Recent viewings

indianasmith · October 15, 2016, 09:36:59 AM

I can't believe how few movies I have watched lately . . . very odd for me.
I have a stack of them that I have bought, too. But the stack of books is even bigger (over 50 now that I have purchased in the last 2 months!), and those have been consuming my attention.

lester1/2jr · October 15, 2016, 09:58:18 AM

Scream and Scream again - A seemingly indestructible hipster guy in london ( i think) targets women in a seedy dance club. This leads police to discover something bigger and more sinister going on. Vincent Price is a mad scientist and it's kind of a more grindhouse/ drive in friendly Hammer thing. a couple of those guys are in it Peter Cushing and another guy. pretty good was on TCM late night
3.75/5

FatFreddysCat · October 16, 2016, 09:37:33 AM

"Bad Taste" (1987)
Four klutzy commandos take on a town full of aliens who've come to Earth to harvest humans for use as fast food on their home planet.
Peter "Lord of the Rings" Jackson's almost-plotless directorial debut is essentially an ultra-gory home movie, made on a shoe string budget with a cast made up mainly of his friends and family, as an excuse to show off a bunch of creatively sick splatter effects. It's dumb as a box of rocks, but it certainly lives up to its title! Everybody's gotta start someplace...

Rev. Powell · October 16, 2016, 10:59:00 AM

THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962): Although there's nothing visibly stopping them from leaving, wealthy guests at a dinner party find themselves unable to leave the drawing room, as days turn into weeks and they begin to turn on each other. Like a "Twilight Zone" episode where the twist is never explained. It's surprisingly appropriate for Halloween. Satire, parable, nightmare, masterpiece. 5/5.

Rev. Powell · October 17, 2016, 08:56:41 AM

IN BRUGES (2008): Two Irish hitmen are sent to Bruges to lay low after their latest job, but of course this is no simple holiday. Brendan Gleeson as the mentor, Colin Farrel as the neophyte, and Ralph Fiennes as the psychotic boss, and even Jordan Prentice as the coke-snorting dwarf are all brilliant in Martin McDonagh's near-perfect, redemptive, and frequently hilarious script. 5/5.

Rev. Powell · October 18, 2016, 08:51:32 AM

PARENTAL GUIDANCE (2012): A pair of grandparents with rough edges get a week to watch and bond with their participation ribbon-generation grandchildren; everyone learns something valuable about life, blah blah blah. How do they always convince decent actors (Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei) to join projects that read like pilots for bad sitcoms? A generous 2/5.

lester1/2jr · October 18, 2016, 10:07:31 AM

curse of Frankenstein - this is the Hammer movie where Frankenstein looks like this

Peter Cushing is good, it's a little early for Hammer babes but there are a couple okay ones. certainly worth seeing if not mind blowingly great. It's just the Frankenstein story at the end of the day and we all know how it goes and ends and so forth

3.75/5

FatFreddysCat · October 18, 2016, 10:12:08 PM

"Cathy's Curse" (1977)

A man moves back into his old family homestead with his wife and daughter. Soon little "Cathy" is possessed by a vengeful spirit through an old doll she finds in the attic, and bodies start piling up.
This no-budget Canadian "Exorcist" wanna be fails in pretty much every department - the story, pacing, acting, dialogue and special effects all suck. Adding insult to injury, the picture & sound quality of the copy Amazon is streaming is positively abysmal.
AVOID!!

FatFreddysCat · October 20, 2016, 05:52:39 AM

"Class of 1999 II: The Substitute" (1994)
There's still one of those pesky, homicidal military teacher-droids left from the first "Class of 99" movie...and it's set up shop in a new crime-ridden high school and declared open season on gang bangers.
A cheap, by the numbers direct to video sequel to a movie that didn't really need a sequel in the first place.

Rev. Powell · October 21, 2016, 08:44:21 AM

VIRIDIANA (1961): Just before she takes final orders, a pretty young novitiate is called to the estate of her perverted hermit uncle; she decides to leave the nunnery behind help the local paupers, with disastrous results. A mocking parable about the futility of Christian ethics and charity, though the critique is more sympathetic and nuanced than it first appears. 4.5/5.

indianasmith · October 21, 2016, 10:45:23 PM

Tonight I watched another film from my BACKWOODS BUTCHERS set; this one was called MOTHER'S DAY MASSACRE.
A wimpy twentysomething who is fed up with his cruel and abusive father takes off with his unlikable girlfriend and four other unlikable friends to search for his long-lost mother; instead he finds a family of inbred cannibals who kill three of the group and force the rest to flee in terror. But it turns out the mother of the cannibals is actually his abusive father's ex-mistress, and the two cannibals are his half brothers, and now they want vengeance. 3/5

Kind of disjointed and stupid, but lots of good gore and even a homage to PORKY'S. Considering I paid $1 for the four movie set, this film was a bargain at $.25!

lester1/2jr · October 22, 2016, 10:45:43 AM

Born to Kill - also part of the Backwoods Butchers set no actually it was on TCM. As far as film noir sort of things go this one is good and also a bit twisted which is always fun. Upon post film inspection, its a little hard to fathom but it's still an interesting plot.

A guy is born to kill, but he's also pretty smooth with the ladies. Maybe its that wild glint in his eye that draws them to him who knows. I get that women could be attracted to a macho guy who gets in fights and hits women. Flat out murder is a little out there though.

Still it was pretty awesome and I liked seeing the woman wrestling with her devotion to the guy to the point of losing her moral compass.

4/5

FatFreddysCat · October 22, 2016, 02:41:22 PM

The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini" (1966)

C'mon, how could anyone possibly pass up a title like that on a rainy Saturday afternoon?

A group of pool-partying teens, a gorilla, some crooked lawyers and a biker gang all converge on the home of a deceased millionaire to search for his hidden stash of cash. Fortunately the old boy's ghost (Boris Karloff!) and his spectral gal pal are still hanging around to help guide the "right" people to the prize.

This flick was released at the tail end of the "beach party movie" craze of the mid '60s and it's loaded with silly, slapstick supernatural gags (ala "Scooby-Doo"), lots of pretty girls in bikinis, and some absolutely terrible rock n' roll songs (one of which is performed by Nancy Sinatra in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo). It's dumb as a box of rocks, but strangely entertaining!!

BoyScoutKevin · October 22, 2016, 04:38:48 PM

Quote from: FatFreddysCat on October 22, 2016, 02:41:22 PM
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini" (1966)

C'mon, how could anyone possibly pass up a title like that on a rainy Saturday afternoon?

A group of pool-partying teens, a gorilla, some crooked lawyers and a biker gang all converge on the home of a deceased millionaire to search for his hidden stash of cash. Fortunately the old boy's ghost (Boris Karloff!) and his spectral gal pal are still hanging around to help guide the "right" people to the prize.

This flick was released at the tail end of the "beach party movie" craze of the mid '60s and it's loaded with silly, slapstick supernatural gags (ala "Scooby-Doo"), lots of pretty girls in bikinis, and some absolutely terrible rock n' roll songs (one of which is performed by Nancy Sinatra in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo). It's dumb as a box of rocks, but strangely entertaining!!

With Basil Rathbone as one of the crooked lawyers. Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff in the same film. I'm there. On the other hand, my sister use to watch these beach movies, so she could catch a glimpse of Harvey Lembeck as Eric von Zipper, the leader of the motorcycle gang in these films, and I think that's because she had a crush on him, when she was younger.

AoTFan · October 23, 2016, 12:05:58 AM

Quote from: FatFreddysCat on October 18, 2016, 10:12:08 PM
"Cathy's Curse" (1977)

A man moves back into his old family homestead with his wife and daughter. Soon little "Cathy" is possessed by a vengeful spirit through an old doll she finds in the attic, and bodies start piling up.
This no-budget Canadian "Exorcist" wanna be fails in pretty much every department - the story, pacing, acting, dialogue and special effects all suck. Adding insult to injury, the picture & sound quality of the copy Amazon is streaming is positively abysmal.
AVOID!!

I remember they had clips of this from Terror on Tape. The store owner keeps showing clips to the guy that doesn't like scary films but he's all, "Wait, I have to show you what she does to her mother!"