What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[JamesN]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Honeymoon, 2014. Leigh Janiak.

Young newlyweds Bea and Paul head to a semi-remote lakehouse for their honeymoon. When Paul gets up for a drink in the middle of the night he returns to bed to find Bea missing. Finding the door open he heads out into the woods and finds her stood naked amidst the trees a few hundred yards away from the house. Carrying her back he presumes she has been sleepwalking until she gradually starts exhibiting strange behaviour. Next he finds strange marks on her thighs and before long strange lights start appearing in the windows and i shall say no more other than this low budget little horror is well worth checking out. Carried more by the performances of its small cast than anything else both Rose Leslie (Game of Thrones) and Harry Treadaway (Fortitude) play the young lovers well and its the charisma and chemistry that make this work and draw you in.

GREAT choice. I loooove this movie. It's one of my favorite American-made horror films of the last decade, easily. Imagine my surprise when I discovered, just a week or so after I saw it for the first time, that HONEYMOON was shot just 5 minutes from where I work. I've swam in that lake, when I was a kid.

Anyway . . . cool to find another fan of this underrated gem.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by JamesN

GREAT choice. I loooove this movie. It's one of my favorite American-made horror films of the last decade, easily. Imagine my surprise when I discovered, just a week or so after I saw it for the first time, that HONEYMOON was shot just 5 minutes from where I work. I've swam in that lake, when I was a kid.

Anyway . . . cool to find another fan of this underrated gem.

Awesome. Yeah great movie, i like films that achieve a lot with very little and Honeymoon is just that, way more than the sum of its admittedly good parts. Small cast, simple setting, barely any real effects. Plus Rose Leslie is gorgeous.

[trebor8273]

LETHAL WEAPON 2

9.1/10

[trebor8273]

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD

7.8/10

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

The Happiness Cage (1972)

Christopher Walken and Ronny Cox go all One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in this sci-fi (sorta') drama about brain experiments on US soldiers scarred in violence during the Vietnam war in an attempt to brain wash them and calm them down again.

For the most part this is quite good. Talky and engaging although never gripping, it's stage play roots always to the fore with the odd surreal and disturbing scene for good measure - witness the experimental monkey's with their brains protruding from bandages on the top of their heads. A young Walken in his first starring role stands out and it's clear what an original talent he'd turn into even so early in his career. Cox runs him close though in his turn as a violent sex offender.

The final scene as a brain cleansed Walken is unveiled to the press proves quite chilling.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Happiness Cage (1972)

Christopher Walken and Ronny Cox go all One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in this sci-fi (sorta') drama about brain experiments on US soldiers scarred in violence during the Vietnam war in an attempt to brain wash them and calm them down again.

For the most part this is quite good. Talky and engaging although never gripping, it's stage play roots always to the fore with the odd surreal and disturbing scene for good measure - witness the experimental monkey's with their brains protruding from bandages on the top of their heads. A young Walken in his first starring role stands out and it's clear what an original talent he'd turn into even so early in his career. Cox runs him close though in his turn as a violent sex offender.

The final scene as a brain cleansed Walken is unveiled to the press proves quite chilling.

Noted.

Sadly cannot say the same about The Carrier (2015, Anthony Woodley), a rather cliched tale of survival in the air after a pandemic alert. Whilst I sat through The Comic (ahem....), this was a bit of a strain. Nae recommended at all.

Death Wish III (Michael Winner, 1985)
Self fulfilling right wing fantasy. Laugh riot with a few winces, due to "extremity" of the violence, not as hysterically reactionary as....

Death Wish IV (1987, J Lee Thompson)
From the team that would bring us the hyper racist Kinjite, this is a rollicking piece of Cannon fodder. Bronson intoning "I am Death!" as he wastes 3 scuuuuumbags is one of the greatest openings to modern cinema imho. Bergman eat yer heart out!! Ahem.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

See No Evil 2 (2014)

Sadly underwhelming sequel to See No Evil which is a direct follow on from the 2006 original and takes place on that same night. Seemingly borrowing the prologue from Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) and expanding it into a full movie as psycho killer Jacob is taken to the morgue where some employees and friends are holding a birthday party. Obviously it's not long before Jacob comes back from the dead and starts killing again.

This film from the Soska twins who helmed the impressive American Mary (2012) wasn't as grisly as i'd hoped, and as i type these words a couple of weeks after watching it, not terribly memorable either. In fact all i really recall is the sexy Katharine Isabelle wearing the shortest skirt possible, getting off on the 'dead' body of Jacob on a mortuary slab.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Late Phases (2014)

I was surprised at how good Late Phases actually was. It's premise of a werewolf attacking the residents of a senior citizens village, i have to admit, didn't sound exactly exciting. However a sharp script held together by a superb performance from Nick Damici as retired army veteran Ambrose McKinley really engaged my full attention.

Added to the fact that McKinley is also blind and you have an almost impossible situation. How can a blind old man defeat a werewolf?

Late Phases is one of the best werewolf movies from recent years and boasts excellent creature effects, a credible story and enough intrigue, humour, action and excitement to keep even the most jaded horror fan gripped.

Director Adrián GarcÃ*a Bogliano, who also made the brilliant Here Comes the Devil (2012) is clearly a name to look out for in the horror genre.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Late Phases (2014)

I was surprised at how good Late Phases actually was. It's premise of a werewolf attacking the residents of a senior citizens village, i have to admit, didn't sound exactly exciting. However a sharp script held together by a superb performance from Nick Damici as retired army veteran Ambrose McKinley really engaged my full attention.

Added to the fact that McKinley is also blind and you have an almost impossible situation. How can a blind old man defeat a werewolf?

Late Phases is one of the best werewolf movies from recent years and boasts excellent creature effects, a credible story and enough intrigue, humour, action and excitement to keep even the most jaded horror fan gripped.

Director Adrián GarcÃ*a Bogliano, who also made the brilliant Here Comes the Devil (2012) is clearly a name to look out for in the horror genre.

Sounds good. Nick Damici is very watchable and brilliant in Stakeland.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Sounds good. Nick Damici is very watchable and brilliant in Stakeland.

It's ages since i watched Stakeland. I don't recall much about it.