What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[Hunter Rider]

6/10

 

[Frodo]

Spiderman : Across The Spider-verse (2023)

 

[Wildcard]

For years I over-looked these films but they honestly offer an interesting path for Norman beyond the original & its great seeing Perkins return the role. These are probably now among some of my very favorite horror sequels.

 

[Hunter Rider]

My favourite adaption of Dickens classic, Ron Moody is gold.

9/10

 

[Detective Conan]

Saw these two very different films:

Extraction 2

Thoughts: It has good looking action and good looking Hemsworth being handsome at doing it. So it’s automatically a win. 6/10

Blue Beetle(2023)

Thoughts: It’s a DC film in the body of a Phase One Marvel film and it has George Lopez playing a basically live action latino Dale Gribble. Doesn’t bring anything to new to the table, but it’s perfectly serviceable. 7/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

My favourite adaption of Dickens classic, Ron Moody is gold.

9/10

And Oliver Reed's Bill Sikes is just perfect. Talk about born for the role.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Scary Movie

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[Frodo]

Saw 3D : The Final Chapter ( 2010)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Within the Woods (1978)

The original half-hour short put together by Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell, to try to secure funding for their first full-length horror film. Two young couples spend the weekend at a remote farmhouse. As one couple spends an afternoon playing Monopoly, the other (Bruce Campbell and Ellen Sandweiss) goes outside for a picnic. During lunch, Bruce tells Ellen (they stick with their real names) that the land they're on used to be an Indian burial ground!! But that although the Indians placed a protection curse, they'll be fine as long as they don't disturb any graves. Then, as Ellen gathers firewood, Bruce wanders off and finds an ancient dagger - which he decides to keep. Events soon take a turn for the worse, and a possessed, mutilated Bruce stalks Ellen, determined to kill her, leading her to seek refuge in the farmhouse...

Eventually, of course, Raimi and Campbell found the money, and went on to make their horror movie - The Evil Dead (along with Sandweiss), using several elements from this film. Attempts to release WTW on home media have always fallen through, and Evil Dead fans who want to see where the idea first came from have to make do with scans of bootleg VHS's (that in themselves look like tenth generation copies). Despite dreadful picture quality near the beginning, occasional picture-roll throughout, excessive darkness, and what looks like 'tracking' issues (remember those?), the performances aren't bad, the effects are serviceable for the time, and the direction and camera work show Raimi's obvious talent. Rating it in it's present condition doesn't seem fair - but if you're an Evil Dead fan it's definitely worth a look.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Honestly in my humble opinion, QT’s magnum opus.

 

[Frodo]

Jigsaw (2017)

 

[Iceman]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

 

[NDX]

The Last Unicorn

 

[Frodo]

Eddie And The Cruisers (1983)

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[NDX]

The Good Dinosaur

 

[Hunter Rider]

7.5/10

 

[Gothamsknight]

7.5/10

 

[Frodo]

A Walk In The Clouds (1995)

 

[Sculder]

The Extreme Adventures of Super Dave (2000)
Miguel Wants to Fight (2023)
Invasion Planet Earth (2019)
Break Night (2017)
Captain Apache (1971)
Asteroid City (2023)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Cabin Fever (2016)

Remake of the 2002 movie of the same name. The cabin in the woods is more of a luxury apartment in the woods, the photography is far too bright too much of the time, the hillbilly locals and the deputy are cartoon characters, and the whole thing has as much atmosphere as an episode of Dawson's Creek, or The O. C.

Good horror is more than just the events shown. It's camera, lighting, and sound, creating a sense of dread, unease, even other-worldliness. This achieves none of that. It's got the starkness of a true-crime reconstruction show. The characterisations of the leads are paper-thin; the one death that shows any promise of emotional weight soon descends into borderline comedy (and an after-credits scene that makes no sense), and the whole film just leaves a feeling of 'why?'

The girls are pretty. That, in all seriousness, is the best thing I can say. 2/10.

 

[samsnee]

Probably Adam Sandler’s funniest movie in years, even though he is much more supporting role.

It helps if you’ve been to a bat mitzvah’s in your life to really appreciate it but the humor and situations are universally relatable.