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Ghosts Of Mars. 2001. 2176, a police unit is sent to a mining town to pick up a dangerous criminal, and find something else has taken over the miners. John Carpenter returns to the pure Sci-Fi horror genre with plenty blood and gore added in the mix, Pam Grier plays the commander of the unit with Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Clea Duvall and Liam Waite. Ice Cube stars as the criminal Williams who claims he never killed anyone. The plot is easy as told in flashbacks with some tense moments mixed with a good background score, some how it is a bit like Assault on precint 13 but with more action. ghosts-of-mars.jpg
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Fright. A young babysitter faces a night of terror when the homidically deranged ex-husband of the woman she's working for chooses that night to escape from an asylum - and come home. Susan George stars in this surprisingly intense and gripping early 70s British psycho thriller co-starring Honor Blackman, Ian Bannen and a pre-Minder George Cole and Dennis Waterman (though they never actually appear onscreen together). Good stuff. |
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It! Terror From Beyond Space. 1958. A manned expedition to Mars is marooned on the planet, with one survivor the rescue ship picks up a creature that has stowed away. This was a decent B movie that is impressive with a good written script and good acting, some films from the era drag on for the first 30 mins before all hell breaks loose but this seems to jump in quick. The Monster is seen offscreen in shadows until near the end. Edward Cahn done a decent job with the direction adding in a sense of claustrophobia tension. 61lt3Sb+ALL._AC_.jpg
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The Conjured (Bidisha Chowdhury) Tonally a tornado. A pale, wan artisty type inherits a house in the country. What happens after that ... sheesh. Raped by a ghost? Or was it a dream? Hmmm. The House Of The Devil Rewatch. I have to say this is my favourite of West's work. A desperate student takes the wrong babysitting job. As a homage, it works, and as a whole it sticks together even if the events may be ... familiar to those who care for this end of the spectrum
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The Lego Batman Movie (2017) What a blast this was. There's so much going on, so much to take in as well as the funniest, wittiest dialogue i've heard in a long time. It's impossible to take everything in during a single viewing. The best toy commercial i've ever seen. |
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Saw Watch Your Stern on talking pictures the other day. It stood out to me because it starred most of the Carry On cast but wasn't a carry on film. Having done a bit of research it appears that both the cast and crew were the usual carry on lot, but it isn't considered (obviously given the title) an official film of the series. It's pretty poor to be honest, but it got my interest for the aforementioned reason. Kenneth Connor gets to dress up in costume a lot and try out accents, Sid gets to use his trade-marked laugh and Leslie Phillips gets to be, well, Leslie Phillips. On the girls side we have a game Hattie Jakes suffering the indignity of being accused of being a man dressed as a woman and Joan Sims seems to be in proto-carry on mode, as I feel she was still honing her craft in this film. It would be a few years before her old battle-axe routine would come to fruition. Bonus dialogue from Carry On Cleo... Julius Caesar (Kenneth Williams) thinks he's been stabbed and is laid on a couch. Calpernia (Joan Sims) worries and fusses over him. "Oh, Julie, Julie, you look a little wan" Her father Seneca (Charles Hawtrey) "He looks like a big one to me!"
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