What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Slippery Jack

Keeping an eye out for that one, love me a bit of Todd Solondz . . .

Me too: Happiness is one of my favourite films.

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Me too: Happiness is one of my favourite films.

Yeah me too. Thought Life During Wartime was a pretty disappointing follow up though . . .

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

I watched Stephen King's Sleepwalkers yesterday.

Not seen it in years and was pleasantly surprised at how well it still stands up. Some decent gory effects and a tight storyline that doesn't outstay its welcome.
Far superior to the majority of monster flicks coming out at the moment.

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by Demdike

I watched Stephen King's Sleepwalkers yesterday.

All I know about that film is the poster, which sat on the wall of my barber's for what must've been at leat 5 years, next to one for a Bill Murray film called Quick Change Memories of sitting opposite it countless times waiting to get my hair cut . . .

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Slippery Jack

All I know about that film is the poster, which sat on the wall of my barber's for what must've been at leat 5 years, next to one for a Bill Murray film called Quick Change Memories of sitting opposite it countless times waiting to get my hair cut . . .

...and you never thought "hmm wonder what that's like?"

I could buy, rent that etc.

Only seen it once many years ago but i think Quick Change was ok too.

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by Demdike

...and you never thought "hmm wonder what that's like?"

I could buy, rent that etc.

Nope. Probably thought 'hmmm, a horror film about cats? Nah, probably rubbish...' Plus I was far more interested in computer games back then, never did the whole renting horrors from the video shop thing . . .

[ispydork]

I watched Black Sabbath and really enjoyed it. I also watched Prometheus recently which I liked. Online I've watched Bubba Ho Tep which is a good one. I also watched Night Of The Comets which was very odd and super 80s, but entertaining.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Slippery Jack

Nope. Probably thought 'hmmm, a horror film about cats? Nah, probably rubbish...' Plus I was far more interested in computer games back then, never did the whole renting horrors from the video shop thing . . .

The cats are the heroes.

[Slippery Jack]

Originally Posted by Demdike

The cats are the heroes.

Wha... but, they feast on your fears... and it's dinner time . . . !!!

[Pete]

SINBAD OF THE SEVEN SEAS - Directed by Enzo Castellari for Cannon films, this is a truly abysmal effort. The score is terrible, the acting and dialogue are appalling bad and, as with the HERCULES films he made for Luigi Cozzi (who came up with the story for this one and directed a few sequences - more on that in a sec!), Lou Ferrigno is dubbed by someone else and it's painfully obvious. Now I know bad acting and dialogue is a typical trait of Italian exploitation but it's even worse than usual here. John Steiner however, gives a delightfully over the top performance as the evil Jaffar and it's worth getting the film just for his scenes....and possibly the scene in which Sinbad makes a rope by tying a load of Snakes together (not real, thankfully!)

To be fair to Castellari some of stuff he directed is techincally very good and there is a nice sequence featuring dead Knights rising from the ground, including one on horseback which looks like they actually buried the horse and then made them climb out! The action scenes are well done and feature Castellari's trademark slow-mo. However, Castellari either walked or was fired (I'm not sure which) and Luigi Cozzi took over and made a few changes and added new scenes (plus a few shots from HERCULES) and, if I was to make a guess, I'd say he was responsible for the opening sequence featuring Daria Nicholodi reading the tale to her daughter (which I think is Cozzi's real life kid) and the subsequent narration which is completely unnecessary and totally ruins every scene it features in.