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

[absurdexposition]

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - The Archers considered it their best work, and while it is great cinema I feel that honour should go to The Red Shoes. This one is just a little dated, drags in some parts, and Roger Livesey is a little too over the top in others.

Tenebre (1982) - surely top 3 Argento material here. Been a couple years since I'd seen it and this rewatch was more enjoyable than the first viewing.

[Scat-O-Logy]

I bet this filter is very popular amongst the members of this forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GLHF9EKLRs

Man, that intro reminded me how funny Pulp Fiction is "Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face" :D

[david lloyd jones]

Michele soavi's 'the church' watched last night-less gruesome and more atmospheric than imagined
good print with ok extras
at  £10uk is a good deal.
looking forward to 'the sect' on same label (shameless)

[david lloyd jones]

just bought 'prozzie' by u'll pommel, on blue ray on 88discs in uk.
missed on original issue, but sounds appropriately scummy now.

[david lloyd jones]

looks like 'i drink your blood' 'i eat your skin' the classic exploits double bill will be issued as a double bill  by grindhouse releasing on blue ray

-just like the dvd

[collapsedhole]

last night i watched OPEN RANGE, and since the guy i work with claims it the best western ever i was kinda excited. i should've known not to believe him since he is a big fan of that walking dead show. as soon as i saw it was made in 2003 and starred kevin costner i knew i was in for some corny, corny shit. i stuck it out though. plot was typical, but the actors/acting are my only real complaint... had it been made 20 years earlier it would've been much better.

[bitewerksMTB]

looks like 'i drink your blood' 'i eat your skin' the classic exploits double bill will be issued as a double bill  by grindhouse releasing on blue ray

-just like the dvd

I sold the signed dvd  just the other day on eBay after seeing the screenshots for the Blu- they look GREAT! It was a film I wasn't planning on buying again but I guess I will (once prices drop). Scanning through the dvd, I'd forgotten how fun of a movie it is. Granted, the dvd still looks good but if you can sell it for enough to buy the bd then, I'd say, go for it.

I've got John Carpenter's The Thing on the way. I'm looking forward to seeing the new transfer as the shots I've seen of the monster efx are pretty damned stunning. Lots more gory details are visible.

[bitewerksMTB]

'black Christmas' atvchristmas would be fine.
as said before, a Br of 'the killing of America 'wouldn't add anything, but a nee DVD in the uk will be better than the old 'exploitation video' release.

like it when us and uk/euro labels release the same so there is no having to buy foreign discs, no superiority in releases.
the market for this crappie so small, that fighting helps nobody.

Screenshots of KoA look pretty good: http://www.rockshockpop.com/forums/content.php?6365-Killing-Of-America-The

[Fluid Fetish]

just read that Robert Eggers (The Witch director) is remaking F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu.

Which is funny because he refuted the rumors that this was the case not that long ago...unless my memory is wrong which is very possible. I had to look this up to believe it. Remaking an absolute classic that was already remade to perfection by Werner Herzog for your second film ever is a tall order. With how much I liked the Witch I'm somewhat at ease though..

[absurdexposition]

Grapes of Death - one of Rollin's worst.

Arrival - apart from the Hollywood ending this exceeded expectations.

Young Ones - got bored quickly but stuck it out. Michael Shannon is the only saving grace.

Valhalla Rising - another rewatch of this. still totally great. Refn is easily my favourite current director.

[Fluid Fetish]

Michele soavi's 'the church' watched last night-less gruesome and more atmospheric than imagined
good print with ok extras
at  £10uk is a good deal.
looking forward to 'the sect' on same label (shameless)

I just watched this for the first time last night and was very impressed, I loved Cemetery Man so I figured I would like the Church also. Have you seen the Sect yet? Thinking about checking it out next.

Although most TV series tend to bore me lately, been watching BBC's Black Mirror; sort of a Twilight Zone for today's technology-addicted generation. Cheesy/funny, disturbing, and reflects really well how life is about selfies and cell phones for most people today. Hard to watch at times, though; but I like the idea of TV you aren't supposed to "enjoy" in the typical sense. I think it might appeal to fans of David Lynch as well as The Twilight Zone. I don't know if anyone else is as disgusted with "cell phone reality 2.0" as much as I am, but this show seems to be.

People keep suggesting this series to me and I think I'm going to pick it up, especially based on this description as I definitely also share the disgust for cell phone culture and happily live without internet access (except at work), I have no cell phone, and I don't have a TV with channels (movies only). I'd always heard that the series was dystopian and had traces of lynch and the twilight zone but wasn't aware it also focused on cheesy/funny stuff and aspects of modernity too.

The first trailer for Ghost in the Shell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTPvnQ2wDlI

I grew up watching this over and over and then the sequels when they came out too followed by the many comics and I have to say, this actually looks pretty interesting...not normally into the hollywood adaptations of anime/comics but this I'll actually see. It doesn't look like they're going to include the token tanks from the comics though. Kind of weird too that it's an adaptation of an adaptation. A hollywood movie based on an anime that was loosely based on the comic.

[bitewerksMTB]

the new series Quarry on Cinemax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgISvffeT-8

I've read a couple of books by Max Allan Collins with the 'Quarry' character. They were pretty good for quick, pulpy violent crime fiction.

I think Code Red has plans to release The Sect & The Church on Blu-ray in the U.S. next year (along with Argento's Opera). I've seen T.C. a time or two on Turner Classic Movies. It's okay, it's definitely not a film I would need to own. I'm not sure about T.S. If I've seen it, it was on rental VHS.

I watched Nuit et Brouillard earlier & just received John Carpenter's The Thing.

[david lloyd jones]

Michele soavi's 'the church' watched last night-less gruesome and more atmospheric than imagined
good print with ok extras
at  £10uk is a good deal.
looking forward to 'the sect' on same label (shameless)

I just watched this for the first time last night and was very impressed, I loved Cemetery Man so I figured I would like the Church also. Have you seen the Sect yet? Thinking about checking it out next.

'the sect' still not out yet.never saw this or the church when originally out and was impressed by the church as a whole lot better than the demons films, from a similar period

[Vermin Marvin]

Watched "Made in Serbia - document for serbian porn industry" and it was pretty lame.
Expected more "shocking" material than some fucking grannies but best parts from trailer was taken directors another movie "the Life and death of porn gang" where is animal action and other filth. 
Not worth to hunt but worth to watch because it is after all saddest comedy i have seen long time.

[aububs]

watched Ti West's new movie called In a Valley of Violence last night.

it's not good.