What films have you watched recently?

Hootsmon · October 2023

@mgaw

Philly_Q · October 2023

@Hootsmon are you talking about the Hammer film, The Reptile? Made at the same time as The Plague of the Zombies?

jonnyburgo · October 2023

Green Room

Watched on freevee, (prime members should check it out, it's brill and free)

A skint hardcore punk band take a gig in the Oregon wilderness at a far right Skinhead compound, they stumble upon an incident in the dressing room and you could say it goes very very tits up from there.

Absolutely compelling and effing brutal, perfect direction, taut, nothing flabby or wasted, great performances all round.

I loved it but maybe wouldn't watch again, I think once is enough.

9/10

mgaw · October 2023

Hootsmon said:

@mgaw

It’s a new movie about corrupt cops drugs real estate goings on. Worth a Watch. Mr Del Toro features

Hootsmon · October 2023

Philly_Q said:

@Hootsmon are you talking about the Hammer film, The Reptile? Made at the same time as The Plague of the Zombies?

Yes

Hootsmon · October 2023

Here's a great jump scare although it works better as the long drawn out scene as in the movie

Philly_Q · October 2023

Exorcist III.

strumjoughlamps · October 2023

Gran Turismo - despite the timeline changes and the fact that he did come 3rd at Le Man but it wasn't with Nissan, and the accident wasn't before Le Man it was a couple of years after... it still happened..

It was enjoyable enough.

ICBM · October 2023

The best jump-scare ever isn’t even in a horror film… (Well, not that sort of horror, although it is mentioned

.)

“Fucking tiger!!!!!!”

Pjon · October 2023

boogieman said:

Offset said:

Shrews said:

Lifeforce (Prime)

Nude spacegirl (Mathilda May) causes carnage in London when she turns out to be a space vampire.

Loved this film back in the day, it's utterly bonkers. Beware : that's not intentional. It starts off like Alien, turns into Species, evolves into Dracula Dead and Loving It and ends like 28 Weeks Later.

It really needed Christopher Lee and the Twins of Evil to get the maximum effect and probably would've benefitted from being a musical number with Tim Curry in suspenders and Meatloaf on a motorbike.

Nevertheless, if you get to watch one film over the Halloween period make sure it's this one.

10/10

Ha! I loved this back in the day too. I really don't know how Frank Finlay, Colin Firth or Patrick Stewart found themselves in it but they did add a bit of gravitas to a film which is, as you say, utterly bonkers.

I feel inspired to watch it again :-)

I just watched it. I’d heard of it but somehow never seen it. Utterly bonkers indeed and I’ve never seen quite so much overacting, especially from Patrick Stewart.

After reading this, I found it on Prime last night, but was only able to watch about 10 minutes before I was turfed off the TV. It is very odd even in those 10 minutes, and so many famous names! Dan O'Bannon, Tobe Hooper, a Henry Mancini score, so many famous actors (both famous at the time and later). In those ten minutes, it managed to have a terrible score - the London Symphony Orchestra didn't work for the opening credits - and to be extremely poorly acted. I shall carry on watching when I have time.

ICBM · October 2023

Oppenheimer

Biopic of the director of the US atom bomb project in WWII (you know that

).

I was expecting great things from this given all the praise it's had, but frankly I found it a mix of messy and quite boring. I found the cinematography quite irritating too, somehow trying to be overly clever while actually seeming a bit heavy-handed, and the audio isn't great either - a lot of the dialogue is quite muddied. OK, I did watch it at home and not at the cinema - maybe it's better on the big screen. The quality of the acting is at least good, and there are a quite remarkable number of big names in fairly minor roles, but overall... not a great movie, I think.

But it's better than Barbie.

7/10

Offset · October 2023

Pjon said:

boogieman said:

Offset said:

Shrews said:

Lifeforce (Prime)

Nude spacegirl (Mathilda May) causes carnage in London when she turns out to be a space vampire.

Loved this film back in the day, it's utterly bonkers. Beware : that's not intentional. It starts off like Alien, turns into Species, evolves into Dracula Dead and Loving It and ends like 28 Weeks Later.

It really needed Christopher Lee and the Twins of Evil to get the maximum effect and probably would've benefitted from being a musical number with Tim Curry in suspenders and Meatloaf on a motorbike.

Nevertheless, if you get to watch one film over the Halloween period make sure it's this one.

10/10

Ha! I loved this back in the day too. I really don't know how Frank Finlay, Colin Firth or Patrick Stewart found themselves in it but they did add a bit of gravitas to a film which is, as you say, utterly bonkers.

I feel inspired to watch it again :-)

I just watched it. I’d heard of it but somehow never seen it. Utterly bonkers indeed and I’ve never seen quite so much overacting, especially from Patrick Stewart.

After reading this, I found it on Prime last night, but was only able to watch about 10 minutes before I was turfed off the TV. It is very odd even in those 10 minutes, and so many famous names! Dan O'Bannon, Tobe Hooper, a Henry Mancini score, so many famous actors (both famous at the time and later). In those ten minutes, it managed to have a terrible score - the London Symphony Orchestra didn't work for the opening credits - and to be extremely poorly acted. I shall carry on watching when I have time.

Don't worry, it carries on in exactly the same vein. Only it gets more bonkers by a factor of 100. Revel in the badness!

SteveRobinson · October 2023

jonnyburgo said:

Green Room

Watched on freevee, (prime members should check it out, it's brill and free)

A skint hardcore punk band take a gig in the Oregon wilderness at a far right Skinhead compound, they stumble upon an incident in the dressing room and you could say it goes very very tits up from there.

Absolutely compelling and effing brutal, perfect direction, taut, nothing flabby or wasted, great performances all round.

I loved it but maybe wouldn't watch again, I think once is enough.

9/10

Thanks I enjoyed that. Would recommend if you like a tense thriller with a bit of gore.

Longtallronnie · October 2023

Last Man Down
Lasted ten minutes before switching off and that was being generous. Now watching Hell Or High Water based on reviews here.

stufisher · October 2023

Just watched news and fuqqme ... Alien is on straight after ... how can I not watch it for the Xth time?

Seriously point though ... it's only the tech and SFX that have aged ... the tension, style, mood, palette, plot et al are timeless. Still better than most sci-fi movies from 21st C and it's over 40 years old.

Love it

Philly_Q · October 2023

stufisher said:

Just watched news and fuqqme ... Alien is on straight after ... how can I not watch it for the Xth time?

The TV schedules are mad nowadays. I guess hardly anyone watches live TV nowadays, so BBC1 has Alien at 10.40pm on a Wednesday evening. Earlier this week they had The Exorcist!

tony99 · October 2023

ICBM said:

The best jump-scare ever isn’t even in a horror film… (Well, not that sort of horror, although it is mentioned .)

“Fucking tiger!!!!!!”

I just wanted to fucking cook man!!

Philly_Q · October 2023

V/H/S/85 (Shudder)

For those who don't know, V/H/S is a series of low-budget horror anthologies with the conceit that they're supposedly "found" on old VHS tapes, with bad picture quality, lots of video-glitching etc. I've lost track of how many there are (not 85! I think it's five or six) but I've seen most of them.

And this one is pretty good. The stories are all brief and get to the point quickly, and the "VHS" picture quality hides - and therefore enhances - the cheap FX. Even the framing story which loosely connects the shorts is better than usual. Recommended, if you like this sort of thing.

boogieman · October 2023

Frankenstein Created Woman. Legend Channel last night. 1967 Hammer “horror”, starring Peter Cushing as the Baron. It was fairly rubbish, but I can’t stop myself from watching these old cheesefests. This one’s a revenge story with a female reanimated “monster”, who’s actually very attractive, avenging her caring lover who’s been executed for a crime he didn’t commit. I’ve seen far worse Hammers to be honest; although the best bit is Derek Fowlds (aka Mr Derek, the softy from Basil Brush) trying desperately hard to be a cruel baddy.

axisus · October 2023

Poboy said:

Evil Dead: Rise

Total shite. 0/10

Now I'm interested

Offset · October 2023

axisus said:

Poboy said:

Evil Dead: Rise

Total shite. 0/10

Now I'm interested

You won't be. It's appallingly bad.

axisus · October 2023

kelpbeds said:

This site is very cool. Just type in a film you like and it comes up with a map of similar films. You can then click on one of those films to create a new map. Great idea!

https://www.movie-map.com/

Sounds interesting but I tried one and the result was utter rubbish!

Offset · October 2023

The Void (2017), Prime

The best Cthulhu Mythos-influenced horror movie out there in my book. It has echoes of Carpenter's The Thing and more than a little Hellraiser to it, but the Lovecraftian themes are by far the strongest influences. Very gory, very weird, unbelievably creepy and fairly disturbing. I love it. A synopsis would be fairly pointless and take up too much space so just strap yourself in and dim the lights.

NB: don't confuse this with The Void from 2002, which is a bucket of effluent.

As a movie: 8/10

For the genre: 9.75/10

Philly_Q · October 2023

Reptile (Netflix)

A veteran big-city cop investigates the murder of a real estate agent in the small, affluent town of Scarborough, Maine. There are one or two obvious suspects but there may just be more to the case than meets the eye...

This is atmospheric and has a pretty good cast, but it's very, very slow, not helped by endless scenes of cops talking and socialising with their families (it reminded me of Cop Land in that respect). It does at least have a reasonably satisfying conclusion, but it takes a long time getting there.

Offset · October 2023

The Beyond (1981), Prime

Phew. Well it was definitely made in1981 as evidenced by the cheesy, crappy music. The acting is dreadful - in fact the most convincing performance came from an Alsatian guide dog. The plot is preposterous, the FX are most definitely of their time and there are distastefully large amounts of blood, guts and violence. All in all, it's a pretty ridiculous and unfashionably dated film.

Absolutely loved it. 10/10.

Philly_Q · October 2023

Offset said:

The Beyond (1981), Prime

Phew. Well it was definitely made in1981 as evidenced by the cheesy, crappy music. The acting is dreadful - in fact the most convincing performance came from an Alsatian guide dog. The plot is preposterous, the FX are most definitely of their time and there are distastefully large amounts of blood, guts and violence. All in all, it's a pretty ridiculous and unfashionably dated film.

Absolutely loved it. 10/10.

I'm glad I read that last line. Have you seen many other Fulci films?

Philly_Q · October 2023

Totally Killer (Amazon Prime)

A teenager goes back in time to 1987, to try to save her mother's friends from being murdered by "The Sweet 16 Killer".

If Happy Death Day is the Groundhog Day of comedy slasher movies, then this is the Back to the Future of comedy slasher movies. It starts and ends well, drags (a lot) in the middle, but there's quite a lot of funny dialogue. It's not bad at all.

fretfinder · October 2023

ICBM said:

The best jump-scare ever isn’t even in a horror film… (Well, not that sort of horror, although it is mentioned .)

“Fucking tiger!!!!!!”

Apocalypse Now?

The horror… the horror…

I thought Oppenheimer was an excellent movie, btw, we saw it at the cinema if that makes a difference.

Offset · October 2023

Philly_Q said:

Offset said:

The Beyond (1981), Prime

Phew. Well it was definitely made in1981 as evidenced by the cheesy, crappy music. The acting is dreadful - in fact the most convincing performance came from an Alsatian guide dog. The plot is preposterous, the FX are most definitely of their time and there are distastefully large amounts of blood, guts and violence. All in all, it's a pretty ridiculous and unfashionably dated film.

Absolutely loved it. 10/10.

I'm glad I read that last line. Have you seen many other Fulci films?

I've watched Zombie Flesh Eaters, but that really was crap. I have a very dim and distant recollection of watching City Of The Living Dead, but it must have been so long ago I can't remember much, if anything, about it.

The House By The Cemetery is next up :-)

equalsql · October 2023

Offset said:

The Void (2017), Prime

The best Cthulhu Mythos-influenced horror movie out there in my book. It has echoes of Carpenter's The Thing and more than a little Hellraiser to it, but the Lovecraftian themes are by far the strongest influences. Very gory, very weird, unbelievably creepy and fairly disturbing. I love it. A synopsis would be fairly pointless and take up too much space so just strap yourself in and dim the lights.

NB: don't confuse this with The Void from 2002, which is a bucket of effluent.

As a movie: 8/10

For the genre: 9.75/10

Oooh @Offset ;, that sounds like fun so going on my watch list. Thanks for recommendation

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