"Raw Force" 4/10

I'm sure some of you would love this cheesy b-flick.

Gotta say, I didn't like it.

This movie is my all time favorite...one of the few movies I never tire of. Roddy McDowell was perfection and Chris Sarandon was "heavenly". ::love::

Say Boofie, did you watch all the Amityville Horror films now? If so, can you rank them from best to worst?

My thoughts exactly-one of the BEST!

I honestly think I watched most of them but can't remember much of any of them! The two I mentioned in previous posts above are the best and the worst, imho.

Are you gonna go see Amityville: The Awakening?

Thats how movie that are not very good charm you. By the way that is a cool cover.

I don't think I'd go out of my way to watch it. Bella Thorne is in it and I used to watch her on the show "Shake it Up" with the kids I have in my daycare...so i've (unfairly) pigeon-holed her as a Disney child.

Having said that..if it shows up free on YouTube, why not?

RE-ANIMATOR (1985). Still one of the funniest, audacious, tasteless and just plain greats. So over the top , but love how seriously they all take it. Jeffrey Combs is tip top in this and I will watch whatever he is in (although he was kind of a dick when we met him::sad::) with solid support from Bruce Abbot (nice guy) , David Gale and of course Barbara Crampton::love::::love::! *****

Cat People (1982)
 

The first time I watched it, I was only 12. I was fascinated by it and I still enjoy it to this day. It's something different.

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Deathstalker III: The Warriors From Hell (1988)

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More low budget Sword and Sorcery. Couldn't really remember this one. They didn't reuse footage for this one like they did in part 2 and part 4. The sword fights are so comical I can see why it was picked to be on MST3000. Probably the weakest entry, but I still enjoyed it though.

Deathstalker IV: Match Of Titans (1991)

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The final installment of the "Deathstalker" quadrilogy. I couldn't remember much about this one other than Rick Hill who played Deathstalker in the first movie is back. Lots of footage was used from the previous films even though it is pretty much a direct sequel to the original. It treats the other footage as other characters and not Deathstalker. Pretty much a repeat plot line with an evil female sorceress this time. I had a ball re-watching this series. Lots of laughs.

Bad Sword and Sorcery just reminds me of how much fun I had as a kid growing up in the 80's. I'm ready to tie a blanket around my neck, put on my burger king crown, grab my plastic sword and head off to the backyard in search of adventure.

Next up for me, more classic Sword & Sorcery from horror legend Joe D'Amato with the "Ator" quadrilogy.

i watched aliens.

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8/10

THE FLY 2 (1989). Seems to be a lot of hate for this, but thought it was decent enough. Early Frank Darabont work and really good makeup/FX. The timex scene was really good-indeed, even moving. ***

I don't really get all the hate for it either. It's not a great movie, but I don't think it's as terrible as everyone says it is.

ASSUALT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976). Really good John Carpenter that has been described as a hybrid of RIO LOBO and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. Indeed, the gang members trying to get in and the clutching hands in the final siege reminded me a lot of the latter.
Has one extremely shocking scene (even today) involving ice cream that would probably would never go in our current PC society.
Anyone seen the 2005 remake? ***1/2

Deadbeat At Dawn, 1988. 10/10

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Favorite Alien movie!!! Love it!!

The remake is pretty good. Don't reacall any icecream scene tho.

It was so horrible your subconscious is suppressing it. It's why you shake when someone approaches with an icecream cone.

"The Thing" (1982)
-Kurt Russell

Plot: Men in an Antarctic outpost battle an alien able to assume the form of life it engulfs.

Phantoms Review: One of the very, very few remakes that is superior to the original. I love the original 1950's version but the John Carpenter film is miles above it. Tense, well acted and with special FX that have yet to be topped.
A true terror classic.

::EEK!::

Black Devil Doll From Hell (1984)

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I have a friend who enjoys seeing bad movies. He stopped by the other night and wanted to watch something "bad". Knowing that I have an immense catalog of bad cinema he actually requested Black Devil Doll From Hell by name. Since it had been 10 years since my last viewing I agreed.

For anyone who hasn't seen this piece of cult cinema, it was shot on VHS and features a very religious black woman buying a puppet/doll which in turn gives her her hearts desire. So if you have a fetish for watching Dolls or Puppets come to life (and talk like Mr. T) and rape overly religious women, this movie is for you.

My friend felt rather speechless when it was over ranking it as probably one of the bottom 2 films he's ever seen.

This was the 3rd time I had subjected myself to this movie. The 2nd time was to hear the alternate Heavy Metal soundtrack rather than the Atari/Nintendo game style soundtrack. When I told him this was my 3rd traversal he looked at me in utter amazement of such a feat. I must admit I feel slightly empowered now having survived 3 viewings. I think I can go another 20 years though before attempting a 4th.

Friday the 13th V (1985) - 3 out of 5 stars.

Now watching Friday the 13th VIII. On AMC's FearFest.

'Escape From New York' (1981)
-Kurt Russell

Phantoms Review:
My alltime favorite John Carpenter film. Still fun after all these years and many, many viewings.
Kurt Russell is awesome as Snake Plissken. Love it.

Kurt Russell and John Carpenter did work well together. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and especially THE THING are two favorites.
Entertaining commentary by both on THE THING.

SILVER BULLET 1985

Fell in love with this movie again! A young brother and sister do battle with a werewolf decimating their town.

I have never seen the original but I need to because I love John Carpenter. I really enjoyed the remake but I am curious to see how it compares to the original. There was not an 'ice cream scene'.

I agree 100%!! I think I love the soundtrack to The Thing more than anything (you know, that heart beat kind of sound) ::embarrassment::

Love, love, love this movie!!! Not only is this one of my favorite Stephen King stories/movies but I love Corey Haim!!!!! I miss him ::sad::

I forgot to mention that I watched Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975) last night for the first time. Omg, loved it!! It was a lot of fun and it had some good wholesome shock value!! I will watch it again down the road some time and I would like to find some more of her films. I found this channel on my Roku for free called Cryptic TV. There is some pretty good stuff on there!!

There are 3 other Ilsa films with Dyanne Thorne in them (1 is unofficial).

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

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They don't make them like this anymore. 5 star film.

i watched nightmare on elm street.

'Night Of Dark Shadows' (1971)
-David Selby, Kate Jackson, Lara Parker

Plot:
Painter Quentin Collins and his wife, Tracy inherit and move into the ancestral Collins mansion and find themselves plaqued by the ghosts of his ancestors that used to be witches.

Phantoms Review: While this film is well acted and very atmospheric, it's a bit slow moving and more than a little incoherent, due to some 11th hour editing by the studio to make the film run only 94 minutes.
Still the story is interesting it's
well directed and shot.. I hope one day , the film gets properly restored so we can see what it was really meant to be like.

:halloween:

Hmm, I think you just gave me an idea of what to watch on Halloween night: Night of Dark Shadows and House of Dark Shadows! Thanks, phantom!

I watched "Christine" a couple of nights back, a childhood favorite!:danger:

The Possessed (1977)

Terrible made for TV film - a girls school is be terrorised by an evil force and it's up to an old Ex-Alcoholic Priest played by James Farentino to sort it out. A young Harrison Ford plays a pussy hound science teacher.

Watching Dracula A.D. 1972

Creepshow (1981). Great anthology...though not sure how Stephen King wasn't sued by EC Comics for making it.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
9/10

It does what it is well. Effective sci-fi thriller, good basically all film aspects.

'Bad guy' Allegory Traget?

I couldn't help but to try to determine who the real 'bad guy' is in the film's allegory. In the 1956 film version, at the time, most said the aliens were communism. Others determined at a closer look, and considering the script writer Daniel Mainwaring, McCarthyism was the alien allegory target. Who is it for the 1978 version?

Sure, the film's for profit, and for entertainment; and maybe at most a nod toward a warning against sleeping through mass brain-washing, loss of freedoms, dehumanization and/or dangers of conformity. But does the film actually reveal it's alien allegory target?

I instantly knew I heard the answer during the book discussion of the mud-bath scene between Veronica Cartwright and the patron. I never heard of the books or authors before, and the titles have no intrinsic meaning. They didn't mean anything to me. So I watched the film and made my own determinations void of the two references.

The references I picked up on were the priest and the Amazing Grace song coming from the boat. First, a priest (Robert Duvall) on the swing, staring strangely at the children being handed flowers by a teacher. Was he angry at the site? Was he in favor of it? Was he an alien? I couldn't determine, but couldn't ignore this odd and blatant shot. At the end of the film, Sutherland hears an instrumental of Amazing Grace at the San Francisco bay dock. SMALL SPOILER HERE: He has hope to escape via boat; and the song evokes hope (generally to most). As he approaches the cargo ship, the song stops, and he see's pods being loaded on the boat. Does this scene indict christianity/religion, or does the music ceasing indicate christianity/religion been squashed by the aliens? I'm not sure, but taking the film and scene as a whole, I would certainly guess the latter.

Basically, I didn't grasp a specific bad guy allegory target on my own.

So what were the two books?: Worlds in Collision, by Immanuel Velikovsky, and Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon. What do these books suggest are targets? Like I said, I never even heard of these, and (sorry), I'm not going to research these to point that I give a definitive answer. But for anyone interested, I'll quote the one source/opinion I happenstanced upon:

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988). Michael is back with a vengeance. And the surprise ending is money. 5 stars.

Out of 10 right?