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10 TO MIDNIGHT. Neat little spin on DIRTY HARRY with Charles Bronson as a cop so hard arse when he eats coal, he shits out diamonds. Charles is on the trail of a serial killer and won't let a little thing like the law stand in his way... A wonderfully sleazy and downbeat film rifffing on right wing vibes and reactionary politics. Whatever your political views, you've got to love the f#ck off ending. Recommended. |
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The Slayer (1982) The Slayer was the first Vipco sell-thru tape i ever bought so i've always had a soft spot for this often clumsy film. The main problem director JS Cardone, best known as the screenwriter for remakes of Prom Night and The Stepfather, is the lack of characters. With only four central protagonists to work with the killings have to be rather spaced out during the film's 85 minute running time, and there aren't really enough bloody deaths to sustain it, so we are left with many a sequence being far too talky and others of bland exposition "It's from my dreams". Having been negative so far the film just about gets by without becoming boring. It's beach front location is interesting and well utilized and Cardone gives proceedings an almost Gothic atmosphere. Having said all this i was delighted to have seen The Slayer again after all these years and more than pleased to add it to my dvd collection. I may be mistaken but i was under the impression the Beyond Terror / Vipco disc was of very poor picture and sound quality. I didn't find this at all. The 4:3 print was fine, a little speckly in places but extremely watchable. It must be noted though that i do sit through and enjoy some of the worst looking dvd releases known to man courtesy of our friends at Popflix and Pendulum Pictures etc and have yet to discover blu-ray. |
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I picked up Festen in a car boot sale today for the princely sum of 50p and watched it tonight - wow, how did I miss this movie until now, a truly amazing effort that hits some pitches of almost unbearable intensity. For all the 2 bob budget, the director (not Von Trier as I've mistakenly believed all these years!) creates an insidiously creepy atmosphere throughout and creates some great visuals through camerawork and editing alone (the underwater bath montage is brilliant) - it's the unravelling of the sordid story that keeps you gripped though, just when you think these people can't get any more hideous.... This one really flew by, don't miss it.
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Jess Franco's Dracula Wasn't expecting much as the only other franco film I had seen was oasis of the zombies and to say it was shit is putting it mildly. But this was a different matter was hard to believe it was the same director. Acting was good which could not be said for oasis and for me this was a better film than francis ford Coppola Dracula. We had some great actors in the form of Christopher Lee, klaus kinski and Herbert Lom only downside theses great actors didn't have a lot a screen time but what there was is brillant . 9.5/10 maleficent Another film in which I was not expecting much but again was surprised how good it was very dark in places and found it better than the sleeping beauty story of the classic Disney animated film. 8.5/10 Now watching Q the winged serpent. Last edited by trebor8273; 14th September 2014 at 08:38 PM. |
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Having an Italian directors week, starting off with: Mario Bava and La ragazza che sapeva troppo (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) (1963). Apparently the picture that gave birth to the Giallo genre and was Bava's last B&W production. Somewhat unloved by him however I quite liked it. Mario Bonnard and Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei (The Last Days of Pompeii) (1959). With the aid of Sergio Leone as writer and uncredited director this Steve Reeves peplum is typical of the sword and sandal genre. Plots, conspiracy, gladiators and christians it wasn't until the volcano erupted during the last ten minutes that I remembered that there was a volcanic event to come! Dario Argento and L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo (The Bird With the Crystal Plumage) (1970). Agento's first film as director and a classic. If I remember correctly this was the second gialli that I ever saw, the first being Tenebrae and it was the flyover of the house with that music in Tenebrae that sold me on getting more Agento.
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