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If it’s not the Weinstein’s controlling the studios and actors it’s the scientologists. Do the math. :(

Currently watching “I’ll See you In My Dreams”, a 20-minute short from Portugal.
It’s part of the Fantasia Film Festival Small Gauge Trauma DVD set.
13-Shorts, 8 Countries; beautiful.

Anything with zombie midgets does it for me.
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Just put in The Last Man on Earth.

dla72 - 22 January 2008 07:58 PM

Just put in The Last Man on Earth.

Oh, man, I love this one.  Vincent Price is awesome.

Anyway, as I do geek-out for my fair share of eurocult cinema, I can and do at times appreciate the finer films.  I saw two recently.  Michaelangelo Antonioni’s The Passenger w/ Jack Nicholson and Werner Herzog’s recent Rescue Dawn w/ Christian Bale.  The Passenger is a beautiful film and I highly, highly recommend it.  Rescue Dawn top-shelf Herzog, as well.

Hans - 24 January 2008 05:26 AM

The Passenger is a beautiful film and I highly, highly recommend it.  Rescue Dawn top-shelf Herzog, as well.

Oh man, I second that on “The Passenger.”  It was great to see on the big screen for the first time when it was re-released a few years ago.  The opening 20 minutes with no dialogue was especially surprising, to me anyways.  It’s hard to remember sometimes all the arty and subversive films Jack was involved in during the ‘70s when you look at all the old fogey bullshit he does now like “The Bucket List” or “Somethings Got to Give.”  Shame.

Recently saw “Reeker” despite the warnings from NOTLP.  Crap.  Also “Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs” (1974) which I would highly recommend for Cinema Diabolica sometime if you haven’t seen already.  I hadn’t heard of it until I saw the trailer on the “Burst City” DVD. 

Apparently, one of the more famous films of the yakuza/exploitation hybrids known as “Pinky Violence” in Japan with the emphasis on girls fckin shit up.  The title character is kind of like a female version of the Franco Nero/Maurizio Merli detective of Italian crime, who kills first and follows police procedure second.  Her trademark weapon are these red handcuffs that can fit around a dude’s neck and slice people.  She is incarcerated for shooting a high-profile bad guy in the dick after tries to rape her, and the opening credits consist of her getting beat to hell in prison by all the prostitutes she put behind bars, but remains completely cool and stone-faced the whole time.  She’s let out to rescue Someone Important’s kidnapped daughter by going undercover and infiltrates the responsible gang by being raped and beaten by every single member.  Crazy stuff.  As exploitive and trashy as it is, it is very artfully shot.  It seems this was the first in a series, but I’m not really sure.  Highly recommeded.

Not sure if the big screen counts, but saw “Cloverblown” on Friday and “Mother of Tears” on Sunday as part of the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors convention here in Austin.  I won’t say much, but have realistic expectations kids.  The maestro ain’t what he used to be.

Everything I’ve read about La Terza Madre is bad and a glance at what Argento currently has in production illicits a big frowny face so I have no expectations.

Oh and Argento was never the Maestro.  Mario Bava’s catalog crushes Argento’s into a fine powder.

Cloverfield was great.

Thirteen has spoken.

Felipe Thirteen - 24 January 2008 04:15 PM

Oh and Argento was never the Maestro.  Mario Bava’s catalog crushes Argento’s into a fine powder.

Cloverfield was great.

Thirteen has spoken.

Ha…yea, I won’t get into that debate on personal taste with the boss around here, but I know I respectably disagree.  I like all that I’ve seen by Bava for the most part, but he belongs to a decidedly different era and style of film making than Argento that I don’t think can really be compared fairly.  It’s like trying to compare Hitchcock vs. Scorsese or De Palma to me.  I tend to like the druggier, flashier, and yea, sometimes more pretentious camera work of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s personally.

“Cloverfield ” was ruined for me by the hype and my own impatience following it for all those months before it came out.  I wish I had seen it without knowing anything about it at all.  I know I won’t be stumbling around in the subway anytime soon though.

Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye and a Jim Jones documentary.  Oddly enough, one film references a part of the other.  I’ll let you guess how that plays out.

I’ve been watching the recent dvd release of Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom (Riget).  I love this series—it’s terrific fun.

The Kingdom is very fun. Though the language with all its frickatives leaves something to be desired. Avoid Stephen King’s version, it’s very ugh-ish.

I watched the first disc of the Dungeons and Dragons animated series from ‘83. Long live nostalgia!

DZ that D&D;series seems awesome. I had forgotten all about it.. I FINALLY watched Slither a few days ago; great entry into the genre. Would you guys deem it “classic”? I don’t think it’s quite there, but for American Horror, it’s really good. I can see it developing a Thing type following after a few years on DVD. You could tell that Gunn really loves the genre and pays homage very nicely in a few scenes(the riff on Nancy’s bathtub scene from Nightmare on Elm St comes to mind). I was amused/pleasantly surprised to hear that Jenna Fischer a.k.a Pam on the office was married to James Gunn, and I loved her cameo in Slither..

Watched Peeping Tom at work today.

Just been home from work for a couple of hours and putting in The Terror with Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson.

In honor of the recent oscar announcements, I have been watching two gems from the early 80s:  Mystics in Bali from Indonesia and The Killing of Satan from the Phillipines.  I am surprised that these two flicks were overlooked by the Academy.  I guess the world needs more flying witch heads and more heroes clothed almost entirely in denim.

I thought the creature in Mystics in Bali was a pennaggolan (head with dancing intestines). It has a taste for pregnant women much like the aswan.