WEEK 63: Revenge of the Boogeyman

Alternate Titles : Revenge of the Bogeyman, Boogeyman II, The Boogey Man 2, The Boogeyman 2, Bogeyman 2

Year: 1983

Reviews / Author Comments due: 04/09/2012 Reviews put on hold while original version is sourced.

DPP Status: Removed from list July 1984

BBFC Status: No entry exists on the BBFC Website, The Redux version is currently available rated 18, although even this seems not to be listed with the BBFC.

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: Not Available (Note that the currently availbale Directors Cut / "Redux" version is a very different film)

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Prisoner of the Cannibal Gods - Will's Review

It's hard to believe that this one is older than most of the other cannibal movies on the list (I believe only Deep River Savages is older) because it seems to borrow elements from most of them; in reality it seems that the similarities are either coincidental, or the other movies each 'borrowed' their favorite parts from this one, stoping short of lifting the plot wholesale.

Either way, I could pretty much write an outline for one of these things in my sleep by now...

Prisoner Of The Cannibal God - Lisa's Review

*** SOME SPOILERS***

So, another Cannibal movie in our list.  I thought we had exhausted them all with the passing of 'C', but nope, here's another entry.

This movie left me a little cold.  Not for the obvious hatred of close-up scenes of animal deaths (which this movie contains), but because I found it so monumentally dull.  To be fair, I think unless I adore or hate a movie, if its somewhere in the middle, it is very much dependant on my mood how I will find it.  Maybe on a different day, I would feel this one 'wasn't too bad'.  I don't think I would ever go as far as even describing this movie as 'good', but I found reaching the end of this one a bit of a struggle as I had absolutely sod all interest in how it ended.

WEEK 62: Prisoner of the Cannibal God

Alternate Titles : Slave of the Cannibal God, Primitive Desires, The Mountain of the Cannibal God
Year: 1978

Reviews / Author Comments due: 28/7/2012

DPP Status: Removed from list May 1985

BBFC Status: Passed with almost 2 min of of cuts in 2009 (cuts made by distributor prior to submission - the Current version, listed as "uncut" by the BBFC, is only 20s longer than a previous version, which had 2m6s of cuts)

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: Uncut US Import

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Possession - Will's Review

I honestly have no idea what to say about this movie.

If asked what it's about I'd be forced to answer with concepts, rather than plot points; it's about duality, divorce, resentment, madness, betrayal; so many things that I could probably list them all day, and still later think of some that I missed!
Filmed in Berlin, with an international cast (including a young Sam Neil) by a polish director, it at times has the look of a French art house movie, at time it borders on German expressionism.

Possession - Lisa's Review

*** SPOILERS ***

This weeks movie is going to be very, very hard for me to review.  Mostly because certain aspects were so confusing.  That aside, I did think it was an incredibly well made movie and it does warrant at least another watch.

We see a known actor for a change, in a young Sam Neill (Mark) returning from work to his beautiful wife Anna in Berlin.  The movie is shot right beside the Berlin wall which I don't think is accidental in any sense given the division throughout the movie between the husband and wife.  It almost feels like the director is trying to show the unseen by giving the incredible emotion of this movie a solid presence.  The hard, cold concrete and stark scenes set in Berlin convey their relationship wonderfully.

WEEK 61:Possession

Alternate Titles : The Night the Screaming Stops

Year: 1981

Reviews / Author Comments due: 21/07/2012

DPP Status: Removed from list September 1983 following Jury Trial
Satus: Passed uncut in 2010

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: R2 uncut

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Nightmares in a Damaged Brain - Will's Review

You know how the saying goes; Another week, another forgettable (though not entirely terrible) slasher with the word nightmare in its title!

This week, our leading man goes by the name of George Tatum and has spent an indeterminate amount of time in some kind of experimental medical facility, where he is the first person to be declared successfully cured of psychopathy by a state of the art technique.

Nightmares in a Damaged Brain - Lisa's Review

***SPOILERS ***

A little late with the review for this one, my apologies, just completed a relocation back to good old Norn Iron.

Soooo what to 'Nightmares in a damaged brain', well I enjoyed this one.  I can find quite a few faults if I want to be pedantic, but sometimes I like the general 'feel' of a movie and with this one I did.

WEEK 60: Nightmares in a Damaged Brain

Alternate Titles : Nightmare, Dark Games, Blood Splash, Schizo

Year: 1981

Reviews / Author Comments due: 14/07/2012

DPP Status: Successfully prosecuted 

BBFC Status: Passed uncut in 2005

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: Uncut R2

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Nightmare Maker - Lisa's Review

Bit of a weird one this week.  This movie, like a few other 'nasties' has the feel of a TV movie to me, but the content is most definately not something you would find on TV.  Obsession, incest, homophobia and murder pretty much sum it up.

We focus on teenager Billy, who has been living with his aunt Cheryl since the death of his parents in a car accident.  The movie actually opens with the accident and some pretty ok effects I thought.  A nasty decapitation for the dad  and a roll job and burst into flames for the mum.  I thought the sudden and fast entry into some action bode well for the movie, but we were led onto a completely different movie from then on.

Nightmare Maker - Will's Review

I watched this on a couple of days before penning the review, which I now realise was a mistake as it's a fairly forgettable movie, so we'll have to wait and see what comes back to me as I write.

Obviously, it's not Devil Hunter forgettable; I did at least manage to remember the beginning of the movie all the way to the end, just kind of generic and... Meh.

WEEK 59 - Nightmare Maker

Alternate Titles : 'Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker', Night Warning, Evil Protege, Momma's Boy, Thrilled to Death

Year: 1981

Reviews / Author Comments due: 7/7/2012

DPP Status: Removed from list December 1985

BBFC Status: Still banned

IMDB: LINK

Wikipedia: LINK

DVD: Not available

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