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Got the soundtrack in the car cd player right now. And that is a film I hated when it came out. Then it airing every week on Comedy Central for 4 years it grew on me. -
Thought I still had the CD, it got played a lot back in the day but mine is now nowhere to be found.Originally posted by Newt Cox View PostComment
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Frankenstein's Daughter. One of the many teen-oriented horror flicks that were popular in the 50's. It has a really cheesy-looking monster, and there's also a weird, Jekyll and Hyde subplot during the first act that ultimately goes nowhere. It's also one of these types of movies where everything stops for a few minutes so the teens can sing some really corny songs. All in all, there are B-movies from this era that I'd much rather watch.Comment
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I had it when it came out. Then like a month after getting it the now ex wife hit eject and tossed the CD out the window as I was doing 80 doing Interstate 10.Originally posted by f.ramses View Post
Was surprised how cheap a new sealed copy was. Lots of CDs from that era are cheap used then 20 or 25 for a new copy. I think with shipping Airheads cost me 12 bucks.
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Gappa: The Triphibian Monster. Made during the peak of the kaiju boom in the 1960's, this is basically a Japanese version of Gorgo, as it's about a baby monster being discovered on a South Pacific island and then taken back to Japan, only for its angry parents to come searching for it. Pretty average kaiju flick for the most part, with fairly well done special effects, and the ending, where the parents and the baby are reunited, is genuinely touching. However, it takes a while to get to the monster action, and the human characters are complete cardboard, even for this kind of movie.Comment
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The Lake. This was something I picked up at G-Fest with no idea of what it was. It turns out that it's a 2022 Thai monster flick about a pair of monsters, one that's slightly bigger than a human and its T-Rex-sized parent, that emerge from a lake and throw a small community into chaos. It seemed like it was right up my alley but, unfortunately, it was a massive letdown. The effects work was quite nice, as it was a good mix of animatronics and shockingly good CGI, and I like this kind of setting, but overall, the movie is a poorly-paced bore, with editing that makes it hard to follow, characters they really try to make you care about but you ultimately don't because there are too many and you only learn the bare minimum about them, and long stretches of the monsters standing around in the rain, doing nothing. And the ending just leaves you dumbfounded because it's so random. The movie has no Wikipedia page, which is always a red flag, and when I found it on IMDB, I saw it has a 3.8 rating. And looking at some reviews, it's nice to know I'm not alone in thinking this was a bust.Comment
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Raiga, God of the Monsters: I'd heard that this was a very low budget, independently made kaiju movie, but what I didn't know was that it was a straight up parody of tokasatsu cinema in general. The effects are a very fake-looking combination of CGI and suit-work, which didn't surprise me, but the acting is as over-the-top as you can get and nothing is meant to be taken seriously at all (at the end of the movie, the monster marks his territory with his urine). It was fun for a while but, as the movie went on, it started to wear thin, even though it's only 80 minutes long. If you're a fan of this stuff, it's possible you could get some enjoyment out of it, but anyone else may as well just forget it. And I also don't understand what the point was of including an hour-long making of on the DVD, only to not translate it at all.Comment
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Mudhoney - One thought I had while watching this one was that the character Sidney was like a proto-Mr. Lahey (Trailer Park Boys). This was probably the tamest Meyer movie I've seen by a lot but I think it was also the most enjoyable for me so far, probably because of the more serious tone.Comment
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Reigo, King of the Sea Monsters. It turns out that I should've watched this before, as Raiga is a follow-up to this. In any case, unlike that film, this one plays it straight, for the most part, trying to tell a story of the Battleship Yamato battling an ancient sea monster during World War II. Not a bad premise for a kaiju flick, but the low-rent special effects and cheap sets pretty much destroy any sincerity the filmmakers were going for. It also doesn't help that the characters aren't at all memorable, and the movie ends on a very downbeat note that leaves you empty. Like with Raiga, this is only for truly diehard kaiju fans and even they may not get much out of it.Comment
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Fists In The Pocket
A weird dude gets fed up with his family holding back his more well adjusted brother,
so he decides to kill off the family members who are a burden.
I've always been iffy on (but fascinated by) Lou Castel but I really dug him here. He's
just the right amount of creepy/interesting to make the film worth watching. The film
could've been better paced, because it runs out of steam towards the end but there was
still enough here to keep me interested.
It helps to have the stunningly gorgeous Paola Pitagora in the cast (like a 60's Emma Roberts
but 10 times more beautiful).
Weird movie but very interesting. Beautifully shot, too. Fratricide, incest, matricide, all the
good stuff of boundary pushing cinema.Comment
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God Raiga vs. King Ohga. Holy hell, this was the worst one of all! This time, they were so cheap that the monsters, no joke, action figures rather than men in suits or CGI. They even used action figures for a recurring "gag" involving human characters. Speaking of which, none of the human characters leave any impact, as the movie is just mind-numbing to sit through. They even had the audacity to use sound effects from the classic Toho films, which I find inexcusable. I can't even recommend this to diehard kaiju fans. Just stay away.Comment
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Event Horizon. I'd seen this several times before but I re-watched it to make sure that this copy of the Scream Factory Blu-Ray that I got at McKay's wasn't damaged in any way. It is arguably Paul W.S. Anderson's best movie, or at least, I think so, as I didn't care for the first Alien vs. Predator movie or Monster Hunter, and I've never seen any of the Resident Evil movies (I've never even played a single one of the games; heresy, I know). It is cliched and it has some of the not so great tropes he's known for, but I think it's a pretty entertaining, and sometimes genuinely disturbing, horror movie in space, with a really good cast.Comment
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I watched an Italian film and its American remake, The Seduction of Mimi and Which Way Is Up? The former is a really good flick, but I found the Richard Pryor remake to be pretty enjoyable, too. I had no idea that it's where 2 Live Crew sampled the opening from in "Me So Horny."Comment
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Gamera: Rebirth. Got a Malaysian DVD release of this show when I was at G-Fest. This was something I'd intended to watch at some point, but never got around to it before picking up that DVD. It's a CGI anime, in the vein of the Godzilla anime trilogy and Pacific Rim: The Black, and if you're not a fan of that art style, you will not care for this. Also, I have to admit that the animation itself leaves a lot to be desired for, as it's very stiff and jittery, and Gamera himself and the other kaiju are very peripheral. However, it makes up for it with some very likable main characters and a fairly dark, complex story, full of betrayal and sacrifice. In fact, it's actually shocking how dark, mature (there's a lot of profanity, including a fair number of F-bombs), and downright violent this series is, which is something you wouldn't necessarily associate with Gamera. It's also only six episodes, so the story moves along quite briskly. Unfortunately, the ending is open-ended, which will really suck if this never gets another season (and I'm not too optimistic about it).Comment
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. The third of the Brendan Fraser movies, I saw this for the first time just last year, when I reviewed it as part of my annual October marathon. While definitely the weakest of them, I still find this movie to be quite entertaining, and I enjoy the setting in China. Upon getting the Blu-Ray cheap at McKay's recently, I decided to check out the special features, which there are quite a few of. I listened to Rob Cohen's director's commentary, which was interesting and informative, although the guy, unfortunately, has had sexual assault charges brought against him in recent years, including by his own daughter. The other features consist of deleted scenes and a number of featurettes, which are the expected fluff from a modern day, mainstream release like this.Comment
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