Last Film You Watched + Your Comments?

[thehamish]

oh, and finally got to see burton's ALICE, some nice bits, but not a patch on the kate beckinsale version i saw on C4 years ago...

[Harold Monroe]

saw arrow's blu ray release of day of the dead last night. brilliant film and the disc was also very good. didnt look much different from the us release.

has anyone here compared them? which one is considered better?

ill probably keep both for all the commentaries

[Someone Weird]

The Black Cat ('65): Pretty good B&W cheapie based on Poe but updated to (then) modern day, swinging 60's America where a no good alcoholic writer mistreats his missus and all his pet animals, and spends most of his time down a nearby tavern listening to quite a fun band who get all the dames shaking their arses for the camera, before our main man breaks out into a really rather wonderful drunken dance of his own, before causing a riot at the place! The Black Cat of the title, Pluto, eventually gets its eye cut out and is electrocuted, but after the bloke is released from the asylum where he received shock treatment, he is visited by another black feline with a gammy eye....and starts drinking again. It all leads to a surprisingly nifty axe in the head effect and the usual ending. Enjoyable stuff!

[tobiaswragg]

I re-watched that myself again recently, very good, I thought.

Hardgore for about the trillionth time last night, hardcore occult sex and gore, set to stock music snaffled from (I think) Morricone and Russ Meyer's Vixen amongst others, with an ambiance akin to Ed Wood's Necromania.

[Someone Weird]

I love Hardgore (I have it as 'Horror Whore'). Such a whacked out porno, with great death scenes amongst all the spunk!

[tobiaswragg]

I honestly don't think that I'll ever get tired of it (I have the Alpha Blue DVD). Just remembered that some of the other music can also be heard in David Friedman's Bummer!

[Rollo Yates]

What did you guys think of the Fat Black Pussycat? I liked that one a bit more, what with jive talking beatniks and mismatched footage. Gotta watch the footage from the original one of these days.

Some of the viewing lately:
Turkish Wizard Of Oz I know what you're thinking. You're wondering how the flying monkeys looked. Well I'll cut with the suspense, there weren't any fucking flying monkeys, but the movie's not without it's charms. Starts with Dorothy dancing and Toto running around, cut to cartoon credits with tornado, then Dorothy fills a basket with food from a house, sings and dances and takes to the road. She finds the scarecrow, the tin man and the cowardly lion. In between finding each there is more song and dance. Just when patience is wearing thin it gets better. A tree attacks Dorothy. The scarecrow bites it, the tin man hacks away at it with an axe and the cowardly lion jacks his dick. They then walk till night and find a cardboard village with children made-up like dolls who move with jerky robot-like movements. The tin man starts to cry. As my Turkish is not up to snuff, I figure it's because Dorothy has told him how the movie ends (more on that later). The next morning they are on the road again and happen upon a midget band. The band plays while the gang dances. They find a coffin with a skull on top. They're stranded on a raft and the midget band is back to help. They find the witch, she melts. They find the wizard and then there is a scene with a caveman (?). Next thing you know Dorothy is in San Fernando Valley, California working as a fluffer in the porn industry. The credits roll and it ends.

Deranged Pretty pitiful. Even Harry Reams' moustache looks half-assed.

Conrad Brooks Vs Werewolf You could turn this one into a drinking game. Every time someone says Plan 9 From Outer Space you take a drink. Withing minutes you and the gang are trashed. An experience drunk or sober. Don't knock the Rock.

Blood Diner I'm always skeptical re-watching favorites from my teens. I worry that it just won't be as good as I remembered. Take Blood Diner. Rented this one a lot as a teen and loved it. Re-rented it and found it stupid and totally infantile. I also should mention that it's great fun (still). Like a cross between HG Lewis and a dumb Novak comedy complete with a homophobic brain ("take that, homo!"). Great soundtrack too (I never realized the connection between vocal groups and cheap horror, but all at once the veil was lifted and I was inside Lux Interior's brain and it all made sense). Where is the DVD of this?

[Someone Weird]

Not seen 'Fat Black Pussycat' yet Rollo, but will get round to it soon! Will have to check out that Turkish Wizard Of OZ.

[tobiaswragg]

I've watched it a few times. Half the fun is in seeing how the original film was completely changed with the (hilariously obvious) new footage; for example, the murderer is now a different person.

Carnival of Souls - still does the business and gives me a feel that I don't get from any other film. For personal reasons I can 'read' quite a lot into it.

[tobiaswragg]

Satan's Slave - a favourite British horror, refulgent in plot points which are either explained and reiterated at great length or, conversely, introduced only to be completely forgotten about, contrasted with gratuitous sex/violence tableaux, which don't appear to have a great deal to do with the narrative, tossed in out of left-field to jazz things up when the natter gets a bit too much. Great fun.

[thehamish]

dang that Wizard of Oz sounds like a scream...
watched PERFECT CREATURE...NZ vampire ting with Dougray Scott, nice "victorian/futuristic" set design (obviously a Gilliam fan), but merely an ok movie...
speaking of rewatching old movies..watched Evil Dead2 as well...still a riot and seemed to last 30 minutes!!

[thehamish]

me again...well i caved in and watched SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD. is it meant to be a comedy? if so best thing he's done in ages....and it was nice to see Windom Earle again (awful accent though)

[guthrie!]

THE STREETFIGHTER aka: Hard Times/1975, Director: Walter Hill.
Charles Bronson and James Coburn,

Watched most of this last night, i say most as me and the missus had been boozing, me to the point of not being able to see the TV straight.

A great film this, great performances and some cracking fights, old school style. Will watch the rest over the weekend.

Robert Tessier (Cannonball Run: Biker/hells angel/hard man) is also cool in this as a formidable bare knuckle boxer.

Great stuff and a pre-cert to boot.

[thehamish]

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World...well its not for everone...but if you go with it, film of the year, but then after what ive seen this year, a rather odd romcom/action flick will suffice, funnily enough would have accepted this more readily if it had been asian? like this doozy...another must see haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jedXNVZjMN4

[guthrie!]

Watched the entire COI VOLUME 4: STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! last night and a great trip down memory lane. I previously had Apaches, Never Go With Strangers on DVD-r so i can now get rid All of these looked great, good old BFI on a great job.

Although it was on youtube, i'm glad they managed to get Building Sites Bite on there, i've waited years to see it and i wasnt disappointed.

Lonely Water (the one with cowled monk/Donald Pleasence narration), although previously available on Networks CHARLEY SAYS VOL 1 actually looks better to me on COI. Thats not to knock Networks release though as they did a great job on both volumes and can't be beaten for the sheer number of PIF's (public info films) they managed to fit in!!

Betcha! Cycling proficiency with a young cheggars is very twee fun indeed as is Reg Varney in Too Close For Comfort!!

Sewing Machine remains as tense as ever, mind you, you only hear the dreaded outcome! Sad that this was complained about-not because of any horror/explicitness but because it was the first commercial to feature black actors, tsk!

Accident In Park Road though shot on video in 1988, actually looks really good. I'd seen a much shortened version of this before so glad to see it in full.

Magpies-House i'd totally forgotten about! A short but effective PIF this, loved the bra stealing bird!!

Before this post turns into a review i'd just like to thank the BFI for a brilliant job on putting this lot together and in a lovely package too with a great info-packed booklet.

There's still more PIF's i'd love to see and revisit, i wonder if we'll see 'em? I bloody hope so what with the way the DVD market looks to be going.

10 out of 10

[guthrie!]

HUSH Dir. Mark Tonderai, starring William Ash. Film4 earlier tonight.

Had never heard of it so my expectations were nil. Very plesantly surprised actually, especially as i'm a bit cynical about a lot of modern films (paticularly horror!).

Pretty tense and made me kinda feel a bit more for it because it was filmed not (too) far from where i live. A great little horror thriller IMO, really enjoyed it. And a sick little ending too. Low on gore, it's a 15 proberbly nudging 18 almost. One use of very strong language!? Is that the film warning/desription you're supposed to get nowadays??

Good, recommended.

[thehamish]

well i watched Possession...bonny enough print, still mad as bats...great ending as always, adjani must have a masochistic streak methinks considering some of her choices over the years...

[mrb]

Remake of The Long Weekend. Didn't like it much.

[guthrie!]

Did you like the original mrb? Any big differences between that and this? I've still yet to pick this one up though i do really want it!! That and STONE.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Watched "Blow Up" from 1966........Loved seeing The Yardbirds......
What a great film.....must see it again sometime....
Cheers
Sgt S