The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched

Full Eclipse (1993) by Anthony Hickox

"So how do I become a member of your club, do I have to fuck a cadaver or something?"

TV-made movie by the guy who did the Waxwork (1988-1990) films, and one that came with a pretty interesting theme, that is combining the horror and action genre into a story revolving around a small group of vigilante cops, who turns to the streets late at night, all pumped up with a bit of "werewolf" drugs, and go out hunting lots of bad guys.

Mario Van Peebles plays the main lead officer Max Dire, who have just seen his best friend and partner going from a soon to be dead cop, into a damn super-cop, who jumps several meters high into the air, slaughters the bad guys and seems like a completely different "human" to that of his former self, but all these new "superpowers" comes with a nasty side effect, one that soon leads Max onto something much older and frightening than he could ever have thought of, and where the name of Adam Garou (Bruce Payne) seems to just keep on showing up, and never in a very positive manner.

Anyway, the film is actually damn good for a TV-made movie, along with a solid cast, where specially Bruce Payne is delivering one hell of a creepy role, as the alpha or top dog and one who pulls the strings of the "vigilante" group, and while the special effects might remind you more of the Wolverine character from the X-Men films, I guess that was pretty much down to a rather small budget, but there is still quite a lot of cool action and horror scenes taking place here, plus that of the lovely Patsy Kensit as well.

All in all, I was positvely surprised, as I had never heard of it, until yesterday that is. But it looked like a fun and exciting ride, and thankfully I was lucky with this one.

I wish there were far more horror-action movies made back then, as that kind of a sub-genre within the horror world, seems to hit home with me, very well.

6/10 


The Mutilator aka Fall Break (1984) by Buddy Cooper

"That's strange. My dad's battleaxe is missing."

Alright, this one I only had lying around in my Watchlist for years now, mostly because of the great movie poster above.
But it actually turned out to be an almost pretty good slasher movie, but sadly one that seemed more like an attempt on cashing in on the teen-sex comedy genre, as I think it first were released as Fall Break which makes it even sound less slashier if you will, but somehow along the way, someone must have realised the mistake and went for something more menacing as: THE MUTILATOR!

Anyway, the story is pretty simple. A bunch of horny and party-going students want to take a little r&r for the weekend and decides to stay at their friends beach house, but when they arrive there, someone has surely been having a bit of a "fun" inside the house, and it soon reveal that the crazy dad of the main character is actually living inside the garage, and soon begins to kill off the new tenants, one by one, then placing them into his little "trophy" room.

Yeah, he surely ain't going for the "dad of the year" award, that's for sure. He seems to prefer using a bit of a varied items in his killing spree, such as fishing tools or an old medievel axe that just "lies around" and, yeah, it is a pretty routine slasher. 

As mentioned earlier on, the film has a very light hearted and goofy almost slapstick theme or vibe going, from the title "Fall Break" (at least where it was placed in the film version I saw last night) to the cheesy opening musical theme, and I have yet to have mentioned the main characters, who all seems like they have just popped out from a typical teen-sex comedy film, and while it may have hurt some of the "scary" attempt of creating a "unsettling" tone or atmosphere, the killings and some of the musical numbers is actually very well done at times.

I kind of thought about putting this one up in the beach themed horror movies thread, as it sure do take place at the beach, maybe not all the time, as most of it is pretty much going on in the dark or inside the beach house, but still, I think it could qualify for a beach horror movie.


Anyway, it is of course no "classic", but still it packs some cheese and b-movie entertainment, and for that I end up with a kind rating that of:

5,5/10