What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[SCM]

Watched Sawney: Flesh of Man last night. Great horror movie, although when watching it I couldn't help but make references to Still Game because of Gavin Mitchell.

[trebor8273]

Originally Posted by keirarts

There's a bloke who lives locally to me who worked on the Star wars films, I cant remember if he was just a camera operator or DP. Anyway, he came into work and started complaining loudly how he'd seen all the films we stocked while at the skywalker ranch and on the coach with lucas while going around locations working on episode 2. He started telling me about how they were preparing to work on episode 3 and got a bit nonplussed when I asked if they could make this one 'a bit better'. He never came into store again.

I'm going to have to proof read my post, stupid ipad has a mind of its own should be scout not account bloody auto correction.

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by JoshuaKaitlyn

Grabbers (2012) Wasn't too impressed! In fact it bored me!

Awwww. I found it to a nice change of pace after all the fake snuff I watch

[Demoncrat]

Watched The Whip & The Body (1963, Mario Bava, VCI dvd).
A fun little tale of retribution and lust. Bava just knew what he was doing it seems, even with a miniscule budget he turns out a stunning looking film. Ok, the subject matter isn't popcorn freindly, but you can all f off and watch The Purge then

I must get more BAVA!!

[nosferatu42]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Watched The Whip & The Body (1963, Mario Bava, VCI dvd).
A fun little tale of retribution and lust. Bava just knew what he was doing it seems, even with a miniscule budget he turns out a stunning looking film. Ok, the subject matter isn't popcorn freindly, but you can all f off and watch The Purge then

I must get more BAVA!!

Personally i haven't seen 'Whip' but looks interesting, i do really like most Bava films i've seen, love the was he uses colour lighting to create atmosphere.
My favourite Bava films are 'Black Sunday', 'Black sabbath', 'a Bay of blood', 'Blood and Black lace' and 'Kill, baby, kill' , if you see any of these you wont go far wrong.
I also find 'Danger Diabolik' very entertaining and is good if u like cheesy sixties comic book escapism.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Undead or Alive (2007)

Another third time viewing film for me.

A couple of mismatched cowboys meet up with an Apache girl and they discover the wild west is wilder than they first thought as its full of flesh eating zombies.

It seems almost lazy to say if you enjoyed Shaun of the Dead then you'll like this, cliched in fact. In the case of Undead or Alive the analogy might actually be correct. Like the Pegg / Frost film, Undead or Alive mixes gore with laughs, not ridiculous laughs, subtler ones that non horror fans may even miss. Also they both have superb dialogue, especially in the camaraderie of the lead players, who seem to be having a lot of fun, yet never lowering themselves to parody, in fact in both films most of the laughs for me come from the excellent dialogue.

Undead or Alive also stands out from the run of the mill zombie horror comedies due to its frankly superb cinematography. In fact much of the location work in Santa Fe and New Mexico is so good it would have impressed the great John Ford with its panoramic vistas. One or two shots also remind me of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven in the way they are framed. So immediately the film gets the western influence and style spot on, what about the horror? We have everything a zombie fan could want - gut munching, flesh ripping, heads rolling, decent zombie make up, oh and brain eating - with a spoon. This film gets the horror / comedy blend right as far as i'm concerned and together with an enjoyable story, creates one of the better genre mash ups in recent years.

[napalm-in-the-morning]

Originally Posted by JoshuaKaitlyn

Grabbers (2012) Wasn't too impressed! In fact it bored me!

Agreed. I actually couldn't finish it I was so bored.

[Rik]

Backwoods Bloodbath- Utter shite low budget film that is unbelievebly worse than The Goatman Murders! Only recommended if you need a new ice scraper for winter, or a replacement DVD box!
Making it to the end was harder than when I beat cancer, that's how ****ing shite it really is!

[Frankie Teardrop]

DON'T GO IN THE WOODS - Often wheeled out as a textbook example of bad, bad filmmaking, DGITW is charming and jarring in equal measure. Some of the acting seems almost fake-bad. The wild-man killer is pretty random. The editing, pace and photography are subtly skewed and out of kilter in a completely non-intentional manner. The overall rubbishness teeters on the brink of being totally laughable, but then has to vie with unexpectedly moody bits, mostly accompanied by the murky synth soundtrack which loads of people seem to write off but which I think is almost THE defining moment of early eighties horror atmos. Great stuff, er well maybe, maybe not but definitely enjoyable.

SLUGS - I don't know why I always turn to 'Slugs' when I feel I need some kind of trash B-movie fix, because it's certainly not the tastiest morsel out there (see above for a richer feast and below for a vom-bag full of eeeek!). But for the first hour it really does something for me, a weird mix of satisfyingly icky gore and plastic eighties TV movie dynamics (even though it was a theatrical release). The last half hour drags a bit in its standard 'race against time to bomb a sewer' action horror pay-off attempt, but for a while it promises to be something a bit special (ie a bit shit but still likeable).

ENTRAILS OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN - The follow up to 'Guts of a Virgin' and features a similar combine of post-Pinku and monster prosthetic. It seems a lot more rapey than it's predecessor and, even if it doesn't boast any wanking with severed limbs, it feels grottier and sleazier. There's a Cronenbergian edge, with some kind of narcotic begetting a pretty impressive hermaphrodite creature who menaces J gangster types with a Gigeresque phallus and a slimy vag.

MORVERN CALLAR - From the novel by Alan Warner. Samantha Morton plays an affectless woman who steals her dead boyfriend's manuscript and basically goes on holiday with her mate. A great film, I feel. There's something about its vaguely druggy, washed out drift that seems really off key and warped without being blatant. This is all somehow summed up by Morton, an unreadable but powerfully looming presence. I don't know why, but I was sort of reminded of David Lynch a few times - maybe just all the references to flickering lights.

THE MUSIC OF CHANCE - Third literary adaption (or maybe second, sorry Shaun) this time from Paul Auster. I really like TMOC, hadn't seen it in ages till I spied it on Lovefilm - it tends to be a bit overlooked these days, but basically it's a Kafkaesque tale of two men who lose a gambling contest and are forced to build a wall as a means of compensating their opponents. That's kind of it - I know it doesn't sound too thrilling, but it's hypnotic and eerie and just really engrossing. Recommended to lovers of lost weird nineties indie who dig James Spader (who's in it).

[Wes]

This one opens with a blast of The Exploited... Made In Britain, Alan Clarke's 1983 made for television film about a violent racist skinhead's free fall through the criminal justice system. Gritty, tough, unsentimental stuff, featuring a volcanic performance from Tim Roth, and some brilliant steadicam work Chris Menges taking us through dead zone detention centres manned by overstressed case-workers with few solutions in sight. Worrying stuff, this is not just made in Britain, but made in anywhere, anytime