What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Isn't this one called Boy Eats Girl btw?

That would be more likely given the synopsis!

Boy Eats Girl (2005)

[Demoncrat]

AAAyway...mate went a bit mad, so we ended up watching

The Andromeda Strain on blu....the ST is the star here, being a Radiophonic Workshop nut, its atonal squeaking and burbling was manna from heaven etc. A nice crisp print, though I hadn't seen the film in years.

The Haunting (1963, Robert Wise)
To round off the double bill, we watched this old warhorse in rapt silence for most of it (is it wrong that I marvelled at individual strands of hair on Claire Bloom's noggin??), only breaking the spell when "the missus" turns up during the last 3rd. Yet again the ST is the backbone of the whole thing. Recommended!!!

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

The Haunting (1963, Robert Wise)
To round off the double bill, we watched this old warhorse in rapt silence for most of it (is it wrong that I marvelled at individual strands of hair on Claire Bloom's noggin??), only breaking the spell when "the missus" turns up during the last 3rd. Yet again the ST is the backbone of the whole thing. Recommended!!!

ST = soundtrack?

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

ST = soundtrack?

Aye.....

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Aye.....

The score by Humphrey Searle is outstanding.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

The score by Humphrey Searle is outstanding.

Indeed. I know I am biased, but it just gets better every time I see it. But then, beauty is in the eye of the beholder really......

[Demoncrat]

also watched Kill Your Darlings (John Krokidas, 2013)

Ever wanted to see Harry Potter get bummed?


Then this is the film for you.

Less hysterically awful than On The Road, though that wouldn't have been hard . this being based a round the Lucien Carr/David Kammerer affair, it is at least not as tear your hair out-y as the excrable Beat! Ben Foster (what, him from The Mechanic? Playing Burroughs? William Burroughs? well, actually....) acquits himself reasonably, as I always imagined that WSB at that age would have been "like that", though the end montage of the real protagonists overlaid with a Libertines song belonged in the bin. A curio for students of the era.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Isn't this one called Boy Eats Girl btw?

It is.

I'd never noticed Gold's error.

[J Harker]

Last night I watched both of the BBC adaptations of Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You from the Ghost Stories For Crimbo boxset.
First time I've seen the 1968 original and I can't say I was all that impressed, personally I think the more recent version with John Hurt is a far more effective take on M.R.James story.
Just me?

[nosferatu42]

I like the original better, i think it depends on which you saw first. The ghost in the original even though a simple effect is more creepy to me, the final scene is nightmarish.