What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[mercury]

Watched Frankenhooker....not bad...not good...buit did make me laugh.

[sawyer6]

Just watched The House By The Cemetery.Not Fulci's best ,but was ok

[Phurious]

Originally Posted by sawyer6

Just watched The House By The Cemetery.Not Fulci's best ,but was ok

I'd say it's my fave. I'm currently persuading someone I know to give it another go, but they seem quite reluctant. I love Dr Freudstein, he's a brilliantly ****ed up creation and reminds me a little bit of that sand-filled nazi from Hellboy.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Phurious

I love Dr Freudstein, he's a brilliantly ****ed up creation and reminds me a little bit of that sand-filled nazi from Hellboy.

I completely get you there.

All through Hellboy, Freudstein would pop into my head every-time the sand-filled Nazi was on screen.

[Phurious]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I completely get you there.

All through Hellboy, Freudstein would pop into my head every-time the sand-filled Nazi was on screen.

Was the sand nazi in Mignola's comics? I haven't read them. If not then I wouldn't be surprised if Del Toro had Freudstein in the back of his mind... this would please me immensely if it was true

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I've just finished a triple bill of excellent, but very different films:

Frantic - Roman Polanski directs Harrison Ford (now one of his best friends) in this fine thriller in which Ford plays a doctor who, with his wife, travels to Paris for a conference and, only minutes after settling into their hotel room, she disappears.

The Big Country - A brilliant western directed by William Wyler and with a superb central performance from Gregory Peck and the supporting cast, including Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons and Carroll Baker, is exemplary.

Pandora's Box - This 1929 silent movie from Austrian director Georg Wilhelm Pabst has a fairly simple story [about the rise and fall of a naïve trapeze artist called Lulu] but is superbly directed, has a great lead actress in the American Louise Brooks and features the first lesbian character in film history.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Phurious

Was the sand nazi in Mignola's comics? I haven't read them. If not then I wouldn't be surprised if Del Toro had Freudstein in the back of his mind... this would please me immensely if it was true

I haven't read the comics either, I'm afraid. It would be pretty good if Del Toro was a closet Fulci fan, though.

[sawyer6]

Originally Posted by Nosferatu@Cult Labs

I've just finished a triple bill of excellent, but very different films:

Frantic - Roman Polanski directs Harrison Ford (now one of his best friends) in this fine thriller in which Ford plays a doctor who, with his wife, travels to Paris for a conference and, only minutes after settling into their hotel room, she disappears.

The Big Country - A brilliant western directed by William Wyler and with a superb central performance from Gregory Peck and the supporting cast, including Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons and Carroll Baker, is exemplary.

Pandora's Box - This 1929 silent movie from Austrian director Georg Wilhelm Pabst has a fairly simple story [about the rise and fall of a naïve trapeze artist called Lulu] but is superbly directed, has a great lead actress in the American Louise Brooks and features the first lesbian character in film history.

Look also for Diary Of A Lost Girl for another great perfomance by Louise Brooks

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by sawyer6

Look also for Diary Of A Lost Girl for another great perfomance by Louise Brooks

As it's also directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, I know it'll be very well directed and have an immensely talented lead actress. The Eureka DVD is already in my wish list.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Charlton Heston was so wooden in The Big Country he had splinters. All he seemed to do was lean on fences, until his big fight with Peck of course.