What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Yeah Chalet Girl is a bit of a gem.

Have you just seen it, Nos?

Just wondered why you replied to your own post that's all.

I haven't seen Blue Crush, no. The only reason I replied to my own post is to give the other one some context.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I haven't seen Blue Crush, no. The only reason I replied to my own post is to give the other one some context.

I wasn't referring to Blue Crush, Chalet Girl actually.

You should give Blue Crush a go. It's an enjoyable outdoors feel good film.

I also really like Coyote Ugly. Perhaps we should leave it there.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I wasn't referring to Blue Crush, Chalet Girl actually.

You should give Blue Crush a go. It's an enjoyable outdoors feel good film.

I also really like Coyote Ugly. Perhaps we should leave it there.

I also like Coyote Ugly, although it has been years since I have seen it; I'll see if Blue Crush is available to rent from Lovefilm or on Netflix and report back.

[Cinematic Shocks]

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

***1/2 out of *****

The Neon Demon (2016)

**** out of *****

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The scene towards the end where the body is found by the teacher and students in the school locker is a hoot. Forbes Riley is great and delivers shock but the students don't do a thing. They don't stagger back in revolt, scream or anything they just stand there as if the locker is empty.

It really is rather odd.

SOLD!!!

[Justin101]

Originally Posted by Cinematic Shocks

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

***1/2 out of *****

That's more generous about it than I felt, I teetered between 2 and 2.5 stars. For at least an hour of the running time I was bored in the cinema and that hardly happens!

[Cinematic Shocks]

Originally Posted by Justin101

That's more generous about it than I felt, I teetered between 2 and 2.5 stars. For at least an hour of the running time I was bored in the cinema and that hardly happens!

This was my second viewing and I enjoyed it a bit more this time around. After my first viewing I would’ve given it *** out of *****. It’s flawed but it’s gripping stuff overall with some truly great scenes and set-pieces. It’s not as good as the first two in this trilogy or as good as ‘X-Men 2’. I rank it somewhere in the middle of the franchise up there with the first film and ‘The Wolverine’.

[Cinematic Shocks]

The Neighbour (2016)

*** out of *****

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

X The Unknown (1956)

Often thought to be a Quatermass film as it came out in between The Quatermass Experiment (1955) and Quatermass II (1957). X The Unknown isn't connected but it's easy to see how it could be lumped in with those two.

American actor Dean Jagger plays a sympathetic scientist similar to Bernard Quatermass and the story is very much of the type but it's really a film that is a being all to itself. Jimmy Sangster's first script for Hammer is a bit of a gem. In it a sludge monster (That probably glows green were it not filmed in black and white) rises from Scottish bog land during a military exercise in an attempt to find radio active materials on which to feed upon culminating in an almost siege like story centred on the local hospital as the deadly slime descends on it.

Despite hitting cinemas prior to the world beating triumvirate of Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mummy, X The Unknown probably trumps them all in terms of pure visceral horror thanks to some great effects work as we shriek in fear as faces melt in gory glory and we witness the full effects of radiation burns on a poor child. In fact i'd hazard to say this is one of the goriest Hammer films full stop.

Director Leslie Norman (Barry's father) keeps things rolling along aided by Jagger's impressive acting turn and a typically bombastic early James Bernard score ensure we never really think this is sci-fi on a tight budget but guarantees we'll always go back for more.

An absolute classic!

[iank]

I loved this when I saw it last year for the first time! It's like a 1950s Doctor Who story!