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Postby gavdann » Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:45 am

The Lost Boys is possibly my most watched film of all time but I've never seen the two sequels. They have to be crap.

Again, watched the first Hellraiser back in the 80's, kinda enjoyed it but never seen any of the sequels.

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Postby Darkweasel » Wed Nov 29, 2017 2:36 pm

Ghost wrote:Wow didn't realise there were so many puppet master films ha ha. Think I only saw the first one when it came out. You took one for the team there.
Do the Hellraiser or Lost boys franchises next ha ha.

The only good moment of either of the Lost Boys sequels was the saxophone player, aged and with a pot belly, busking on the side of the street.

I've got the Hellraiser blu ray box set coming for Christmas, so I'll probably review those. Having already watched every other sequel, it's safe to say I'll never watch any of them ever again. Well, maybe Part 4, or the video game one with Lance Henriksen.
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Postby bloodfiend » Thu Nov 30, 2017 1:31 pm

Darkweasel wrote:I've got the Hellraiser blu ray box set coming for Christmas, so I'll probably review those. Having already watched every other sequel, it's safe to say I'll never watch any of them ever again. Well, maybe Part 4, or the video game one with Lance Henriksen.


Oh go on watch Bloodline, just for the novelty of thinking about the writers sitting around a table planning it out, thinking "hmmmm, the Hellrasier franchise is struggling a bit, what do we do?....I know, let's blast Pinhead into outer space!".

or watch Deader to laugh at them titling the film with a word that doesn't actually exist.

In terms of Hellraiser I think the first one is okay but a bit overrated, the second one is great, the third one pretty bad, and everything after that is horrendous.

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Postby some_thing_wild » Thu Nov 30, 2017 6:53 pm

You should do Trancers
Bet it'd be an awful time
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Postby Darkweasel » Tue Dec 05, 2017 4:24 pm

some_thing_wild wrote:You should do Trancers
Bet it'd be an awful time

Genuinely thinking about it...



BURIAL GROUND
(1981)
aka Nights of Terror
aka Zombie Horror
aka The Zombie Dead

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A group of permanently horny "jet-setters" (well, that's what the VHS sleeve says anyway) stay in an old mansion to have lots of sex but get interrupted by zombies instead.

Also known, like at least two or three more other completely unrelated films, as Zombi 3, Burial Ground is basically ninety or so minutes of screaming and running away from slow moving actors with plasticine on their faces. Or masks. Or with plasticine on their masks.

Right from the moment an impressively bearded professor wakes up some zombies and seems genuinely surprised they want to kill him ("But... I'm your friend!") to the final scene which cuts off halfway through because they probably didn't have any money left to finish it, Burial Ground is cheap, stupid, badly dubbed Italian fun.

Gino (Piranha 2, Cannibal Ferox) De Rossi's gore effects are pretty good, but the star of the show has to be twenty-five year old actor, Peter Bark, who because of laws restricting children from appearing in certain types of horror films, plays a ten year old boy who fancies his own mum.

One of those zombie films where the slow moving, shambling undead always seem to catch up with their far more agile prey within seconds, the creatures also appear to be considerably more intelligent than the small cast of hopeless morons who run around in circles doing the exact opposite of what any even remotely intelligent person would do. Oh, and the twenty-five year old ten year old ends up biting off his own mother's tit.
6/10



THE DEVIL'S HONEY
(1986)

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Famous for horror films such as Zombie Flesh Eaters, The Beyond, and The House by the Cemetery, Italian director, Lucio Fulci, after having taken a year off to recover from Hepatitis, returned to film making of a very different variety in 1986.
Without a gateway to Hell or a zombie in sight, The Devil's Honey (aka Dangerous Obsession) is more like Nine and a Half Weeks, but with a saxophone and sexy revenge.

During a recording session in a music studio, really-good-looking-in-a-mid-eighties-Italian-way saxophonist, Johnny, tells his producers to leave the room so his horny girlfriend, Jessica, can make bizarre finger movements and tell him she doesn't want to have sex with him even though she clearly does. Unperturbed, Johnny takes out his secret weapon. No, not that. His saxophone. And proceeds to lift up her skirt and blow it up her fanny. Sexily, of course. This isn't smut, you know. So, with a sweaty face and a rapist's stare, Johnny plays a sexy sax solo directly onto his girlfriend's nether regions which soon results in her taking her top off and grinding her untrimmed '80s ladygarden onto his instrument, sending her into orgasmic shudders, and Johnny's job is done.

After a bit of pointless exposition on a roller coaster, some rather dangerous motorcycle masturbation,and a bit of unwanted bum fun in the country, Johnny crashes his motorbike and, after initially thinking everything is fine, collapses in the studio and has to be rushed to hospital for surgery. Unfortunately for Johnny, the surgeon is having a bit of a mental breakdown, having sex with dirty prostitutes (especially enjoying himself as one of them paints her laddered stockings and hairy bits with bright red nail varnish), and constantly rowing with his wife, mainly about all the dirty prostitutes he's been having sex with. Anyway, the surgeon looks to have made a total bollocks of the operation and Johnny dies, his sexy sax solos never to be heard again. Well, until the many, many flashbacks anyway.

Blaming the oversexed, henpecked surgeon for her boyfriend's death, Jessica kidnaps him and threatens to kill him in nasty ways. Amid many threats, and one failed drowning, Jessica starts flashing back to her life with Johnny, and eventually begins to realise that maybe he was actually a bit of a controlling twat. Especially after remembering one particularly eventful afternoon at the pictures where, in the middle of a strenuous bout of face licking, she suddenly realises Johnny is happily receiving a blowjob from his gay producer at the same time.

Meanwhile, despite the fact he's been kidnapped, beaten, strangled, fed dog food, had his face, lips, and gums licked (don't even fucking ask), and nearly drowned, the captured surgeon falls head over heels in love with his captor in one of the worst cases of Stockholm Syndrome ever, and after Jessica realises she never really loved Johnny anyway, they both have sex and live happily ever after.
Well, Possibly. The final shot of a gun sat next to the window leaves things pointlessly ambiguous, but by that point you won't care anyway. You'll be far too busy trying to stop hearing sultry saxophone solos playing over everything, everywhere, forever.

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Re: movies

Postby gavdann » Thu Dec 07, 2017 12:46 pm

Darkweasel wrote:Oh, and the twenty-five year old ten year old ends up biting off his own mother's tit.

Ah man. How to ruin the ending! :lol:

Two firsts for me this week. I watched Day of the Dead and Evil Dead 2.

Evil Dead 2 was even more weird than the first one!!

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Postby Ghost » Thu Dec 07, 2017 2:11 pm

I used to prefer Evil Dead 2 as a kid but now I prefer the original because it's more horror than comedy.

Just watched Houses that October Built. Pretty good for a found footage film.
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Postby some_thing_wild » Thu Dec 07, 2017 6:32 pm

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0386064/

Version I had was just called Brotherhood, but watched this not long ago and was probably the vest war film i've seen. Highly recommend.
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Postby Ghost » Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:14 am

Top five Christmas films in no particular order.
Scrooged
Elf
Black Christmas original
Deck the halls
Gremlins

Honourable mention for the polar express because my son loves it even though it's rubbish ha ha.
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Postby some_thing_wild » Wed Dec 20, 2017 10:46 pm

Muppets Christmas Carol
Home Alone 2
Its A Wonderful Life
Black Christmas
Stardust (not even a christmas film, never watched it any other time of the year)
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Postby Bizza » Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:18 pm

Scrooged
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Snowman
BOA - '07, '08, '09, '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18,' 19, '21, '22, '23.
Warhorns '12 '15 '16
WOA - '15
Damnation - '12
Download - '16 (Never fucking again)

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Postby some_thing_wild » Thu Dec 28, 2017 4:23 pm

The Last Jedi

After hating The Force Awakens I wasn't holding out much hope for this one, I also managed to avoid every single trailer and advert for it so had no idea what to expect.
First 2/3 I thought were so boring, and there were some unnecassary scenes that couldve been cut to shorten the runtime,but overall it did get better and there were some cinematic scenes that have to be seen in a cinema. Was crying out for more saber fights too which didnt really happen much.
Overall, 6/10
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Postby Thrash Bandicoot » Mon Jan 01, 2018 6:04 pm

The Last Jedi is easily the worst of the new Star Wars movies, I would still say overall a good movie. But certainly a lot more unnecessary scenes than any of the others, along with a few continuity issues.

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Postby gavdann » Tue Jan 02, 2018 9:10 am

Thrash Bandicoot wrote:The Last Jedi is easily the worst of the new Star Wars movies

I agree.

The Force Awakens was good, Rogue One was very good and The Last Jedi was OK. It had good moments but too much wrong with it too.

To be honest, I think only Phantom Menace (which I actually prefer in places) and Attack of the Clones (virtually unwatchable for me) are worse Star Wars movies.

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Re: movies

Postby Thrash Bandicoot » Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:12 pm

List time

Return Of The Jedi
A New Hope
The Empire Strikes Back
Rogue One
The Force Awakens
The Phantom Menace
Revenge Of The Sith
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Attack Of The Clones