I hate to rag on micro budget movies, getting a film finished and out there is no mean feat, but for some things there's no excuse; There are plenty of good actors who will work for guild minimum, and a coherent script costs no more to write than, say, Night of the Demon...
You see, the film starts at the end, and is told in flashbeck, a common enough method, only there are several flashbacks along the way - flashbacks within flashbacks, and while many of the scenes do not feature the main character (the one doing the flashing back) the sub-flashbacks almost all have no survivors, and in one case the guy doing the main story wasn't present when the nested (and witness free) flashback was recounted! So he is recounting the recounting of a tail which no one could have known about and which he didn't even hear!
Saturday 30 June 2012
Night of the Demon - Lisa's Review
*** SPOILERS ***
Well we've got a right stinker this week. I wouldn't say it was the worst one I've watched so far on the list, but it is definately not one I would ever recommend to anyone else for any reason, other than a desire to complete the nasties list challenge.
Sunday 24 June 2012
WEEK 57: Night of the Demon
Alternate Titles : NA
Year: 1980
Reviews / Author Comments due: 30/06/2012
Feel free to use the comments section of this post to add your own reviews and thoughts about this movie.
Saturday 23 June 2012
Night of the Bloody Apes - Will's Review
Badly acted, badly directed and edited, with dialogue translated word-by-word from Spanish with no thought to syntax or English sentence formation, this is a near perfect drive-in or freinds-and-beer movie.
Night of the Bloody Apes - Lisa's Review
*** SPOILERS ***
I read the title of this one and thought 'oh gawd, here we go. How can this possibly be any good?'. I slightly shame myself however to admit that I enjoyed this one, BUT for all the wrong reasons. For me, this one was a 'So bad its good' movie. I found myself tittering all the way through. Just when you were getting over the humor of the last cheesy line, terrible peace of acting, awful effect or desperately flawed storyline, lo and behold, something else happens to amuse you!
Sunday 17 June 2012
WEEK 57: Night of the Bloody Apes
Alternate Titles : La Horror Pilante Bestia Humana (The Horrible Human Beast), Horror y Sexo (Horror and Sex), Gomar the Human Gorilla
Year: 1969
Reviews / Author Comments due: 23/06/12
DPP Status: Successfully Prosecuted
BBFC Status: Passed uncut in 2012 - Be aware that the film is listed on the BBFCs website as 'passed without cuts' in 1999 and 2002; these versions have a shorter runtime, and were evidently cut by the distributor prior to submission.
IMDB: LINK
Wikipedia: LINK
DVD: Currently the UK version is cut, although it was passed uncut 3 months ago, so expect a region 2 release soon. In the meantime the US version is uncut.
Feel free to use the comments section of this post to add your own reviews and thoughts about this movie.
Saturday 16 June 2012
Mardi Gras Massacre - Will's Review
Remember last week I told you not to read spoilers until you'd seen the movie? Not so much this week...
Mardi Gras Massacre - Lisa's Review
*** SPOILERS ***
I'm not going to waste anyone's time with this weeks review. I'm not in any way confused with my viewpoints this week- This movie is shite!
Sunday 10 June 2012
WEEK 56: Mardi Gras Massacre
Alternate Titles : N/A
Year: 1978
Reviews / Author Comments due: 16/06/2012
DPP Status: Successfully Prosecuted
BBFC Status: Still banned
IMDB: LINK
Wikipedia: LINK
DVD: Region 1 uncut
Feel free to use the comments section of this post to add your own reviews and thoughts about this movie.
Saturday 9 June 2012
Madhouse - Lisa's Review
I have just finished watching this and struggle to work out exactly what I thought of it.
The first 3/4 of this movie is sooooooooooo slow and dull, I found it very hard to maintain an interest. As with a previous movie, it felt like some of the scenes were actually never going to end. The ending of the movie however does kind of make up for the dragging nature of the rest of the movie.
The first 3/4 of this movie is sooooooooooo slow and dull, I found it very hard to maintain an interest. As with a previous movie, it felt like some of the scenes were actually never going to end. The ending of the movie however does kind of make up for the dragging nature of the rest of the movie.
Madhouse - Wills Review
Right off the bat I'm going to tell you I enjoyed this one. It's a slasher, which puts me on 'home turf' as were, so I may be a little biased, but I really enjoyed it.
Don't get me wrong, it can drag a little in the first two acts, but once things start to unfold... The last 20 mins is more than worth the price of admission; not because of any over the top gore (worst luck) but what it lacks in the red stuff in more than makes up for in batshit insanity!
And it has a really bad glove puppet dog in it too!
The trouble is that the good stuff all happens after a twist at around the hour mark, so if you read any further you're going to have it spoiled.
Go away right now, and don't come back until you've seen the film!
Oh, and make sure it's the one from 1981 - there are about a million (well, 6) completely unrelated films all called "Madhouse".
GO!
Don't get me wrong, it can drag a little in the first two acts, but once things start to unfold... The last 20 mins is more than worth the price of admission; not because of any over the top gore (worst luck) but what it lacks in the red stuff in more than makes up for in batshit insanity!
And it has a really bad glove puppet dog in it too!
The trouble is that the good stuff all happens after a twist at around the hour mark, so if you read any further you're going to have it spoiled.
Go away right now, and don't come back until you've seen the film!
Oh, and make sure it's the one from 1981 - there are about a million (well, 6) completely unrelated films all called "Madhouse".
GO!
Sunday 3 June 2012
WEEK 55: Madhouse
Alternate Titles : There Was a Little Girl, And When She Was Bad, Flesh and the Beast, Scared to Death
Year: 1981
Reviews / Author Comments due: 09/06/2012
Feel free to use the comments section of this post to add your own reviews and thoughts about this movie.
Saturday 2 June 2012
Love Camp 7 - Lisa's Review
Well yet another Nazi Sexploitation movie... YAWN. What can I say that hasn't been said 100 times before about this kind of movie.
There was some kind of story here to begin with. It centers a POW camp where Jewish females are used as prostitutes for Nazi officers mainly (Love Camp 7). Two female American soldiers are sent into 'Love Camp 7' to attempt to rescue a female assistant to a scientist to gain knowledge about his work on a new weapon. They have been trained to memorize everything they read to give them a plausable background story and to enable them to convince the woman they are allies and have been sent in to rescue that they are indeed there to help her and are not nazi spies.
Love Camp 7 - Will's Review
Nazi sexploitation. Again. This time with really bad German accents (except from the token 'nice' soldier, who sounds remarkably not-German).
I think the thing that bugs me about these things is that Nazi run enforced Jewish 'staffed' brothels did exist, and I'm sure there's a few great, if harrowing, stories to be told, so long as the material is handled sensitively. The subject matter, however, is not at all suited to the LOOK AT THE TITS!!! approach.
I think the thing that bugs me about these things is that Nazi run enforced Jewish 'staffed' brothels did exist, and I'm sure there's a few great, if harrowing, stories to be told, so long as the material is handled sensitively. The subject matter, however, is not at all suited to the LOOK AT THE TITS!!! approach.
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