What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Fido (2006)

I picked this up as part of a US six film set primarily for the disc of Blood Diner, which, incidentally, was shite. I left Fido until next to last to watch as i had no hopes or real interest in it.

What a surprise this was, an absolute joy to watch and along with Dead Snow probably the best zombie film of the last ten years.

Fido manages to do what so many horror / comedy's fail and that is to produce a film that works on both levels to a high standard. The comedy on the whole is subtle rather than gross out gags. The script more or less follows on from the events of Romero's Night of the Living Dead, bringing us to a time when boffins have produced a collar that removes the zombie need to eat and makes them in effect servants, if a little dim witted. Fido, brilliantly played by Billy Connolly, is one such zombie who goes to live with the Robinson family and is instantly welcomed by the young son and wife (scrumptiously played by Carrie-Anne Moss) but not by Dad who fears them.

What we have from then on is essentially a "boy and his dog" movie as the two bond despite Fido eating his elderly neighbours arm ensuring another zombie upsurge and mum falling for the zombie rather than her uptight husband.

Its thanks to the excellent performances from all involved, a well crafted, fifties suburban American setting and above all, an energetic, carefully written script from people who know and love the zombie horror genre that Fido is a true delight for zombie fans.

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

Cops (1922)
Nanook of the North (1922)
Blood and Sand (1922)

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[Hawkmonger]

The GF just showed me the trailer for Stoker. She really like's the look of it and thinks it's right up my ally. If I got the message from the trailer correctly, it's House on the Edge of the Park, with abuse, that promotes rape rather than condoning it...as an act of love that the main character take's to heart. You just know i'm going to love this right! Ethics aside the cinamatography at least looks interesting, might give it a shot when it comes out.

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

The GF just showed me the trailer for Stoker. She really like's the look of it and thinks it's right up my ally. If I got the message from the trailer correctly, it's House on the Edge of the Park, with abuse, that promotes rape rather than condoning it...as an act of love that the main character take's to heart. You just know i'm going to love this right! Ethics aside the cinamatography at least looks interesting, might give it a shot when it comes out.

I was going to go see it no matter what it was about, being a Park Chan-wook horror/thriller is all I needed to know! So excited for it and from previews it looks like it will shock.

[Slippery Jack]

Which part of the trailer "promotes rape" . . .

[Hawkmonger]

No scene seen in the trailer, but am I the only one who got the feeling that that's where it's going with the uncle creepily talking to his sister, that her daughter is 'of age' and he wears a rape face throughout the rest of the trailer.
Not sure what to make of it TBH.

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Hawkmonger

The GF just showed me the trailer for Stoker. She really like's the look of it and thinks it's right up my ally. If I got the message from the trailer correctly, it's House on the Edge of the Park, with abuse, that promotes rape rather than condoning it...as an act of love that the main character take's to heart. You just know i'm going to love this right! Ethics aside the cinamatography at least looks interesting, might give it a shot when it comes out.

you need a new bird lol

[Hawkmonger]

Originally Posted by Justin101

you need a new bird lol

She seem's to be under the impression it's going to be Twilight-esque. Oh dear.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by SShaw

I watched the Ford brother's The Dead which had completely passed me by previously. I really liked it - heres hoping there sequel gets off the ground.

Sequel?? Michty.

Wee catch up....
Hitchcock. For a film apparently based around the making of Psycho, the allusions to The Birds were beginning to piss me off some what, a slight film, and only twice did I really think that Hop captured Hitch. Agree with previous statements that for such a complex character, this was a bit frothy for my liking, something you couldn't say about...

Vile (2011). 9 strangers are trapped in a house, have to torture each other to release a chemical that the body produces in response to extreme shock. this makes it sound more interesting. It isn't. Crunch crunch goes the soundtrack, cliche cliche goes the dialogue, was bored within 30 minutes. Avoid.

showed mate Boss Nigger, he liked, I'm beginning to love this film.

Grapes of Death. Wheeeeeeeee, another Rollin film I like. Just a wee query, was one of the farmers in Kentucky Fried Movie???

Dark Star. Love this. "...and Boiler keeps punching me in the arm when no one's looking!!" Silly, but it's obvious that it was made with a real fondness for the genre...creepy and wacky at the same time, makes a great double bill with Silent Running imo.

[Daemonia]

Originally Posted by keirarts

RIDER ON THE RAIN.

A neglected (by me) classic. A young woman in a sleepy french town witnesses a stranger come into town, later he turns up at her house and rapes her. Later that evening she realises he's still there and ends up shooting him dead. Soon after another stranger turns up (played by CHARLES BONSON) and tells her he knows she killed the man, and he wants to know where the money he stole is. Of course she has no idea about any cash, and vehemently denies killing the man, what follows is a cat and mouse battle of wits betwen the protagonists.

A really well shot slow burner with a great plot and a fine performance from brosnan. I watched the shorter theatrical cut of the film so I could make it to my buddies in time to watch...

Seriously, you managed to misspell Charles Bronson not once, but twice. I'm on the phone right now to Chuck Norris telling him about this. He's not pleased. You know how these action heroes look out for each other.