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Originally Posted by pedromonkey  just watched Drive Angry, great fun, violent, funny and Cage is great, amber Heard is hot and William Fitchner steals the film as the accountant.... |
I've seen Amber Heard in a few films now and I think she's a shining star for the future. Great screen presence, good actor, seems to inhabit her rôles. Just hope she avoids any further
Pineapple Express type mistakes!
Last night I watched a couple of flicks from 2007's 8 Films To Die For:
Unearthed - mediocre monster flick that passes the time. It's rubbish, steals from the
Alien films so heavily I would have thought it actionable, and a great deal of screen time is either too dark or too rapidly edited or has too jerky camera moves to actually see what on earth is going on. I would have been harsher on it, but I realised that if it had been made in the early 80s in Italy we'd all be clamouring for a Special Edition release.
Mulberry Street - thought I'd finally sit down and watch this as I was so impressed by the writer/directors' current film,
Stake Land. The British DVD title (
Zombie Virus On Mulberry Street) is very misleading - this is an "infected" film rather than zombies. So far as I am concerned this is a big discovery.A superb, tense, excellently made arthouse horror films that has,like, a good script, and well drawn characters and superb handheld camerawork reminiscent of Abel Ferrara's "grit not gloss" films. Written down the premise is ridiculous (a rat borne virus turns victims into flesh-eating "rat people") buit it really, really works. And works extremely well. Besides, is the idea of corpses coming to life to eat flesh/drink blood any less absurd? There is some (very) dark humour and satire here, but it lurks beneath the visceral tension. It's a fantastic film and I genuinely feel like I've made a big discovery. That so much can be done with so little money (the film-makers had to rely upon guerrilla film-making and unpaid favours from friends and family to get it made apparently) is an abject lesson to all film-makers and to the obscene high budget crap that Hollywood's bowels regularly void.