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revbob wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 10:36am
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Don't know if anyone is a Marvel fan, but Avengers Infinity War was fantastic. Honestly, they executed it better than I expected. Wouldn't recommend it if you're not really invested in the MCU as a lot of the joy, jokes, and heartbreak stem from knowing these characters and their interactions, unless you want to shut your brain off for two and a half hours and just watch muscular folks punch each other. But it's genuinely funny, which I did not expect. Executed very well.
Not enough Scarlett Johansson.
My son and I were watching on of these movies on TV and he astutely pointed out that her character always does that move where she leaps up and wraps her legs around some dude's head/neck area and takes him down.
I'm deleting your spoiler from my response, but again, SPOILER ALERT below.

Yeah, those weren't entirely the best optics, but it makes for more drama in Wakanda for the next movie, and the other three folks you listed are all core Avengers. It makes sense to have them be the focus of the next movie, along with a certain new character being introduced.

Also, I don't recall ScarJo doing that in this movie, but yeah, that weirdly sexualized takedown is something that Marvel could lose from its movies. What will be interesting is to see if she does get her own Black Widow movie and how many times she does it there.

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Watched The Lovely Bones. Very uneven film. I was taken by the hyper-reality of limbo and the deep unease with stuff involving Harvey, but so much of the stuff involving her surviving family felt really flat.
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Boddington wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 12:05pm
revbob wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 10:36am
Boddington wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 1:54am
Don't know if anyone is a Marvel fan, but Avengers Infinity War was fantastic. Honestly, they executed it better than I expected. Wouldn't recommend it if you're not really invested in the MCU as a lot of the joy, jokes, and heartbreak stem from knowing these characters and their interactions, unless you want to shut your brain off for two and a half hours and just watch muscular folks punch each other. But it's genuinely funny, which I did not expect. Executed very well.
Not enough Scarlett Johansson.
My son and I were watching on of these movies on TV and he astutely pointed out that her character always does that move where she leaps up and wraps her legs around some dude's head/neck area and takes him down.
I'm deleting your spoiler from my response, but again, SPOILER ALERT below.

Yeah, those weren't entirely the best optics, but it makes for more drama in Wakanda for the next movie, and the other three folks you listed are all core Avengers. It makes sense to have them be the focus of the next movie, along with a certain new character being introduced.

Also, I don't recall ScarJo doing that in this movie, but yeah, that weirdly sexualized takedown is something that Marvel could lose from its movies. What will be interesting is to see if she does get her own Black Widow movie and how many times she does it there.
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The producers of the Black Widow film have met with 65 directors by now, so they're definitely doing their due diligence. As for the deaths, I think it definitely is a full-circle thing to have the core Avengers as the focus of #4 next year since, as you say, they'll mostly be finishing up their contracts. After that, the new phase begins and we've already been told it's going to be quite different. I'm a little bummed that Dr. Strange doesn't seem to be in the next film, though.
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Fear in the Night: Hammer, good fun. Peter Cushing is immense. 7/10

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Kory wrote:
04 May 2018, 6:23pm
Boddington wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 12:05pm
revbob wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 10:36am
Boddington wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 1:54am
Don't know if anyone is a Marvel fan, but Avengers Infinity War was fantastic. Honestly, they executed it better than I expected. Wouldn't recommend it if you're not really invested in the MCU as a lot of the joy, jokes, and heartbreak stem from knowing these characters and their interactions, unless you want to shut your brain off for two and a half hours and just watch muscular folks punch each other. But it's genuinely funny, which I did not expect. Executed very well.
Not enough Scarlett Johansson.
My son and I were watching on of these movies on TV and he astutely pointed out that her character always does that move where she leaps up and wraps her legs around some dude's head/neck area and takes him down.
I'm deleting your spoiler from my response, but again, SPOILER ALERT below.

Yeah, those weren't entirely the best optics, but it makes for more drama in Wakanda for the next movie, and the other three folks you listed are all core Avengers. It makes sense to have them be the focus of the next movie, along with a certain new character being introduced.

Also, I don't recall ScarJo doing that in this movie, but yeah, that weirdly sexualized takedown is something that Marvel could lose from its movies. What will be interesting is to see if she does get her own Black Widow movie and how many times she does it there.
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
The producers of the Black Widow film have met with 65 directors by now, so they're definitely doing their due diligence. As for the deaths, I think it definitely is a full-circle thing to have the core Avengers as the focus of #4 next year since, as you say, they'll mostly be finishing up their contracts. After that, the new phase begins and we've already been told it's going to be quite different. I'm a little bummed that Dr. Strange doesn't seem to be in the next film, though.
I just think it was really shitty to "kill off" Black Panther. I know for a lot of black people it was a big deal to have their own superhero especially kids of a certain age and then a month later he's gone. Yeah I know he'll be back but killing him off is such a white people thing to do. Oh and then Nick Fury too not to mention Heimdall.

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revbob wrote:
04 May 2018, 7:26pm
Kory wrote:
04 May 2018, 6:23pm
Boddington wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 12:05pm
revbob wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 10:36am
Boddington wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 1:54am
Don't know if anyone is a Marvel fan, but Avengers Infinity War was fantastic. Honestly, they executed it better than I expected. Wouldn't recommend it if you're not really invested in the MCU as a lot of the joy, jokes, and heartbreak stem from knowing these characters and their interactions, unless you want to shut your brain off for two and a half hours and just watch muscular folks punch each other. But it's genuinely funny, which I did not expect. Executed very well.
Not enough Scarlett Johansson.
My son and I were watching on of these movies on TV and he astutely pointed out that her character always does that move where she leaps up and wraps her legs around some dude's head/neck area and takes him down.
I'm deleting your spoiler from my response, but again, SPOILER ALERT below.

Yeah, those weren't entirely the best optics, but it makes for more drama in Wakanda for the next movie, and the other three folks you listed are all core Avengers. It makes sense to have them be the focus of the next movie, along with a certain new character being introduced.

Also, I don't recall ScarJo doing that in this movie, but yeah, that weirdly sexualized takedown is something that Marvel could lose from its movies. What will be interesting is to see if she does get her own Black Widow movie and how many times she does it there.
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
The producers of the Black Widow film have met with 65 directors by now, so they're definitely doing their due diligence. As for the deaths, I think it definitely is a full-circle thing to have the core Avengers as the focus of #4 next year since, as you say, they'll mostly be finishing up their contracts. After that, the new phase begins and we've already been told it's going to be quite different. I'm a little bummed that Dr. Strange doesn't seem to be in the next film, though.
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Yeah, but I also don't think Marvel anticipated that movie was going to be half as big as it was, otherwise I think they would have given him a much larger part of the story. Also all the smart people are still alive, and you know they're going to play up his sister in the next movie!

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Just watched the Little Hours. So funny.
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Inder wrote:
04 May 2018, 6:56pm
Fear in the Night: Hammer, good fun. Peter Cushing is immense. 7/10
Joan Collins AND Judy Geeson (I love them both), I wanna say I've seen this (how could I not) but it's not in my notes. I'll get on this right away.
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Boddington wrote:
04 May 2018, 7:41pm
revbob wrote:
04 May 2018, 7:26pm
Kory wrote:
04 May 2018, 6:23pm
Boddington wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 12:05pm
revbob wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 10:36am


Not enough Scarlett Johansson.
My son and I were watching on of these movies on TV and he astutely pointed out that her character always does that move where she leaps up and wraps her legs around some dude's head/neck area and takes him down.
I'm deleting your spoiler from my response, but again, SPOILER ALERT below.

Yeah, those weren't entirely the best optics, but it makes for more drama in Wakanda for the next movie, and the other three folks you listed are all core Avengers. It makes sense to have them be the focus of the next movie, along with a certain new character being introduced.

Also, I don't recall ScarJo doing that in this movie, but yeah, that weirdly sexualized takedown is something that Marvel could lose from its movies. What will be interesting is to see if she does get her own Black Widow movie and how many times she does it there.
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
The producers of the Black Widow film have met with 65 directors by now, so they're definitely doing their due diligence. As for the deaths, I think it definitely is a full-circle thing to have the core Avengers as the focus of #4 next year since, as you say, they'll mostly be finishing up their contracts. After that, the new phase begins and we've already been told it's going to be quite different. I'm a little bummed that Dr. Strange doesn't seem to be in the next film, though.
SO MANY SPOILERS
Yeah, but I also don't think Marvel anticipated that movie was going to be half as big as it was, otherwise I think they would have given him a much larger part of the story. Also all the smart people are still alive, and you know they're going to play up his sister in the next movie!
I just hope that Tony Stark *really* dies in the next one. And take Pepper with you.
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JennyB wrote:
07 May 2018, 9:30am
Boddington wrote:
04 May 2018, 7:41pm
revbob wrote:
04 May 2018, 7:26pm
Kory wrote:
04 May 2018, 6:23pm
Boddington wrote:
29 Apr 2018, 12:05pm


I'm deleting your spoiler from my response, but again, SPOILER ALERT below.

Yeah, those weren't entirely the best optics, but it makes for more drama in Wakanda for the next movie, and the other three folks you listed are all core Avengers. It makes sense to have them be the focus of the next movie, along with a certain new character being introduced.

Also, I don't recall ScarJo doing that in this movie, but yeah, that weirdly sexualized takedown is something that Marvel could lose from its movies. What will be interesting is to see if she does get her own Black Widow movie and how many times she does it there.
SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS
The producers of the Black Widow film have met with 65 directors by now, so they're definitely doing their due diligence. As for the deaths, I think it definitely is a full-circle thing to have the core Avengers as the focus of #4 next year since, as you say, they'll mostly be finishing up their contracts. After that, the new phase begins and we've already been told it's going to be quite different. I'm a little bummed that Dr. Strange doesn't seem to be in the next film, though.
SO MANY SPOILERS
Yeah, but I also don't think Marvel anticipated that movie was going to be half as big as it was, otherwise I think they would have given him a much larger part of the story. Also all the smart people are still alive, and you know they're going to play up his sister in the next movie!
I just hope that Tony Stark *really* dies in the next one. And take Pepper with you.
I can get on board with this.

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Thelma (2017) Away from home for the first time at college, Thelma can’t seem to control her subconscious telekinetic abilities. She’s very religious, but the pressures of alcohol and wanting to make out with girls are getting to her. Lights flicker and she goes into seizures when she's stressed, but I won’t go any further than that. Dutch with subtitles. This is worth watching.

Barracuda aka The Lucifer Project (1978) They couldn’t get “don’t go in the water” movies out fast enough in the late 70s and this one was pretty forgettable. A marine biologist who looks like Bon Scott tests the Florida waters for impurities and his efforts land him in the pokey when the plant owner and his dimwitted son file a complaint. The Sheriff (who has a hot daughter) wonders if the water could have something to do with the recent swimmer deaths, and the general hostility going on between the locals. Further investigation finds a conspiracy that reached higher than expected. I’d seen this dud once before, but I thought I’d catch the Svengoolie version to make sure any excess blood or nudity would be removed. Rated PG anyway.

The Evil Dead (1981) All time classic from the VHS era, that if you haven’t seen…well I don’t know what to say but see it. It launched the long careers of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. “Not another peep. Time to go to sleep.”

Re-Animator (1985) Stuart Gordon’s hilarious and gory splatter classic based on H.P. Lovecraft’s tale of a young scientist with a formula that brings dead bodies back to life. Great nudity from Barbara Crampton. Absolute must see.

Chopping Mall (1986) A mall employs the new technology of robot security, but they malfunction and attack the four teen couples that decided to have an after hours party at the furniture store. Funny and gory and nudity. With Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Kelli Maroney (Night of the Comet), Dick Miller, and a cameo from Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov reprising their “Eating Raoul” characters. Produced by Julie Corman. The best of Jim Wynorski’s 100+ movies.

Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) Peter Cushing is as despicable as ever as Dr. Frankenstein for the 5th of 6 appearances for Hammer Studios. He blackmails a young doctor and his beautiful fiancé (Veronica Carlson) into assisting him in kidnapping and brain transplants. He treats Carlson as a slave and even rapes her! There’s probably as much blood as you’ll see in a Hammer film in this one too. Terence Fisher directed every Hammer/Cushing Frankenstein except Evil of.

Gargoyles (Made for TV 1972) The pre-credits show some awesome Satanic artwork with accompanying narration about how gargoyles are the children of Satan. The rest of the movie has nothing to do with that. An archeologist and his daughter come across a horned head, and while driving through the desert, come under attack from gargoyles, who want it back. They look like sleestacks from Land of the Lost. My old pal Bernie Casey plays the lead gargoyle, and he rides a horse, even though he has wings. Scott Glenn plays a biker. Dark Shadows' Grayson Hall was a drunk motel owner. Silly fun.

The Comeback (1978) A recently divorced crooner stays in an English mansion to record his comeback album, not knowing his ex-wife lays butchered in his London flat. Nightmares and gruesome images haunt him, and he fears he’s losing his mind. I wondered why they got such a bad singer to play the lead, turns out he is Jack Jones, a two-time Grammy winner, and singer of the Love Boat theme. Shows what I know. Charlie’s Angels’ David Doyle was his manager and the lovely Pamela Stephenson was the love interest. A bit slow on the buildup, but pays off nicely at the end. Kills scenes were above average. Peter Walker directed a handful of Indie horrors in England in the 70s.

The Vampire Journals (1997) Director Ted Nicolaou creates a stand-alone story within his Subspecies universe, and it’s pretty darn good. A good-guy vampires rescues a concert pianist from a much more powerful bad-guy vampire in a 19th century setting in Eastern Europe. Lots of nudity. Lots of blood. The entire Supspecies franchise does not disappoint.

Dr. Cyclops (1940) The Coke-Bottle glasses wearing title doctor sends for a team of experts to assist him with his work in the jungles of South America. They refuse to leave after the doc gets the help he wanted, having travelled a long way to find they were only needed for a few minutes. The doc shrinks them to about 6 inches in height and now they must overcome the elements, including a hungry cat to escape. He warned them to leave, they had it coming! Nice effects, fun little flick.

Jennifer’s Body (2009) High school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) has a personality change after surviving a bar fire and an incident in a van with a rock band. She has a demon in her, and she seduces boys and eats them. Amanda Seyfried is her bestie that sees that something is wrong. I thought I liked this 10ish years ago, but upon a rewatch I found it a little flat. Not awful, but I didn’t need to see this twice.

Sole Survivor (1984) Denice is the lone survivor of a plane crash, and in the following days she is visited by the recently deceased who are trying to get her to the other side. They did manage to kill a handful of people around her, if she was destined for death, then killing her friends didn’t exactly make sense to me, oh well. This will draw obvious comparisons to Final Destination. A bit slow, but was pretty creepy.

The Snowman (2017) This cops vs serial killer flick set in snowy Oslo was a tremendous theatrical flop. It wasn’t that horrible, but it certainly wasn’t very memorable either. Magneto is a drunk cop looking for someone who is killing local moms and marking their houses with snowmen. He also sends letters to cops with childish grammar. Yeah, that does sound pretty bad. Also with JK Simmons and Val Kilmer.
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Snowman had some decent build-up, but just the goofiest execution. Along with the new Alien thing, that's two straight Fass movies I've watched that really sucked.

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The Snowman (2017) This cops vs serial killer flick set in snowy Oslo was a tremendous theatrical flop. It wasn’t that horrible, but it certainly wasn’t very memorable either. Magneto is a drunk cop looking for someone who is killing local moms and marking their houses with snowmen. He also sends letters to cops with childish grammar. Yeah, that does sound pretty bad. Also with JK Simmons and Val Kilmer.

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tepista wrote:
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Inder wrote:
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Fear in the Night: Hammer, good fun. Peter Cushing is immense. 7/10
Joan Collins AND Judy Geeson (I love them both), I wanna say I've seen this (how could I not) but it's not in my notes. I'll get on this right away.
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The Deadly Spawn (1983) A flesh-eating space creature with no eyes, multiple heads and a mouth with hundreds of teeth finds its way into a family’s basement and spawns about a thousand little slugs, also with mouths full of teeth. Big brother and school friends working on a science project fight off the intruders with the help of little brother, who is a horror movie buff with knowledge of fx and explosives. One of the highlights is when the creatures crash a little old lady’s tea party. This low budget gem is funny, charming and extremely gory, and is certainly one of the great under appreciated sci-fi horrors of the 80s. I rented this often as a teenager, the VHS had the alternate title “Return of the Aliens Deadly Spawn” for what I assume would be to trick someone into thinking this was an Alien sequel. No tricks necessary, this is B-Movie Gold.

The Mad Magician (1954) Vincent Price is a creator of illusions for other magicians, but when he steps out on his own to perform his tricks, his employer puts a stop to it. Vinnie murders his employer in a fit of rage, as he also had stolen his wife (Eva Gabor) years before, then spends the rest of the film murdering other people to cover it up. Other characters include a pretty assistant, her cop boyfriend, and a nosey landlady who writes murder novels and has a nose for crime solving! This was released right on the heels of Price’s big hit House of Wax, and it brought the 3D gimmick with it, even though this one is in Black & White.

The Night Evelyn Came out of the Grave (1971) A London swinger brings sexy redhead hookers home to his castle to torture and kill because they remind him of his dead slut wife. He decides to settle down and marries a blond who he brings to live in his castle with a handful of non-immediate relatives and 5 identical maids with blond perms. Some more murders occur, and it would appear that Evelyn has risen from the dead to commit them. Gratuitous nudity from no less than FIVE hot Italian honeys! Entertaining, at times confusing. The director also did the superior giallo, The Red Queen Kills Seven Times. This was my second watch, one thing to point out is that there is not a single sympathetic character in the entire movie.

Earth vs the Flying Saucers (1956) Flying saucers come down to earth and demand a peaceful surrender, or else they will show what damage they can do. They end up killing thousands. Ray Harryhausen supplied the stop-motion saucers and destruction sequences. The aliens wore suits made of concentrated electricity (or something). A military scientist and his pretty wife are the main humans. Pretty fun flick if you're into that kinda stuff. Tim Burton's Mars Attacks borrows heavily from this film, design of saucer, first contact, language translator, disintegration rays and destruction of world monuments were all here.

Ghostkeeper (1981) A man and two women on ski-mobiles get stranded in a “Do Not Enter” area and seek shelter at an abandoned hotel. An odd old lady and her son stay there, and when one of the women disappears, the other two descend into madness. Not your everyday slasher of this era, no nudity, not too gory. I think this Canadian no-budget was going for a touch of the Shining? I don’t think the memory of this one will last too long.

Have Rocket Will Travel (1959) The Three Stooges are janitors at a space station and accidentally get launched to Venus, where they meet a giant fire-breathing tarantula, befriend a talking unicorn, and get kidnapped by a computer with hands who makes robot doubles of them. The problem here is that Curly and Shemp were both dead by this time, so the third stooge is “Curly-Joe” DeRita, who’s about as funny as a tumor. Abbott and Costello had already went to Venus in 1953, even though the name of the movie was A&C go to Mars, but that’s a different story for a different day.

Metamorphosis: The Alien Factor (1990) A science experiment combining alien DNA with animals goes terribly wrong when one of them bites a doctor, who then rapidly mutates into a murderous creature. Two pretty blonds sneak into the building to find their missing father, who was a security guard there. I’m told this was a semi-sequel to the 1983 camp classic Deadly Spawn. It’s a bit of a stretch, but I suppose the end creature had a few similarities, specifically the teeth. I thought it reminded me more of Godzilla foe Biolante! Some fun gross out effects in this one, and worth a one-time watch.

The Babysitter (Made for TV 1980) Patty Duke and William Shatner hire a hot 18 year old (Remington Steele’s Stephanie Zimbalist) to take care of the house, but soon she’s exploiting Patty’s alcoholism and Bill’s philandering, and eventually committing murders! Busybody neighbor John Houseman digs deep into the babysitter’s past to find some startling facts. Light but fun garbage, I found this obscurity playing on the MGM-HD cable channel.

The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) When a prostitute who looks like Lil Orphan Annie gets her throat slashed, a cop falls down a rabbit hole that finds him in the middle of a kidnapping/drug/teenage trafficking ring that implicates some very important people. This isn’t Sergio Martino’s best, nor most traditional giallo, but it’s never dull. Two counts of nudity (including Barbara Magnolfi, who played Olga, the mean girl in Suspiria), lots of chases, a few likable characters, and a surprising amount of comedy make this well worth a look. Oscar winner Mel Ferrer is 2nd billed, but seems wasted as an angry police chief with not that much screen time.

Death Walks at Midnight (1972) A beautiful fashion model take an experimental hallucinogenic and has a vision of a woman getting murdered by a man with an iron-spiked glove…a murder that actually did occur 6 months prior! Since the story was featured in a tabloid, the killer is now after her. Not a lot of kills in this third giallo in a loose trilogy from Luciano Ercoli but he made the ones he had count, very violent, that is. No nudity, but some strong characters. Male lead Simon Andreu was also in one of my all time favorite eurosleaze flicks, The Blood-Splattered Bride.

Circus of Horrors (1960) A post WWII plastic surgeon on the run from malpractice charges ends up hiding in a traveling circus that he stole by murdering Donald Pleasance. Many of the performers are formerly scarred women whom the doctor has surgically restored to beauty. He fucks them until he’s done with them, then he murders them. Seems like only a matter of time until the law catches up! Pretty outrageous plot, but it’s a lot of fun, and has several very pretty girls.
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