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#61
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - March 01, 2026, 10:56:17 AMThe Fate of the Furious
#62
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - March 01, 2026, 10:47:40 AMTHE LODGER (1944):
I found the '27 LODGER a disappointment following Hitchcock's BLACKMAIL and MURDER!, and alas find the '44 LODGER a disappointment following John Brahm's solid, compelling, and sometimes shockingly stylish low-key thriller THE LOCKET. Brahm does a good job here establishing a dank, grim atmosphere, and there's one great use of running water in a gutter in the first sequence to emphasize (in tasteful B+W) the grotesque aftermath of a throat-slashing. The problem w/ this LODGER reboot (adapted from the same play, but actually about JTR this time, ostensibly) is inverse of Hitchcock's problem. Hitchcock needed some dialogue to make sense of his scenario - Brahm's film has a big ol' screenplay and it's mostly romantic melodramatic nonsense.
Laird Cregar is the Lodger and he ain't no dashing Crispin Glover, yet he must shoulder an illogical/absurd love triangle w/ Merle Oberon as the rather long-in-the-tooth young niece and George Sanders as the kind of classic movie homicide detective who pesters material witnesses to go out on dates w/ him.
Cedric Hardwicke is good as the uncle/landlord and whoever plays his suspicious wife is good, too. Oberon was good (briefly) as Anne Boleyn in THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII - 11 years earlier. An interesting looking woman (half-Indian, though she didn't publicize it), she's a rather austere presence, particularly for an ingenue - and Sanders is similarly too stiff to be a hunky leading man. And that's to say nothing of Cregar!
LODGER is sufficiently unengaging that I spent 2/3rds the movie reflecting on who Cregar looks like. A plumper Vincent Price or a much-plumper Donald Sutherland? A slightly appealing Vic Buono? Then, once Seen, I couldn't unsee it: Laird Cregar is latter day Brendan Fraser. I'm all for non-traditional leading men, but LODGER's screenplay allows for no warmth or empathy for Cregar, most fatally ***SPOILER*** changing the ending of Hitchcock's version so that the haunted, hunted Lodger is actually the serial killer.
As a guy who's struggled his whole life w/ weight loss, I don't mean to make light (ahem) of 6'3" 300+ pound Cregar, who destroyed his heart w/ amphetamines a year after LODGER and died in a desperate attempt to slim down and play Jean Valjean in an unproduced LES MIS.
But LODGER ain't much of an epitaph. Did you know that the London police chased Jack T.R. down and watched him drown in the Thames? Apparently! 2.5/5
I found the '27 LODGER a disappointment following Hitchcock's BLACKMAIL and MURDER!, and alas find the '44 LODGER a disappointment following John Brahm's solid, compelling, and sometimes shockingly stylish low-key thriller THE LOCKET. Brahm does a good job here establishing a dank, grim atmosphere, and there's one great use of running water in a gutter in the first sequence to emphasize (in tasteful B+W) the grotesque aftermath of a throat-slashing. The problem w/ this LODGER reboot (adapted from the same play, but actually about JTR this time, ostensibly) is inverse of Hitchcock's problem. Hitchcock needed some dialogue to make sense of his scenario - Brahm's film has a big ol' screenplay and it's mostly romantic melodramatic nonsense.
Laird Cregar is the Lodger and he ain't no dashing Crispin Glover, yet he must shoulder an illogical/absurd love triangle w/ Merle Oberon as the rather long-in-the-tooth young niece and George Sanders as the kind of classic movie homicide detective who pesters material witnesses to go out on dates w/ him.
Cedric Hardwicke is good as the uncle/landlord and whoever plays his suspicious wife is good, too. Oberon was good (briefly) as Anne Boleyn in THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY VIII - 11 years earlier. An interesting looking woman (half-Indian, though she didn't publicize it), she's a rather austere presence, particularly for an ingenue - and Sanders is similarly too stiff to be a hunky leading man. And that's to say nothing of Cregar!LODGER is sufficiently unengaging that I spent 2/3rds the movie reflecting on who Cregar looks like. A plumper Vincent Price or a much-plumper Donald Sutherland? A slightly appealing Vic Buono? Then, once Seen, I couldn't unsee it: Laird Cregar is latter day Brendan Fraser. I'm all for non-traditional leading men, but LODGER's screenplay allows for no warmth or empathy for Cregar, most fatally ***SPOILER*** changing the ending of Hitchcock's version so that the haunted, hunted Lodger is actually the serial killer.
As a guy who's struggled his whole life w/ weight loss, I don't mean to make light (ahem) of 6'3" 300+ pound Cregar, who destroyed his heart w/ amphetamines a year after LODGER and died in a desperate attempt to slim down and play Jean Valjean in an unproduced LES MIS. But LODGER ain't much of an epitaph. Did you know that the London police chased Jack T.R. down and watched him drown in the Thames? Apparently!
2.5/5 #63
Off Topic Discussion / Re: The New Happy Birthday Thr...
Last post by bob - February 28, 2026, 11:06:55 PMHappy birthday Happy Gilmore 
#64
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by LilCerberus - February 28, 2026, 10:42:43 PMTonight's Stinker
Che botte ragazzi!(1975) (The Return Of Shanghai Joe)
https://youtu.be/ccmRU9XBT7I?si=CoOxjxzIW3SWu-xL
Bill, a dowser & snake oil salesman finds oil in a Mexican village.... The impatient Mexicans are less than grateful, as they can't drink oil... Meanwhile, word gets back to Barnes (Klaus Kinski), a land baron who buys the land dirt cheap...
He sends his men to run the people out of the village, when Shanghai Joe, an Asian martial artist, shows up & kicks their butts...
At the same time, some more of Barnes' men try to kill a Mexican bandit.... Bill get cause in the crossfire, & ends up finding the mortally wounded bandit hiding in his wagon... Bill cares for the bandit, who reveals what he's wanted for & how much he's worth in exchange for a proper burial...
Both men end up in up in a town Barnes owns, who sets out to kill them both...
Supposed to be a comedy.... Cheen Lie's Kung Fu is passable... The corny theme music is played everytime he gets in a brawl....
VHS rip off television, with the advertisements still in it....
Che botte ragazzi!(1975) (The Return Of Shanghai Joe)
https://youtu.be/ccmRU9XBT7I?si=CoOxjxzIW3SWu-xL
Bill, a dowser & snake oil salesman finds oil in a Mexican village.... The impatient Mexicans are less than grateful, as they can't drink oil... Meanwhile, word gets back to Barnes (Klaus Kinski), a land baron who buys the land dirt cheap...
He sends his men to run the people out of the village, when Shanghai Joe, an Asian martial artist, shows up & kicks their butts...
At the same time, some more of Barnes' men try to kill a Mexican bandit.... Bill get cause in the crossfire, & ends up finding the mortally wounded bandit hiding in his wagon... Bill cares for the bandit, who reveals what he's wanted for & how much he's worth in exchange for a proper burial...
Both men end up in up in a town Barnes owns, who sets out to kill them both...
Supposed to be a comedy.... Cheen Lie's Kung Fu is passable... The corny theme music is played everytime he gets in a brawl....
VHS rip off television, with the advertisements still in it....
#65
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - February 28, 2026, 09:24:24 PM"Sweet Sixteen" (1983)
While a small town girl prepares for her Sweet 16 party, an unseen murderer starts picking off the members of her guest list.
A technically well made, but dull slasher/whodunit (with a baffling amount of racism towards Native Americans) that takes forever to get into gear. Skip it unless you feel the need to see every single obscure slasher movie made in the 80s.
"Massacre at Central High" (1976)
A new student takes lethal vengeance against the clique of rich-brat bullies who control the student body with an iron fist. In spite of the title, this isn't a slasher flick, it's more of a slow burning revenge thriller, with a fair share of sleaze and ultra-violence. The bullies in this movie are such dicks that you'll be rooting for their comeuppances!
While a small town girl prepares for her Sweet 16 party, an unseen murderer starts picking off the members of her guest list.
A technically well made, but dull slasher/whodunit (with a baffling amount of racism towards Native Americans) that takes forever to get into gear. Skip it unless you feel the need to see every single obscure slasher movie made in the 80s.
"Massacre at Central High" (1976)
A new student takes lethal vengeance against the clique of rich-brat bullies who control the student body with an iron fist. In spite of the title, this isn't a slasher flick, it's more of a slow burning revenge thriller, with a fair share of sleaze and ultra-violence. The bullies in this movie are such dicks that you'll be rooting for their comeuppances!
#66
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by Rev. Powell - February 28, 2026, 05:50:50 PMQuote from: Alex on February 28, 2026, 11:58:42 AMFunny how cowards who've never served their country always celebrate when there is military action going on.
Just an attempt to distract from the Epstein files anyway. A bunch of filthy perverts protecting themselves.
As a coward who has never served his country, I can assure you we are not all celebrating. This stereotyping of cowards must stop! I mean, pretty please? If you want to? (Please don't hit me!)
#67
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by Alex - February 28, 2026, 04:08:33 PMQuote from: LilCerberus on February 28, 2026, 02:52:59 PMayatollah's dead
As it seems are also a lot of school kids.
#68
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by zombie no.one - February 28, 2026, 04:02:41 PMPARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4: THE MARKED ONES (2014)
I need to stop watching movies that seem like they were made by early 20-somethings, for teens.
I really enjoyed the first P.A... all 3 sequels, which I've now seen, are rubbish. this one is a mess, too many characters, too much dumb larking around, too much noisy crap going on. like watching the home videos of a dork. My fault for even thinking it might be good.
I need to stop watching movies that seem like they were made by early 20-somethings, for teens.
I really enjoyed the first P.A... all 3 sequels, which I've now seen, are rubbish. this one is a mess, too many characters, too much dumb larking around, too much noisy crap going on. like watching the home videos of a dork. My fault for even thinking it might be good.
#69
Bad Movies / Re: Antonio Margheriti & The J...
Last post by Trevor - February 28, 2026, 03:38:53 PMQuote from: LordGraal on February 28, 2026, 02:42:04 PMQuote from: Trevor on February 27, 2026, 10:07:23 AMQuote from: LordGraal on February 27, 2026, 08:31:43 AMQuote from: Trevor on February 27, 2026, 01:41:10 AMPity they didn't include TIGER JOE in this collection.
That's more a Namsploitation movie. These three are Raiders rip-offs.
I got you. 😊👍🐢
I remember watching Italian cash-ins on VHS with cropped picture and low-res image. Some of the camera work on the shoddiest of these movies is very good. These 4K/Blu Ray releases finally show that off. The dubbing is still appalling though
You should see the cheapo DVD I have of TIGER JOE. The source was what looks like a very bad 16mm print and at one point, the image flips for a second 😳😳😆🤣
#70
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Thought Thread Part...
Last post by LilCerberus - February 28, 2026, 03:13:32 PMWell, While Trump's wagging the dog in Iran, Pakistan & Afghanistan are going at it.....