What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[JoshuaKaitlyn]

From 1933:

Gold Diggers of 1933
The Vampire Bat
Roman Scandals
42nd Street
King Kong
Son of Kong

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[keirarts]

Knight moves.


Christopher lambert plays a chess grand master attending a tounrnement on an island who becomes prime suspect for a series of murders occurring on the island in this very underrated giallo-esque thriller. Still a lot of fun i'd not seen this one since the days of vhs when it turned up at my corner shop with very little fanfare. This one deserves a blu-ray release imo.

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Knight moves.


Christopher lambert plays a chess grand master attending a tounrnement on an island who becomes prime suspect for a series of murders occurring on the island in this very underrated giallo-esque thriller. Still a lot of fun i'd not seen this one since the days of vhs when it turned up at my corner shop with very little fanfare. This one deserves a blu-ray release imo.

Not seen this for many years i remember really enjoying it back then. Must seek it out sometime.

[troggi]

The Ghoul

Best to say little.

[nekromantik]

Just seen Bad Kids Go To Hell.
This was quite bad. I did not enjoy it at all.
The story was boring, you hate every single character and the ending was even worse.
Avoid!

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by nordicdusk

Not seen this for many years i remember really enjoying it back then. Must seek it out sometime.

I'm hoping shout factory or olive stick it out on blu-ray..

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by keirarts

I'm hoping shout factory or olive stick it out on blu-ray..

Its €75 on Play.com looks like i wont be seeking it out for a while

[keirarts]

Originally Posted by nordicdusk

Its €75 on Play.com looks like i wont be seeking it out for a while

Just had a check about....bloody hell... £12 on amazon so I stuck my copy on there!

[Frankie Teardrop]

SIGHTSEERS - Ben Wheatley's latest excursion into the darkness lurking beneath grey UK suburbia. It's kind of a Yorkshire road movie, with Steve Oram and Alice Lowe as an awkward couple whose caravan tour turns into a murder spree. The emphasis here is more wryly comedic than his previous efforts, although there are sequences where the atmosphere darkens considerably and, beyond the knitted crotchless bikini gags, the desolate landscape looms like a crow at the gallows. In fact, despite the black comedy (effective though it may be), 'Sightseers' is at its best when it comes close to capturing a sort of 'seventies UK rural arcana vibe', if that makes any sense at all. I don't think it's quite up there with 'Down Terrace' or 'Kill List' although I might change my mind on a second viewing, and, in any case, it's definitely a must-see.

MADMAN - Weird how I've never seen this until now. It's a really basic classic early eighties slasher, in set-up but not in execution. There are the usual idiot kids in the woods along with a maniac with a back-story, but, despite 'Madman's generic starting point, there's something captivatingly wonky about it all. The blue lighting and the film's choppy rhythms create an irrational dream-like atmosphere, the inane dialogue verges on the cryptic, and some of the performances at points are bewilderingly stylised. I guess some of this is deliberate and some isn't, but the net effect is beguiling. It's a lot more eccentric than, say, 'The Burning' or many of the slashers released in its era, which all tended towards linearity despite the cheap thrills they promised. If you can get past its woeful acting (Gaylen Ross, what happened?) and obligatory but dull stretches of stumbling around in the dark, 'Madman' offers some neat off-kilter bizarreness wrapped up in that quintessential early eighties atmosphere.

DEMON WITCH CHILD - An 'Exorcist' rip-off from De Ossorio. In the past, whenever I heard mention of it, it always seemed to get totally slated, and especially dissed in comparison with the 'The Blind Dead', so I wasn't overly enthusiatic when I put it on the other day. I have to say that I was really into it. I don't think it's as 'good' in terms of filmmaking as, say, 'The Lorely's Grasp', but it's certainly up there in terms of weirdness. It has the disconcerting, trippy, slightly magical aura of De Ossorio at his best, and makes up for its clunky B-movie dynamics by providing an endless stream of strangeness, some of which is overt, some of which isn't (and possibly exists only in my head, but hey I'm calling it as I see it).

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Sightseers was one of my favourite films of last year and the Blu-ray release is really good. Sightseers | Film 365