Recent viewings

[Alex]

DAGON (2001): A boating accident strands a couple on an island where the locals worship the sea monster god Dagon. The Stuart Gordon/Brian Yuzna team turns out some pretty good (and occasionally great) Lovecraft adaptations, but bland protagonists, iffy effects, and a predictable plot make this one smelly fish tale. I just couldn't get into it at all. A generous 2/5.

Did you manage to make out anything the old drunk was saying?

[FatFreddysCat]

"The Terminator" (1984)
A cyborg assassin from the future lands in L.A. circa 1984 and attempts to rub out the woman who will someday give birth to the leader of the human resistance. Lotsa stuff gets shot, blown up and pulverized in this classic sci-fi shoot'em up that made Arnold Schwarzenegger an A-list action star and jump started the directing career of James "Titanic" Cameron. The Terminator saga has been diluted by all of the useless sequels but the original never gets old.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Turkey Shoot" (aka "Escape 2000," 1982)
Inmates at a dystopian prison camp can win their freedom by taking part in a "game" where they're hunted by a group of rich-and-powerful types. If they can survive till sundown, they're free to go. What could possibly go wrong?
This Aussie b-movie is an ultra-violent, action packed, occasionally bizarre mix of sci-fi and shoot'em up, with a great cast and some occasional splashy gore. A fun slab of Ozploitation cheese!

[indianasmith]

MANDY (2018)  This may possibly be the weirdest movie Nick Cage has ever starred in, and that's saying something.
Still trying to decided if I liked it or not, but my initial reaction is more "What the heck did I just watch?" than "Man, that was good!"
Very long set up and very weird payoff.  I'll let you know in a couple of days if I liked it or not.  3/5

[Svengoolie 3]

DAGON (2001): A boating accident strands a couple on an island where the locals worship the sea monster god Dagon. The Stuart Gordon/Brian Yuzna team turns out some pretty good (and occasionally great) Lovecraft adaptations, but bland protagonists, iffy effects, and a predictable plot make this one smelly fish tale. I just couldn't get into it at all. A generous 2/5.

You should read "the shadow over innsmouth",  the story by master H. P. Lovecraft that was bastardized into that movie.  It will give you a whole new level of  hatred for it.

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/soi.aspx

[Svengoolie 3]

MANDY (2018)  This may possibly be the weirdest movie Nick Cage has ever starred in, and that's saying something.
Still trying to decided if I liked it or not, but my initial reaction is more "What the heck did I just watch?" than "Man, that was good!"
Very long set up and very weird payoff.  I'll let you know in a couple of days if I liked it or not.  3/5

Carpe DM!  Seize the Dungeon Master!

[Rev. Powell]

I thought Indy wouldn't be into MANDY... not as bad a reaction as I feared, though. I still highly recommend it.

SNOWFLAKE (2017): A pair of Turkish criminals discover they're characters in an amateur movie script, and try to force the author to rewrite it while dodging hit men, a superhero, an angel, an underground fascist leader, and a madman who might be God. Got to love the go-for-broke screenplay that's best described as Charlie Kaufman writes a movie for Quentin Tarantino; I wish this one had a bigger budget so they could have upgraded the actors and effects and gotten real distribution. Probably will be hard to find, but look for it on VOD. 3.5/5.

[RCMerchant]

the Lon Chaney one where he is a foot knife thrower in the circus. 5/5

The UNKNOWN (1927)
Also starred Joan Crawford!  Great film!

[Ticonderoga 64]

The Mad Doctor Of Blood Island(1969)
A Fistful Of Dollars(1964)
Who Done It?(1942)
Varan the Unbelievable(1958)
The Mutations(1974)
Animal House(1978)

[RCMerchant]

The Mad Doctor Of Blood Island(1969)
A Fistful Of Dollars(1964)
Who Done It?(1942)
Varan the Unbelievable(1958)
The Mutations(1974)
Animal House(1978)

The best 2 movies of that bunch for me would be the MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND and a FISTFUL OF DOLLARS!

I rewatched-
. HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE (1967)
But I had the radio loud and I was drunk.
Best way to watch it!  
And yes, I was alone while I did it.  
Gawd, such a rotton film. No redeeming values whatsoever.
It's like swallowing the emotion 'despair' and puking up 'pain' and 'madness.'
It's like being force feed raw, decaying fish from a beach overrun by seagulls s**tting all over it.
It's like-

[FatFreddysCat]

Day Off Double Feature:
"Eaten Alive!" (1976)
A hillbilly motel owner murders his annoying lowlife guests and feeds them to his pet alligator in the swamp out back. Yup, some real high concept stuff here. :D
Tobe Hooper's follow up to "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is a weird, gory Southern Gothic mesh of "TCM" and "Psycho." It's not a great flick by any means but it's a watchable slice of 70s sleaze. Watch for a young Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund in a supporting role.

"Tomb Invader" (2018)
Two-fisted lady archaeologist Alabama Channing (yes, really) jumps aboard an expedition to China (which looks suspiciously like a Southern California forest) to recover the priceless ancient artifact that her mother died trying to find 20 years prior. Cue the angry natives, falling rocks, poison darts, and other booby traps!
In case the title didn't give it away, this is The Asylum's cheese-and-crackers budget knock off of the recent "Tomb Raider" reboot, though it obviously borrows from the Indiana Jones saga as well. By Asylum standards, it wasn't bad, but of course that's still a long way from being actually "good."

[RCMerchant]

Day Off Double Feature:
"Eaten Alive!" (1976)
A hillbilly motel owner murders his annoying lowlife guests and feeds them to his pet alligator in the swamp out back. Yup, some real high concept stuff here. :D
Tobe Hooper's follow up to "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" is a weird, gory Southern Gothic mesh of "TCM" and "Psycho." It's not a great flick by any means but it's a watchable slice of 70s sleaze. Watch for a young Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund in a supporting role.

I love this movie. Not one redeeming person in the whole bloody mess. 

[Rev. Powell]

NIGHT IS SHORT, WALK ON GIRL (2017): Shy, lovestruck Senpai follows peppy schoolgirl Otome from afar over an almost endless surreal night that includes philosophical drinking contests, fire-eating contests, an encounter with the God of Used Books, a peripatetic musical theater, and a cold epidemic. Someone must have spiked the brandy with mescaline in this hallucinatory anime romantic comedy. 4/5.

[FatFreddysCat]

I love this movie. Not one redeeming person in the whole bloody mess. 

I kept waiting for the alligator to eat the little girl who was hiding underneath the house. Does that make me a bad person? :D

[indianasmith]

VICTOR CROWLEY (2017)
    A ten year anniversary tribute to the slasher hit HATCHET, this movie brings the sole survivor of Victor Crowley's rampage back to Honey Grove Swamp for a return engagement with the undead mutant serial killer.  Asked to come back to visit the swamp as part of his book tour, Anthony Yong is traveling on a private jet that crashes in the swamp just as a group of inept film makers recite the voodoo curse that brought Crowley back from the dead to begin with, and butchery ensues.  Over the top kills, bad dialogue, and gratuitous nudity (seriously, I have heard of girls asking for someone to autograph their breasts, but what guy asks a male author to autograph his JUNK???) make this another bad movie treat for the B-movie afficienados that make up this forum! 4/5