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Criminally Insane (1975) Obese Ethel gets released from a psychiatric hospital under the care of her Grandmother. The doctors fear for her health and warn her that she must stop eating so much and lose some weight. However, Ethel doesn't want to stop eating... In fact, she wants to eat more and more to the extent her grandmother locks all the food away in a cupboard with the intent of forcing Ethel to diet. What poor Grandma doesn't realise is that you should never keep a psychotic fat person from their food, and she soon gets a knife in her back for her troubles. Now Ethel has control of the food and starts to eat all she can and kill all who get in her way. Criminally Insane is a fairly short low budget almost 'slasher' film with OTT ketchup-red bloody kills as Ethel hacks and carves her way through all barriers to reach the fridge. Short and sweet, Criminally Insane was an entertaining ride with a simple no-nonsense story which didn't try and bite off more than it could chew; unlike Ethel, of course. Originally posted here: Nightmare USA Films Discussion Thread Last edited by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs; 8th September 2014 at 09:13 PM. |
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ImageUploadedByTapatalk1410204887.197410.jpg hunchback of the morgue Only the third Paul Naschy film I have seen and have enjoyed them all, shame that I only recently discovered the great mans work. Here Paul a plays hunchback (Gotho) that is in love with a terminal ill girl, she dies and Gotho flips out and ends killing two men. He flees into some catacombs taking her body with him. Sometime later he meets a mad scientist Doctor Orla who tells Gotho that he will bring her back if he helps him in his experiment to created a creature. But as always things don't go as planned. Really enjoyed it and Naschy gives a ruthless yet sympathetic performance and you really feel for him. 9/10 Watching jess Franco's Dracula and the small amount I have seen I'm think it's a better film than the francis ford Coppola version Last edited by trebor8273; 8th September 2014 at 09:02 PM. |
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The Factory (2014) Stranded in the middle of nowhere when their bus breaks down, a disparate group of people take shelter in a seemingly deserted backwater town. There they discover a small museum called the Death Factory, dedicated to serial killers - Gacy, Gein, Dahmer, Fish, the Zodiac Killer and Jack the Ripper. All hell breaks loose when supernatural forces resurrect the horror hall of fame and the travellers find themselves in a battle of survival in the Death Factory. For a low budget chiller The Factory almost delivers the goods. It's very entertaining and has an original story line. Seeing the world's most notorious killers in one film is quite a novelty. The bus passengers are all sufficiently different to the normal slasher fodder and on the whole the acting is pretty competent. Quite nasty in places, the film opens with a genuinely horrific attack on a woman, the camera work going all Fulci on our ass as it lovingly gazes at her gushing arteries. From then on we are occasionally treated to savagery and gory blood on breast nudity but perhaps not enough when you consider the film's subject matter. Possibly it was a case of ideas and concept exceeding the film making funds. This is only a minor grumble though as The Factory was a thoroughly entertaining horror film and like recent favourite Stitchface stands head and shoulders above the crowded supermarket shelves of low budget dross. |
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A NEW POLICE STORY. Jackie Chan plays it almost straight for the most part in this film which mixes over the top action with the normal doses of over the top sentiment and slapstick often found in popular Chinese cinema. Fun. HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. One of the few homages to the cinema of the past that feels genuine in approach and emotion. Ti West's work isn't for everyone but if you like a slow burn and a bugger all happening approach that means everything in the end give it a go. One of my favourite horror films of the past ten years. Recommended. |
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Watched Michael Caine shout his way through The Swarm (1978) tonight. Has a pretty effective and cool opening sequence but from then on turns very dire. 4/10. Would have love to see a remake with Nicholas Cage in it.
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