19th January 2013, 07:08 PM
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| Cultist on the Rampage | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Leeds, UK | |
BRAINJACKED - Sci-fi-horror features drill-handed lobotomist and his coven of debrained followers. Amateurish plot/performances and SOhidef, but generously ticks gore and exploitation boxes, with blood, grey matter and nudity circulating to good effect. What distinguishes it is its Bavaesque-on-a-camcorder colour scheme and the strange intensity of a few passages (mostly involving the righteous indignation of trepanned kids). Unearthed Films put out some really interesting cult 'product' and this is no exception.
THE LORELEY'S GRASP - My first time with this one. What a strange, dreamy film - I really enjoyed. In some ways, it feels like a vaguely psychedelic update of a flick from another era - it's classic Euro-exploitation, but it seems to harken to something or somewhere else... back to fifties monster movies, but also to a genuinely mythic place, and to a misty kind of seventies surrealism. So along with some disconcerting heart rippings, chicks in bikinis and some rubber monster FX there's a hazy fairy tale vibe, and a genuinely forlorn ambience that sustains like a landscape beyond the events. Very much a necessary viewing.
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