What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[tele1962]

There is one film (watched it again recently) that I feel you guys must see, it is one of my top recommendations and will I think blow your socks off as it is fantastic. The Worlds Fastest Indian:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Yy1vihIKs

It is currently only available on import but deserves a UK release.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Scarlet Fry's Junkfood Horrorfest. (2007)

Ultra low budget portmanteau horror presented by zombie like yokel, Scarlet Fry.

Six tales play out over 65 minutes and range from the good and even inventive to the totally risible and frankly rubbish. However, the tales of murder, cannibalism and all round mayhem are so brief you never get bored, although i did wish one or two could have been expanded upon. From arm chewing gore to a cross dresser who likes to be spanked by kids with skateboards, whilst taking in murderous junkies and sick torture porn in the suitably titled segment Love is Blind.

Filmed in digital it often looks bright and gives the odd queasy impression that some of it looks just a little too real, yet there always that feeling anyone with a video camera and a bit of imagination can do this shit approach to it which adds to the all round grottiness of Z-grade film making such as this.

[gag]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Found this earlier on today
The Return of the Killer Klowns from Outer Space - Killer Klowns Wiki - Wikia

And dont know if ive already mentioned this either ‘Killer Klowns from Outer Space’ TV Show Happening with Original Director

[trebor8273]

A group are rehearsing a play, one of the actress injuries herself and gets treated at a psychiatric hospital are all places on cue One of the loons kills a orderly and hides in her car and sets about killing the members of the play in some gory and gruesome ways. Found this to be very atmospheric with a very creepy killer. 8.5/10

[Frankie Teardrop]

GRADUATION DAY – Looking back on all those first wave slasher films, it's in a way surprising how many of them seem quite odd and not just the linear stalk-teens-and-kill affairs suggested by prototypes like 'Hallowe'en'. I say this partly with reference to a raft of recentish releases from the likes of Arrow and 88, including 'Madman', 'The Mutilator', 'Blood Rage', 'X-Ray' etc etc. Of course, the anomalies will always be the exceptions, and many slashers were just the by-the-numbers run throughs my memory tells me they were. Where does 'Graduation Day' fall in the scheme of things? Maybe it treads a middle path, but I think it tilts more towards freakdom. Either way, there's a hell of a lot wrong with it, for both good and bad. I have to say that it really does set its stall out right from the opening credits, where awful eighties funk cheese gilds a collage of shots of pumped up athletic high school fascism presided over by a frothing-at-the-mouth Christopher George. From the evidence available at this stage, we suspect we might be in for something a bit high school, something a bit gonzo, and potentially something a bit badly made with absolutely no sense of taste. Thankfully this turns out to be 'Graduation Day's exact trajectory, and before long we acclimatise to a strict classroom regime of wonk which includes killers timing kills as if they were track events, flickering montage effects that seem unjustly psychedelic, cops sniffing flowers, dudes with extensive flick knife collections etc etc... 'Graduation Day' boasts many minor eccentricities. But it's a film which, like its adolescent charges, may be in the throes of identity crisis. The tone is all over the place, with swampy atmospheres giving way to light hearted hi-jinks at the switch of a blade. Lugubriousness wrestles ludicrousness, which normally I'm OK with – I am here too, but there are some scenes of chilling gravity (i.e an effectively creepy locker room sequence) which are essentially undermined by the film's inability to follow one true path and, like, find itself maaaan. The benefits of this lack of filmic self knowledge come in the form of flights into mania such as the whole song and dance thing – not only can 'Graduation Day' not get the atmosphere right, but somewhere around the midway mark it threatens to leapfrog genre status and morph into a musical. So we get little outbursts such as 'The Graduation Day Blues', a classroom sing-along, followed by a high school roller disco prom with a band who play hard rock whilst looking New Romantic! Again, these weird, weird mismatches and dichotomies. If I smoked as much reefer as the dudes in this film, I might start to think that all those crack lines were deliberate attempts by the filmmakers to say something about the state of the contemporary American adolescent's psyche. But I'd probably get distracted by an Argento-esque choreographed chase / kill scene involving the killer in fencing gear which ends in the victim being betrayed by a dog. 'Graduation Day' – might not make the grade as anything like a good, well made film, but it gets at least an A-level in slightly crazed cinematic tripe management.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

GRADUATION DAY – an A-level in slightly crazed cinematic tripe management.

It's beyond me why dvd companies don't nick your lines for their cover quotes.

I know i bloody well would.

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Just watched girl in the photographs didnt realise till end credits roled it was last film wes craven worked on before his death.

[Frankie Teardrop]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It's beyond me why dvd companies don't nick your lines for their cover quotes.

I know i bloody well would.

I can just see some of them on a Vipco box.

I'm not suggesting that if you had a DVD label, it'd be Vipco.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

I can just see some of them on a Vipco box.

I'm not suggesting that if you had a DVD label, it'd be Vipco.

I'd hope to have left Vipco far behind by now. More like, say...Pendulum Pictures.

[keirarts]

The Lobster

Colin Farrell plays a chubby singleton who is shipped off to a resort to find a partner. It's the 'near future' aka tomorrow and everyone is required to have a partner. At the resort, if you can't find a partner then you get turned into the animal of your choice. Farrell has chosen a lobster as they live to 100 and have blue blood like the upper class. The atmosphere at the hotel is weird to say the least with some unusual rules including having your hand burned in a toaster for masturbation. After a terrible attempt at a relationship with a psychopath fails, Farrell cheeses it into the woods to live with the 'loners' people hunted by the residents of the hotel who have sworn off relationships and have equally draconian rules about anyone who deviates from the rules. This causes problems when he falls for one of the loners, played by Rachel Weisz.
As weird as it sounds the experience of actually watching the film is stranger. The performances all appear deliberately stilted and forced. The dialogue is at times frank and bizarre. The tone feels more bleak than whimsical and just when you are enjoying it as a strange comedy the film throws in something disturbing. Its probably going to rub some people the wrong way but I really enjoyed this. I must admit I also enjoyed the directors previous film Dogtooth as well. Its worth checking out before you buy it if possible but its a really great little film.