What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[PaulD]

Recent viewngs since last post:


Acolytes - group of teenagers come across a murdered body and decide to blackmail the killer for their own gain. Really impressive Australian thriller, well-shot with stunningly bleached cinematography and great performances. I wasn't expecting much from it but it was a really well-done thriller which I'd highly recommend.

The Messengers - Raimi/Tapert-produced, Pang Brothers-directed English horror film with a massive debt to Japanese horror, as perhaps expected. It's all very by-the-numbers and nothing to write home about. Not terrible, not brilliant, just incredibly ordinary


The Rocky Horror Picture Show - I used to be a little bit obsessed with this film about ten years ago and haven't seen it in years. It's just amazing. I had forgotten how hilarious a lot of it is; the purposefully wooden b-movie delivery, the innuendo, the campness and the songs all mix together into an unbelievably unique experience. I haven't had the soundtrack off my iPod all week (also worth noting that the New Rocky Horror Show recording with Jason Donovan as Frank N Furter is absolutely brilliant and well worth a listen!). I really must get the bluray of this and also track down the dvd of psuedo-sequel Shock Treatment


Stand By Me - the schmaltzy overly romanticised depiction of childhood and friendship and the voiceover did grate at times (sorry, but they did!) but this is another one of those films I hadn't seen in years and was very much (re)impressed by. Rob Reiner's got a really varied CV hasn't he?

Attack the Block - not as funny as I would have liked but surprisingly gripping. Loved all the little Carpenter-esque music motifs and the way the titular block was filmed to look like a spaceship at times (the shot of the camera scaling the wall, the corridors and lifts etc). The action was directed really well too. I was convinced I'd end the film still hating the main characters but I was actually wrong and Joe Cornish manages to just about turn your perception of them around. "Yeah but if there hadn't been an alien invasion they'd still be a bunch of dicks though" my girlfriend said. Fair point.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by gag

Has anyone got any of these box sets if so what's you're thoughts
hellraisers and children of the corn I'm tempted to buy soon, even tho haven't heard great things about any of them after 3.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Cor...e+corn+box+set


http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hellraiser-C...raiser+box+set

Regarding the Hellraiser set Gag.

I have all the films except the Bradley free latest film, and enjoyed them all. Some are better than others naturally, but i find they all have rewatch value even the lesser sequels.

The way i see them is, if you love Pinhead and the whole S&M idea of the Cenobites then you should find something to enjoy in all the films.

I wouldn't pay £50 for that set though. You should be able to get them all individually for much less.

[gag]

Cheers just thinking of get all children of the corn and hellraisers when I got some spare cash, just thought 9 hellraiser films for just under 50 didn't seem so bad when you value them at roughly 5.50 ish a film.

[Dave Boy]

The Deadly Mantis (1957)

The Monolith Monsters (1957)

[troggi]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

The Deadly Mantis (1957)

The Monolith Monsters (1957)

All I can say, Dave Boy, is "You've got class, in Spades, mate!"

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

The Deadly Mantis (1957)

The Monolith Monsters (1957)

I've always wanted to see The Monolith Monsters.

[Dave Boy]

Originally Posted by troggi

All I can say, Dave Boy, is "You've got class, in Spades, mate!"

Thanks mate.

Originally posted by Demdike

I've always wanted to see The Monolith Monsters.

It's worth tracking down. Very enjoyable with some great effects.

[Delirium]

Embodiment of Evil.

The third in the Coffin Joe trilogy. And despite owning the others, I'm ashamed to admit I haven't watched them yet! Oops.

But no matter, 'tis easy to pick up on, and I gather that the Gothic trashiness of the originals has been replaced by gore galore. After all this film is both made and set 40 years after the last, in which our long fingernailed anti-hero is finally released from prison and goes on a search to find the perfect woman in order to bear his child and continue the blood line. Senior citizen sex anyone?

The CJ series is clearly a vanity project for old José Mojica Marins and why not! At first I expected a rather gentle comedy horror, with old fingernails camping it up in his cape and top hat. And then it goes all mental and turns into some extreme, surrealist torture porn film: women are cut out of pigs, bathed in blood and offal, have skins stripped from their backs, are scalped, hung from hooks, have their lips sewn up (in a bit of crazy body modification that wasn't effects work as far as I could see), have rats inserted in uncomfortable places (complete with internal view), and there's decapitations and nudity galore. And all these nubile young things positively fall at the feet of old Coffin Joe, begging to be impregnated by him. Poor old fella, eh? And we even get a blood soaked sex scene that outdoes Elizabeth Bathory.

Impressively gory, trashy fun. I must get round to watching the first two though.

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

The Mission (1986) Hmm! Not seen it before! Kind of expected more.
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (2012) WTF! What next? 'Adolf Hitler Kindergarten Teacher'
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) WTF! (again). What happened to this franchise? The first one I liked but from then on it just went all downhill!

[bdc]

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