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24th January 2010, 08:14 AM
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Another Giallo that I wish would be released on dvd is Reflections In Black as well
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#3392
24th January 2010, 10:31 AM
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| Back In Action - This is my first exposure to US fitness legend Billy Blanks and his wham bang style of martial arts. I rented this due to Roddy Piper's co-starring credit and I have to confess this was far more fun than I was expecting. The plot is as simple as they come with an ex special forces guy teaming up with a cynical cop to bring down some local gangsters. Some great one liners with plenty of action both unarmed and gunplay help keep you occupied for its 79 minute running time. A fine example of mindless fun. 
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#3393
24th January 2010, 06:50 PM
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| Ed Gein - The Butcher Of Plainfield When Deranged was made the film-makers saw fit to turn Ed Gein into Ezra Cobb even though the resultant film was actually quite close to the facts of the notorious case. I presume that enough was fictionalised that they thought they should change names and such. Ed Gein - The Butcher Of Plainfield masquarades as a true story retelling of the Gein case, but actually bears very little resemblance to the history. As a biopic type film it is a travesty. If ever a film needed names changing it is this one, far more so than Deranged. It is as close to the true crime stoary as Dirty Harry was to the true story of the Zodiac killings. OK, so, that annoyance aside, how is it as a horror film? Well, as a horror film, well, as a film generally, it is quite appalling. One of the worst films I have sat through in months. Issues run thus: 1) Kane Hodder is quite astonishingly miscast as Ed Gein. Utterly unsuitable in the part, Hodder just lumbers through glowering menacingly. Very bad. 2) Kane Hodder is the best actor in the film! The rest of the cast are rather "amateur dramatics" and utterly unengaging. It is painful to witness some lines being delivered. 3) The occasional efforts of stylish film-making seem to come from "The Big Book Of Moody Cinematography Cliché". You've seen it all before, better executed. Aside from the efforts at style, the rest of the film-making is largely inept: cameras shake, framing is bad, there are overlong pointless shots holding back the pace...which leads me to 4) It seems to go on forever. It is under 90 minutes in length, but sitting through it is an ordeal. You'd swear it ran two and a half hours. 5) Ed Gein almost seems secondary. Mostly the film is concerned with the family affairs of a newly promoted Deputy Sheriff. Said Deputy is played by an abysmal actor upon whose shoulders no film should rest. Is anything good about it? Well, the gore FX are very good. Some convincing wounds are in display and the make-up is generally excellent. None of this, however, makes up for the massive failings of the film. It doesn't even have any kitsch value, it's just bad; not enjoyably bad, not "so bad it's good", just genuinely bad. A film to avoid and despise. |
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#3394
24th January 2010, 09:49 PM
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| Death Laid An Egg A glorious trippy mess of a thing; Giallo as if made by Godard. Initially confusing and experimental, this thriller gels into a superb story with a great ending. One of the best Gialli I have seen, I would love to see a restored version of this released by someone. It has a cold, almost Cronenbergian atmosphere of modernity to it - that is, late 60s version of modernity - which really unsettles you as much as the avant garde editing techniques and the mostly atonal Free Jazz soundtrack (which is excellent). It's a visual treat, in my opinion. There is also some fine casting - Jean Louis Trintingnant is excellent and Gina Lollabrigida plays a dislillusioned, untrusting, borderline harridan with far more aplomb than you'd think of this former sex kitten. I loved this film. It would be a perfect Shameless release and is deserving of a nice wash and brush up and reissue. |
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#3395
24th January 2010, 10:10 PM
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| 'What films have you seen recently?'
ALIENS Still the best ALIEN film in my opinion BOTCHED Not a bad comedy horror COMMANDO A fun action packed film, and the first time I've seen it uncut STAGE FRIGHT Soavi's best in my opinion MOTHER OF TEARS No way as good as some previous films but Argento's stilj got his trademark violence. Not as bad as reviewers say, no way! THE BEYOND Fulci's best zombie horror |
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#3396
24th January 2010, 10:57 PM
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Just watched: Blood Creek: Michael Fassbender plays a blood-thirsty Nazi mutant-thing, entertaining farce with Fassbender steeling the show. Tell-Tale: Michael Cuesta finally directs outside of TV again - been a looong time since L.I.E! Too bad its a middle-of-the-road reimagining of Poe's Tell Tale Heart. Josh Lucas does the work required to make the film watchable. Relentless: Hadn't seen this since well, pre-highschool days! Still remember the scene where Judd Nelson strangles the lady in the washing machine like it was just yesterday! Entertaining b-movie goodness from Bill Lustig!  |
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#3397
24th January 2010, 11:41 PM
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#3398
24th January 2010, 11:46 PM
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#3399
25th January 2010, 08:18 AM
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I watched one of my favourite slashers last night: Black Christmas - completely out of season, I know but I was planning to watch it over Xmas, and just didn't have the time!  |
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25th January 2010, 08:27 AM
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