What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demoncrat]

Watched.....

She Killed In Ecstasy (1970, JF).
Cthulhu, she's pretty.
After her medico husband is driven to madness, Soledad Miranda is driven to massacre his tormentors. Not as langorous as Nightmares Come At Night, not as action packed as La Maledicion de Frankenstein. This blu should look lovely btw, as this is one of Jess' more cohesive pieces imo.

Hellraiser: Deader (Rick Bota, 2005).
A reporter is given the task of investigating a strange cult. Bota hadn't obviously seen the 3rd sequel ahem. Starring the statuesque Kari Wuhrer and sundry Brit also rans ahem, this held together better than the awwwwwful Hellworld, some interesting shots, and some cliche (her bedroom is straight outta Whitesnake video ) fight for your attention. Still, Pinhead remains fairly toothless in this, so it's not really a recommend ahem.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Nightmare Man (2006)

A low budget slasher film starring the lovely Tiffany Shepis. For a digitally filmed piece, the director, Rolfe Kanesky, has managed to create a film with quite a nice atmosphere, enhanced by a lovely creepy score and out of the way woodlands locations. The film concerns a woman who claims she is being attacked by the Nightmare Man, a creature which may or may not have come from an African fertility mask. After one such attack she seeks help from a group of young people at a cottage in the forest. From here on things get worse for the group as the Nightmare Man comes calling.

Although the story sounds simple, it has some neat twists and turns where everything is not quite as it seems. The film is reasonably well acted and characters on the whole, believable and non-irritating. Whilst having some nice gore effects the film relies more on atmosphere for its scares especially during the first half. The films final denounement borrows in spades from The Evil Dead tree attack, but in this case it's perhaps more graphic. The budget can't really scrape together a great looking monster costume and it's this that if anything really lets the film down.

[trebor8273]

Rigor mortis

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A once famous out of work actor moves into a new apartment and try's to kill himself but is stopped by one of the residents who he later finds out was a vampire hunter.( but have not been any vampires for many years) we soon find out that they are mysterious and dangerous going ins in the apartment block. A homage to the Mr vampire films, we even have some of the cast members playing roles here. This is a lot darker than those movies with none of there humour, some great set pieces and effects with an interesting story and characters. 8.5/10

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Titan AE
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The earth is destroyed by the drej, humanity's only hope is to find the Titan, which just happens to of been designed by the hero of our tale, farther who gave Cale(our hero) a key to find the titan before he disappeared 15 years earlier, Cale is found by Korso and his crew who set out to find the Titan. Some fantastic set pieces and impressive animation and effects despite its age. Great sound track and a host of interesting and likeable characters, which make this film for me an unappreciated gem, that sadly doesn't get the recognition it deserves . 9.5/10

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Now watching journey to the west

[trebor8273]

Well finished journey to the west about to watch New Years evil which I've not seen before. Will give my views on these two later, has anyone seen New Years evil before ?

[antmumford]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Rigor mortis

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Now watching journey to the west

I'm yet to watch Titan AE but always wanted to since I bought the Lit single that featured on the soundtrack.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by antmumford

I'm yet to watch Titan AE but always wanted to since I bought the Lit single that featured on the soundtrack.

Can pick it up really cheap and its on netflix

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

No Tell Motel (2012)

A group of friends end up at a run down roadside motel where it turns out a mother and daughter met with terrible ends.

And that's about it really. The acting's passable for this sort of thing, the motel is a decent environment but the script doesn't know what to do once the friends are stuck there. It's all so lazily directed and written with not the slightest shred of tension or even the typical jump scares i so dislike.

This is the worst kind of film, the type that goes nowhere and does nothing. I only watched it on Sunday and it's practically gone from my mind already, so much so i had to look up the briefest of plot outlines i began the post with.

Absolutely pointless.

[Frankie Teardrop]

THE POSSESSION – I enjoyed this Sam Raimi production from a couple of years back. It opened to fairly lacklustre reviews, and I can't imagine it being much of a red hot fan favourite – still, something about it appealed to me. I think it was the slightly stylised look and feel, which reminded me in places of Kubrick in 'The Shining'... a distanced, formalised and creepy way of looking good. Maybe the plot doesn't have much going for it, though it should, as it at least tries to translate the standard possession protocol into Judaic terms, an original and potentially interesting move. But I couldn't really work out whether it was doing anything with the whole Dybbuk thing beyond novelty. Still, this element intrigued, and I felt the film genuinely built atmosphere. I was creeped out by some of the visuals... fingers in the throat etc. Maybe I'm being a tad subjective, but that stuff really worked for me. The sinister hospital scan, too. The jump scares were there, and it did seem manufactured in the shadow of latter day multiplex horror.insidious.com. But, it held my attention, and I got into it. Maybe some would disagree, but I recommend 'The Possession'.

GYMKATA – This Reagan era fantasy has a gymnastic – martial arts dude being primed to take on an endurance test in a fictional near-Eastern republic. The prize – a star wars satellite can be installed there to prevent the Russians (ehm, or 'The Other Side' in this movie's nomenklatura) from blowing us all to pieces! It's pretty bad, and pretty entertaining. The training sequence near the beginning provides a good few laughs, although this gives way to a mid-movie sag and lots of running around on the streets of a faraway province whilst gym dude gets shot at. Things pick up during the latter third, with a decidedly non-PC detour into a township where 'the criminally insane are left to rot' which goes all slo-mo zombie movie nightmare in a pretty evocative but admittedly unsound / cheesy kind of way. A good shit film. I didn't know about it before I trawled reviews for the likes of 'Miami Connection' and 'Samurai Cop'. It doesn't hold a candle to those psychotic masterpieces, but it's still worth a punt.

A SERBIAN FILM – One of the difficulties of films so divisive is that every opinion gets weighed in terms of for-and-against hysteria... thoughtfulness tends to get crushed. But 'A Serbian Film' is in need of some kind of thoughtful appraisal. For those who don't know, it's about an ex-porn star who gets sucked into something a bit fishy by a maverick auteur... 'a bit fishy' in this case means the desecration of his own family captured in the form of snuff film. 'A Serbian Film' is a slippery proposition. It puts forward a number of interesting ideas, some of which are connected with national identity, exploitation, victimhood, abjection. It poses questions based on these notions in a serious-seeming way, but, going beyond the specifically 'Serbian' factor (and I'm not suggesting one can straightforwardly 'go beyond' such a central issue ), I see this film as occupying a similar position to 'Cannibal Holocaust' – potentially a cynical, exploitative take on cynical exploitation which ends up basically AS cynical exploitation... maybe. I don't know actually, it could be a case of epater le bourgeois, it could be could be something more high, or low minded... in any case, on a visceral level, I found 'A Serbian Film' to be quite intoxicating, certainly a film which should be seen and talked about, not censored the way it has been. I saw the uncut version recently, and I can't help but echo MTDS's sentiments in his recent review... there's way worse out there, even within the realms of fairly available hardcore horror, and, even though I can see why the BBFC felt a need to cut based on the strictures they choose to abide by, personally I've been more 'disturbed' by some material they've passed in other contexts... not to say 'A Serbian Film' isn't gruelling. It is, and it's meant to be, although aesthetically its main draw for me is how it feeds all this into the nightmarish delirium of its second half, where Lynch and Cronenberg seem to be conspicuously evoked (easy references, but true enough for me). I recommend 'A Serbian Film' in its undiluted form – it may be a harsh watch on some levels, and it may leave some with a sense of having been played, but it is fascinating, and I really want to know what the director does next.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

NIGHTCRAWLER. Following on from Dem's excellent review, this is possibly the finest screen presentation of a psychopath ever committed to film. Gyllenhaal nails the alienation and lack of empathy aided by the odd bit of lighting to create one of the most frighteningly real monsters in recent cinema history. Highly recommended.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

NIGHTCRAWLER. Following on from Dem's excellent review, this is possibly the finest screen presentation of a psychopath ever committed to film. Gyllenhaal nails the alienation and lack of empathy aided by the odd bit of lighting to create one of the most frighteningly real monsters in recent cinema history. Highly recommended.

Glad you enjoyed it as much as i did MTDS.