What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Watched today:

Trick 'r Treat




The Hills Run Red




Demonium




The Burning

[Pete]

I haven't seen Trick or Hills but I have seen the other two. I thought The Burning was excellent and Demonium really silly but fun at the same time (no doubt some will disagree with that!)

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by loops

I havent seen Trick or Hills but I have seen the other two. I thought The Burning was excellent and Demonium really silly but fun at the same time (no doubt some will disagree with that!)

I hadn't seen Trick or Hills either loops. Both were good though; especially Trick. The Burning is an excellent film, one of my favourite slashers. I (finally) got the MGM R1 release for Xmas, so thought I'd give it a spin. Demonium is very silly, but has some great gore set-pieces in it, and as you say - is a lot of fun. I hadn't seen it in a while and it seemed to jump out at me when I was browsing the shelves for something to watch!

[iluvdvds@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by loops

I havent seen Trick or Hills but I have seen the other two. I thought The Burning was excellent and Demonium really silly but fun at the same time (no doubt some will disagree with that!)

You should give Trick R Treat a viewing if you get the time, Loops. It's a great film (although slighly overrated IMO) - definetly a horror film to watch annually on the 31st of October! No question about it!


Watched another cannibal film last night; Umberto Lenzi's Eaten Alive. Compared to the likes of Deodato's cannibal films this is, I felt, a much more lighter film (possibly due to the darkness and grimness that Deodato's films focus on), besides the too-be-expected animal cruelty, there's nothing else that was too shocking really. The story was quite a bit different as well, with it not focusing purely on the cannibal tribes, but an over religious group as well. The stars in this film are great namely Ivan Rossimov, the excellent Robert Kerman and of course Ratman's Janet Agren.

The biggest problem with the film was the amount of footage it 'borrows' from other cannibal films, including [spoiler] steeling Me Me Lai's death infamous death scene from Jungle Holocaust and some animal killings and castration from Mountain Of The Cannibal God [/spoiler] But then again, I guess that's all part of exploitation films! I luv how one of the stolen scenes shown in the trailer in played as the intertitles 'Directed by Umberto Lenzi' come up! In this sense, I guess you could call it the Hell Of The Living Dead of cannibal films.

The ending was pretty cool too, with, on the one hand, [spoiler] the religious tribe being tricked into mass suicide [/spoiler] to the much more frankly strangly optimistic [spoiler] ending with Kerman not bothering that he risked his life for nothing - money wise [/spoiler] which was bizarrly cool!


Still I'll highly recommend this film, it's a lot of fun, mixed with (always) disturbing animal violence (that poor monkey!) and annoying accents from the two female leads.

Thing I learnt from this film: Poka dotted cannibals are all the rage, darling.





Oooooh spoiler boxes! Fancy!

[Pete]

I'll check it out then.

Eaten Alive is so much fun (aside from the monkey), its one of the few cannibal films I can revisit more than once.

Lenzi also used footage from his own Deep River Savages!

[iluvdvds@Cult Labs]

Ooooooh yeah! Wasn't the music used in Cannibal Ferox too mate? I could swear it was!

[vincenzo]

Originally Posted by iluvdvds

Watched another cannibal film last night; Umberto Lenzi's Eaten Alive.

The biggest problem with the film was the amount of footage it 'borrows' from other cannibal films

Yes it liberally borrowed footage from 3 previous cannibal films and wove a wafer-thin feeble story around them to hold it in place. Even trying to bring in elements of the recent Guyana/Jonestown massacre to make itself seem like an 'important' film.

Personally I thought it was cheap, abysmal rubbish.

[Gigantor]

TICK R TREAT suffered due to all the hype about the movie but it's still a fun movie and yes it is definitely one to pull out each year around Halloween.

[DeadAlive]

I'm still waiting for Lovefilm to send me my rental of Trick R Treat.

Bodyguard: A New Beginning - A cliché filled gangster film with some cool fighting and brutal violence. A lot of this is more about character than the action and the pacing is sometimes slow but Richard Ng, better known for his comic roles is quite impressive playing it straight as the old triad boss who gets betrayed by his son. I believe this is a HK/Brit co production.

[Philleh]

Richard Ng is a personal fave of mine! Loved him in Young and Dangerous - among many others!