What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Miami Blues is a great movie. Very funny and quite violent too.

The book it's based on is great as are the other Hoke Mosley books.

[Frankie Teardrop]

TOXIC ZOMBIES - From the wave of rip offs that followed 'Dawn of the Dead', a relatively obscure provincial indie charting the zombie aftermath of an FBI marijuana crop spraying incident out in the sticks. I liked aspects of it, but to be honest it's a bit of a turkey. The music is dead on - classic 'video nasty' era minimal electronics - but the film itself drags, despite some nice moments. Like many of its badly shot, hurriedly assembled ilk it alternates between being boring, laughable, and satisfyingly grim. Bad / medicore film-making is one thing, and that's not my problem with 'Toxic Zombies' - it could've been a winner had it just been a bit more amped up. As it stands, it's an option for those who want a more polished early 80s zombie alternative to 'Alien Dead'.

[Wes]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

TOXIC ZOMBIES...

Yep, I totally agree Frankie, this film really is a grind from start to finish, and it's a complete mystery why this film was added to the Video Nasties list. Amateurish is the word here, and one would like to be kinder to Toxic Zombies (or Forest of Fear as I know it), considering it's director Charles McCrann's only film and an obvious labour of love. As well as directing, McCrann produced, wrote, edited and took the lead role (and bears something of a resemblance to a side-burned Warren Beatty), and tragically, McCrann was killed on September 11th 2001, while he was working in his office at the World Trade Center...

[Frankie Teardrop]

Originally Posted by Wes

Yep, I totally agree Frankie, this film really is a grind from start to finish, and it's a complete mystery why this film was added to the Video Nasties list. Amateurish is the word here, and one would like to be kinder to Toxic Zombies (or Forest of Fear as I know it), considering it's director Charles McCrann's only film and an obvious labour of love. As well as directing, McCrann produced, wrote, edited and took the lead role (and bears something of a resemblance to a side-burned Warren Beatty), and tragically, McCrann was killed on September 11th 2001, while he was working in his office at the World Trade Center...

Shame about what happened to the director, I didn't know he died during 9-11.
On a very different level, shame about the movie, as I just love those really gritty, yes, amateur productions from Nowheresville America from the 70s and early 80s, but I really can't say 'Toxic... / Forest...' works. Thankfully, a book like 'Nightmare USA' is of course full of examples of similar that do work.

[Wes]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

Thankfully, a book like 'Nightmare USA' is of course full of examples of similar that do work.

Yep, the film even managed to sink below the high watermark of cheapness that is Don't Go In the Woods...quite an acheivement. We should mention that John Amplas appears in this but he's as flat as the rest of the film...

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

On their way:
First Men In the Moon (original not the recent tv remake)
X-Rental boxset

Apologies I've gone and posted that in the wrong thread!

[PaulD]

Cannibal Ferox - really not that good is it?

[Hawkmonger]

Originally Posted by PaulD

Cannibal Ferox - really not that good is it?

More infamous than famous. Not a patch on Deodate's masterpiece. Though lenzi did make a better Cannibal movie, Man from Deep River.

[Wes]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

More infamous than famous. Not a patch on Deodate's masterpiece. Though lenzi did make a better Cannibal movie, Man from Deep River.

I gotta see Deep River Savages... dunno why I never picked it up... I like Ferox, it's is enjoyable and John Morghen is pretty damn good as a crazed coke head... Lenzi's Eaten Alive is pretty shoddy though I must say...

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by PaulD

Cannibal Ferox - really not that good is it?

WHAT!!!!!