#201

Just checked it out and yep, it certainly is. :grinning: I’d been meaning to check out his films for ages and then I recently got this book image
which is written by an all female cast of contributors including the always reliable Samm Deighan and Kat Ellinger, so I figured there must be something to his stuff. He’s definitely an acquired taste and of the ones I’ve seen so far, I’d say that he’s better at moments than fully realized movies, but when he’s at his best, he’s really good…

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#202

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#203

Watched last night: Roger Corman’s A Bucket of Blood Well, this was tons of fun. The plot of this black comedy sees the magnificent Dick Miller (in one of his few starring roles), playing Walter Paisley, a busboy at a beatnik café populated by some of the hippest cats you’ve ever seen, man. Paisley longs to be accepted by the artists and poets that frequent the café and one night, an accident involving his landlady’s cat gives him exactly the opportunity he needs. Pretty much everything works here: Miller is wonderful as the anguished Paisley and the rest of the cast of beatnik types are equally entertaining to watch. The café setting makes for a hugely enjoyable location for the film, the soundtrack is very groovy and the whole thing is genuinely funny. Fun trivia: apparently Dick Miller plays a character called Walter Paisley in Joe Dante’s The Howling. Not sure if it’s intended to be the same character, but it’s still a pretty awesome tribute. Highly recommended!
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#204

I love this film, one of Corman’s best

also might check out the Rollin book, haven’t heard of it before, think he’s an interesting director

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#205

A lodge themed double bill last night…

Tales From The Lodge - this was aiming for that story telling anthology thing that Brit horror did well in the 70s. A group of old friends visit a secluded lodge while their interpersonal tensions reveal themselves. The cast of this is pretty impressive, which makes it even more disappointing that the main storyline and the anthology stories are so weak - this is neither funny enough or scary enough to hit the spot. There’s a fairly off the wall final act, but overall this is so so. 5/10

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The Lodge - fortunately the second part of the lodge bill was pretty good. This has a similarly doomy tone to Hereditary. Minimal cast, minimal setting, good characters and clever cinematography. I think I’ve only seen Riley Keough in Lars Von Trier’s craporama The House That Jack Built previously, but she is brilliant in this. There were several moments that genuinely shocked me, and the ending is suitably downbeat. Maybe the internal logic of the film reaches somewhat, but the ride more than makes up for it. 8/10

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#206

I loved The House That Jack Built :frowning:

#207

Had really been hoping that this would come to our local cinema, but alas, twas not to be. Might save this for a Christmas viewing in December. Glad to hear it’s as good as I’d heard…

#208

Forgive me if I’m preaching to the converted but I just discovered this BBC podcast of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward:https: //www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06w5zwg
I’m currently 3 episodes in and am loving it. It’s an updating of the classic Lovecraft story and works really well. Looks like the same people have also done a version of The Whisperer in Darkness…

#209

Watched last night, Body Bags…

A couple of years ago, the TV and I decided to do John Carpenter run through, starting with Dark Star and running all the way through to Escape From LA (I refuse to get into the really disappointing era stuff). We stalled on Body Bags as I couldn’t find it anywhere, but after watching Mouth Of Madness last week I found it on YouTube (legal disclaimer - I don’t know).

It’s a TV special rather than a standalone movie, and boy does it tell. The 90s TV production values are…sort of charming I guess. This is anthology format with John Carpenter playing a mortuary assistant linking the stories, with JC directing two segments and Tobe Hooper one. John Carpenter is entertainingly over the top as the host, and his first story is pretty good - a siege/slasher piece that features so many nods to his other films that it’s almost a sampler. It’s downhill from here unfortunately - the second Carpenter directed piece is a classic morality piece (featuring both Sheena Easton and Debbie Harry in supporting roles!) about vanity and is…ok. The third instalment is easily the weakest - Luke Skywalker and Twiggy (who hilariously manages an American accent on pretty much literally 50% of her lines) play out a super derivative story that is also annoyingly the longest segment. Overall, this is light enough entertainment that does in fairness feature a ton of entertaining horror cameos. 5/10

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#210

Watched Videodrome last night and thought it was brilliant. Never watched anything else by Cronenberg so I’m looking forward to digging deeper.

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#211

Hello!

So I was having a rummage through IMDB to see what horror films there are coming up i.e. being delayed until next year and I came across Spiral.

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What’s this?! I thought to myself. From the poster it looks like some kind of highishbrow thriller BUT NO, its a Saw film. Whaaat. With Chris Rock and Samuel Jackson in it.

My word.

I didn’t have much else to add, I just thought the poster was a bit misleading.

#212

Check out Scanners, The Brood and Shivers but especially Scanners.

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#213

Chris Rock also wrote the story…

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#214

^This. Plus The Fly, Crash and The Dead Zone…

(And most of his other films tbh tbf)

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#215

Yeah, I hope it’s good.

It won’t be though, will it? :confused:

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#216

Based solely on the previous five crap most recent Saw films, no…

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#217

How dare you! The last SIX were crap

#218

Chris Rock made Top 5 and is in 2 Days in New York which are both great, so be has a decent pedigree with comedy dramas. How that tranalates to horror I dunno but I’m intrigued

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#219

Yeah, I’m definitely intrigued by his involvement in it because to me, it seems a bit random!

#220

I think he just stumbled across one on TV and thought ‘I could do that’

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