The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched

The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched May 13, 2020 10:26:39 GMT lostinlimbo likes this

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Post by stefancrosscoe on May 13, 2020 10:26:39 GMT

May 13, 2020 1:28:01 GMT lostinlimbo said:

I watched this the first time a couple years ago (which I posted some quick thoughts in this thread), and again a few months back after picking it up on dvd. For a ‘Se7en’ rip-off it’s fairly well-made and very engaging. I would say it’s definitely one of Lambert’s better films, even though he might be the film’s weak link with his overacting in certain moments. I wasn’t overly distracted, yet I had a snicker from time to time.

It’s beyond cliched in how the story beats play out, but never did I found it boring... in spite of the familiarity. Mulchay executes with enough excitement and mystery to pull you along, even if the budget looks cheap/tv quality and his usual directorial flashes are kept in check. The dour atmospherics really harked back ‘Se7en’... so maybe his stark, and straight forward styling was deliberate here? Only because he made ‘Silent Trigger’ a couple years before it, which looked very low-budget, yet had his signature directorial flashes.

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As for Robert Joy, he made for an excellent serial killer and the mask was pretty creepy. Funnily enough it reminded of David Cronenberg’s performance in ‘Nightbreed’, right down to the mask.

I am glad there are more out there who seemed to find joy in this movie, and I think along with The Hunted (1995) it might sit down as two of Lambert’s better or more "unusual" films, and I guess that is why I so much enjoyed watching them in the first place.

Russell Mulcahy seems to be a name that just keeps on "following" me, and rarely a bad thing either, and I do notice it is surely not the first time he and Lambert have worked together, as the duos finest hour, I think has to be the first Highlander (1986) movie, which for me still looks stunning in places, and I always kind of wondered why Christopher Lambert did not hit bigger on in the movie business, but I guess maybe some bad luck or choices in pickin roles, or something like that may have had their part in play of how things turned out.

Silent Trigger I have yet to watch, but since it stars Dolph Lundgren and that movie poster and also title of the film sounds kind of bad ass, it sure makes me want to have a closer look of it.

You know, it is nice chatting up with you once more, as I think we had a few conversations or more, back in the day, when the action/adventure section were still alive.
But now it seems like that one is gone or just deleted from this site? Still, I am very glad to see that the horror section is up and running, and hopefully it will continue like that for as long as possible.

It is funny how you bring up Cronenberg and Nightbreed, as I re-watched it a few weeks/month back ago, and I loved David and his incredible creepy performance, way more menacing and evil than any of the "monsters" in the film, and I kept wondering how it would have turned out, if the film had been done as a mini-series over 3-4 episodes, as I could not get enough of the whole atmosphere, the underworld and, yeah I really enjoyed it.