Recent viewings

[Jack]

Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993) - A girl in Bucharest gets bitten by a vampire, so she calls her sister in America to come and help her.  By the time she arrives, the vampire girl has disappeared, so she teams up with a guy from the embassy to search for her.  And that's pretty much the movie.  Talk, walk around, talk some more.  The vampire is a total laugh, he stands around trying to look scary but comes off as some hopeless over-emotive nerd vamp.  He calls his mom "mommy".  The characters are really uninteresting and the plot is virtually nonexistent.  Pretty boring overall.  2.5/5.

[lester1/2jr]

exploitation nation or whatever vol 3 exploitation trailers - This had stuff like Alligator, hot t shirts, different sexy nurse movies and some other stuff. The commentary was pretty good. It focused alot on like when it was released and trivia about the actors. They didn't seem to be all that enthused by the movies themselves, though not as bad as that cannibal movie book where the writers prtty much hated all the movies. not the most exciting or out there batch of trailers but all in all It was enjoyable. 4/5

[Rev. Powell]

HANDS OF STEEL (1986): A crime syndicate and the FBI hunt a renegade cyborg in a future where arm wrestling is a popular sport and highway signs warn when you are entering an acid rain zone.  Some unintentional comedy and an action-packed final third don't help this TERMINATOR (with a touch of BLADE RUNNER) ripoff all that much.  2/5.

[claws]

Cameron's Closet (1988)

Will they ever settle on a year of release for Cameron's Closet at IMDb? It's been switching back and forth between 1987, 1988 and 1989 for ages 
Anyway, its not the greatest movie ever made but not sucky bad either. Part Cop Thriller, part supernatural horror about evil taking advantage of a kid's psychic powers. Neat but at times goofy special effects paired with corny domestic drama and a few splashes of dullness. 3/5

[JaseSF]

Bullet To Beijing (1995): Michael Caine is back as Harry Palmer who's unfortunately now become a redudant ex-spy put out to pasture, forced into retirement by the British government. He decides to freelance and winds up employed by a shadowy Russian figure named Alex who rumor has it plans to rebuild Russia. Alex sends Harry on a special mission to retrieve a deadly biochemical weapon nicknamed the Red Death, a weapon capable of taking out whole city populations, from falling into the hands of the North Koreans. Harry learns it's to be delivered via train to Beijing and sets out to intercept it only several other agents are on board, many ex-spys Harry had previously dealt with before only Harry cannot be sure of who is friend and who is a possible enemy but Harry does know he himself is a target and someone certainly wants him dead.

While not as good as the old Michael Caine Harry Palmer films, this does have its moments. There are a number of exciting chase and shootout sequences and the twists and turns are enough to keep one intrigued and watching although this film unfortunately also suffers from a few dull lulls here and there throughout. Also this film seems to hurt for lack of a legitimate love interest for Caine's Palmer. Still I have to admit I quite enjoyed a lot of it, especially the aforementioned chases, some by car, some by boat and several different modes of transport interestingly coming into play...and of course the shootouts which prove quite startling but one must pay attention to get all that`s going down in some of those scenes. Still I`d give this *** out of ***** stars.

[bob]

The Room (2003)

Arguably the best worst movie of all time. I would expand on the plot, but something tells me that people who frequent a bad movie froum are familiar with it.

5 out of 5 stars.

[retrorussell]

Prince Of Darkness.  IMO, John Carpenter's worst.  Silly plot about a collegiate team of researchers studying an ancient, unearthed canister of Satan in liquid form.  It ends up possessing students which spread the goop by vomiting in each other's mouths.  The goop's ultimate goal (I guess) is to get the students to bring his solid form to Earth through mirrors.  Meanwhile, bums gather outside the university to keep anyone from leaving.  Ants and beetles somehow factor into the proceedings.  Utterly stupid.

[Kaseykockroach]

Piranha, and James Cameron's crapsterpiece sequel. Both are equally fun for their own reasons. Gimme The Spawning over Titanic or Avatar any day.

[JaseSF]

I rather enjoyed Carpenter's Prince of Darkness myself. Oh don't get me wrong, I know it's far from his best work but I still liked it....felt kind of like an 80s film in the vein of Quatermass and the Pit to me...not as good but it did remind me on some levels of that film...

[JaseSF]

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002): Two rival agents, one a rogue, cool and icy DIA agent named Sever (Lucy Liu) and the other a dishevelled, rough around the edges former FBI agent named Ecks (Antonio Banderas), do battle. Ecks want to find his wife Vinn (Talisa Soto), a woman he had thought dead and knows Sever may hold the key. Sever wants revenge against her old DIA boss Gant (Gregg Henry), who's most concerned with retrieving a stolen biochemical microscopic device capable of killing undetectably from afar. Sever will let nothing stop her, even resorting to kidnapping, from achieving her goal.

The plot makes this one sound a lot cooler than it actually is. Ultimately this proves a bit of a letdown because Liu never emotes enough to make us care and Banderas just come across as being too brooding and easily fooled.  Still I will give this credit for delivering some cool action sequences, terrific stunts and fun chase scenes and shootouts at least on a dumb leave your brain at the door level. It feels rather like watching a video game unfold for a large part of its running time with characters that seem as though they might have leapt from the pages of an art-heavy, lacking in narrative style comic book. The action sequences actually at the beginning of the film prove more exciting than those in the final climactic showdown. ** out of ***** stars.

[claws]

Camp Blood (2000)

Zero budget slasher that rips off F13 & TCM. Irresistibly entertaining because the badness works in its favor. Adding to the fun is the bad filmtransfer including VHS-like drop outs, fuzzy image, dull colors and was shot way too dark. VHS Grindhouse quality on DVD if you will. 4.5/5 Cheese

[Jack]

Reform School Girls (1986) - Jenny's boyfriend gets her involved in a robbery that goes horribly wrong, and she ends up being sent to reform school.  Which is just like any teenage boy (including me) likes to imagine it - girls in their undies, showers, catfights, and Sybil Danning as the warden.  Wendy O Williams is the tough bad girl that takes an immediate dislike to Jenny, and the "plot" is mostly concerned with Wendy and her gang having run-ins with Jenny and her friends.  And then there's the really nasty guard woman who delights in causing the girls as much misery as possible.  Ah...good times    The characters and acting were surprisingly good, and the movie does a pretty fair job of mixing the exploitation elements with more "serious" parts to produce some (cheesy) drama.  4.25/5.

[Doggett]

Reform School Girls (1986) - Jenny's boyfriend gets her involved in a robbery that goes horribly wrong, and she ends up being sent to reform school.  Which is just like any teenage boy (including me) likes to imagine it - girls in their undies, showers, catfights, and Sybil Danning as the warden.  Wendy O Williams is the tough bad girl that takes an immediate dislike to Jenny, and the "plot" is mostly concerned with Wendy and her gang having run-ins with Jenny and her friends.  And then there's the really nasty guard woman who delights in causing the girls as much misery as possible.  Ah...good times    The characters and acting were surprisingly good, and the movie does a pretty fair job of mixing the exploitation elements with more "serious" parts to produce some (cheesy) drama.  4.25/5.

I love this film, I LOVE IT ! 

 

[lester1/2jr]

Swingers- I didn't see this when it came out. I saw Kids Reality Bites and Dazed and Confused but you can only take so many of those things. I'd still probably rather watch Curb your enthusiasm but this was okay. For a self made whatever sort of effort it was good.

The scenerio is pretty typical with the guys colorful friends trying to help him get over the girl. It's part comedy part you know, friendship porn I don't know what you'd call it. "depth" in the form of bro talk. Heather graham is wearing alot of make up. She was better in Boogie Knights.

Also relevent for having one of the few depictions of the very brief swing trend of the 90's.

3.75/5

[Kaseykockroach]

Alligator. I don't know why I've always had a fascination with creature features (aka 'animals eating people/nature strikes back films), but I popped this one in for the first time in awhile. The aversion of the Infant Immortality trope was a lot less gruesome than I remember it being, but still, poor boy... The animatronic surprisingly ain't half bad.
Why did so many during the wedding attack scene jump into the pool rather than...Keep running away?