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  • Serial Killer (1978?): An Italian porno slasher. Softcore porn but not very much different than Patrick Still Lives, and it's separated by inter titles "Murder #1" and so on. An obscure oddity for the eurotrash trench coat crowd I had never heard of before. This isn't even on IMDB it's that obscure.
    Alex K.
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    Last edited by Alex K.; 07-27-2012, 12:41 AM.
    "Ah! By god's balls what licentiousness!"

    Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom.

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    • CACHí‰ - odd movie, strong stuff, no clear cut answers or morals, but pretty damning nonetheless. Good stuff.

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      • 19 RED ROSES - Outstanding Dutch thriller that mixes procedural and giallo elements to fine effect. A grief-stricken man murders several people of varying age and sex, what's the connection? Starts off with a really shocking murder then gradually drops hints as to the motive. The police on the case have humanizing quirks and manage to create individuals. Ends with a really tense finale that had me wondering if they would actually go where it seemed to be leading. Top notch.
        I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

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        • The Three Stooges - goofy remake. The three actors actually did a good job with the characters and were pretty convincing but the story sucked and really, did we need the Jersey Shore kids in this? No. No we did not.

          Hangfire - Brad Davis and Ken Foree have to fight off a team of escaped inmates who take a town hostage before an army general played by Jan Michael Vincent (who looks drunk) sends in the troops to blow shit up. One of the inmates is Lou Ferrigno. Yaphet Kotto and George Kennedy also pop up in this very briefly. Kim Delaney plays Davis' girlfriend. Lyle Alzado is in this too, his hair is awesome.
          Rock! Shock! Pop!

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          • Originally posted by Ian Jane View Post
            The Three Stooges - goofy remake. The three actors actually did a good job with the characters and were pretty convincing but the story sucked and really, did we need the Jersey Shore kids in this? No. No we did not.
            I enjoyed it to watch once.
            Ŗǭƈḱ!Ꞩẖȫçꞣ!Ƥӧꝕ!

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            • I'll give it a chance. But like you say Alison, I imagine I won't need to see it more than one time. Gimme the real Stooges any day.

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              • Originally posted by Ian Jane View Post

                Hangfire - Brad Davis and Ken Foree have to fight off a team of escaped inmates who take a town hostage before an army general played by Jan Michael Vincent (who looks drunk) sends in the troops to blow shit up. One of the inmates is Lou Ferrigno. Yaphet Kotto and George Kennedy also pop up in this very briefly. Kim Delaney plays Davis' girlfriend. Lyle Alzado is in this too, his hair is awesome.
                That's quite a cast!
                I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

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                • Wes Craven's Invitation to Hell.

                  Spacesuit. A++++.

                  I know it's not SPACE NAZIS MUST DIE, but maybe it'll help until the real thing comes along.

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                  • Screwballs. Good music credits are worth repeating.

                    http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g...sicCredits.png (NSFW)

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                    • THE BEAST IN THE CELLAR-Quiet British horror about two elderly ladies with a nasty secret in the cellar. Not really gory or scary, kind of slow paced but I found it enjoyable. Hadn't seen it since a late night tv viewing in the mid 70's. Full screen print and kind of murky in spots.
                      "The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in. Film at 11".

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                      • POETRY - Dir. Lee Chang Dong (2010)

                        Lee Chang Dong's films never cease to amaze me & this movie is no exception. This one stays with you long after the end credits roll & actress Yoon Jung Hee, put forth an absolute tour-de-force performance that was played with the requisite dignity & solemnity the role required -- a definite Oscar snub for best actress in a Foreign film if there ever was one.
                        Last edited by 47lab; 07-28-2012, 12:55 AM. Reason: spelling

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                        • Started watching MY MOM'S A WEREWOLF, but when John Saxon began licking her hand I turned it off and watched SLEEPING DOGS LIE instead.

                          Bobcat > Johndog.

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                          • THE HIDDEN FACE - It's best to know very little about this recent Spanish thriller going in so I'll be brief - an orchestra conductor gets his ass kicked outside a bar, the female bartender takes pity on him and they begin a relationship. She discovers that his former girlfriend is missing and he's the chief suspect. When she spends time in his house she hears strange noises...This might be too slow burning for some but I found it riveting and the final third is extremely tense. I wouldn't be surprised if this gets a shitty US remake but the original is great, something different for sure. Keep an eye out for this one.
                            I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.

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                            • THE HOT ROCK (1972) -- The whole time I was reading the Donald Westlake novel, I kept thinking what a great movie it would make. I still think it could, but this wasn't it. Wasn't bad...the cast were all likable enough, there was a cool Quincy Jones score, and some pretty neat NYC photography (including helicopter shots of the WTC under construction.) But it just felt very perfunctory. As though someone just jotted down what the main scenes were from the novel and strung together a script to get as efficiently as possible from one to the next.

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                              • Coffy (Jack Hill, 1973) and Conspiracy (Christy Cabanne, 1930). I may have mixed them up a little, but something like:

                                After her sister gets hooked on dope, Gertrude Howard (no relation to Shemp, I think) declares war on the pushers and pimps. She shotguns a dealer, stabs a mob boss with a letter opener, and then goes undercover as housekeeper to screwball mystery writer Winthrop 'Little Nemo' Clavering (Ned Sparks). He dresses like Lamon Cranston in galoshes, pretends(?) to be a racist and calls her every name in the book, but he sniffs her and buys her a bottle of her favourite perfume ("Jockey Club"), so he's okay for a white guy, I guess; but man, it's just insult after insult. Maybe that's just how it was. He smells out the whole story, and pretty soon he's helping her catch the real bad guys: Dr. Sidney Friedman from M*A*S*H (who is an Italian) and Weinberg (not an Italian), a guy with a dark lens in his glasses and knuckles that crack. The plan is very complicated, and I did not really understand it, but Gertrude (now confusingly played by Pam Grier which is great) shoots guys in the nuts and they deserve it. (Friedman says she should pull her pants down and slide on the ice, which sets her off.) She also has a great fight with a moll (Rita La Roy) played by Linda Haynes. At the end, the song says it is the beginning: I think that means that racism never ends. Then Little Nemo climbs on the furniture and everyone laughs.

                                (Weinberg is played by Walter Long; other roles have included Chang Fang, Mexican Joe, Portuguese Joe, and Flynn's thug.)













                                CONSPIRACY is kind of whack -- it's a 1930 artifact, cheap as hell, shot on leftover sets (Clavering's old dark house is pretty great), but I dug it a lot. Having just watched COFFY, the great, flavourful performance by Gertrude Howard had me comparing & contrasting her with Pam Grier: I don't know what I felt, except maybe when you're working at the top of your game you don't quite notice the humiliations. You're better than what you're doing: I'd love to have seen Gertrude Howard and Pam Grier kicking racism's sexist ass together.

                                Also, Ned Sparks is awesome.

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