Recent viewings

[Kevin Bachelder]

"WitchSlayer Gretl"

Silly SyFy Channel crap that feels like some 14 year old girl's fairy tale fan-fiction gone horribly wrong. "Hansel and Gretl" are now all grown up. Problem is, Gretl's body has been taken over by a witch, and Hansel, who's now a Witch Slayer, has to either save or destroy her. So yeah, the title doesn't make any sense (Hansel is the Witch Slayer, not Gretl!) but that's the least of this flick's problems. The dialogue is pure Medieval Times nonsense, the special effects are hilariously cheap, and the male lead looks like a slightly less portly Kevin Smith. Worst of all, the main reason I tuned into this piece of crap was to see Shannen Doherty as the evil witch queen cuz I've had a crush on her since I was 14....aaaaand let's just say time is finally catching up to the poor girl. Sigh. This was bad, and not even the usual SyFy Channel "good" kind of "bad."

This one seemed like it had potential but like you said it just didn't quite work on several levels.

As Syfy often does they changed the name of the movie at least twice. The title up until about 10 days before airing was "Gretl: Witch Hunter".

The male lead was Paul McGillion who is well known for playing Dr. Carson Beckett on Stargate: Atlantis.  He was very wooden here.


Kevin

[HappyGilmore]

Redneck Zombies

What can I say about this film, other than it's utterly fascinating and entertaining on so many levels. 

[bob]

Birdemic: Shock and Terror

the last time I watched this wonderful film I was sober and loved it

tonight I'm very drunk and just finished this gem and it is somehow more enjoyable

10/5 for one of the best bad movies of all time

[Jack]

Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus (2010) - some miners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo wake up Crocosaurus (who's about 20 times too big to fit in the mine he was hiding in), and meanwhile Steve Urkel from Family Matters is now a scientist in the Navy and he and the doctor from Star Trek Voyager are after Mega Shark. This starts out kind of slow and bad, but by the midway point it turns into your typical Asylum production:  babe in a tight tank top, laughably bad CGI, and one ludicrous scene after another after another. Mega Shark eats a nuclear submarine - he just swims up behind it and swallows it whole.   A helicopter crashes and ten minutes later it's flying around good as new. Our two antagonists swim from California to Hawaii in about 5 minutes. And the entire country of Panama (which is apparently REALLY small) is wiped out. Oh and Urkel causes a volcano to erupt using a basketball sized thing that emits sound waves. And on and on it goes, where it stops nobody knows.   4/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

"WitchSlayer Gretl"

Silly SyFy Channel crap that feels like some 14 year old girl's fairy tale fan-fiction gone horribly wrong. "Hansel and Gretl" are now all grown up. Problem is, Gretl's body has been taken over by a witch, and Hansel, who's now a Witch Slayer, has to either save or destroy her. So yeah, the title doesn't make any sense (Hansel is the Witch Slayer, not Gretl!) but that's the least of this flick's problems. The dialogue is pure Medieval Times nonsense, the special effects are hilariously cheap, and the male lead looks like a slightly less portly Kevin Smith. Worst of all, the main reason I tuned into this piece of crap was to see Shannen Doherty as the evil witch queen cuz I've had a crush on her since I was 14....aaaaand let's just say time is finally catching up to the poor girl. Sigh. This was bad, and not even the usual SyFy Channel "good" kind of "bad."

This one seemed like it had potential but like you said it just didn't quite work on several levels.

As Syfy often does they changed the name of the movie at least twice. The title up until about 10 days before airing was "Gretl: Witch Hunter".

The male lead was Paul McGillion who is well known for playing Dr. Carson Beckett on Stargate: Atlantis.  He was very wooden here.


Kevin

Yeah, in fact if you look under "movies" on on SyFy's website the title still shows up as "Gretl: Witch Hunter" ...

[FatFreddysCat]

Last night: "Meridian" (1990)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Hd86_beeY

Odd mix of Gothic romance and creature feature from Charles "Puppet Master" Band. A very young, very hot Sherilyn Fenn ("Twin Peaks") plays an American college girl who inherits an Italian castle, which comes complete with ghosts and an ancient curse.

Almost like a softcore "Beauty and the Beast," the story doesn't make much sense but Fenn spends about a quarter of the film topless so I was entertained. 

[Rev. Powell]

THE IRON ROSE (1973): Young lovers are trapped in a cemetery at night and then... nothing happens.  Two characters, lots of scenery, little dialogue or action, less sense. I liked the other two Jean Rollin films I saw, but this one shows him at his slow-paced, self-indulgent worst. 1.5/5.

[alandhopewell]

     Got this the other day....




     I've only seen one film so far, an '08 release called DEATH ON DEMAND, a boring dead-teenager flick about a webcast in the obligatory haunted house, with the ghost of a demented mountain climber providing the (badly done ) gore.

     I thought they quit making this crap after Jason and Freddy ran outta steam.

[tracy]

Talk about a classic!

[alandhopewell]

Last night: "Meridian" (1990)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Hd86_beeY

Odd mix of Gothic romance and creature feature from Charles "Puppet Master" Band. A very young, very hot Sherilyn Fenn ("Twin Peaks") plays an American college girl who inherits an Italian castle, which comes complete with ghosts and an ancient curse.

Almost like a softcore "Beauty and the Beast," the story doesn't make much sense but Fenn spends about a quarter of the film topless so I was entertained. 

     I got that recently; it was okay, keeping in mind it was Full Moon.

[Silverlady]

Talk about a classic!

Love this one!  I actually felt bad at the end when the creatures die   

[Flick James]

Talk about a classic!

Love this one!  I actually felt bad at the end when the creatures die   

Rodan...Rodan...

Didn't he also sculpt The Thinker?

[retrorussell]

Robocop early this morning on Netflix.  Even better than I remembered.  Awesome!

[Jack]

Creature Unknown (2004) - repeat viewing. Some kids get together for a reunion at a cabin out in the woods. They have a little memorial service for the brother of one of the guys who died at the cabin several years earlier. I guess they didn't notice they were in a movie called Creature Unknown, because otherwise they might have stayed home. I really enjoyed the characters in this, they were very likable and believable. The only unlikable one got killed off first. The girls were very easy on the eyes as well. There were a couple of unexpected plot twists at the end too. The creature was fair, just a guy in a suit but he wasn't bad.  4/5.

[claws]

Tomcats (1977)

Four thugs go on a rape and murder spree. Since justice can't keep them in jail the brother of one of the victims takes the law in his own hands.

Cheap but gritty revenge thriller set in sunny Miami. Not bad for what it is but its certainly not as good as the rather high IMDb rating suggests.

The script was written by Wayne Crawford (playing the main thug) and he was obviously living out his own male fantasies: women are treated badly or are portrayed as sluts. Crawford would later gain some sort of cult status for his involvement in Night of the Comet (1984), Valley Girl (1983) and Jake Speed (1986). 3/5