What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Susan Foreman]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

No idea where this would go, but just did this - 'Which Universal Monster are you?'.
I got Dracula.

Which Universal Movie Monster Are You? -

I'm "The Bride Of Frankenstein"!

Presumably she is the only female in the results!!

Actually, 'The Bride Of Frankenstein' is my favourite of all the classic Universal monster movies, so I am very happy with this outcome

[monkeypedro]

Managed to catch a free preview of Cold in July last week in London which was great. I am a big fan of director Jim Mickle and it certainly did'nt disappoint and well worth catching if showing at a cinema near you.

I also saw a movie called Alien Abduction which was one of the worst found footage movies i have ever seen. This was the free screening for the people who spent hours queuing to purchase Frightfest tickets in the sleepy queue and hopefully none of the August line up will be as bad as this. One to avoid!!!

[Dave Boy]

THE FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE (1959)

A curse is put on male members of the Drake family. As each member reaches his 60th birthday he dies. Thing is....each body is buried without a head. Later the skull of the victim appears on a shelf in family crypt. As Jonathan finds his headless brother in his coffin at the funeral, he knows he will be next.......

Ha,ha, I really enjoyed this. The deaths involve voodoo and shrunken heads and I was suprised at when I saw and heard the process of actually making a shrunken head. The effects are very good and quite grizzly I thought, for the time, as the skin is taken from the skull, turned up side down and....ha. Check out this macabre low budget chiller.

[Demoncrat]

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2013)

Haven't enjoyed a film as much since Snowpiercer (for wildy differing reasons....haha). Even with the awful Adrien Brody (who is the only incongruity in it cough) this charming tale had me captivated from the start. Ok, if you can't stand WA's work, it would be a pain, as it his most "Andersonesque" film yet imho. Best thing I've seen Fiennes in as well.

Also watched Red State as twas on Film4 (followed by Kill List...sweet dreams haha). Still quite gripping, even with ad breaks (which weren't that poorly placed this time I found).

[dis]

hi guys,think previous post should have been in "what have your brought recently"!
however,i did watch "jack the giant killer",original, last night followed by "7th voyage of sinbad".cant beat Ray Harryhausen!
have also got too watch "sinbad and thev eye of the tiger,golden voyage of sinbad,steptoe and son{best of vol 1 and 2}.
and today "mordum,snuff edition" signed ,along with "grindhouse 20 film collection volume 2"{i think}? arrived.

[ReversedBible]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

THE FOUR SKULLS OF JONATHAN DRAKE (1959)

A curse is put on male members of the Drake family. As each member reaches his 60th birthday he dies. Thing is....each body is buried without a head. Later the skull of the victim appears on a shelf in family crypt. As Jonathan finds his headless brother in his coffin at the funeral, he knows he will be next.......

Ha,ha, I really enjoyed this. The deaths involve voodoo and shrunken heads and I was suprised at when I saw and heard the process of actually making a shrunken head. The effects are very good and quite grizzly I thought, for the time, as the skin is taken from the skull, turned up side down and....ha. Check out this macabre low budget chiller.

That sounds great! Haha. I love the title too.

EDIT:

I watched Blue Sunshine for the first time tonight. It wasn't what I expected it to be but it was an allright movie all in all.

[keirarts]

Phantom of the opera.

One of the strangest takes on the phantom story, aside perhaps from the Argento Julian sands rats down pants version. Phantom starts off in modern day New York where a young singer attempts to sing music by the phantom. She is inexplicably transported back to the 1800's to the London opera house (not Paris for some reason) where the Phantom is going all stalk and slash on anyone who stands in the way of the young singer in the lead role!

Produced by the legendary Harry Allan towers, Phantom is a much gorier and stranger film than any of its predecessors. It does however, look fantastic for it's budget and there are plenty of meaty kills. Robert Englund is pretty good as the phantom and we even get a young looking Bill Nighy in a major role.
Phantom was a solid straight to video slasher that's worth checking out. It often goes for the lowest common denominator but that's ok by me.


Shock Corridor.

A journalist fakes being mental to get into an Asylum in order to solve a murder and win a Pulitzer. Once inside his mind begins to slip and as he gets ever closer to the truth the more he loses himself. Much to the horror of his wife.
A million miles more classy than Phantom. Shock Corridor was a somewhat controversial film on release. Partly to do with its unflinching portrayals of madness and sexuality. It also took a swipe at (at the time) modern America. There are three inmates who might have witnessed the killing. One inmate is an African American man who was attending one of the first integrated schools. His mind has broken and now he believes he is one of the bigots who persecuted him. Another adopts an overtly American persona and turns out to have been captured and brain washed by communists. The Third potential witness was a high ranking physicist who worked on the nuclear bomb, now he has reverted to an innocent child like persona.

Shock corridor is one of my favorite Sam Fuller films. Intelligent and humane, it still holds up today. The Criterion disc is great and includes the Channel four documentary on Fuller.

[Mojo]

HOUSE OF WHIPCORD
Pete Walker's classic has never looked better than on this Blu ray from Odeon. A film that gets better with each viewing.
Needless to say, top performance goes to Sheila Keith - a woman who can convey more in one quick glance than most actors can with ten lines of dialogue.
Fingers crossed for FRIGHTMARE next.

DEATH OCCURRED LAST NIGHT
An enjoyable cross of Giallo and Italian crime, this is a neat thriller with a groovy soundtrack. It's great to see more films like this receive their 'debut' from Raro. Great print. Recommended.

[trebor8273]

Been watching a lot of stuff on netflix

Fright night original. 9.5/10
Never sleep again 8.5/10
Where the buffalo roam 9/10
The man from Planet X 7/10
Star Trek voyager season 1-7 8/10
Welcome to the NHK 8/10
Major league 8/10
Journey to the seventh planet 7.5/10
The keep 9.5/10



Now watching the breakfast club

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Mojo

It's great to see more films like this receive their 'debut' from Raro. Great print. Recommended.

Raro are one of my favourite companies in terms of releasing interesting and obscure films at the moment. Vinegar Syndrome is another.