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Post by someoldguy on Feb 19, 2020 16:00:09 GMT -5
Dark Waters (1994)
Nuns doing mysterious things on mysterious island. Young woman in peril. Spooky stuff going on, which becomes supernatural later on. Fair amount of good stuff along the way, and loads of atmosphere of the old school kind, but at times it is just too slow for words. Not really all that much to the story and the end is sort of predictable. Overall OK but no more.
BTW those nuns get really nasty. I think I remember some of them from elementary school.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Feb 19, 2020 23:03:21 GMT -5
Stephen King's The Night Flier (1997)
John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993)
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Post by ArcLight on Feb 20, 2020 0:34:28 GMT -5
Stephen King's The Night Flier (1997) John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993) Ooh...The Night Flier. Good one. One of the few vampire movies I like. Haven't seen Body Bags yet. |
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Post by someoldguy on Feb 20, 2020 11:02:46 GMT -5
Gog (1954) Secret underground base in the desert is working on space technology as a form of national defense to keep the (unnamed) bad guys from building weaponry in space. Fancy computer named Novac controls everything in the base and does all the heavy computing. Gog and Magog are robots on treads with lots of arms etc, prototypes of the robots that will control spacecraft during launch when human beings will be disabled by high G forces. The science in this rather talky movie is considerably better than many science fiction movies of the era, although it is often of the 'close but no cigar' variety. Fun movie if you are willing to forgive how dated it is. Hidden transmitters are found. Then people start dying in mysterious ways. Sonic aircraft detector says there is something up in the sky but radar sees nothing. TV cameras and microphones everywhere show no suspicious behavior by anyone. Who in the base is the spy and killer? Even back when I was ten years old, or thereabouts, when I first saw this movie, I 'made' the bad guy early on. Only someone who knew everything that went on could have pulled off the murders and sabotage. Three guesses. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Feb 20, 2020 20:19:10 GMT -5
Stephen King's The Night Flier (1997) John Carpenter's Body Bags (1993) Ooh...The Night Flier. Good one. One of the few vampire movies I like. Haven't seen Body Bags yet. One of the most underrated SK film adaptations. Plus a great performance from the late Miguel Ferrer. |
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Post by someoldguy on Feb 20, 2020 22:12:58 GMT -5
Track of the Moon Beast (1976)
Not a werewolf as you might think but a werelizard (!) as it turns out. He apparently contracted his reptilthropy (just made that up) from a moon meteorite. He becomes a murderous lizard man under the full moon. Dumb plot, bad acting and dialog, merely ordinary camera work, a bad folk rock group, really bad FX. The creature appearance is laughable not scream worthy as one actress seems to think so at great length and with much histrionics. The creature demise seems to have been designed by a refugee from the psychedelic era. I will not tell you how they are able to kill him. It is just beyond the pale.
Bottom line: Miss this one.
Another irrelevant aside: Anyone know what the phrase 'beyond the pale' means and what a 'pale' is and what The Pale was?
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Post by silverbullet63 on Feb 20, 2020 22:18:38 GMT -5
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985)
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Post by ArcLight on Feb 21, 2020 0:35:49 GMT -5
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985) I don't care what anyone says, I love this stupid little movie.  |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Feb 21, 2020 7:21:55 GMT -5
Howling II: Your Sister is a Werewolf (1985) I don't care what anyone says, I love this stupid little movie. It's hilariously bad, but u get Sir Christopher Lee and a great song. LOL! |
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Post by someoldguy on Feb 21, 2020 11:50:30 GMT -5
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Post by someoldguy on Feb 21, 2020 19:02:27 GMT -5
Eye of the Beast (2007) Jaws with Tentacles plus some of Humanoids of the Deep mixed in. Professional fishermen have licenses that limit the size of their catch. Native Americans are not limited due to tribal rights. Natives are being blamed for poor catches. Throw in some people disappearing. Native sheriff has her hands full. Young good looking researcher arrives to investigate. The real culprit is a giant squid. Not bad at all for a low budget TV movie. Canada seems to fare better in that arena than the States. Acting and dialog are pretty good. Plot and development are good. Not a lot of FX but what there is, is respectable, although wisely limited to night scenes. I really like the first full appearance of the beast and the sheriff's reaction shot. Fine example of Multum in Parvo. |
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Post by ArcLight on Feb 21, 2020 23:26:44 GMT -5
21 Bridges (2019) A midnight heist gone wrong leaves eight cops dead and the suspects on the run in the heart of New York City. Enter Detective Andre Davis, played by Marvel's Black Panther himself, Chadwick Boseman. Known as the "cop who kills cop killers," Davis comes up with a bold plan to trap the fugitives; close down all the bridges to Manhattan (guess how many there are) along with the tunnels, subways, etc., and "flood the island with blue" to root the villains out before morning when the island will need to be opened for business. Pretty quickly it's obvious that there's more going on behind-the-scenes and on top of catching the suspects Davis is tasked with finding out the truth of the matter and then deciding what he's going to do about it. I thought it was a pretty nice little action/thriller. Got it from Netflix as I'm on their disc plan as well as streaming. Preview here: youtu.be/BVZDhunTrYA |
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Post by someoldguy on Feb 22, 2020 11:40:19 GMT -5
21 Bridges (2019) A midnight heist gone wrong leaves eight cops dead and the suspects on the run in the heart of New York City. Enter Detective Andre Davis, played by Marvel's Black Panther himself, Chadwick Boseman. Known as the "cop who kills cop killers," Davis comes up with a bold plan to trap the fugitives; close down all the bridges to Manhattan (guess how many there are) along with the tunnels, subways, etc., and "flood the island with blue" to root the villains out before morning when the island will need to be opened for business. Pretty quickly it's obvious that there's more going on behind-the-scenes and on top of catching the suspects Davis is tasked with finding out the truth of the matter and then deciding what he's going to do about it. I thought it was a pretty nice little action/thriller. Got it from Netflix as I'm on their disc plan as well as streaming. Preview here: youtu.be/BVZDhunTrYAI am imagining actually sealing off and searching Manhattan. There are dozens of access points to Manhattan - bridges and tunnels (vehicular and train), ferries, helicopters and even the Roosevelt Island Tramway. It is also possible, if not necessarily always legal, to use private boats to cross the several waterways surrounding Manhattan. There are an incredible number of buildings that would take even the entire NYPD a very long time to search, not to mention searching all the streets and vehicles, moving and parked, in Manhattan at any moment. There are also all those subway stations and tunnels, including the old abandoned ones. There are also many ‘secret’ places, underground and in buildings, that are not even widely known. The subways run on 650 volt DC, which is only effective over short ranges, requiring numerous underground transformer stations. There are places like the catacombs under Old St. Patrick’s in Soho. The tour of the Basilica takes 90 minutes with no electric lighting in the catacombs. (Good place for a horror movie?) Many more things like that. And don’t forget the sewers. Oh, did I mention Central Park? Of course, it would take the entire US Army weeks, if not months, to search Manhattan in a manner that would seal off all the many parallel paths at the cordon line, or the ‘bad guys’ could slip through the net. This means pretty much stopping all activity in Manhattan that requires people coming and going from the island for that time. It would also mean monitoring all legitimate traffic crossing the cordon line, including buses and subways and those walking through buildings. And all this while keeping a close watch on all access points. Maybe the US Army is not big enough and we need to bring back the draft. |
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Post by someoldguy on Feb 22, 2020 21:30:40 GMT -5
The Being (1983) Actually filmed in 1980 but it took three years to find a distributor. Cheap cheesy B movie shlock that managed to lasso a few name actors, without which it would have been even worse trash. Dumping radioactive waste into water aquifers results in a weird mutant creature that goes on a killing spree for no known reason. Martin Landau is the scientist who assures everybody there is no danger until he learns better. Jose Ferrer is the mayor who wants to protect the potato crops against panic over contamination. Ruth Buzzi is the mayor's bitch of a wife. The hero of the piece is played by porn film producer Bill Osco, under multiple silly pseudonyms. The best of the lot is probably Buzzi. Too bad her role has virtually nothing to do with the plot. The plot being: monster is killing people but to admit it is economically unacceptable, guys go after the monster to snuff it but not all of them make it. I think I've seen this a few times. Creature has nasty teeth and claws and leaves green slime everywhere. You never get a good look at the whole creature. You see the tongue (?) grab people, and the claws rip them up. The only good sustained look is at the head which might be scarier if it were not so stupid looking. But there is a good body count right from the beginning of the movie and a fair amount of gore of the cheap looking variety. Either there is more than one creature from the start or there is a huge plot hole. Acting is mostly poor, even with the big names on board. Landau tries hard but terrified screaming and such are not really his forte. Osco’s performance is better than one might expect from a porn film producer but still B movie grade. Camera work and other production values are strictly B movie level. A lot of the movie takes place in the dark, which probably helps more than hindering. There is a brief scene very much like one in The Thing From Another World (1951) that I suspect was intentional. Open the metal door and the radioactive humanoid monster is standing there. Shut the door and it tries to force it open with its claw inside. Too bad they did not have an automatic weapon to shoot through the door when they did get it closed. At the end there is a brief ‘where are they now’ bit reminiscent of Animal House. The levity is cute and seems to be directed against the movie itself. If the movie had tried making fun of itself earlier on, it might have worked better.
Cheap and cheesy to be sure but never bad enough to not keep watching.
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Post by someoldguy on Feb 24, 2020 20:31:18 GMT -5
Stomping Ground (2016)
Bigfoot in North Carolina. Young people go camping in the wild, pretending (maybe) to be searching for Bigfoot. Half of the movie is personal interactions such as ribbing the city guy (including Deliverance jokes) and developing alpha male rivalry games. This part is surprisingly interesting and well acted. Almost no sign of the guy with the large shoe size until well into the movie and you do not see the creature itself until getting near the end. Looks pretty good BTW or at least it does in the very brief screen time given it. Despite the rather minimal creature action, I liked the movie.
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Le Loup-Garou Qui Rit
