Films you've seen recently and would unreservedly recommend:
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don_quixote
Trent End
saw a film called skeletons last night and really enjoyed it.
IdleRich
IdleRich
empty mirror
remember the jackalope
A Walk Through H.
My Tulse Luper obsession is kicking into high gear. It has been slowly gestating for years but the Greenaway Early Films/Shorts box set has lit my fire. My mixed metaphor quota is maxed out but I'll be damned if it doesn't scratch where I've been itching.
My Tulse Luper obsession is kicking into high gear. It has been slowly gestating for years but the Greenaway Early Films/Shorts box set has lit my fire. My mixed metaphor quota is maxed out but I'll be damned if it doesn't scratch where I've been itching.
slim jenkins
El Hombre Invisible
Just watched the first of the Coffin Joe trilogy, At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul...interesting in that it avoids the merely trashy B-movie category, but I'm not sure how...perhaps his performance, which is over the top yet somehow, in places, quite convincing. Got the box so I'll be watching the rest at some point.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
Good call bringing them up, never seen them yet. What's the quality of the transfers like? A quick look on Amazon says that there's motion blurring and stuff, is it too bad to watch? (bearing in mind I like the look of stuff on VHS...)
slim jenkins
El Hombre Invisible
Not bad at all from what I've seen, but then, I'm no techno-cine geek so what do I know? OK, the sound isn't perfect but for me that lends the experience more charm...if the adventures of an evil bastard can be charming. I wouldn't let bad reviews re technicalities put you off, after all, they aren't available in any other form.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
Great thanks slim, will pick it up. Trailer on youtube looks great!
nochexxx
harco pronting
somewhere on this board i started a thread on coffin Joe, but yeah i have mad love for the guy. i like the way he shoots himself on film - you get the feeling his character on screen and off are not that different. in one of his later films there's a scene where his Coffin Joe character is being interviewed on a cheesy daytime chatshow, giving the viewer more character info. i thought that was a very interesting thing to commit to film. his later work gets more psychedelic and from the ones i've seen Finis Hominis is my fav. i'd love to be able to find all of his other films, many of which are seemingly hard to track down. if i could figure out a way to burn the films with subtitles i don't mind sharing them.
slim jenkins
El Hombre Invisible
Yeah, I remember it. I've watched some of Finis Hominis...looks great and I love the soundtrack.
Rich,
Awakening Of The Beast is also in the box set...looking forward to it.
nochexxx
harco pronting
yeah that film is awesome.
according to Wiki it was made the same year as Awakening of the Beast (1970). I get the feeling it could have been produced from budget leftovers. It differs from all of the Coffin Joe films I’ve seen because to my mind it reads like a comedy. It also treads a suprisngly linear narative for a CJ flick and feels like raw minimal film making at its best.
lanugo
von Verfall erzittern
There were two recent British films that I quite liked:
Mum & Dad (2008): somewhat of 21st century version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre set in the suburbs somewhere in Britain that's so disgusting and disturbing that, at times, I couldn't barely watch. Luckily, there's a very dark sense of comic relief throughout the film. A Well-made and outstandingly intense horror movie.
Four Lions (2010): A very dark but outrageously funny comedy about a bunch of imbecile wanna-be suicide bombers who get into all kinds of trouble planning their terror attack.
Oh, and I also watched Gaspar Noé's new film Enter The Void which I thought was terrible. Stupid plot, obnoxious characters, and never-ending minutes of redundant camera swirling.
Mum & Dad (2008): somewhat of 21st century version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre set in the suburbs somewhere in Britain that's so disgusting and disturbing that, at times, I couldn't barely watch. Luckily, there's a very dark sense of comic relief throughout the film. A Well-made and outstandingly intense horror movie.
Four Lions (2010): A very dark but outrageously funny comedy about a bunch of imbecile wanna-be suicide bombers who get into all kinds of trouble planning their terror attack.
Oh, and I also watched Gaspar Noé's new film Enter The Void which I thought was terrible. Stupid plot, obnoxious characters, and never-ending minutes of redundant camera swirling.
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Weird you should mention that, as I just watched it yesterday. I'm not usually given to such extreme reactions about a film, but it was pretty unwatchable (and I say this as a horror movie aficionado, or someone who thought he was one). The relentless sadism made it less a film and more an endurance marathon of torture porn, which seemed to serve no other purpose than to revile. Thing about the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is the film is utterly beautiful, aesthetically speaking - this had no such redeeming features.
In other horror movie news, House of the Devil is great, as much for luxuriating in the 16-mm induced sense of the late 70s/early 80s as for the horror part of the film. Anyone who loves Hallowe'en will be smitten, I'd expect.
empty mirror
remember the jackalope
scene in which she's dancing to The Fixx on her walkman is worth the price of admission (<3)
that and the opening/closing credits are pitch perfect
really liked that flick all said