Recent Viewings, Part 2

[indianasmith]

KLOWN KAMP MASSACRE (2010) - This was an atrociously awful Troma production, with the standard Lloyd Kaufman cameo at the end.  All the victims were clowns, the killer was a clown, there was gratuitous clown nudity, over-the-top clown kills, and dialogue so dumb it made your brain hurt. 1/5 on a regular movie scale, a 5/5 BAD movie rating!

[M.10rda]

RC- frankly I can see why she didn't make it as a regular actress

  She co-starred in the flesh on "Herman's Head", a live-action Fox sitcom, for a few years even after "The Simpsons"... co-starring Hank Azaria, also from "Simpsons" of course. She's a perfectly good actress... there just aren't enough roles to go around for weird mousey women.

[Rev. Powell]

LYNCH/OZ (2022): A documentary where five directors (and one critic) discuss the influence of "The Wizard of Oz" on David Lynch's career. Obviously aimed at fans of the director, but the subject is so narrow that these erudite essays naturally turn to explorations of cinema and art in general. 4/5.

[M.10rda]

LYNCH/OZ (2022): A documentary where five directors (and one critic) discuss the influence of "The Wizard of Oz" on David Lynch's career. Obviously aimed at fans of the director, but the subject is so narrow that these erudite essays naturally turn to explorations of cinema and art in general. 4/5.

Dig it! I watched something that seems inexplicably related to Lynch myself and will review it in a bit...

[zombie no.one]

KLOWN KAMP MASSACRE (2010) - This was an atrociously awful Troma production,

with a title like that? surely not 

[zombie no.one]

KARATE KID IV

too much melodrama, not enough bad

apparently up to today I thought Hilary Swank and Sandra Bernhard are the same person... I guess they aren't.

[M.10rda]

Too droll, Zombie!

[Jim H]

The Whisperer in the Darkness - HP Lovecraft Society film, shot in low budget, black & white, and with a 30s film aesthetic.  I think this one mostly works.  It feels long to me, perhaps too true to the Lovecraft source at times, but I still enjoyed the atmosphere.  Maybe trimming 15-20 minutes would have helped.  Liked this much more than their Call of Cthulhu film, which I fell asleep during.

Necronomicon - Second part of my Lovecraft double feature.  This is very uneven.  A lot of great and fun practical effects and creatures, but some of the storytelling is jumbled and not great.  Worth a watch though, I particularly enjoyed Jeffrey Combs role.  Interestingly, the third part of the anthology uses the same source as Whisperer in the Darkness, but is MUCH MUCH different, almost a total divergence from the source really, just a few ideas used.

Dog Soldiers - A lot of fun as always, happy to see the new transfer which looks far better than the old one.  Wish we'd gotten the sequel.

[lester1/2jr]

Morda - I used to watch that show.

[RCMerchant]

the LOVE WITCH (2016)

I really don't know how to discribe this film. It concerns a modern (?) day witch who loves and kills men who fail to love her. Simple, right?
Right. Except this movie is downright strange. It seems to exist in a technicolor Twilight Zone set in quasi late 60's, early 70's landscape of a demented comic book.  A beautiful looking, oddball film that I enjoyed immensly, though I'm not really sure why.

[lester1/2jr]

^ I loved her previous one Viva

[Rev. Powell]

THE LOVE WITCH is a masterpiece!

[Dr. Whom]

Eat Locals (2017)

The eight official vampires of the UK hold their 50 year meeting in a remote farm to discuss quotas and territories, but unknown to them, a military task force is closing in on them. Caught up in all this is Sebastian, who may be invited to join the vampire, or end up as dinner.

This is very much Dog Soldiers in reverse, with the monsters being holed up by soldiers, and trying to make their escape before the sun rises. Critics seem to hate it, for some reason. It is just a silly dark comedy, which cheerfully turns a number of the base under siege and vampire movie tropes on its head. There is no horror and very little suspense, but a lot of deadpan humour by a seasoned cast of actors. It even ends on a Perry and Croft like 'you have been watching' sequence. An absolute hoot, if pretty nihilistic.

Favourite line 'I am a man of principle, and they bribed me first'.

[RCMerchant]

the MACHINE GIRL (2008)

A young Japanese school girl gets revenge on a Yakuzi gang that murdered her brother and cut off her arm. Her arm is replaced by a huge multi-barreled machine gun and she extracts a bloody revenge.
This movie is packed wall to wall with extreme cartoonish violence and lotsa blood gushing gore.
I loved it.

[Rev. Powell]

CAVERNA (2023): Acting students at an avant-garde commune/school undergo various exercises, including dream therapy, in a vain attempt to stimulate creativity. With no real story, just a mess of ideas that are never followed to a meaningful conclusion, it's like watching a workshop rehearsal for a movie rather than a completed project. 1/5.