What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[keirarts]

Sunday night is Supposed to be anime night but had some technical issues so ended up watching a couple of films. (Really need to get the to watch pile down.)


The cell.

Chirst, I remember going to see this back on the cinema when I was still at uni. Has it been so long!? It got some crappy reviews, the script is fairly poor and most of the characters are fairly one dimensional. Yet I keep returning?
Well, in fairness I just picked up the (region locked) blu-ray (bare bones as well, poor show alliance entertainment) and the film really needs to be seen in the best quality it can be. Mainly this is a film to watch for the visuals.
Chubby Vince Vaughn goes after Vincent D'Onofrio's serial killer, who has a fairly eleborate set up where he slowly drowns his victims in a tank then bleaches the corpse to look like a doll, all so he can suspend himself over the corpse and jack off to the video. A lot of effort to get off if you ask me, but then this was 2000 and internet porn was only just becoming a thing. By the time they catch vinne he's deep in a coma and somewhere out there a woman is slowly drowning. Fortunately there's a device that lets you enter other peoples heads so its down to J-Lo to navigate the sick f**** head. This is where the film actually takes off. director Tarsem Singh can't make a decent narrative film to save his life but the dude can craft his visuals. The scenes in the killers head are well crafted and memorable, and what started as a bad hangover from the 90's obsession with profiling (silence of the lambs I blame YOU!) actually morphs into something more trippy and interesting.
In fairness one could simply buy el-topo and holy mountain and get trippy visuals in much better movies but I like the cell for all its many flaws. I'm not alone it seems as the film got a sequel.

Planet of the vampires.

Reviewing this here feels somewhat like telling a Brony convention that my little pony rules ( it doesn't but if I WAS at a Brony convention I would say that, all the while edging slowly to the exit.)
Nontheless planet of the vampires is great. And region locked. Worth mentioning that.
Basically the crew of the nostomo...

Sorry, a bunch of Euro trash astronauts hear a distress beacon coming from the planet ominous (not it's name though it should be!) They land and a bunch of them get killed. The dead astronauts start reviving and coming after the survivors. In fairness Alien substituted zombies for eggs, so there's that.

Mario bava takes cheesy 60's sci-fi and basically injects surprisingly effective gothic horror into the proceedings and it all works very well thanks to Bavas unique visual style and the fact that is son and alfredo leone didn't cut bits out, throw them away and add stupid stuff in its place (i'm still mad about Rabid dogs)

Kino/Scorpion have really done a service to the picture and it looks magnificent. Heres hoping odeon or Arrow pick it up over here!

[trebor8273]

Well was going to watch island of terror but appears to be a problem with my disc as the audio is out of sync. So I'll think I wii either watch the raven (1963), Hellraiser or continue watching Buck Rogers

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

DARK TOURIST -

look. Can't you review things i own or something?

I have 236 horror films in my Amazon wishlist.

I suppose one more won't be noticed.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

look. Can't you review things i own or something?

I have 236 horror films in my Amazon wishlist.

I suppose one more won't be noticed.

Wow... and I thought I had a lot of stuff in mine!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Wow... and I thought I had a lot of stuff in mine!

There are well over 500 items in total. 53 are cd's so they don't count.

If someone reviews something i find interesting then into the wish list it goes. Six months later i'll think, now why's that there?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

There are well over 500 items in total. 53 are cd's so they don't count.

If someone reviews something i find interesting then into the wish list it goes. Six months later i'll think, now why's that there?

I'm the same with my Letterboxd watch list - 806 titles and counting...

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

I'm the same with my Letterboxd watch list - 806 titles and counting...

We expect reviews of them all by the end of the week.

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

We expect reviews of them all by the end of the week.

I haven't even added the Nightmare USA stuff either. It's often daunting stuff watching your watch list increase faster than you can physically have the time to watch films in.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Interesting stuff Dem and B_E. I am the complete opposite with no want list either physical or mental. I just buy whatever floats my boat at any given time and cash allows. That said, I no longer class myself as a film collector more a gentleman hobbyist.

[Make Them Die Slowly]

Bateman Beyond. More DC animation whipping the arse off it's real life cousin. This is fantastic stuff with an aged Batman guiding a new Bats in the near future as the Joker returns from the grave. There is a wonderful sense of madness to this one, especially Robin's fate at the hands of Joker which is cruel, nasty and faintly disturbing. Recommended.

Speaking of Batman, Tom Hardy dukes it out in the rather earnest WARRIOR. A typical fight film but with MMA action rather than boxing. Not to shabby if you like this sort of thing and I do.