What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Nordicdusk]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

Certainly is. Here's what Cult Labs' hippest jive artist said about it back in November -

"TUSK – When I've sat down with Kevin Smith films in the past, it's been like staying a bit too long in the company of a brilliant but exasperating young person who annoys by being 1) much cleverer and hipper than me, but ultimately also by being 2) actually, objectively annoying anyway. I think stuff like 'Clerk's is great on a cinema level or whatever, but I can't get through that kind of thing without wincing deep down. That said, I really liked 'Red State', which was quite a departure for Smith but still felt like one of his. The same goes for 'Tusk'. It's basically about a hip young podcaster who might be brilliant in some way but is certainly exasperating. He travels to Canada to do an interview, but ends up waylaid by some ancient guy who regales him with tales of meeting Earnest Hemmingway etc etc. This ancient guy then imprisons annoying hipster podcaster and basically turns him into a walrus. Why? I don't know, maybe he has issues or something. Podcaster's girlfriend and his podcaster buddy team up with a comedy French Canadian ex detective and track his sorry fate. It's interesting to see Smith combine his off-hand wordy indieness with such surrealism, but also with much more standard B movie territory. There's something austere and freaky about the build up, but when I was watching the transformation scenes I thought less of Cronenberg or 'Human Centipede' and more of something like a Charles Band film. Horror stylistics may or may not be Smith's thing, but there's no doubting the eerie power of much of the content here, or rather, the impact it has by sometimes managing to be both hilarious and affecting... I think this is summed up by the end scene, where podcaster's now ex gf visits him in his new home, a really bleak, dilapidated animal sanctuary. The just-deserts angle is mocking, self referential and tongue in cheek, but it's also weirdly troubling. Anyway, 'Tusk' is great, I know his latter stuff is miles away from 'Chasing Amy' et al, but frankly I wish he just made films like this all the time."

Cheers Frankie ill grab a copy and give it a go.

[Nordicdusk]

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Using their high school dance as cover a group of teens steal the school bus and head to the wilderness to party it up in one of their parents cabins.On the way the the bus runs out of gas and grinds to a halt and you guessed it they are out in the middle of nowhere. Two of the group volunteer to go look for a petrol station or someone who maybe able to help the stranded teen. A couple of miles down the road they find what appears to be an abandoned house. They gather the rest of their companions and head to the house to spend the night. Surely nothing could go wrong in and abandoned house in the woods.

With Lost After Dark they have tried their best to take you back to the 80s with the cloths and attitudes of the teens but sometime they tried too hard using a few stupid gimmicks the worst of which has to be when one of the teens while people are drinking dancing and making out she is sitting on her own trying to complete a rubiks cube which just looked stupid and out of place. Two other things that just came across like they were trying too hard was at certain points the film would have some film damage to look like an old vhs but it looked really out of place because the rest of the picture was crystal clear with a few damage lines randomly placed around the screen and then one scene that really annoyed me was when the film seemed to burn or melt and reel missing flashed on the screen up until that point the film was moving along nicely but that really took me out of it for a few minutes it just ended up looking cheap and not effective.

Dont let those short comings turn you off checking this one out because it is a fun film overall with some good kills and effects. Yes its full of cliches with the usual suspects the jock the slut the fat guy the black guy the rock chick the asshole and the goody two shoes who never even kissed a guy. While bringing nothing new to the genre its a really good effort which would of been better if they had gone the right way about trying to date the film back to the 80s.

7/10

[Nordicdusk]

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A small film crew head to a cursed graveyard in the middle of the rainforest to film the ultimate horror film but filming is put on hold when some killer bananas crash the set and reek havoc with the starts and crew but when one of the sound camera man escapes he returns home with and unexpected quest and so starts a world wide killer banana epidemic.

Finally got around to watching this and was it worth the wait ? You're damn right it was running at just 16 minutes i was laughing my ass off for the entire running time and i will be returning to this one many times in the future. This is one of those films if you having a bad day you throw on and your spirits and instantly raised the over the top gore is great and the over the top acting well not so much acting but people loosing their minds and screaming are hilarious.

Highly Recommended ill give it an 8/10 for pure fun anything less would be an injustice to this excellent short .





These banana smilies may look all happy and friendly but behind their upbeat happy go lucky exterior lays something very disturbing and sinister.

[Bringer Of Funerals]

Asylum

I recorded this when it was on the Horror channel as I quite enjoy anthology films. The story was a Dr goes into a mental asylum hoping to get a job and by doing so interviews 4 people who may or may not be nut jobs.

I found their film Vault Of Horror better (this was also made my Amicus) but these stories were enjoyable as it had an appearance by the legendary Peter Cushing and babe Britt Ekland.

I found the 1st story quite creepy in atmosphere but the end was a bit daft for me. The story is Walter is having an affair and rather then just divorce his wife he decides to kill her and hide her in a freezer, It was a good start.

2nd story was about a tailor who was asked to make a suit for Peter Cushing in a fabric of his choosing and after it has been made the tailor must deliver it. This story was a bit disappointing.

3rd was about a woman called Barbara (Charlotte Rampling) who is stopping at her brother's house after leaving the hospital and while there she gets a visit from her sister (Britt Ekland) who devises a plan for Barb's escape. I enjoyed this one a lot.

4th wasn't really a flashback story as it happened in the actual asylum, Dr Byron thinks he can put his soul into little robotic toys and let's just leave it at that because I will ruin the final story, but it felt a bit out of place for me.

Overall I enjoyed the film lots and will hope there is a Blu out of it soon

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

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Using their high school dance as cover a group of teens steal the school bus and head to the wilderness to party it up in one of their parents cabins.On the way the the bus runs out of gas and grinds to a halt and you guessed it they are out in the middle of nowhere. Two of the group volunteer to go look for a petrol station or someone who maybe able to help the stranded teen. A couple of miles down the road they find what appears to be an abandoned house. They gather the rest of their companions and head to the house to spend the night. Surely nothing could go wrong in and abandoned house in the woods.

With Lost After Dark they have tried their best to take you back to the 80s with the cloths and attitudes of the teens but sometime they tried too hard using a few stupid gimmicks the worst of which has to be when one of the teens while people are drinking dancing and making out she is sitting on her own trying to complete a rubiks cube which just looked stupid and out of place. Two other things that just came across like they were trying too hard was at certain points the film would have some film damage to look like an old vhs but it looked really out of place because the rest of the picture was crystal clear with a few damage lines randomly placed around the screen and then one scene that really annoyed me was when the film seemed to burn or melt and reel missing flashed on the screen up until that point the film was moving along nicely but that really took me out of it for a few minutes it just ended up looking cheap and not effective.

Dont let those short comings turn you off checking this one out because it is a fun film overall with some good kills and effects. Yes its full of cliches with the usual suspects the jock the slut the fat guy the black guy the rock chick the asshole and the goody two shoes who never even kissed a guy. While bringing nothing new to the genre its a really good effort which would of been better if they had gone the right way about trying to date the film back to the 80s.

7/10

Great review, Nordy.

This was one of the new films that interested me that i listed a couple of days back, so i'm delighted you posted this. I'll definitely pick it up now.

[Justin101]

The Adventures of Hercules (aka Hercules II) (1985)



Oh dear I know that Golan and Globus are considered mavericks but they must have been crazy to give Luigi Cozzi money to make this film. While part one was crap but enjoyable this sequel seems to miss the enjoyment factor and turns out to be a completely inept movie! However there is something completely endearing about Lou Ferrigno and his performance and whenever he's on screen I can't help but smile.

I'm hoping that Sinbad isn't this bad which I'll watch at some point this week, but since that has the involvement of Enzo G. Castellari it should be better, but I'm not holding my breath!

[Nordicdusk]

Cheers Dem I hope you enjoy it and if you don't you will have forgotten that I recommended it by December

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee going to see Deadpool again tonight!!

More awful trailers, so we just sat where we liked again. Film better second time, laugh riot in places.

Rewatched Attack Of The Herbals/Redwood Massacre.

Also watched Brain Donors (1992, Dennis Dugan)
Odd wee thing, a tribute to the Marx Bros in spirit, directed by a certain Spaceman cough. Recommended! If you can find it cough that is....

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Justin101

The Adventures of Hercules (aka Hercules II) (1985)



Oh dear I know that Golan and Globus are considered mavericks but they must have been crazy to give Luigi Cozzi money to make this film. While part one was crap but enjoyable this sequel seems to miss the enjoyment factor and turns out to be a completely inept movie! However there is something completely endearing about Lou Ferrigno and his performance and whenever he's on screen I can't help but smile.

I'm hoping that Sinbad isn't this bad which I'll watch at some point this week, but since that has the involvement of Enzo G. Castellari it should be better, but I'm not holding my breath!

Keep us posted! I've seen both, and I agree!!

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

Is Tusk worth a watch?

Lawdy! Once.