What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Ticking off some more Corman films for this week's top list I see Dem.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

Ticking off some more Corman films for this week's top list I see Dem.

Ha,ha, yes.

Ten shouldn't be a problem...glad it's not a top 20 though.

[iank]

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse. Two teenage scouts ditch their old friend on the night he's supposed to be getting his merit badge to attend a party with hot girls, blissfully unaware that while they've been out in the wilds their little town has become Ground Zero in a zombie apocalypse. This teen horror-comedy was actually much better than I was expecting, with some very funny moments and likeable characters. I enjoyed it.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Fallen (1998)

Plodding detective thriller sees Denzel Washington on the hunt for someone or something that just might be the fallen angel Azazel.

Directed bu Gregory Hoblit who two years previous gave us the excellent thriller Primal Fear, Fallen is now just as it was when i saw it at the cinema - a bit of a mess.

Whilst Washington is good value as always and ably supported by John Goodman and Donald Sutherland, the script they have to work with is all over the place. Fallen doesn't know whether it wants to be a biblical horror film, a police procedure affair or something else entirely. If it wants to be a horror it fails as it just isn't scary or creepy and crime dramas of the time such as Seven or The Bone Collector ramp up the suspense in far superior style.

The film has a couple of good set pieces as Azazel transfers itself across many people in the street but this trick is repeated once too often and itself becomes repetitive. The final showdown is nicely worked out, as is how it ties into the very first lines in the movie so it's worth watching carefully early doors and should make you ask yourself exactly what you've seen and who was narrating the movie. Other than that, Fallen is as run of the mill as thrillers come.

[iank]

I've always thought it was excellent myself!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

I've always thought it was excellent myself!

It gets 7 out of 10 on IMDB so you aren't alone.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Fallen (1998)

Just realized. It's almost 20 years since i saw this at the pictures.

Where's the time gone?

[J Harker]

Been a while but like iank I rate Fallen quite highly.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Been a while but like iank I rate Fallen quite highly.

I think it goes back to when i first saw it. We were seeing a film a week each and every Sunday and had done the majority of the decade.

In comparison to many crime thrillers with horror elements like the aforementioned Seven, Primal Fear, Copycat, Kiss the Girls, 8mm etal it just seems to lack focus.

There are far worse films that i prefer and far better films i dislike more.

Might just be me, and that's fine, but none of us were wowed at the time.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

In comparison to many crime thrillers with horror elements like the aforementioned Seven, Primal Fear, Copycat, Kiss the Girls, 8mm etal it just seems to lack focus.

There are far worse films that i prefer and far better films i dislike more.

Might just be me, and that's fine, but none of us were wowed at the time.

Thats one of the great things about films though, differing opinions on the same thing. Of those few you mentioned, Seven is in a different league to Fallen, whereas Kiss the Girls and Copycat aren't a patch on it.
But that's just my opinion.
Actually never seen Primal Fear or 8mm.