What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Rik

I've never seen that film sober

I must admit i drank quite a bit watching it last night.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iank

The Cabin in the Woods. A group of college friends - a jock, a brain, a nerd and a virgin - head off for a weekend at an isolated cabin in the woods, and soon unleash an ancient evil. So far, so cliched, right? Wrong. Everything you think you know is inverted in this delightfully cheeky and imaginative comedy-horror co-written by Joss Whedon. Some of the last act reminds me, of all things, of the Pertwee Who story Carnival of Monsters! Great fun.

Along with The Babadook this is at the top of the tree marked over hyped shite.

[iank]

Well I agree with The Babadook (boring as ****!) but Cabin is a hoot.

[Buboven]

Originally Posted by iank

Well I agree with The Babadook (boring as ****!) but Cabin is a hoot.

For me it is the other way round, loved The Babadook (though perhaps it spoke to me a lot because of my own battle with mental health, in part due to my autism. Plus I loved the little homage to Bava's Black Sabbath) but thought Joss Whedon's direction in CITW was far too smug for its own good, came across to me as quite condescending and patronising to the genre. I don't know, maybe just don't get Whedon's humour, because I only like a select few number of horror comedies or it is because I like it when horror films have political or social undercurrents to them.

[Buboven]

Originally Posted by iank

Well I agree with The Babadook (boring as ****!) but Cabin is a hoot.

Wolf Guy, now there is a film which I call a bloody good hoot

[Demoncrat]

I hear owls!

Off to the TP thread with you both


Sorry, couldn't resist ...

[nosferatu42]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

.....I literally am speechless. But it's The Driver. The only Ryan O'Neal film you need, unless slapstick is in your bag.
Cough.

Haven't seen 'The Driver' but i enjoyed 'Paper Moon' with O'Neal.

[gag]

Originally Posted by nosferatu42

Haven't seen 'The Driver' but i enjoyed 'Paper Moon' with O'Neal.

Its a great film,recommended without a doubt .

[keirarts]

Don't f*** in the woods

With a title like that its hard to resist. The film itself is as trashy as one might expect with the end result being a mixture of softcore porn levels of shagging mixed in with people being slaughtered by a bloke in a rubber monster suit prowling the woods. Its very low rent and short at under 80 minutes but this, combined with the general trashiness of the whole project adds to its charm.

Raw

I've said this before, the French don't often do horror, however when they do the results are worth watching. This is certainly true of this fantastique tale of a girl becoming a woman as she navigates the worl of university studying to be a vet. Not only does she have the usual issues being new at school, its compounded by her nascent cannibalisitc tendencies that are brought out in a hazing ritual where shes forced to eat raw rabbits liver. Could the cannibalism be a metaphor for the struggle of becoming an adult? Perhaps the paranoid fantasies of someone who copromises their prinicples (vegetarianism) to fit in. Either way the end result is great and well worth watching.

[MrBarlow]

RAW

I've said this before, the French don't often do horror, however when they do the results are worth watching. This is certainly true of this fantastique tale of a girl becoming a woman as she navigates the worl of university studying to be a vet. Not only does she have the usual issues being new at school, its compounded by her nascent cannibalisitc tendencies that are brought out in a hazing ritual where shes forced to eat raw rabbits liver. Could the cannibalism be a metaphor for the struggle of becoming an adult? Perhaps the paranoid fantasies of someone who copromises their prinicples (vegetarianism) to fit in. Either way the end result is great and well worth watching.[/QUOTE]

Is this the movie that was meant to have caused a stir or controversary??