Recent viewings

[Rev. Powell]

INLAND EMPIRE (2006): This wandering nightmare from David Lunch, with Laura Dern playing multiple roles, drifts around between half a dozen levels of surreality---including one with three giant bunnies who may be acting in a sitcom---but what appears to be the base level of reality involves an actress taking a role in a remake of a cursed Polish film that ended in tragedy.  At 3 hours, Lynch really could have used the advice of a "no-man" to cut out the fat and convince him to include only his best ideas, not just anything that happened to cross his mind as he free-associated the script.  It's Lynch at his weirdest, most bombastic and self-indulgent, but that's not entirely a bad thing: a timid Lynch would be worse.  3/5.          

[El Misfit]

It Came From Outet Space- When my dad bought me all of the 50 VHS, this one was included. AWESOME, IF it wasn't in 3-d 

[InformationGeek]

Evolution: I just watched and man, it was pretty damn fun.  The idea of the aliens constantly evolving, changing, and growing into bigger meances was pretty clever and the plot was fun.  The acting was good, but David Duchovny preformance seemed a bit stiff at some moments.  The CGI was pretty darn awesome and the creativity behind the alien designs is very impressive.  Overall, it was one of the best movies I watched in a while and the only disappointing thing was that I didn't watch it sooner (I had the film since last April!).

[SPazzo]

The Bloody Brood (1959).  There is a reason this is in the Good Movie section (besides the fact that I don't want to start a new thread).  It's honestly a good movie.  It was in my Mill Creek Tales of Horror 100 Movie Set, and I loved it.

Peter Falk plays a beatnik drug-dealer who might have murdered a young messenger boy.  (I say might because I don't want to give too much away).  Anyway, the plot is pretty interesting.  The main characters (the messenger boy's brother and this ex-beatnik woman) are really dull.  It's almost as if you're not supposed to care about them.  But Peter Falk's character is great.  He has some nice semi-philosophical quotes; the kind that, if quoted at four in the morning to hammered friends, will get you respect.  Take this one about newspapers:

"When the world falls apart on page one, they put it back together again on the sports page."

 

Fun movie.  Even though it's in the Mill Creek Tales of Horror set, it's really not horror.  More of a thriller.

7/10

[indianasmith]

This week I watched a Midnight Releasing film called BIOPHAGE - a halfway decent zombie flick, better than many Midnight Releasing/Brain Damage productions, but still not that great.

Then I saw a Japanese horror flick called ZOMBIE SELF DEFENSE FORCE - it was a fairly cute horror/comedy with LOTS and LOTS of blood.  What is it with the Japanese and arteries that double as guysers?

[Jack]

What is it with the Japanese and arteries that double as guysers?

They have extremely high blood pressure over there.  Lot of stress you know 

[Trevor]

INLAND EMPIRE (2006): This wandering nightmare from David Lunch          

  Now that put a genuine smile on my face: how does he taste? 

[lester1/2jr]

If I were a competitive eater that would be my stage name

[Rev. Powell]

INLAND EMPIRE (2006): This wandering nightmare from David Lunch          

  Now that put a genuine smile on my face: how does he taste? 

Now why didn't the spellchecker catch that one?

[Joe the Destroyer]

Love Actually- My fiancee talked me into watching it.  It was decent.  Better than about 99% of the rom-coms I've seen.  I think being British and rated-R helped.   A reluctant 

Dinocroc- Meh.  Good start and finish, but took itself a little too seriously.  [thumb in the middle]

[InformationGeek]

Pocket Ninjas: I don't have anything to say about it.  I am just trying to forget I ever saw it right now.  Damn that movie to heck.

[Jack]

One Dark Night (1983) - A famous psychic is found dead, along with the bodies of several girls.  He apparently drained their energy from them or something.  So they put the psychic's body in this huge mausoleum, but of course he has powers beyond the grave.  As luck would have it, a girl is trying to be accepted into a small group of friends, and as her initiation, she has to spend the night in the mausoleum.  I thought the movie was pretty good up until this point, as the budget was fairly high and the characters were pretty entertaining.  But then came the special effects.  When the psychic guy brings a bunch of the bodies in the mausoleum to life, um...they're scary looking mannequins being rolled around on dollies.  It's comical watching them tip forward a bit to attack someone with little headbutts.  Pretty much turned into complete goofiness at that point.  3/5.

[El Misfit]

Super babies 2- where's the .45 when you need it? Monster a go go is BETTER THAN THIS P.O.S. AS WELL AS POCKET NINJAS!  

[Rev. Powell]

MST3K: TEENAGE STRANGLER:  Wow, what an awful movie.  Just dull and boring, the only noteworthy part being the bizarre overacting of the hero's younger brother.  Also a short, "Is This Love?," which doesn't really supply that much risible material.  Not really much going on in the host segments, either.  Still, almost any MST3K episode has its fair share of chuckles, so 3/5.

VISITOR Q (2002): A bizarrely dysfunctional Japanese family (dad is a TV reporter on a break after being sodomized by interviewees on camera, mom is a heroin addict and part-time hooker, son is bullied at school and beats his mother at home) becomes even stranger and more violent after a mysterious stranger shows up in their home.  A feeble swipe at satire of reality TV shows can't hide the fact that this is the perverse Takashi Miike's most perverted movie, meant only to shock, and really closer to a well-made fetish porn video than a feature film.  2/5. 

BLACK FIST [AKA BOGARD] (1975): A streetfighter from the ghetto has a vendetta against the mob and a crooked white cop (Dabney Coleman).  Boring formula movie; there's a reason why, when people discuss memorable blaxploitation features of the 70s, the name BLACK FIST never comes up.  1/5.           

[Jack]

7 Mummies (2006) - Some prisoners are being transported in a van, but it crashes and they escape, taking a guard (Cerina Vincent) hostage.  They run into some crazy Indian dude who tells them that there's lots of gold in a nearby town, so naturally they forget all about escaping from the law and head directly to this town.  The place is straight out of the old west, but none of them seem to notice.  Before long the town's inhabitants attack them, like highly aggressive cannibals or something.  Anyhow, Cerina and one of the prisoners manage to escape, while a couple of other prisoners continue searching for the gold.  The head bad guy in the town explains that there were seven monks who had seven amulets, and he's trying to find them.  Why?  What significance does this have?  I ain't got a clue.  Why is this movie named 7 Mummies, when at best we see two?  Actually they look more like zombies.  What-ever.  So everybody runs around for quite a while.  The bad guy gets his amulet, which doesn't seem to do anything other than make him look really ugly.  The soundtrack is rap and heavy metal music, which really fits in well with the old west theme.  [/sarcasm]  There's no story that I could comprehend, no character development, not much of anything.  Except Cerina Vincent, all hot and sweaty and wearing a tight little tank top.  Do you suppose the director could photograph her from closer than 20 feet away?  Um, no.  I'll be extraordinarily generous and give this a 2.5/5.  At least it didn't bore the crap out of me.