What was the last movie you saw?

Hatchet III (2013)



The kills in this movie are absolutely brutal. I love the opening. The chainsaw scene was extremely well done. The head explosion kill with the defibrillators was pretty cool too. I like the new additions to the cast specifically Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams and Derek Mears. Sid Haig showing up came as a complete surprise and he was hysterical. Joel Moore's cameo was also pretty cool. I thought the ending was really satisfying.

Victoria Silverwolf said:

Vulcan, Son of Jupiter (1961)

Particularly nutty sword and sandal epic which plays fast and loose with mythology. The main characters are the gods of Olympus (a cardboard set with fog.)

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Sounds like real fun. Is the copy at archive.og the best (only?) version to see for free?

https://archive.org/details/VulcanSonOfJupiter

The Lords of Salem (2012)



The tone of this film was much more serious than I was expecting. It still includes many of the things I've come to expect from Rob Zombie like an excellent score and casting of horror alums like Ken Foree and Dee Wallace. Meg Foster's performance as the witch was absolutely creepy. It also delivers on some very disturbing imagery and some interesting psychedelic visuals.

JunkMonkey said:

I just found I have a copy of the novelization! I just looked over the top of my monitor and there it was staring at me from a pile of 1960's paperbacks on the bookshelves behind my desk!

I'm off to read it. It looks like total crap!

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It WAS!

12 to the Moon by Robert A Wise - a novelization of a really bad film which manages to make the film look interesting by comparison. Stuffed full of really bad writing like this [Our heroes are on their way back from the first manned expedition to the moon where they have encountered mysterious forces. On their way back they hear mysterious whizzing noises coming from outside the ship (on airless space remember) and watch through their space telescope as life in America grinds to a halt with people literally freezing in mid step. - A bit like slowing down and freeze framing stock footage.] Now read on:

They said they had the power to immobilise the earth at will, replied Hideko. "And somehow they have managed to do it!"
"But how? Ruskin asked.
Heinrich scratched his jaw pensively. "Through some development of their science, they ... whoever they are ... have found a way to freeze all molecular activity."
"Those 'whizzing' noises ... "said Rod.
"Yes, answered Heinrich. "Whatever they sent must have extracted the heat particles out of the atmosphere and frozen it!"
"How could that be possible?" asked Rod.
"It is the reverse principle of the hydrogen bomb," explained Heinrich. "We have successfully experimented with this in Germany. We call it flash freezing."
"Yes," agreed Orloff. "Through some superior device they must have found a way to bring about a glacial phenomenon."
"Implosion bombs!" exclaimed Heinrich. "That must have been those whizzing noises."
He walked from the group with his own thoughts. The earth, as he knew it had come to an end. He wondered if the others had quite faced up to the situation yet.
"I somehow feel, said Ruskin, "that it is an earthly power."
Heinrich turned to face him, the picture of dejection,. "All I know is that the lower atmosphere appears to be frozen and we must remain at this altitude above the earth so as not to be trapped in it."

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But it's all right in the end. A couple of pages after this they knock up an atomic bomb out of bit lying about the spaceship and in a suicide mission drop it down an active volcano in Mexico - thus melting the whole of North America.

As a result of several intense minutes of in-depth internet research I can pretty well authoritatively say that Robert A Wise didn't write any other SF books and was, according to Contemporary Science Fiction Authors By Robert Reginald, - "probably a real person"

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...author&f=false

JunkMonkey said:

Sounds like real fun. Is the copy at archive.og the best (only?) version to see for free?

https://archive.org/details/VulcanSonOfJupiter

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AS far as I know, but I am no expert.

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)



Definitely an improvement on the original. Adding the supernatural element to this franchise was like a breath of fresh air during a time when slasher movies had become stale and predictable. At first it gives off a low budget Poltergeist vibe but goes on to deliver some very visually striking scenes. The rocking horse's head coming to life in Vicki's room was just awesome. Vicki getting pulled into the chalkboard was also pretty cool. Very satisfying ending.

Prom Night (1980)



Far from Jamie Lee Curtis' best horror movie. It's kind of slow in the middle and the reveal of the killer is predictable by today's standards otherwise it's a solid '80s slasher movie.

Jessie are you kidding?
AntMan! I had vague hopes, and some of the ant action is acceptable. Couldn't stay focused though, because as soon as the characters are set, (criminal who becomes Antman and his cute daughter) the whole thing was set up to follow the same formula. Message - hey crime is OK if it's to make child support payments. Action movie but as predictable as any low-budget hacktion flick. Cool ants though. They are our friends.

PAPER PLANES (2015)
Based on a true story, a boy ends up competing in the world paper plane contest. It's predictable, formulaic, and yet a pleasant little comedy.

Paul Anderson's The Master,with the much lamented Phil Hoffmann and Joaquin Phoenix.
Easy viewing?No,certainly,definitely not.
Compelling viewing?Very much so.
First of all: you can't ignore Phil SH and Jockey.They loom larger than life in this one,with out-of -this world acting from both.
Mr. Phoenix role is emotive,at times thoroughly disturbing,portraying a somewhat disturbed individual,a human timebomb,and the viewer hasn't got a clue what's coming next.Consistency,intensity,depth,it's all there.Without histrionics.
Direction:faultless,cinematography:ditto
The Late immensely talented Hoffman:Olympian.
Suitably ambivalent,charismatic,overpowering,he portrays someone with oddbal(very science-fictional) ideas and a cult following,who likes to live the high life.
Every hint of satire is pointedly and studiously ignored by the director.
What emerges is a jilted almost father/son relation.
Explanations:none,so the whole thing feels very European,which might be not to everyone's taste.
Director Anderson seems to like to explore counter-/subcultures.
What's fascinating to watch is the ambivalence:Hoffman's character very much wanting
the highly volatile booze addict Freddy Quell to be a true believer,and the novice seemingly willing to oblige him,for whatever reason.
So:No plot,none whatsoever.
It's a character study.
See this one after you OD'd on Pixar,MImp Umpty,and as yet unnamed GIANT CGI SPECTACLE WITH VEHICLE CHASES AND LOTSA EXPLOSIONS

edit:Takes place in 1950's America,believable all the way

Wargames (1983) and The Last Starfighter (1984). Having read Armada, I'm in a rather nostalgic frame of mind.

Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet (2009)

The only reason I checked this out is because it stars both Bill Moseley and Danielle Harris. It's actually a pretty solid B-Movie splatter film. While it's low budget the practical special effects look good and there's plenty of gore. Although it is slow in the middle during the teenagers partying scenes.

The Woman in the Window (1944)

Outstanding early film noir directed by the great Fritz Lang. Edward G. Robinson stars as a professor of psychology who sees a striking portrait of a woman in a store window, then soon encounters the real woman who posed for it (Joan Bennett.) Since his wife and kids are away on vacation, he agrees to have a drink with her and then go up to her apartment to see some sketches. Another gentleman, who happens to be violently jealous, shows up, and things rapidly go from bad to worse. Without giving anything else away, the story is tightly plotted and highly suspenseful, with sharp dialogue by producer/screenwriter Nunally Johnson, and excellent cinematography. A class act all around. Unfortunately, it's nearly ruined by an absurd twist ending during the last couple of minutes, which was obviously added to avoid violating the Production Code. Fine supporting roles from Raymond Massey as a district attorney with a razor sharp mind and Dan Duryea as a blackmailer.

Fritz Lang is one of the great:
a couple of days back i rerererewatched a movie about money,bowling,nihilists....

Scarlet Street (1945)

This is a very interesting film to compare with The Woman in the Window. Director Fritz Lang brings together the same leads -- Robinson, Bennett, and Duryea -- for another film noir. The opening premise is similar. Once again Robinson is a respectable middle-aged fellow who gets mixed up with Bennett, eventually leading to violence. However, the films have important differences. This one is more leisurely and less tightly plotted. Unlike the early killing which sets up the plot in The Woman in the Window, Scarlet Street doesn't get violent until the last fifteen minutes. Once it does, however, it becomes much darker in tone, and the ending doesn't cop out.

Ant-Man (Present Day)

This little gem is a breath of fresh air to the MCU. It doesn't concern itself with world shattering alien invasions or unhinged A.I. seeking to cause nuclear winter by dropping cities on people, and it is all the better for it. It is clever, funny, moving, beautifully shot in places, and probably has the best end-movie boss fight beside all the Hulk bits in Avengers Assemble. A must watch for any Science Fiction of Fantasy fan!

Gangster Squad (2013)



It's flashy, cliche, the characters are one dimensional and some of the drama is heavy handed but damn this movie is fun, fast paced and visually cool. Excellent casting and a definite recommend for fans of the gangster genre.

Hold on;it's got Ryan Gosling ,Sean Penn AND the characters are one-dimensional?

Brokeback Mountain - a film which has been sat in the To Be Watched pile for several years now and which I have been putting off watching for years because I knew I would be a blubbering wreck at the end of it. Last night, given a free choice of any movie to watch "as long as it wasn't an 18", my 13 year old daughter picked it. I was, as I suspected I would be, a blubbering wreck at the end of it. What a great film.

Holy cats... THE NIGHT OF 1000 CATS
1971? This one is brutal, almost indescribable. The actual manhandling of cats in this movie... is more disturbing than any exploding head or marvel comic crap, by far. We need Victoria to review this one, I can't handle it. The overdubbing is something else. The music is slick and cool 60s stuff but geee this one has moved into my top ten alltime bad movies. I mean... stultifying yet inane, hard to avoid fast-forwarding at times... but ....* MeeeeOWCH.*

Kubrick's Dr Strangelove
Weird(somewhat),magnificent,Sellers and Scott proving that they could act a bit,but ...
Great satire,depressing end
Ben's like-o-meter:ten out of ten ,of course
Yesterday:Full Metal Jacket
Intense,disturbing, compelling
Like many,i find the first part of the movie better than the battle scenes
Both films showing the utter futility,idiocy and human drama of war