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#51
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Off to Spain!
Last post by Trevor - September 17, 2025, 02:59:01 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on September 17, 2025, 02:11:45 PMLeaving for a week in Spain tomorrow. I'll also hit Paris, because I always hit Paris when I can. Maybe I'll drop some pics here. Wish me a bon voyage!
Enjoy, Rev ☺️☺️🐢
#52
Humorous Captions / Re: Karate Kid 3
Last post by The Burgomaster - September 17, 2025, 02:56:23 PM
"Heyyyyyy, Macarena!"
#53
Bad Movies / Re: Recent Movie Purchases, pa...
Last post by The Burgomaster - September 17, 2025, 02:52:54 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on September 15, 2025, 08:40:12 AMYou buy double the number of Blu-rays in a month than I buy in a year. And I feel like I don't have enough space for the ones I have and need to get rid of some.
But do give us the scoop on FERAT VAMPIRE when you see it, I'm curious about that one.
I don't buy that many every month. When the online boutique stores like Severin, Vinegar Syndrome, Criterion, Shout Factory, etc., have big sales I'll grab a bunch of them. Other than that my purchases are more moderate.
#54
Bad Movies / Re: Recent Movie Purchases, pa...
Last post by The Burgomaster - September 17, 2025, 02:48:09 PMQuote from: zombie no.one on September 17, 2025, 09:02:59 AMTHE LAST SHARK (1981)
'Treasured Films' bluray release, not heard of them
Pretty sure I once watched this on youtube in about 9 parts, with a resolution of 3 pixels per square mile.
This was included in a "Feeding Frenzy" box set with Monster Shark and Night of the Sharks. The Severin transfer is beautiful (as they usually are).
#55
Bad Movies / Re: Recent Movie Purchases, pa...
Last post by The Burgomaster - September 17, 2025, 02:45:58 PMQuote from: M.10rda on September 16, 2025, 06:58:44 AMI too am curious about FERAT VAMPIRE.
But why buy the lame SISTERS remake (I agree, it's garbage) if you already acknowledge it's lame?
3 reasons:
1) It was included in a bundle of movies
2) I had never seen it until I bought it
3) My life revolves around movies that suck ass
#56
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Off to Spain!
Last post by claws - September 17, 2025, 02:29:02 PMHave fun! 
#57
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - September 17, 2025, 02:27:51 PMQuote from: lester1/2jr on September 16, 2025, 10:46:41 PMQuote from: M.10rda on September 16, 2025, 06:28:27 PMIL DEMONIO is truly great. POSSESSION is still my 3rd favorite film of all time, but IL DEMONIO shambled through pastoral settings so POSSESSION could run (amok) through a subway.
Okay, gimme a do-over. Dahlia Lavi spider-crawled in order for Linda Blair to spider-walk? No, that isn't it either - 'cause Lavi is doin' laps upside-down on all fours!
I can't believe I forgot to mention the spider walk.
It's a testimony to how good this film is that one can forget the spider walk by the end!
#58
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - September 17, 2025, 02:17:07 PMEMPTY NIGHT aka MEN AND WOMEN aka NOITE VAZIA (1964):
This is one of those liminal ones that isn't in any way technically inept or silly or contemptible and I didn't really dislike it, but I wouldn't recommend it either. Normally I'd skip even reviewing it, except I've come across it enough in doing research on weird movies that I figured I'd offer my two cents to any wary rabbit-hole-plummeters such as myself. It isn't even a horror movie, though I thought it was when I started watching it, and it does have a rather spooky (or let's say gloomy) atmosphere at times.
Two dudes in Brazil meet up one night after the first says goodbye to his wife and son for a "work trip" and the other breaks up with his girlfriend. (One of them is Gabriele Tinti, a name familiar to any Eurosleaze fan.) They hit a couple bars in search of a woman or women for... something... and at first I thought they were gonna' commit a murder, but no, they're just looking for sex and/or momentary emotional intimacy. After a couple of tries, they run into two classy dames who claim they aren't prostitutes but still return to an apartment with the men, one of whom absolutely insists that he plans to pay them for sex regardless of their self-identification. They hang out all night, flirt a bit, take baths, dance in the rain (a cool scene), stare silently offscreen, and eventually some sex happens (also offscreen). There's some nudity, more than in most mid-60s flicks but not enough to unilaterally compel a viewing. And then morning comes and they go their separate ways. The End.
NOITE VAZIA often feels like a 90s or early 00s indie character drama, only with 5% the dialogue and very little psychological insight. I feel like writer/director Walter Khouri (who had a long career) had just seen an Antonioni film (maybe RED DESERT
) and then couldn't help but ape the same languorous style. I didn't find it painful, but if I'd been forced to watch NOITE VAZIA at age 18 in a Film Theory class I would've wanted to jump out of my skin and bounce my bones off the walls. (I definitely hated RED DESERT in Film100 and I've never bothered to revisit it.) So proceed with caution!
2.5/5
I will say the 60s Brazilian architecture is groovy and the women are nice to look at. The blonde is an okay actress but the brunette, Norma Bengell, is hauntingly hypnotic... like a more exotic Barbara Steele. I felt like Jess Franco would've fallen head over heels for her. Bengell later co-starred in Bava's PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, which I should watch.
This is one of those liminal ones that isn't in any way technically inept or silly or contemptible and I didn't really dislike it, but I wouldn't recommend it either. Normally I'd skip even reviewing it, except I've come across it enough in doing research on weird movies that I figured I'd offer my two cents to any wary rabbit-hole-plummeters such as myself. It isn't even a horror movie, though I thought it was when I started watching it, and it does have a rather spooky (or let's say gloomy) atmosphere at times.
Two dudes in Brazil meet up one night after the first says goodbye to his wife and son for a "work trip" and the other breaks up with his girlfriend. (One of them is Gabriele Tinti, a name familiar to any Eurosleaze fan.) They hit a couple bars in search of a woman or women for... something... and at first I thought they were gonna' commit a murder, but no, they're just looking for sex and/or momentary emotional intimacy. After a couple of tries, they run into two classy dames who claim they aren't prostitutes but still return to an apartment with the men, one of whom absolutely insists that he plans to pay them for sex regardless of their self-identification. They hang out all night, flirt a bit, take baths, dance in the rain (a cool scene), stare silently offscreen, and eventually some sex happens (also offscreen). There's some nudity, more than in most mid-60s flicks but not enough to unilaterally compel a viewing. And then morning comes and they go their separate ways. The End.
NOITE VAZIA often feels like a 90s or early 00s indie character drama, only with 5% the dialogue and very little psychological insight. I feel like writer/director Walter Khouri (who had a long career) had just seen an Antonioni film (maybe RED DESERT
) and then couldn't help but ape the same languorous style. I didn't find it painful, but if I'd been forced to watch NOITE VAZIA at age 18 in a Film Theory class I would've wanted to jump out of my skin and bounce my bones off the walls. (I definitely hated RED DESERT in Film100 and I've never bothered to revisit it.) So proceed with caution!2.5/5
I will say the 60s Brazilian architecture is groovy and the women are nice to look at. The blonde is an okay actress but the brunette, Norma Bengell, is hauntingly hypnotic... like a more exotic Barbara Steele. I felt like Jess Franco would've fallen head over heels for her. Bengell later co-starred in Bava's PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, which I should watch.
#59
Off Topic Discussion / Off to Spain!
Last post by Rev. Powell - September 17, 2025, 02:11:45 PMLeaving for a week in Spain tomorrow. I'll also hit Paris, because I always hit Paris when I can. Maybe I'll drop some pics here. Wish me a bon voyage!
#60
Good Movies / Re: Chainsawmidget and the Uni...
Last post by chainsaw midget - September 17, 2025, 10:40:16 AMSon of Frankenstein.
THIS is the movie where they knock it out of the park. Good camera work, fast moving plot, strong characters, no lapses in logic or forced comedy relief. This so far, feels like the gold standard. It's got Karloff, Lugosi, Lionell Atwill, and Basil Rathbone all giving top performances.
For the first time, our sequel doesn't pick up right after the previous movie ends. This time it takes place a good deal longer. How long? So long that a child who wasn't even born in the last movie has grown up to be Basil Rathbone and has a young boy of his own.
The Son of Frankenstein (now Von Frankenstein for some reason), has returned to the town where his father ... well, you know what his father did. There he encounters a broken necked convict named Ygor who leads him to his father's monster, and he revives it, obviously FOR SCIENCE!! and to clear his father's good name. Things go bad.
One amusing tidbit is that even back then, the character expressed frustration that people were calling the monster by his family's name.
The character work in this is great. Wolf von Frankenstein (great name by the way) is even MORE arrogant than his father had been, and when he finally looses his cool, even more unstable.
Bela Lugosi is completely unrecognizable as Ygor. He lacks any of the charm and class you expect from Lugosi, while managing to pull of the evil just as strongly. Within seconds you know this is a very dangerous man, a man that cannot be trusted, and a bad liar. And unfortunatly, he's the only one the Monster of Frankenstein will listen to. They're "friends" and as his friend, the monster kills whoever Ygor tells him to.
Lionell Atwill plays the town's Inspector, a far more reasonable and understanding person than you would expect, especially given how when he was a child, the Monster ripped one of his arms right off. There are scene with him and Basil where the two of them seem to be doing their best to act act the other. It's fun stuff.
While the monster himself doesn't get a lot to do, there are a few really good scenes with him, especially how he handles the death of his only real friend.
The movie also has one of the first real action scene we've seen so far.
if there's anything bad I can say about it, it's just really minor things. The movie doesn't seem to follow continuity of it's predecessors that well. I already mentioned the change in Frankenstein's name. The town itself has also changed names. I forget what it was before, but now the town itself is known as Frankenstein. Also, while Frankenstein's lab being far away from his house was a significant plot point in the previous movies, here it's located right next to each other.
Over all though, Grade A flick.
THIS is the movie where they knock it out of the park. Good camera work, fast moving plot, strong characters, no lapses in logic or forced comedy relief. This so far, feels like the gold standard. It's got Karloff, Lugosi, Lionell Atwill, and Basil Rathbone all giving top performances.
For the first time, our sequel doesn't pick up right after the previous movie ends. This time it takes place a good deal longer. How long? So long that a child who wasn't even born in the last movie has grown up to be Basil Rathbone and has a young boy of his own.
The Son of Frankenstein (now Von Frankenstein for some reason), has returned to the town where his father ... well, you know what his father did. There he encounters a broken necked convict named Ygor who leads him to his father's monster, and he revives it, obviously FOR SCIENCE!! and to clear his father's good name. Things go bad.
One amusing tidbit is that even back then, the character expressed frustration that people were calling the monster by his family's name.
The character work in this is great. Wolf von Frankenstein (great name by the way) is even MORE arrogant than his father had been, and when he finally looses his cool, even more unstable.
Bela Lugosi is completely unrecognizable as Ygor. He lacks any of the charm and class you expect from Lugosi, while managing to pull of the evil just as strongly. Within seconds you know this is a very dangerous man, a man that cannot be trusted, and a bad liar. And unfortunatly, he's the only one the Monster of Frankenstein will listen to. They're "friends" and as his friend, the monster kills whoever Ygor tells him to.
Lionell Atwill plays the town's Inspector, a far more reasonable and understanding person than you would expect, especially given how when he was a child, the Monster ripped one of his arms right off. There are scene with him and Basil where the two of them seem to be doing their best to act act the other. It's fun stuff.
While the monster himself doesn't get a lot to do, there are a few really good scenes with him, especially how he handles the death of his only real friend.
The movie also has one of the first real action scene we've seen so far.
if there's anything bad I can say about it, it's just really minor things. The movie doesn't seem to follow continuity of it's predecessors that well. I already mentioned the change in Frankenstein's name. The town itself has also changed names. I forget what it was before, but now the town itself is known as Frankenstein. Also, while Frankenstein's lab being far away from his house was a significant plot point in the previous movies, here it's located right next to each other.
Over all though, Grade A flick.