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Post by Gourmando the Reindeer on Jan 17, 2022 5:35:28 GMT
1/10First off yes this is a real film. Well kinda. About a third of this film is footage from other Amityville films. Second this film is so damn awful it makes Leprechaun in the Hood look like an epic. I mean there is nothing remotly good in this film. If anything, the movie poster is actually quite, well, striking to look at. But yeah, another one, which I guess I can happily live on, with not having seen. Yeah, I thought the same. The poster is actually kind of good, neat. Until you notice the gold toof.
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Post by mgmarshall on Jan 17, 2022 10:50:02 GMT
The Man with the Screaming BrainSilly, embarrassingly cheap-looking Sci-Fi Channel crap, made watchable by the presence of Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, and Stacy Keach. I can remember watching this thing the night it premiered when I was about ten or eleven. Even then I felt a little ripped off. Bruce plays a boorish American businessman investing in a Bulgarian subway system. In tow is his dissatisfied wife (Antoinette Byron), who's finding herself much more interested in their badass taxi-driver-cum-bodyguard, Yegor (Vladimir Kolev). When all three of them run fatally afoul of Yegor's black widow ex-fiancee (Tamara Gorski), their bodies end up in the hands of a mad scientist (a hammy but underutilized Stacy Keach) and his dorky, klutzy assistant (Ted Raimi). Soon, Bruce finds himself and Yegor combined to create... The Man with the Screaming Brain!Yeah, this is largely amateur hour with the exception of Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Stacy Keach, and Vladimir Kolev. Still, co-writer/director Bruce brings a vaguely Sam Raimi-ish sensibility to the proceedings, even if that can't entirely save things. And, no matter what, it is always fun to watch Bruce get beaten up by his own hand.
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 17, 2022 12:07:12 GMT
Yeah, I thought the same. The poster is actually kind of good, neat. Until you notice the gold toof. That gold tooth, would not stand much of a chance, against the mighty powers of this little fella:
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 17, 2022 12:13:41 GMT
The Man with the Screaming BrainSilly, embarrassingly cheap-looking Sci-Fi Channel crap, made watchable by the presence of Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, and Stacy Keach. I can remember watching this thing the night it premiered when I was about ten or eleven. Even then I felt a little ripped off. Bruce plays a boorish American businessman investing in a Bulgarian subway system. In tow is his dissatisfied wife (Antoinette Byron), who's finding herself much more interested in their badass taxi-driver-cum-bodyguard, Yegor (Vladimir Kolev). When all three of them run fatally afoul of Yegor's black widow ex-fiancee (Tamara Gorski), their bodies end up in the hands of a mad scientist (a hammy but underutilized Stacy Keach) and his dorky, klutzy assistant (Ted Raimi). Soon, Bruce finds himself and Yegor combined to create... The Man with the Screaming Brain!Yeah, this is largely amateur hour with the exception of Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Stacy Keach, and Vladimir Kolev. Still, co-writer/director Bruce brings a vaguely Sam Raimi-ish sensibility to the proceedings, even if that can't entirely save things. And, no matter what, it is always fun to watch Bruce get beaten up by his own hand. This and I think Alien Apocalypse, I picked up at "random", back in the day, as I was pretty hyped up seeing all these Campbell DVDs at display, and while I have not seen either, for very long. And probably not missed out on much either. But I do remember that they came with quite a lively cast (as I guess you have already noticed), and the poster for Man with the Screaming Brain, was also rather nice. But yeah, the cheap and probably very low budget made for TV movie, is maybe why I have not bothered with it, for so long. Still, I kind of enjoyed the earlier scy-fy channel release of Terminal Invasion (2002), which actually was kind of entertaining, but with Bruce Campbell in a more "dramatic" change of scenery.
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Post by politicidal on Jan 17, 2022 23:44:26 GMT
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 18, 2022 11:34:09 GMT
Rumpelstiltskin (1995) by Mark Jones "Fucketh me!" A young widow, trying to fulfill her deepest wishes, which is to bring her former husband back alive again. And yet, with some little "help" from a nasty looking stone, she ends up doing so. However, it also does come with a terrible side effect.Decided to re-visit this one, as I had not done so, in many years. I guess it is one of those, that might grow on you, if one is in the right mood for this kind of b-movie entertainment. A lot of similar looking releases arrived during the 80s and early 90s, that drew upon the Troll 1 and 2, Ghoulies franchise and of course the success of the Leprechaun films as well. And yeah, Mark Jones (the director of the first Leprechaun movie) is also back in action here, and I kind of enjoyed it a bit more, than my last time. Thought that Max Grodénchik, delivered a very fun and amusing role, who seemed to have the time of his life, doing so. Not hard to see the "similarities" to The Terminator and T2, in that you have a young and lonely woman with her son, on the escape from a seemingly unstoppable enemy, and the action scenes (which by the way, I thought looked very impressive, for this kind of entertainment) also packs lots of the same clichees as in the Terminator movies, with heavy use of motorcycles, trailers in car-chases through the night, and then you also have the male "savior" who arrives a bit later in as well. Surely not a classic, by any means. But a fast paced and at times funny and enjoyable film, that I am surprised did not get any sequels later on, but I guess since it was put out to the big screen, it just did not make enough money, to warrant any more films afterwards. 5,5/10
Leprechaun 2 (1994) av Rodman Flender "Cry as you may, cry as you might; its going to be one hell of a wedding night." The little nasty fella is back once more, and just as thirsty for his gold, but this time he is also on the look out for finding miss right, in the city of Los Angeles. Decided to skip the original, as I have seen now, at least 3-4 times, and while I did see part 2 no longer than about 2 years back, I kind of wanted to check it up, oncre more. But yeah, no changes in the way I felt about it. I just never cared much for the two young leads, rather annoying and yeah, I would much more love to see people like Clint Howard, or the always sweet and charming Kimmy Robertson step up some more, but I guess those were mostly smaller cameos. However, "Jack Klompus" (Sandy Baron) makes it worthwile, along with the always delightful and funny Warwick Davis, who puts in some hilarious moments and one-liners. All in all, I am pretty sure I enjoyed part 3, way more, due to more likeable leads, and also some of the funniest lines and scenes in the Lepreachun franchise taking place. 4,5/10
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 19, 2022 9:52:28 GMT
Leprechaun 3 (1995) by Brian Trenchard-Smith "Ahhh... lovely golden palaces completely full of riches. I'll rip 'em off and rob 'em blind, those dirty sons of bitches." For yet another round, the sly and cunning Leprechaun is back, but this time he really finds himself truly at home within the city of Las Vegas. Where all of its sinners, will soon feel the wrath of the little irish fella, as once more, his golden pot seems to be missing out on a shilling.Yep, this one was surely my favorite of the franchise, a few years back, and through last nights revisit, I still had a very fun and pleasant ride. As the pace, characters, one-liners all just flows so damn well, and here I actually cared about the two new main characters, and wished them all well, of course it did also help out, that you got the stunningly hot and sweet Lee Armstrong, as Tammy, with that magical outfit as well. Then, as the icing on the cake, Warwick Davis delivers some of the funniest and most memorable lines in the entire series, and at times, they come so frequently, that you might just miss a few: "There was an old man of Madras whose balls were made of fine brass. So in stormy weather they both clang together and sparks flew out of his ass."
"For pulling this trick, I'll chop off your dick!"
"What a lovely lass. Shame I had to blow up your ass!"Alright, so it might not be poetry in motion, but I sure did get a lot of laughs, from these ridiculously catchy and campy one-liners, and yeah the comedy part, went straight home with me, and also extra enjoyable, when it so very well, hit those sleazy and creepy assholes, who you love to see getting their wished come all "true" at the end. Also some of the special effects and make-up was also very good, and yeah, I think it is safe to say, this was the one I enjoyed and think of as the best of the entire series. 6/10
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Post by teleadm on Jan 21, 2022 21:10:56 GMT
Night Monster 1942 directed by Ford Beebe and starring in big letters Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill. actually Atwill is killed of rather early and Lugosi plays a butler of a spooky house/mansion, so it might be disappointing thinking they play leading important roles here. It's actually the other, below "and", actors who carry the movie along, and it's a not to bad B-movie of the old school lonely mansion and people gather there genre. There is actually something strange going on with something hideous lurking around the nearby swamps, that is so terrifying that even the frogs stops quacking!!! People are murdered one by one at the mansion, and in the nearby swamps, and the baffled police try to figure it all out. It was actually nice to see Bela Lugosi play a relatively normal character, and this time the butler didn't do it, I can give away that much. Three visiting doctors are killed of and but why and who did it, is it the crippled mansion owner, the female psychiatric doctor, the fragile crippled's sister, the house maid, the neighbour, the horny chauffeur, the Hindu yoga fakir mystic...or something else! Actually not a bad little B-movie from Universal, but disappointing for those hoping Lugosi and Atwill playing bigger and more important roles.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 22, 2022 0:31:23 GMT
4/10This looked kinda familiar when I started watching it last night. Apparently, I did see this when it as new. Its a simple strange things happening at a insane asylum film. Not that good but watchable.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 22, 2022 0:35:37 GMT
5/10
I was kinda mixed on this one. There is some neat stuff in this. The alien/monsters and gore are really cool. But after I was done watching it I didnt think a whole lot of the film.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 22, 2022 4:08:23 GMT
Phantoms, 1998, dir. Joe Chappelle. Man oh man, this sucks. The movie finds a way to ruin just about every interesting element it has. Everyone in town has mysteriously vanished? Let’s introduce extra characters and then cut back to a city full of people, which totally destroys the sense that our heroes are alone. Lovecraftian abomination? Let’s make it look like a butterfly, and then a golden retriever. Killer has apparently vanished from a locked and windowless room, with a bizarre dying clue written in lipstick on the mirror? Let’s never refer to it again. Peter O’Toole pops up as a ghostbusting Sherlock Holmes? Let’s hide him behind a mask and give him nothing interesting to say or do. And so on. All the acting—except O’Toole, here seemingly imitating Peter Cushing—is dreadful. The directing makes the movie look for all the world like a bad Stephen King miniseries. Not a moment, perhaps needless to say, is scary. The director, by the way, has done mostly TV and also Halloween 6, if that tells you anything. Cool premise, which is why I sought it out. Someone in Hollywood, I beg you, steal this premise and do something with it!
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Jan 22, 2022 12:50:07 GMT
Phantoms, 1998, dir. Joe Chappelle. Man oh man, this sucks. The movie finds a way to ruin just about every interesting element it introduces. Everyone in town has mysteriously vanished? Let’s introduce extra characters and then cut back to a city full of people, which totally destroys the sense that our heroes are alone. Lovecraftian abomination? Let’s make it look like a butterfly, and then a golden retriever. Killer has apparently vanished from a locked and windowless room, with a bizarre dying clue written in lipstick on the mirror? Let’s never refer to it again. Peter O’Toole pops up as a ghostbusting Sherlock Holmes? Let’s hide him behind a mask and give him nothing interesting to say or do. And so on. All the acting—except, needless to say, O’Toole, here seemingly imitating Peter Cushing—is dreadful. The directing makes the movie look for all the world like a dead-ringer for a bad Stephen King miniseries. Not a moment, perhaps needless to say, is scary. The director, by the way, has done mostly TV and also Halloween 6, if that tells you anything. Cool premise, which is why I sought it out. Someone in Hollywood, I beg you, steal this premise and do something with it! Yeah, my thoughts exactly. I believe I did pick up on it, due to the last years October Halloween Challenge, and rated it with a very "generous" 4/10, but where it started up, rather interestingly, it soon went the other way for my liking. Shame, because it came with quite a lively cast, but ended up as a just another let down. Finally got around to re-watch one, which has continued to slip away from me, and not seen, since I caught up with it, halfway through on some random laten night tv channel: Blown Away (1993) by Brenton Spencer This teenage erotic thriller release, sure is a sleazy and quite enjoyable slice of b-movie cheese. The plot is pretty much based around the two Coreys, getting laid, a lot and then featuring the incredible hot Nicole Eggert, who also (big surprise) screws around, a lot. And in between, there is some random moments of thrills, but so far away, that if one expects lots of explosive action (due to the title), then one might rather seek out Blown Away (1994). I guess my DVD, was the uncut version, as there is very much nudity (thankfully, mostly of the lovely Eggert) and at times, it does look more like a soft porn release, with some scenes of "drama" going on, here and there. Anyway, the two Corey's were probably tired and trying to move onto more adult themed parts, and shying away of the more sweet and innocent late 80s comedy screwball scenario, and of course, also trying to milk the success of the still ongoing erotic thriller genre. But this is of course, not a great movie, yet, there is something quite enjoyable and goofy about it all. I think Corey Haim and Nicole did quite a few films around that time, but out of the one I have seen, Blown Away is most likely the "best" of the bunch. 5/10
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Post by theravenking on Jan 22, 2022 15:26:31 GMT
Phantoms, 1998, dir. Joe Chappelle. Man oh man, this sucks. The movie finds a way to ruin just about every interesting element it introduces. Everyone in town has mysteriously vanished? Let’s introduce extra characters and then cut back to a city full of people, which totally destroys the sense that our heroes are alone. Lovecraftian abomination? Let’s make it look like a butterfly, and then a golden retriever. Killer has apparently vanished from a locked and windowless room, with a bizarre dying clue written in lipstick on the mirror? Let’s never refer to it again. Peter O’Toole pops up as a ghostbusting Sherlock Holmes? Let’s hide him behind a mask and give him nothing interesting to say or do. And so on. All the acting—except, needless to say, O’Toole, here seemingly imitating Peter Cushing—is dreadful. The directing makes the movie look for all the world like a bad Stephen King miniseries. Not a moment, perhaps needless to say, is scary. The director, by the way, has done mostly TV and also Halloween 6, if that tells you anything. Cool premise, which is why I sought it out. Someone in Hollywood, I beg you, steal this premise and do something with it! I believe this was adapted from a novel by Dean R. Koontz. I don't know whether the book is any good, but the premise had a lot of potential, so, yeah, a re-adaptation would be a good idea.
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Post by theravenking on Jan 22, 2022 22:04:23 GMT
Messiah Of Evil (1973; Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz) A young woman named Arletty (Marianna Hill) drives to the beach town of Point Dume, California, to visit her estranged father, an artist. She finds his beachfront house abandoned. He left a diary in which he addresses her specifically. In it he complains about darkness consuming the town, and horrible nightmares he is having, and implores Arletty to never, ever look for him. Of course she does not heed his advice, instead asking about him at the art gallery which is supposed to sell his paintings. However no one seems to know what became of her father and it's clear that some bizarre things keep hapenning around town. I wish I could've seen this at the cinema in 1973. It's the type of film that would lend itself really well to a late night showing. It's the sort of 70s oddity that fell into obscurity for a long time, no doubt one of the reasons it gained a cult following, before getting a dvd release in 2009. The production ran out of money before the end, so the picture couldn't be properly finished which might increase its appeal to some viewers. This has some good things about it like a spooky nightmarish atmosphere and some stylish cinematography, but was too disjointed for my taste. It starts out intriguingly with a man (played by later director Walter Hill in a rare screen appearance) fleeing some sort of peril and falling victim to a bloodthirsty young girl. There is also a creepy albino character and some stand-out sequences at a supermarket and a movie theatre. But it's let down by dull dialogue scenes with flat characters discussing random stuff and behavingly weirdly. I think this would've worked better as a silent movie. The directors claim they were inspired by European arthouse cinema like Antonioni and as a purely visual experience this would be worth seeking out as long as one could forgive the nonsensical plot and lack of relatable characters. 6/10
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Post by mgmarshall on Jan 22, 2022 23:03:46 GMT
The VelociPastorI'm not usually wild about intentional so-bad-it's-good movies, but this thing is so willfully batsh*t and deliberately incompetent that it won me over. The acting is ridiculously amateur across the board, the effects are laughable and actually non-existent in a few scenes, the story is utter nonsense, and I was laughing my ass off the whole way through. Monstrously entertaining.
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Post by gspdude on Jan 23, 2022 13:51:29 GMT
You Should Have Left (2020) Rich couple with young daughter rent a large, isolated, modern mansion in Wales to get away from it all and talk out their problems. Turns out the mansion seems to exist in a dreamlike, nightmarish state and is difficult to leave. Might have made a good Twilight Zone episode, as I found the ending interesting, but I thought it dragged as a movie. Even Amanda Seyfried, who I always love, couldn't spur my interest. 4.5/10.
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Post by theravenking on Jan 23, 2022 21:46:27 GMT
Shark Island (2015; Misty Talley) While holidaying in Mexico some folks find a dead shark on the beach. Except the shark isn't really dead, it's a zombie shark!! Result of some scientific experiments in a nearby laboratory. It's large, it's hungry, its favourite meal are talentless C-Movie actors. I was hoping for something so bad that it's actually good, but this is just plain bad. Tragically boring and not even funny. I almost wished I'd watched Jaws: The Revenge instead. 2/10
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 24, 2022 1:17:53 GMT
Cellular (2004) A young surfer dude receives a call on his cell phone from a woman who claims to be kidnapped. When he realizes it's not a prank, he does what he can to rescue her. And along the way, he commits a few felonies. In the tradition of Hitchcockian thrillers that feature an average person getting in caught in web of intrigue, this one really shines. Fast-paced and exciting, Cellular recalls the same type of edge-of-your-seat suspense that Speed had; there's never a dull moment. Inspite of a couple narrative inconsistancies, this is very intriguing story that is well presented with lots of twists and turns. Rick Hoffman has a funny cameo as an arrogant yuppie lawyer. Originally a screenplay by Larry Cohen, but went through many rewrites.
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 24, 2022 3:19:35 GMT
I’m not a fan of the Friday the 13th series, unfortunately. But for some reason I keep watching! And last night I was flipping through channels and ended up watching Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, 1993, dir. Adam Marcus. Whoo, is this one bad. I don’t even know what to say about it, um… The beginning is fun; the filmmakers are trying to toy with and surprise the audience. And a hammy, Jason-obsessed bounty hunter could probably work in another movie. But the opening is the only part worth watching. After that we have incomprehensibly dim lighting, an impossible-to-follow story, and ponderous pacing. On the upside, right before this I rewatched The Pink Panther and liked it even more than I remembered!
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 24, 2022 22:43:48 GMT
1/10
I know this was an Asylum rip-off of Kong vs. Godzilla but I was still curious to check this out. I really wish I didnt now. This is one of the Asylums worst films. I mean this is brutal. Practically nothing happens. There is far more going on in the poster than in the film. The little that does happen looks like a bad Ps1 cut scene. And can someone get Eric Roberts a real movie to be in.
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