What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

War Horse (2011) I liked it but that horse just seemed way to intelligent! Taking the place of his mate pulling the cannon because he knew his mate was too sick to pull it!

Piranha DD (2012) OMG! What a waste of an hour and half! What the hell was I thinking! Oh yeah! Boobs! But thats enough of Hasselhoff!

[troggi]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

DREDD. Nowhere near as much fun as the similarly plotted THE RAID. Sorry Hawk.

BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW. Rabidly anti youth and counter culture madness set in the mud, a theme that runs throughout another weird beard film of the same time period, PSYCHOMANIA. That said, both films are high on my all time fave list as they perfectly capture the esoteric folk byways of an England that is real and mythic at the same time.

I've got to go with young Master Hawk on Dredd, it's a masterpiece!

BIG BUT I love "Blood on Satan's Claw" and "Psychomania" and they both rate very highly in troggi's cave.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by troggi

I've got to go with young Master Hawk on Dredd, it's a masterpiece!

BIG BUT I love "Blood on Satan's Claw" and "Psychomania" and they both rate very highly in troggi's cave.

Is it like this in Troggi's cave?

[troggi]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

Is it like this in Troggi's cave?

Exactly like that but with no feminine touches!

[nekromantik]

Just seen Scanners blu ray.
It was a good flick but not my fav Cronenberg flicks. It was not brilliant but average I thought! Some people will hate that but meh lol

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

THE LORDS OF SALEM - Generally quite liked this 'new direction', which substitutes a sickly, detached Euro-feel for the more manic stylisation of his other stuff. Succeeds in building an atmosphere of slow burn dread, although I wished R Zombie had been a bit more generous with the Russelesque psychedelia we see towards the end.

THE COLLECTION - Sequel to 'The Collector'. First half hour had me feeling a little dismissive due to the choppy but flat 'Saw' franchise type style, but interestingly this blossoms into vivid Italo-horror bombast by the end (in quite a tightly controlled way, too). Pretty gory, with some nice set pieces involving mannequins. I liked the way the killer's mask made his face look like that of a demented eel. Definitely worth a look.

I DIDN'T COME HERE TO DIE - At first I thought this was overhyped, but by the end I was thinking "no, this is great stuff with all the hallmarks of a cult classic to be". At least it's a clever, funny slice of anti-horror which dispatches its kids in the woods with wit and verve. The culprit is no backwoods slasher, but something more abstract - a plot device based on miscommunication and overinterpretation, randomness and existence being a total bitch. If Beckett had done low rent indie genre deconstruction, this would be the result.

LA TRASGRESSIONE - Italian exploitation from the late eighties. I say 'exploitation', but for most of the run time I was scratching my head trying to figure out whether it was coming from an art or a sleaze direction, because at times it plays like a bad approximation of both. A psychology student takes a hit of a magic serum and transforms into a total psychopath, hangs out with a spoilt but equally vicious rich girl and goes on a rampage during which bad things happen and nudity occurs... or does it? Maybe it's all a dream. Or is it? Doesn't feel anything like last gasp Italian genre product of the time. I don't know what it feels like, but if you enjoy clowns with umbrellas who look like they might symbolise something then you might dig this strange little oddity.

BIOTHERAPY - Obscure Japanese trash from the mid-eighties with an alien monster pissing off a bunch of scientists working on a secret drug. There's some gore and a palatable run time (about forty minutes, which suits my attention span these days). It lacks the sleazy punch of something comparable like 'Entrails of a Beautiful Woman', but still manages to be entertaining and diverting enough. I don't think it has an official release.

AMITYVILLE 2 - THE POSSESSION - I've never bothered with it in the past, but decided to check it out after reading some good reviews on here. I was surprised at its intensity, and for a mainstream B movie it manages to be pretty sleazy in places. Some of the sub- 'Poltergeist' haunting effects seem a bit stale, but the portrait of the violent forces at work within the nuclear family is really hard hitting. Enjoyable trash but also paradoxically quite dark - definitely a 'find' as far as I'm concerned.

Another person whose a fan of amityville 2! I'm doing my best to get as many genre fans as possible to check it out.

[gag]

Jackass 3 type of things they do makes you think they have a screw loose to do some of the stuff they do. But at the same time certain bits must have been fun and entertaining to do.

[Delirium]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Another person whose a fan of amityville 2! I'm doing my best to get as many genre fans as possible to check it out.

I've always been a fan of Amityville II. It's my favourite of the series and has a real fun, trashy sensibility to it.

[nekromantik]

Originally Posted by Delirium

I've always been a fan of Amityville II. It's my favourite of the series and has a real fun, trashy sensibility to it.

I thought it was fun too!
Excited for the trilogy blu ray release.
I also am a big fan of Amityville Dollhouse! *cringe*

[Delirium]

Originally Posted by nekromantik

I thought it was fun too!
Excited for the trilogy blu ray release.
I also am a big fan of Amityville Dollhouse! *cringe*

I've only seen I, II and III. Not seen Dollhouse, and thought III (3D) was awful.

Doubt I'd buy the trilogy, but I'd pick up I and II individually. It puts me off having stinkers in boxsets just for completions sake.