What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[nicholasrope]

I Spit On Your Grave (2010)

Sarah Butler is the woman whilst in the woods is brutally Raped by locals and the Sheriff and after faking her death, she gets her revenge in the most brutal ways possible. The original is extremely controversial and is down and out grimy and this has more of a budget. I certainly preferred this to the original, the bad guys were certainly deplorable and wanted them to get what they deserved and boy they do, in the most gruesome ways possible.

Last Kumite

Mathis Landwehr is a retired Fighter but after he refuses an invitation to fight in a Kumite (Run by Mathias Hues) his Daughter his kidnapped. After agreeing to fight, he finds out this other fighters loved ones have been kidnapped also. He ends up being trained by Billy Blanks and Cynthia Rothrock as he battles to free his Daughter.

When I first heard about this, I thought that it was going to be another generic modern Fight Movie, one where its about backstory and personal issues with the fighting scenes being secondary. Then I found out it was an homage to the 80's/90's Martial Arts Movies with a cast containing Blanks, Rothrock, Hues, Kurt McKinney (No Retreat No Surrender) and Michel Qissi with none of their roles being short cameos, they have significant roles. Blanks is really good as usual and Hues is really good as the cocky promoter who thinks he's untouchable. Normally he's the henchman (If it wasn't for Cobra Kai, I think Martin Kove would have gotten the role) Qissi has about 2 lines but he oozes menace. Oh yeah Paul Hertzog and Stan Bush provide the Soundtrack as well.

I loved this Film, it was everything it was advertised to be, this took me back to the good old days when I would look at the videos in the Martial Art Section and this would have fitted in, a real throwback to a genre I love.

Oh yeah there's no way, this should be a 15 with a certain scene.

I Spit On Your Grave 3: Vengeance Is Mine

Sarah Butler is back and after joining a Rape Counseling Group, she ends up getting revenge on the people who wronged the members. The revenge scenes are gruesome and there is a twist with the location of the one on one Therapy Session. A decent entry in the series.

Overall the Remake and it's Sequels are better than the original and it's sequel, Deja Vu. I would recommend them but with the warning that the Rape Scenes are graphic.

[nicholasrope]

Midnight Run

Bounty Hunter, Robert De Niro is tasked with bringing Bail Jumper, Charles Grodin back to L.A. however Mobsers, F.B.I and another Bounty Hunter are on their trail. Really fun movie with some really good performances and some really good humor such as I'm Mosley and someone arriving just in time to create interference like when there were Snipers on a roof, a lot of Cop Cars show up before they could fire of a shot.

Cannibal Terror

Still completely terrible, quite unwatchable as it's so boring with some of the least intimidating Cannibals ever but the EuroCine Cannibal Documentary on the 88 Films Blu-Ray is rather good.

Dirty Harry

Clint Eastwood's most iconic role which sees him chasing after a Sniper. Still as entertaining as when I watched the Screen Classics VHS many many times. Eastwood's line delivery is incredible with his straight up sarcastic manner.

Upgrade

Futuristic Sci-fi Film which sees a paralysed man receive a implant which allows him to walk again and gives him fighting abilities. It's violent with some unique fight sequences and whilst it's good, it's slightly over rated.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Doom Asylum (1987)

Comedy horror that is neither funny nor scary about a disfigured lawyer murdering stereotypical kids in the abandoned asylum where he was once held.

A second viewing of this truly terrible film in which the killer spends his time watching Tod Slaughter films on a loop in his dingy lair, that is when he's not dipping girls heads into acid baths or sticking drills into the jaw of Sex and the City's Kristen Davis.

It's absolutely nuts and only very slightly in a good way. The best thing Doom Aslyum has going for it are some hugely impressive practical gore sequences. Added to the fact it's shot on film it makes Doom Asylum appear a far better movie, at least aesthetically, than it has any right to be.

Honestly i should get rid of this but i just know i'd only end up buying it again at some point.

[Rob4]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Doom Asylum (1987)

Comedy horror that is neither funny nor scary about a disfigured lawyer murdering stereotypical kids in the abandoned asylum where he was once held.

A second viewing of this truly terrible film in which the killer spends his time watching Tod Slaughter films on a loop in his dingy lair, that is when he's not dipping girls heads into acid baths or sticking drills into the jaw of Sex and the City's Kristen Davis.

It's absolutely nuts and only very slightly in a good way. The best thing Doom Aslyum has going for it are some hugely impressive practical gore sequences. Added to the fact it's shot on film it makes Doom Asylum appear a far better movie, at least aesthetically, than it has any right to be.

Honestly i should get rid of this but i just know i'd only end up buying it again at some point.

I watched it a couple of weeks ago and it went straight on my ebay pile.

The most amusing part was in the extras in regard to Ruth Collins negotiating a price for her topless scene - I think it was $100 per breast They're not bad mind you

[Rob4]

The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Where has this movie been all my life?

This movie is what the word 'Psychotronic' was invented for. It has bikini clad dancing girls wiggling it for the camera, rock n' roll (songs are actually pretty good, including 'Zombie Stomp'), bikers, mutated sea monsters with what looks like hot dogs for tongues, a slumber party massacre, and extreme (for the time) gore!

Masterpiece!!! Five Stars

[MrBarlow]

The Rite. 2011.

Colin O'Donoghue plays young seminary Michael Kovak who has a disbelief in himself is sent to Italy under the guidance of Ciaran Hinds who teaches exorcisms and sends Kovak to Anthony Hopkins who deals with exorcisms and his faith is tested.

I have only seen this a few times and still find it enjoying, yeah it does make a reference or two with The Exorcist with Hopkins refereeing to the spinning of the head, hot pea soup or "god is not here today priest" which was mentioned in The Exorcist Beginning. The plot of the film is done decently, testing the faith of a new comer who does doubt himself and doesn't believe in possession even being told a person is possessed and ends up doing a exorcism. The acting is on top notch especially from Hopkins who has adapted to the role that you wouldn't expect anyone else to do. There is a dark atmospheric tone once the film changes to the Italian setting which helps the film to be more engrossing and thrilling.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Boyhood (2014)

Shot over twelve years by director Richard Linklater using the same cast throughout, Boyhood depicts the childhood and adolescence of Mason Evans Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) from ages six to eighteen as he grows up in Texas with divorced parents (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke).

An experimental film that started in 2002 without a complete script other than the opening and potential ending with the rest constructed during the next eleven years.

Richard Linklater's films have a varied history with me. His second feature Dazed and Confused is one of my all time favourite films whilst i thought his debut feature - Slacker - was a load of rubbish and his acclaimed 'Before' series - Sunrise, Sunset and Midnight - overrated unless your idea of fun is watching an annoying couple squabbling across three movies. Boyhood is somewhere in between.

During the first forty minutes i was having difficulty relating to Mason and sister Samantha (Played by Richard's daughter Lorelei Linklater) growing up in a world of Harry Potter and Nintendo video games. It was okay, watchable but nothing really too interesting, until Mum marries her professor (Marco Perella) and the marriage slowly turns abusive which is when the real drama begins, although it is only a few chapters of this near three hour journey of growing up.

Following this the film becomes a lot more relatable as Mason gets older, goes to high school and later college, gains an interest in girls and photography (Although not necessarily in that order) and generally lives the life of a teenager going to all night parties, discovering booze and weed... Linklater's in familiar territory here as the second half of the film could almost be Dazed and Confused part two.

Although huge in technical scale and achievement (It was interesting to see the cast grow older. Arquette's hair continually changing, although Hawke always looked like Ethan Hawke, whilst Mason as a young man was virtually unrecognisible to Mason as a six year old boy) Boyhood is an extremely intimate affair which at times will have you on the edge of your seat, at others you'll feel like crying and and others laughing.

I did find it really amusing when Hawke's Mason senior remarries and takes Mason and Samantha to his new wife's parents for Mason jr's 15th birthday. A devout religious couple. The wife gives Mason a bible for a gift whilst grandpa gives him a shotgun. Typical America.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Screamers (1995)

Christian Duguay's debut feature film is a hugely enjoyable science fiction action horror film loosely based on Phillip K. Dick's story Second Variety. Peter Weller stars as the classical music loving leader of a small band of renegades at war on a distant planet. In conflict with an army of soldiers from the New Economic Block in regard to mining rights on the planet. In order to protect themselves Weller's scientists developed small attack robots known as Screamers (The noise they make when they hunt) which inhabit the mining areas.

Unknown to Weller the robots are developing themselves via AI and are no longer simply sand dwelling robots which decapitate their enemies but have gained the power to copy the form of any living being in order to destroy them, this includes Weller and his crew.

Although seemingly fairly complex Screamers is a thrilling sci-fi film at heart. It's well enough scripted, acted and directed to engage from the off and manages to rise above any of it's perceived flaws. The opening half hour is genuinely thrilling stuff as the Screamers go on the attack zooming through the sand with devastating effect.

A film undeserving of it's box office failure.

[Justin101]

Viewings since last weekend, seems I've rewatched a lot, and looks like I enjoyed everything that I have seen in the last week - which is handy Particularly enjoyed going back to The Demoniacs in it's gorgeous 4k remaster from Powerhouse.

[iank]

The Black Windmill. Michael Caine is an MI6 agent whose son is kidnapped - and someone in his own agency may be in on it. Don "Dirty Harry" Siegel directs this late 60s British thriller that's pretty enjoyable and has a stellar supporting cast including Donald Pleasance, Joss Ackland and John Vernon, among many more recognisable faces.