Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I never stopped wanting to murder them. But Moreau is incredible - check out (for example) La Baie des Anges.

Anvil...I never finished it in the end. I liked it well enough, but it didn't leave much of an impression on me (either now, or obviously at the time)

Yeah, I've basically forgotten it exists already and its been a few days. I will seek our MoreMoreau, she is pretty great in J&J. I think she reminds me of Isabelle Huppert, who I also have an arty/smutty crush on.

Last night I watched Kung Fu Panda 2. I thought it was good - nothing too memorable (it's a kids film, surprisingly enough) but excellent animation and made me laugh consistently. The way the action scenes are directed/animated in both Kung Fu Pandas seems more competent and thrilling than in the average Hollywood action film I see.
 

nochexxx

harco pronting
first two parts of the Pusher trilogy have been brilliant. same director who did Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn) but this is proper homegrown. shaky camera work might seem like an obvious trick, but it works perfectly as it follows Copenhagens criminal underclass.
doesn't strike me as being overly sensationalist like so much other gangsta movie trite but perhaps i'm buying into it more cos its in Danish and therefore feels more real.
 

wonk_vitesse

radio eros
junkhearts

re: Pusher

Yes great film, was excellent when it first came out too. Perhaps it has been aped a bit now.

Saw junkhearts at the london film festival. Anyone who lives in London will recognise the streets and flats and corner shop narrative. It's very dark and disturbing but Eddy Marsan gives a superb performance as an ex-soldier with post stress disorder. Looks like it was filmed around Hackney or Shoreditch. It's being released in the Uk on 4th Nov.
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
first two parts of the Pusher trilogy have been brilliant. same director who did Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn) but this is proper homegrown. shaky camera work might seem like an obvious trick, but it works perfectly as it follows Copenhagens criminal underclass.
doesn't strike me as being overly sensationalist like so much other gangsta movie trite but perhaps i'm buying into it more cos its in Danish and therefore feels more real.

this guy also did Valhalla Rising, right?
 

nochexxx

harco pronting
this guy also did Valhalla Rising, right?

yeah, any good? i really want to see his other flick called Bronson. from what i've read its based on a true story about a british prisoner who enjoys inflicting pain on prison wardens whilst thinking he is charles bronson. this has to be good.
 

slowtrain

Well-known member
yeah, any good? i really want to see his other flick called Bronson. from what i've read its based on a true story about a british prisoner who enjoys inflicting pain on prison wardens whilst thinking he is charles bronson. this has to be good.

I want to see Valhalla Rising too.

Me and my Mum (!) watched the first half of a faulty Bronson download ages ago, I remember it being really fast paced and hilarious and fun.

Post-punk and Wagner soundtrack!
 

benjybars

village elder.
It's a rave, Lewis!

The clubbing scene in Spaced is good as well.

ha! yep the rave scene in Morse is so, so good. Might watch it now actually.

good call on Spaced aswell.


re: Valhalla Rising. Excellent film. fucking brutal. watch it with a subwoofer if possible ;)
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Valhalla Rising - was a huge discussion on this thread....somewhere. I feel asleep, but I still thought it was good. heavy going though, kind of hypnotically boring after a while.

Angst, yes, Austrian, even more fucked up! Haven't got hold of this, only saw 10 mins that are on youtube, but the soundtrack is fabulous

Isn't the rave in Morse called something like 'Cherub'? And they have this whole scene where Morse recognises bits of Mozart or Wagner in a rave tune, and calls it 'magpie music'. And it starred Liza Walker, who I really fancied when I was about 15 (also due to her part in Teenage Health Freak - which I've just found on youtube, that's my weekend youtube watching sorted out...)
 
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pork

Wild Swine
As an on and off lurker I just want to add my thanks for the many recommendations and add a couple of my own:

Life is Beautiful - Not sure how this ended up in my lovefilm list but it reduced me and the missus to floods of tears. The effect was magnified by the fact that neither of us had any idea where the film was going, so I won't say anything more for now

The Big Blue- Early(?) Luc Besson film about freedivers. I'd probably pick this apart a bit on second viewing but hungover as I was at the time I just went with it and it was lovely. Fantastic 80's score, and some amazing underwater footage. Only seems to be available either dubbed into french or in the original english but chopped up badly with a newer, rubbish soundtrack.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend them unreservedly as I can see either of them irritating some people.
 

stephenk

Well-known member
yeah angst is...not exactly horror - i really think brutal is the best word...maybe comparable to michael haneke in some ways.

saw some more horror stuff...loved the house of the devil - immaculately paced. inside was reasonably fucked but gets pretty corny, and a blade in the dark is pretty classic giallo, right down to the gender identity/freudian stuff.
 

nochexxx

harco pronting
finished the last volume in the Pusher series. predictably superb, i wish more directors would play with time like this. i now feel as if i have spent a day with a Serbian druglord.
 

stephenk

Well-known member
i don't undeservedly recommend it, but slaughter hotel was kind of fun...it's basically soft porn with an extremely loose, half-assed murder plot tacked on. and klaus kinski is in it.
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Has anyone seen Tzameti/13? I'm sure a lot of you must have. it seemed to divide opinion quite radically. Saw it yesterday and i thought there was something stunning about the updated Nouvelle Vague-ness of the first part/slightly weird editing. Second part was a slight letdown because it was obvious what was going to happen, but here for me style trumped substance with some justification.
 

e/y

Well-known member
I really liked Tzameti. you're right that the latter parts were somewhat predictable, but I found that the (immense) sense of tension was still there for me.
 

slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
Hausu - finally saw this bonkers Japanese horror fantasy last night - lots of artistry & imagination at work amid all the lunacy, daft humour and cartoon horror. Cut-up editing along with cut-up victims....at times I thought 'Godard on LSD'. If John Zorn made a film, it might look like this. Very enjoyable. Eaten by a piano...a novel way to go...
 

baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Never EVER watch a Paranormal Activity film in the house on your own. Seriously, I've never had to switch off a film before, and I watch a lot of horror films...At the cinema, fine, at home, instant dread.

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/paranormal-activity-3
Goodness, there's a pot-smoking scene in this film about Satan.

Any other nominations for the scariest film of all time? I've rarely found films as creepy as the PA series - the maintenance of suspense is masterful. Audition creeped me the fuck out (the bits before the torture), by its weird distortions of time and space - that's my nomination for best 'art-house' scare.
 
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slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
The Haunting (1963) - possibly my favourite, and one that, despite (or because of) the lack of violence, is all the more effective, relying as it does on sound and atmosphere. I don't watch gore/slasher films. Because a) I scare easily b) they leave a nasty taste in my brain (which, I know, they're supposed to).
 
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