Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Mar 16, 2021 18:43:02 GMT -5
I just finished my first novel by Bryan Smith. Depraved. And holy shitf***. It was like Braindead, Society and every Ilsa movie rolled into one. Every bad thing that can happen to a person is done to the characters in here. If I did not know any better I would say Richard Laymon went to hell, gained an even more twisted mind and were brought back to life to write under a pseudonym.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 16, 2021 18:57:11 GMT -5
I just finished my first novel by Bryan Smith. Depraved. And holy shitf***. It was like Braindead, Society and every Ilsa movie rolled into one. Every bad thing that can happen to a person is done to the characters in here. If I did not know any better I would say Richard Laymon went to hell, gained an even more twisted mind and were brought back to life to write under a pseudonym. If you like Bryan Smith you should give Edward Lee and Wrath James White a spin next. Give Lee's "Flesh Gothic" and White's "The Book of A Thousand Sins" collection a read.
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Nr1Humanoid
Hank Scorpio
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Mar 16, 2021 19:19:04 GMT -5
I just finished my first novel by Bryan Smith. Depraved. And holy shitf***. It was like Braindead, Society and every Ilsa movie rolled into one. Every bad thing that can happen to a person is done to the characters in here. If I did not know any better I would say Richard Laymon went to hell, gained an even more twisted mind and were brought back to life to write under a pseudonym. If you like Bryan Smith you should give Edward Lee and Wrath James White a spin next. Give Lee's "Flesh Gothic" and White's "The Book of A Thousand Sins" collection a read. Read a few Lee already and White is definately on the list.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 17, 2021 1:30:53 GMT -5
The Dead Zone
DVD
Haven't watched this in at least 10 years. Huge fan of the novel and this film follows it pretty closely. It has that kinda cold machine like feel that most Cronenberg films have.
And wow does Stilson really remind me of someone. Do wish the film had went more into Stilson's backstory. The novel does a good job of that.
4 outta 5 stars.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 17, 2021 1:35:10 GMT -5
If you like Bryan Smith you should give Edward Lee and Wrath James White a spin next. Give Lee's "Flesh Gothic" and White's "The Book of A Thousand Sins" collection a read. Read a few Lee already and White is definately on the list. With White Succulent Prey is one of the few books that got to me. But it is a great read. Edward Lee is great. The Black Train was great. Header is good. Only book from him I read that was crap was Brides of the Impaler. If you haven't already find Triage. It is a collection of three novellas. Jack Ketchum,Richard Laymon and Edward Lee took the plot of someone coming into a business and opening fire with a gun and ran with it. Ketchum and Laymon's entries are good. But Lee's is amazing.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 17, 2021 1:58:39 GMT -5
Ichi the Killer* *DVD* This really wasn’t what I expected. I figured it was a brutal underground movie like the Guinea Pig series. But it was really just a Japanese gang/vigilante movie, just with the over-the-top violence that only Japanese cinema can do. I think it’s reputation is built off it being an earlier example of the gonzo Japanese movies. Pretty much everything I’ve watched in the last six or seven months (outside of the Guinea Pigs) was newer and pretty much on the same level. So while it wasn’t the violence I expected it was still a really cool ride. The cinematography was really cool and I loved the soundtrack. The comedy worked about as well as it usually does with these movies (which is “not well”) but it added to how f***ing crazy the whole thing was. And for anyone who hasn’t seen it the guy immortalized by all the covers and promotional material isn’t “Ichi”.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 17, 2021 3:22:32 GMT -5
With Ichi it was to me 4 minutes of greatness then 20 minutes of boring crap,then 4 minutes of greatness followed by 30 minutes of boring.
I know it is the Miike film that gets the most praise. But I rather watch Visitor Q or Imprint if I'm watching something from Miike.
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Post by DSR on Mar 17, 2021 3:28:43 GMT -5
I watched ICHI THE KILLER once a long time ago. I couldn't tell you if I liked it or hated it, but I thought it was interesting. My favorite of the very limited amount of Miike films I've seen is AUDITION. I warm up to GOZU more on each viewing, but it's been a couple years since I've seen that one, as well.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 17, 2021 4:46:15 GMT -5
I saw Audition around the time I saw Ichi and Visitor Q. Might just be cause I had Audition majorly hyped up before seeing it,but I was a tiny bit disappointed in the film. So far ,for me,most of Miike's stuff feels like with a tiny bit of editing they could be much better films.
Out of all the Asian directors to come out of the late 90s/early 2000s my favorite is Fruit Chan. I love both versions of Dumplings. And Public Toilet was really good.
Finally getting around to watching Leprechaun Origins. I thought I had watched it a month or so ago,but turns out I watched Leprechaun Returns.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Mar 17, 2021 6:27:53 GMT -5
I saw Audition around the time I saw Ichi and Visitor Q. Might just be cause I had Audition majorly hyped up before seeing it,but I was a tiny bit disappointed in the film. So far ,for me,most of Miike's stuff feels like with a tiny bit of editing they could be much better films. Out of all the Asian directors to come out of the late 90s/early 2000s my favorite is Fruit Chan. I love both versions of Dumplings. And Public Toilet was really good. Finally getting around to watching Leprechaun Origins. I thought I had watched it a month or so ago,but turns out I watched Leprechaun Returns. I posted elsewhere about how Leprechaun Origins is the worst movie I’ve ever seen. And I don’t think that’s hyperbole! Make sure you watch until the end credits are over. They go on for like 20 minutes despite the rest of the movie being under an hour. Then nothing happens!
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 17, 2021 7:23:16 GMT -5
I saw Audition around the time I saw Ichi and Visitor Q. Might just be cause I had Audition majorly hyped up before seeing it,but I was a tiny bit disappointed in the film. So far ,for me,most of Miike's stuff feels like with a tiny bit of editing they could be much better films. Out of all the Asian directors to come out of the late 90s/early 2000s my favorite is Fruit Chan. I love both versions of Dumplings. And Public Toilet was really good. Finally getting around to watching Leprechaun Origins. I thought I had watched it a month or so ago,but turns out I watched Leprechaun Returns. I posted elsewhere about how Leprechaun Origins is the worst movie I’ve ever seen. And I don’t think that’s hyperbole! Make sure you watch until the end credits are over. They go on for like 20 minutes despite the rest of the movie being under an hour. Then nothing happens! I kept waiting for something,anything to happen. Nope nothing happens.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Mar 17, 2021 12:12:06 GMT -5
I assure you I absolutely did not intend to post this on St. Paddy's Day . . .
My review of Leprechaun 3 (1995)
Plot: The leprechaun finds his way to Las Vegas to resume his usual mischief and killing spree, infecting a plucky college student with his blood along the way.
While Leprechaun 4: In Space saw the franchise reach its absurdist, midnight movie high point, its predecessor Leprechaun 3 may be the most satisfying entry of them all. It was the first to be released direct-to-video, which is often considered a sign of a franchise waning but in this case it couldn’t be any farther from the truth. The move to home video actually gave the franchise a lot more liberties with where it could take its Warwick Davis party wagon that otherwise wouldn’t have been allowed if it were still producing with the mainstream theater-going audience in mind. Not that this installment would’ve been a surefire dud in theaters, though. I think part 3 would’ve been a blast to watch on the big screen.
The setting for this outing is Las Vegas and it’s a fun choice. Think about it: In a city already beaming with bright lights and colorful characters, a little person dressed like a centuries-old leprechaun isn’t exactly the wildest thing you’d see out on the Strip. In fact, our gold-hungry fiend blends right in with just about everything else, so there’s already a lot of potential for the leprechaun to interact with the city’s various oddities. Keep in mind, however, its sense of humor still isn’t all that funny. Even at its best, the franchise’s humor is pretty amateur hour, with jokes that are either flat or downright problematic. The humor instead derives from the utter ridiculousness of what we’re watching. Take or leave the puns, stay for the site of a leprechaun nudging elbows with an Elivs impersonator.
To me, its biggest strength is the time and development it gives to its non-leprechaun characters. It could’ve settled with giving us a set of Vegas caricatures, but director Brian Trenchard-Smith sets up a cast of Looney Tune characters for the leprechaun to drop an anvil on, from the crackpot magician Fazio to the salty, long-suffering Loretta. For the first and maybe only time in the franchise, we’re presented a universe I want to spend some time getting lost in. Most of the kills don’t come until the final 30 minutes and while this could flatline the pacing of a weaker entry, the time we’ve spent with the characters before their demise feels somewhat worthwhile. And speaking of their demise, they’re appropriately cartoonish. A magician is sawed in half! A man is electrocuted by boobs! A woman explodes when her butt gets too big! It’s truly Merry Melodies by way of Grand Guignol.
Particularly unique to this entry is its werewolf-esque storyline in which the protagonist, after getting bit by the OG leprechaun, slowly morphs into a leprechaun himself (complete with neon green blood because, sure, why not). I can go either way with this direction. I think the movie could’ve done just fine without it, but I suppose it’s a welcome change of pace from watching grown adults run in fear from the leprechaun in the finale. I don’t think it was ever explored again in later entries, but then it’s silly to fuss over the mythology in this clown show of a franchise, especially not when it moves from Vegas to space to da hood with little explanation.
I don’t know what the ideal Leprechaun movie should look like, but Leprechaun 3 comes the closest to nailing it. The jokes may still be as bad as ever, but the funniest aspect of the movie is that it was actually a decent-sized hit anyway! It was the best-selling direct-to-video release of 1995, according to Wikipedia. So even if the first two efforts got the chance to strike box office gold, this third time proved to be the charm.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 17, 2021 18:03:29 GMT -5
With Ichi it was to me 4 minutes of greatness then 20 minutes of boring crap,then 4 minutes of greatness followed by 30 minutes of boring. I know it is the Miike film that gets the most praise. But I rather watch Visitor Q or Imprint if I'm watching something from Miike. yeah it really did have some moments that dragged. And I had a hard time of keeping track of who was who. I have a hard time with the Godfather too. All the names are similar and everyone looks like “mean looking guy in a nice suit”
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Mar 17, 2021 20:29:27 GMT -5
Read a few Lee already and White is definately on the list. With White Succulent Prey is one of the few books that got to me. But it is a great read. Edward Lee is great. The Black Train was great. Header is good. Only book from him I read that was crap was Brides of the Impaler. If you haven't already find Triage. It is a collection of three novellas. Jack Ketchum,Richard Laymon and Edward Lee took the plot of someone coming into a business and opening fire with a gun and ran with it. Ketchum and Laymon's entries are good. But Lee's is amazing. I'll be honest I just read The Bighead and thought it was total crap. Everyone said it was his most extreme/best book but it was just kind of embarrassing.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 18, 2021 1:59:48 GMT -5
Leprechaun in the Hood AKA Leprechaun 5
Streamed on VUDU
Maybe 2 weeks ago I bought a pack that had the first 7 Leprechaun films on Blu Ray plus digital copies. And since it was St Patricks Day and I can't sleep I wanted to watch one of them. Now I have seen Part 5 at least 2 times before. But that was a long time ago.
For me this is the second best film in the franchise,with part 4 aka Leprechaun in Space being my favorite. By this entry Tristar,and this is the last one from Tristar,has figured out how to balance the horror and the comedy.
3 crappy rappers end up stealing a magic flute and some gold from local pimp Ice T. When they play the flute they get control over everyone that hears it. Turns out the flute was owned by Lubdan the Leprechaun. And now they got Ice T and Lubdan after them.
Sure the film is stupid. But sometimes you just want a big dumb movie to enjoy.
3 outta 5 stars.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 18, 2021 3:31:16 GMT -5
American Guinea Pig: Bloodshock* *DVD* A guy is just systematically tortured/experimented on for no real reason. Teeth are pulled, strange devices are used, eventually it’s revealed that the person he’s communicating with in the adjacent cell via notes is a woman being subject to an entirely different set of “tests”. All you want to know is “why”? It seems like the doctor doing all this has a reasons and actually knows what he’s doing. It may have something to do with endorphins released into their blood streams when subject to such pain, which the doctor extracts from them and injects into himself for some unexplained high. It doesn’t matter. What matters is if you’re offended. I wasn’t offended but I was mystified by what I saw. It was kinda neat watching one of these shock movies from the other side, that of the victim. The music in this one was really effective. That was what set it apart from other Guinea Pig movies. As was the black and white presentation. The only problem wasn’t the movie itself but the audio on my DVD being out of synch by an second or two. That really takes you out of any movie, no matter what it is.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 19, 2021 1:39:06 GMT -5
Visceral: Between the Ropes of Madness* *DVD* This was one messed up ride but it was pretty much what I needed today. A disjointed tale of a boxer who loses the big fight and it releases some evil in him that he’ll never be able to come back from. The gore, imagery and tone were all wicked. There was a lot of sexual stuff which I usually don’t like but it fit this one. What I really loved was the presentation of Judas. That was some f***ed up shit. But the whole thing was f***ed up.
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mystermystery
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Post by mystermystery on Mar 19, 2021 19:22:12 GMT -5
So...Shudder has put up some new films.
Stay Out of the F***ing Attic (Their way of spelling the title) follows a moving company consisting of former criminals trying to right their lives (Second Chance Movers) who get a job in a weird house for a weird dude who seems to have a lot of weird rules for their job. It goes a weeeeeeeee bit off the rails as they learn more about their employer and then goes full on nuts. It leans on humor in spots and its absurd nature helps past some of the more disturbing, questionable, and outright icky parts of the presentation. It's better to go in blank so you can fill in the blanks as you go and then be caught offguard later on.
Hosts is a slower paced, home invasion style film with a supernatural twist of possession. It has an interesting idea but it feels...so...daggone...slow...that it really lost me, especially near the middle when they have a drawn out scene with an ending that is obvious from the start (As compared other long drawn out scenes with obvious endings).
Meanwhile...
Slaxx is a short, pile of good nonsense about a killer pair of denim pants that is wiping out self-important workers at a pre-knockoff Black Friday event to release said denim pants (They're supposed to be designed so they shape to their wearer's figure due to "magic"). You get a combination of fun moments and very blunt themes that barely manages to get past 70 minutes. Honestly that's all it needs..[/b]
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Mar 20, 2021 1:57:11 GMT -5
Found my DVD-R with the 2010/2011 Elvira's Movie Macabre airing of The Terror. My lady had never seen the film so we put it on. Since this DVD-r has the ad breaks I would explain to her during the commericals the history of the film. Like how it had 5 or 6 directors,depending on if you believe Jack Hill or Roger Corman.
Sure the film doesn't make a lot of sense. And it being filmed over a year lots of stuff stands out. Like how Dick Miller's sideburns change from scene to scene.
Still if you have an interest in low budget film making and enjoy gothic horror films,This is worth seeing. It is Public Domain. So copies are all over Youtube and the Internet Archive.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 20, 2021 2:01:54 GMT -5
Found my DVD-R with the 2010/2011 Elvira's Movie Macabre airing of The Terror. My lady had never seen the film so we put it on. Since this DVD-r has the ad breaks I would explain to her during the commericals the history of the film. Like how it had 5 or 6 directors,depending on if you believe Jack Hill or Roger Corman. Sure the film doesn't make a lot of sense. And it being filmed over a year lots of stuff stands out. Like how Dick Miller's sideburns change from scene to scene. Still if you have an interest in low budget film making and enjoy gothic horror films,This is worth seeing. It is Public Domain. So copies are all over Youtube and the Internet Archive. I have an interest in Elvira
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