Recent Viewings, Part 2

[lester1/2jr]

Yeah I did too.

[FatFreddysCat]

"In The Mouth of Madness" (1994)
A publishing house hires an investigator (Sam Neill) to locate their best-selling horror novelist, who's mysteriously disappeared. The search takes him to a remote New England town where the writer has been busily channeling ancient Lovecraftian horrors through his books and unleashing them into the "real" world to create murder and chaos.
Somehow I'd managed to miss this John Carpenter goodie till now (I think I may have had it confused with his earlier flick "Prince Of Darkness," which I have seen), but I'm glad I finally caught up with it because it's weird, creepy, atmospheric, and quite excellent; possibly one of JC's best. Better late than never, eh?

[indianasmith]

TROLL (2022) - A Norwegian construction project tunneling under a mountain unleashes a 150 foot tall mountain troll, who heads straight for Oslo in order to reclaim the lair humans stole from his kind centuries ago.  Bombs and missiles have no effect.  How can the capitol city be saved?  This is a pretty fun Eruo-kaiju film with some nice monster effects, mayhem, and bits of comic relief thrown in for good measure.  I was entertained. 4/5

[lester1/2jr]

indiana why do you use so many spaces after a period? i think I asked you this 20 years ago

[indianasmith]

indiana why do you use so many spaces after a period? i think I asked you this 20 years ago

Usually only two.  That's how I was taught to write in high school and college, many years ago.

[Rev. Powell]

indiana why do you use so many spaces after a period? i think I asked you this 20 years ago

Usually only two.  That's how I was taught to write in high school and college, many years ago.

That is how we did it in the days of manual typewriters. It had to do with font size and clarity. On computer screens this no longer became a problem. I was always taught this too, and wasn't even aware until about ten years ago that the standard practice had changed.

[M.10rda]

indiana why do you use so many spaces after a period? i think I asked you this 20 years ago

Usually only two.  That's how I was taught to write in high school and college, many years ago.

That is how we did it in the days of manual typewriters. It had to do with font size and clarity. On computer screens this no longer became a problem. I was always taught this too, and wasn't even aware until about ten years ago that the standard practice had changed.

In some weird way, the "two-space" approach has been absorbed and retained into our cultural DNA. I am a high school English teacher and college writing instructor. We're still catching and correcting (young) students who insert the now unnecessary extra space. Many of them never absorbed the necessity of using commas or even sometimes periods, yet somehow they've picked up on hitting [Space] twice after a sentence. It's inexplicable!

[ralfy]

Rewatched the first "Living Dead" set, i.e., Night, Dawn, Day, and now Land. Not as good as I remembered them; used to give them a 7 or 8 out of 10, like most, but now 6 and at best 7. The problem lies with lack of content to develop, leading to various scenes that drag, although special effects and set design appear to be sufficient.

[indianasmith]

Weekend Double Feature -

BUNNI (202something) - Drunk college kids break into an old adult novelty store and get killed by a crazy woman wearing a bunny mask.  Protagonists were all utterly detestable and the plot made no sense.  Cute actresses, though. 2/5

THE HILLS RUN RED (2009) - I think I may have seen this when it first came out, but I'd forgotten all about it.  A young filmmaker enlists his girlfriend and his best friend (who are fooling around behind his back) to help him find a lost horror film from the 1980's entitled THE HILLS RUN RED.  He locates the daughter of the film's director, who is a drug-addicted stripper, still recovering from the trauma of having a starring role in the movie.  She leads them to a remote house where the movie was made - only for them to discover that the movie was never finished, and  they now have starring roles!
Gruesome and gory, full of plot twists, this is a very well done horror film!

[FatFreddysCat]

"Bedazzled" (1967)
A nerdy Englishman (Dudley Moore) sells his soul to Satan (Peter Cook) in order to get the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, each of the seven wishes that the Devil provides to him to make that happen all fail spectacularly.
This swinging '60s comedy gets off to a slow start but picks up steam as it moves along. Moore and Cook are a great team and the late Raquel Welch (R.I.P. beautiful!) has a brief but pivotal role as one of the Seven Deadly Sins (of course, she's "Lust."). Remade in the early 2000s with Brendan Fraser in the Moore role and Elizabeth Hurley as Satan.

[FatFreddysCat]

"Fuzz" (1972)
The overworked, under-staffed crew of a gritty inner city police precinct deals with a serial rapist, a pair of teenage arsonists, and a plot to murder the Mayor of Boston in this talky, overly busy police satire based on Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" novels.
"Fuzz" sounded like a home run based on its impressive cast that includes Burt Reynolds, Yul Brynner, Raquel Welch and a young Tom "Alien" Skerritt, but there's so many sub-plots and irrelevant things going on that the movie eventually turned into a hopeless muddle. Skip it.

[lester1/2jr]

Fatfreddy- Drimblewedge and the Vegetation was my favorite part of Bedazzled  "I Don't care about you..."


Old Growth Murder (2022) - depressing documentary about a french cyclist who is murdered while trying to traverse North America in 1988. From the begining, it's pretty clear who did it but it's impossible to prove due to politics (the suspects are part of a native america rights group) and poor police evidence handling. There's a really long dip into a previous crime the suspects were exonerated from, but the extra time kind of just retells the same sort of information. It also lacks a activist sort of angle that can make these things compelling. No one is trying to do anything to bring the killers to justice. very sad story

4/5

[FatFreddysCat]

"3 From Hell" (2013)
The third and (hopefully) final installment in Rob Zombie's trailer-park horror trilogy that started with "House of 1000 Corpses" picks up ten years after the events of "The Devil's Rejects." Captain Spaulding was executed in prison, but Otis and Baby are busted out of jail by Otis' half brother Foxworth, aka "Foxy," and the trio go on the road again for another orgy of ultra-violence that ends up in a bloody final showdown in Mexico.
"3 From Hell" isn't terrible, but it was mostly unnecessary and it definitely could've been at least 30 minutes shorter.
If you liked the previous pair of films, you might as well watch this one too just to check it off your list, but otherwise there's no need to bother.

[M.10rda]

"3 From Hell" (2013)
Captain Spaulding was executed in prison, but Otis and Baby are busted out of jail by Otis' half brother Foxworth, aka "Foxy," and the trio go on the road again for another orgy of ultra-violence that ends up in a bloody final showdown in Mexico.

HARD PASS on this one. Sid Haig was for me the only (though robust) redeeming factor of HO1KC. I realize that this will be yet another unpopular opinion, but even Sid couldn't make TDR a tolerable experience for me. "Another orgy of ultra-violence" from Zombie SANS Captain Spaulding seems particularly unnecessary at this point...

[lester1/2jr]

I haven't made it through one of Tubi's black movies yet so this guys review of Lot Lizards is my review

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