What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Rik

It's a great British Hammerlike film IMO, pretty risqué for it's time too, each to their own I suppose

BOSC is one of my favourite films but James does have a point.

[Nordicdusk]

Watched Nightmare city. A plane full of Zombies / Infected are on board and they all have weapons yes thats right armed zombies. They have knives axes and even guns. The make up is pretty weak on some of the zombies
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All in all its a good film trying something different with Zombies. You just gotta appreciate someone trying new things. The gore looks really good in some parts in others its just basic splash of blood on faces or clothes. The best effect was the womens boob being cut off.

[Frankie Teardrop]

DUST DEVIL - A few minutes into it I was digging the moody atmosphere, the constant shots of moons arcing through the nocturnal sky, the symbolic-looking animal references and the serial killing. Over an hour and a half later I felt unmoved and uninvolved. I think part of the problem for me was that 'Dust Devil' didn't quite feature enough of the things it did well ie the aforementioned, and tended instead towards something more ponderous... basically, I just thought it needed to cut loose and become the two hour splurge of rock video stylistics it may have wanted have been. But it would've been difficult to make anything like that in the early nineties (or any time really) and it's easy for me to sit back and moan when there's a whole slew of movies available these days capable of meeting this kind of need for stylistic excess. Will probably return to it at some point because I wanted to like it more than I did.
WILD BEASTS - I approached with apprehension because I was wary of the possible presence of actual animal violence, which I'm really not into. There are some burning rats and shots of animals having a go at each other, but nothing as sickening as eg. some of the stuff in the uncut 'Cannibal Holocaust' (or some of director Prosperi's other works)... not that such dubious relativism is of any value in getting to the bottom of what should and shouldn't be on screen, or watched for that matter. I'm not getting into that moral quagmire - the film exists, it's out and I saw it. And beyond any less than defensible aspects, it's the real trash-exploitation deal, a frenzied ninety minutes of animals-on-the-loose mayhem which never really flags. Tastes bad on so many levels... I mean, you can tell what you're getting into from the opening credit sequence alone - a jarringly blunt montage of shots of inner city squalor set to really bad eighties sax. Prosperi tells us repeatedly that modern life is rubbish for betraying the innocents, the animals... then goes and burns a load of rats for a few video rentals etc. OK Franco. We believe you.
NO REASON - After a preamble involving missing babysitters, mysterious packages and bereaved neighbours, a woman wakes to find herself in a red-lit abattoir which a cthulhuvian-mask wearing S/M dungeonmaster tells her is the first level of a colour-coded sequence of hellish carnage-zones leading to 'the white light at the end'. Woman proceeds to make her way through various scenarios involving freakish cenobite-types before waking up to find she's a serial killing bank robber or something. This is an Olaf Ittenbach film, a fact which may cause a bit of eye rolling around here. Actually, I'm more than prepared to accomodate Olaf when he pulls out the stops and blasts off into the splatter-ether, which he does here. So, we have plenty of gore (including quite a bit of dick ripping, interestingly), nudity, fetish elements, all round bad vibes, 'spiritual' aspects that whilst interesting aren't explored, gratifying weirdness... despite all the elements being in place, a certain flatness persists. But, the elements ARE in place, which counts for something.

[pedromonkey]

THE DRIVER: Walter Hill's Brilliantly cool neo noir with an unlikely role for Ryan O'Neal as the Driver. Isabelle Adjani is gorgeous to look at and Bruce Dern is intense as the detective out to stop him. Has one of the best car chases i've ever seen at the end as The driver plays cat and mouse with a vengeful criminal in a warehouse.

48 HOURS: Walter Hill again, This time round it's laughs a plenty as grizzled detective Nick Nolte gets smooth talking convict, Eddie Murphy out of prison to track down James Remar. Some brilliant dialogue from Eddie Murphy and some great violent moments. Great stuff.

EXTREME PREJUDICE: Final Walter Hill film of the week, this one again has Nick Nolte playing a texas ranger on the texas/mexico border trying to stop childhood friend turned drug baron, Powers Booth from smuggling drugs into the U.S while trying to also handle a team of Mercs and his girlfriend. Violent, sweary and has some of the best sounding gun blasts this side of a Spaghetti western.

THE THING 2011: This prequel is a an alright film, it's partially ruined by CGI but has some nice moments. It's miss cast and lacks all the tension and paranoia that made Carpenter's original so good. It's still a hell of a lot better than most modern studio horror films.

RACE WITH THE DEVIL: had this sitting on my shelf for a while so decided to watch it last night. It's a good film, but it's almost 60 minutes of not much happening then 28 minutes of hell breaking loose. I liked the idea behind it but it seemed abit slowburn for the subject matter, Warren Oates and Peter Fonda are utter bad asses though.

DRIVE ANGRY: this film was the reason i watched Race With The Devil. Nic Cage plays Milton, who's just escaped from hell on a mission to kill the man responsible for the death of daughter and to prevent him from sacrificing his granddaughter while being pursued by The Accountant. I ****ing love this film, it's exactly what it is, it's not trying to be anything other than a straight up exploitation flick for modern audiences. Great performances all round especially from William Fichtner as the Accountant.

RAPID FIRE: Brandon Lee witnesses a mob hit and teams up with renegade cop powers booth to take down the mafia. Some really good action scenes don't compensate for a film which has been done many many times before. Brandon Lee proved he had acting chops and it's a shame he died so young.

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Love Rapid Fire. The added bonus is the awesome Powers Boothe.

[mercury]

Afraid of the Dark

[Rik]

Tried to watch Jennifer's Body last night, even the gorgeous Megan Fox couldn't save it from being switched off after about 45 minutes, utter garbage. Thought I'd check out Hellraiser: Deader on Netflix instead, good horror film, rubbish Hellraiser film, you could tell they added the franchise elements to an already written script and although Doug Bradley gets slightly more screen time than the previous installment, his talents are definitely wasted here. Just got Hellworld and Revelations to watch now to complete the series, can't say I'm overly excited about either of these if the last few are anything to go by, they should've stopped after number 4

[Scyther]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Love Rapid Fire. The added bonus is the awesome Powers Boothe.

Powers Booth is hard as ! Loved him in HBO's Deadwood, as well!

[Scyther]

Started Behind Convent Walls last night and finished this morning. Great cinematography and natural light kept me interested throughout all the frivolous Nun shenanigans!

Also watched The Last Circus. Trippy, Santa Sangre esque drama and violence set the turbulent 1970s.

[James Morton]

Slaughter High - fun 80's horror
Prom Night - not a great slasher as I had hoped for
Death Line - still very good and Donald Pleseance in great form