What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by keirarts

I'd be watching it every day if they included that

Be a damn masterpiece far as I'm concerned.

[Demoncrat]

The Luck Of The Navy (1927, Fred Paul)
Another of the Talking Pictures selections.
Amazing wee flick. On the coast the rich traipse around improving their tennis scores ... the lower classes ferment discord and agitation . Lots of stiff upper lip on show. Finale a bit rushed for all that ... still a solid little programmer.

[Demoncrat]

This Fear City is cut. Drastically as far as I can see. Dvd safe now though?

[Demoncrat]

Now Damnation Alley methinks
Horribly stretched faded print ... budget release cough
Featuring one Jackie Earle Haley no less!!

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by keirarts

I was 7. They wouldn't let me in. Besides this was the uncut version. Not the wussified r-rated cut!

Now I feels like Methuselah

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Isn't Death Wish 3 a Cannon film then ?
Exemplary as always FT!! anytime is Halloween 3 time

Night Train To Inverness (1960, Ernest Morris)
When hubby Norman Woodland 'kidnaps' his son Dennis Waterman Sylvia Harris has no choice but to call in the filth (Valentine Dyall). At the heart of this film is the British disease. If Sylvia's mother could only shut her trap for a minute to give the poor girl time to think etc. Norm absconds with help from a blonde called Marion Crane ! Busy year ahem .... Plus as a time capsule tis priceless. Smoking in an enclosed space with a sick child. Smoking indoors at all An absolute find even if the Pegasus dvd looked like arse at points

Had forgotten how dull DA is
The husband is a 'bad 'un' due to his stretch inside for embezzling. Personally by any means nrcessary to get away from that mother-in-law .... sheesh what a total canute

[Demoncrat]

Doghouse (2009, Jake West)
Thought less badly of this 2nd time around. Though tis still pretty poor imo. Geezers go mild in the country . One for Maskell completists mind

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Doghouse (2009, Jake West)
Thought less badly of this 2nd time around. Though tis still pretty poor imo. Geezers go mild in the country . One for Maskell completists mind

I really like Doghouse. It's silly and fun and nowhere near as Dyer as it could have been.

[iank]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I'm glad you liked it iank. When you first expressed interest in seeing it i thought you'd be quite disappointed. I thought it was ultimately a very empty film and the way Hermione just falls hook line and sinker somewhat diminished any sense of the sinister it may otherwise have had. Also the severe lack of lesbian sex scenes featuring Watson and Gillan just finished the film in my eyes.

Their characters had more to do with each other than I was expecting, actually, and they did have good chemistry with each other. I was hoping for a kiss, but... alas...

[J Harker]

Martyrs. 2008. Pascal Laugier.

Proper grim French torture porn jobby from the director of the brilliant The Tall Man.
A young girl called Lucie is rescued, nearly naked and beaten beyond belief running through the streets. She claims to have been abducted and systematically tortured. When authorites inspect there are clear signs supporting her claims however no perpetrators are ever found.
Eventually Lucie is placed in a home for young women where she finds friendship with another damaged young girl Anna. During one of the films most terrifying sequences and if I'm being honest one of the few truly creepy scenes I've seen in a long time it is revealed Lucie is being stalked by a grotesque, sinister presence that is intent on mutilating her.
Fast forward 15 years and we move to the home of a nice seeming family. One morning over breakfast there is a knock at the door and a crazed woman with a shotgun proceeds to mercilessly gun down the whole family children and all. And from there it only gets madder and darker.
Much like Pascal Laugiers next feature, the Jessica Biel starrer 'The Tall Man' Martyrs is set out in a way one never really knows where its going. At least i didn't. The both films seem to stem from similar dark subject matter too, abuse.
Martyrs is a hard film to watch but almost impossible to take your eyes off and is one of those films that leaves you feeling a little guilty. Complacent almost. The performances are bloody superb across the board and i don't look forward to revisiting it. But i will.