What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Calvaire (2004)

Aka The Ordeal, a Belgian take on the Straw Dogs strangers in our midst type of film. Blackly comic and occasionally disturbing, focusing more on the mental torture and degradation of an amateur cabaret singer by the village idiots of a small isolated woodland community than it does graphic gore showcased in more typical Euro horror of the period.

Following a creepy opening forty minutes the second half of the film ended up lacking true horror and veering into camp silliness.

Not a patch on Martyrs, Inside, High Tension, Frontier(s), The Pack and the rest. Disappointing.

I bought this on release and whilst I thought it was okay, as you mentioned in your review, it's not a patch on similar fare.

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

Definitely one of director Jacques Tourneur's lesser efforts, this tale of undertakers Vincent Price and a wonderful Peter Lorre, in one of his last screen roles, murdering potential customers to ensure the family business (run by Boris Karloff) thrives, ends up quite weak following a promising start.

The legendary Basil Rathbone completes a real fearsome foursome of horror stars who try hard with a regrettably dull and uneven script. The film looks tremendous though, with a stunning burial sequence at the beginning one of the highlights.

The script from Richard Matheson lacks horror and sadly also lacks much in the way of laughs, one or two lines of dialogue aside. Co-stars Joe E Brown and the buxom but irritating Joyce Jameson are outshone by Rhubarb the cat.

Despite me sounding over critical, the film comes across as an interesting failure that ends up worth watching thanks to it's star power alone.

Yes I was rather disappointed with this one.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by J Harker

Yes I was rather disappointed with this one.

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It's not that i didn't know what it was like though. I own the Midnite Movies double bill that it's on, but i couldn't resist it in that Arrow sale from a couple of months ago seeing as it was only £4 for the dual format release.

[Demoncrat]

Us (Jordan Peele)

"... Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them"
Jeremiah 11:11.


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Rewatch for this one. Just to be sure cough.
Until then .... What the flip does hearken mean?

[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

It's not that i didn't know what it was like though. I own the Midnite Movies double bill that it's on, but i couldn't resist it in that Arrow sale from a couple of months ago seeing as it was only £4 for the dual format release.

Was a first time viewing for me. Though it was a sale purchase. £7.99 I think. It was far from awful but give me the likes of Cormans Tales of Terror any day.

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[J Harker]

Originally Posted by Demoncrat

Us (Jordan Peele)



"... Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them"

Jeremiah 11:11.





Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Rewatch for this one. Just to be sure cough.

Until then .... What the flip does hearken mean?

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[nosferatu42]

Originally Posted by SymbioticFunction

I preferred Let Me In to the original film if I'm being honest. btw Please don't kick me off the forum!

You know where the door is.

[nosferatu42]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

Definitely one of director Jacques Tourneur's lesser efforts, this tale of undertakers Vincent Price and a wonderful Peter Lorre, in one of his last screen roles, murdering potential customers to ensure the family business (run by Boris Karloff) thrives, ends up quite weak following a promising start.

Despite me sounding over critical, the film comes across as an interesting failure that ends up worth watching thanks to it's star power alone.

I watched this recently again and really enjoyed it, i guess i'm easily pleased but it was nice to see all the old stars just hamming it up and messing about.

"What place is this?"

[nosferatu42]

Jaws 4 - The revenge - Not as bad as i'd heard, at least in terms of watchability, Michael Caine talks a load of shit and seems slightly pissed, the shark still looks like something Spitting Image threw out, it's reasonably shot but shitly edited.

But what makes it bad is that nothing really happens, a couple of bland kills, no tension and a randomly explosive shark.

Apparently the reason Jaws could track the family to take revenge was originally because of a voodoo curse, if they'd have gone with that it might have at least been interesting in a stupid way.

Bland 4/10

Independence day 2 - Utter bollocks, the first wasn't great but was watchable for the explosive carnage, this is just a rehash with shitter destruction, dull new characters and an abundance of random CGI shit flying around the screen with no impact.
Shit blows up but nobody cares.

2/10

[nosferatu42]

Madhouse (1981)
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Somebody asked if anyone had seen this the other day but no one said much, i have the old Uk dvd and it was a video nasty i'd never seen so was getting round to it sooner or later, so thought i'd give it a watch.

I enjoyed this quite a bit, the director had something to do with that other Arrow freakout "The Visitor" and the exorcist rip off "Behind the door" so i was in from the Gecko.

Anyway...basically...some school teacher for deaf kids has a evil twin sister who hates her and escapes from hospital, goes on a kill crazy rampage with her pet dog and proceeds to slaughter all her sisters friends.

Or something.

But there is a twist.

This is really well shot and although shot in America has a slight Euro atmosphere due to the Euro crew involved, it's not exactly blood soaked but there are enough kills to keep the interest.

It's not top tier Nasty but if you are drawn to these kind of films it is perfectly decent, more along the lines of Butcher, Baker, Nightmare maker i thought as it's well acted and a pretty decent film.

Not mind blowing but i enjoyed it.

There's an infamous drill in dogs head sequence but this was pretty entertaining due to a substandard Sooty type joke dog head...nice.

Don't blame me if you buy it but there are a lot worse (craptastic.) nasties out there.

I enjoyed it more than i expected to.

7/10