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#3631
25th October 2020, 07:37 PM
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 October we salute you
Hellbound: Hellraiser II... Don't think I have watched any of the series for along time to be honest...In fact I was never a big Clive Barker fan, whether it was his books or his movie's..And for me time has not been kind to this second Hellrsaiser movie, for a movie from the late 80s it feels very dated and very stale...Not even the copious amounts of gratuitous gore can save it from being a bit on the dull side if I'm being truthful...That said Kenneth Granham does an admirable job of trying to take it all seriously,while coming out with some of the most ludicrous dialogue...Clare Higgins and Ashley Laurence, look like they want to be anywhere else but in this movie and Pinhead is turned into a bit of a wimp as opposed to the icon horror character we all thought he was,good job none of those cross over movies ever happened,Jason and Leatherface would of kicked his ass back to hell...I just don't think the Hellrsaiser movies are as good as they think they are...I think I would rather watch Troll 2 than revisit the Hellrsaiser films again I'm afraid....next...I'm just not a fan I'm afraid... Tenebrae... While there is no doubt that Suspira is Argento's finest hour, I have probably watched Tenebrae and Deep Red more... Back in the day I had a original Vampix VHS of Tenebrae,and it got played to death back then...(hey we only had four TV channels,no internet and shops were closed on Sundays.What else are you gonna do,and porn was only available discarded in the wood's or the top shelve of your local unfriendly newsagent,and I couldn't go there because A,I was to young and B, he knew my mum and sold roll up tobbaco to my dad)...,umm where was I?? Oh yeah Tenebrae,just bloody great, literally,plot holes the size of bus, nothing really makes sense,and characters act totally unbelievably, and tramps get kicked in the nuts,what more could you ask for...And I also fancied Eva Robins,but will we talk about that another day... Madhouse...1974.. Who knew that there would be so many movies with this title...Apart from the dullness of the title,I have always found this an enjoyable if a little underwhelming movie...A great cast for a start,Price,Cushing,Quarry and a small but nice part for Linda Hayden... It mixes parts of Prices previous movies like Theatre of Blood and his Phibes films,and then it actually takes parts from his Corman/Poe films and incorporates them into the filmography of his on screen character Paul Toombes.... genius...The ending Which I won't divulge just in case,is a little bizzare, especially Adrienne Corri and her spiders ... Motel Hell.. For me Motel Hell is right up there with Evil Dead 2, for it's mix of horror and black comedy,but it's always a film that I always seem to for get about when I'm looking for something to watch...Also it's one of those movie where I saw the pictures in Fangoria magazine long before I saw the film, most notably the scene where farmer Smith is wearing a pigs head and wielding a chainsaw, what's not to like....And what a tagline... *“It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters"... Halloween 2...1981... Just to annoy people further,I'm going on record to say I prefer Rick Rosenthal sequel more than the first movie, there I said...And I have probably watched it more than the first as well, the old VHS copy back in the day was always on this time of year...And I certainly prefer this film to any of Mr Zombies remakes or subsequent reimaginings ...Oh I know it's not perfect, Laurie Strodes wig is well a fright to say the least, also it's obviously not NHS hospital because no one seems to be at home and shooting Michael in the eyes, without blowing his head off was either down to Very good marksmanship or well who knows ... Also the bit where the mother takes her son to A&E because he has a razor stuck in his teeth is to real for comfort, it's like the scene in The Thing where they slice there thumbs for the blood test, that's the painful bit.....
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#3632
25th October 2020, 07:46 PM
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 The first one may not be for everyone, and i'm sure we all have our favourite Halloween sequel(s) Justin101 and Inspector Abberline like this.
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#3633
25th October 2020, 08:33 PM
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Halloween 2 for me is not as good as the first but is my second favourite as it just carries the vibe on while being a bit more vicious.  I also really love the pumpkin intro opening up to reveal a skull, they should have put a few naked Bond girls over it and it would be the bee's bollocks.
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#3634
25th October 2020, 08:40 PM
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| 25. theghost train.jpg THE GHOST TRAIN (1941) An October favourite. Arthur Askey causes a group of travellers to miss their train connection and end up spending the night in a 'haunted' railway station. Good fun and laughs. 26. 68066.jpg TORSO (1973) The luscious Suzy Kendall is last girl standing as a maniac has killed her friends in their holiday home. Great scene in which Suzy has to witness the mutilation of her friends while hiding from the killer. |
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#3635
25th October 2020, 08:51 PM
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| Innocent Blood (1992)  A black comedy Mob film with Vampires! This was great, a fun story, sharp script, blood & gore, gratuitous nudity and more cameos. This time Sam Raimi, Dario Argento, Frank Oz and Linnea Quigley! A vampire girl with a conscience only likes to feed off people who are bad and perhaps they deserve it. Only she bites off more than she can chew when she takes a fancy to Mob boss Sal, getting interrupted before she's finished and having to make a run for it causes a headache that has to be sorted out. I had so much fun with this, many twists and turns taking me to places I wasn't expecting and the last third of the movie was an unbridled blood bath of the Italian-American persuasion! Recommended!
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#3636
25th October 2020, 08:54 PM
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__________________ " I have seen trees that look like tortured souls" |
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#3637
25th October 2020, 09:32 PM
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| Day 22 If I remember right a lot of people here didn't rate this, but I really enjoyed it. After a meteor crashes , strange things start happening to the wildlife and plant life, a family living close to the where it struck also start changing both mental and phyiscal. Some interesting effects and bit psychedelic in places. Nicholas Cage stars as the father, he starts out quite restrained but as the film goes on he becomes more and more the wild eyed Cage we all know. 7/10 Day 24 A moggie escapes from a genetics lab and has the mother of all fur balls and goes on bloody and gruesome killing spree until it is befriended by two girls on spring break who end up on crooked business man's yacht , along with a vicious gangster( George Kennedy) and some boys the girls brought. They are all soon prey to the psychotic moggies fur ball. Always enjoyed this it's just so OTT . The acting is not up to much apart from big George and the cat . We all have some nice gory kills. 7/10 Day 25 Thought I would have a more light hearted sunday. First viewing. 300 years after a trio of witches are defeated , they are resurrected when teenager Max lights the black candles in what was the witches home and resurrects them, it's up to Max , the girl he has a crush on and his baby sister to try and stop the witches whom are to totally out of time and are more frightened of the 20th century than youngest are of the. 8/10 A classic the original and still the best. When a group of scientists are fired from their university jobs, they go into business for themselves as the Ghostbusters . They soon notice that the amount of events in the city are increasing leading something huge that could spell doom for the entire city. Great script and characters and genuinely funny. 10/10 Taking place 5 years after the first the Ghostbusters are no more, Ray owns a occult book store and does children's party's with Winston , Egon now has a prestigious job and Peter is the host of cheesy psychic talkshow. But they all come together when Dana and are young son are in danger from a Transylvania madman trapped in a painting who wants the baby as a vessel for his spirit who he using a river of slime to power himself. Ok it's not a patch on the first and even by the standards of the first it's ludicrous. But I still enjoy it immensely and it's head and shoulders above the reboot. Mind after watching it I don't know if I should of saved it for new years eve. 7.5/10 |
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#3638
25th October 2020, 09:40 PM
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#3639
25th October 2020, 09:57 PM
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Case 39. 2009. A social worker rescues a girl Lilith from her abusive parents only to discover something darker lurks within the child. This film was recommended to me by a friend who watched and kind of got scared, call me intrigued, Angie bought it and said it was good and creepy, so I thought what the heck, Renee Zellweger is not my favourite actress and really can't pull off a social worker type character even though she does try her best but it is Jodelle Ferland who steals the show as the troubled girl hiding a deadly secret and a attitude that makes you want to slap her silly. Bradley Cooper plays the child psychologist Doug who tries to tap in to the mind of a child and his fears are shown. Ian McShane plays the detective who slowly uncovers the secrets the parents were doing around their daughter. I think the makers were trying to make this like The Omen movie mixed with soul stealing myth but didn't exactly pull it off well as the demon inside her never really manifests itself properly and if it did I must have blinked and missed it. Even when Lilith appears you can feel the suspense building up and at times it is expect the unexpected, decent enough but go to it with a open mind. case-39-trailer.jpg
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#3640
25th October 2020, 10:30 PM
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I don't think i've ever watched Hocus Pocus all the way, Bette Midler can go suck a fuk.
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