What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[MrBarlow]

Massacre. 1989.

A red gloved killer stalks the crew making a film in the area.

The godfather of gore Lucio Fulci takes a seat in the back as a producer in this and allows Andrea Bianchi to take the helm, did Lucio think I need to make a sleazy film and get a porn director to do it that will surprise the audience?? The actors must have been told they were going to be in a film within a film and act really bad, there is one or two decent kills, a background score that was borrowed from another film, a twist that really didn't wow me, and a film poster that shows two actors from another movie that aren't connected to the film, more laughable than horror,

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[MrBarlow]

Fortress Of Amerikkka. 1989.

A paroled Native American seeks revenge against a corrupt Sheriff and fights against a Military group called Fortress Of Amerikkka.

From the team of Troma comes their action adventure styled Rambo movie, love or hate them, we know never to take them seriously and have gave out memorable movies but this was just plain stupid. The acting is worse than any other film they have dished out, the plot of the story is just stupid and a Sheriff who knows the group is there but does sod all except be corrupt. Second time seeing this and managed somehow to stick it all the way to the end this time.

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[MrBarlow]

Lorna The Exorcist. 1974.

A man who made a pact with a witch becomes tormented when she comes to collect the soul of his daughter who has turned 18.

A bit of Eurotrash sleaze movie from the mind of Jess Franco and we would expect nothing to come to a surprise from a great film maker. The MPA and BBFC must have had fun cutting and tearing this film to shreds.

Guy Delorme plays Patrick who was down on his luck and by chance meets Lorna played by Pamela Stanford who offers him her body and what he wants and in return she wants his daughter Linda played by Lina Romay. Jacqueline Laurent plays Marianne the faithful wife who is caught up in Patrick's secret. I thought I would be watching a badly edited version but no this was full blown uncut version that shows everything, even the father watching his daughter have a shower and girl on girl. Not a film to watch at work but was intruiged on how the film ends.

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[nicholasrope]

Last year I reviewed the Pet Shop Boys Movie, It Couldn't Happen Here.

For those unsure about it before purchasing, Sky Arts are showing it on Friday 10th June at 21:00

[Demoncrat]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Lorna The Exorcist. 1974.

A man who made a pact with a witch becomes tormented when she comes to collect the soul of his daughter who has turned 18.

A bit of Eurotrash sleaze movie from the mind of Jess Franco and we would expect nothing to come to a surprise from a great film maker. The MPA and BBFC must have had fun cutting and tearing this film to shreds.

Guy Delorme plays Patrick who was down on his luck and by chance meets Lorna played by Pamela Stanford who offers him her body and what he wants and in return she wants his daughter Linda played by Lina Romay. Jacqueline Laurent plays Marianne the faithful wife who is caught up in Patrick's secret. I thought I would be watching a badly edited version but no this was full blown uncut version that shows everything, even the father watching his daughter have a shower and girl on girl. Not a film to watch at work but was intruiged on how the film ends.

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It's something else isn't it? I sat agog the first time tbh. Many many highlights. Still, having seen far more of his work than ever, I still remember the first time i watched it. Vernon's cameo .
Ahem. As you were folks ...

[MrBarlow]

Tenement. 1985.

A gang in the Bronx attack the resident of a apartment block until the resident are pushed to the brink and attack back.

While Michael Winner was filming Death Wish 3, he was probably unaware or aware that Roberta Findlay was making a film about a gang terrorizing people in the Bronx area. I will admit hands up, the acting is not that great even with a tenant coming face to face with someone in her flat tends to over act. Back then the rape scene may have been a bit disturbing and the killing, but we do get a satisfying creative finale. One that I will come back to again.

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[MrBarlow]

Violence In A Women's Prison. 1982.

A reporter goes undercover in a female's prison to expose the brutality of the officer's and the wardens.

Laura Gemser plays the reporter Emanuelle...is it the same Emanuelle that went looking for the cannibals?? Here she is trying to expose corruption within the prison walls until her identity is exposed and she becomes a target by warden Lorraine De Selle and her hench woman Franca Stoppi and pervert doctor Gabriele Tinti. There is some humiliation, nudity and some good girl on girl fights that Bruno Mattei...sorry Vincent Dawn brings to us, not the best female prison movie but not the worst either.

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Have a good Friday all

[MrBarlow]

Ms.45. 1981.

Thana a mute seamstress is raped twice in one day and goes on a revenge spree hunting those who shamed her armed with a gun.

Abel Ferrara's female revenge style movie that see's Zoe Lund taking to the streets of New York armed with a gun she took from a rapist after bashing him in the head with a iron. This is very low key B-movie grade but certainly has you rooting for the main protagonist, for a film that ran for almost 80 minutes or so this was well worth a watch for the first time and won't be the last.


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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

The problem this film has is Rebecca Gayheart. As with anything she appears in she's always comfortably the best thing about that film.

So to have her in a thirty second cameo at the finale, well, nothing else we've seen can come close to that and when you throw in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents music and the close up of her feet stepping in time to the music and the wheelchair she's pushing.

As Sinead O'Connor might say "Nothing Compares 2 U"

Other than Gayheart's cool cameo there's not a lot else to say about this basic slasher film other than there's one rather nifty Argento-esq murder but the rest just as with the first film is fairly tame but watchable.

I'm not sure why people say the film dispenses with anything to do with urban legends after the first twenty minutes. It really doesn't, Certainly they aren't laid on thick and fast with character exposition but virtually every kill has nods to urban legends. From the campus killer to the sniper in the theatre and the cursed movie production to the body in the bell tower. All are supposedly urban legends of one form or another.

One thing i did laugh out loud as was Loretta Devine as the security guard who is caught dancing and miming to Foxy Brown playing out on the monitors that are supposedly set up to show what's happening around the college CCTV cameras. She declares "I don't just sit here watching movies all night"

No, i thought, of course you don't. Just like someone else i know who watches security cameras at night as a living. He doesn't watch movies all the time either. That's just an Urban Legend in the CCTV world.

[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

One thing i did laugh out loud as was Loretta Devine as the security guard who is caught dancing and miming to Foxy Brown playing out on the monitors that are supposedly set up to show what's happening around the college CCTV cameras. She declares "I don't just sit here watching movies all night"

No, i thought, of course you don't. Just like someone else i know who watches security cameras at night as a living. He doesn't watch movies all the time either. That's just an Urban Legend in the CCTV world.

Yeah that's definitely a Urban Legend/Myth that people in a CCTV room watch movies all night