Film

[Mooncat]

The Quick and the Dead exists in a weird space for me where it's a fairly bad film, and not even so bad it's good, but I still find myself drawn to it anyway. I rewatch it every couple of years and always enjoy it in spite of myself. Troy is another one that exists in that space. Hackman is great in it though. Basically playing the same role he did in Unforgiven.

The French Connection is my favourite Hackman performance and film, but there are so many great ones!

Rewatched The Toxic Avenger last night since there's a remake coming out. I wonder what direction they'll go with it, because there's no way they can remake it anything like the original! Even now I can't believe some of the stuff they got away with lol, and the original has a real lightning in a bottle tone and vibe that they'll never be able to recreate, so it has me curious. Really the only way to do it is swing for the fences and do totally your own thing with it and hope it's good, surely.

[Sworntothecans]

Apparently the remake doesn't fuck around with the gore and did have problems getting a distributor. Kinda looking forward to it as it's Macon Blair who did Blue Ruin and Green Room that made it.

[Mooncat]

Apparently the remake doesn't fuck around with the gore and did have problems getting a distributor. Kinda looking forward to it as it's Macon Blair who did Blue Ruin and Green Room that made it.

I haven't seen Blue Ruin but I love Green Room so that sounds exciting. Funnily enough after I posted that I went to see if there was a trailer. There is and it actually looks really good!

[Sworntothecans]

Blue Ruin is pretty good. Lo fi noir. Turns up on Prime/Plex a fair bit.

[Necro Red]

Watched Tiptoes yesterday after seeing the ridiculous trailer loads. It's as bad as it could be  Gary Oldman in "the role of his life" on his knees.

Followed that with Sling Blade thinking it was gonna be just as ridiculous but it was actually good.

one if the lads kept constantly putting on the ad for Tip Toes even though he never seen it. Ad is so funny so I gave it a watch. What a crock of shit. It's so bad it's very funny though. Oldman is gas in it. Unintentionally so ha ha

[Circlepit]

Sisu on Netflix. Ridiculous and brilliant.
When one part is called Kill 'Em All you know it's going to be good.

[Carnage]

Great fun, gets more and more ridiculous as it goes on.

[astfgyl]

Sisu on Netflix. Ridiculous and brilliant.
When one part is called Kill 'Em All you know it's going to be good.

Watched that last night. Perfect mix of great and stupid. Enjoyable stuff

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Irish language horror movie ag teacht:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9UCTITTskc

[astfgyl]

Hopefully that's as creepy as it looks like it might be

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Herself said she was too sick of him in real life to watch it, but she was out last night so I took the opportunity to throw on The Apprentice. It's pretty good! Jeremy Strong in particular plays a blinder, Sebastian Stan too but he's too good-looking to make a believable Trump 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Finally got around to watching classic Russian "horror" movie Viy. A very slow middle 40 minutes or so, but worth it for the bookends. Visually beautiful throughout nonetheless, even the special effects are genuinely artistic.

[Mooncat]

Smile 2

Expected it to be shite, was actually thoroughly entertained. Lots of really cool and interesting ideas and scenes. It's kind of that modern 'mental health as horror' genre, but with lots of 80s goodness thrown in too. I haven't even seen the first one, I had one day left on an Amazon channel trial and thought fuck it. The 2hr runtime is slightly long, but then it doesn't really drag either. It has its flaws, but overall is one of the more entertaining horrors I've seen in the last few years. Even a decent bit of atmosphere and tension in some points for something so schlocky.

[91/30]

Finally got around to watching classic Russian "horror" movie Viy. A very slow middle 40 minutes or so, but worth it for the bookends. Visually beautiful throughout nonetheless, even the special effects are genuinely artistic.

Didn't know about it, just found it on the YouTube Mosfilm page.  Looks interesting

[astfgyl]

Think I'm going to watch One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest this evening. Was listening to a lad talking about it last night and haven't seen it since the mid 90s.

Anything new or new ish I've seen lately has been cat. Think the same thing that happened me with music has happened me with film also, like I just go backwards for good stuff instead of the new things bar the odd thing