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#11
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by Trevor - October 06, 2026, 01:15:13 PMI saw COYOTE VS ACME last Friday and was hoping that it would break my crippling depression.
It didn't, sadly 😢
It didn't, sadly 😢
#12
Good Movies / Re: Recent theatrical viewings
Last post by M.10rda - October 06, 2026, 12:26:24 PMQuote from: Jim H on September 21, 2026, 08:59:03 PMResident Evil - Very solid adaptation of the games. Funny, great lead performance, terrific pacing, constantly moving. Guess Cregger don't miss, eh?
RESIDENT EVIL (2026):
Jim liked it, Zombie No.One didn't....... I can imagine objections to it, such as:
The simplicity and linearity of the plot could be seen as reductive; the main character is at least a little bit of an idiot and it takes a while to warm to him; the stylistic and metatextual acknowledgments to the (video game) source material are unapologetic; and (pursuant to those acknowledgments) the humor verges occasionally on the ridiculous (though less so than in, for instance, the generally beloved and entirely puerile "Resident Evil 4").
However, none of those criticisms stick for me, because (as Jim suggests) Zach Creggar is such a strong director, w/ such an outstanding grasp of geography (always invaluable in the horror genre), and such a capable hand for pace and tone. So I found RESIDENT EVIL non-stop suspenseful fun w/ some chuckles and some good gooey gore and even some scares.
It's only 99 minutes, it ain't quite as artful or thoughtful as WEAPONS, but it way overdelivers for a RESIDENT EVIL movie or really any mainstream zombie movie. 4.5/5!
Also, per this comment:
Quote from: zombie no.one on October 04, 2026, 02:03:30 AManother (15) certificate that is easily gorier and grosser than any of the banned 'video nasties'... in fact if this is a (15) for gore, what the heck would an (18) require?
C'mon, gorier and grosser than CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST or MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY? Maybe there's more blood in RESIDENT EVIL, but there's no torture or slow mutilation/dismantling of bodies or prolonged human suffering (well, besides maybe the lead character at the end). RESIDENT EVIL isn't even as disturbingly violent as Eli Roth's most violent films, let alone Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD (still a high-water mark for onscreen brutality). I think Carpenter's THE THING times two is a more reasonable comparison here.
...But also, who's complaining?!
It's Rated R (17+) over here by the way but I would've loved this at age 15! #13
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - October 06, 2026, 12:05:10 PMI liked the "crash-bang-wallop chaos" myself. It was a little mean-spirited but then they all are. I will be posting a retort to your RESIDENT EVIL review in the other section... 
#14
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 06, 2026, 11:11:50 AMHER PRIVATE HELL (2026): More setting than story, the plot somehow involves an actress and her relationships with her distant father and a stepmother who's her own age, a mythical serial killer called the Leatherman, and flashbacks of a GI hunting the Leatherman, all occurring in a dreamlike hotel and city. The beautiful people lit in beautiful neon are beautiful, but with wispy incidents even more diffuse and opaque than the mist that infects the city, it's a struggle to care. 2.5/5.
#15
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by zombie no.one - October 06, 2026, 10:25:03 AMI felt like it was trying way too hard to ram home the fact that it's a Final Destination movie, while ironically seeming more like any other random 2020's teeny horror... plus an overload of crash-bang-wallop chaos as it went on. just didn't tickle me
#16
Good Movies / Films with shocking endings
Last post by Trevor - October 06, 2026, 09:33:09 AMI nominate the French film THE PROFESSIONAL (1981) with its 'let's kill the anti hero just as he is about to get away' ending.
I really thought Jean-Paul Belmondo was going to get away, but no.
I really thought Jean-Paul Belmondo was going to get away, but no.
#17
Good Movies / Re: IS IT PORN? (reviews and d...
Last post by M.10rda - October 06, 2026, 08:43:22 AMContent Warning: No question, this one is "porn":
BLUE ECSTASY aka BLUE ECSTASY IN NEW YORK (1980):
I rarely watch 70s/80s xxx features for the sex (if one wants to see sex, there are quicker ways to go about it) but then when I'm lured into such a feature for the actors, plot, or music (in this case, all three) I'm usually disappointed on all counts. Who were these films made for? Primarily the raincoat crowd, who were unlikely to make it to the closing credits anyway, and also - presumably for themselves! Much of BLUE ECSTASY is one scene after another of the actors lounging around an apartment, drinking wine, smoking pot and/or doing coke, and then having sex. (Tarantino would call this a "hang-out film", I guess.) And they were getting paid for it! Hey, who wouldn't want to be an adult performer in 1980? But it ain't all that much fun to watch.
"Veronica" (Leslie Bovee) is a seemingly nice/virginal girl-next-door type who talks in monologue about her free-spirited sister "Ronnie" (also Bovee), who visits her often but is (obv) not seen on camera w/ Veronica. Veronica also has a party-girl best friend named "Nikki" who she hangs out with and who does appear onscreen w/ Veronica, since she's played by Samantha Fox. Midway through the film, Veronica's hard-up boyfriend tries to sexually assualt her in the park, and Ronnie spontaneously appears to fight him off, then abruptly disappears again. Yup, BLUE ECSTASY is the porno version of MEMENTO/FIGHT CLUB/THE OTHER/Lynch & Gifford's HOTEL ROOM/etc. Of course I'd be drawn to this kind of film and I appreciate that the filmmakers wanted to get a little creative w/ their formula, but the Veronica/Ronnie/Nikki schizm is eventually sidelined (essentially forgotten) in favor of a long succession of mostly indistinct screwing.
Bovee and Fox are very nice- but pretty normal-looking women, which isn't a criticism. You'd see a lot of ladies who looked similar walking around NYC in 1980. Candida Royale appears as another (presumably real) friend of Veronica and is a bit of a rougher/funkier type that also seems emblematic of Manhattan in that era. None of them are great actresses but there are scenes where they've memorized lengthy dialogue (or improvised confidently) so at least they were trying.
The male cast is interesting. Bobby Astyr caught my attention in Roger Watkins' CORRUPTION, another dark, psychological XXX feature w/ an incredible first 45 minutes or so that predicts LOST HIGHWAY, w/ Astyr in the Robert Blake role. (CORRUPTION also loses track of itself at the end.) Unfortunately Astyr has no actual character to work w/ in BLUE ECSTASY, he just gets nekkid and bizzy w/ offscreen galpal Fox. BLUE ECSTASY also features Robert Kerman (aka "R. Bolla"), who doesn't do much acting here either but always raises my eyebrows when he appears in porn, as he's most famous for starring in the Italian cannibal trifecta of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY, and EATEN ALIVE (as well as popping up in Raimi's first SPIDER-MAN). The heavy lifting (so to speak) among the male cast is provided by the ubiquitous Jamie Gillis, whose laidback libertine personality onscreen was likely identical to his offscreen persona.
The sex - well, there are fewer close-ups than in many adult films (though still too many) but it got boring pretty quickly. As often was the case in 70s sex films, the actors just do their thing - they aren't "performing", alas, just behaving naturally. This could be interesting in the hands of an insightful director, but I often feel like these directors would yell "Action!" and then walk away to smoke a doob. (Roberta Findlay was unashamed to admit she had no interest whatsoever in the sex scenes she filmed.) BLUE ECSTASY ends w/ a long S+M sequence in a scummy nightclub - leather, masks, a fist, etc. I found it neither shocking nor hot, but I guess it was a change of pace from the stoned couch-bound boffing.
2/5 I always want to enjoy these more than I do. The best part of BLUE ECSTASY is the occasional muzak covers of top 40 hits on the soundtrack. I'm a fiend for a good porno soundtrack.
BLUE ECSTASY aka BLUE ECSTASY IN NEW YORK (1980):
I rarely watch 70s/80s xxx features for the sex (if one wants to see sex, there are quicker ways to go about it) but then when I'm lured into such a feature for the actors, plot, or music (in this case, all three) I'm usually disappointed on all counts. Who were these films made for? Primarily the raincoat crowd, who were unlikely to make it to the closing credits anyway, and also - presumably for themselves! Much of BLUE ECSTASY is one scene after another of the actors lounging around an apartment, drinking wine, smoking pot and/or doing coke, and then having sex. (Tarantino would call this a "hang-out film", I guess.) And they were getting paid for it! Hey, who wouldn't want to be an adult performer in 1980? But it ain't all that much fun to watch.
"Veronica" (Leslie Bovee) is a seemingly nice/virginal girl-next-door type who talks in monologue about her free-spirited sister "Ronnie" (also Bovee), who visits her often but is (obv) not seen on camera w/ Veronica. Veronica also has a party-girl best friend named "Nikki" who she hangs out with and who does appear onscreen w/ Veronica, since she's played by Samantha Fox. Midway through the film, Veronica's hard-up boyfriend tries to sexually assualt her in the park, and Ronnie spontaneously appears to fight him off, then abruptly disappears again. Yup, BLUE ECSTASY is the porno version of MEMENTO/FIGHT CLUB/THE OTHER/Lynch & Gifford's HOTEL ROOM/etc. Of course I'd be drawn to this kind of film and I appreciate that the filmmakers wanted to get a little creative w/ their formula, but the Veronica/Ronnie/Nikki schizm is eventually sidelined (essentially forgotten) in favor of a long succession of mostly indistinct screwing.
Bovee and Fox are very nice- but pretty normal-looking women, which isn't a criticism. You'd see a lot of ladies who looked similar walking around NYC in 1980. Candida Royale appears as another (presumably real) friend of Veronica and is a bit of a rougher/funkier type that also seems emblematic of Manhattan in that era. None of them are great actresses but there are scenes where they've memorized lengthy dialogue (or improvised confidently) so at least they were trying.
The male cast is interesting. Bobby Astyr caught my attention in Roger Watkins' CORRUPTION, another dark, psychological XXX feature w/ an incredible first 45 minutes or so that predicts LOST HIGHWAY, w/ Astyr in the Robert Blake role. (CORRUPTION also loses track of itself at the end.) Unfortunately Astyr has no actual character to work w/ in BLUE ECSTASY, he just gets nekkid and bizzy w/ offscreen galpal Fox. BLUE ECSTASY also features Robert Kerman (aka "R. Bolla"), who doesn't do much acting here either but always raises my eyebrows when he appears in porn, as he's most famous for starring in the Italian cannibal trifecta of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY, and EATEN ALIVE (as well as popping up in Raimi's first SPIDER-MAN). The heavy lifting (so to speak) among the male cast is provided by the ubiquitous Jamie Gillis, whose laidback libertine personality onscreen was likely identical to his offscreen persona.
The sex - well, there are fewer close-ups than in many adult films (though still too many) but it got boring pretty quickly. As often was the case in 70s sex films, the actors just do their thing - they aren't "performing", alas, just behaving naturally. This could be interesting in the hands of an insightful director, but I often feel like these directors would yell "Action!" and then walk away to smoke a doob. (Roberta Findlay was unashamed to admit she had no interest whatsoever in the sex scenes she filmed.) BLUE ECSTASY ends w/ a long S+M sequence in a scummy nightclub - leather, masks, a fist, etc. I found it neither shocking nor hot, but I guess it was a change of pace from the stoned couch-bound boffing.
2/5 I always want to enjoy these more than I do. The best part of BLUE ECSTASY is the occasional muzak covers of top 40 hits on the soundtrack. I'm a fiend for a good porno soundtrack.
#18
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - October 06, 2026, 07:50:42 AM"Have you heard about the lone-some lo-ser?"
Thanks to you, Indiana, now I have! I will probably take you up on your challenge. We often have opposite reactions to movies so maybe somehow I will love this one?
Thanks to you, Indiana, now I have! I will probably take you up on your challenge. We often have opposite reactions to movies so maybe somehow I will love this one?
#19
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - October 06, 2026, 07:46:58 AMI forget if you posted about it a year and a half ago... what didn't you like about BLOODLINES? Basically another sequel, not a reboot, final appearance of Tony Todd et al.
