soad it this one other day too i buyed this DVD cause of description, which contained word

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necrophiliia

. Yep, i liked those scenes very much Btw, there was good laugh when i soad hanged man -

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pedarast

I'm starting to like those masters of horror

Ouch, some real crap tonight:

Le Foto di Gioia - aka Delirium. Lamberto Bava directed this trashy slasher, and it is not so good. The main character is played by an ex-playmate and she goes around naked or dressed in trashy leather outfits like we all know them from the 80s. In the story, she runs a male magazine, but her models keep gettimng killed and then the killer sends picturs of the dead bodies to her: all pics have large posters of her in the background, which makes her feel even more uneasy than she would if they were must pics of dead people. She starts to think she might be the next one on the killer's list. Sleazy and unintlligent, this is a bad Italo slasher. It isn't a giallo, although it looks like it tries to be. There are lots of boobs to enjoy, and it has Daria Nicolodi, but when searching for some real entertainment, you'll find none, or very little. The plot sucks. I have sen several Lamberto Bava films and he is quite hit and miss. This is a miss.

Ghostquake - aka Haunted High. This is a Syfy movie and it doesn't have any large animals in it, so that's quite unique imo. This doesn't mean that the film is good, however. A teacher accidentally opens a scret door to a compartment in the school building where demonic ghosts have been hiding for years. One of those ghosts used to be the principal of the school, and he is the grandfather of one of the kids still attending school there. He and some other kids get locked inside the school, together with some personnel. They have to fight the demonic spirits in order to get out. There are some funny scenes which were meant to be funny, and there are some that weren't meant to be funny, like the shot when you see all portraits of former principals: they all have portrait photographs, but the "serial killer ghost" principal has a badly drawn painting. I laughed. There is a cameo of Charisma Carpenter and Danny Trejo is the janitor/guardian, but they can't save this movie. Although I had more fun than usual when watching a Syfy movie, this still doesn't cut it. It gets stuck in the teenage drama thing instead of being a real horror or a real comedy.

Shark Week - I read that this Asylum film had bad cgi sharks. Well, there is bad cgi and there is a bad job. They had bad cgi and did a bad job with it. Incredible how ridiculous the sharks look, especially the great white shark: it is supposed to be a fear imposing creature, but it only made me laugh and almost fall of the couch. The shots below water level are acceptable and some are even well done, but as soon as we see sharks coming out of the water they look unbelievably plastic. This is just one of many flaws with this film. The story is about a guy who wants revenge on a group of people, so he kidnaps them and makes them cross an island and challenge a species of shark everyday. Upon killing the shark, they will get a bonus and the survivor gets to leave the island alive. OK, so far for the unoriginal plot, on to some of the other many flaws. OK, so this guy is watching the group of kidnapped people on his monitor. So apparently he has cameras everywhere, even in the sea filming the beach... Then there is a scene with a minefield. The mines look like anti vehicle mines, but they are used in an anti personnel rol here. They don't blow up when you step on them, justs a few seconds after you rlease your foot. OK, such mines do exist, but why do suddenly all other mines explode too, like in a pre programmed order? They explode nicely behind all characters, btw. Oh, and with badly looking cgi explosions and cgi sand blasting into the air. There is a scene in which they have to kill a shark in the sea and they all get soaked, but the next scene, you guessed it, they are bone dry again. I could continue, but it's better if you simply decide on watching (for laughs) or skipping this film.

Savage Dawn - Lance Henriksen is Stryker, a Vietnam vet returning to his old hometown, which is under siege by a motorcycle gang. Stryker doesn't want to interfere, but of course he is pushed to the limit when he sees his friends suffer and he takes on the entire gang anyway. Quite a feat, as this gang doesn't only have motorcycles, but also cars, heavy assault weapons and even an armoured car (!) from the army. This is a real no brainer when it comes to the story, as it is simply fight-dialogue-fight-fight-dialogue-endfight, but it has loads of familiar faces, with apart from Lance the following castmembers: George Kennedy, Karen Black, Richard Lynch, William Forsythe and Mickey Jones. No Oscar winners, but well known to genre fans, I'd say. I'm not specialised in '80s actionflicks, but this one had a nice theme to it, but wasn't very special otherwise.

Imprint - the Masters of Horror episode by Takashi Miike. Atmospheric imagery of 19th century Japan in this short about an American who gos back to Japan to find the prostitute he fell in love with years ago. He ends up on a mysterious island with another prostitute who tells him what happened to his love interest. Then we get to see many, many flashbacks in which the stories of the lives of both women are portrayed. There is some very harsh torture in some of those flashbacks, like you know from Miike's other films. There is also extended explanation on how childhood traumas led to events later on, although Miike does it with a twist, which is a nice surprise. The ending was a bit meh, imo, but overall this was quite a good episode.

Decoys - read some terrible reviews of this, so expectations were low when going in. The story isn't very original, but there are hot babes to compensate. You don't get to see many boobs like in Le Foto di Gioia, but the role of women is largely the same here. The cgi was a bit dull, and pretty boy Corey Sevier acts like he is panicking all the time for dsome reason. In some parts, this is OK for the story, but in other parts it is quite weird. While the plot is cliche, this doesn't mean it is a boring film, there are some nice jokes and overall this is a bit like fast food: you know it is bad for you, but secretly you enjoy it as it goes down so easily. So I'd say save this for a late night watch, or an evening with friends.

The Girl in Room 2A - aka La Case Della Paura. A girl gets out of jail after a short time inside and ends up in a boarding house ran by Ms Grant and her son, who has a love interest in the girl, but she rejects him. After a while, she notices that she is being followed, and when she meets a boy whose sister is dead (presumably by suicide but her brother doesn't believe that), they start to investigate the weird events. They unravel a secret society, and she is important to them, too. Nice but also a bit weird, this film. It is a giallo-esque Italo horror, but it is directed by an American who never made such films before. The cast and crew has lots of Italians though, with Rosalba Neri being one of the most famous for genre fans. There are few kills, but some nice camera shots, cool music (except for near the end, where we get to hear some sort of an 80s rock score which is a bit out of place) and some funny mistakes, like the car exploding too soon, so it blows up while falling of the cliff, instead of upon landing. But I enjoyed watching this one, and if you haven't seen it and are into Italo trash, you can safely pick this one.

Caged Fury - for almost a year I tried to download this one, but it stayed red all the time, so I decided to buy it. It came in a 3-pack (together with Savage Dawn and Drug Traffikers) and I watched it yesterday. The story has some classic WIP elements, with girls being incarcerated for no rason, then abused and raped, and in the end a revenge scene in which they all escape the prison. It has some differences to the classics, though. At first it is less harsh, as in that there isn't much torture. Second, it has a large actionflick part, where some muscle beats up almost every guard in the prison, and third, it is from the late 80s instead of the glorious 70s. This of course brings different clothing, different music and different hairstyles. Nice exploitationflick, even though it is a bit on the soft side.

Cannibal Dead (the Ghouls) - this one was a bit of a disappointment. I expected a zombieflick with loads of gore, but I got an almost amateuristic shoulder camera film with some rare gore moments. The story was dumb and uninteresting: a guy lives off selling what he taped on the streets of LA, mostly accidents and violent crime. One night he films a woman being beaten up by some bums, but when he comes closer,. he notices that she isn't beaten, but being eaten. And the bums are actually zombies. But oh, no, he forgot to put a tape in his camera! So nobody will believe him of course, and this in turn gives the zombies the chance to take over the city! Oh no, not that! Well, yes, that. The gore is cool, that's why they advertise this film with it, but all the rest is worthless. Apparently Tiffany Shepis is in this film too (I mean, which films she is NOT in?), but I think she was a zombie or something, because I missed her.

Big Trouble in Little China - for some reason I missed this Carpenter up to yesterday. Maybe it was because I had read that it wasn't a horrorfilm, but since I hav been at the end of my collection already, my tolerance for non-horror has increased. And I should see this of course if I want to be a Carpenter completist (only Elvis is left now, the MoH eps and his shorts from the beginning of his career). Big Trouble... is a fun film! Kurt Russell is a no nonsense trucker who helps out a friend of his who has seen his girlfriend being kidnapped by a Chinese gang. This gang also steals Kurt's truck. So they go into Chinatown in San Francisco to get her and the truck back, but this leads them into a supernatural/demonic conflict. A young Kim Cattrall plays a Chinese culture specialist whose jornalist friend comes along for the ride. There is a lot of BS going on in this film, which made me laugh, and Carpenter couldn't have taken this film too seriously when he obviously reveals the escalator the actors are using in the wedding ceremony. Also, the monsters are way over the top and the Chinese fighting scenes are hilarious. The flying and screaming are nicely exaggerated, like in 70s kung fu films. An atypical Carpenter if you ask me, but I surely enjoyed it!

Hellish Flesh - aka Inferno Carnal. It had a been a (short) while since I saw a Mojica Marins film, so I slipped this one in yesterday. It is the first Marins film which doesn't start out with the philosophical mumbo jumbo which is always a bit strange. Also, it has a storyline which was quite clear and easy to follow, the only drawback for me this time were the endless repetitions of stuff. Dr Medeiros is a scientist who negelcts his wife so she decides to kill him with acid and throws it on hois face. However, he survives and draws up a plan for revenge. In the scene in which the doctor gtes the acid over his face, he shouts "Raquel! Raquel! Raquel! Why? Why? I can't stand it any longer! Raquel!" and this is being repeated over and over again throughout the film, so it gets a little annoying. I must say the plottwist was nice but not really surprising: if you just take a look at the shadows in every scene you can guess the outcome pretty easily. But still, it was a nice plottwist and also quite gruesome for Raquel. Nice little film, only it could have been half as long without all the repetitions.

Pin - two kids, Leon and Ursula, grow up in a weird family, where the mother is afraid oif dirt and the father is a doctor who built an anatomic doll to teach about the human body. He makes the kids think the doll is alive, and Leon befriends the doll and seeks it's advice in matters of life. When the parents die in an accident, Leon and Ursula continue to live in their house with Pin. Ursula despises the doll, but Leon goes further and further in his obsession with Pin, and when Ursula invites her new boyfriend over, things get nasty. Very nice film, more a psychological thriller than a horror, although you could argue that the doll is some kind of monster. The ending was great! I hadn't seen it coming, and I had already made up a different ending in my head. Great acting, especially by the two main characters. Recommended.

Drug Traffikers - aka Thunder aka a whole bunch of other titles, which are usually better than Drug Traffikers, as there aren't any drugs being dealt in this film. Mark Gregory (who we know from such Oscar blockbusters like Warriors of the Bronx) is a native American who defends his tribe when a developer wants to build on a hill which holds an Indian cemetery. He does the utmost to keep the cemtery safe. First he tries the usual way with the authorities (great oneliner: "This treaty is proof" and then showing a framed document), but soon he fidsn out they only want to kick his a$$ and then he starts to fight fire with fire. Acting is overacting, effects are OK with abundant explosions and the final scene with the bulldozer is one to remember. Great turd, recommended for bad moviefans.

The Mutant Girls Squad - the directors of Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police and Samurai Zombie joined forces on this one and it shows. Hilarious action sequences, funny and absurd monsters, you know what to expect when you have seen earlier films of these guys. Nice outfits on the girls, btw. I had great fun, but I still think it is a bit of a shame that 50+ % of the sfx have to be cgi for some reason. The "real" effects are way cooler! If you like this genre, you won't be disappointed.

Die Bestie mit dem Feurigen Atem - aka L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco aka Iguana with the Tongue of Fire. Early giallo by Riccardo Freda whom you might know from his co-directorship with Mario Bava on I Vampiri. A body is found in the trunk of a car owned by an ambassador. This guy uses his diplomatic invulnerability to not cooperate with the police investigation, so the inspector starts using onorthodox methods: in this case in the form of John Norton, an ex-cop. He lives with his daughter and mother in an aprtment, and when he starts dating the stepdaughter of the ambassador, things aren't getting any easier. Quite nice giallo, I don't know why the imdb rating is so low. Maybe it is because the atmosphere is a tad lacking, it feels like the film isn't "based" anywhere (it plays out in Ireland and in Switzerland, but you hardly notice when watching), but the kills are nice and bloody and the plot is OK, although not very surprising. The only thing which really annoyed me was the character of Norton's mother, I wish she would have been killed withtin the first 5 minutes of the film. All else is OK, acting is nice and there are several genre favourites present. I'd say, nice giallo, not as bad as you might think from the reviews. Recommended.

Alucarda - when I put this film in, I was scared to death by it's running time, because it was ten minutes shorter than everything I had read so far. So I searched for more info and found out that the 85 minutes on imdb are wrong and that the running time of my DVD (74 mins someting) was not heavily cut. Phew. So, on to the film. It is a weird kind of nunsploitation, where the nuns ar dressed in some sort of bandages, and the leak blood all the time, or so it seems. Alucarda is a girl who lives in the convent and befriends Justine. They both get possessed and then the nuns take action, in order to contain the "thread". There is almost everything you expect from a 70s nunsploitation: satanism, torture and weirdness. What was missing was the excessive sex, but it didn't feel lacking. Nice and atmospheric and with a shocking (for christians at least, I think) apotheosis, I can safely recommend this one to anyone.

Dracula A.D. 1972 - hahaha, this was a bit of a joke! Christopher Lee gets resurrected in 1972 by a guy who does a seance with his group of hippie friends around. Acting is great: there are some Hammer fregulars present too, like Caroline Munroe, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, and Lee of course. Sadly,

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Munroe dies first

The 1972 setting is not a big success, but the film isn't so bad as I had read. The story is OK enough, there is nothing you haven't seen before really, but that's not what you should expect from a Hammer Dracula made this late. I had fun, that's what counts for me. Biggest drawback is the music, as the 70s have so much great music to offer, and then we get this awful jazz all around, shame. So, absolutely not the best Dracula there is, but not a total failure either.

thanks

Back from my break of horror. I watched several documentaries and non-horror films and now I got back to watching horror and related stuff.

Pathology - medical students thriller/horror, where the would-be pathologists play a game where one kills a person, and the other one has to guess how he did it by doing an autopsy. I have seen several of this type of movie before: Autopsy, Bloodwork, etc. This one didn't really grab me, it was kind of predictable and although the gore was OK and some of the killings were quite cool, the rest of the story was way too flat and un interesting to keep me nailed to my seat. Acting is average, although there are some cast members I really appreciate normally, like John de Lancie. So while you might enjoy it, as it isn't the worst film ever, I won't recommend this.

Brainscan - a film with Edward Furlong before he became an overweight loser. He plays Michael, an adolescent who is into horrorfilms and videogames. He has his room stuffed with "modern" stuff (laughable these days, and therefore quite funny to see) and gives his computer voice commands which make a character appear in bad graphics which says "Yes, Master". He peeps on a neighbourhood girl, and makes plans with his all time buddy Kyle, who advises him to go play a game called Brainscan. This game is said to invade your mind and therefore extremely realistic. Michael starts playing and he kills a sleeping guy in the game. Afterwards he is overexcited about the realism and intensity, but then he finds out that a man in his town got killed for real. And soon things are getting messy. OK atmosphere, early 90s, the effects are laughable, but that made this film more enjoyable for me. So I had a nice time watching this, although the kills could have been better.

Borderland - I had seen this film for sale for quite a long time, but the price always made me think twice and I never bought it. Lately I could buy one second hand for only a few Euros, so I thought "why not?" and I added it to my collection. It turned out to be a Mexican (satanistic) cult-themed movie, much like Curandero and some others I have seen before. This one is "based on true facts" and I always take that with a grain of salt, but this one apparently had some stuff which really happened. Not that it matters, because even then a movie can suck, right? Well, this one doesn't suck, but it isn't really good either. I didn't think the cultmembers were really scary, the American cultmember was even a bit dopey imo. Also, there are some terrible cliches with the policeman in the "endfight", like waiting to give the final blow because you have to explain how you found the guy first, etc. The good things are the atmosphere, the gore and some actors: Jake Muxworthy especially gives a great performance. If you have never seen a film about Mexican cults, then you can easily check out this one, but if you already have, then it isn't a must.

Dark Woods - aka Villmark. A group of future colleagues are making a trip to the woods to do some teambuilding. Gunnar, their boss, treats them harshly and punishes them when they don't obey his rules. Slowly but steadily the other teammembers are thinking about quitting, and when the men find something horrible nearby, it doesn't help make the travelling spirit any better. In the end they find out that what Gunnar does to them is nothing compared to what's in the forest. The strongpoints of this film are the atmosphere and the camerawork. The forest is a nice environment for a film like this, it adds to the atmosphere and makes stuff creepy which really isn't so creepy actually. The shots are really cool and sometimes even artistic (example: the scene with the flashlights through the trees), and they too add to the atmosphere. The ending starts out great, but then it turns out to be something farfetched and it takes a bit of the fun out of the film. So while this film is OK and atmospheric, the ending should have been better.

The She Beast – starring Barbara Steele, this superlow budget horror from the 60s has a lot going for it, but is not a good film. Apprently it was shot in 21 days, and Steele’s scenes were all shot in one, but even without knowing this, you can guess the “witch” (it looks more like a zombified old granny) isn’t played by Steele for the entire duration of the film. Of course, you can tag this as “bad”but it also has a certain charm. At least, for me it does. Image quality was so so, sound could have been better, and the final scenes, which turn into 100% slapstick, should have been made differently. But overall I had fun watching this, also because of this nonsense.

An American Haunting – I had expected a very, very bad ghostfilm. It isn’t original, far from it, but it isn’t bad. I actually had some fun connecting the cliches from this film with earlier exorcist-like films. Effects were somewhat similar, but some stuff was really well done and could give you a creepy feeling. It was however easy to quit a part of the film and then go back and watch the remainder of the film without having the feeling to have missed anything. Tthis film also has some good aspects: the plot twist was a little surprising, but I can’t believe there are people who don’t understand it, as it is quite obviously explained in various scenes and even with flashbacks ho wit works. Pretty solid acting, too. If only the atmosphere and the story were more gripping, this could have been a great film.

The Dark – atmosphere, yay! This 1979 flick looks like a somewhat standard police-slasher, but the killer is an alien (which you don’t get to see much, I must say). Kills are pretty few and mostly in the dark. Therefore the story focuses on the cops trying to catch him: the main cop is played by Richard Jaeckel, which is cool. William Devane also plays a nice part, although his character was more of a mystery to me. So, although this comes off mostly as a thriller, it bursts with atmosphere and I simply love that. The final scene is climactic and a feast for bad moviefans: bad effects, dumb fighting sequences, illogical stuff happening, etc. If you’re into this sort of stuff I can safely recommend it to you.

Welcome to Spring Break - aka Nightmare Beach. Two guys on springbreak in a town get to deal with lots of booze, boobs and wet T-shirts… and a killer. Umberto Lenzi used tob e able to make quite good thrillers in the 70s, but later he lost it (somewhat). This film belongs in category 2. It is a really cliche thriller with a plot twist that can be guessed quite soon, but still it is also atmospheric with the 80s clothing and the corny rock music all over the soundtrack. John Saxon does his thing as a cop who is trying to get the killer, a masked motorcyclist whose specialty is electrocution. There is a subplot with a love intreest between one of the two guys and a girl bartender, and they try to solve the “mystery” about the killer’s identity. I’d say only watch this if you are a Lenzi fan.

Hercules against the Mongols – Hercules survived for centuries and now helps out oppressed people against the three sons of Genghis Khan, whom all want to grab power and wage war all the time, since their father died. There is also a secret treasure and one of the sons finds out about it’s secret hidng place. Hercules sets out to save the captured queen of one of the oppressed peoples and to get the treasuree at the same time. The usual fighting ensues, and some stupid scenes are used (and even a totally dumb character: a quite useless boy does some shouting in several scenes, spoiling them in the process), but the ridiculous effects were a bit lacking in this one. So if you’re looking for a Hercules with a laugh, I’d pick a different one, there are enough of them out there.

Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69 - wow, nazisploitation isn't dead after all. While Tarantino did his part in 2009, this film was made the year before that and it stays closer to the genre as well. A German guy does a confession to a priest just after he is almost arrested by the Mossad, years after World War Two. He confesses all his sins he committed while commanding a POW camp in the war. In flashbacks you get to see him doing his brutal stuff. There is a lot of torture, some boobs and of course the revenge climax. Acting is really bad at times and the lack of budget shows in more than just that: all guns are toyguns (you even get to see the orange caps on them) and the Germans always seem to carry one and the same handgrenade. Some of the gore looks very fake, too. But I had some real fun watching this, even though it is way too long (135 minutes), so I can safely recommend this to everyone who loves bad movies.

Dreams in the Witch House - an episode from Masters of Horror directed by Stuart Gordon. It's about Walter, a student who moves into an old house next to a woman with a baby boy, Danny. Walter is investigating parallel dimensions and the possibilities to travel between them. To his own astonishment, he finds out, or at least thinks, that there is some kind of portal in his room through which some malevolent creatures can pass into this world. In a dream he uncovers their purpose: they need Danny for a ritual, and it seems that Walter is gonna deliver him to them. Can he stop this madness and keep his sanity? Interesting and atmospheric, this unoriginal story gets executed pretty well. Acting is solid, enjoyable watch. One of the better episodes.

Delta Delta Die! - nice B-slasher with some pretty well known B-names like Brinke Stevens, Tiffany Shepis and Julie Strain. A sorority practices cannibalism by seducing male students and then eat them. One student is on to them and starts investigating. The storyline is very shallow and not very original, but since the girls are quite cute and the boobs are aplenty, it isn't hard to sit this one out. There are some gory parts, but most of the effects are so fake that you wouldn't even think of cringing. It is a nice and brainless passtime with a few cool scenes. Only for bad moviefans, I'd say.

Amazons - the 1986 flick by Alejandro Sessa (who also produced Deathstalker). A classic fantasy tale about a tribe of amazons at war with a powerful wizard who can direct lightning bolts as a weapon. The wizard can be beaten with a specific sword and two amazons are sent out to find it. From the start you'll know how this story will end, but that isn't necessarily bad, as you can take note of other stuff in this film, like the very nice 80s hairdo's and the outfits of the amazons. The lightning bolts are cool and ridiculous at the same time, the atmosphere is OK and the fighting scenes have men falling over even before they are hit by the amazons, so everything you expect will be there. If you're into this stuff you can go and watch it, but if you're not a bad moviefan, I'd skip it.

The Bloody Ape - apparently director Keith J. Crocker made only two full feature films, and now I have seen them both: after Blitzkrieg... now this one. Most of the cast is identical, which is quite something given the fact that the movies are made 9 years apart from eah other. Many of the castmembers have only these two films in their filmographies, so I think that says enough too. This film takes a slow start. It is about a carnival guy who has trouble with several different people, and then decides to let his show gorilla loose on them. This ape (guy in a suit) then starts to kill in a very gory way. The effects are very laughable, you can see the guy's feet in some shots sticking out of the ape suit and the gore is very fake too, so I had some good laughs. Recommended for bad moviefans.

The Corpse Grinders II - almost 40 years after the original, Ted V. Mikels made a sequel to his cult classic from 1971. The storyline is almost the same: two guys have a family business called Lotus Catfood ("for cats who love people") and they need new ingredients. Fast, and a lot of it. So they decide to put in human remains and they set up a "productionline" for it. They use a large machine to grind the corpses, hence the title. So far it is an exact remake of the 1971 original, but they put in an extra subplot: cat-aliens and dog-aliens are having a war and the cat aliens need food because their planet is starving. So they send one of their own to earth to gather as much catfood as she can find, and of course she ends up at Lotus. This alien stuff is rather funny, the actors look badly dressed and the sfx are laughable, but that makes this film better in my opinion. The orignal had some rather boring scenes, and this one is more sped up, like it seems, even though this has a longer running time. For bad moviefans only, but they won't be disappointed!

The Mephisto Waltz - satanic film which isn't so well known and also not so much appreciated. And that is unfortunate, as it has a stellar cast (Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset carry this film, but Curd Jürgens and Barbara Parkins are also great), great music, a good artmosphere which gets creepy at the right moments and an apotheosis of which many directors could learn. On the lesser side there is the fact that the storyline is not so original, but it has an original twist in it. It is not too long, although there were some scenes which were a tad stretched, and I admit that near the ending I was wondering whether I would find this movie good or not. But I hadn't seen the ending yet. Man, what a nice treat! I'm so used to films who start out nicely and then totally collapse, that I was pleasantly surprised by this filom, which starts out OK, then grows over time and ends superbly! Recommended, maybe even highly.

Thinner – Stephen King film in which he once more pops up in a cameo role. The story is about a pretty fat lawyer who triest o lose weight but nothing works. One day, he accidentally hits a gypsy woman with his car. When she turns out to be dead, there is a hearing in court about it, but the lawyer gets acquitted by the judge, because of a testimony made by a policeman. Later, the lawyer meets the father of the woman he killed, and this gypsy curses him so he will be losing weight every day no matter how much he eats. The lawyer finds out that the judge and the policeman are cursed too, and he starts trying to find out how it can be lifted. Even with the help of a mafia boss this doesn’t seem to be an easy task. Nice King film, good story, and I really liked the ending, as

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it wasn’t an ending where everything ends well and they lived happily ever after

Recommended.

Rambo – the latest installment in the John Rambo saga, directed by Stallone himself. I didn’t have any expectations, I was expecting something bad with Stallone being over the hill and all. Yet, it was quite entertaining and at some points even spectacular. The story plays out in the deep jungles of Burma, where the junta fights the Karen rebels. When a group of aid workers are captured by soldiers of the junta military, Rambo comes to the rescue. I read somewhere that this film has an average killcount of 2.59 kills per minute. This is both impressive and overdone, which made it enjoyable for me to watch it. If you don’t like actionflicks but you do like gore, then you should watch this, as the gore flows plenty. One could even say that this is a modern exploitationflick. Recommended.

Invader – aka Lifeform. Not very original, but this alien-film has got it’s atmosphere going for it, and the fact that the alien looks quite good. What happens is that some space probe returns from Mars, with data and something odd. This oddity turns out to be the shell of an alien who runs for it’s life as soon as the military got wind of it’s existence. Of course the scientists want to keep the alien alive, and the army wants to contain at all cost. Quite nice, not a bad film, but nothing groundbreaking either.

Cigarette Burns - the MoH episode made by one of my favourite directors, John Carpenter. It has Daryl from The Walking Dead and he plays some washed up movie programmer with financial problems. He meets Udo Kier, who is a very wealthy collector and who wants to see a certain film before he dies. By getting this film for Kier, Le Fin Absolu du Monde, the financial trouble will be over and he may be able to see the film himself too, something which he really wants. Great storyline, nice acting, good gore and a very nice ending ("I got inspired and made my own film"- hilarious). All in all a great episode, the only thing which was lacking a bit for me was the music, as I always loved that in Carpenter's older films. But this is something I can overlook in the light of other things which make this a very nice little film. Highly recommended.

The Pyjama Girl Case - aka La ragazza dal pigiama giallo. A very atypical giallo, this one. I had to get into it a bit more because of that, as the music was mostly 80s synth-like (even though the film is from 1977) and the setting was Sydney. I didn't guess the killer right, because I wasn't aware of the fact that

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the storyline jumps forward and backward throught time during the entire film

although I wonder if I would have guessed it right if I had noticed that. There is not so much gore, except for the scene in which the body is shown: this scene is also one of the weirdest, as a crowd passes by a glass case in which the body is displayed, like in a museum. There is some sleaze, as the female character lives by free love and she shows herself off regularly. I actually liked the way the story was told and although this isn't a typical giallo, I'd recommend it to Italo fans anyway.

Deer Woman - the John Landis episode of MoH. This one is more funny than scary in any way. There are some real funny scenes, like the one in which the detective is thinking about the possible killers in the murder case he is handling. The Deer Woman character is a bit stupid imo, as she never says a word and that takes a way too much credibility, but since this story is not trying to be scary anyway it isn't all too bad. There is a nice reference to Landis' own American Werewolf in London and like I said before I had some good laughs. Pick this one if you want to have fun with a horror-ish edge.

The Exorcist III - the guy who wrote the story for the first film, wrote this one too and took up directing it at the same time. It isn'ty better than part one, but it is definitely better than part two (although I must admit, that wasn't so difficult). In this film, George C. Scott, for whom I have a soft spot, is an old detective who doesn't bvelieve in stuff like the devil and everything, but soon after his priest friend dies, he gets involved in a case where people get killed by a murderer who has been dead for years, supposedly. Trying to find the "copycat" at first, he starts to find out there is more to it and there isn't a copycat at all. The scenes in the mental institution are cool, but not as scary or impressive as the possession scenes from part one. Still, this is a great film with some very good performances (aoart from George, Brad Dourif does a great job and also Mary Jackson, whom I didn't know at all before I saw her in this film). Recommended, that's for sure.

Scream Bloody Murder - when you say 70s horror film, I'm interested immediately, as I'm so often disappointed in modern day horror (with some exceptions of course). Unfortunately, noit everything which has been touched by the 70s has tirned into gold, and this film is an example of that. This film has a lot of kills, and also enough blood, but it has also one major flaw: it is boring. It seems like the writers forgot that there has to be some sort of a storyline, more than "frustrated boy with mother complex goes out on killing spree". Also, it comes off a bit like a play instead of like a movie. This doesn't have to be bad per se, but in this one it gets annoying. Each character is introduced and shortly after it gets killed. Repeat this a few times, then we get a climax about the mother complex. The end. I'd skip this one.