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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 23, 2020 9:53:32 GMT -5
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
Race With the Devil (1975)
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Post by someoldguy on Sept 23, 2020 18:39:46 GMT -5
Rachel Gets Strange
Re-titled re-release of Dick Night (2011)
After Rachel gets stood up at the altar she goes into a funk. Maybe casual sex will help. Then the vampires show up. Odd movie that somehow keeps you watching. Acting is pretty good. Comedy aspect is OK also. Just strange.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 23, 2020 20:34:27 GMT -5
Chronicle (2012)
Into the Storm (2014)
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Post by someoldguy on Sept 23, 2020 21:26:24 GMT -5
Buddy BeBop VS The Living Dead (2009)
1956 Middle America small town with teenagers and zombies, these being the result of some screwed up government research project. B+W except for some brightly colorized objects or backgrounds here and there. The purpose of that is either to distract from the rather unimaginative camera work or maybe just to show off. LOTS of zombie action and gore, almost all in B+W though. Just as well I suppose. Do you really want to see a zombie eating a dead baby in color? Some side plots at the beginning that do not really go anywhere. Not really a whole lot of plot anyway. Mostly fun for a while but starts to drag at times. Elvis gets involved which helps some. So does some funny dialog delivered deadpan. But although rather short in length, it seems too long.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 23, 2020 23:18:42 GMT -5
Unaware (2010) Another found footage horror. This time a Couple on vacation in Texas comes across something disturbing at a Ranch. Available on Prime and on YT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBjXMudQGXs |
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Post by someoldguy on Sept 24, 2020 21:18:46 GMT -5
Verotika (2019) On Shudder Three really weird stories. Scantily clad women, much nudity as well, violence, gore and generally nasty stuff. Basically comic book level but aimed at an adult audience. Not much to the stories. More like the old Tales from the Crypt material, joyfully creepy and shocking. Fun stuff if you are in the mood for it. The Great Wall (2016) From China The Great Wall was not built to keep out Mongol hordes but Monster hordes. They swarm every sixty years, which happens to be now. But they have gotten smarter. European mercenaries who wanted to steal the secret of black powder instead help fighting the creatures. Lots of exciting monster combat action and really good FX. Quite imaginative in its presentation although the human end of the story line is cliched and predictable. A good watch anyway. Love that archery demonstration. Move over Robin Hood!  |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 25, 2020 1:56:38 GMT -5
Cain Hill (2017)
Film crew go in and spend the weekend in the abandoned asylum, of the same name.
To film a documentary, soon realize they're not the only ones there.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 25, 2020 17:12:51 GMT -5
The Unfolding (20160
A couple travel to Dartmoor, England to investigate an old abandoned building.
That's rumored to be haunted.
Available on Prime and Tubi.
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Post by ArcLight on Sept 25, 2020 19:12:50 GMT -5
Beast Within (2019)
aka. Hunter's Moon
One of my least favorite storytelling tropes in TV and movies is picking up the action near the end of the story, then flashing back "x number of hours/days earlier" to tell the story. Guess how much more I hate it when they give away a plot twist in the process? And guess what this movie does?
Pity, because for a low-budget affair the blood and the werewolf costume looked okay (largely hidden in darkness which may have helped). Beyond that, there's some clumsy dialog, wooden acting, and lackluster direction that robs any actual emotion from most of the film.
But somehow they conned Colm Feore into appearing. Go figure...
Then again, I paid for it so I don't have any room to talk.
Enola Holmes (2020)
The new Netflix film based on the book by Nancy Springer.
Millie Bobbie Brown of Stranger Things fame plays the title character, the teenage sister of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes (played by Henry "The Witcher" Cavill and Sam Claflin). Sherlock and Mycroft have been out of the house for quite some time, leaving Enola and their mother Eudoria (Helena Bonham Carter) to their own unusual devices.
When Eudoria disappears, Enola takes it upon herself to find her while also trying to avoid being tossed into a proper finishing school by Mycroft and deal with an assassination plot against a handsome young Lord.
Fun and well done, obviously more for the 'young adult' set, tho since I get a kick out of period adventure stories it worked fine for me.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 26, 2020 0:44:48 GMT -5
The Before Time (2014)
Rival news crews are filming Reality Show, about buried Navajo tresure.
They end up fighting to survive and escape a supernatural force.
Available on Prime and Tubi.
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Post by someoldguy on Sept 26, 2020 1:55:21 GMT -5
Enola Holmes
Millie Bobby Brown and Helena Bonham Carter? I had to check it out. Clever and fun. I would like to have seen more of Carter but Brown did quite well.
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Post by ArcLight on Sept 26, 2020 19:14:41 GMT -5
Ava (2020)
Story-wise, it's familiar territory - professional assassin finds themselves the target of their employer. This one has a better cast than most; Jessica Chastain is Ava, John Malkovich is her handler/mentor, Colin Farrell is the guy who decides Ava is enough of a risk to have her taken out, and a couple dozen stuntmen are the people who find out just how difficult a task that is. Geena Davis and Joan Chen (man, it's been too long since I've seen her in anything) also star.
Aside from "workplace" issues, Ava is also dealing with staying on the wagon and a strained relationship with the family she walked out on years earlier.
Well done, and I'm always down for seeing Jessica Chastain, particularly if she's kicking butt and even more particularly when Amy Johnston is her stunt double.
Picked up the disc from RedBox since it was cheaper than streaming it and I was out anyway.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 26, 2020 20:07:31 GMT -5
The House of the Devil (2009)
Nice retro, slow burn Satanic horror.
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Post by ArcLight on Sept 27, 2020 10:11:54 GMT -5
Rogue (2020)
The movie starts showing a poaching operation in Africa, so I'm already in the mood to see people meet grisly ends when they start hurting the animals. One lioness gets free (yay!) and starts to tear the place apart (double yay!).
Cut to Megan Fox as Sam O'Hara, no-nonsense leader of a squad of mercenaries out to rescue a governer's daughter from terrorists/rebels/traffickers/whatever. When faulty intel and an extra couple of hostages (that Sam is perfectly willing to leave behind) complicate things, the mission rapidly falls apart. Before long, the remains of the squad are stranded without an escape route, out of ammo, and forced to hide out in the now almost-abandoned "lion farm" from the opening. And when I say "almost abandoned" I don't mean there are any poachers left behind, but rather one still pissed-off lioness.
The dwindling number of survivors have to hold off until morning against not only the rogue (get it? "Rogue") lion but the bad guys closing in wanting their hostages back.
Generally looks good with the location and night shooting. The director, M.J. Bassett, worked a lot on the series Strike Back, as well as doing some Ash vs. the Evil Dead and the Solomon Kane movie. I have no opinion on Megan Fox either way but I'd like to have a word with whoever decided she should stay relatively unsoiled when everyone else in the movie gets understandably dirty and bloody.
Overall, pretty middle-of-the-road. Turn off your brain and especially overlook the incredibly obvious CGI lion (which really should've been left to the shadows a lot more) and it might be an okay way to kill an hour and a half.
Another RedBox pickup for me.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Sept 27, 2020 13:24:43 GMT -5
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
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Le Loup-Garou Qui Rit
