Recent Viewings, Part 2

[lester1/2jr]

Asia Argento crosses the line from sexy to gross for me

[Alex]

MEGA PIRHANA:  Trust the Asylum to deliver the campiest cheese-fests ever, with some of the worst CGI fish ever conceived. Bad dialogue, bad action sequences, nonsensical plot - this was a bad movie lover's bad movie!  4/5

Did you recognise the 'star' of the movie?

[indianasmith]

MEGA PIRHANA:  Trust the Asylum to deliver the campiest cheese-fests ever, with some of the worst CGI fish ever conceived. Bad dialogue, bad action sequences, nonsensical plot - this was a bad movie lover's bad movie!  4/5

Did you recognise the 'star' of the movie?

The female scientist was played by 80's teen pop star Tiffany.  But I only know that because her name was in the credits! LOL

[FatFreddysCat]

"Murder In The Front Row" (2019)
Members of Metallica, Exodus, Slayer, Death Angel, and more look back on the glory days of the early 80s thrash metal scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. Great stuff.

[RCMerchant]

"Murder In The Front Row" (2019)
Members of Metallica, Exodus, Slayer, Death Angel, and more look back on the glory days of the early 80s thrash metal scene in the San Francisco Bay Area. Great stuff.

I would love to see that!
I was a big reader of TRASH METAL (later titled METAL MANIACS) magazine!

[Rev. Powell]

RIFFTRAX: CHRISTMAS WITH WHIZZO THE CLOWN: Ouch! Sorry, but this hour-long Christmas special from a local Kansas City Bozo imitator from the mid-60s was a bit of a chore to get through. Fortunately, it was preceded by a bizarre short about Christmas trees with human faces (!) Since the feature was short I also streamed a couple of Christmas-themed Rifftrax short cartoons---"Gifts from the Air" and "Spunky the Snowman"---which were both hilarious. Even though the shorts were good, I'd recommend just about any other Rifftrax Christmas release over this one.

[lester1/2jr]

Fat Freddy - Have you ever heard "Devils Metal" by Death angel? it's pretty choice

Horror in the High Desert (2021) - Found footage horror has come a long way since The Blair Witch Project. Actually, no it hasn't, but this was pretty alright. director uses a Dateline sort of style to tell the story of a youtube star hiker who encounters something crazy in the woods. The ending was as scary as I've seen in a while.

4.5 /5 tubitv

[Jim H]

Kimi - Slick, well paced Rear Window-like Soderbergh thriller, with some mild Blow-up/Blowout/Conversation in there too.  Good lead performance from Zoe Kravitz.  Pretty good character portrait of the lead.  I think it doesn't fully gel in the climax, but still enjoyable enough.  Good visual storytelling.  It's an HBO Max original, so watch it there. 

[FatFreddysCat]

"Demon Seed" (1977)
A scientist has created a new artificial-intelligence that takes over his high tech computerized home and then makes a move on his wife (Julie Christie), so it can learn about reproduction. Yikes.
Based on an early work by Dean Koontz, this '70s sci-fi/horror makes the most of its absurd premise and Julie Christie, who's essentially a one woman show for most of the movie, does a nice job as the imperiled house wife. A weird but cool slice of retro junk.

[indianasmith]

THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2021) - A non-stop, glorious train wreck of a movie which brings Harley Quinn together with Bloodsport, some giant shark dude, a chick that can control rats, a guy who shoots killer polka dots at people, and another guy named Peacemaker, plus assorted other baddies, into a Latin American banana republic in order to destroy something called Project Starfish - which is a giant, heavily armored laboratory hiding - well, a giant mind-controlling space starfish.
This was a funny, glorious train wreck of a movie with just the right mix of humor, gore, and gonzo over the top characters. 4/5

[lester1/2jr]

fat freddy - an all time favorite. it's like he started writing a sci fi movie then took some qualudes and tried to turn the elements of the story into porn

[FatFreddysCat]

"Cosmos: War of the Planets" (1977)
Lured by a mysterious radio signal, a spaceship crew lands on a remote planet ruled by a malevolent machine, which wants to take over the astronauts' minds so it can reach Earth.
...or something like that. (shrugs)
This cheap Italian sci-fi flick looks like it was made in 1957, not '77. The sets are cardboard, the costumes look like leftovers from the old "Flash Gordon" serials, the plot is incomprehensible, the soundtrack (endless loops of "spacey" synthesizer noises and random bleeps and bloops) is irritating as hell, and the dialog is screamingly awkward.
I knew going in that this was going to be a turkey, but I had no idea HOW bad it would be. It may only be mid-February but I think this has my "Worst Movie I've Seen This Year" trophy locked up already.
For the love of God, AVOID AVOID AVOID.

[Jim H]

The movie with the greatest tag line ever: "YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO TEXAS FOR A CHAINSAW MASSACRE!"

I actually think it has TWO of the greatest tag lines, they're even both on the box.  "It's Exactly What You Think It Is".  Just that blunt honesty is hilarious.

Related, I just saw the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre film.  It's bad.  Poorly written, extremely unlikable lead characters, some nonsensical plot moments, and a laughably bad ending.  It is well-paced and surprisingly nicely shot though, with a lot of gore, so I'll say taken as a generic gory slasher for people on this forum, you may enjoy it.  It's also only 75 minutes minus credits.  But it's just terrible as a horror film. 

Other thoughts...  They don't even really mention the Sawyer family.  So we never learn what happened with Grandpa or The Old Man in this version.  It's an odd omission.  Sally is also poorly written and is clearly a reaction to the 2018 Halloween, but with far less skill in its handling.

Oh, one funny thing, there's a redneck open carrying Texan who rolls coal at the lead characters in the film...  And he's probably the most likable and heroic character in the film.  Just not what I expected in this film, I'll say that much.  They try to give him a bit of depth, but it ends up just feeling jumbled and poorly written.

If you do watch it, there is a post-credits scene with a familiar location shown.  Hurray.

[indianasmith]

BELLY TIMBER - A weird freebie on the local channel about a gang of cannibals who move to the American frontier in the 1800's and are tracked down by a local after they kill and eat his brother.  Mega-cheaply done, with a strange religious angle to the cannibal family that isn't like any real religion I've ever heard of.  Not dreadful, but not great.  3/5

[jimpickens]

The new TCM sucks watched Wacko a 1983 horror comedy with a young hot Julia Duffy and a young Andrew Dice Clay in it The Way of the West a pretty good western.