October Horror Movie Marathon

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Just like us Scots

Brothers in webbed fingered arms

[Frankie Teardrop]

THE GRUESOME TWOSOME – Random little things help me decide whether I’m going to like a film or not. In the case of ‘The Gruesome Twosome’, the placement of a stuffed pink poodle next to a radio announcing the latest co-ed murders tells me all I need to know. “But The Gruesome Twosome has so much more to offer, why stop there?” I ask myself. And true enough, practically every moment of TGT screams cinematic dysfunction and a breathtaking dedication to getting it all so completely wrong it could never not be right. This is a film where a bunch of girls in the same frilly bedroom as the pink poodle suddenly start grooving to sixties pop whilst chomping on chicken drumsticks. From his bucket on the bed, The Colonel letches at them like a dubious uncle; I’ve never seen more inspiring product placement. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. In TGT, all human interaction is about as meaningful as deranged wigmaker Mrs Pringle ‘s conversations with her stuffed Bobcat (and pink poodle competitor) Napolean, or the grunts of gurning scalp ripper Rodney. It is a film whose majestic incompetence spins out into beach scenes that so disregard the fact they’re supposed to be in a movie that they practically turn to verité, into scenes that take what seems like minutes to depict someone casually opening a door, and the very pinnacle of all this, into scenes of amateur sleuthing that are utterly devoid of tension because, come on HG, you’ve already f*cking told us who the killers are! It’s genius. Imagine someone trying to do all that now? Either they wouldn’t know how, or possibly a higher authority would intervene. The juice that oils the Lewis machine is present and correct i.e., makeshift gore of the lowest quality; the splatter is not only inept but completely divorced from any narrative tension, meaning that all the offal and strawberry jam ends up looking exactly like what it is – a bad prop in a movie where no-one gives a shit. It’s still more convincing than the acting, however. All of that matters, because it’s part of what makes HG Lewis flicks genuinely magical. It’s not everything, though. I just said that ‘The Gruesome Twosome’ is a movie where no-one gives a shit, but that’s not really true. It’s not the insane badness that elevates ‘The Gruesome Twosome’ and so many of Lewis’s other flicks to a higher plane, it’s the sheer imagination and generosity of spirit, present to a degree far more pronounced than in most other genre flicks from the late sixties. I mean it. What about the curtain raiser, a conversation between two hair pieces mounted on childishly made-up dummy heads? You didn’t get that in Rosemary’s bloody Baby. TGT is a wigged-out delight that will never win friends on the grounds of good taste or good anything, but, if you happen to be Hershell Gordon Lewis flick, sometimes it’s better to have enemies. Right, Napolean?

[Nordicdusk]

30 Days of Unseen Horror

Day 21


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Electronics engineer Mitch MacAfee while on a routine aircraft exercise spots a UFO what he can only describes as like a flying battleship. Mitch calls it in and the airforce scramble jets to intercept the craft but they are left chasing their tails when it disappears into thin air and with no radar showing the craft Mitch is accused of carrying off some stupid joke. After a few more incidents the UFO is identified as a giant Bird like creature and it's a race against time before it changes its focus from the odd aircraft to the rest of humanity.

I was doing some reading up about this and after watching it for myself I feel pretty bad for the cast . The story goes that the cast never saw the monster until the night of the premier. They were promised by the director that the monster would be terrifying but once the monster came on the screen some of the cast snuck out of the cinema in pure embarrassment

I found it to be a fun film but the head on the bird monster is bloody terrible the idea is great with the antimatter force field and working a way to kill the creature and who doesn't love a giant monster destroying a city and famous landmarks but you can't get over that stupid head it's like a creature from Fraggle Rock of a love interest for Big Bird in Sesame Street

Guns cannons rocket's
Guns cannons rocket's
Guns cannons rocket's
For the love of god
GUNS CANNONS ROCKETS

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

I find it hard watching films set in Ireland because we are usually depicted a stupid imbred fools I mean we are that but I don't want everyone else to know

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Just like us Scots

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

Brothers in webbed fingered arms

As someone who genuinely has conjoined toes, I stand with my Irish and Scottish brothers here... in a matter of speaking!

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

As someone who genuinely has conjoined toes, I stand with my Irish and Scottish brothers here... in a matter of speaking!

[MuckyFunster]

21. Matriarch (2022)

Disney+ - first time watch.

Laura (Jemima Birch) is an advert designer with an alcohol issue, seen with vodka in her water bottle. She’s on edge all the time, battling with her own issues while trying to be civil to her colleagues who are somewhat overbearing, obviously worried about her. She receives a call out of the blue from her estranged mother who she hasn’t seen for 20 years and who she has told her colleagues was dead. This kicks Laura off and she ends up having a cocaine overdose only to be saved by some mysterious black slime. Laura relents and makes contact with her mother, Celia (Kate Dickie). She accepts the olive branch and returns to her childhood home, where she discovers that no one has aged as would be expected and all is not as it seems…

The whole build up to the finale has a sinister feel and is really intriguing. Kate dickie is great in this “Hot Fuzz” meets “The Wicker Man” movie. 51 year old Dickie plays the matriarch, who would be expected to be around 80 years old. Her overly caring character is obviously trying hard to elicit sympathy and forgiveness from her reluctant daughter.

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[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Just like us Scots

Ken fit like min .

[MrBarlow]

Spontaneous Combustion. 1990.

Director Tobe Hooper teams up with Brad Dourif for this late 80s horror that Dourif said in a interview that he was unhappy with the final version due to studio and producers interference.

The film starts off in Nevada 1955 nuclear testing with a couple who survive the blast and have a child, both parents burst into flames. Their son David now adopting the name Sam has been passed on something by his parents and monitored by those around him.

This could have had potential to be a great horror with one or two curve balls thrown into it with a nuclear test in the 50s organised by someone and then 30 odd years later same person building a nuclear power station and drawing in a good connection, but the acting is a let down. Dourif is always exceptional along with Jon Cyphers but the other cast members seem to have a problem with their dialogue. The effects for the film seem to be good but not great or mind blowing and a good bit of make up used for a hole in a arm. This is one of those good but not so good films.

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[Demoncrat]

I'm 15 minutes into this Last Voyage Of The Demeter. Hmmm.

Review to follow.

After that .... Death Metal Zombies

[Demoncrat]

The Last Voyage Of The Demeter (Andre Ovredal)

It looks nice, I'll give it that. I approved of the design of a certain passenger, though some may see echoes of another film cough.
Some of it ground my gears somewhat, but I don't have to watch it again do I?