Stuck

It's one of the better movies I have seen for a while, it was ghastly and funny, a very tight film.

8/10

Dead Wood (2007)

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Four friends..in the woods, after losing the boyfriend a mysterious girl enters the mix and people start disappearing one by one...

>>: D

Just saw the new Friday the 13th. A bad film from beginning till the end. I understand slashers are supposed to be stupid but come on, this is not even funny after the first 20 minutes. For the record, I mildly like the remakes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween.

Most definitely, though the selfishness of the lead character made me squirm a bit. Great sleeper flick. Ashe.
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Dead Birds. The dialogue in the first five minutes or so made this flick seem like it was going to be a huge drag. Not so. This flick had a relentlessly anticipatory atmosphere, making the scares almost a cathartic relief. The atmosphere, with the audio really driving it forward, made it hard to believe that the scares would live up to the mood. They did not disappoint. Not a brilliant story, but a decent story portrayed nicely. The camera-work was awesome, with creepy angles and shadowy scenes that was almost on par with Se7ev. Good stuff. Ashe.
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Salo: or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

The most brutal and heart-wrenching film I've ever seen. One of those films where you feel dirty after seeing. That being said it was made brilliantly and gratuitous to the point where you have no option but to watch.

-9/10

If you haven't already, you should top that viewing off by reading the essay Fortunato posted on the Criterion Sale thread. Interesting stuff.

Wow, that's a fantastic article. Really sums up a lot of the things I couldn't put my finger on.

Great closing paragraph:

"I am mischievously delighted by the thought of a post-apocalyptic science-fiction future in which all life on the planet has been eradicated by war or an error in high places, and the only record of humanity to survive is, improbably enough, a copy of Salò. I’d love to see the expression on the face of the alien archaeologist (portrayed by Bronson Pinchot) when he views the film, sizing up the human race based solely on the lonely and baffling rituals of its strange inhabitants. Even if Salò could somehow exist in a hypothetical cultural void, no one who watches it with creeping unease can help but be instinctually alarmed by the palpable absence of something crucial from within our modern trappings...humanity."

http://www.deadgirlthefilm.com/

Dead Girl

Saw this at a midnight screening last night and really enjoyed it. A juvenile dellinquent, zombie drama that plumbs the depths of cowardice and depravity like THE RIVER'S EDGE... but with a zombie!

Not as much a horror film as it is a fucked-up teens-on-the-edge-of-self-destruction drama punctuated with hilariously dark comedy.

It is screening in several US cities again tonight at midnight. Click the link above and catch it tonight if you can.

8/10

g-force 3D ... crap


night train ... pretty good .. mind you - i'll love anything with Leelee Sobieski.
man she's sexy.

The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)

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>>: C

Deadgirl (2008)

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It tells the disturbing story of two high-school friends, Rickie and JT, find a naked girl covered in plastic, chained to a table in the basement of an abandoned insane asylum. Soon discovering that despite seeming already dead, the girl isn't dead yet or more precisely somehow turns into undead, and the boys decides to take advantage of the situation.

I just saw it last night too. but that's a major spoiler, buddy.:D

The plot was fairly original and delivers a ride with mixed bag experience but there’s something about this twisted 'fucked up' little tale that's probably going to keep you hooked until the end with again another 'fucked up' scenario. It has few jump scares also. Overall, it's not a typical 'torture porn' movie. I haven't seen River's edge but to me it was little bit like...some fans of Jack Ketchum (The Girl Next Door) made an effort for an unusual zombie flick!;)

>>: B

Motor Psycho

I had not seen this for probably 10 years. Russ Meyer is such an asshole, I love his work.

8/10

Southland Tales – My second viewing. Still kind of a mess and too long, but it’s still very funny and has some great moments. Looking forward to Kelly’s The Box later this year.

Sam

The Room

I feel a bit messed up after watching this. It was rather hilarious, but also very sad and demented. Right now I don't know if I should laughor cry.

5/10

You're teawing me apahhht Lisa!

I'm glad you found the Salò experience so rich. It's an important piece of art, and an invaluable marker in the history of not only cinema, but human expression itself. If only all art were that passionate.

Death of a Ghost Hunter

I am not sure how many of you have seen this as it more of an independent low-budget movie. If not I highly recommend it!! It is some-what a breath of fresh air as it was smartly done and was actually completely narrated. it plays out sort of like blair witch in that it's supposed to be based of a true case and such...makes you really wonder if something like this actually happened...

8/10 (the audio is a little wonky in parts, i just kept that whole thing loud)


as for the next one...i may get inspired from HDC's most disturbing list :D

Umberto D. (1952)

Battisti did not play Umberto D. Battisti was Umberto D. This is one of those rare performances which have only occured several times since the dawn of the cinema- one which is so genuine, so complete, so radically human that to call it acting would seem insulting. There is a daring pathos to De Sica's character study, and his efforts pay off. The director's neo-realist style lends itself nicely to the film; we're so close that at times we feel invasive and at times we feel we might extend an arm to this lonely man. His every worry is ours, and his presence fills us with all the knowledges and experiences we've never had before. There is a tragic urgency to the pace of the picture and it kept me frantic and on edge, as if I was watching reality unfold before me and needed a happy resolution for this old friend of mine before the running time of the film expired. While De Sica certainly is not afraid to venture the depths of sorrow and loneliness, he refuses to do it without a constant eye on the strength of the human spirit.

I actually prefer this to Wild Strawberries, a film along the same vein and theory.

exorcism
hound of the baskervilles (2002)

Watched [rec] on Saturday. Wow........

The Devil's Rejects. This is what a great artist might paint if he had only sex, drugs, rock and roll, as well as a huge dab of sadistic murder on his color palette. Beautiful. Ashe.
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p.s. i am purposely letting Sheri Moons' occassionally forced dialogue to slip by completely unnoticed.

The Pest.

watched this because i knew my kid would love it. and he did.

terrible terrible movie

V, I watched the same double a while back...not quite as fun as when I was about 13, but a decent watch. I think I sent them to my mother, ha.

Just got done with "Godzilla: Final Wars" I wasn't expecting much but I quite liked it.

Watchmen ~ I don't really know anything about the graphic novel, but I absolutely loved it. I thought because it was so long, I might be a bit bored off and on, but I wasn't. Wish I could have seen this at the theater. I also heard several people say it was hard to follow (it was a blind buy for us, even the cashier told us it was "confusing") I don't really get that.

Knowing ~ really enjoyed this one as well, though I think it had its problems. Not too crazy about the ending (though it didn't ruin the movie for me by any means), but overall, I thought it was well done. It was nice to see a Nicholas Cage movie that made me remember why I used to like him so much. :)

It has lost some of its shiny 80s cheesy charm, I admit.
The first time I watched it, I thought Douglas was a blast, with all those punching one-liners and that wonderful non-chemistry he shared with Turner. But, watching it now, he's just a cheeky Indiana-wannabe.
Its a wonder how growing-up can make a difference to the whole perception you have of a movie. (I have been finding that out the hard way in a number of re-watches recently)

Sole exception - The Goonies. I swear I ll never grow out of that one, even when I am 90 (if I live that long).

sherlock holmes and the case of the silk stocking (2004)

Puzzlehead

One of those arty indie movies that takes a simple story and doesn't make it interesting and thinks it's more powerfull than it is.

4/10

Orphan

I saw the trailer before "The Hangover" and made my best guess to myself about what the twist may be. I saw the movie to see if I was right, I was! Hooray for me.

Anywho, it was a decent movie. Not terrible, but in no way great. It had a few good scenes, I especially liked Esther's paintings. Some logical issues took away from the film for me a bit.

6/10

It just looks like another generic lifetime horror.


I can't wait for the Collector, though.

Platoon Leader

Cannon Pictures does the Vietnam flick... great stuff I enjoyed it.

Hitch-Hike

Quite slow but this is a solid flick. Didn't expect it to turn out how it did.

I don't see the real appeal of any Nic Cage movie save "Raising Arizona." Nothing of his seemed that interesting to me.

Any recommendations that may change my mind about his work?

You should check out Adaptation, Matchstick Men, Face/Off and Wild At Heart.
And, despite its minor flaws, I would recommend Knowing highly too.
Not a big fan of Cage either, and a lot of his recent work HAS been pathetic, but the man has delivered when asked upon. Too bad its been few and far between.
Check out 8MM too, if you havent seen it already.

Knowing

Intersting, fun and dark. Too bad it's logic falls apart on any hint of reconsideration. Nic Cage is actually quite good and not his loony self. Nothing looked even remotely like Boston, but I can fogrive that flaw. At least someone out there is trying to make good apocalyptic scifi.

Absolutely worth a rent, even if you hate it (like my writing partner).

6.5/10

seen it lately and yeah...the ending was bit cruel & shocking but overall I enjoyed it though:)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

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[Saw it for the first time:o]

This is a film that offers many things to many people - sharp consumer satire, black comedy, gore-splatter epic etc. Nevertheless it also shows a bleak, frantic worldview...one that encompasses all of mankind. And on that ground it's not a zombie movie or a common 'horror' film, to me it was a very human story. Like very few could have done, Romero's Dawn crosses the boundaries of its 'genre' and becomes a rare piece of milestone in the history of celluloid arts. It' a thrilling tale of survival & struggle of mankind against the nature, creatures and also within themselves like at a time of extinction or supposedly at a new beginning. The scariest part of the movie is how likely it makes the concept of total collapse of what we perceive as civilization. Such is Romero's skill as a director and writer that it manages to be all of these without pretension; more than 30 years on, this film's appeal still remains undimmed.

"Some kind of instinct. Memory, of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives."

There are plenty of satirical moments between the explosions of violence and gore, moments that still make us realize to what extent the world has reverted to being a race of consumer zombies, congregating around massive shopping malls like they're the religious temples and trapped in not by so called 'freedom of choice', but mindless instincts. The overall sustained atmosphere, inside and outside of the bare environment of the shopping mall, is by far the film's salient contribution; even when there is no obvious action onscreen, there is the threat of an attack to come, and the clock is clearly ticking on the four protagonists. They discover the novelty of having as many of society's desirable goods as they could ever want wears off pretty quick when there's nothing on TV, nowhere to spend money and no one to appreciate expensive clothes and jewelry.

A beautifully frightening film...Romero's best.

>>: A

Plaguers (2008)

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A very cheesy Sci-Fi Channel-like movie about a spaceship transporting a glowing green prism of something discovered on a dead planet, which squirts some liquid on one of the bitchy space pirates (all the pirates were female & they looked like some kinda Space cheer leaders but the frustrating thing is there's no nudity...no boobs:mad:), turning her into some sort of infected space zombie thing. The gore & the space zombie make-up effects were okay, otherwise it's pretty close to be a trash.

>>: D+

Recruits

Great trashy fun. I like this more than Police Academy.

Totally. There's many different levels to it characterwise. Hitch-Hike and House By The Edge Of The Park are deeper films than Last House On The Left.

Shocker
Everytime I see this movie I have a completely different opinion about it.

I love it although its a bit to drawn out for what it is. Great soundtrack too.