What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Invid Ninja]

If we're talking Hitchcock, I was always a big fan of Frenzy. Noone seems to talk about that one within his body of work and that somewhat surprises me. Probably my second favourite of his films.

[nekromantik]

Tonight I saw:

Would You Rather, a rather generic "torture porn" flick starring Jeffrey Combs! Standard affair, girl gets offered to take part in a game where the winner gets lots of money and help for her sick dying brother. Then it gets to the usual torture scenes and starts to get bland. The twist on the usual story is pretty weak and apart from Combs its quite a boring movie.

The Ghoul, this is made by the same guys as The Girl Next Door and The Woman. They are a group to look out for! This movie is based on a book just like previous two flicks and has some pretty tough back storys involved including child abuse both sexual and physical. Thankfully you dont see much but it might be a hard watch for some people. Main part of the story is a urban legand of a monster called the ghoul who kills kids and girls start to go missing and guys end up dead and these 3 friends end up going on a adventure which ends with solving the mystery. Very good I thought and a good watch. Recommend viewing!

[Metallicbomb]

Just finished watching

Cronos
The Devil's Backbone
Both fantastic dark fantasy films
From Guillermo Del Toro

[Zann]

Originally Posted by Metallicbomb

Just finished watching

Cronos
The Devil's Backbone
Both fantastic dark fantasy films
From Guillermo Del Toro

Hell yes, Ron Perlman is great in Cronos. Brilliant in Drive too...whatever happened to the deluxe BD of Drive Refn had planned?

[Justin101]

I had a free day yesterday so I went overboard with my film watching! Only Legend was previously unseen!! Which takes the piss when my watch pile is huge and I'm rewatching stuff I've seen before

[Justin101]

...and I just watched this short which is quite beautiful in spite of it's title!

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by gag

Im just starting my way throught the hanzo trilogy again and then eventualy the Babycart series because ive never seen any apart from shogun assasin.
Ive also to buy the lady snowblood as well, Apart from these can anyone recommend me other types of films or tv series like these because i like these style and type of films,

Any sonny chiba stuff is good. The streetfighter trilogy is usually the highest rated, golgo 13 is good an karate warriors is a must see, basically yojimbo with karate set in a desolate seaside town!

Female scorpion trilogy is good as well. In fact lm a big fan of a lot of what was considered b movies in japan.

[trebor8273]

Watched the first disc of salem's lot last night, still amazing especially when you think it was made for tv, for me I rate it higher than chainsaw massacre. Even after all these years of seeing it on tv I still get goosebumps at kid levitating outside the window wanting to be in, was unable to sleep for weeks the first time I saw it. Shall watch the last disc tonight.

Just started to watch what in my opinion is the greatest western ever made.

[Beyond72]

Originally Posted by trebor8273

Just started to watch what in my opinion is the greatest western ever made.

Duck you sucker?

[Frankie Teardrop]

AMERICAN MARY - A medical school drop-out messes with the body modification underground. I had quite high expectations of 'American Mary'. Whilst it certainly ticked quite a few of my more favoured boxes thematically and cinematically, it wasn't quite the experience I was looking for. Perhaps I anticipated something a bit more 'full on'. But it is 'full on', in places, and contains some nice imagery,and, whilst there are some obvious reference points (Cronenberg, maybe David Lynch a little) I was even reminded of Peter Greenaway at one point(?) Above all, it was nice to watch something non-generic but still essentially 'horror' if you get my drift, a movie which takes itself and its themes seriously enough to play with ideas. Good, but I'll have to give it another go.

JASON X - I don't really like the Friday 13th series, but this is maybe an exception because of its care-free trashyness. As everyone probably knows, it's basically Jason, on a spaceship, murdering people. At one point he becomes a cyborg. What more can be said? It's mindless fun, contains the requisite amount of bloodshed and vileness and didn't really bore me.

HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER 2 - If ever a sequel seemed set up to fail it was this one. There's really no going back (or forward) from the black hole that is the original 'Henry', so I've made a point of avoiding Henry 2 over the years. This time, a spare £3 and my morbid curiosity and a total lack of anything better to do got the better of me. It's actually not that bad, and even stands up in its own right. It plays like a hybrid of dour blue collar drama and unrealistic nineties thriller, quite an uneven mix but, to me, an interesting one. It didn't quite sustain me, and after midway I felt the familiar tendrils of boredom begin to snake through my nervous system, but it certainly wasn't the disaster I was anticipating. Might give it another go due to alcoholic interference.