Walker, and into the domain of Hammer. Tower of Evil is one of those films that seemingly ran on British tv every other Friday night in the early 80's yet seems rather under appreciated when it comes to best horrors of the decade lists, by myself also. It's a shame because Tower of Evil is ****ing awesome. |
Cold Prey 2 (2008) *** out of ***** |
Mortuary (1983). 7.5/10 10/10 for Bill Paxton's performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8u9LSNo6RU Return of the living dead. 9/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkhCAV3wmIU Captain America: The first Avenger. 7/10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J3HfllvXWE |
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