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What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

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As a fan of the Hell House films I was expecting more from this but man Cognetti really knows how to craft some genuinely scary/creepy moments even in a fairly generic horror film like this.

5/10

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A pretty basic, low key thriller with a really solid, subtle, performance from Josh Stewart who is still one of the more underrated actors out there IMO and I hope to see him more stuff going forward.

6/10

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This was interesting to say the least but it didn't really work for me as a horror film especially when it got to the third act. Juame Collet-Serra still knows how to direct the hell out of a film though and it's pretty well made overall with a strong central performance from Danielle Deadwyler.

5.5/10
 
BURN NOTICE: THE FALL OF SAM AXE (2011) Directed by Jeffrey Donovan and starring Bruce Campbell, Kieli Sanchez, Pedro Pascal, and John Diehl.

Back between 2007 and 2013 the USA network made the TV series BURN NOTICE starring Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell. Between the fourth and fifth seasons they made a prequel movie about Campbell's character. I saw it when it first aired but hadn't seen it in the 14 years since. I'm about to re-watch the series, and started with this movie because it takes place before the series starts. It's always great seeing Bruce in action, but it was a big surprise to see Pedro Pascal in a significant role in it. This was back before he was on my actors to watch radar. It's a fun start to a fun series.
 
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Bleak, joyless look at war but that's very much the point.

6/10

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Twas good! Feels like Christopher Landon went out of his way to prove that We Have a Ghost was just a fluke and directed the hell out of this with fun angles and lighting. His best looking film to date.

7/10
 
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Not as good as The Beekeeper but Statham being Statham is always fun to watch and Ayer does a pretty solid job with the action whenever it's onscreen. I just wish the action/set pieces were more creative or inventive and the villains across the board were pretty weak and forgettable too IMO.

6/10
 
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The Ninth Gate

One of the so called ‘’bad movies’’ which I have to see all the way through, every single time. I don’t know what it is about it. I’ve always been hungry for more occult with a detective type stories. Perhaps! This also haunts me cause I would’ve done some of the same mistakes he did on here, looking at the green eyed gal in particular. The book is more straight forward in some sense, but the film managed to captured the atmosphere of it all.
The atmosphere is what sells it. Is like stepping on a weird dream.
 
San Demetrio London (1943)
Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff / The Triumph of Michael Strogoff (1961)
Orders to Kill (1958)
The Hypnotist (1957)
Dick Dynamite: 1944 (2023)
Alcatraz (2018)
Madame Irma (2006)
Angels One Five (1952)
De leeuw van Vlaanderen / The Lion of Flanders (1984)
Father Hood (1993)
Easter Sunday (2022)
 
Knife Under the Throat (1986)

French attempt at a giallo, directed by Claude Mulot (his final film - he drowned whilst swimming four months after the film's release, aged just 44).

The IMDb plot summary simply reads 'Erotic models are stalked by a maniac.' The fact that that just about sums it up says how thin the plot is. To try to flesh it out a bit... Jean Rollin regular Brigitte Lahaie's modelling agency boss slips a night watchman a few bob to let her photographer take some saucy snaps in a local cemetery. As the night watchman watches the photoshoot from his hut he becomes increasingly angry (presumably he hadn't realised what kind of photoshoot it would be) - to the point where the next day he murders an innocent woman who bears a passing resemblance to one of the models. Immediately afterwards, in a fit of guilt, he throws himself under the wheels of an HGV. From then on various people involved in the photoshoot start getting bumped-off by an unidentified, black glove-wearing assailant armed with a knife.

With such a flimsy story, the runtime is understandably short (just 81 mins). Lahaie was the best-known name in the cast at the time, and is easily the name still most familiar to Eurosleaze fans; but the lead of the film is the eye-wateringly beautiful Florence Guérin as Catherine, one of the models. She was just 20 yrs old but had been acting for six years, and - according to Lahaie in a recent interview - had decided she was destined to be a megastar, treating everyone else accordingly. Guérin is still working but never achieved that stardom - perhaps the diva attitude is why. Shame.

It suffers from some things many gialli suffer from; the people don't talk - or react - like real people, some of the plot contrivances are implausible (to say the least), and when the reveal comes it is genuinely laughably ridiculous! But also in true giallo fashion, there are plenty of red herrings, a lot of full nudity - and, perhaps most importantly, the blood looks like bright red paint!

This French attempt is not a bad stab (forgive the pun), and there are certainly Italian gialli that I'd rate lower. 6/10
 

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