What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[Batgirl0202]

7/10

 

[Frodo]

Telefon (1977)

 

[C. Lee]

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1967) Starring Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters, and Robert Morris. Dr. Frankenstein is experimenting on the human soul. He has proven to Dr. Hertz, by freezing his own body for an hour, that the soul does not immediately leave the body at the moment of death. He also creates a "force field" device to keep it from leaving for even longer periods. When his young assistant Hans is falsely accused of murder, and then executed, Frankenstein uses the device on him to save his soul (the body was beheaded, so can't be saved). When the assistant's disfigured girlfriend commits suicide the body is brought to the Dr. He revives her body, and surgically fixes her disfigurements, but also experiments by releasing his assistant's soul into her. Both souls inhabit her body, but Hans keeps taking it over to kill the three men who lied about him being the murderer. The beautiful Susan Denberg only appeared in 6 movies or TV shows. Her two most famous appearances were this movie and the original STAR TREK episode MUDD'S WOMEN. Not your typical Frankenstein story...but enjoyable as a horror movie.


FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (1969) Starring Peter Cushing, Simon Ward, Veronica Carlson, and Freddie Jones. This was another change of pace episode for the series. In the previous films the Doctor has done bad things in his obsession over scientific experimentation....but in this one he is just plain evil. In here, he commits murder, blackmail, and even rape. This is not your typical Frankenstein movie.

 

[Frodo]

Malignant (2021)

 

[C. Lee]

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES (2023) Starring Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez, Rege-Jean Page, Sofia Lillis, and Hugh Grant. A fantasy film where magicians, elves, humans, and strange mythological animals fight with and against each other for treasure, power and the love of their daughter. Never played the game, so I don't know or care if it follows the games rules....I just know me, my wife and my daughter had fun watching it.

 

[Kane52630]

Megan is Missing

For a found footage film with an extremely small budget even by indie horror standards, I thought this was impressive yet deeply disturbing when you get to the last 30 minutes. I don't think I even heard about this one when it came out but it's almost hilarious to see the tiktok people believing this is real when there's a lot of amateurish acting and production value. I will say I do think the movie has spots where the acting does feel authentic to the mid/late 00s, not to mention the suburban culture and fashion of the time. Rachel Quinn as Megan feels like she belongs in the movie Thirteen by Catherine Hardwicke and I thought it was kinda rough to follow her around in the first 40 minutes along with other people in the cast who can't really act. Amber Perkins as Amy probably gave the only decent performance out of everyone. When the movie does shift from annoying teen antics and cheap/laughable scenes to more serious ones, the movie does get more horrific. The last 30 minutes are pretty horrific and hard to watch in a way that reminded me of watching the Poughkeepsie Tapes or The Den and I see why it became viral. Overall, cheap and sometimes annoying but it's super effective as a horror film by the end.
3/5

31 Days of Horror Marathon
Day 1: Saw X (3.5/5)
Day 2: No One Will Save You (4/5)
Day 3: Cobweb (3.5/5)
Day 4: The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (4/5)
Day 5: The Exorcist: Believer (2.5/5)
Day 6: V/H/S/85 (4/5)
Day 7: Totally Killer (3/5)
Day 8: Beaten to Death (3/5)
Day 9: The Wolf Man (4/5)
Day 10: Werewolf of London (4/5)
Day 11: She-Wolf of London (3/5)
Day 12: Friday the 13th (4/5) (REWATCH)
Day 13: Friday the 13th Part 2 (3.5/5) (REWATCH)
Day 14: Friday the 13th Part III (3/5) (REWATCH)
Day 15: Tremors (4/5)
Day 16: Someone's Watching Me! (4.5/5)
Day 17: Tourist Trap (3.5/5)
Day 18: When a Stranger Calls (1979) (3/5)
Day 19: Motel Hell (3/5)
Day 20: Night of the Comet (4.5/5)
Day 21: Eden Lake (4.5/5)
Day 22: Lake Mungo (4/5)
Day 23: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (5/5) (REWATCH)
Day 24: Megan is Missing (3/5)​

 

[Captain Tired]

Puppet Master (1989)

Puppet Master II (1990)

Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991)

 

[Detective Conan]

Yesterday I watched one of the earliest films of the legendary Marty Scorsese’s oeuvre. You may have heard of it.

9/10.

Mean Street(1973)

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[C. Lee]

FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL (1974) Starring Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, and David Prowse. Dr. Elder (Briant) is found conducting Frankenstein like experiments and sentenced to an insane asylum. Luckily for him, Dr. Frankenstein under another name is conducting experiments at the asylum. David Prowse (Darth Vader) plays one of the ugliest Frankenstein creatures. On the DVD commentary both Smith and Prowse talk about how frail looking Cushing was. This was because his wife of 28 years had recently died and he was still grieving. Prowse also said that the scene they made where Cushing jumps on his back and wrestles him to the ground is his favorite scene to make from all of his movies. It's interesting to think about how that scene was Grand Moff Tarkin taking down Darth Vader. This was the second time that Prowse played the monster in a Hammer Frankenstein movie. This was the last of the Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein movies. This was the final film directed by Terence Fisher, who had directed 29 movies for Hammer..



FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN (1973) Starring Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Dalila Di Lazzaro, and Arno Jurning. An over the top dore/sex fest. Kier plays Doctor Frankenstein....a guy who likes stitching together bodies to create a male and female super being. He thinks all sex is disgusting....except when he climbs atop the beautiful woman he put together and humps her while his hand is inserted in her side massaging her organs. His wife, no wait he calls her his sister, then calls her his wife, then calls her hos sister, then....oh well, the lady of the house can't get enough sex but takes a liking to the looks of the male super being that Doc made.....until he hugs her so tight he snaps her spine.. Things go from bad to worse when his assistant tries to have sex with the female the way he saw Doc do it and manages to spill her guts all over the floor. Several more people get ripped apart before it ends.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Batgirl0202]

6/10

 

[C. Lee]

FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS (1974) Starring Rossano Brazzi, Michael Dunn, Edmund Purdom, Christiane Rucker, and Simonetta Vitelli. Dr Frankenstein (Rossano Brazzi) is puttering around with his weird experiments when several neanderthals come out of a cave after an earthquake. One is captured and brought to the Doctor and he does experiments on him and names him Goliath. He has a weird dwarf working for him (Michael Dunn, who played Dr. Loveless in the 60's WILD WILD WEST TV series). He does some stuff that causes Doc Frankenstein to fire him. Dunn wanders into the forest and finds a second neanderthal that he befriends. Caveman helps him kidnap a village girl who he rapes then murders. The villagers are becoming agitated. Dunn then makes his way into Frank's castle and sets Goliath free. The caveman kills Doctor Frankenstein and goes back to the cave with Dunn. There the two cavemen fight and Goliath kills the other one. The agitated villagers show up in time to burn Goliath to death. So....use Frankenstein's name in title, throw in a giant caveman, a dwarf, and some gratutious nudity...and you wind up with this oddity.

 

[Sculder]

Nowhere (2023)
Werewolves of the Third Reich (2017)
El club de los lectores criminales / Killer Book Club (2023)
Curve (2015)
The Invitation (2022)
Fenómenas / Phenomena (2023)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Zombieland

 

[Hellion]

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[C. Lee]

FRANKENSTEIN (1992) Starring Patrick Bergin, Randy Quaid, John Mills, Lambert Wilson, Fiona Gillies, and Jacinta Mulcahy. You think this is going to be a faithful adaptation of the book when it starts with Doctor Frankenstein (Bergin) being chased through the Arctic by his creation (Randy Quaid). But as he tells his story to the captain of the ice locked ship that found him, you learn that instead of stitching the parts of dead bodies together to create the monster, Frankenstein used some form of cloning to create him and in a moment of frustration he smashes the cloning vat, thus releasing the not fully formed creature. The doctor is unable to stop him from running off, and encountering person after person who sees him, screams, and then attacks him....because he is ugly. He does nothing to start trouble other than walking down the street. The metaphysical/scientific cloning process creates a psychic bond between them. What happens to one is felt by the other. This was made for TNT television.

 

[Kane52630]

The Autopsy of Jane Doe

For some reason, I got this movie confused with Deadgirl so I was expecting the worst, but this was actually a great mainstream horror with some surprises. I did like where they went with the story and how they resisted from being a dumb shlocky exploitation flick that doesn't have anything to say and André Øvredal is the perfect director for this kind of movie. It very much feels like a well-written horror short story that would later show up in a Creepshow movie. Even before the horror really starts they do a good job on the build-up and showing the process of being a coroner and they did a good job setting up the father-son relationship. Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch really elevated the film with their performances and Olwen Kelly was extremely impressive playing dead. Overall, a surprisingly well made movie.
4/5

31 Days of Horror Marathon
Day 1: Saw X (3.5/5)
Day 2: No One Will Save You (4/5)
Day 3: Cobweb (3.5/5)
Day 4: The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (4/5)
Day 5: The Exorcist: Believer (2.5/5)
Day 6: V/H/S/85 (4/5)
Day 7: Totally Killer (3/5)
Day 8: Beaten to Death (3/5)
Day 9: The Wolf Man (4/5)
Day 10: Werewolf of London (4/5)
Day 11: She-Wolf of London (3/5)
Day 12: Friday the 13th (4/5) (REWATCH)
Day 13: Friday the 13th Part 2 (3.5/5) (REWATCH)
Day 14: Friday the 13th Part III (3/5) (REWATCH)
Day 15: Tremors (4/5)
Day 16: Someone's Watching Me! (4.5/5)
Day 17: Tourist Trap (3.5/5)
Day 18: When a Stranger Calls (1979) (3/5)
Day 19: Motel Hell (3/5)
Day 20: Night of the Comet (4.5/5)
Day 21: Eden Lake (4.5/5)
Day 22: Lake Mungo (4/5)
Day 23: Halloween III: Season of the Witch (5/5) (REWATCH)
Day 24: Megan is Missing (3/5)
Day 25: The Autopsy of Jane Doe (4/5)​

 

[MilkmanDan]

Runaway Train

 

[C. Lee]

LADY FRANKENSTEIN (1971) Starring Joseph Cotten, Rosalba Neri, Paul Muller, and Mickey Hargitay. Doctor Frankenstein (Cotten) is conducting experiments in some remote area of Europe. His daughter (Neri) returns home after graduating medical school and wants to assist dad in his work. Stealing the recently hanged body of a murderer (who was one of a group of men supplying Doc with bodies) he transplants the brain into a large hulking body he has put together. The creature is brain damaged, and on awakening he kills Doctor Frankenstein and searches out the four men he knows stole his body and sold it to Frankenstein (it's amazing how many of them are with completely naked women when he finds them). Meanwhile the captain of police (Hargitay) for this area is hunting the creature, daughter Frankenstein (who has very very quickly fallen in love with her father's older and crippled assistant and marries him - this happens within a day or two of dad dying) comes up with the plan to transplant her new husband's brain into the young muscular handxome body of the village idiot. The creature continues his rampage, the captain continues his hunt, lady Frankenstein transplants the brain. Eventually the captain, his police force, and around 10 irate villagers converge on castle Frankenstein to set it on firewhile the creature and handsome hunky new brain swapped husband fight to the death (the creature is killed) and then as the castle burns lady Frankenstein strips naked, has sex with her brain swapped husband to have him unexplainably choke her to death. I would say "And then fade to black" except it doesn't fade, it just ends....no fade, no end credits....just ends. The creature is hokey looking, the production is lowwwww, Cotten does well in his small part, Neri is beautiful to watch, there are several nude women spaced throughout the movie. It's mainly to be seen if you are a "Frankenstein" completest.

 

[Batgirl0202]

8/10

 

[Luigi]

Kill List

Paranorman

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

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That is a glorious poster. Very much in the style of the covers of those old gothic romance novels popular in the 1970s.