What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Night Of The Sorcerers. 1974.

This has a lot of the right ingredients for a good movie but sadly it falls well sort of putting everything together and turning it into something memorable. Good star cast, good setting, good plot and a great director but this just seemed to fail, it does have the hallmarks of being a good euro-sleazy horror, right at the start we are given a small not too gory treat and then a few years later a expedition arrives and then all hell breaks out. Anyone that is use to Amando de Ossorio's work he intends to use like a slow motion approach that works with zombies, for this film it didn't seem right. I really wanted to enjoy it but maybe another watch of it will make me change my view.

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I love this.

Fancy watching it tonight now you've mentioned it.

I have the old Victory / Deimos dvd. They looked so good they were practically Blu-ray quality.

[Frankie Teardrop]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Voices sounds good.

Dread sounds familiar. I don't know if i have it or not. Perhaps i once owned it. Perhaps it's simply been in my wishlist for too long. Puzzles, puzzles.

'The Voices' is well worth a go, definitely on the bleak side of funny.

You'll probably have at least read 'Dread' - it's a Clive Barker adaption (don't think he was involved in the film) based on one of the Books Of Blood stories. Coming from 2009, it's very 'torture porn' and has that slick but sickly filtered look of many of its ilk. It's maybe not so massively gory, but I remember walking away from it with that slightly hollow feeling I often get after I've seen something that touches a raw nerve. Can't think why really, might've been my mood on the day, might be just be my memory's natural tendency to exaggerate working against me. But I recall it having... something.

[Frankie Teardrop]

RE/MEMBER – Japanese schoolkids stumble into a cursed time loop and spend their groundhog days trying to piece together a mummified body, a task made needlessly difficult by the angry spectre who basically slaughters them all day in day out. Probably contains half the wildness of the original manga I never read, but I don’t care, it’s still full of freaky mayhem. Strangely wholesome mayhem, at that - it’s all wrapped up in a bundle of cloying sentimentality about friendship and belonging. I’ve noticed that manoeuvre in quite a few Japanese genre exercises, brutality in one hand and goo in the other. It just makes me like it more.

ITSY BITSY – A troubled family cross the country to the place where mom has a PA gig; her client turns out to be Bruce Davison, which is bad news really as he has a history involving death cults based on giant spiders. ‘Itsy Bitsy’ puts itself midway between angsty drama and gooey horror. It’s too clunky to dramatise addiction and loss in a way that doesn’t feel like window dressing, which is a shame as I happen to find the combo of handwringing and gloop quite attractive. I guess the ‘A24 approach’ has a lot of pull these days, but ‘Itsy Bitsy’ is too straight and in fact plays more like something from the mid noughties with a few sad eyes thrown in. But, I enjoyed it on a certain level.

[MrBarlow]

Picnic At Hanging Rock. 1975.

Students at an upper crust Victorian-era girls' school go on a field trip to Hanging Rock, miles from any civilisation and 3 girls and a teacher disappear.

Peter Weir did a phenomenal job of creating a creepy atmosphere, what starts as a good day out on Valentines Day, we get some character build up, some are close friends and things take a some what hypnotic turn mixed with a haunting background playing along and then tragedy strikes when some are reported missing. As much as the film focuses on the missing people, it does turn to those left behind. A pupil has lost her BFF and her benefactor is behind on school payments, one of the young men feels guilty about what happened...is he a culprit or someone genuinely kind hearted. The head teacher seems to show no remorse about what happened but also dealing with some backlash. The acting is this is performed well and does make you sink into the film that can make you feel empathy for those that are lost.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

You'll probably have at least read 'Dread' - it's a Clive Barker adaption (don't think he was involved in the film) based on one of the Books Of Blood stories. Coming from 2009, it's very 'torture porn' and has that slick but sickly filtered look of many of its ilk. It's maybe not so massively gory, but I remember walking away from it with that slightly hollow feeling I often get after I've seen something that touches a raw nerve. Can't think why really, might've been my mood on the day, might be just be my memory's natural tendency to exaggerate working against me. But I recall it having... something.

Result!

I do have Dread. Thought i did.

I'll watch it again tonight.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

White Comanche (1968)

An unfairly criticised spaghetti western featuring William Shatner in the dual role of drifter, Johnny Moon and his twin brother Notah who is a notorious Apache warrior.

Fast paced and so much fun even if this probably ticks all the western cliche boxes such as Moon being mistaken for his brother throughout the first half of the movie before teaming up with the local sheriff - Joseph Cotten who is really good value - and ending up with the girl who accused him of raping her during the opening scenes - a solid role for Rosanna Yanni who i love in classics like Two Undercover Angels, Kiss Me Monster and Hunchback of the Morgue.

Shatner is made for action roles like this, especially when it comes to fighting himself as the two brothers scrap it out at the death, it's a pity he didn't do more.

[MrBarlow]

It Follows. 2014.

Another simple tale of boy meets girls, boy humps girl and live happily ever after...in this case they don't, boy and girl do the deed and instead of passing on a STD, the boy passes on a curse of being stalked by ghosts.

Simple premise but getting rid of a ghost is harder than getting rid of a STD, even though the main character and her friends try to do and even be creative towards the end which doesn't exactly plan out well. This was something different involving teens and sexual encounters and a possibility this is a warning about safe sex or you never know what you may pick up. The cast do try their best, writer/director David Robert Mitchell did try and give us something new in the horror genre but for me only downside is the pacing, goes slow then quite steady then back to slow. Another viewing of this will happen again.


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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Moonraker (1979)

I always smile at the way Bond (Roger Moore) gets Jaws (Richard Kiel) to turn on Drax (Michael Lonsdale) by getting Drax to admit in front of them that anyone not measuring up to his physical standards, including him and Dolly his new girlfriend he found in Brazil, would be exterminated.

Dolly as played by Blanche Ravalec is the best looking girl in the film by a country mile. Just because she wears glasses, she's apparently imperfect. She needs to give Drax her glasses it seems.

[SymbioticFunction]

Watched Finland's Sisu (gold prospector vs nazis), it's a fun violent film. I was quite impressed when I read that it only cost six million euros, all the money is on the screen. Apart from some brief subtitles towards the end, all the actors were speaking English so I guess they were hoping for the US release that it got. Would recommend Sisu. I know I'm quite often underwhelmed with new films but I've now seen a few, this year that I rate (the others being Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, the new Spider-Verse and Guardians Vol. 3).

[Nordicdusk]

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The owner of a health farm leaks a chemical that melts those who ingest it. Strangely people will ingest anything that is free

I went into this pretty excited as a lover of Street Trash I was loving the prospect of Street Trash mixed with some Australian madness. Could it live up to my probably unrealistic expectations?

Well mostly It did the melting is fantastic so over the top and disgusting with the use of some brilliant vibrant and disgusting colours to enhance the look. There were a few spots were I found it started to drag a little but soon something crazy would happen like an inbred redneck lady splitting a man with a pole or two more inbreds eating a raw Kangaroo

Body Melt is a fun time but there are big of gaps without any bodies melting if they threw a few more in the middle of the film it would of been a more balanced journey.

I have to mention that the soundtrack will wreck your bloody head

Disgusting quirky madness with Harold Bishop as the sinister doctor