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Post by mszanadu on Aug 16, 2017 15:29:38 GMT
Watched the Aussie horror "Next of Kin (1982)" the other night. Talk about a film that slowly builds up its mystery with subtle touches and disorienting spells to go totally insane for its third act. The tonal shift really caught me off guard. Its stylishly crafted, as the camerawork and music score is outstanding. The uncanny score is definitely my favourite thing about it. Interesting to see a young John Jarratt in the cast too. Next of Kin (1982) I agree this was a really good film and also remember renting this one on VHS Tape back in the mid 1980's from the video store too . Although surprisingly I haven't seen this classic movie since then . Thanks so much lostinlimbo for the reminder on this film too .
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Post by mszanadu on Aug 17, 2017 3:40:18 GMT
I'm watching right now and have watched this one a few times before ( but it's still really a good film just the same) . Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2017 14:17:18 GMT
"One Dark Night" (1982)
I'm a big fan of this one. Good atmosphere, appropriately gnarly looking corpses, an entertaining plot involving the supernatural, and of course the lovely and adorable Meg Tilly.
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Post by mszanadu on Aug 19, 2017 0:15:57 GMT
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Aug 21, 2017 14:37:19 GMT
The Gift (2000)Overnatural drama-thriller with a bit of mystery thrown in. Solid acting by almost everybody involved, specially Cate Blanchett in the leading role, Giovanni Ribisi was impressive and to my surprise Keanu Reeves, well not great exactly but at least here he looked like he gave a damn, this time as a bullying woman beating redneck. I am pretty sure he did another "psycho" role that year, but this time as a serial killer against (I think James Spader) and I guess he wanted to take on some more villainous parts, as he was maybe a bit "afraid" he would be type-casted into just a bunch of Neo (The Matrix) kind of action/hero roles. I thought The Gift started up very well, but sadly for my part the film went down, and fast, the moment I imediately knew who the killer was and it pretty much destroyed any chance the film (for me that is) had of getting higher than a 6/10. To many cliches that followed and I felt that Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear was not all right for their parts. Anyway, it was a good movie, not great and a 6,5/10 is what I think it deserves, but the final climax was big letdown and brought the film down, even more. Blood & Chocolate (2007)Another dreadful werewolf/teenage romance gone bad, ala Twilight movies where you have some arrogant and very unlikable main characters suddenly meeting in Romania and where a bunch werewolf people lives among the humans, side by side. Of course, not everybody wants it like that, and they want to create chaos and destruction. Most of the werewolfs in the film just jumps around all over the place like a bunch of horny monkeys, and are not the least scary looking or menacing, just a bunch of ridiculous clowns. I actually ended up falling a sleep halfway through, and when I woke up I decided to go back but press fast forwards as there was no way in hell I would waste more time on this "classic". My main problem was the main lead, she looks like some rich and arrogant daddys little spoilt girl who has the same smug and douchy facial appearance throughtout almost 99 percent of the film. I guess the good parts is that some of the scenes in the wood/town of Romania was actually well shot, and they seemed to use real wolves not horrible CGI, which was pretty cool. Since I fell a sleep and fast forwarded through this piece of crap, I feel that giving it a 2/10 might be too "hard", so I ended up with a very kind 3/10 instead.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2017 14:44:40 GMT
"Re-Animator"
Still a knockout horror comedy, one of the best of all H.P. Lovecraft adaptations. Very funny and packed to the gills with wonderful outré makeup effects and gore. Great performances, especially from the hilarious Jeffrey Combs and David Gale. Barbara Crampton and her ... assets. The picture quality on the Arrow release is excellent. Incidentally, I didn't know it at first, but it was H.P. Lovecrafts' birthday yesterday. How more appropriate can you get?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2017 14:46:18 GMT
The Gift (2000)Overnatural drama-thriller with a bit of mystery thrown in. Solid acting by almost everybody involved, specially Cate Blanchett in the leading role, Giovanni Ribisi was impressive and to my surprise Keanu Reeves, well not great exactly but at least here he looked like he gave a damn, this time as a bullying woman beating redneck. I am pretty sure he did another "psycho" role that year, but this time as a serial killer against (I think James Spader) and I guess he wanted to take on some more villainous parts, as he was maybe a bit "afraid" he would be type-casted into just a bunch of Neo (The Matrix) kind of action/hero roles. I thought The Gift started up very well, but sadly for my part the film went down, and fast, the moment I imediately knew who the killer was and it pretty much destroyed any chance the film (for me that is) had of getting higher than a 6/10. To many cliches that followed and I felt that Katie Holmes and Greg Kinnear was not all right for their parts. Anyway, it was a good movie, not great and a 6,5/10 is what I think it deserves, but the final climax was big letdown and brought the film down, even more. Blood & Chocolate (2007)Another dreadful werewolf/teenage romance gone bad, ala Twilight movies where you have some arrogant and very unlikable main characters suddenly meeting in Romania and where a bunch werewolf people lives among the humans, side by side. Of course, not everybody wants it like that, and they want to create chaos and destruction. Most of the werewolfs in the film just jumps around all over the place like a bunch of horny monkeys, and are not the least scary looking or menacing, just a bunch of ridiculous clowns. I actually ended up falling a sleep halfway through, and when I woke up I decided to go back but press fast forwards as there was no way in hell I would waste more time on this "classic". My main problem was the main lead, she looks like some rich and arrogant daddys little spoilt girl who has the same smug and douchy facial appearance throughtout almost 99 percent of the film. I guess the good parts is that some of the scenes in the wood/town of Romania was actually well shot, and they seemed to use real wolves not horrible CGI, which was pretty cool. Since I fell a sleep and fast forwarded through this piece of crap, I feel that giving it a 2/10 might be too "hard", so I ended up with a very kind 3/10 instead. Yeah, Keanu gives an above average performance in that one. "The Watcher" is the flick where he plays the serial killer. I haven't seen "The Gift" in some time, but I do remember liking it.
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Post by rogerthat on Aug 22, 2017 1:00:00 GMT
Hell House (2016)
100 percent better than I expected. Gave me a jump (in a non jump scare moment) that I have experienced in recent movies. New favorite scary clown.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Aug 22, 2017 11:45:03 GMT
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) Silly, horror/adventure b-movie that is full of cliches and sterotypical figures, but I was in the right "mood" and so I ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would. I like the first one from 1997, the one with the squeling like a pig giant snake and of course it did help having both the stunning Kari Wuhrer and Jennifer Lopez around, and this was before she become the brand that would be JLO, and I almsot forgot Jon Voight as some psychotic, bad ass snake hunter who has his own evil agenda and completely steals the show. Anyway, in the 2004 film we end up following a bunch of douchy businessmen/women, researchers and then throw in some poor man's Indiana Jones/Crocodile Dundee rip-off and instead of one giant snake, we now have a whole bunch of them showing up whenever "needed". As I mentioned above, this is a silly and very goofy movie but one that manages to keep the pace up and never becomes boring or dull, and so I ended up with a very kind: 5/10
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 14:18:37 GMT
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)Silly, horror/adventure b-movie that is full of cliches and sterotypical figures, but I was in the right "mood" and so I ended up enjoying it more than I thought I would. I like the first one from 1997, the one with the squeling like a pig giant snake and of course it did help having both the stunning Kari Wuhrer and Jennifer Lopez around, and this was before she become the brand that would be JLO, and I almsot forgot Jon Voight as some psychotic, bad ass snake hunter who has his own evil agenda and completely steals the show. Anyway, in the 2004 film we end up following a bunch of douchy businessmen/women, researchers and then throw in some poor man's Indiana Jones/Crocodile Dundee rip-off and instead of one giant snake, we now have a whole bunch of them showing up whenever "needed". As I mentioned above, this is a silly and very goofy movie but one that manages to keep the pace up and never becomes boring or dull, and so I ended up with a very kind: 5/10
I remember mildly enjoying it. Still not as much fun as the hilarious "so bad it's good" killer snake thriller from '97.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 14:20:58 GMT
"The Angry Red Planet" (1959)
Highly amusing, gimmick heavy sci-fi / horror flick with an innovative visual approach (Cinemagic, baby!) and a couple of extremely memorable monsters to make it fun.
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Post by gspdude on Aug 22, 2017 19:56:42 GMT
Underworld: Blood Wars (2016) FTV 5/10 I know Vampires have an aversion to sunlight but there were just too many scenes in almost total darkness.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Aug 23, 2017 16:13:22 GMT
Last night I watched the Shout! Factory blu-ray edition of The Beast Within, after having received it in the mail. I still liked it and thought it still holds up fairly well today with the cool make-up effects. Great cast too, which includes Ronny Cox, Don Gordon, L.Q. Jones, and R.G. Armstrong (man, how many horror flicks has this guy been in!). So all-in-all this is good horror fare.
I have yet to check out the audio commentaries.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2017 17:25:36 GMT
Last night I watched the Shout! Factory blu-ray edition of The Beast Within, after having received it in the mail. I still liked it and thought it still holds up fairly well today with the cool make-up effects. Great cast too, which includes Ronny Cox, Don Gordon, L.Q. Jones, and R.G. Armstrong (man, how many horror flicks has this guy been in!). So all-in-all this is good horror fare. I have yet to check out the audio commentaries.
I'm a big fan of The Beast Within, as I'm sure I said somewhere up above. I recently revisited it myself.
That's a good release. Both commentaries are entertaining and informative.
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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Aug 24, 2017 0:01:23 GMT
Blackmail (1929) - This was my first time seeing this early Hitchcock classic and I was pleasantly surprised as I was expecting something dated and barely watchable. Blackmail is a great suspense thriller about a young woman (beautiful Czech actress Anny Ondra) who kills a rapist in self defense and runs away from the crime scene. Her boyfriend is the police detective in charge of solving the murder while a blackmailer threatens to spill the beans on her. The ending is 'classic Hitchcock'.
The film was definitely ahead of its time and it has the distinction of being Britain's first talkie film.
My rating: 9/10
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Post by mszanadu on Aug 25, 2017 2:22:37 GMT
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Post by mszanadu on Aug 26, 2017 1:21:25 GMT
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Post by lostinlimbo on Aug 26, 2017 9:11:38 GMT
Watched the Aussie horror "Next of Kin (1982)" the other night. Talk about a film that slowly builds up its mystery with subtle touches and disorienting spells to go totally insane for its third act. The tonal shift really caught me off guard. Its stylishly crafted, as the camerawork and music score is outstanding. The uncanny score is definitely my favourite thing about it. Interesting to see a young John Jarratt in the cast too. Next of Kin (1982) I agree this was a really good film and also remember renting this one on VHS Tape back in the mid 1980's from the video store too . Although surprisingly I haven't seen this classic movie since then . Thanks so much lostinlimbo for the reminder on this film too . I watched a VHS copy of it my friend lent me. Nice surprise indeed. Surprised there's no official DVD/bluray release yet. I guess there might be some issues surrounding it?
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Post by Captain Spencer on Aug 26, 2017 16:13:55 GMT
In tribute to the late George Romero I watched the original Night Of The Living Dead. I didn't think much of it when I first saw it as a teenager in the 80s, but I came to appreciate it much more as an adult in later years. I find it cool how it has the feel of a 1940s monster movie and yet at the same time shockingly modern with groundbreaking gore and late 60s social commentary. The character development is excellent and there is a lot of nail-biting suspense. Very well scripted and acted, too.
Night Of The Living Dead has become an absolute horror classic and it is far superior to the 1990 remake, which was a huge mistake.
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Post by mszanadu on Aug 26, 2017 17:03:50 GMT
Next of Kin (1982) I agree this was a really good film and also remember renting this one on VHS Tape back in the mid 1980's from the video store too . Although surprisingly I haven't seen this classic movie since then . Thanks so much lostinlimbo for the reminder on this film too . I watched a VHS copy of it my friend lent me. Nice surprise indeed. Surprised there's no official DVD/bluray release yet. I guess there might be some issues surrounding it? I totally agree here lostinlimbo this fine film is most definitely way overdue for a DVD & BLU-RAY release ( too bad if there are issues with it's official release - we lose out ) . It would also be an excellent treat if one of these cable channels were to show this one again as well ( like SHOWTIME or CINEMAX ) . Thanks so much again lostinlimbo for your reply .
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