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I just watched "Inside" for the first time while I was eating lunch.
'Twas a pretty brutal movie. |
Trick Or Treat
It's great to see Gene Simmons and OZZY in the same movie. This film should be played by VH1 on their movies that rock show.:)
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Mum & Dad
The ultimate in dysfunctional family life which has the nice twist of a regular family in an urban setting in the UK doing the nasty on an eastern european immigrant. Good performances and over the top in a strangely subtle way which allows you smile at the goings on while never finding them funny. Well worth catching. |
Hello everybody!
Today I've seen; Meet the parents Meet the Fockers Derailed And have just put on Henry - Portrait of a serial killer :) A good day! |
The Wall
It was on VH1 Classic. I hadnt seen it in a while and I wasnt doing anything else. |
Memento
Original concept. Fascinating. |
Race to witch mountain.
Not bad for what it was. |
Intruder
A good old Slasher, a bit slow to start and bit dumb towards the end, but not bad all up. 6.5/10 |
Død Snø. I think the American release is called Dead Snow.
Quite entertaining & different for a new flick. Definately worth watching for some good laughs and lots of blood. |
Delicatessen. Simply brilliant; ingenius.
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Fast & The Furious IV
Quite good entertainment. I liked the rest of the movies, even though they don't have much to offer. I didn't expect a masterpiece, but I did expect some fast-paced racing and action - and that was exactly what I got. Recommendable to those who were into the past 3 movies in the series. |
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Oh! I just saw Mirrors and Them (aka Ils) this weekend.
I liked Mirrors, though I wouldn't be surprised that the original is MUCH better, just the problem of getting it (still waiting for REC to come out here). But I really liked Them, it was a pretty exciting movie. |
After a hearty Easter feast, I thought a nice "feel good" movie was in order. So I watched "Eden Lake".
All I can say is " damn kids today.........bunch of hooligans I tell ya" Good watch |
Them/Ils. Gripping flick. Simple, solid story with a great ending. Pretty scary to boot. Ashe.
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planet of the apes (2001)
This movie really gets lost inside itself. 5/10 |
Graveyard.
Forgetable |
Killshot (2008)
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/6428/killshot.jpg >>: C+ The Children (2008) http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2417/children1.jpg Though started with slow pace and there were no clear explanations about why they have gone nuts but still it's worth a watch for some nice killing scenes without showing much gore. >>: B- |
Infection.
still my favorite asian horror movie. |
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You've got a temporary reprieve whilst Im still in BRII! :) I saw Monster Man recently, thought it was enjoyable nonsense. Jeepers Creepers 2 |
Flesheater
A fun zombie movie, made by and staring William Hinzman, the origanal graveyard zombie from Night of the Living dead. Plenty of gore,plenty of tits, plenty of bad acting. The end is kind of strange, the last 15 minutes the movie seemed to have shut down... 6.5/10 |
Species III. Fun movie, but nothing spectacular. The protagonists being hot naked chicks definitely helped make this movie more than watchable.
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Mum And Dad
Weird, but not bad. |
Skellig.
A good, television movie based on a book I read seven years ago in school. 8/10 |
Eden Lake - Grrr.
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Scourge
A parasite has to jump from person to person to survive, killing the host when it leaves. No surprises here. Its two leads are adequate enough and the premise is a tried and tested one but its severely let down by some poor writing and stupid supporting characters. The film looks ok and the parasite involved is again ok but its not particularly interesting. Avoid unless bored. |
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It's all gone Pete Tong
Not as funny as I had hoped, though a clever mockumentry all the same. 6/10 |
The Court Jester
Had some great laughs in it. Sometimes you forget how great older comedies are. |
If I Die Before I Wake
Standard entry in the "home invasion" sub-genre- standard situation, stereotypical characters- but it's well directed and acted. Manages to build tension in most scenes. Goes over the top in the final act, but all in all it's worth a watch. Chrono- you might enjoy this. It's on Fearnet currently. |
Chrysalis (2007)
http://www.firstshowing.net/img/post...rysalis-v1.jpg A slow paced French Sci-Fi thriller, mediocre. >>: C The Broken (2008) Just got the After Dark Horror Fest III (8 in 1) collection the other day and started with this one. Liked the gloomy atmosphere that maintained through out the movie. Predictable. >>: B- |
The Signal
Great film, very clever mix of obsurd humour and brutality. It was really pleasing that it wasnt just a 'survival of the heroes' type and that it took time to show how people affected had their view of the reality distorted. Great story, good performances and the three directors involved paced the story well. Very, very good |
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I watched "Inside" the other day.
Absolutely loved it. |
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Yeah, I watched it on your recomendation. It was clever, just didn't have the brilliance it needed. ;) Take "bad News" for example ..... |
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
This is a phenomenally creative work, and one of my very favorite Coen films. A lot of the brothers' work gets criticized for being too episodic, and sometimes that is the case, and it doesn't work. Here it does; the structure of the film, based on Homer's 'The Odyssey', allows for a segmented style which makes it easy to shift tones from humorous to tragic to scary, and back to humorous again without seeming to convoluted or bittersweet. These characters are actually caricatures, and it feels easy and right to flow between them and enjoy their quirks without investing too much in their ethics or morals. Lucky for us, the casting of the three convicts is as perfect as has ever been in a Coens film; Clooney is magnetic (without being flashy); Turturro is refreshingly normal- not too smart, but always skeptical; and Nelson is the heart of the trio, his idotic but sweet antics always in favor of good intention. This religious pilgrimage of sorts works mostly because the cast and crew had fun making it, and the evidence is all up on screen. With a fantastic soundtrack and thrilling laughs from start to finish, this is a must-see for all kinds of film lovers. Los Olvidados (1952) A gritty social drama which works in both a neorealistic manner and in a deeply personal surrealist fashion. The images on screen always seem like part of a documentary; the disturbing violence which fills the film works so naturally as a commentary on what murder means to us as spectators and what it means to the children who commit it here. There is no doubt of the effects it has: Jaibo's monsterous rage and desensitization works an opposition on us, and the toll that violence takes on little Pedro is also a heavy burden for us. Though this is presented mostly as a straightforward narrtive, Bunuel uses his surrealist touch to make dreams integral to feeling and symbols key to our understanding of the themes. Chickens are particularly recurring as a metaphor for weakness, and some of the most frightening scenes seem to take root around the naive animals. The most affecting scene in the film may be the last; a boy is animalized as the subject of a tragic act of maliciousness and the sequence is framed to be an identicle match of a similar one in the director's early documentary, 'Las Hurdes'. There are no compromises taken; sexual desire is handled in a barbarically fetishistic manner and motifs of cruelty flood the film's reels and corrupt us seemingly directly. This is an unflinching masterpiece from one of the art form's most provocative visionaries. *note*: at this point in my life, I'd consider Bunuel my favortie filmmaker. He's profoundly changed the way I look at movies and also the way I'd like to go about making them in the next few years. Inferno (1982) On the whole, this is a pretty awesome achievement. It's nightmarish and theatrical, playing out with a kind of divine staginess made stylish by a lighting scheme almost on par with 'Suspiria' and camera angles Carol Reed would admire. Argento always refers to this as one of his most accomplished visions, and it's easy to see why. It is a piece which fits perfectly into the director's puzzle of a career and works not only as the middle segment in the "Three Mothers" trilogy but also as a frightening work on its own. The first twenty minutes of the film are some of Argento's very finest (and scariest), but the film keeps at an even pace until its fiery conclusion. |
Awesome reviews Alky.
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The Four Feathers
old British war epic. Quite good example of that sort of thing. |
I just saw Dance of the dead, which is a teens in high school/ zombie horror. It is pretty much a laugh and pretty similar to Return of the living dead plotwise. I guess with the popularity of Twilight, we can expect alot more of these modern day teen horrors to start showing up.
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Undead (2003)
I'd heard bad things bout this so I wasn't really expecting much...turnmed out to be a pleasant surprise. A new concept for a zombie flick - didn't always work, but at least it was vaguely original. The script was pretty hit-and-miss but had some really witty moments. A dumb movie that knows it's dumb and has ALOT of fun with itself. Overall I really enjoyed it. One complaint - and this goes for all low-budget horror flick - if you don't have the money and/or know-how to make your CGI look decent, DON'T USE ANY. The gore/set-pieces in this one could (for the most part) have been done with practical effects, but they went for really bad CGI instead. Blech. |
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