Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 3, 2020 1:34:22 GMT -5
That is a great deal if that is a legit copy. It looks legit. If I didn't have it on dvd and wasn't currently trying to shrink my VHS collection I would bid on it.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 3, 2020 1:53:09 GMT -5
My third film for the month is Claudio Fragasso's AFTER DEATH (1988). Also known as ZOMBIE 4, the film begins on a tropical island, where a voodoo priest opens the door to Hell and unleashes zombies on the medical researches who failed to save his daughter's life. Twenty years later, a group of soldiers of fortune and their girlfriends arrive at this very same island (not by choice, their motorboat takes them there as though it has a mind of its own). Our heroes learn the island is home to the living dead and attempt to find the way to close that door to Hell before it's too late. AFTER DEATH is a bit confusing, since there's seemingly nothing differentiating the prologue from the rest of the film. An adult character in the main story turns out to have been a child from the 20 years previous part, but I didn't realize that until the final 20 minutes of the movie where it gets spelled out. The story itself is pretty well-worn territory, and I don't think there's even an attempt at social commentary here. Fragasso set out to make a splatter film, just faster than the usual splatter film. And with a kickass pseudo-tropical/pseudo-tribal soundtrack to boot. It's a fun little gross-out gore-fest, and that's all it wants to be. (Incidentally, there is a bit of a plot connection between this and last night's ATOM AGE VAMPIRE. The medical researchers of the prologue where trying to find a cure for cancer. The mad scientist of the earlier movie specifically mentions cancer as one of the things his experiments are trying to cure. Scientists in both films state they are trying to bring life to dead tissues, in almost those exact terms.) Is that your first time watching After Death and did you stream it? I have it as part of Shriek Show’s Zombie Pack. I only watched it once so far but read about it for years prior to that. I think it’s one of those movies that helps if you have an irrational love of zombie movies. By irrational love I mean I LOVE zombie movies. But like you said that one thing you missed isn’t your fault at all. I remember being confused by that one guy being the same kid from the beginning too. So to really get the most out of this one you have to watch it then watch it again right after. Then probably do that again at some point. And it’s not a particularly good movie hence the irrational love. I’m not sure if you’ve seen Zombi 3 or Zombi 5: Killing Birds, but Zombi 3 is ridiculously fun. It’s not conventionally good, but is so entertaining in a MST3K way. That one I did go back and watched a second time (albeit months later). Zombi 5 is about the same quality as Zombi 4. I’ll have to go back and watch all three at some point. None of them are boring and 1980’s zombie movies are some of my favorite sub sub genres of film
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Post by DSR on Oct 3, 2020 2:05:34 GMT -5
My third film for the month is Claudio Fragasso's AFTER DEATH (1988). Also known as ZOMBIE 4, the film begins on a tropical island, where a voodoo priest opens the door to Hell and unleashes zombies on the medical researches who failed to save his daughter's life. Twenty years later, a group of soldiers of fortune and their girlfriends arrive at this very same island (not by choice, their motorboat takes them there as though it has a mind of its own). Our heroes learn the island is home to the living dead and attempt to find the way to close that door to Hell before it's too late. AFTER DEATH is a bit confusing, since there's seemingly nothing differentiating the prologue from the rest of the film. An adult character in the main story turns out to have been a child from the 20 years previous part, but I didn't realize that until the final 20 minutes of the movie where it gets spelled out. The story itself is pretty well-worn territory, and I don't think there's even an attempt at social commentary here. Fragasso set out to make a splatter film, just faster than the usual splatter film. And with a kickass pseudo-tropical/pseudo-tribal soundtrack to boot. It's a fun little gross-out gore-fest, and that's all it wants to be. (Incidentally, there is a bit of a plot connection between this and last night's ATOM AGE VAMPIRE. The medical researchers of the prologue where trying to find a cure for cancer. The mad scientist of the earlier movie specifically mentions cancer as one of the things his experiments are trying to cure. Scientists in both films state they are trying to bring life to dead tissues, in almost those exact terms.) Is that your first time watching After Death and did you stream it? I have it as part of Shriek Show’s Zombie Pack. I only watched it once so far but read about it for years prior to that. I think it’s one of those movies that helps if you have an irrational love of zombie movies. By irrational love I mean I LOVE zombie movies. But like you said that one thing you missed isn’t your fault at all. I remember being confused by that one guy being the same kid from the beginning too. So to really get the most out of this one you have to watch it then watch it again right after. Then probably do that again at some point. And it’s not a particularly good movie hence the irrational love. I’m not sure if you’ve seen Zombi 3 or Zombi 5: Killing Birds, but Zombi 3 is ridiculously fun. It’s not conventionally good, but is so entertaining in a MST3K way. That one I did go back and watched a second time (albeit months later). Zombi 5 is about the same quality as Zombi 4. I’ll have to go back and watch all three at some point. None of them are boring and 1980’s zombie movies are some of my favorite sub sub genres of film I bought all three of those films a long, long time ago, and I watched them back then. I want to say it's been at least a decade since I watched either AFTER DEATH or KILLING BIRDS (ZOMBI 3 I watched more recently). A lot of the stuff on my pile this year is stuff I've had for so long I've almost completely forgotten what happens.
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Post by prettynami on Oct 3, 2020 10:16:19 GMT -5
DR BUTCHER (AKA "Zombie Holocaust" - 1980) - Sorta your typical New York via Italy first 1/3rd or so. A rash of body part/organ theft in a New York hospital that is topped with the theft a ceramonial cannibal dagger or something somehow leads to an expedition to "South East Asian" jungle- as one would expect from an Italian cannibal movie. The twist is that our intrepid adventurers then travel to an isolated island - you know the place, where 75% of Italian zombie movies take place! Cannibals! Zombies! No Tigers! Oh my!
The plot is a little hard to follow because the motivations for the character's actions is nebulous if not downright bizarre. It doesn't help that the characters are so generic that I can barely remember what even separated them. Anyways, the first part of the movie takes place in New York and we get some wax hand chomping action and a bit of surgery to organ nibbling fun as well as the usual people watch some gore films as exposition stuff. The corpse eating solves itself when they catch a dude in the act and his dummy tosses itself out a window, losing its leg on impact - but regaining it when the man lays down to replace the dummy. That submovie is now over.
There is a symbol on a dagger kept in a lady anthropologist's house. This symbol appears around all the cannibalism and what not. The dagger is stolen, and apparently is somehow so valuable they are willing to gather an expedition to go interview the cannibals it comes from. For some reason. Anyways, as one would expect they gather a bevy of new victims upon arrival and they seem to die in order of importance - all their Asian porters die pretty much as soon as they set foot on the cannibal island in various gruesome ways. Though, surprisingly its open season as our heroes also drop like flies! We meet the cannibals, we wander the jungle, we camp, we die, and then we meet RANDOM ZOMBIES! For some the deaths of party members and the appearance of zombies isn't enough to get them to leave. Partially because it was a trap to lure them there, SOMEHOW. Well, at least it was unclear to me... For it is revealed that the titular doctor is making these zombies in some kind of brain transplant experiment and he wanted smarty white people for the next phase so he lured the lady and her friends out there (because he is a racist?).
This leads to some brain surgery and body horror type stuff as some of the expedition members fall victim to the doctor. A trifecta of death! Cannibals, zombies, and mad doctors! The movie really starts to gain steam to the final confrontation, which ends up being lame. Hahaha.
Good sound effects, okay to amazing gore. Pretty sweet corpse shots. The highlight of the special effects is probably the holy shit amazing boat engine kill. The acting is just there. The soundtrack is a huge letdown - completely doesn't match the tone of the movie through large chunks. I guess that sorta makes the soundtrack hilarious... *ponders* Everyone seems to be fair game as a victim in this, and a lot of the deaths are quite torturous so there is a palatable sense of dread. On the plus side I don't recall seeing a drop of animal torture in this one!
I went in to this one expecting it to be utter crap - and other than the total poop ending it quite exceeded my expectations. If you are a fan of gruesome cannibal genre this isn't the most extreme one I've seen but the organ eating and wild deaths are still here and I would recommend it whole heartily mostly because it avoids the usual animal torture as a cherry on top! I would give this a 3 out of 5 - the only things really holding it back is the viewer doesn't have much attachment to the mostly generic characters who aren't very fleshed out and their downright bizarre motivations.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 3, 2020 10:45:34 GMT -5
TITLE-Trailer Park Shark SOURCE-DVD Last year while looking at used media at a thrift I found Trailer Park Shark. Saw the title and that it stars Tara Reid and Dennis "Mr Belding"Haskins so grabbed it. Made in 2017 this modern piece of Sharkploitation cinema was directed by Griff Furst. Who is best known for directing stuff like Swamp Shark,Atomic Shark and Ghost Shark. Read the rest at hereAnd Cody's film today is Quatermass 2
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Post by prettynami on Oct 3, 2020 12:07:31 GMT -5
5. THE BATWOMAN (1968) - IMDB has this luchadora tale listed under horror... But I dunno about that. Movie is about a famous luchadora known as THE BATWOMAN who is tasked with solving a set of murders of male wrestlers. Well, it turns out they are being kidnapped by a mad scientist to be turned into fishmen! So he can rule the oceans with 100s of them! 100s I say!
The movie gets right into the action with a dead guy on the beach and the hiring of the batwoman. She then goes about investigating, figuring out fairly quickly that it all has something to do with a guy hanging out on a boat called "Reptillicus" (no, not the horrible monster). She then proceeds to fail at stopping them or getting more information countless times - inter-spliced with some action, in-ring and out. Fishmen wander about. Eventually there is a big showdown on the boat.
Batwoman herself is kinda cool. She has some neat gadgets, like a compact that turns into a gun. She looks like the Adam West batman in the ring... But when fighting crime she strips down to a bikini! So if you want sexy half naked adam west batman, this is the movie for you! She does justice by throwing caustic chemicals in the doctor's face before even knowing if he has done anything. Sadly, at some point the mad scientist comes up with the idea to capture her and turn her into a fishwoman so she can mate with his fishmen, which means that she becomes a fainting damsel in distress victim. She almost gets saved twice by the men who hired her in the first place, but in the end the movie kicks the viewer in the balls by having the fishmen themselves inadvertently save her.
There is plenty of action, and compared to a lot of other Lucha movies it's actually pretty good. Mostly because they know how to keep the shots tight and use editing and cuts to make the fight scenes less ponderous and comical. However, the director must have loved filming underwater, and thought the audience would love it too. But, as is usually the case the vast number of underwater "Action" sequences are boring and plodding, albeit technically pretty amazing all thing considered.
But the horror... The horror. Where is it? I guess the fishmen are supposed to be scary, but the really aren't (the look like they belong on a plate at red lobster). Maybe the idea of turning people into fishmen is scary. I DON'T KNOW! There isn't an once of gore other than the act batwoman herself committed on the doctor. Hahaha.
All things considered, this was actually one of the better lucha monster movies I have seen on El Rey recently. I would recommend it for ol sexy batwoman and her ass kicking and for the hillariously corman-esque fishmen alone. I give it a 3 out of 5. Could have used some POWS and WAMS to really elevate or maybe some of that bright red hammer-esque blood!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 3, 2020 12:13:41 GMT -5
I need to start checking El Rey again. Once LU ended I just forgot about that channel.
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Post by prettynami on Oct 3, 2020 16:11:42 GMT -5
6. THE UNNAMABLE (1988) - Should have been called the UNMAKEABLE and left on the cutting room floor. Movie is supposedly based on an H.P. Lovecraft short story. It's about an angry monster lady trapped in the walls of a house in ye olden days and the modern university students who decide to wander into that now abandoned house for college related reasons, or something.
The movie starts in the past with a guy who looks like a Dicken's character, complete with little white stocking cap thing, who is doing some magic while some annoying wailing occurs in the background. Eventually his heart gets torn out and the village bury him uncermoniously like this is an every day occurance. Flashforward to the future where our two main dudes CARTER and HOWARD - who's names will be etched in my memory till the end of time because 75% of the movies dialogue is people yelling their names - are studying stuff and talking about ye olde legends, they wander about campus until they run into two lonely girls looking for some fun - one thing leads to another and they all end up in the house with some other cannon fodder. The rest of the movie is the usual EVIL HOUSE kind of stuff, with people wandering around saying each others names as bad things happen... And the always present never choosing to just leave, for some reason. Most movies at least attempt to come up with a reason people can't leave, not this one! Eventually they actually meet, confront, and defeat the UNNAMABLE thanks to the power of "Wood!" and "Trees!", which apparently hate this particular kind of monster. Oh, and somewhere in between CARTER gets sent to hell, or something, but is able to escape by climbing another man's pair of blue jeans.
The Good: Gore effects aren't bad, a nice jello pulsating heart! The monster is sorta original, what with its weakness to wood and all.
The Bad: Pretty much everything else. The gore is nonsensical. The monster is supposedly limited to being in a wall, so it begs the question how it is coming out to mame people. The monster looks terrible, like a naked old lady wearing 80s exercise socks made out of her cats shed fur. I guess if you are into dried up husks of boobage, the monster has that going for it! All of the characters are remarkably shallow and since their dialogue consists mostly of them saying each others names, annoying as well. The music is horrid, very stock sounding. The camera work is uninspired - mostly seeming to be used to cover up the cheapness of the movie in darkness and hiding the action away from the prying eye of the viewer. We get monster perspective throughout so they can hold off on showing the monster, for better or for worse. Our glorious heroes are saved by trees barging in and attacking the thing. Friggen trees.
Woof. This one was rough. It's not so bad it's good funny, just bad. Mostly boring with titillation that goes nowhere. Somehow, apparently, this has a sequel. I suppose I shall have to endeavor to torture myself with that, but for now I will go sit in a corner and think about this turd. Half a star out of 5.
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Post by 4real on Oct 3, 2020 17:59:51 GMT -5
Day 3: 1408
Haven’t seen this film since it came out and was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it. John Cusack carries the film as the sceptical Horror author who’s never seen a ghost (I don’t know how he has a career but there you go) and is drawn to The Dolphin Hotel in New York and the room 1408. The tense scenes and relentless twists and turns make for an excellent watch.
The fake out ending is too obvious and Samuel L Jackson isn’t in it enough but those are my only complaints.
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Post by prettynami on Oct 3, 2020 21:51:34 GMT -5
7. RITUALS (1977) - A bunch of doctors go into the woods to camp only to find they are hunted!
Movie starts with character development, what the doctors do... Why they are out here. General interpersonal stuff. The most important thing to remember is that one of them is a boner doctor and he has an idea that will make bigger and stronger boners. Heh. Eventually they take a plane trip into the woods, where they get dropped off. Establishing them as far away from society. After a night of infighting they awake to find someone has stolen their boots, so the one guy who brought a back up goes off to find civilization and help. Meanwhile, after more infighting the guys left behind start to find strange clues (like slaughtered animals with symbols pertaining to their life/profession, as well as clues to a person who suffered some sort of medical mishap who know seeks vengeance!). They decide to make a break for it themselves but slowly start getting maimed and killed, having to battle their own personal demons, each other, and the mysterious stalker as they attempt to flee to safety!
The Good: A lot of good stuff here. Great atmospheric music that actually accentuates the movie (for once). Great acting and character work. Moody lighting and some terrifying sound (one guy gets a broken leg and my gosh his screams are sickening). Decent red herrings. The violence isn't super gorey but is torturous, grim, and cringe inducing. Nice exploding shotgun hand. All the doctors are sort of assholes so you don't mind them getting tortured.
The Bad: I still can't for the life of me figure out how the killer even knew they were doctors, how he had set up this elaborate plot (or if it was just all chance), and if their motivation had anything to do with these doctors in particular. All of that was unclear and sort of frustrating since there all these reveals at the movie that are shot like they are supposed to be big but one is just left scratching their head. The killer is malformed so there is also the question of how he was phsycially capable of dealing with two separate groups of dudes at the same time running back and fourth in the wilderness. All the doctors are sort of assholes so you find it hard to root for them through most of the movie.
I think I watched this for one of these awhile back before I started filling the movies I watched in folders so I know what I have seen. So I had seen all this before but only vaguely remembered it. Despite this, or maybe because of it, I found this movie quite enjoyable. Has a really great atmosphere and tension that carries it through. I would give this one a solid 4 out of 5 and would recommend it.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 4, 2020 15:16:28 GMT -5
I love Rituals. So glad it is easy to find now. For years it was one of those films you heard about but was hard to find a copy of,like Last House on Dead End Street or Snuff.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Oct 4, 2020 15:20:36 GMT -5
In my ongoing October focus in '70s horror . . .
My review of Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)
Plot: A deranged cult of farmers harvest human blood to resurrect their dead queen.
Man, Invasion of the Blood Farmers is one of the most bizarre films I’ve seen in awhile. The whole thing feels like an inside joke. Everyone in the cast feels like they’re about to break the fourth wall and give a wink to the camera. And yet, the filmmakers intended to make a serious low-budget shocker. Could’ve fooled me!
It’s kinda surprising Invasion hasn’t garnered more of a cult following. If the acting and plot are already off their rocker, its production backstory is next-level. There’s the matter that the movie only cost about $24,000 to make but still somehow didn’t make back its budget. And then there’s the matter of the cast having no real acting experience whatsoever, to the point of where a couple of them were reading their lines off cue cards. And then there’s director Ed Adlum who claims most of the cast accepted a six-pack of beer as payment. This is a film that just feels like it’s been put together by people who aren’t playing with a full deck.
Aside from its Ed Wood quirks, Invasion also seems to take after the work of Herschel Gordon Lewis. The plot, involving a cult murdering people to resurrect their queen, feels somewhat similar to Fuad Ramses’ quest for guts to please the goddess Ishtar in Blood Feast. And of course there’s the explicit gore. Make no mistake, this certainly delivers the “blood” part of its title. It’s not convincing gore though; the blood is practically hot pink. And don’t even get me started on the incredibly awkward scenes of the farmers drawing blood from their victims, who convulse so much you’d think they’re trying to start a new dance craze.
Adlum makes a lot of weird directorial choices, too. There are unusual close-ups and weird camera angles. The scenes in the resting place of the cult’s queen seems to be shot through a peep hole for reasons completely beyond me. The performances are bound to please lovers of camp. The acting is so unnatural that it reaches level of absurdist parody. The finale in which the cult’s queen is “resurrected” needs to be seen to believed, full of overacting, bullshit mythology, and poor effects. In other words, it’s the best part of the movie.
Invasion of the Blood Farmers is a quintessential Z-grade horror flick. In another universe, it would probably undergo serious critical reevaluation as a misunderstood cult classic. What we get in our timeline is something that’s primed and ready for one of those $5 DVD horror collections you can find at Best Buy, and it seems happy with that.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 4, 2020 15:30:49 GMT -5
In my ongoing October focus in '70s horror My review of Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972) Plot: A deranged cult of farmers harvest human blood to resurrect their dead queen. Man, Invasion of the Blood Farmers is one of the most bizarre films I’ve seen in awhile. The whole thing feels like an inside joke. Everyone in the cast feels like they’re about to break the fourth wall and give a wink to the camera. And yet, the filmmakers intended to make a serious low-budget shocker. Could’ve fooled me! It’s kinda surprising Invasion hasn’t garnered more of a cult following. If the acting and plot are already off their rocker, its production backstory is next-level. There’s the matter that the movie only cost about $24,000 to make but still somehow didn’t make back its budget. And then there’s the matter of the cast having no real acting experience whatsoever, to the point of where a couple of them were reading their lines off cue cards. And then there’s director Ed Adlum who claims most of the cast accepted a six-pack of beer as payment. This is a film that just feels like it’s been put together by people who aren’t playing with a full deck. Aside from its Ed Wood quirks, Invasion also seems to take after the work of Herschel Gordon Lewis. The plot, involving a cult murdering people to resurrect their queen, feels somewhat similar to Fuad Ramses’ quest for guts to please the goddess Ishtar in Blood Feast. And of course there’s the explicit gore. Make no mistake, this certainly delivers the “blood” part of its title. It’s not convincing gore though; the blood is practically hot pink. And don’t even get me started on the incredibly awkward scenes of the farmers drawing blood from their victims, who convulse so much you’d think they’re trying to start a new dance craze. Adlum makes a lot of weird directorial choices, too. There are unusual close-ups and weird camera angles. The scenes in the resting place of the cult’s queen seems to be shot through a peep hole for reasons completely beyond me. The performances are bound to please lovers of camp. The acting is so unnatural that it reaches level of absurdist parody. The finale in which the cult’s queen is “resurrected” needs to be seen to believed, full of overacting, bullshit mythology, and poor effects. In other words, it’s the best part of the movie. Invasion of the Blood Farmers is a quintessential Z-grade horror flick. In another universe, it would probably undergo serious critical reevaluation as a misunderstood cult classic. What we get in our timeline is something that’s primed and ready for one of those $5 DVD horror collections you can find at Best Buy, and it seems happy with that. Z-grade is right! I wish it would show up on one of those $5 DVD collections though. As it is Amazon currently has a Blu-ray of it selling for $22.99. If anyone ever spends that much on this then they never have the right to complain about money problems again. I streamed it a while back since it was free on Amazon Prime. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s how you saw it too
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Post by DSR on Oct 4, 2020 16:40:18 GMT -5
Up next for me was Mario Bava's BLOOD AND BLACK LACE (1964), in which a murder at a top fashion house leads to a police investigation. This in turn leads to models, tailors, and management attempted to cover up their non-murderous illegal activities from the police and one another. This in turn leads to more killings.
The film is beautiful to look at, showcasing gorgeous women and Rome's lovely architecture in vibrant colors. Shot compositions are fantastic. Characterization is sorely lacking, though. The only characters that aren't unscrupulous are so underwritten you don't really care what happens to them.
Perhaps the most intriguing thing about the film is that the killer wears a "blank face" mask when they do their dirty work. This, combined with their trenchcoat and fedora makes the killer look like DC's detective hero The Question, who wouldn't debut for a few years after this film's release. I wonder if Steve Ditko saw this film and was inspired by it, at least visually.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 4, 2020 16:57:32 GMT -5
TITLE-Scary Movie SOURCE-Netflix streaming service Was looking for a horror/comedy to watch. Saw Netflix had this and I haven't seen it since it hit home video what 2 decades ago. The movie is pretty much a spoof ohttp://codysfilmandtvblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/franchises-hammers-dracula-series.htmlf Scream. Anna Faris is our lead. And I will give her this she is good at comedy. The rest of the cast is ok. With Shannon Elizabeth being a stand out. And Carmen Electra does great with what is pretty much a cameo,Carmen is pretty much Drew Barrymore in Scream. Sadly the younger two Wayans Brothers are in this. Marlon is ok. But Shawn is horrible. He should have stuck to being a DJ on his older brother's show. Now being a horror/comedy there isn't a bunch of gore in the movie. But there is plenty of gross out scenes. Read the rest at hereAnd CodyLL covered Hammer's Horror of Dracula
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Post by mystermystery on Oct 4, 2020 19:04:08 GMT -5
Watched "Scare Me" on Shudder.
It's the basic story of a dude who rents a cabin to work on a book idea (The idea is "Werewolves with guns?") who meets a famous author who has rented another cabin to work on the follow up to her massively successful novel. She eventually exposes him as a wannabe who is all idea, no story and, when the power to the cabins get knocked out, shows up to see if he wants to kill time telling scary stories.
From there is the low budgeted, anthology-ish series of stories where they go back and forth talking, editing their ideas on the fly and basically have a movie that is nothing more than an extended pitch session that because a film. A pizza man shows up later to break up the duo and add his own flair before the finale moves briefly into actual horror before heading home with one more joke.
It was an okay experience. It's a horror comedy that is definitely more comedy than anything. It plays with the author's need to put in her ideology into stories to try and teach progressive lessons and with the main dude's basic realization that he's just wanting to accomplish something but not willing to put in the work.
I'd probably go middle-of-the-road 2.5 our 5 on it. It's not bad, I just don't think it'd be a lot of people's cup of tea.
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Post by DSR on Oct 4, 2020 19:51:03 GMT -5
CRUEL JAWS (1994) was directed by Bruno Mattei, under the pseudonym William Snyder. Released in some parts of the world as JAWS 5, the film is about how a shark in the area off the coast of Florida threatens an annual regatta. An unscrupulous business man, with the mayor in his back pocket, refuses to cancel the festivities because the town depends on the money of tourists for this annual event. The sheriff and the owner of a struggling marine park argue that the lives lost to the shark are more important than money.
So...it's basically JAWS. But with the hardbodies of the workout-obsessed 80s, a Hulk Hogan impersonator in an important role, and some of the worst dialogue you've ever heard (a pick-up line: "I'm in charge of pussy around here, and I'm here to check your credentials"). There's also unauthorized reuse of footage from the JAWS franchise, and even ripped off music from STAR WARS showing up. I don't know how this finally got a DVD/Blu-Ray release, since Universal was never happy with its existence, but Severin Films came through with two cuts of it (I watched "The Snyder Cut", obviously titled as a joke based on Mattei's alter ego). This flick is ridiculous as hell. I had a real good time with it. Get some buddies together and riff this thing!
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Oct 4, 2020 20:09:58 GMT -5
CRUEL JAWS (1994) was directed by Bruno Mattei, under the pseudonym William Snyder. Released in some parts of the world as JAWS 5, the film is about how a shark in the area off the coast of Florida threatens an annual regatta. An unscrupulous business man, with the mayor in his back pocket, refuses to cancel the festivities because the town depends on the money of tourists for this annual event. The sheriff and the owner of a struggling marine park argue that the lives lost to the shark are more important than money. So...it's basically JAWS. But with the hardbodies of the workout-obsessed 80s, a Hulk Hogan impersonator in an important role, and some of the worst dialogue you've ever heard (a pick-up line: "I'm in charge of pussy around here, and I'm here to check your credentials"). There's also unauthorized reuse of footage from the JAWS franchise, and even ripped off music from STAR WARS showing up. I don't know how this finally got a DVD/Blu-Ray release, since Universal was never happy with its existence, but Severin Films came through with two cuts of it (I watched "The Snyder Cut", obviously titled as a joke based on Mattei's alter ego). This flick is ridiculous as hell. I had a real good time with it. Get some buddies together and riff this thing! I’ve been wanting to watch that one for years now. I’m glad Severin was able to put it out. I’m tempted to get either the DVD or Blu-ray at some point
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Post by DSR on Oct 4, 2020 20:42:24 GMT -5
CRUEL JAWS (1994) was directed by Bruno Mattei, under the pseudonym William Snyder. Released in some parts of the world as JAWS 5, the film is about how a shark in the area off the coast of Florida threatens an annual regatta. An unscrupulous business man, with the mayor in his back pocket, refuses to cancel the festivities because the town depends on the money of tourists for this annual event. The sheriff and the owner of a struggling marine park argue that the lives lost to the shark are more important than money. So...it's basically JAWS. But with the hardbodies of the workout-obsessed 80s, a Hulk Hogan impersonator in an important role, and some of the worst dialogue you've ever heard (a pick-up line: "I'm in charge of pussy around here, and I'm here to check your credentials"). There's also unauthorized reuse of footage from the JAWS franchise, and even ripped off music from STAR WARS showing up. I don't know how this finally got a DVD/Blu-Ray release, since Universal was never happy with its existence, but Severin Films came through with two cuts of it (I watched "The Snyder Cut", obviously titled as a joke based on Mattei's alter ego). This flick is ridiculous as hell. I had a real good time with it. Get some buddies together and riff this thing! I’ve been wanting to watch that one for years now. I’m glad Severin was able to put it out. I’m tempted to get either the DVD or Blu-ray at some point I pre-ordered this one the day Severin announced it. They do such a kickass job getting these obscure treats out there. I checked out the interview with one of the actors they had as a bonus feature on the CRUEL JAWS disc, and it's not very long but still a very cool, interesting talk about the production.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 4, 2020 20:50:42 GMT -5
I know I saw Cruel Jaws,under the Jaws 5 title,back in the 90s. Some guy at a con had a laserdisc rip he was selling. I remember nothing about it.
Ok need some help. My lady just discovered Netflix is losing Vampire Diaries soon. She is halfway thru the series. Looked on Hulu and Amazon Prime and they don't have it. Anyone know of a streaming service that carries it? Or should I just drop the 100 for all 8 seasons of the show on DVD and give it to her for Xmas.
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