What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

Looks like he did 'Night of the Dribbler', too. Quite a departure from the nihilism of 'Janie'.

Yeah, JANIE is an oddly depressing film. Bravman was also involved with Findlay's SLAUGHTER and the lost THE CLOSER TO THE BONE THE SWEETER THE MEAT which from it's title alone conjures up all kinds of wonders in my mind.

[Frankie Teardrop]

Originally Posted by Make Them Die Slowly

Yeah, JANIE is an oddly depressing film. Bravman was also involved with Findlay's SLAUGHTER and the lost THE CLOSER TO THE BONE THE SWEETER THE MEAT which from it's title alone conjures up all kinds of wonders in my mind.

"The Closer the bone, the sweeter the meat!" Is that the motto of the new MTDS porn and witchcraft academy? I can see it in Latin, on a plinth.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

"The Closer the bone, the sweeter the meat!" Is that the motto of the new MTDS porn and witchcraft academy? I can see it in Latin, on a plinth.

I am looking for a change in career, and after reading yesterday that people are charging top dollar for pubic hair removal by magick( I'm honestly not making this up), it could be my way forward. There is a link on one of the last posts on the Wicked Witches thread for this and more if anyone is interested in an astral back, sac and crack.

[keirarts]

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A man is left in the middle of the desert handcuffed. It's the near future and a mixture of zombies and nuclear war has turned everything very post apocalypse. He's picked up by a group of survivors and quickly wins their trust only for the group to clash with a raider army that our hero once belonged to.

Objectively this is a terrible film yet I sort of enjoyed it. The acting is mostly amateur so the main villain is a scenery chewing mess. This comes with some laughs to be had, especially with his arch villain dialogue..."when I want your opinion I'll rape it out of you!" Also for a post Apocalypse, the infrastructure seems to be relatively intact, almost as if the film makers looked at their s&*t hole new mexicio/nevada town and decided it looked apocalyptic enough, in spite of the buildings all looking quite clean. The 'zombie hordes' are intermittent at best and the film feels somewhat longer than it actually is.

That said it tries to go for a VHS era cheap and nasty feel, we get a small role from Fred 'the hammer' Williamson, and i've seen far worse in the low budget zombie movie sub genre (I still remember when most zombie films were shot on actual video by guys with mullets) So if its a quid in a charity shop then it might be worth a punt.

[Demoncrat]

Showed mate Eugenie (1970, JF). He dug it.

Also watched Vampyr (1932, Carl Th. Dreyer) again. I seem to watching/reading a lot of Dream stuff at the moment. Which makes up for no decent "visions" of my own harumph. The film gets eerier every time I watch it btw.....

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Also watched Vampyr (1932, Carl Th. Dreyer) again. I seem to watching/reading a lot of Dream stuff at the moment. Which makes up for no decent "visions" of my own harumph. The film gets eerier every time I watch it btw.....

Do you have the Masters of Cinema release from Eureka? The Guillermo del Toro commentary is one of the best I have ever listened to.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

Do you have the Masters of Cinema release from Eureka? The Guillermo del Toro commentary is one of the best I have ever listened to.

Aye, tis that release. He is rather, er passionate about the film, I'l give you that

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Aye, tis that release. He is rather, er passionate about the film, I'l give you that

I watched it immediately after the commentary finished, and found it to be a completely different experience, spotting all the things del Toro referred to, making it a richer and more rewarding experience.

[antmumford]

I just finished watching a 2012 film called Resolution. Not sure if anyone's seen it too as I haven't read any mention of it before but by God it was good.

It's the "story" (you'll understand the quotation marks if you've seen it) of a guy called Mike who spends a week trying to sober up his drugged up friend through the cold turkey route. Mike handcuffs him to the radiator of this log cabin, that he squats in, and vows to help him through the ordeal but not is all as it seems as strange encounters gradually occur throughout the week.

I found it to be a real breathe of fresh air in the horror genre, something that can't be said to the majority of the latest offerings. It was well acted, shot, directed and written. A real intelligent piece of film making that I'm sure you guys and girls would enjoy so I'd recommend checking it out if you can.
The way I came across it was reading an article on upcoming horrors of 2015 and found an interesting one called Spring, which is the latest film from the creators of Resolution, so I'm really looking forward to seeing that too.

[R-T-C Tim]

Puppet on a Chain (1971). One of Alistair MacLean's very best novels (if you haven't read them, you really should, still stand-out today as some of the very best thrillers ever written and there is something really good about a proper old fashioned espionage story without all the endless modern techno-babbel).

MacLean co-scripted the film himself, as he did for the equally good When Eight Bells Toll film and he is happy to streamline his plot to fit into a cinematic runtime, while retaining the grim tone and clever twists.

The new, but very welcome addition to the storyline is a boat chase through the Amsterdam canals, an absolutely fantastic sequence that is worth watching the film for on its own. If you like thrillers or intelligent spy films then this is a must see.

A full review, featuring pictures and a quote from the book, because I'm so classy - Puppet on a Chain review.

I picked up the Swedish DVD of this film back in about 2007, there is now a nice shiny US widescreen release from Scorpion, although it is very slightly cut, excised of a couple of topless dancers from the background of a nightclub scene which are present on the International release. Still it is the better release to get. I'm holding out for a Blu-Ray though...