The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched
May 13, 2020 15:04:36 GMT
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Post by lostinlimbo on May 13, 2020 15:04:36 GMT
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.
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.
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.
Maybe ‘Highlander 2’ was the kiss of death for Lambert? I think ‘Resurrection’ was the last decent thing Lambert did... starring wise, although I gave ‘Day of Wrath’ a favourable rating, but I don’t remember any of it. Looking through the 90s he had some alright films; Fortress, Gunmen, Mean Guns and The Hunted. I do have a soft spot for Highlander 3 and Mortal Kombat.
I definitely recommend ‘Silent Trigger’. In spite of its limited locations it surprised me how good it turned out, although there were a few niggles. It didn’t disappoint on the action front either, and provided some effective story twists and stylish camera framing. You won’t be disappointed by the poster artwork, because it lives up to it.
It’s cool to see you back in the swing of things. I always enjoyed our chats via the action/horror/cult/music boards. But true, it did start on the action board talking about all things action and of course ragging on Steven Seagal
.A lot of the threads/posts from the genre boards (action, comedy etc) were moved into the film general board. To find them, you need to use the search bar. Below is the link for your “Last action film you watched” thread.
IMDB2.freeforums.net/thread/9675/last-action-film-watched
I need to give ‘Nightbreed’ a rewatch... seen both cuts of the film, but I never seem to gel with ‘em. Starts off great, but it kind loses me the further along the story goes. Never had the issue when reading Clive Barker’s book. Nonetheless the scenes with Cronenberg never left my mind.