Seen and not seen's, recommendations and queries on top films in general.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Witch movies, eh? I saw Witchcraft in the cinema when it came out and it still strikes me as one of the better movies dealing with the subject, coming as it does from the lust-addled derangement of the good Xtian persecutor. Great ending, had me doing a Black Metal scream to the amusement/embarrassment of my friends at the time. Really must try to track the dvd down of it.

[aububs]

amazing movie. my nipples were rock hard from beginning to end.

at times it's like a runzelstirn & gurgelstock live show.

[calaverasgrande]

I just watched Pink Flamingos by John Waters. FUCK YES!! It was disgusting. During the first 49 minutes of the film I felt so depressed and nauseated at what I was watching, then I went and ate two huge bowls of oatmeal and downed some honey and felt fat as fuck and took all my clothes off and finished the movie and felt great. I can't believe Divine actually ate dog shit, that girl was cut from a different cloth RIP. Sick film, absolutely nauseating and depressing, but to be honest I want more films like it now.

Go watch all of them now.
Esp Multiple Maniacs and Female Trouble.
I was pretty let down when Waters went mainstream and made stuff like "Pecker" and "Hairspray". I love his older movies. They are harsh in a way that is hard to comprehend now. You think any of that coprophagia or beastiality is hard to take, imagine 40 years ago? But at the same time they are fun and playful.
I just imagine Waters and a bunch of his friends getting fucked up and running around all weekend with a 16mm camera.  People seem genuinely drunk and/or high, not that fake Cheech and Chong kind of high.

[untitled]

I didn't really know where to post... I am curious if anybody knows from what movie are the clips between 1:40 and 2:05 extracted. I am talking about this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDMt2Rg8E0

I hope this post is not inopportune.

[online prowler]

amazing movie. my nipples were rock hard from beginning to end.

at times it's like a runzelstirn & gurgelstock live show.

Been waiting for this one myself as well... Looking forward to check it out. Judging from the trailer its better than his previous films. Nice poster.

Recently watched series Stranger Tales, Preacher, Michael Salerno's Kiddiepunk Cartoons: plus: Se7en (rewatch, post noir with blade runner grimness), De Dødes Tjern (rewatch, norwegian '50s horror classic), Cemetery of Splendour and Terence Davies' 19-95 flick The Neon Bible.

[bitewerksMTB]

Michael Salerno's Kiddiepunk Cartoons

I just took a look at some of those. I like tornadoes quite a bit but never want to experience one up close. I've experienced the damage of 'straight-line winds' & that was scary enough.

[online prowler]

Michael Salerno's Kiddiepunk Cartoons

I just took a look at some of those. I like tornadoes quite a bit but never want to experience one up close. I've experienced the damage of 'straight-line winds' & that was scary enough.

In Norway we don't have this privilige, at least not where I am living. The films are quite good in my opinon. Did you ever check out Salerno's visual work in his zines? The Teenage Satanist's in Oklahoma series? Four issues so far...

[calaverasgrande]

I read in one of the earlier posts fr0m a few years ago a mention of 'Nekromantic'.
That is one of those movies that my edgy industrial/goth friends always loved to talk about. Often mentioned in the same breath as 'Faces of Death'.
These of course date to the pre-internet VHS era. When you could not easily get information on such things. When you could track down a copy, it was shit.
My friend Ven who is a total pervert and has just about anything you can imagine on vinyl, tape or some other medium*, was the person who finally busted out copies of both movies. Well several since there is more than one FoD.
I have to say, not that impressed. But then again I saw it on grainy as hell VHS at the height of my jaded not giving a fuck about anything but drugs, sex and alcohol. I'm surprised I ever got anything done musically in the early 90's at all.
Maybe a better resolution copy would impact my mostly sober more grown up mind.
But then with all the terror and bullshit in the real world, who needs to go looking for some rusty old gore porn/snuff film?
I can go watch ISIL burn some guy alive or behead them. In HD nonetheless!

* my friend had not one but two different movie disc players. The laserdisc format that was briefly popular in the US, and the capacitive disc format from Japan.  I will admit that Blade Runner was mind meltingly good on the capacitive disc player. He also had several copies of Brazil and Apocalypse Now in addition to Blade Runner because he was obsessed with the whole 'alternate ending' thing with those movies. There are a couple others that he had different releases of, but they were stupid movies like "Heathers".

[aububs]

nekromantik is a fantastic movie.

[Andrew McIntosh]

Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009) - Decent enough for a comic movie, which I rarely go for. I'm a big fan of the comic, so I wish they'd have kept the fake alien toward the end, and that they hadn't changed Rorschach's dialogue so much, but it still works overall. One of the only computer-effects-heavy movies I really like, in that they are what made it "feel" like the comic book. [anyone here seen "Little Children?" apparently the guy playing Rorschach plays a child molester, looks like mostly good reviews]

Although only borrowing the movie from the local library, I quite liked this and should get a copy sometime. It occurred to me that if I liked the movie I would really dig the original comic. Rorschach is an excellent character, thought some of his lines in the movie are the best ("Men go to prison. DOGS get put down!"), if the dialog in the comic is better I really should track it down.

[locustfurnace]

Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009) - Decent enough for a comic movie, which I rarely go for. I'm a big fan of the comic, so I wish they'd have kept the fake alien toward the end, and that they hadn't changed Rorschach's dialogue so much, but it still works overall. One of the only computer-effects-heavy movies I really like, in that they are what made it "feel" like the comic book. [anyone here seen "Little Children?" apparently the guy playing Rorschach plays a child molester, looks like mostly good reviews]

Although only borrowing the movie from the local library, I quite liked this and should get a copy sometime. It occurred to me that if I liked the movie I would really dig the original comic. Rorschach is an excellent character, thought some of his lines in the movie are the best ("Men go to prison. DOGS get put down!"), if the dialog in the comic is better I really should track it down.

"I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Life seems harsh, and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: "Treatment is simple. The great clown - Pagliacci - is in town. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. "But doctor..." he says "I am Pagliacci." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains."

"Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll whisper "no.""

He had all the best lines....

[Fluid Fetish]

I read in one of the earlier posts fr0m a few years ago a mention of 'Nekromantic'.
That is one of those movies that my edgy industrial/goth friends always loved to talk about. Often mentioned in the same breath as 'Faces of Death'.
These of course date to the pre-internet VHS era. When you could not easily get information on such things. When you could track down a copy, it was shit.
My friend Ven who is a total pervert and has just about anything you can imagine on vinyl, tape or some other medium*, was the person who finally busted out copies of both movies. Well several since there is more than one FoD.
I have to say, not that impressed. But then again I saw it on grainy as hell VHS at the height of my jaded not giving a fuck about anything but drugs, sex and alcohol. I'm surprised I ever got anything done musically in the early 90's at all.
Maybe a better resolution copy would impact my mostly sober more grown up mind.
But then with all the terror and bullshit in the real world, who needs to go looking for some rusty old gore porn/snuff film?
I can go watch ISIL burn some guy alive or behead them. In HD nonetheless!

Give it another chance I'd say, I had a similar experience and wasn't into that much when I was younger, few years ago went back and watched it again after it was re-released and was definitely into it. It's not the most groundbreaking film of all time obviously, but I can see why in the 80's it was rumored the body was an actual rotting corpse, it looks wet and drippy definitely and they apparently used real pig eyes for the part when he puts the eyeball in his mouth when they're fucking it. The whole movie and the grainy shite quality give it a feel I like a lot, I just have to be in the mood...but having said that the soundtrack alone also deserves mention. Slightly Throbbing Gristleish, and in the liner notes for the recently released soundtrack LP director mentions TG was a huge influence. The music to this movie always pulls me in, and usually puts me in the mood to watch it.

I need to go back and watch the sequel again soon too.

[bitewerksMTB]

Nekromantik looks great in the new hd scan of the original 8mm film elements. There is also a second transfer taken from a 35mm theatrical print if the other transfer isn't rough enough for you.

Check out the 'Sex Murder Art' set from Cult Epics with all 4 of Buttgerit's films along with 2 cd's. And while you're at it, pick up In A Glass Cage & Angst, also from Cult Epics.

I received Blue Underground's bd of Deep Red today..

[aububs]

nekromantik is a really sweet and romantic movie, almost childlike. the visuals and the necrophilia have made it notorious in certain quarters but i feel like it's often overlooked how sentimental and good-hearted that movie actually is. it's for big softies.

I watched The Last Slumber Party last night. Chris is the best character in a movie ever.

[Fluid Fetish]

I received Blue Underground's bd of Deep Red today..

How's it look? I need to get a bd player finally since I watch so many movies.

I love Deep Red but Inferno will always be my favorite, even more then Suspira, would love to see the quality of that movie with all the psychedelic color and lighting in bd quality.