What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[re.form]

Watched My Dear Killer. Can't say it's gone to the top of my fave shameless titles and certainly not near the top of my fave gialli's. Finger hovered over the FF button a few times. Couple of nice scenes and the soundtrack was cool but a bit boring for the most part.

[SharonLynette]

Originally Posted by bdc

Jonathan Ross seems to be a fan as well,in fact I first read about the film in his book.

picked that book up recently from a charity shop, still haven't read it! It's on my big "to read" pile.

[Gojirosan]

Guest House Paradiso - 1999 UK d: Adrian Edmondson

One of the funniest comedy films ever made so far I am concerned. Nowt else to say. Always makes me laugh.

Visiting Hours - 1982 Canada d: Jean Claude Lord

Excellent slasher pic - one of the very best. And by far one of the finest films on That List. Great cast, fine script, very well filmed. Nice to see a DVD in the correct ratio after growing up with a 4:3 dub of a worn VHS. Splendid.

[keirarts]

Was going to stick to asian cinema only tonight after yamada, but going through 'to watch mountain' I discovered PROTEUS, a monster on the loose aboard an oil rig movie (one of the first I think) directed by FX maestro Bob keen. Hadn't seen this since the old vhs days so decided to stick it on. Actually felt more like the old vhs days by virtue the dvd looks like a shoddy VHS rip! Still, managed to get through it, and actually think it holds up pretty well. It's a little flat and very cheesy, but also a great deal of fun and still better than a lot of the creature loose on oil rig films that preceded it. Nice cameo from Doug Bradley as well!

After that I stuck on CORPSE MANIA. A shaw brothers giallo with plenty of gore and some necrophillia thrown in as well! Fairly sleazy and icky its got some great set design and is quite a bit of fun with a nice twist near the end.

Then finally....

KILLER SNAKES!

Another Shaw brothers one, with this think Street trash/Combat shock meets Stanley. A sexually inadequate street kid who lives in a dirty shack in Hong kong has a pretty rotten life. He's frequently abused and robbed and the one girl who shows any interest in him ends up forced into prostitution, on top of that he's pretty traumatised after growing up forced to hear his parents loud sado-masochistic sex sessions. Left to brood alone in his shack with a collection of violent pornography, one day he finds an injured snake that he nurses back to health soon the snake and a bunch of it's chums help our wayward street urchin extract some revenge, with plenty of murder-by-snake, and one unpleasant sexual assault with snake.

Killer snakes is a grimy, sleazy horror that keeps the action primarily at street level amongst Hong kongs underclass and is a pretty unpleasant little movie. That said its also pretty good for those who can stomach it and certainly not as bat-shit mental as calamity of snakes.

[Gojirosan]

Originally Posted by keirarts

monster on the loose aboard an oil rig

A sacred sub-genre.


I have Killer Snakes lined up for imminent viewing too! I may bump it up a place or two after that report!

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by Gojirosan

A sacred sub-genre.


I have Killer Snakes lined up for imminent viewing too! I may bump it up a place or two after that report!

There's some pretty nasty snake cruelty in it as well, but not nearly as much as calamity of snakes which borderd on genocide on several occasions.

[Gojirosan]

Hugo - 2011 USA d:Martin Scorsese


An exquisite and emotional joy to watch. A film whose pleasures must ring loud and true in the heart of anyone who loves film and cares about the history of film.

I knew little about it. To discover it was a partial (fictionalised) biopic of the amazing Georges Méliès was a shock and delight.

My only issue was with the blue & orange colour scheme which was overdone and a little nausea inducing. It was so well shot otherwise. I can't help but wonder if black & white might have improved things - the colour tinted Méliès clips would really have hit home then.

Wonderful.

[Baseball Fury]

Saw Red Lights last night, and I thought it was pretty good! De Niro was on form, ,certainly better than anything he's phoned in in recent times.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

There's some pretty nasty snake cruelty in it as well

Yeah, there is. It was the main reason why I'd put off watching it for so long.

I really like Corpse Mania, keirarts: a nice spin on the giallo formula.

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Yeah, there is. It was the main reason why I'd put off watching it for so long.

I really like Corpse Mania, keirarts: a nice spin on the giallo formula.

I liked the set design, the spooky fog shrouded streets made me think we were up for a Jack the ripper movie. Its a really great looking movie!

I'd still reccomend Killer snakes, theirs only two scenes of genuine cruelty in the movie and in all fairness the snakes certainly get their revenge!