adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Feb 27, 2021 2:20:24 GMT -5
Guinea Pig 4, 5 or 6: Mermaid in the Manhole* *bluray* This is the one movie in the series that I actually wanted to see. The single DVDs of just it were always wildly expensive so when I found a bootleg of the entire series for cheaper than just that movie alone I had to jump on it. And here we are. This one is pretty f***ing gross. Sewers are disgusting as it is and a lot of the movie takes place in one. And you know these guys didn’t hold back. Then you get a beautiful mermaid going through stages of infection and sores which the main character uses the excrement from as paint for his picture of her. While it’s definitely gross it’s nowhere near as offensive and depraved as parts one and two are. It’s really just an extreme body horror movie. Definitely worth a watch, just don’t bother with popcorn. You’re not going to want it.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Feb 28, 2021 2:09:58 GMT -5
The Church *DVD* I was so unimpressed with what else I’d watched tonight that I had to revisit one of my all-time favourite movies. It’s every death metal album I love in love in movie form. 300000/10
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Post by mystermystery on Feb 28, 2021 14:24:35 GMT -5
Open 24 Hours
Felon lies to her parole officer about her mental health status long enough for him to get her a job interview for a night shift job at a gas station so she can go even more mentally crazy while the world bends itself over backwards to seemingly bring the insanity back to land of reality.
This movie seemingly forgets being a tight 90 minutes is more than acceptable. At one point, it chooses to extend the runtime by having the main character flee the Gas Station to run...somewhere else...only to then...run back to the Gas Station.
Come on, now. That's just unnecessary.
The general tale is this poor girl dealing with the psychological damage of being the girlfriend of a serial killer who is just as demonized as the monster she dated trying to find normalcy in a world that will never allow it. Interesting idea that abandons itself when it decides to choose a lane for the third act.
2 out of 5. 4 out of 10. Gas Engine out of Tesla.
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Post by DSR on Mar 2, 2021 2:34:11 GMT -5
Last year I started my 50 States Horror Project. I took a break from it so I could watch Italian horror films for the entire month of October. And then that break took a lot longer than I expected. Sorry about that.
50 States Horror Project: Arizona
HAUNTED (1976) was written and directed by Michael De Gaetano (his second feature, following UFO: TARGET EARTH) on a budget of $250,000. The film begins in 1865, with a Native American woman being put to death by white soldiers for crimes she did not commit. Before the sentence is carried out, the woman puts a curse on her killers, saying she will return in 100 years to enact revenge on their descendants. This prologue is told in a big wall of text at the very start of the picture, then acted out by the cast, THEN retold in a Neil Diamond-esque song over the opening credits!
Flash forward to the then-present day, and an English actress (Ann Michelle, VIRGIN WITCH) drives into a small Arizona town on her way to California. She stops due to car trouble and decides to spend the next couple of days on an old west film set/ghost town inhabited by a handsome young man (Jim Negele, FRATERNITY ROW), his obnoxious younger brother (Brad Rearden, THE TERMINATOR), their mother (Virginia Mayo, WHITE HEAT) who was blinded in the car accident that took the boys' father, and their uncle Andrew (Aldo Ray, who also starred in a film called HAUNTS the same year, which makes finding this one difficult to search for as a result).
Uncle Andrew is well aware of the legend of the curse that Native woman placed over a century ago, and since he and his family are descended from one of the executioners from that fateful night, he believes that any misfortune that has befallen the family in his lifetime is a result of that curse. What's more, he quickly suspects that the actress living with the family is that Native woman reincarnated and that she plans to do away with the family once and for all.
Andrew also has some long-festering personal problems, like the fact that he's been in love with his blind sister-in-law since before she even married his brother. He laments that she never looked at him the way she looked at his brother, and now even with the brother dead and gone, she clings to her memories of their marriage. Is the English girl actually the reincarnation of the wrongfully executed woman, or has Andrew simply lost his mind from a lifetime of isolation, superstition, and paranoia?
HAUNTED gets off to a rocky start with its thrice retelling of its prologue. The film follows up with its main action being loaded with dialogue that is either awkwardly expository or frustratingly vague. Our family unit is largely annoying, and the supernatural element of the plot all but disappears after it's introduced. I spent a good portion of the film waiting for the actual horror to come into play.
It's midway through the movie, when Aldo Ray delivers a raspy, unhinged monologue to Ann Michelle that I realize this isn't a supernatural horror picture, it's a psychodrama! After that, I could finally dig in and appreciate the picture for what it was actually about. I could see how the bait-and-switch would be insufferable for some, but I really enjoyed it.
The picture still isn't all that it could be, though. De Gaetano had a lot more he wanted to explore philosophically with this premise, but he just couldn't get the budget to make it happen. What's more, a good portion of footage that was shot wound up being mishandled in editing and becoming unusable. Actor Jim Negele, in a DVD bonus feature, calls the film unwatchable as a result. As I mentioned, I struggled through it on this initial viewing, but I ultimately came away enjoying the experience. I plan to revisit the film in the future and see how it strikes me now that I know what I'm getting into. As it stands, I think it's flawed but still enjoyable.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 2, 2021 4:44:46 GMT -5
Headless *DVD* I had a rotten day so I popped a Clozi, poured a stiff drink and put on one of my favourite movies of people’s whose day was way worse. I love this movie the more I watch it. It’s sick and twisted and disgusting and dirty. Shane Beasley does such a wicked job as the killer. The gore the dirty. If this is hell I’m buying a one way ticket.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Mar 2, 2021 23:05:04 GMT -5
My review of Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster(1965)
Plot: When an atomic war on Mars rids the planet of its female inhabitants, the Martians invade Puerto Rico for its women, only to be challenged by a group of scientists and their latest half man/half cyborg creation.
What a fun piece of junk! Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster is the sort of movie that only could’ve been made in the 1960s. I mean, what other decade loved nothing more than pairing monster schlock with pop music and swinging beach parties on a budget of a fifth grader’s weekly allowance? The comparisons to Plan 9 from Outer Space are inevitable here, but this is more intentionally funny and understandably so. The movie was originally written as a parody, but the producers wanted serious horror sci-fi so while it’s not an outright comedy, a humorous undercurrent is subtlety present. Or maybe it’s just that the whole premise is silly enough on its own that it naturally warrants laughter. Either explanation works.
The main thing I like about this that it’s trying to do so much with so little, and I do emphasize little. Like any drive-in trash of the era, it uses its share of stock footage. By that, I mean it looks it raided a whole closet of public domain film reels. In fact, according to iMDB, the movie is 65% stock footage. That’s over half of its runtime! The over reliance on stock footage can suck a bit of fun out of the proceedings, especially when so much it is blurred and grainy. The movie tries to dance around it at times and pepper in some knockoff Simon & Garfunkel pop to spice it up, which comes off more ill-fitting than anything. The filmmakers did manage to shoot most of the scenes on location in Puerto Rico, but it looks like they were only granted a single strip of beach to play with. The special effects are obviously slapdash and it looks they ran out of budget when vetting the Martians for the camera as much of their makeup looks unfinished. Even their deadly ray guns are clearly children’s toys. Make no mistake, these people had only literal pennies to work with.
But if the movie is far from a masterclass on low-budget filmmaking, it’s still doing its best to give us a show. It surprisingly avoids the languid pacing afflicting similar films of its era and keeps things moving, stock footage and all. Contrary to its title, there is no connection to the Frankenstein lore here. Instead, we get a Frankensteined human cyborg dude bumbling around the beaches of Puerto Rico like a drunken sailor. The makeup on the titular Frankenstein actually looks kinda cool, partly exposing its rusty, metal skull. The Martians are the stars of the show, however. They’re so cute with their amateur makeup and little toy guns and inane mission, which involves crashing one of the most depressing pool parties I’ve seen grace film. The Space Monster here is played by Bruce Glover, who you may know better as Mr. Wint from Diamonds Are Forever. He only clashes with Frankenstein in the final minutes of the movie, but there’s more than enough cheap oddities here to satiate your appetite well before that point.
And I don’t have much more to add than that, really. Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster is such a nice little slice of Z-grade thrills. At first glance, this seems like it would be an absolute slog. But, hey, after a night of beers, you may just crave this type of thing.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 3, 2021 4:16:00 GMT -5
Hallowed* *DVD* This is another from that horrid set I’ve been anguishly working my way through for...I think five years now. It wasn’t entirely horrible. The writing and acting were abysmal and the violence was non-existence. Had they amped the violence up a few notches it would have been a passable bad horror movie. Instead it’s just a bad horror movie. With some hilarious religious undertones. I wonder if the Church of Latter Day Saints had funding in this?
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Mar 3, 2021 21:59:22 GMT -5
Watching The House by the Cemetery. Hilarious and stupid as always.
Cozying up and listening to the dulcet tones of Bob's wretched voice dub--truly a relaxing evening.
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 4, 2021 4:39:25 GMT -5
Watching The House by the Cemetery. Hilarious and stupid as always. Cozying up and listening to the dulcet tones of Bob's wretched voice dub--truly a relaxing evening. I love that movie.
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 4, 2021 5:17:05 GMT -5
57. Society* *tubi* Not a hell of a lot happens in this movie but having read spoilers knowing what was going to happen in the end made it all the more enjoyable. It’s all just setting up what is going to happen. It’s a good slab of forgotten 1980’s horror. The music is very familiar to a lot of what I’ve watched the last few years. And when it does happen holy cow.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Mar 4, 2021 14:53:22 GMT -5
Brightburn. 2019.
I sat down with great anticipation for this one. It has a great premise with its evil Superman story. Sadly, it does not really do anything original with it, content to be filled with horror movie highpoints.
And the boy goes from well adjusted to evil in pretty quick order. It should have happened gradually due to circumstances rather than, bam, the ship makes him evil.
It reminded me of the Omen 2 in being only interested in showing the boy's rise to evil without any setbacks at all. Killing the mom was a mistake. Leaving her alive to try and be a positive influence on him would have been much better, especially if a sequel is forthcoming.
One thing the picture got right was the gory set-pieces, including one that had me squirming in my seat. It was nice to see that horror can still have an effect on my jaded, aging self.
It was a good horror movie. I had fun watching it, but it just had the potential to be so much better. Like my reviewing skills.
3 punctured corneas out of 5.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 5, 2021 13:56:07 GMT -5
My review of Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster(1965) Plot: When an atomic war on Mars rids the planet of its female inhabitants, the Martians invade Puerto Rico for its women, only to be challenged by a group of scientists and their latest half man/half cyborg creation. What a fun piece of junk! Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster is the sort of movie that only could’ve been made in the 1960s. I mean, what other decade loved nothing more than pairing monster schlock with pop music and swinging beach parties on a budget of a fifth grader’s weekly allowance? The comparisons to Plan 9 from Outer Space are inevitable here, but this is more intentionally funny and understandably so. The movie was originally written as a parody, but the producers wanted serious horror sci-fi so while it’s not an outright comedy, a humorous undercurrent is subtlety present. Or maybe it’s just that the whole premise is silly enough on its own that it naturally warrants laughter. Either explanation works. The main thing I like about this that it’s trying to do so much with so little, and I do emphasize little. Like any drive-in trash of the era, it uses its share of stock footage. By that, I mean it looks it raided a whole closet of public domain film reels. In fact, according to iMDB, the movie is 65% stock footage. That’s over half of its runtime! The over reliance on stock footage can suck a bit of fun out of the proceedings, especially when so much it is blurred and grainy. The movie tries to dance around it at times and pepper in some knockoff Simon & Garfunkel pop to spice it up, which comes off more ill-fitting than anything. The filmmakers did manage to shoot most of the scenes on location in Puerto Rico, but it looks like they were only granted a single strip of beach to play with. The special effects are obviously slapdash and it looks they ran out of budget when vetting the Martians for the camera as much of their makeup looks unfinished. Even their deadly ray guns are clearly children’s toys. Make no mistake, these people had only literal pennies to work with. But if the movie is far from a masterclass on low-budget filmmaking, it’s still doing its best to give us a show. It surprisingly avoids the languid pacing afflicting similar films of its era and keeps things moving, stock footage and all. Contrary to its title, there is no connection to the Frankenstein lore here. Instead, we get a Frankensteined human cyborg dude bumbling around the beaches of Puerto Rico like a drunken sailor. The makeup on the titular Frankenstein actually looks kinda cool, partly exposing its rusty, metal skull. The Martians are the stars of the show, however. They’re so cute with their amateur makeup and little toy guns and inane mission, which involves crashing one of the most depressing pool parties I’ve seen grace film. The Space Monster here is played by Bruce Glover, who you may know better as Mr. Wint from Diamonds Are Forever. He only clashes with Frankenstein in the final minutes of the movie, but there’s more than enough cheap oddities here to satiate your appetite well before that point. And I don’t have much more to add than that, really. Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster is such a nice little slice of Z-grade thrills. At first glance, this seems like it would be an absolute slog. But, hey, after a night of beers, you may just crave this type of thing. As a kid in the late 70s our local Horror Host was Sgt Graves. And each week he showed two films,starting at 10pm Saturday night. After the second film he would tell the title of the first film he was showing the next week. When I heard Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster I spent all week excited to see another Frankenstein movie,at this point all I had seen was Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Saturday comes and I made sure to take a long nap after cartoons were over. So I could stay awake and see all of the film. WOW was I disappointed. This wasn't the Frankestein I knew. It wasn't until the early 2000s I saw the film again. As a adult I enjoy the film.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 5, 2021 13:57:56 GMT -5
Brightburn. 2019. I sat down with great anticipation for this one. It has a great premise with its evil Superman story. Sadly, it does not really do anything original with it, content to be filled with horror movie hightpoints. And the boy goes from well adjusted to evil in pretty quick order. They should have had it happened gradually due to circumstances rather than, bam, the ship makes him evil. It reminded me of the Omen 2 in being only interested in showing the boy's rise to evil without any setbacks at all. Killing the mom was a mistake, leaving her alive to try and be a positive influence on him would have been much better, especially if there is a sequel. One thing the picture gort right was the gory set peieces, including one that had me squirming in my seat. It was nice to see that horror can have still have an effect on my jaded, aging self. It was a good horror movie, I had fun watching it, but it just had potential to be so much better. Like my reviewing skills. 3 punctured corneas out of 5. Oh man I saw the trailers for that and thought "What the hell someone is ripping off the first issue of Veitch's Maximortal." Last year caught it on Starz and the film ain't bad. But nothing special. Would love a sequel but doubt we get one.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 5, 2021 14:00:42 GMT -5
Jason X
B+
I remember when this film leaked on the net like a year before it hit theaters. I watched a washed out VCD of it and wasn't impressed. Years later bought the DVD and it became one of my favorites in the franchise.
Mostly cause all I want out of a Friday the 13th film is some inventive kills and maybe some nudity. This provides both. The sleeping bag kill is amazing. But I love the face smash towards the beginning.
Why hasn't Lexa Doig become a big star?
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 5, 2021 14:40:06 GMT -5
Jason X B+ I remember when this film leaked on the net like a year before it hit theaters. I watched a washed out VCD of it and wasn't impressed. Years later bought the DVD and it became one of my favorites in the franchise. Mostly cause all I want out of a Friday the 13th film is some inventive kills and maybe some nudity. This provides both. The sleeping bag kill is amazing. But I love the face smash towards the beginning. Why hasn't Lexa Doig become a big star? I’m looking forward to watching this sometime in my F13th box set. I kind of gave up my goal to watch all the DVD features with most sets. I mean when I listened to Hans Holzer make himself crack up during the Amityville Horror commentary I kind of got to the point of, “What the hell am I doing with my life?” That said as a huge F13th fan I still want to watch all the bonus features on that particular set. Since I’m going in order I have a while to get to Jason X. I last finished Part 5. I’ve been putting off Part 6 because though it is one of my favorites in the series the extras include FOUR commentary tracks!
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 5, 2021 20:46:47 GMT -5
Jason X B+ I remember when this film leaked on the net like a year before it hit theaters. I watched a washed out VCD of it and wasn't impressed. Years later bought the DVD and it became one of my favorites in the franchise. Mostly cause all I want out of a Friday the 13th film is some inventive kills and maybe some nudity. This provides both. The sleeping bag kill is amazing. But I love the face smash towards the beginning. Why hasn't Lexa Doig become a big star? This one was a lot better than people give it credit. I like it lots
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 6, 2021 3:46:43 GMT -5
Feast *DVD* This movie is so hilarious and (in my opinion) a well done satire of horror movies. It takes all the staples we’ve all come to love and turns them upside down. It’s funny, it’s gory, it’s self-aware and it has a great cast. I’ve only ever had one problem with it and that’s when the action gets furious the camera gets so shaky that it’s really hard to make anything out. But that adds to the charm to how crazy the movie is.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 6, 2021 19:22:44 GMT -5
Feast is great. Avoid the 2 sequels.
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Post by DSR on Mar 6, 2021 20:31:01 GMT -5
Jason X B+ I remember when this film leaked on the net like a year before it hit theaters. I watched a washed out VCD of it and wasn't impressed. Years later bought the DVD and it became one of my favorites in the franchise. Mostly cause all I want out of a Friday the 13th film is some inventive kills and maybe some nudity. This provides both. The sleeping bag kill is amazing. But I love the face smash towards the beginning. Why hasn't Lexa Doig become a big star? This one was a lot better than people give it credit. I like it lots I hated JASON X for the longest time. I've mellowed out over it as the years have gone by, though.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 6, 2021 20:45:49 GMT -5
Curious why you hated it?
I catch crap for hating Friday 7. For me the story is blah,it is obviously way way edited and for all the praise Kane Hodder gets I don't think he was that good as Jason.
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