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Post by gspdude on Mar 27, 2021 12:34:46 GMT
 Dr. Jekyll vs The Werewolf(1972) Dr Jekyll injects Paul Naschy's werewolf with the Mr Hyde serum. What can go wrong? Sufficiently creepy and sleazy 70s Euro Horror. 5.5/10 |
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Post by mgmarshall on Mar 27, 2021 18:58:18 GMT
Dr. Jekyll vs The Werewolf(1972) Dr Jekyll injects Paul Naschy's werewolf with the Mr Hyde serum. What can go wrong? Sufficiently creepy and sleazy 70s Euro Horror. 5.5/10 Oooh, that's a fun one.
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Post by mgmarshall on Mar 27, 2021 19:30:12 GMT
 The Final ConflictThis movie has a pitch-perfect adult Damien in Sam Neill. It's a shame about the rest of the movie around him, though. This one is just dry and dull, except for a few okay death scenes. I did rather like Don Gordon in his Charles Nelson Reilly glasses as Damien's wormy assistant, and the montage of baby murders actually caught me off guard a bit and made me a touch uncomfortable. Bold choice to focus like a 15 minute chunk of the movie on that, I must admit. But overall, it's something of a weak finale; I mean, for a movie called The Final Conflict, Damien getting stabbed once in the back and then dying in front of a giant, superimposed Jesus just feels anticlimactic and hokey.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Mar 28, 2021 19:44:29 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Mar 29, 2021 0:27:34 GMT
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 29, 2021 5:47:02 GMT
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Mar 29, 2021 16:54:35 GMT
This one's on Shudder. I ought to see it soon, since it's been a long time since I've seen it.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 29, 2021 17:38:32 GMT
This one's on Shudder. I ought to see it soon, since it's been a long time since I've seen it. Wasn't as scary as I was expecting, based on the one commercial I remember seeing. But still entertaining. Mickey Rourke had his original face. Dennis Christopher looked like he could be related to Roddy McDowell.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Mar 30, 2021 4:59:43 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Mar 31, 2021 19:52:42 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Mar 31, 2021 19:53:43 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Mar 31, 2021 19:55:36 GMT
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Post by mgmarshall on Mar 31, 2021 22:07:39 GMT
 Omen IV: The AwakeningAfter the doldrums of The Final Conflict, I was actually sorta pleasantly surprised by this one. Maybe it's just the fact that I went into it with zero expectations. And to be perfectly clear, it is not a good movie. It's pretty much just a retread of the original with a dash of The Bad Seed and Rosemary's Baby thrown in there. But this movie, more than the original or the other two sequels, is so ludicrous and over the top in its execution, I just had a ball with it. I was laughing my ass off at it the whole time. Which is a lot more than I can say for...  The Omen (2006) Well, it was included in the box set, so why not? Look, I tried my damnedest to go into this one with an open mind. I knew the lousy reputation it has, but I wanted to give it a chance. And it's pretty much pointless. It has almost no ideas of its own, it doesn't remotely improve on or add to the original, and the few new ideas it does have are completely typical of just the worst kind of early 2000's, airbrushed, manufactured, jump scare-addled horror. The cleverest thing about this movie was its release date of 06/06/06. It's really impossible to watch this one without comparisons to the original, and it pales in just about every one. Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick is just awful as Damien, though it's more a matter of bad direction and production design than through any fault of his own. Every aspect of this version of Damien is just trying too hard to make this kid look spooky and evil, and it just falls completely flat. Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles are both fine, if bland, replacements for Gregory Peck and Lee Remick. David Thewlis is actually a pretty solid choice as a 21st century approximation of David Warner, and manages to escape this thing with most of his dignity intact. Pete Postlethwaite and Michael Gambon are both okay, although Postlethwaite really lacks a lot of the wild-eyed, frightened intensity that Patrick Troughton brought to the role. Mia Farrow is probably far and away the best thing about the movie. It is kinda clever casting Rosemary herself in the role of a Satanist, and Mia seems to be the only person in the cast who's having any sort of fun with her role, but she's still no Billie Whitelaw. Yeah, I'd pretty much recommend you skip this one.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Apr 1, 2021 4:27:08 GMT
The New York Ripper (1982)
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Post by Prime etc. on Apr 1, 2021 7:02:30 GMT
HYSTERIA 1965 Robert Webber loses his memory after a car crash and seeks to figure out what is going on. Jimmy Sangster cranked out a number of these Hammer suspense scripts and they blur together somewhat-and usually they have a very small cast and limited locations. Well this does not have much more, however it does feel less claustrophobic than some of the others--in fact this story is so Hitchcockian--if only it had a Herrmann score--I suspect it would feel more memorable.
Maurice Denham is particularly good as the private detective.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Apr 1, 2021 20:04:34 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Apr 1, 2021 20:04:58 GMT
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Apr 2, 2021 15:48:00 GMT
 Nobody Sleeps In The Woods Tonight (2020) A group of teenagers attend this camp that specializes in making teens appreciate nature and teach them there is more to life than just cell phones and social media. While on a hiking trip they are stalked by an evil presence lurking in the woods. Hailed as the first Polish slasher movie (dubbed in English for the Netflix version). Plotwise this is pretty standard and it is slow going at times, but once things pick up it's quite a thrill ride. Beautifully shot and with a high intensity level, plus cool gore scenes. Unusual music score as well. Apparently a sequel is in the works.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 3, 2021 7:45:21 GMT
Nobody Sleeps In The Woods Tonight (2020) A group of teenagers attend this camp that specializes in making teens appreciate nature and teach them there is more to life than just cell phones and social media. While on a hiking trip they are stalked by an evil presence lurking in the woods. Hailed as the first Polish slasher movie (dubbed in English for the Netflix version). Plotwise this is pretty standard and it is slow going at times, but once things pick up it's quite a thrill ride. Beautifully shot and with a high intensity level, plus cool gore scenes. Unusual music score as well. Apparently a sequel is in the works. Never heard of, but looks/sounds quite enjoyable. I guess this might be one of those rare occasions, where I am almost tempted to dig in, and get myself hooked onto Netflix, but still, I will probably wait a bit further on. Anyway, it is nice that Poland is making some slashers releases, as well.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Apr 3, 2021 8:30:03 GMT
Blood Rage (1987) by John Grissmer "That's not cranberry sauce...Artie... that's not cranberry sauce."
After an unsuccessful attempt of having a little romantic late night drive-in movie experience, a mum and her date is shocked to find out that one of her twin sons, have killed off a horny teenager, with a bloody axe. But the blame is soon put onto the innocent brother, who ends up spending the next 10 years of his life, inside a "school".
However, 10 years later on, and where the guilty part has been enjoying life to its absolute fullest. But with the news, that the "crazy" twin brother is suddenly on the loose, and all of a sudden, a bunch of disfigured and bloody dead bodies, start showing up all over, as the horrors of the past, is about to shake up the "perfect" present. Oh yeah, this late 80s slasher, surely is worthy to check upon, if one has not done so, yet. I just recently got a hold of the 2017 Arrow Blu-ray/DVD combo, and I guess it was actually made around 1983, as a the fitting titled Slasher, but somehow it would take a few more years, until it got released, this time as Blood Rage. I guess a lot of reasons, might have to do with the creative difficulty, as there seems to be several versions of the film, where the 1987 version is the uncut one, and it is the one I saw last night. There sure is a lot of great looking and nasty kills and gory effects, to satisfy the gorehounds, and the film also backs it up, with quite an interesting plot, even if it kind of ends up a bit too "over the top" during the final part, as I kind of would have liked, if they went more in the direction of the mystery/crime stuff, and not revealed all, too early on. But then again, I loved the hilarious performance by Mark Soper, who really seems to be enjoying himself, as two very different kind of characters. But it is Louise Lasser, who surely delivers the best part, and is on the brink of a total nervous breakdown, and I thought it would be interesting to see how they could have went a bit further in, with that, but all in all, I really enjoyed this late 80s slasher. Surely not a great one, but still lots of fun, and even if it was meant to be taking place during Thanksgiving, I could not help but notice, that there were several easter eggs and easter decoration, lying around on some of the tables, in a few scenes, and I guess that made the film, even better to start up last night movie watch with. The picture and sound quality were as usual, top noch by Arrow Films, and the soundtrack felt very much in common with some of the minimalistic and upbeat synth-driven scores by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth. 6,5/10
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