Recent viewings

FatFreddysCat · August 05, 2014, 07:20:50 AM

"Mama" (2013) Guillermo del Toro produced this moody, effective creep show which begins with two little girls - who've been living alone in the woods for five years - being brought back to civilization. Unfortunately for their new adoptive family (their Uncle and his girlfriend) a vengeful spirit who'd been keeping watch over the girls during their time in the woods isn't willing to let them go.

The trailers for this flick made it seem like a pretty straight-up ghost story but the movie goes deeper than that, and provides an unexpectedly emotional punch at the end. My wife actually had tears in her eyes.

claws · August 05, 2014, 01:16:45 PM

Quote from: FatFreddysCat on August 05, 2014, 07:20:50 AM
The trailers for this flick made it seem like a pretty straight-up ghost story but the movie goes deeper than that, and provides an unexpectedly emotional punch at the end. My wife actually had tears in her eyes.

I still don't understand why the majority seems to dislike the ending. Most say the ending ruined the movie. I thought the ending was perfect, sad but creepy the same time.

FatFreddysCat · August 05, 2014, 07:57:47 PM

Quote from: claws on August 05, 2014, 01:16:45 PM
I still don't understand why the majority seems to dislike the ending. Most say the ending ruined the movie. I thought the ending was perfect, sad but creepy the same time.

Yea, I liked the ending (even tho it was a downer) too. I guess most folks expect a tidy shiny happy ending every time...so they get p**sed when a movie goes against the grain, Haha.

lester1/2jr · August 05, 2014, 10:34:38 PM

Molly and the Ghost (1991) - This is the best movie I've ever seen. It's skinemax with a bit of Lifetime "the babysitter is blowing my husband" type trash and some seriously bent Giallo via Ed Wood art horror chicanery.

Molly is a more or less hot 30 ish housewife with a "I'm just gonna walk through my role here" husband named Jeff or something. They get a surprise visit from Susan, Molly's beautiful but insane 17 year old sister with weird boobs. She immediately puts the moves on the husband, steals everything in sight and tries to hire a hit man to have Molly killed!

The soundtrack features "bang bang!" a rap rock song that is the best song I've ever heard. I can't find it on youtube unfortunately. All the girls look like porn actresses. The reason it's not more widely available, this is in the rareflix catalog, is probably that it's so strange, not to mention goofy and ridiculous but in a colorful, winning way that is best viewed at about 4 am. Falls nicely into a category I call "WTF films"

5/5

BakuryuuTyranno · August 06, 2014, 03:54:43 AM

Seen some Halloween sequels (H2O, Resurrection) which, frankly, I may have a weakness for & yet I couldn't consider them good movies. It kills time I suppose.

Quote from: alandhopewell on August 04, 2014, 10:52:24 AM
Ordinarily, I'd excuse a by-the numbers exercise like this, and just groove off the trip factor, but I ultimately found this annoying, and just barely worrth the dollar spent to rent it.

Agreed. I watched it on in-flight entertainment and figured maybe it had lost something, but I'd never bother finding out. I don't think it had, anyway, because frankly... when a film focuses on characters for that long... they really should have some depth, characisma or anything else. I'd stopped caring within the first hour maybe.

Quote from: claws on August 05, 2014, 01:16:45 PM

I still don't understand why the majority seems to dislike the ending. Most say the ending ruined the movie. I thought the ending was perfect, sad but creepy the same time.

Because its completely half-assed. The family kinda-sorta ends up together (complete with assumed dead character returning to allow it), and also, the ghost takes the other girl. Good thing there were two orpahned girls, otherwise the writers would've had to choose an ending the the movie.

Jack · August 06, 2014, 06:39:47 AM

The Revenge of Doctor X (1970) - some stressed out a-hole NASA scientist goes to Japan for a vacation. While there he crossbreeds a Venus Flytrap with the underwater version of that plant, creating a guy in a rubber suit with Venus Flytrap hands lol. I was hoping it would grow to Godzilla sized proportions but of course they didn't have the budget for miniature sets. Didn't even have the budget for theme music - it all sounds like public domain stuff from the '40s. Best part by far was when Mr. A-Hole guy was trying to find the underwater plant and had to enlist the help of four topless diver babes. Ah well, my wife and I had a good time doing an MST3K job on it, but it's still just a 2/5.

FatFreddysCat · August 06, 2014, 08:12:13 AM

"Rubber" (2010) a sentient car tire named "Robert" rises out of a junkyard and travels through the desert, stalking a hot French chick and making people's heads explode with its psychokinetic powers. This surreal horor/comedy/performance art piece/spoof is the most WTF movie I have seen in a very long time ... maybe ever!

Josso · August 06, 2014, 08:55:10 AM

Quote from: FatFreddysCat on August 06, 2014, 08:12:13 AM
"Rubber" (2010) a sentient car tire named "Robert" rises out of a junkyard and travels through the desert, stalking a hot French chick and making people's heads explode with its psychokinetic powers. This surreal horor/comedy/performance art piece/spoof is the most WTF movie I have seen in a very long time ... maybe ever!

Watch Wrong (2012), that reminds me I still haven't got round to seeing the latest one

FatFreddysCat · August 06, 2014, 01:40:50 PM

^^ is "Wrong" by the same guy? If so, I'll pass. Haha.
the only reason I even watched "Rubber" was cuz my 11 year old thought it "looked hilarious" so I was "pre-screening" it to see if it'd be OK for him to watch (by the way: it isn't)... I felt like I was being trolled for 90 minutes.

Josso · August 06, 2014, 02:51:54 PM

Yep same person. The people out in the desert I've always believed to be representative of the audience, so basically watching the film is like you'll get thrown a piece of poisoned meat occasionally

I do definitely prefer Wrong, he's a very new director. kinda unrelated I remember seeing Event Horizon when I was 11 I did not sleep well that night LOL, dunno what I would have made of rubber if it was about back then I never really saw those indie oddities on analogue TV.

lester1/2jr · August 07, 2014, 04:37:39 PM

Under The Skin (2013) - I was impressed with how sci fi this was. ScarJo is an alien who lures men to her place and they sink into a pool of black liquid for some reason I can't fathom. As she goes along doing this she gets humanized and the plan sort of unravels. It's sparse yet has some really nice touches, especially when she encounters a man with deformities and he proves to not be the best subject. On top of all this, you get ScarJo looking fantastic. Even with a butch sort of wig she is utterly irresistable. It really is something how great she looks. Bradbury type Sci Fi with Scarjo looking great yes, it takes it's time to an extent but it was a pretty fantastic way to kill an evening. It didn't quite hit you over the head with it's message or rock you across the room but if there can be a subtle 5/5 I give it to this

FatFreddysCat · August 08, 2014, 09:56:32 PM

"King Solomon's Mines" (1985) Richard Chamberlain stars as pulp era adventurer Allan Quartermain in Cannon Film's lavish but goofy "Indiana Jones" knockoff, battling savage African tribesmen and the German army while searching for a priceless treasure. There's no story here, just one silly action sequence after another. Co- stars a then-unknown Sharon Stone as the damsel in distress.

FatFreddysCat · August 08, 2014, 11:29:41 PM

"Asian School Girls" (2014) a trio of teenyboppers turn scantily clad vigilantes after they're Roofie'd and raped by a gang of human traffickers in this delightfully sleazy revenge saga from The Asylum. This movie has no redeeming social value, just lotsa ass kicking and gratuitous nudity. Therefore I was entertained even if it waa for all the wrong reasons.

indianasmith · August 08, 2014, 11:30:14 PM

I watched KICKASS 2 tonight with my wife. I like how both these films go from
funny to horrifically violent and dark and then back again, often in the same scene.

FatFreddysCat · August 09, 2014, 06:50:18 AM

"Zombie Lake" (1981) Holy cow! I think I suffered a traumatic brain injury just from watching this French flick. During WWII, villagers kill a bunch of Nazis and dispose of their bodies in the local lake. Years later, they return as water logged, green zombies seeking vengeance. The "story" is lame, the makeup sucks and the action moves at a snail's pace. The only positive is that there's tons of gratuitous female nudity. (Ooh-la-la!) AVOID.