What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by thehamish

My Little Eye (the Interactive Browser version). still have a lot of regard for this film.
though not necessarily this "version". as i thought it jarred with the actual film's timeline, therefore taking AWAY from the impact etc. ach, at least they tried something different.

tried to watch Apollo 18 again. sorry. pass. UFO was scarier IMO.

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I've never seen the Interactive Browser Version, but I'm in agreement on the high regard that My Little Eye deserves. It's one I've found myself compelled to return to a couple of times, now.

I never got this film at all. Bought the bells and whistles two disc edition as soon as it came out and unfortunately found it tedious and a chore to sit through.

It is dirt cheap on Amazon marketplace at the moment 1p i think so if you can say why you like it it may be helpful and i could take another punt on it. Sometimes films work for me in retrospect rather than at the time of initial watching.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike

I never got this film at all. Bought the bells and whistles two disc edition as soon as it came out and unfortunately found it tedious and a chore to sit through.

It is dirt cheap on Amazon marketplace at the moment 1p i think so if you can say why you like it it may be helpful and i could take another punt on it. Sometimes films work for me in retrospect rather than at the time of initial watching.

well here's my two cents worth.
i just love the basic stupidity of the cast (ie very old school behaviour imo), the fact that they let greed destroy them appeals to my socialist side, and
SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER (this is for anyone ELSE perusing this review)


its got a bleak ending, like a proper horror film should have!!!

and nae endless bloody sequels!!!

sorry if this isnt a more studied review.
as i say im a found footage fan (even if this IS stretching that premise a bit), so obviously im biased

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Thanks Hamish.

[James Morton]

THE HAPPENING
didn't think much of this film, Wahlberg was overracting at times as well

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by James Morton

THE HAPPENING
didn't think much of this film, Wahlberg was overracting at times as well

indeed, to my mind it's nowt but xtian propaganda disguised as scifi

[sawyer6]

Well for the past 9 days I was a volunteer at the 52nd Thessaloniki Film Festival so I watched a lot of movies.From Uk I watched TYRANNOSAUR ,a film about domestic violence with great perfomances by Peter Mullan and Olivia Colman and BEHOLD THE LAMB a black comedy-road movie about 2 different kind of failed parents in search for hope.From Austria I watched MICHAEL by Markus Schleinzer a collaborator of Haneke, something that influenced him a lot, about the life of a pedophile who keeps a 10-year-old boy locked in his basement starring Michael Fuith (from Siege of the Dead),a shocking film really,and I also watched 3 films by Ulrich Seidl:THE LAST REAL MEN about men searching wives from Thailand,THE BOSOM FRIEND about a man obsessed with breasts and JESUS,YOU KNOW about six Catholics and their problems they share with Jesus.Next from Czech Republic I watched ALOIS NEBEL a drama using the process of rotoscoping and black and white photography to create beautiful images!From Australia ,SNOWTOWN about John Bunting, Australia's most notorious serial killer a very shocking and dark film highly recommended.From Japan,CUT,a violent take on what it feels like to be a cinephile.From Fyrom the movie PUNK'S NOT DEAD about an ex punk singer trying to reunite his band for one final gig,funny and touching.From Norway I watched the psychological thriller BABYCALL with Noomi Rapace which I found a bit predictable.From Sweden SHE MONKEYS a promising debut by Lisa Aschan and finally from France Michel Ocelot's TALES OF THE NIGHT a shadow animation, similar to his previous films.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

"Attack the Block". Very enjoyable, fun, alien invasion film. It's the first film in ages in which I backed the teens rather than the killers.

[Baseball Fury]

Originally Posted by platostotal

Ch4 had LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and THIRST on at the weekend, LTROI was a quality Nordic horror with a sympathetic storyline and a great non cop-out ending(for a change). THIRST was an off the wall Japanese spin on Vampirism as an infection caught thru transfusions, gets VERY Japanese about halfway thru involving a love story and some distasteful stuff about a paralyzed Gran(and apparently this form of vampirism makes you constantly hump each other) it was okay but not a patch on LTROI.

Sorry to be Captain Pedantic , but Thirst is a Korean film, not Japanese. It's by Chan-Wook Park (JSA, Vengeance Trilogy etc)

I agree that LTROI is a better modern take on the vampire thing though!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Baseball Fury

Sorry to be Captain Pedantic , but Thirst is a Korean film, not Japanese. It's by Chan-Wook Park (JSA, Vengeance Trilogy etc)

I agree that LTROI is a better modern take on the vampire thing though!

I really liked Thirst and it seems Chan-wook Park really can't put a foot wrong. As you say that I don't think it's as good as Let the Right One In, which was my favourite film of 2008 (or perhaps 2009, I forget when I saw it at the cinema).

[Demoncrat]

can we agree that they were both certainly a different take on the vampiric thing at least?

watched Live and Let Die. wish i hadnt