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.
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.
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.
Awakening of the Beast! It's nuts."his later work gets more psychedelic"
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.
Awakening of the Beast! It's nuts.
Not seen Finis Hominis - is it more of this kind of business?
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.
scene in which she's dancing to The Fixx on her walkman is worth the price of admission (<3)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.