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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 17, 2022 2:17:42 GMT
The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
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Post by gspdude on Jul 18, 2022 0:50:18 GMT
Thelma(2017). Thelma is a shy teen who leaves home to attend college, where she is attracted to another girl and, being religious, feels guilty about it. But that is more of a sub plot, as Thelma is subject to seizures which are symptomatic of a strange and dangerous power. Nicely shot. In a Nordic language with English subs. 6.5/10.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jul 20, 2022 3:10:27 GMT
X (2022)Young folks rent a boarding house from a creepy old farmer and his wife in rural Texas. When it's been discovered that the group of friends are there to make a porno movie, all hell breaks loose. When I first learned about this slasher I was intrigued by the premise and had a feeling it was going to turn out good. Turns out I liked it quite a bit. It tries to capture the look and feel of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and succeeds to a certain extent, while at the same paying homage. Director Ti West does a marvelous job of building tension and combines traits of Dario Argento and Alfred Hitchcock in terms of stylish camera shots. Also, the story ends up taking a certain direction I wasn't expecting, but hey that was fine by me. Plus there's a nice little surprise at the end. There are some interesting contrasts between old-fashioned values and modern liberation, pointing out the dangers of both. As well, there's an underlying theme of the heartache of old age and the misery it may cause.
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Post by theravenking on Jul 21, 2022 14:29:37 GMT
The Rover (2014; David Michod)Guy Pearce gets very angry when some criminals steal his car and chases after them. Somewhere on the road he runs into the brother of one of the culprit's, played by Robert Pattinson, and sort of takes him hostage to use him as leverage. Oh, and the entire thing takes place in some dystopian landscape looking like the Australian Outback. May I suggest an alternative title: Flat Max - Beyond Boredom Who knew the end of the world could be this dull? Throughout the movie very little happens, and the few incidcents which occur make little sense. Let me give you an example: At the beginning an SUV flips over, a bit like that scene towards the end of Casino Royale where Bond's car is crashed, but Bond somehow survives. Now, the three guys here are obviously not James Bond, yet they are seemingly indestructable. Since the three of them scamper out of the car without barely a scratch to them and spontaneously decide to change their vehicle to Guy Pearce's limousine. Once Guy notices this, he runs out of the joint he was sitting in, which conveniently has a large window allowing people to observe what happened, and gets into the SUV, yes the one which just crashed and should be leaking oil and/or gasoline, which is miraculously still running and drives after them. At this point I was waiting for the ghost of Leslie Nielsen to turn up, slipping on a banana peel or something, but, no, it looked like this was going to be serious movie. I must say that Guy Pearce gave a committed and very intense performance and was easily the best thing about the movie. Robert Pattinson meanwhile seems to have heeded the advice from Tropic Thunder to never go full retard. His character is some sort of mentally challenged half-cripple, who still manages to take out a group of heavily armed soldiers in one crucial scene. Director Michod is clearly technically gifted and the script was written by Joel Edgerton who was also responsible for the far superior The Gift (2015). But the entire movie is so slow and monotonous that it feels like a short film stretched to feature length. It even lacks a proper pay-off. At the end we find out that Guy Pearce's dead dog was in the trunk of the stolen car, and the only reason he went through this entire ordeal was to bury his dead dog!!! 4/10
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jul 21, 2022 18:07:15 GMT
This would've been a real slog if not for its consistently strong visual palette. By which I mean, blood-soaked boobs and that sort of thing. 5/10
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jul 23, 2022 15:03:36 GMT
I found this biography of Steve Bannon utterly chilling. 6/10
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Post by politicidal on Jul 23, 2022 23:41:18 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 25, 2022 1:55:29 GMT
7/10
The story involves a doctor who specializes in virtual reality finds a new subject. His lawnmower man. He takes him from being slow to being a genius and then it goes too far. I seen this film before in both Theatrical and Director Cut versions. Its a entertaining and inventive horror/science fiction film. However it does have its flaws. I normally hate the term "dated" but the effects in this film are just that. Not that it bothers me or anything, Im fine with the way it looks. Plus the third act gets crazy. Still its a enjoyable film. Im not rewatching the sequel. I remember that being sucky.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 25, 2022 2:00:23 GMT
1/10I was looking forward to seeing this new found footage horror film called Dashcam. I seen a lot of awful found footage films but I do like the sub genre. The Blair Witch Project is a favorite of mine. But this film disappointed me to the highest degree. So much so that not only the worst films I seen so far this year but one of the worst films in general I have seen in a while. The film is about a blogger named Anna. She has to be the worst protagonist ever. She is extremely annoying, rude and has the vocabulary of a dirty minded teen. Its also a thing that she is a strong anti liberal and a Trump supporter. Is there some kind of political message here? If so it was heavily lost. Anna visits her friend in London who is works as a delivery driver. Anne goes out on a food delivery herself and instead of a delivery she gets paid to transport an elderly woman to some location. I dont recall them saying where they were going but they stop at a dinner because the old lady defecates all over the back seat. And they get pretty close up on the fecal matter. After that the film is a total mess of running around, yelling, chases and just random nonsense. There is not a shred of redeeming value in this film. Its not scary at all. It extremely annoying. Its really gross and not if a fun horror film kind of gross, its a spit/puke/urine/feces kind of gross. And thats coming from me! And I liked The Human Centipede films. At least its short. Minus the credits and end credit scene the film only clocks in at 68 minutes.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 25, 2022 8:10:22 GMT
5/10
This one may have worked better as a short film. Its about 7 friends who are in lockdown due to Covid. Since they can not go to Vegas as they planned they get together and party online. After they take drugs things get out of hand. Its a alright film. OK to see once.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 25, 2022 8:12:35 GMT
2/10
William Shatner is a horror film about demons. Sounds cool enough. It fails sad to say. Its really drawn out with overlong scenes that make the film just flat out boring.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 25, 2022 8:14:07 GMT
4/10
A family gets stalked and hunted by a gang of thieves. Kinda hard to get into but not that bad.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 25, 2022 8:16:55 GMT
5/10
A group of idiot friend steal jet skis and get stranded in the the water. A shark stalks them. Its like an Open Water film. The shark looks good surprisingly.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 25, 2022 8:19:40 GMT
5/10
A crazy girl tries to make friends with the shy girl. But the crazy girl is just to...crazy. A killing spree ensues. I like how there is a party every night at the college. Its a fine slasher flick. Nothing to see twice but watchable.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 25, 2022 8:23:40 GMT
3/10
The 7th Hellraiser film is the worst one. Its a very boring film that makes little sense. Shame because I felt a couple ideas could have worked. I notice Doug Bradly does not have much screen time in the later films. But hes still good with the scenes we do have with him.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 25, 2022 8:25:54 GMT
5/10
Hellraiser 8 is a improvement over part 7 but is not near as good as the first 3 films. This is the only film of the series that follow the group of friends get killed of one by one formula.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Jul 26, 2022 13:22:36 GMT
Pseudo-giallo with a Saw twist. Kind of boring, but another excellent showcase for the lovely Rosalba Neri. 4/10
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Post by politicidal on Jul 29, 2022 14:26:55 GMT
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Post by Nalkarj on Jul 30, 2022 1:54:09 GMT
Take Me, 2017, dir. Pat Healy. I’m not sure what I expected from a movie with this premise—Ray (Healy) runs a business that performs fake kidnappings of clients; of course, one of them goes wrong—but I didn’t like this movie at all. It’s just dull, really. The two main influences are Fargo and The Game, both of which I like, but the difference between Take Me and Fargo is that Fargo is funny. Humor is subjective, of course, and I’m seeing some reviews that found Take Me funny, but I laughed once, during the opening scene, and never again. It’s one of those things where the premise is supposed to make otherwise unfunny scenes funny, which to me never works, always coming off as a copout for the writer to avoid the hard work of writing jokes, especially jokes based in character rather than generic laugh lines. Take Me also is ultimately unsurprising because the plot has nowhere else to go. With The Game, for example, the plot could go a million different ways—the ending could be totally different with only small changes—yet everything is as it is for a reason, so the end feels somehow both open and necessary. That’s Aristotle’s Poetics rearing its head again, as always with storytelling: Twists have to be both surprising and inevitable. Take Me ends in exactly the way everyone would expect it ends. Taylor Schilling as the client is good. Healy as the lead is… not so much, oddly enough. I’m not exactly sure why, but I couldn’t shake the impression that Healy is ACTING. Something about the performance seemed too mannered even though (or because?) he’s playing a schlub. But mostly I just found this boring. I don’t think I’m a fan of these “quirky” (ugh, awful word) indie comedies. (I do, after all, despise Napoleon Dynamite.)
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Post by mgmarshall on Jul 31, 2022 6:44:13 GMT
Ninja III: The DominationGee, I haven't seen the first two. Sure hope there's no important plot details I missed... Perhaps my standards have declined in the past few years, or maybe it was the fact that I was as baked as an apple pie while watching it- but this is one of the most thoroughly entertaining movies I've seen in a long time. It's a f*cking masterpiece! It's maybe the best movie Cannon ever made (or failing that, it's certainly in the running for the most Cannon movie ever made...) I'm really not exaggerating or being facetious here, either. This movie's perfection- it's a 10/10 from me, it's now in my top 100. The hodgepodge story has a murderous ninja going on a protracted, glorious rampage before getting just perforated by the LAPD. I mean, it takes like fifteen minutes to gun this guy down. Upon finally dying from that, he posseses utility worker/valley girl Lucinda Dickey and continues the killing spree, seeking revenge on the cops who killed him. From there, the movie is pure, prime batsh*t. Sho Kosugi wanders around as the good Ninja, kicking ass and wearing an eye patch with an incredibly visible hole in it. Some of the most crazed, longwinded martial arts scenes you'll ever see are juxtaposed with ridiculous, Exorcist-esque demonic possession scenes and blatant, near-plagiaristic ripoffs of scenes from Poltergeist. Case in point, Dickey's Ninja entity first manifests in the form of a malevolent, laser-blasting arcade game. (Which may indeed be the most 80's concept ever committed to film) The evil Ninja's magic sword alternates between the actual prop and- in the scenes where they need it to glow or levitate- what is clearly a Dollar Store toy sword. Poor, embarrassed-looking James Hong turns up for all of one scene as a Ninja Exorcist (which could easily have been this movie's title) and pretty much immediately gets his ass handed to him because "Only a Ninja can destroy a Ninja." Speaking of which, when Kosugi and the possessed Dickey finally do face off (after she's already slaughtered like twenty-three people), it turns out a real Ninja Exorcism mostly consists of beating the shit out of the victim. Then again, I suppose the same thing is what ultimately did the trick in The Exorcist, anyway... I haven't focused a lot on her so far, but Lucinda Dickey is awesome in this. Sure, in the early scenes she could be any generic, 80's chick, Cannon female lead (like her character from the Breakin' movies, for instance); but once the movie gives her some material this lady goes whole hog. She gets to Linda Blair it up- getting tied up, swearing, speaking in demonic voices, spitting up dust, throwing James Hong to the ceiling- and she gets to go on a Ninja-based killing spree! What more could an actress ask for? Funny enough, her nuttiest scene may be pre-possession, whereupon she attempts likely the most revolting erotic food scene of all time with a lukewarm can of V8. John Waters at his filthiest never made me squirm as much as this scene does, and the filmmakers thought this was sexy! To say more would be to just prattle on, listing insane things. Instead, I think I shall simply say bravo. Bravo, Menahem and Yoram. Bravo Sam Firstenberg. Bravo Lucinda and Sho. You all may have made the perfect bad movie. This, for me, truly is the creme de la crap.
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