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PostPosted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 7:55 pm  Post subject: Re: The Movies You Watched Today Topic!
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The Dead Want Women - Eric Roberts is almost a guarantee for a bad film, but when I saw this was a Full Moon production, I had somewhat higher hopes. It starts out with half an hour in the 1920s, then it switches to the present for the remaining 45 minutes. Unfortunately, the 1920s part is by far the most interesting part. It has murder and sex, while the latter part has a bleak feel over it, like it is only there to justify the 1920s scenes. The ghosts look superbad. They appear with typical Full Moon effects, which is OK because ot has some kind of charm. But the actors are so badly made up, it looked like they were bad guys in a kid's play. The ending is pretty cliche. Mediocre, and that is only because it starts out so well.

1313: Cougar Cult - DaviD DeCoteau directed a whole series of short films called 1313. I already reviewed Night of the Widow. This one is very similar, even the location is the same, or at least it appeared so. Some of the cast is the same too. As a nice addition, it has B-film hasbeens Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer. They are the "cougars" and when they change into the real cougars, it looks so ridiculously bad, you have to see it, rewind and rewatch it to believe it. Apart from a few of these changescenes, nothing happens in the film, like in NotW. For bad moviefans only.

D4 - story setup is OK: woman hires mercenary to get her son back from a secret military research facility. There he has turned into some kind of monster. Most of the film consists of the soldiers walking through forests. When they make contact, there are some fights, but it doesn't get very interesting. The ending however, is OK again. So: good start, boring middle part, OK ending. Nothing special, really.

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:26 pm  Post subject: Re: The Movies You Watched Today Topic!
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Slaughter High - nice and somewhat nostalgic, to watch an 80s slasher like this. It's about a nerd getting pranked on April Fools and then he has an accident which deforms him. Ten years later there is reunion where all the pranksters from before start to die one by one. Is the nerd back for revenge or what? Caroline Munro is gorgeous, even in her mid 30s, as in this flick. She alone is a good reason to watch this. It is not a very good film as in that it has almost no tension, but it is great in creative killings. Apart from that it has this true 80s atmosphere which I'm a sucker for. So I'd recommend this, for the fans especially!

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U Mugs - this is not a horrorfilm. I read "haunted forest" in the plot description, so I thought it'd be about ghosts in the woods. It is not. It actually isn't even a film. It is a filmmaker, walking around with his dog, telling stories about low/no budget filmmaking, and in the second half they ar trying to wreck a car for a stunt in the film the guy is making. Or so he says. Some imdb reviews went so far as to say this is the new Clockwork Orange, while others dismissed this as pure crap. Although there is something to it to make jokes about low budget stuff and all, it wasn't very interesting as a whole, so I used ffwd a lot and was glad that it didn't last too long. This "film" has it's moments, but the other 95% of it is boring.

Caged - the title is in English, but the film is Dutch. It is an erotic thriller with a touch of horror in Saw style. A woman, Stella, wakes up in a cellar and she can't get out. In flashbacks we see what her life was before she ended up in the cellar: she is seeing a therapist and she tells him about her "new self", a woman who feels liberated now she found out that she likes to swing. So she secretly sees other people just to have sex with them. Her husband isn't so pleased and moves out temporarily, so when she ends up in the cellar, nobody is looking for her. Then, after a while, a second woman is put in the cellar. Stella builds up some kind of a weird friendship with her, but the nightmare isn't over yet. Regularly they get dragged out to be put in chairs with shackles and stuff and they are tortured, although that torturing is pretty weird sometimes. The ending is also a tad weird, but the plottwist was nice. I was enjoying this film, as the acting is very good, except for Ferry Asselbergs, he had ths typical "I'm acting, so I have to make something different out of my voice" thing, but the rest of the cast was good. Atmosphere was OK too, although it could have been better still, more in your face even. I don't know of any subs, but if you understand Dutch, go see this.

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Harold's Going Stiff - comedy about ORD, onset of rigor disease, a sickness which makes people go stiff, and turns them into zombies. Harold, a nice old man, gets the disease to, and he is cared for a by a fat nurse, who gives him massages to get less stiff. His doctor wants him to participate in a test to get a cure, while three guys run around clubbing ORD patients to death, as some kind of zombiehunters. Some funny moments, pretty well acted too. The zombiehunters were a tad too dumb for my taste, but overall a nice film.

Zombies vs Strippers - sexy girls Victoria Levine and Eva Mauro star as strippers in this very straightforward zombieflick, where a stripjoint is the center from which a small group of survivors has to see how they deal with a zombie outbreak. This film had some funny stuff too, while this one wasn't meant as a comedy per se. Good gore and some nice zombiejokes. Not too long either, if you are into some good fun with zombies, watch this one.

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today i watched "dead before dawn 3d": awful to the max, but strangely quiet enjoyable, its about these bunch of college kids, who break this skull thingy in this unpopular kids grandfathers occult shop (grandfather played by Christopher Lloyd, who does say "great scott" in this movie (give me a grin to hear him say that).... then after breakin this thing, they are told by the unpopular kid that this skull business is all about them all being cursed, so for a laugh they say "who ever we look at will kill them selves", then another says "yeah, then come back to life as a zombie", another says "nah a demon, hows about zombie demons, zemons!"... well it happens, and its not funny, got abit of blood n stuff, but not gory, it was fun with 3 cans of strongbow pear, but otherwise i dunno, cos i will never watch it again...

recommended for kids who lol at spoofy type zombie movies made in canada with a cast of ppl u seen in many more canadian productions. AAWFULL :matrix:


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Alien Opponent - very funny film! A rednekc family has just disposed of it's father. Then an alien crashlands in their carjunkyard, and it is now too dangerous to recover the dead body of the father in order to collect the insurance money. So they devise a plan to make it happen anyway: set a reward for anyone who kills the alien and brings back the dead body. Many different types of killers come along, from marines to hitmen to a ninja teacher with his class. There is even a Lara Croft lookalike :) This film wasn't advertised as a comedy, but it is way better and funnier than most of the films which are. I can safely recommend this, maybe even highly, as it is an oddball storyline, with good actors, nice effects and good laughs!

Alligator X - well, you know the story with Syfy movies, when you have seen one, you have seen them all. Was I a tad surprised a while back at a certain type of plottwist they introduced, now I have seen it pass by several times already. So in this one again, you get an "unexpected" turn of events near the final scene. Yawn. Also, the monster is ugly and it is not illogical how it got there, it is outirght bonkers. I must say that I enjoyed watching Elena Lyons and Lacey Minchew, but it is not really worth the time watching this film for it. I had a few moments of enjoyment, but the rest of it was stuff I had already seen a thousand times before.

@ PiiiE: thx for the review, I was thinking whether or not to watch it, now I won't ;)

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:12 pm  Post subject: Re: The Movies You Watched Today Topic!
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American Scream King - two guys are talking about how to make a low budget movie (again, *sigh*), and surprise surprise, they end up making a slasher movie! In a basement they keep some women tied up, and the guys do this little knife game with them, when the knife points at the door, you're free to go, if it points at you, you die. Not even very unoriginal, this, but it never grabbed me, maybe because the image was made grainy on purpose and it failed. Some sadistic stuff, a few OK jokes, but even with the short running time, it wasn't anything recommendable.

Dorm of the Dead - highschool zombieflick in all it's aspects. Group of teens hangs out, zombie outbreak, now they have to find a way out of the campus. The zombies are very badly made up, they all look like Festers, with whitened faces and black circles around their eyes. I guess the make up department spent one minute on each zombie or something, it looks a bit clumsy. The gore is low quality, and the ending is super cliche. Only if you don't have anything else to watch, as it is bad, but it won't hurt your eyes.

The Innkeepers - ghostfilm about a hotel about to be closed. The two crewmembers are gonna chreck out if there is actually a ghost in the hotel. In the meantime they meet some of the last guests, one of which is an over the hill actress turned medium, and one is an old man wanting to see his honeymoon hotelroom for the last time. For some reason I don't like Sarah Paxton, I think she is annoying. Unfortunately for me, she has the lead in this film. The ghosts were great, and the parts with the old man were quite scary, but I don't know what it was with this film, but it didn't do it for me. Maybe it was because so much was left open on the storyline. I don't mind if I have to think a little, or even a lot, about a plot. But this was just lacking. It felt unfinished somehow. And after the slow start, I felt like I could get some reward, and then it didn't come. Shame, missed opportunity.

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Orinoco prigioniere del sesso - Ajita Wilson and some other women are being kept prison in a jungle area. Of course, there are revolutionaries around, and they plan to break free the women, so they can help them fight the government. The revolutionaries infiltrate the prison camp before they strike. I really liked this exploitation, I was hoping for a bit of cannibalism, and it didn't have that, but it did have enough WIP elements, mixed with some jugnle atmosphere. It was nice. The firefights are hilarious: you can't imagine how dull someone can look while "dying", and the strange angles they make while falling are very interesting. There is some hardcore porn edited into the film, amd it doesn't add a thing. It would have been better left out, it is somehow breaking the atmosphere the film has by itself. The ending is cool too, I loved it how the explosion blew up the safe, but not the wooden house it was in :) Recommended for bad moviefans and fans of WIP films or exploitation in general.

Outpost: Black Sun - reading the title, I thought this sequel to Outpost might deal with the Japanese, as there is also a Men Behind The Sun: Black Sun - the Nanking Massacre (part 4). Well, it isn't. It is about a young girl who hunts old nazis, and while douing so ends up in an area where there is a secret machine who can create the nazi zombies we know from part 1. She also meets an old acquaintance, who goes to find the machine before anyone else, as it is so dangerous for a government to have. She joins him, as she thinks she might find her last target: a nazi called Klausener. Of course there are many surprises awaiting them. I liked the zombies, but the fact that they are nazi zombies is more of a coincidence than in part 1. Therefore I'd prefer part 1 if I had to choose. The effects are cool, and the storyline is OK, although the plottwist was something which felt a bit overdone, or cliche at least. Acting is decent. Recommended, as it is still a nice zombieflick. If you haven't seen part one, go watch that first, though.

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Slaughter High - nice and somewhat nostalgic, to watch an 80s slasher like this. It's about a nerd getting pranked on April Fools and then he has an accident which deforms him. Ten years later there is reunion where all the pranksters from before start to die one by one. Is the nerd back for revenge or what? Caroline Munro is gorgeous, even in her mid 30s, as in this flick. She alone is a good reason to watch this. It is not a very good film as in that it has almost no tension, but it is great in creative killings. Apart from that it has this true 80s atmosphere which I'm a sucker for. So I'd recommend this, for the fans especially!


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Hehe, yeah, well, that was like 15 years before Slaughter High ;)

Devil Dolls - Charles Band made a lot of puppet movies, as you might know Puppet Master and some other classics. Apparently he became tired of making new movies, so he cut up some of the ones he made previously and then put them together to make this "new" anthology. Sadly I only noticed this when the third story in this film appeared, as it was Demonic Toys summarised and renamed. I immediately recognised the film. At first I was like "well, maybe it is a version which was ditched later" but it is simply Demonic Toys with like one hour removed from the original. The yohr two movies I hadn't seen the original, so I enjoyed those more. I'd recommend watching the originals, though, as Demonic Toys in this version was sometimes hard to follow (with 2/3 of the film removed, well, duh...). Avoid this and go for the originals.

Piranha 3DD - funny movie, which you shouldn't watch as a horror, but as a comedy. The film doesn't take itself seriously, and it even smelled a bit of a spoof to Piranha (the recent one, but maybe it was intended as a sequel and should I have laughed more about part one). The piranhas are incredibly fake, but I had a good time watching the purposel;y slow motioend shots of running babes in bikinis, the supercliche storyline, the not so bad to look at female lead and of course David Hasselhoff who spoofed himself. A lot. He has done so more often recently, but this was just another good one! I laughed out loud a few times, so go and watch this for fun, at least for the Hoff you should be on the safe side! Recommended.

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Android Insurrection - (...) When the film started I was like "I have already seen this" because there was this giant wheel-like robot which started to kill people. I'm sure i have seen that before in a different movie. If anyone recalls a title with giant wheel-like robots (they have several wheels turning within each other and in the middle there is a red ball), please post. I tried to find it, but have failed so far.

Found it, it was Battle: New York, Day 2.

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Super Shark - hilarious monsterflick! Just watch the trailer and then if you don't laugh, skip this film. Otherwise, go watch it! It is overly ridiculous, moreover because when the fake cgi shark isn't in sight, the cast acts like they are in a theater play. So there are "serious" scenes, mixed with the overdone stupidity of the shark scenes. I loved it, it is so outrageous! Catherine Annette is a nice babe, btw. Recommended for laughs. Especially for bad moviefans!

Evil Laugh - a slasher comedy, but for me it was more a slasher than a comedy. I laughed several times, but that was at unintentionally funny stuff, and a comedy for me is when a film wants to make you laugh, not does stuupid things you laugh at. All cliches are gathered in this film, and the 80s atmosphere drips from your screen when you watch this. Very nice. I also found out thjat this was the debut film of Ashlyn Gere, a woman who made fame afterwards in numerous softporn films (kind of going the other ay around, right?). If you're a sucker for 80s horror like me, then go watch this.

Army of Zombies - mmm, dumb film. I accidentally bought this one, and it had only a German soudntrack, while it is a Finnish film. It starts out OK, and I had a few laughs, but the zombies don't look like zombies, they just look like old/wounded people. There isn't much horror, and after a while it gets dumber and more boring. The group of zombies is a Red Guard and they want a socialist revolution: after this, it becomes a bad comedy and all horror is gone. A movie to skip, I'd say.

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Passi di danza su una lama di rasoio - nice giallo about dancers getting murdered. The beginning is classic: a woman sees a murder happening through a tourist telescope (you know, one of thosre things you have to put coins into), and her boyfriend is a suspect. From that moment on, yet another nice and totally unfollowable giallo unfolds, and when you think you guessed the killer right, it does that typical giallo thing and turns the entire plot around in the last 5 minutes. Well done, cast and crew! This doesn't make it a masterpiece however, there are way better giallos out there. But I really enjoyed watching this one, so this one is for the fans of the genre. If you're new to it, you might pick this one, but I'd recommend other ones.

The Incident - aka Asylum Blackout. Grim film about a rockband whose members work as cooks in an insane asylum. One night, the power goes out and all cells are opened automatically: this leaves the guards and the cooks in a minority situation. Some of the inmates start rampaging the asylum, others are on a killing spree. The cooks now have to survive the night. Atmosphere is really gripping! I was totally into this film, it felt a bit claustrophobic. It is very much in your face: it doesn't leave a second to have some relief. You might find it not enjoyable, simply because there isn't much to enjoy. Sadly the ending was quite weak, but from my experience I know it doesn't help to recommend stopping the film before the final scene. If you are willing to take advise on this point, stop at 1:16:58 (at 24 fps, you might stop a bit sooner to be on the safe side) and you'll be good.

Chernobyl Diaries - extreme tourism takes a group of friends to Pripyat, the ghost town near Chernobyl. There they have a few unfortunate events, and then they are left alone in the van they came in and they have to spend the night. An array of monsters passes by and it is a tad difficult to find out what kind of creature is hunting them this time. Also, this makes the film a bit messy, so my tip for the director would be "stick to one species". Some of the cgi monsters are ugly, but some are OK as they are kept in the dark. OK gore too. Enjoyable but not really special.

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They Wait - Canadian ghostfilm with Chinese link. A couple moves back to Canada from Shanghai after a relative has died. Soon after they're back, their son starts to see ghosts, and his mother does too. There are some nice scary moments, and the cultural differences between the wife and the family of her husband are nicely portrayed. Effects are good, nice to see some good cgi for a change. The story isn't very original if you have seen Asian ghostfilms before, but performances are nice and atmosphere is enjoyable. Mildly recommended, you might skip this one if you're looking for new angles or originality.

Ninja Zombies - amateur horrorfilm with ninjas and some students and loads of cgi gore which is bad. The story isn't even that bad, but image quality and acting are so bad that is impossible to judge this a good film. The story is about an ancient sword and ninjas who have the mission to get that sword back for their master. As I said, it could have been much better, but obviously the money and manpower were lacking. I guess most ninjas wer double cast for another role beside the ninja part. Not gonna watch this one again.

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Eddie, the Sleepwalking Cannibal - funny horrorcomedy about a Danish painter named Lars who moves to Canada to teach at an artschool, in order to refind his inspiration to paint again. At the artschool, there is an adult student named Eddie. He is a bit behind, but the school depends on his presence, as his wealthy family provides for the necessary funding each year. Lars takes Eddie in when it turns out Eddie needs a place to stay. That night, Lars finds out Eddie eats small animals while sleepwalking, and at the same time he gets his inspiration back from that mere fact! Soon Lars finds himself in a situation where he needs to paint, but then he needs Eddie too... this goes into a downward spiral and it is up to Lars to get out of it. Some good laughs, nice gore and I have a weak spot for Georgina Reilly: I already liked her in Pontypool and this time she does it again for me. So, recommended!

Emmanuelle: First Contact - I have this one named Emmanuelle 6: One Final Fling but it turned out to be this one. Again, the spaceship crew is orbiting earth and Emmanuelle has to teach them about love (wow, how surprising), so the captain goes with her to see some of the classic great sites: the Chinese Wall, the pyramids of Gizeh, etc. They have an awful lot of sex, when you skip through them with ffwd, the movie becomes some 50% shorter. It is again the same cast which does this series with Emmanuelle in outer space all the time, so it is a bit like "you see one, you have seen them all".

Storage 24 - a plane crashes in London and then an alien is suddenly inside a storage building. Some guy is gonna look for his ex-girlfriend to get his stuff back, and then at first a little soap opera develops, as there is more to the breaking up than the usual stuff of "I don't love you anymore". On to the monster then, as that is what makes this movie a horrorfilm. The monster is OK, it looked cool but I don't know how they actually did it: there is a guy on the cast list who plays this monster, yet it looked pretty much cgi to me. The monster does his thing, gradually eating away the company, and the ending of it is, well, kind of cool. Average film, nothing superoriginal or interesting, just a simple monsterflick which should go with a big keg of beer and some popcorn or something like that.

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The Devil's Business - interesting and quite creepy short film (70 minutes) about two hitmen entering the apartment of their next victim, only to discover an altar with a skull and a pentagram on it. They get the creeps, especially the younger one, and that is totally justified. When their victim returns home, they find out why. I found the cockney sometimes difficult to follow, but I understood enough of the story. Nice atmosphere and OK acting combined with some nice effects makes for a good film. Recommended.

Visions of Ecstasy - short film (19 minutes) about a nun having sex with Jesus. There is also some girl who portrays the nun's spirit, so if I understood it correctly, the nun is actually masturbating (because in her "dream" she also has sex with this woman). This film was banned in the UK until 2011 for blasphemy. If you watch it, you might understand why. I don't think any film should be banned, but compared to the reasons why some video nasties were banned back in the 80s, I at least saw some distant reason here. I'm glad it got unbanned, though. Banning films is for dictatorships, not for "civilised countries" like the UK.

Vamperifica - a vampire comedy which has trouble to be funny. I noticed a few jokes (like "Don't you spill blood like that, don't you know there are vampires in Africa who can't have any blood at all?"), but most of the "comedy" relies on the fact that the main character is gay and overacts like that. For me, that isn't enough and very often it isn't even funny. The gore is quite scarce, although there is a whole lot of it at the ending. Can't recommend this, try better next time, director.

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Gulag - I assumed this was a bad movie because I grabbed it from SBiG. It isn't, it is actually quite a good film, except for the fact that it has some blatant Cold War propaganda going on.

Killjoy Goes To Hell - Having seen the previous Killjoy films, I was in for some bad movie entertainment, but this one was actually quite good. It looks like there has been one team on the Killjoy franchise and they actually learnt something from the past (this probably isn't true, but it does look that way). There are soime funny scenes in this film, and although this exaggerated accent by Batty Boop is really annoying, I had some fun watching this flick. The premise is quite original: Killjoy, the demonic clown, gets sent to hell to be judged by Beelzebub, for not being evil enough. LOL. A "court drama" ensues. Trent Haaga is a way better Killjoy than Ángel Vargas, that's for sure. If you want to see a Killjoy film, go for this one, it is the best so far.

Juan de los Muertos - Shaun of the Dead on Cuba. Pretty funny zombieflick with some good Cuba vs USA jokes in it. There is also a personal drama going on, like in Shaun of the Dead (I read some reviews that we shouldn't compare the two films all the time, but Juan de los... puts itself in that situation with a gazillion references top Shaun of the Dead including the title design) and it has funny fights with zombies. There is also a paddle instead of the cricketbat. As a bonus, it has Andrea Duro. Recommended, especially for zombiefans.

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Inbred - four young delinquents and their social workers are gonna have a weekend in a small village called Mortlake, to do some work for society. After the first day, they go to the local pub, called The Dirty Hole and that is the first step onto a downward spiral of violence and sadism, but they don't know that yet. The local people are gonna use them in a show which reminded me of Bloodsucking Freaks, but the entire film is more like The Hills Have Eyes or House of 1000 Corpses. The difference is that this film isn't as grim, because there is a lot to laugh about too: funny bets on how far a certain person gets before getting trapped, etc. This doesn't mean that there aren't any nasty kills, though: there are some which would rank quite high in the top 10 of nastiest kills in movies if there was such a thing. I had fun, it is one of the better films in this subgenre. Recommended!

Monsters in the Woods - I'm getting a little tired of the movies which are about low budget filmmaking: it looks like it is a trend lately. "Look, we are making a no budget film, look how stupid that is! Hahaha! Look, a badly dressed up monster!" and then of course, the "real" monsters show up. Sigh. Yawn. OK, that's the bad side of this film. Now the good side: I thoroughly enjoyed the fact hat there are real man-in-suit monsters in this film instead of cgi. I really liked that. Also, it has a cheesiness over it which appealed to me. The monsters look like some sort of mutated spiders, but they are called "hell hounds". Then a character even points out that that is quite stupid :) There were some girls with OK looks in it, but the film didn't exploit that enough, imo. Final verdict: a so-so film, with cool monsters but a lame storyline. Watch the second half only if you want to skip the lamest parts.

19 Doors - pffft, how boring can a film become? A writer goes into a haunted hotel to get inspiration for her next story. The hotel has 19 doors and they all have a secret to hide (wow, that's original!). At night the ghost stuff starts. This must be the lowest budget effects depratment ever, because the ghost stuff is comprised of 1) someone banging loudly on a door 2) someone opening and closing doors and windows 3) someone making a woohhooooo sound in the hallway. Really, that's it. Later on in the film some ghosts start appearing, but then they look like normal human beings. Towards the end the film is getting a tad better and the ending itself was quite good. So, a shame that the first hour or so is so boring, because otherwise this might have been a nice film to watch. Now it is just forgettable.

Belcebu - this was a weird film. It is about a rockstar who gets a visit from the devil, and a second plot is about some hookers and drug abuse, but I didn't really get what it had to do with the main plot, except for the fact that one of the hookers once was a gf of the rockstar. The film is Spanish, but it looked like many of the characters were dubbed. When I watched this it was already pretty late, so I might be wrong there, but that was the impression I had. The plots go on for a while and when you start to wonder if it is ever gonan end, the apotheosis comes and it is superb. A very gory shootout makes you almost forget how little was actually happening in the opening hour. Great ending, I really liked it. I just don't know if it's enough to save the enitre film. I'll do the benefit of the doubt thing and recommend it mildly.

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Forgive Me For Raping You - after 5 minutes in I was wondering what kind of crap I was watching. On imdb I read that this was a Bill Zebub film and since I already had seen Zombiechrist before, I knew this was gonna be crap. So after the 5 minutes, I pressed ffwd and watched 95% of the film on 16x speed. That way you get the idea of the film anyway and you don't have this mindblowing emptiness to plough through. Again there is a lot of full frontal nudity (with closeups from vaginas etc, like in porn) and the sound is horrible. A very, very annoying sound keeps going on in the background, it actually hurt my ears so I put down the volume. I watched one scene at the end, because it was the only scene which was different (all others were with naked girls and the main character talking to them and then eventually having sex with them): here the main character talked to a priest about wanting to become a priest. This scene was kind of surrealistic, as it had some childish humor on rape and the church. Ha ha. Grow up, Bill, you come across like a 13-year old. Tip: check if a film is made by Bill Zebub. If it is, skip it.

Monster Brawl - the classic horror monsters and some less classic ones are gonna fight each other in a World Wrestling Federation‎-like setting, with two reporters talking about the properties of each monster, and then reporting on the fight. I don't know what to think of this. I liked the spoofy part where they made fun of the wrestling thing, but it was a bit lame too. The acting was average at best, but the ring girls looked quite nice. I had a bit of fun watching this, but it wasn't a movie to remember.

El Caminante - easily the best film I watched today. Paul Naschy is the devil, who gets bored in hell so he goes to earth, accepting all weaknesses of mankind, like getting hurt or die. What he does, is deceiving people, and tricking them in all possible ways. His favourite victims of tricking are women, preferably beautiful ones. He seduces them and then dumps them afterwards, calling them sluts and all. This is quite blunt, but it is shown in a way it doesn't come across as such. Actually it is quite funny to watch this film. I had great fun watching this, as Naschy is really good as the devil, and althought here is this moralistic scene near the end about mankind being more cruel than the devil himself, it still is one of the best, if not the best Naschy film ever. Recommended, if not highly.

Night of the Living Dead 3D Reanimation - kind of a pretentious title, but apparently this is a sequel to Night of the Living Dead 3D. This film didn't have any 3D, but I can't say I missed it (not a big fan of it anyway). This film is about two brothers, who after the death of their father finally meet again in the morgue which was once the realm of their father, bu is now maintained by one of the brothers. There is only one slight problem: the dead in the morgue are beginning to rise again. The film is carried by Andrew Divoff and Jeffrey Combs, who play the two brothers. The zombie scenes are a bit meh, the tension comes from the dialogues between Divoff and Combs. The ending is quite OK, although not very original. Average zombiefilm.

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