What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[MrBarlow]

Bull. 2021.

Neil Maskell plays Bull a mob boss enforcer returns after a 10 year absence for revenge against his mob boss father in law David Hayman who betrayed him.

This had a interesting start as we see Bull knocking someone off and then flashback to a burning caravan and then offing a couple, as the story goes on and people believe that Bull is not one to mess with. Told is short flashbacks to the crime syndicate as to what happened and realising that Hayman's spoilt little.princess gets what she wants and then you start cheering for the main character. From the outset there is strong violence and scenes of a small torture but it can be mild and we have seen worse. This is a low budget British film but certainly recommend it.

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[Frankie Teardrop]

IN THE FOLDS OF THE FLESH – Often referred to as a giallo by people who know more about these things than I, but plays more like an acid-head’s mad and slightly pointless attempt to parody one of those old Hollywood family melodramas. In a weird way, that pushes it closer to Andy Milligan than Dario Argento. There is a plot, at least at first, about a homicidal daughter and her dad’s severed head, but it isn’t long before it derails into a labyrinth of shrieky incest, random crims popping by to get offed in acid baths, concentration camp flashbacks and vultures, vultures, vultures. Anyone who blinks and misses them the first time around will be treated to a close-up of a vulture in a cage virtually every other minute, which might be enough to coax a ‘huh?!’ from some, but don’t do it - save that ‘huh!?’ instead for the scene where a ridiculously contrived death is engineered by a combination of cyanide pills and cuckoo clock! To see it is to know it. Madness, but somehow less baked than the director’s epic ‘Blood Delirium’, which has the edge to my juvenile mind by adding sleaze and gore to the flagrant nonsensicality.

[MrBarlow]

Shadow Of The Vampire. 2000.

John Malkovich plays film director F.W. Murnau who is making his classic film Nosferatu, when the location is changed to Czechoslovakia the crew are introduced to character actor Max Schreck in his costume and dwells deep into the role although the cast believe him to be a actual vampire.

Based on the urban legend of Schreck and his role as Count Orlock that supposidly he was a vampire and he managed to be menacing and creepy while on set. Willem Dafoe who plays Orlock gives out a great performance. The makers must have dwelled deep into the movie archive to see how Murnau made movies while photographing the scenes and telling the actors how to act. This was something I seen back when it came out and few things stuck with me when Schreck is discussing how he became a vampire and towards the end how Murnau wanted the last perfect shot.

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[J Harker]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Shadow Of The Vampire. 2000.



John Malkovich plays film director F.W. Murnau who is making his classic film Nosferatu, when the location is changed to Czechoslovakia the crew are introduced to character actor Max Schreck in his costume and dwells deep into the role although the cast believe him to be a actual vampire.



Based on the urban legend of Schreck and his role as Count Orlock that supposidly he was a vampire and he managed to be menacing and creepy while on set. Willem Dafoe who plays Orlock gives out a great performance. The makers must have dwelled deep into the movie archive to see how Murnau made movies while photographing the scenes and telling the actors how to act. This was something I seen back when it came out and few things stuck with me when Schreck is discussing how he became a vampire and towards the end how Murnau wanted the last perfect shot.



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I really need to watch this again. Its been over 20 years and went way over my head.

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[MrBarlow]

Originally Posted by J Harker

I really need to watch this again. Its been over 20 years and went way over my head.

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It was one of these films that randomly popped into my head to watch and enjoyed it, the performances are brilliant as I remembered.

[Frankie Teardrop]

THE MANGLER – Put me in mind of a Dickensian pop video at first, with its hellhole factory floor panorama of workers tending to their metal beast… that set-up would’ve gone really well with a musical. Come to think of it, Robert England’s pretty much in panto mode, playing an industrial villain with calipered legs and a piercing blue Edgar Allan Poe eye – he’s up against Buffalo Bill of all people, here in the rather surprising guise of a pill popping detective. Very enjoyable. It gets slack and goes on a bit too long, but that doesn’t really matter if the main draw is Tobe Hooper’s weird vision. I was tempted to make a lazy comparison between ‘The Mangler’s fairy-tale neo-gothic looks and Tim Burton’s stuff from around the time, but then you remember that a lot of Hooper’s films have that weird sensibility about them. What about ‘Death Trap’? That was really stylised, as was ‘The Funhouse’. A lot of them have a sort of day-glo unreality. ‘The Mangler’ isn’t up there with those two and it’s not as cheerily demented as something like ‘Lifeforce’, but it definitely has its own thing going on. I can’t even remember if it’s a good match for S King’s minor short story, but it’s quite visual so I suppose it’s going for something more ‘cinematic’. Overlooked but well worth a punt in my humble opinion, it’s an odd little beast that if nothing else is always nice to look at. And it was the nineties so… cut it some slack, I guess.

[MrBarlow]

Avengement. 2019.

Convicted criminal Cain absconds from the police escort and heads to his old stomping grounds to seek revenge against those who betrayed him including his older brother. Scott Adkins plays vengeful brother Cain who believes brother Craig Fairbrass who is the local gangster set him up and while inside prison put a price on his head. There is a bit to much talky talky but is broken up by flash backs on how Cain was sent down and his fights with other inmates. This does have a good share of decent fights especially one in the final act. Adkins spends more time screaming and shouting rather than being calm. Entertaining for a low budget B movie.

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[MrBarlow]

Dying Breed. 2008.

Four friends venture to the Tasmanian wilderness in search of a tiger that has been spotted only to find something darker.

Based on the story of the convict Alexander Pearce who escaped custody and resorted to cannablism and before he died he left a blood line. Leigh Whannell and Nathan Phillips lead their girlfriends to the wilderness and drop a lime or two about Deliverence while one of their girlfriend's had a alterior motive to go into the wilderness. This is a bit of a slow burner, takes 50 mins for character build up and for something to happen and then almost rushed up to get to the end. There is a killing and skinned of a animal which can be upsetting for some, one or two cringeworthy moments. Maybe a rewatch will happen at some point.

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[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by MrBarlow

Dying Breed. 2008.

Four friends venture to the Tasmanian wilderness in search of a tiger that has been spotted only to find something darker.

Based on the story of the convict Alexander Pearce who escaped custody and resorted to cannablism and before he died he left a blood line. Leigh Whannell and Nathan Phillips lead their girlfriends to the wilderness and drop a lime or two about Deliverence while one of their girlfriend's had a alterior motive to go into the wilderness. This is a bit of a slow burner, takes 50 mins for character build up and for something to happen and then almost rushed up to get to the end. There is a killing and skinned of a animal which can be upsetting for some, one or two cringeworthy moments. Maybe a rewatch will happen at some point.

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I like Dying Breed. Thought it was a good example of outdoors horror.

[Frankie Teardrop]

BONES AND ALL – It took me a couple of goes to get into the director’s remake of ‘Suspiria’, but ‘Bones And All’ swept me away from the start. It’s about a young woman who, realising her particular ‘gift’ (cannibalism!) isn’t appreciated by society at large , hits the highway to make sense of life through encounters with fellow sufferers. Like its protagonist, the film slips between the cracks – is it a romance, horror, Americana-fixated road movie or an art-house riff on all of the above? It doesn’t matter when a film is this immersive, eerie, moving. Moves from ‘creep out’ to ‘tear jerking’ very swiftly, with maximum stealth; it has more scope and nuance than something like ‘Raw’, that other recentish high-end cannibal flick, and it has more blood and guts than Gregg Araki. I said ‘Enys Men’ was probably going to be my film of the year, but I hadn’t seen ‘Bones And All’ at the time. Another highest recommend.