Recent viewings

[Rev. Powell]

Some call it Loving (1973) - very WTF movie I caught on TCM Undergound. A guy becomes transfixed with a woman who is the star of a ridiculous "Sleeping Beauty" carnival sideshow. He is somehow rich and lives a very eccentric life in a giant mansion where most of the movie takes place. He has several other hot babes who live with him and they are all involved in this erotic and odd stageplay that is this movie. richard Pryor has a small and very awkward and pointless role as his friend. when he talks he isn't funny and sounds lke Stepin Fetchit I can only imagine how utterly baffled his fans who went and saw this were.

The girl played by British actress Carol White is sweet and the other main girl played by Tisa Farrow is more sort of domineering and its a good counter thingy. They sometimes dress up as Nuns so it's a bit of nunsploitation too. Zalman King the male lead is like a rich man's Marjoe Gortner. Everyone who made and is involved in it is insane. 5/5

Of course, Zalman King went on to produce dozens of "erotic thrillers" in the 90s and the TV series "Red Shoe Diaries."

OBSERVANCE (2015): A man takes a job spying on a beautiful woman from an abandoned building across from her apartment, but it turns out All Is Not What It Seems in this horror/thriller. Made by a talented and dedicated crew, but starts off too slow and ends up too confused. 2/5.

[indianasmith]

Still no energy, so watching bad movies from this awful 50 pack. A CANDLE IN THE DARK was a  very bad vampire movie, this college girl who thinks her roommate is nosferatu. 35 minute runtime and that's 35 minutes too long. 1/5

[indianasmith]

Next was DEMON SLAUGHTER,  a very cheap production in which this hit man goes on a killing spree, then flees to a cabin in the mountains where he has to fight off waves of zombies and then the devil himself. It was almost entertaining at some moments. 2.5/5

[lester1/2jr]

rev- knew that I knew that name from somewhere. I wasn't that in to 9 1/2 weeks.

[indianasmith]

Then there was NIGHTMARE ASYLUM. I'll be honest, this one was so loud and the dialog so incomprehensible that I watched large chunks of it on fast forward. A girl wakes up in a huge, dimly lit building that resembles a cross between an abandoned asylum and a cheap haunted house attraction. It is full of obnoxious lunatics who kill And feed on each other with abandon, all while screaming cheesy lines at each other as loudly as they can. AVOID.  1/5

[indianasmith]

This afternoon my /!#\/#!/!! Fever returned, so I opened the 50 pack again. This time it was THE RIVER: LEGEND OF LA LLORANA. OK,  give credit where it'S due, some thought went into this plot - the ghost of an anguished mother who tried to drown her children long ago seeks them in the world of the living. But the acting was bad, the lighting was awful, and it dragged on a bit too long.  3.5/5 - they tried.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Ozark Sharks" (2016)
http://youtu.be/5D1B4d2VbVg

A family's vacation at a backwoods camping resort is rudely interrupted by a group of sharks that swims upriver and begins munching on all puny humans in its path. Typically mindless SyFy shark movie schlock, generic but watchable.

[Rev. Powell]

MOULIN ROUGE! (2001): In fin de sicle Paris, a bohemian writer falls for a courtesan/actress while producing a play, but the theater's financier wants the star for himself. Repurposed pop songs (Elton John, Madonna, the Police) furnish the song-and-dance numbers. In my opinion, if you're not writing original songs, you're not making a musical, you're making a music video; class-A glitz, though. Very high estrogen content. 3/5.

[indianasmith]

Last night I watched two films before bed. The first was called SERIAL KILLER, a moderately entertaining tale about a writer whose best -selling book about serial killers has now made him the target of one. Angry at being left out of the book, this psycho is sending him videos of his nude, bound victims, forcing them to describe their abduction and rape nefore finishing them off. Pretty brutal, lots of pretty girls, 3/5

[indianasmith]

Then I watched one called HELLBOUND: BOOK OF THE DEAD.  A woman, depressed at the loss of her sister, purchases an ancient grmoire of spells, hoping  to bring her sister back from the dead, with predictably disastrous results. Better done than a lot of the drrk in this pack, 4/5.

[indianasmith]

This morning I watched I DREAM OF DRACULA, in which a middle-class suburban girl is being tormented by nightmares and stalked by two nekkid female vampires who want to convert her. Solid cheesy undead fun! 3.5/5

[Rev. Powell]

MST3K: THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE: Pearl and Professor Bobo land on the planet of the Observers, who carry their brains around in a pan and send Mike this week's movie, a disembodied head horror. The movie is actually not too bad---slow and poorly written but eerie at times---although it should have been titled THE THING THAT COULDN'T DIE UNLESS YOU GENTLY TOSS A NECKLACE IN IT'S DIRECTION. The best parts are the smug Observers, who have an incredibly insulting way of reminding Mike and the bots of their superiority: "I pray for his death, as do all good and decent beings." Early season 8 is still a slog through Universal's mediocre 50s B-movie archive, but better things are coming. 3/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

Pre-gaming for tonight's premiere of "Sharknado: The 4th Awakens"...

"Sharknado 2: The Second One" (2014)
http://youtu.be/Ip2YkDm-kpM
Finn and April's trip to New York City is rudely interrupted by yet another shark-filled weather anomaly in the sequel that is bigger, louder, dumber, and way more ridiculous fun than the original. The best of the "Sharknado" flicks by a mile.

"Ice Sharks" (2015)

(no trailer on YouTube)
The staff at an Arctic research station are studying the melting of the Polar ice caps, when they come under attack by a horde of hungry prehistoric sharks. So basically, this is a wintry version of "Deep Blue Sea," made on a fraction of the budget and without any big name stars. I've seen better shark flicks, but Lord knows I've seen lots worse.

[Rev. Powell]

CANDY (1968): A nubile girl is separated from her father wanders the U.S. meeting a poet, gardener, general, doctor, guru, and more, learning that men only want one thing from her. Screenwriter Buck Henry put a psychedelic slant on Terry Southern and Morris Hoffenberg's satirical soft-porn novel; an all-star cast (Brando, Richard Burton, Ringo Starr as a Mexican!) fail to wring a single belly laugh from the script, but this thing just gets weirder and more embarrassing as it goes on, emerging as one of those fabulous follies that could only have been made in the late 60s. 3/5.

[claws]

Blood Bride (1980)

a religious 26 year old single secretary living with her parents thinks she found true love when a client asks her out for lunch. Soon enough they get married and "domestic problems" arise.

This was like "Sleeping with the Enemy" (1991) except the husband is a serial killer traumatized by nuns. The actress playing the secretary is very attractive, and Blood Bride actually looks decent on a technical level, and there's even use of effective slow motion. Sadly the rest is sort of dull and boring. 2/5

Perfect Victims (1988)

Boss (Deborah Shelton) of a model agency becomes the target of a serial rapist after assaulting two of her clients.

Flashy but average Sleaze-Thriller with a misogynistic villain. 3/5. Odd coincidence: the director of Blood Bride wrote the script for de Palma's Body Double (1984) co-starring Deborah Shelton. She is listed as the producer of Perfect Victim, which explains the Body Double influences I noticed.