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Airborne (2012) Another winner from British producer Jonathan Sothcott (Dead Cert, Devil's Playground, Strippers vs Werewolves). This time it's a genuinely gripping thriller about a disparate group of strangers on a red eye flight from London to New York. Starring Mark Hamill, Julian Glover, crafty cockney Simon Phillips and Gemma Atkinson. Airborne is a pacy, mystery, thrill ride with a well written script and great direction from novice director Dominic Burns who creates an atmosphere of tension from the off. All helped by the fact the team were actually able to film the whole thing in a full size transatlantic aeroplane. To go into the story would spoil it so i won't, but i would recommend this to any fans of well crafted, low budget, film making. |
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'Assault on Precinct 13' - first viewing, believe it or not, and I really enjoyed it. The low budget shows a couple of times, but nothing too distracting. Carpenter reached his peak a few years later with 'The Thing', then seemed to shoot himself in the foot. What a waste. Still in shock re. the ice-cream van scene! 'Doomsday' - sort of ok action/sci fi flick, that 'borrows' heavily from 'Escape From New York', '28 Days Later', 'Aliens', 'Mad Max' etc, etc. Performances and direction were ok, the script seemed to be the biggest problem. I started losing interest when they reached the castle, and it got a bit too silly, and lame one liners replaced any tension that had been built up. Maybe Marshall is the next Carpenter - started in a blaze of glory, then fell in a hole? |
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'Tales From the Crypt' - like most anthologies there are a couple of good stories, and a couple of not so good. Can't remember the actual titles, but I really liked the Santa Claus killer, and the car crash stories, and really disliked the Monkeys Paw story. The 'home for the blind' story sort of fell in between. Didn't know that Joan Collins was so hot, in her early years!
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Watched Gozu last night, boy that was messed up. That birthing scene was horrible. Then watched planet terror, I decided to watch it scratch free which was a regret. It takes away something which was crap because it's a great film.
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