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Originally Posted by Demdike  December 20th
Santa's Slay (2005)
Terrifically good fun, a reimagining of the Santa Claus legend. In this he is a demon who loses a bet with an angel and has to be good to people and give toys to children. When the bet comes to an end he goes back to his evil ways using the Santa Claus legend as a way to strike terror.
The film begins with a typical family get together on Christmas Eve, everyone sat round the dinner table, getting a bit tetchy as you do. Then Santa appears and all hell breaks loose. The head of the table has his hands pinned to the table with garden shears and the other revellers come to equally unfortunate ends. This opening scene of carnage is made more fun by the fact the table consists of known actors like Rebecca Gayheart and James Caan.
Wrestler Bill Goldberg plays Santa, and he does an impressive job, murdering everyone he comes across, including the punters of a strip club. That is until friendly old Robert Culp decides to put a stop to Santa's antics. The violence is a lot of fun, if on the cartoony side, but this doesn't detract from what is a fine piece of entertainment which i am sure will become a regular Christmas treat for me.
December 21st.
Waves of Lust (1975)
A young couple becomes embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, sex , betrayal, domestic abuse and ultimately murder.
I really enjoyed this Ruggero Deodato effort which was a long way from his more notorious films and has next to no blood in it. What it does have in spades is sleaze, as the couples swap partners and get up to various sexy antics. Some of it, towards the end, not so playful. John Steiner is excellent as the increasingly deranged Giorgio and Al Cliver somewhat subdued as Irem, the only other male in the film. The film lives or dies on how convincing the cast are when there are only four of them on a yacht, creating an increasingly claustrophobic atmosphere. The two women played by the equally gorgeous Silvia Dionisio and Elizabeth Turner are just as capable as their male counterparts when it comes to the sexual games. As the film continues suddenly it seems everyone is no longer playing and seem to all have varying agendas. The way the script allows the characters to develop and brings out near psychopathic tendancies in some, proves somewhat of a triumph for the tautness of Deodato's direction. This may well be my favourite Deodato film of all. Time will tell.
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I really enjoyed Santas slay!
Watched GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, not a bad film by any stretch of the imagination, fincher is clearly a talented director and only a fool could call it a bad movie.
unfortunately I have to call it a pointless one, made far too soon after the swedish versions it feels slick but ultimately pointless. Shame really. That said I do like stellan skaarsgard in it!
Then CLASS OF NUKE EM HIGH. Excellent slice of troma with plenty of brains behind the sleazy mutant exterior. Sends up eighties america and atomic energy brilliantly and adds a fresh spin on the high school movie. Arrows presentation here is faultless.