The last horror, thriller or suspense film you watched

Body Double (1984)

Always been interested in seeing this film, both as a fan of Brian De Palma's earlier thrillers such as Dressed to Kill (1980) and Blow (1981) and also because I have big soft spot for erotic thrillers made during the 80s and early 90s, that and knowing that this film would include Melanie Griffith and seemed to be one that have mostly a solid reputation as one of the better thrillers of that era.

In Body Double De Palma seem to be continuing with his tribute (some may say rip-off) of the great works that of Alfred Hitchcock, specially films such as Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958), and where we meet up with a failure of an movie actor Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) who is having a very bad day, first having gotten fired because of his claustrophoia then later on he ends up finding his beautiful, young girlfriend (Barbara Crampton) in bed with another man on top of that he is thrown out on the street with no place to stay.
However, "fate" intervenes and all of a sudden he is to be offered the opportunity to stay and take care of an high-tech mansion surrounded at the top of the hill, in a rich and wealthy neighborhood by a friendly stranger. 
Jakes new "friend" introduces him to all the nice toys that come with it, such as the stunning view over Los Angeles, that and a telescope which is perfectly placed in direction of the neighbor house, where every night a beautiful woman is giving one hell a show, and it does not take long before Jake Scully is finding himself completely obsessed with his new lady friend, however their nightly encounters are soon about to turn into a rather dangerous and unpredictable game, specially when a mysterious and violent stranger suddenly appears, and on top of that Jake begins to take notice that he is not the only one enjoying the scenery at night.

As usual when it comes the Brian De Palma and his late 70s and early 80s films, this is once again a very stylished and well made movie, the music by Pino Donaggio fits so good to some of the scenes which takes place, specially his cut that is named Telescope and is played to perfection when used in the first scenes where Craig Wasson realizes there are better things to spend time at than watching television at night. This intrumental piece is almost as beautiful, sensual and hypnotic as the Love on a Real Train by Tangerine Dream from Risky Business (1983).
In Body Double there are several long scenes taking place, some that is very close to the ones from both Dressed to Kill and Blow, and while as I mentioned this film is at times visually a very fine movie, it also contains maybe a bit too much "random" moments where I wonder what the hell is going on and it kind of loses "direction" a few times over and seems either "rushed" or that some important scenes are gone missing.

I really wanted to like it, but from the first view it never really got me hooked in, such as the ones by De Palma I have already mentioned. 
It is a slick and cool looking/sounding picture but the story and its characters is not that well thought as in some of his other thrillers, but it just might be that it is one of those films that could need a second view to maybe change my opinion of it, but as of now I do not think it is up there with his better thrillers of the 70s and 80s and end up with a little "disappointing" rating of:

6/10

Evil Toons (1992) by Fred Olen Ray

I saw Teenage Exorcist (1991) a few weeks/month earlier, and again it do come with a bit of the same style/plot to it. An old haunted house, hot babes moving in, all kind of weird stuff suddenly begins to happen, lots of random female nudity and also some familiar faces decides to appear every now and then throughout the film.
All in all, a terrible, truly terrible movie in almost every way. 
I was "hoping" for a "better" turnout than the title mentioned earlier, and while I kind of knew it was not gonna be a great one, I still had my hopes up that somewhere in there might be some fun after all.
Sure, the positives are well and clear as in many of Olen Ray's pictures.
This film do have an incredible amount of tits and ass, "random" nudity that I guess is pretty much the only reason to why I ended up throwing away almost 90 minutes on this pile of shit. The "plot" and "acting" are awful, and not in a "so-bad-its-good" kind of a way, no more in the painful unfunny and not a least entertaining.
David Carradine do appear every now and then, often in so short sequences, that if one blink your eyes a few times, you just might miss him. 

The title says Evil Toons, but it really is more a Toon and not many Toons as I guess the slim budget only allowed one of those animated creatures, and the rest was well spent on tits and ass shots and I gotta say, I rather have those than two sets of badly drawn animated demons who appear for about a few seconds.
Also, Dick Miller do have a little bit longer stay in this film than Carradine, they are not great but a little bit more "fun" than the ones with Carradine.
The leading females plays the bimbo part "well", but when they try to do the slapstick/comedy routine, it gets very dull and overlong.
The special effects beside the animated puppy dog is not bad for such a low budget film, but it is one that could have been better, and probably worse iff one took away the babes and their talent of losing their clothes all the time.
All in all, a very, very bad film only "saved" by an impressive portion of T&A throughout the films length.

2,5/10