What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Revenge (2017)

As you can probably guess from the title this is a revenge thriller about a girl left for dead in the desert by three hunters out for a weekends sport. However she's not quite dead, how i really don't know, but she quickly recovers and seeks vengeance.

This is one classy French film. The desert landscapes are bleak yet the film is one that's all out sensory overload for the viewer with it's sound-scapes and interesting photography. Whilst very much an exploitation film it definitely has a feminist slant to it all. There's plenty of nudity on offer especially during the final showdown except, and Justin will be pleased, it's not female nudity (Boo!) it's male. Ten solid minutes of it in a bullet strewn climax.

Although not as extreme in the violence stakes as say Terrifier 2 there's some very strong blood and guts on offer. I actually gagged and felt sick during the protracted 'foot scene'. Seriously you need to see it for yourself.

Needless to say i was well impressed by Revenge and highly recommend it. One to upgrade to Blu-ray 100%

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Night of the Demon (1957)

Its well documented that director Jacques Tourneur never intended to show the demon in all its glory, but was pressured into doing so by Columbia Pictures, much to his displeasure. However the two sequences featuring the creature are the films highlights and have become iconic moments of British horror cinema. The demon itself looks terrific and the way it appears, out of the sky in a swirl of sparks and smoke is ingenious.

Watching the extras on disc two of Indicator's limited edition Blu-ray set it's annoying how many 'experts' and critics still say the film shouldn't have the demon in it. Except Jonathan Rigby who like myself loves it.

[nicholasrope]

Invasion U.S.A.

Pure 80's Cannon Actionfest, which sees Terrorists (Lead by Richard Lynch) invade The U.S.A and only one man (Chuck Norris) can stop them. Yes this is silly, there's plenty of explosions, chases, one liners basically what you want from this type of Film.

Is it silly, off course it is, would Terrorist be able to arrive by Sea and blow everything up? the fact that whenever they try to do something heinous and Norris just happens to turn up in time, off course not, but it's a great no-brainer Film. It delivers what it promises on the cover.

Can't fault that.

Oh yeah, it's set around Christmas time

All Hallows Eve: The Reaping

Sequel to the original but there's no Art The Clown, another Videotape is dropped off and a woman just watches it (Seriously I would never do that) on the tape there are several Short Films. A bit hit and miss really, But it's short and can be easily forwarded on.

[MrBarlow]

Death Train. 1993

A German scientist aids a ex Soviet General to construct a nuclear bomb which a mercenary and his team are transporting with a train they have hijacked. A Special Ops team is sent in to stop the train and defuse the bomb.

We got Ted Levine who is the merc leader and does like to play chicken with trains, Christopher Lee as the form Soviet General and able to do a decent Russian accent, Patrick Stewart as the secret United Nation anti terrorist boss of Alexandra Paul and Pierce Brosnan who are teamed together and pull off a daring mission.

This was a made for t.v. film, it does have a bit of good action sequences and Alexandra Paul screaming out a lot when firing her gun, but does tend to drag on in bits. The extras who were part of Levine's team really didn't look to enthusiastic or maybe down to some poor direction. The original ending was to be different than what we got and can be predictable and laughable.

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[trebor8273]

One of the late great John Candys best, just like Robin Williams who didn't love John Candy?

In a tailor made role for him Candy plays Buck a lazy , irresponsible but loveable laybout who is forced to like after his brothers kids when the brothers wit falls ill. Touching and funny and we have a pre home alone Macaulay Culkin.

Touching and funny.




Brilliant a classic and maybe John Belushi best. The film just has so much going on , great car chases , laugh out loud moments and a stella cast of musical legends.

Watching Belushi and Aykroyd together always makes me wonder what Ghostbusters would of been like it he hadn't died.




While it's not as good as the first and it's basically the same story and is missing Leslie Nielsen it's still very funny and like the first I always seem to find something new this time when Strike escapes from hospital and gets out of the truck outside the spaceport their are pods in the truck just like original invasion of the body snatchers.

[MrBarlow]

Hunt To Kill. 2010.

U.S. border patrol agent Jim Rhodes living in the moumtain area of Montana is taken hostage along with his daughter by a gang of theives looking for a lost loot by one of their own. Rhodes is shoot and believed dead he goes on a mission to rescue his daughter using the mountains as his battle ground.

Steve Austin plays the border man who witnesses his partner Eric Roberts in a very small cameo role just about, gunned down in the line of duty. Being a workaholic and raising his rebellious teen daughter until a bunch of happy trigger finger thieves make a pit stop. There is a decent fight scene in the middle and yeah Austin can take a good beating, but this felt like a Rambo movie even the end credits score almost sounds the same. Decent enough to pass time.

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[MrBarlow]

Stalked. 2019.

A young woman decides to leave her sick baby at home while she runs to the chemist and is kidnapped. She wakes up in a abandoned factory and is hunted by a invisible force.

Given that the main character is ex military and pitted against some random person who has devised a invisible cloaking material same thing used in the newer adaptation of The Invisible Man, she has the means to bring this guy down at several opportunities but fails. This seemed to have a good premise but fails and ended up being used for background noise, even the ending was predictable. IMO this was a waste of time.

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[MrBarlow]

Cooties. 2014.

A mysterious virus at a elementary school turning the children in to savages and the teachers with two uninfected pupils try to survive the outbreak.

This was a bit of a good comedy horror on the zombie genre that actually has kids infected but not the adults running about eating each other. Basically right at the start you know what will cause the outbreak but still a laugh to watch it unfold with Elijah Wood as the substitute teacher and Rainn Wilson as the P.E. Teacher who thinks he can be a hero, and you got Leigh Whannell who likes to get his hands dirty.The make up effects are nothing we haven't seen before and done a bit decent, certainly worth a glance.

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[MrBarlow]

Fortress. 1993.

In the future where having 2 children is outlawed, John and Karen Brennick try to flee the U.S. but John is captured and sent to a underground fortress and controlled by a chip inserted into his body. With other prisoners they intend to escape.

Director Stuart Gordon tries his best with another Science-fiction film this time with Christopher Lambert as the lead who's wife lost a child and his wife is pregnant a second time that goes against the new rules of society. It may not be for everyone but this was a decent film to rewatch after not seeing it since the 90s and better a second time round.

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[MacBlayne]

Originally Posted by Frankie Teardrop

THE HIDDEN – Maybe I’m being a bit OTT, but I’ve come to think of it as one of the best B movies of the eighties. It’s certainly a master class in punchy minimalism, lean and stripped down but as slick as an LA pool shark, and mean with it. Like ‘Dead Heat’, it’s a weirdly mismatched buddy cop movie, with ardent hardnose Michael Nouri paired with eerie Kyle MacLachlan in a quest to snuff a body-hopping alien that looks like a slug with spidery appendages. Frantic chase scenes and lots of shoot-outs ride a high tide of adrenalin driven along by gleeful psychopaths who blast out punk (and a fair amount of lame poodle rock). A few fluid brush strokes are all it takes for ‘The Hidden’s violent world to burst into life, and low budget genre filmmaking is thereby raised to the level of Japanese calligraphy.

My father has no time for science-fiction or horror. All he wants are Westerns, and beat-'em-up action films. But he adored The Hidden. He sat on the edge of his seat, wondering where the hell it was going next. The film's relentless pace kept him hooked.