Perversion Story - this Fulci is not horror, but a giallo, and a clever one. It takes some time to get into the story, but if you do, it is worth it. Storyline is actually pretty simple, but it is put forward in some sort of special way, it makes you feel like you're watching a special film. A guy gets entangled in different love affairs after his wife has died. One of the women in his affairs looks a lot like his deceased wife, and he starts thinking after a while. The way the plot is revealed is great. Up until the very last moment you (can) have doubts on the outcomne. Well done. Recommended.

Phantom from Space - mmm, a bit dull, this one. The "phantom" is an invisible man. He comes down to earth, scientists are looking for him and they only find him when he dies, because he becomes visible. Dull.

Baron Blood - classic mistake: take an old parchment, read the text out loud in the castle of your ancient ancestors and then loose the parchment in the hearth. This causes an old baron to become alive again and kill everyone, good job. The man and the woman who read the parchment are gonna look for ways to stop him, and they end up at a psychic's house. In the meantime, the castle is sold to an old man in a wheelchair who helps them looking for solutions. In the end a little revenge theme is played, which was nice. Nice Bava film. Recommended.

The Exorcism of Emily Rose - good film. What I really like about this one: 1) Acting is great 2) story is varied: you go from courtscene to exorcism scene and back 3) the story roots in reality, or at least the filmmakers want you to believe that (I love that). Courtdramas always play on my emotions, just like lawyers want them to, but in this case it was so powerful in a way that I liked it. Only drawback for me that it is spposed to be the 70s and I always got the feeling the film was in modern day, but maybe that was some "poetic liberty" taken by the screenwriters. All in all, good film, recommended. Read more about the true story it is based on here: http://www.fotofetch.com/

The Prophecy - I was thinking what kind of genre this is. Since almost all genres one puts on films with a heavy christian theme might be looking like taking sides, I decided it doesn't matter and so I call it horror, as it has stuff which cannot happen irl and it is supposed to scare people (my def of horror). Now, how well is this horrorfilm made? Pretty well, I must say. A star cast with Walken as the pivotal person in the film, but Eric Stoltz also giving a nice performance. This is especially well done when you think about the script. Really guys, the script is ridiculous. But still Walken, Stoltz and others make the best of it. It is films like this which make me enjoy watching good actors. This is the first of five Prophecy films I have in my collection. Nrs 4 and 5 are without Walken, but I can prepare for that I recommend this one, for the acting.

Just watched "Hobo with a Shotgun".
One word: goddamnfuckingawesome!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640459/

Needful Things - very nice Stephen King story, about a devilish setup in which the people of a small town are being put up against each other, all indirectly. Very cleverly thought up, this scheme. There are some great actors in this one: Max von Sydow, Ed Harris, J.T. Walsh, Amanda Plummer, etc. Atmosphere is a tiny bit creepy, just enough to give you some shivers, but nothing much. There is only one big drawback and that is the end speech of Harris' character. Luckily enough we get some fireworks right after that. Recommended.

damn, it's ages since I saw Needful Things. I remember loving the book, and think it might actually be ripe for a second viewing.

I Lunghi Capelli della Morte - aka the Long Hair of Death. A B&W Italian classic about witchcraft. A woman gets burnt to death but she curses the family of the lord who sent her to the stake. It all plays out in the Middle Ages and almost everything is inside the castle of the lord. The daughter of the witch is gonna avenge her mother's death on the family, but they don't know that yet. Atmosphere was OK, it was never scary or anything, but good enough. Acting also OK, from the cast I only knew Barbara Steele, but the others did a good job too. Mildly recommended, because the story is not very gripping, but the atmosphere makes up for it a bit.

Tales from the Darkside - anthology about a boy about to be cooked for dinner by an evil woman. The boy tries to save his life by reading to her from her favourite storybook. The three other stories are, not surprisingly, from this book. The first story is the best one, and it has the most famous actors too (Christian Slater, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi). It is about a mummy coming to life and going on a killing spree. The second story is about a killer cat and you have to suspend a lot of disbelief while you are watching the scenes where the cat is killing people. But, nice lil story anyhow. The last is also the least: it is about a guy who sees some sort of demon and then promises to not tell anyone or h will die. Well, guess what happens... The way they let it happen is kind of original, but the predictabilty drips from the screen. All in all a nice anthology which heavily leans on the power of the first story. Recommended.

The Smuggler - a crime flick by Fulci. It takes a while before you can recognise Fulci's hand in this one, but when a crimeboss goes on a killing spree among the capos of Naples, you will notice. Some of the murders a pretty brutal. They shouldn't have shot up the dead body on the ground though, you could see the chips of plaster coming off, making it look real fake. The storyline is OK, I loved the old capo watching westerns all the time, only comning out of his house when he thinks it is too much. Nice touch. Mildly recommended.

Psycho Beach Party - this parody is like a 50s surfers film. They did the "streetlanguage" of the 50s, and I'm no expert, but it sounded genuine enough. The plot around is kind of childish, with the girl changing personalities, but the whole plot is OK-ish, albeit a bit cliche. It is not a real big surprise to see who the psycho killer is. It was nice to see a lot of familiar faces having fun while making a movie. For me there could have been more killings, more tension. It was a bit too much of the "hey look at us maing a parody" atmosphere. Still, I had fun.

Legend - mmm, I expected more from this. I'm actually quite disappointed that it is only a fairytale. Almost no fighting or other forms of violence, only myriads of magic and everything is so sweet my teeth got damaged with my mouth shut. Tom Cruise does a nice job as some sort of forest dweller or whatever he is supposed to be. The devil is really cool, but his role is way too limited imo. I'll remember this film for when I have kids later.

Child's Play 2 - nice sequel, but I think you have to see part 1 first or you will miss a lot of stuff or don't understand it. Chucky is more in your face in this film than in part 1 and I like that, I hope he gets wilder everytime. The foster parent thing is nicely done and a clever way to write around the fact that Catherine Hicks wasn't available for this movie. Most killings are cool and some are gory. Of course this is gonna turn into a series of "he is dead now - oh no, he isn't here is the next sequel", but in horror this is allowed as we have seen before with endless series of Halloween and Friday the 13th movies. I liked this part a little better than part 1, but you shouldn't skip part 1 and watch this first. Recommended.

Mondo Cane - heard a lot about this, so I wanted to see what is true about it's legendary status. Part of "The Shockumentary box", I sat down to be shocked. Well, I didn't get shocked really. The film open with a statement about all images being real, filmed "while it happened". After ten minutes or so, you know this can't be true. After a scene of a "famous Italian actor" going to buy some clothing and then being swarmed by 50 outrageous female fans you alreayd start to think "this can't be real" because it uis so exaggerated, but even if you believe that scene to be true, the next one will convince you. A navy ship in a harbour is visited by some small boats with girls on them. Again, you can see something which is kind of exaggerated: all navy guys run from one side of the ship to the other to see the girls, and they do it over and over again, kind of silly. Then, we get to see the girls in close up. Wait, what? There is a camera crew on the small boat that just happened to sail towards the navy ship? Mmm, coincidence, much? So, this isn't real at all. Maybe some of it is. I can imagine that one of the more shocking things to see (the massive pig slaughtering scene) is real, as it would be way more expensive to get 100 trained pigs which can act like they die. Apart from this scene, there were two more scenes which disturbed me a bit: the disruption of nature on the Bikini atol because of atomic testing (this was 100% stock footage, though) and the bullrun in Portugal, where you get to see people killed/heavily wounded by bulls. But in that last scene you also see the bulls getting abused/mistreated, so it sort of is a revenge of the bulls. All other stuff is not shocking: drunk Germans, Australian female lifeguards, Italian religious ceremonies (among which was the church in Rome where they keep the skeletons of monks - I have seen that church last summer, it is great). I hope Mondo Cane II is more shocking, otherwise I think the reputation of these films is way overrated.

The Matrix Reloaded - it has been years since I saw The Matrix, but I saw it over ten times, so I remember a lot of it. While watching this sequel (I assume Reeves, Moss and Fishburne signed contracts for 3 movies at once) I got this same feeling that I had while watching Starship Troopers 2. While I like ST better than The Matrix, it was still that feeling of a sequel where the depth of the storyline got dumbed down to a plain and straightforward action movie. I had heard a lot of bad stuff about the sequels of The Matrix, and I can understand that many dislike it. I think, however, that when this was the first installment, people would have liked it. Monica Bellucci is nice in this one, cool outfit and sweet face. The ending is kind of abrupt, it ends in the middle of a scene, stating "to be continued". I can only recommend this to people who haven't seen The Matrix yet.

Lips of Blood - a Rollin vampire film in which it takes ages until we get to see some vampirism. Unlike many other Rollin films, I could follow the storyline, but the story wasn't very interesting. A guy sees a picture of some ruins on a photograph and then he goes looking for the castle, as he says he remembers it from his childhood. This search takes up most of the time in the film and is the most boring part of the story. When he finally arrives, he finds out why the ruins are so difficult to find: a family of vampires lives there and wants to keep their secret. The ending is quite OK, but it can't make up for the first 50 minutes of boring search for the ruins.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes - Vincent Price is Dr. Phibes, a guy who is mad at 9 other doctors who operated on his wife when she died. He is after them now and uses the plagues of Egypt as poetic justice. Some of the plagues are well adjusted to the situation, while others are a bit lame (plague of the frogs represented by a forg mask at a masked ball - meh). The police is in the dark about these killings, until the investigator is gonna cooperate with one of the doctors on the deathlist. The ending is cool, when Phibes reveals his real face. Didn't see that one coming, although I had seen a certain avatar here 100s of times. Nice classic, a bit tame like most classics, but also a grim edge to it. Recommended.

The Zero Boys - I was expecting some sort of Italian Vietnamfilm, but it was totally different. A group of three "weekend warriors" ends up in an old house with their respective girls and they get hunted by some hobos, who have setup the house and the nearby forest to be a death trap. A fight ensues as the guys aren't giving up so easily. A nice 80s film with a nice atmosphere of paranoia and some good killings. B-movie, yes, but a nice B-movie. Recommended.

Caged Terror - there is this type of film where the director wants to do some character building. Usually we horrorfans (especially the gorehounds) find those parts the least interesting of a film. Well, brace yourself for this one then: the character building takes over one hour, and the title is about a guy being in a cage abused and mistreated by two renegades. Well, this only happens in the last 15 minutes of the movie. So the "action" is packed into a quite short bit of the movie. I must say, the ending was not what I had expected, it was actually kind of original, but it is a shame that you must sit and wait for so long for something to happen in this flick.

Rumpelstiltskin - a cool monster makes deals where he grants wishes and as a reward he wants babies. The storyline is based on a fairytale by Grimm, but it is a not a screenversion of the fairytale, as there is stuff which isn't in the fairytale, such as the rock the monster turns into after the curse in the beginning of the film. I had fun watching this, there were some gory killings, some good jokes too. There are also some inconsistencies throughout the film, which make it a nice B-movie. Recommended, especially for bad moviefans.

Count Dracula and his Vampire Bride - this British film takes it's time to get up and running, at one point I was actually checking if this was the correct film I was watching. The vampirism enters the screen late in the movie and it's main part is in the final scenes. In the meantime, we see police inspectors wondering about missing persons and about how to solve a certain case. Then they get help from Dr Van Helsing (Peter Cushing, he also enters the screen pretty late) and he starts to find out what is going on. It even looks like he is gonna catch Dracula singlehandedly, but then he is overpowered by some of it's minions. From that moment on, he has to struggle to free himself and ome others from the clutches of Dracula. Good movie, this 70s Hammer classic. Recommended.

August Underground's Mordum - picked because of it's length, but it was longer (maybe because I have the Snuff edition). No storyline in this one either, just a series of grossed out scenes interleaved with scenes nobody wants to see because they are mindnumbingly boring. I was surprised to see however, that this one shocked me more than part 1. Maybe it has to do with expectations, as they were pretty high when I watched part 1 and they were very low yesterday. But, like I said, this one has more gross and gruesome stuff. What I totally coudln't follow, was the vomiting scene, but it was gross. Using a hacked off penis for rape, well I had already seen that one in Necrofiles 2, but still, it was gross. The whole time I thought the girl was the newcomer from the "storyline", but it turned out I was wrong: there is a guy who joins them later in the film and they urge him to do some killing and raping, so I guess he was the new guy. I'm sure there wasn't a girl killer in part 1 though. If you want to see gross stuff, check it out. For everyone else: avoid this.

Corpses - very, very cool zombiefilm. It has Jeff Fahey, a mad guy, Tiffany Shepis dressed in leather skirts and zombies! Storyline is OK, most important thing is that it isn't interfering with the zombie action. Also, Fahey has this scene where he operates as if he were the Terminator whoich is really cool too. Gore is OK-ish, I have seen better looking zombies, but I forgive the makers, because they turned it all into such a nice mix that I will remember this film with a smile forever. Recommended.

The Matrix Revolutions - this one concludes the trilogy. Like part two, the novelty of the story is nowhere to be found. As an actionflick it is actually quite OK, I think if this was released as "The Final Battle" or something like that totally detached from The Matrix, more people would like it. That said, this is a warmovie set in the future and during the numerous battlescenes you can enjoy some good cgi. There is so much bad cgi that cgi almost became equal to bad stuff to me. But it isn't: good cgi does exist and it is in this film, for example. I totally barfed on the emotional scene with Neo and Trinity, which was absolutely a bad thing, together with the exaggerated endfight. I can uinderstand that you don't want to conclude this trilogy with a 1 minute endfight, but 12 minutes? That's a bit too much for a duel to watch, imo. But, I didn't have the urge so often to push ffwd on my remote, as I had with part 2. So for me: part 1, , , , , , , , , , , , part 3, , , ,part 2.

Dawn of the Mummy - cool mummy film! It takes pretty long for the mummy to become alive and the reason why the models and the photographer are there is ridiculous, but all else is fine. The mummy even becomes a bit zombie-esque, with rising dead from the desert sand, taking bites out of people. I like. The Egyptians are nicely portrayed in a ridiculously prejudiced way, with them talking funny and being evil in the end all the time. Recommended, just don't expect a masterpiece and you will enjoy this cute 80s horrorfilm.

The Prophecy II - nice sequel, it really is a good second part. You don't have to watch part 1 first, but you can follow this one easier if you do. The big storyline (about the war in heaven) gets dragged out a bit, but this is cleverly solved by subplots, of which the one with the pregnant woman is the most intersting one. Acting good once more, but some stuff is really silly, imo, like letting your arch enemy have the chance to destroy your future. Well, recommended, I think it has a good story going. Looking forward to part 3.

The Devil's Nightmare - I expected a nunsploitation, but in fact it was about a succubus. A travelling group ends up in a baron's castle. The baron has a dark past because his family is cursed. It is related to the succubus, and in the beginning of the film there is a certain nasty scene with a baby and a dagger involved. It is very easy to spot the succubus among the visitors, as she arrives late and stands out in many other ways. When she turns into the succubus, she gets blueish and wrinkly in the face, these effects are somewhat laughable. Also, I think it is rather stupid to have a 90 minutes movie and then out all the killings in the last 20 minutes. The ending was a bit meh, I had the feeling that the director tried something "deep" or arty, and it failed imo. Nice atmosphere, but I don't think I'm gonna watch this one again.

Demons 2 - the demons are a bit like zombies in this one. They rise from the ground, when they bite you you become one of them etc, etc. I like this film a lot. The starting demon is cool, he is in a TV (nice message there, Bava) and then the woman spreads "it". Her comeback near the end is super incredible, but by then you have enjoyed so much Italian gore that you have to forgive them. Recommended.

King Kong - the 1976 remake is a very long film: two hours and ten minutes. I liked the new stuff they put in: the oil company theme (also, nice message, De Laurentiis) and the way they find the girl. I didn't like the snake instead of the dinosaur. All other stuff is very familiar for anyone who has seen the 30s King Kong or maybe a later one (I haven't seen Peter Jackson's yet). If you haven't seen any of them, I can recommend this one, but the 30s one is good too.

Africa Addio - I had seen some fragments of a documentary on Africa and it was quite shocking, so I sat down to see some gruesome stuff. It turned out that the fragments I had seen weren't from this film, but from Africa dolce e selvaggia. Still, Africa addio is a powerful and gruesome documentary. In contrary to Mondo Cane, I am bound to believe that all footage we saw here was real indeed. Most of the time it is about wildlife getting killed by poachers who profit from the political chaos in African countries after decolonisation. You see gruesome images of zebras, hippos, elephants and other animals brutally killed. The "15 minute safari", where businessmen are flown in right next to the elephant so they can shoot it, pose for a picture with its corpse and be back in the city within the hour, really got to me. After a while, the documentary changes view, as it shifts towards the conflicts which break out all over Africa right after decolinisation. We get to see mass murders, mass graves, summarily executions (the makers of the documentary were accused of "making the executions happen" in front of the camera), etc. It is all really shocking. I was watching it like a historian, therefore it was interesting from a professional point of view, but I believe it is easy enough to get lost in this footage and get depressed by it. I cannot recommend it, as it is really gruesome stuff, especially if you start thinking about it. So decide for yourself if you want to see this.

Phantasm II - great horrorfilm. Maybe even a tad better than part 1. It is quite independent, as in that you don't have to see part 1 to enjoy this. Acting is good, atmosphere too, it creeps you out from time to time. There is nice gore in this one, especially at the beginning with the infested girl and in the end with the Tall Man. The spheres are great again and the fact that this story takes place ten years after the first one, makes it a nice possibility to take the strongpoints from part 1 and add up to them. So this one is a bit like Hellraiser II: a bit more spectacular than the first installment and therefore mayebe even better. Highly recommended.

Bloodsuckers - hahaha, the premise of this film is totally ridiculous. As a horrorfan you should be used to suspending your disbelief, but this film takes that to a whole new level. OK, here goes: we are in space and there are several species of vampires. Some are clever individuals, some are more zombielike and operating in groups. Humans are fighting these, but there is also a group of humans who see humans as the most destructive species and are trying to stop "human imperialism" in space. This is the moment to stop reading when you think this is way too much on the road to ridiculousness and consider this film not for you. OK, the team who is fighting for survival consists of several soldiers and a vampire working for them, but she is of course mistrusted by others (especially females). She can do tantric vampiresex, btw. When the teams tarts losing members and they have a new captain they have to accept, there is a small crisis but they pull through and then there is an endfight between the new captain and... no, I'm not gonna spoil that. Oh, btw: this film has Michael Ironside, one of my favourite B-movie actors. All in all a hilarious movie combining two things which should never be combined: spacestuff and vampirism. Recommended for bad moviefans only.

triloquist... can't make my mind up on whether i liked it or not tho'

Black Death - watched this one with the wife, she likes Sean Bean because of LOTR. Although it said 'horror' on the backside of the DVD cover, I disagree. Yes, there is a creepy atmosphere, there is torture and killing, but that doesn't make it horror, imo. The story is about England in 1348, the year of the great plague. A knight (Bean) has to go to a village which seems to be excepted from the disease, it is said that a demon rules this vilage and the knight has to check it out. In the village he encounters a woman (played by Carice van Houten - one of the Dutch actors in this film) who seems to be the boss in the community. The plot has a twist in the end which is nice on one hand, as it makes the character of the monk change a lot, but on the other hand, this plot twist takes out all the horror from the movie. My wife thought it was a bad movie, I thought it was a bit too tame, despite some gruesome torture.

Slaughterhouse - an old guy has trouble with his slaughterhouse being sold, so he goes after the people who want to do so, with help of his retarded son. Some teenagers are added to the mix and so we get a nice slasher movie with a fat little pigman who wields a huge meatcleaver, splitting bodies like it's nothing. Nice 80s atmosphere, nice climax in the plot. Maybe by now you know that I'm not that much into slashers, but I really enjoyed this one! Recommended.

Q: The Winged Serpent - another 80s horror to conclude the evening. New York, 1982: people disappear and the police is asking themselves who can be doing this. In the meantime, a small time crook with a heavy NY accent, finds a nest in the top of the Chrysler tower. This all gets connected when David Carradine studies some ancient Aztec rituals and finds out there is a cult who does human scarifices for Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent of the Aztecs. What follows is a battle against the monster. I liked this film, although it suffers from the Godzilla effect: the monster scenes look very fake, but sort of cute at the same time, not scary at all. But, because of the atmosphere and a good cast, I still recommend this one to everyone.

edit: it seems that Q is also the film which was used in a sample for the Velvet Acid Christ song "Dead Flesh"

Cornman - Troma endorsed superduper low budget film about a superhero who can talk to corn, his sidekick Butterboy and his evil adversary Dr. Hoe. They are rivals and at a certain point uncle Shlomo comes in and explains to us why but after that you still have no idea, I guess that is the joke. Some nice jokes, like Cornman who says to Psychic Nose (who can smell things before they happen) "Now that is the most useless superpower I have ever heard of!", and tons and tons of dumb and dumber and dumbester jokes. The film lasts for 73 minutes, but it feels like it is 120 minutes long. Very bad, and even for bad moviefans this is a little bit of an ordeal. Keep the ffwd button handy if you are even gonna start watching this one. I'd say: don't even.

The Griebels - aka Deathtime Stories. A very, very annoying kid wants his uncle to tell him stories but the uncle wants to watch babes on TV so he invents creepy stories which don't last long. The stories themselves are actually quite OK, although they are mere versions well-known of fairy tales, but they play out nicely. A nice passtime, not a masterpiece, but also not as crappy as Cornman.

The Ward
John Carpenter. People are cheering up, that master is back. I dont know. I would say - he stayed. In the times. So, a little bit "old" movie imo. Classic maybe? Maybe. Story: girl burns the house and becomes asylum member. And theres other girl, which is killing girls. But, after all, the end is surprising enough. Through i knew. So, sometimes little bit predictable. Atmosphere is not so thrillerish as they say. But movie is ok. You can watch it And the main reason (cause i watched) is "Mandy Lane"

La Horde
French zombie film. Police guys goes into house to kill bad guys. Shooting-shooting. And... catasthrophe - and zombies. So (still live) guys have to work together, to get out from this shit (they really think they can get out?.. just look it). Blah blah and they meet some cool old guy, who is some veteran and - whooo - just likes to kill some bastards. Best scene/quote: her corpse has good boobs Yet another zombie-massacre-virus movie. But done really ok.

Sucker Punch
Not horror. But i just loved it. Very beautiful scenery, images. Nazis, Samurais, Stronghold etc. Sexy babes. Good story. Asylum. Just fucking entertainment. And not just maybe... So, recommended.

Sheitan
Vincent Cassell. Pretty sick one. Well, strange people, strange living... Group of teens go to village and meet all the fun. Yeah, movie reminded other french films like Frontiers or Shadow. Through, both of those i liked more. This one has incest, boobs, sick smiles, dolls.. yeah, dolls... and one, you could say, special doll. And the girl drinks milk from the goat. (yeah, she shows boobs... the girl i mean )

Just look at the look