What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[Ash J. Williams]

The second one is St. John's Wort.

 

[Brutikus]

 

[DrWho42]

nemesis (1992) directed by albert pyun

 

[Brutikus]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Inside (2007)

Terrific performances from the two leads - especially Béatrice Dalle. Should carry a health warning, 'Not to be seen by pregnant women'!

 

[Frodo]

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES : THE ORIGINAL SERIES

The Segments


THE SMITH HOUSE


The Smith Family gets much more than they bargained for after purchasing a house in the early 1970s, which seems to be haunted by Malevolent, and Benevolent , Spirits.

DREAMY DISAPPEARANCE



A legal secretary vanishes from her workplace in the early 1980s, after being plagued by Nightmares, which , in hindsight, seem to be a premonitions to her own abduction .

LUCKY CHOIR



All The Members of a Local Choir ,are thankfully, absent the night of their weekly , choir practice Church explodes due to a gas leak .
Is it coincidence that no one showed up the night of their practice, or was it divine intervention?


KAREN POWER



18 years after the murder of a Boston Police Officer, during a Bank Robbery gone bad, Authorities such for the last remaining robber, a woman who was radicalized during the unrest of the 1960s .

 

[squeekness]

Lost bus

 

[Morg]

Avengers: Infinity War

 

[KaijuDude1992]

6/10



6/10



7/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Angel (1984)

Fifteen year old Molly Stewart is a hard working, straight-A student at a Los Angeles prep school. She's also a prostitute, working nights on Hollywood Boulevard as 'Angel'. Due to her youth 'Angel' is popular and makes good money. She has a small group of friends; aging film cowboy 'Kit Carson' (played by real life aging film cowboy Rory Calhoun) who makes a living by selling autographs and tall tales on the Boulevard, drag performer 'Mae' (the always entertaining Dick Shawn), fellow prostitutes 'Crystal' and 'Linda' who both appear to be just a few years older than 'Angel', and 'Solly', her cigar-smoking lesbian landlady.

However, a serial killer has begun preying on LA's hookers. Despite warnings to stay off the streets from LAPD Lieutenant Andrews (Cliff Gorman - an actor I always liked but whose name I could never remember), 'Angel', 'Crystal', and 'Linda' keep working. Personal tragedy soon strikes as those close to 'Angel' start falling victim to the killer, and she's forced to face some uncomfortable truths and the realisation that she's on the killer's hit list.

The film was a surprise hit at the box office (taking around $19 million on a budget of around $2 million). Donna Wilkes (23 at the time but looking believably younger) does very well as Molly/'Angel'. Rory Calhoun is engaging, Dick Shawn is very funny (with some terrific 'catty' one-liners), and Cliff Gorman is solid and believable (the guy played a lot of cops over the years). John Diehl does a good job too as the character known simply as 'the killer'.

It's gritty, highlighting an even seedier aspect - underage hookers - of an already seedy profession (we find out Molly/'Angel' has actually been working the street since she was just 12). There's a fair bit of full frontal nudity - interestingly, not from the hookers, but from the girls at school - but those scenes feel weirdly out of place, as though you've suddenly switched to watching something like Slumber Party Massacre. I can imagine the studio execs after watching an early cut of this movie in the viewing room;

Exec 1: You know what this needs...
Exec 2: No, what?
Exec 1: Some naked cheerleaders
Exec 2: Brilliant!

But all in all it's a pretty good, well-made, well-acted thriller. 7/10

 

[Broseph44]

V/H/S 99 (2022)

 

[Luigi]

Wolf Man

5/10

Good Boy

7/10

 

[Sculder]

Insidious (2010)
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)
Leprechaun: The Beginning (2025)
Return to Splatter Farm (2020)
Until Dawn (2025)
The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre (2021)
El Vampiro del Lago / The Lake Vampire (2018)
BMW: Zeus & Hera - Director's Cut (2022)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
Mouseboat Massacre (2025)
Weapons (2025)

 

[Frodo]

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES : THE ORIGINAL SERIES




JOSE GONZALEZ



The capture of a Bank Robber leads to a web of lies, multiple stories, two mysterious women ,and unanswered questions , in the search of the true identity of the the man claiming to be named , Jose Gonzalez .

BRUCE KELLY AND JAMES EDWARD JOHNSTON



Bruce Kelly has had an irrational fear of being submerged in water since childhood .

After seeking to cure this fear , through Hypnosis , Bruce instead begins to recall the life of
James Edward Johnston , A naval sailor , who drowned in a submarine during , a World War II battle.

Bruce Kelly , was born in born a decade after Johnson's death in California , and had no knowledge of Johnston who was raised in Alabama ,during the 1920s and 1930s .

Is Bruce Kelly the reincarnation of James Edward Johnston ?

JOAN GAY CROFT



After surviving a Tornado in 1947 , Joan Gay Croft is taken from the shelter filled with survivors and is never seen again .

Decades Her surviving family members search for her .


ATV MURDERS


Three Men are brutally murdered while riding on the ATV .
Several people in the community seem to know whole the murderer is ,
but are too afraid to come forward.

 

[ObiWanCon]

Play Dirty (2025)

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[Luigi]

V/H/S/Halloween

6/10

Bone Lake

7/10

 

[ObiWanCon]

Parker (2013)

 

[Brutikus]

 

[KaijuDude1992]

6.5/10



5/10



7/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Nine Guests for a Crime (AKA Death Comes From the Past, and A Scream in the Night ~ 1977)

Giallo directed by Ferdinando Baldi (taking a break from spaghetti westerns). Like Mario Bava's better-known Five Dolls for an August Moon from seven years earlier, this takes its premise from Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians/And Then There Were None. A wealthy family (patriarch, his sons and daughter, and all their respective spouses) take a boat to their villa on an otherwise deserted remote island. During the journey it becomes apparent that all these people pretty much hate each other - but all enjoy the family fortune and the trappings that come with it. These 'trappings', as we find out, include everybody sleeping with the spouse of somebody else - more out of boredom than anything. Once the family have disembarked a mysterious figure kills the crew of the boat and steals (or sinks - we never find out) the boat itself. The family, unaware of this, start to enjoy their holiday by indulging in adulterous sex every chance they get. But soon the same figure starts killing them off one-by-one, leading to paranoia and fear among the rapidly dwindling remaining members as they fight to stay alive...

As well as Five Dolls for an August Moon this put me in mind of another Bava film - the terrific A Bay of Blood, with family greed and betrayal also playing a big part here. Multi-Oscar nominated Arthur Kennedy (terrific as the thoroughly jaded cop in The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue) is the head of the family, whilst giallo/horror stalwarts John Richardson, Venantino Venantini, and Massimo Foschi round out the male cast. Euro-hotties Caroline Laurence, Loretta Perischetti, Flavia Fabiani, Dana Ghia, and Rita Silva supply the glamour. There's a fair amount of nudity (I'm assuming all Italian women in the 1970s kept their high heels on in the shower), a moderate amount of blood, and some nice kills (harpoon through the neck is probably my favourite).

With its obvious 'influences' this is far from groundbreaking; but if you want to watch a thoroughly dislikeable, amoral group of pampered rich get their just desserts in some entertaining ways, it's fun. 6/10