Plus, you watch those Hammer vampire movies, and there's a slight chance you'll suddenly get some brief nudity. You never expect it, because the Technicolor or whatever makes it look like an American Vincent Price movie from the 1950s.The Brides of Dracula- Classic Hammer British horror. Great stuff if you like old school gothic.
I was skimming through other Hammer trailers and I gotta say the Hammer girls might be some of the hottest chicks in cinema history. The redheads in particular. Every one of them is a knockout and from the time when classic beauty was still a thing, before late 60s and early 70s when there was a cultural shift towards a more modern and less classy emphasis on style. That's not to say the Hammer films are particularly classy but you get what I'm trying to say. Kind of comparing Audrey Hepburn's style to Farrah Fawcett's. Like in a sheer nightgown being sexier than a bikini kind of way. I dunno there's just something about them, I'm sure the casting director loved his job lol.
The Camilla Hammer trilogy finally got a proper release in the US but it seems like some discs are defective, so I'm waiting to for the corrected version. I recently got The Blood Spattered Bride which is a Spanish movie from 72 that is also based on Camilla. I recommend it, it's pretty wild.If you're watching the Hammer Draculas, don't miss out on the Karnstein Trilogy, starting with The Vampire Lovers. The movie was based on the novella Carmilla, which actually predates and was an inspiration for Stoker's Dracula novel.
I only recognised this halfway through your review, wow, I loved this film way back. Going to be looking out for this one, cheers for the reminder.I Come in Peace (aka Dark Angel)- Possibly one of the best pieces of action schlock to come out of the genre at it's height. Dolph Lindgren is a cop who has to take down a group of giant aliens that are murdering random people with flying CDs for their brain juice which is apparently sold as a drug back on their home planet, or something. Doesn't matter, it's just an excuse for the aliens to have these crazy predator looking gloves/gauntlets that suck out brains and have goofy weapons built into them.
It has practically every action and cop movie cliche ever, literally:
Asshole Police chief, check.
Partner gets killed and main character must go on a revenge mission, check.
New partner who strictly goes by the book, while the main character plays by their own rules, check.
Troubled relationship with an old flame, check.
Everything blows up when shot, check.
Unlimited ammo, check.
Car chase, check.
Titties/strip club, check.
It's also a Christmas movie lol
It also has some of the funniest and clever scene transition editing I've ever seen. Like an alien is going to stab someone in the face with a big spike and it cuts mid thrust to Dolph playing pool with the spike dissolving into a pool cue. It's not just once or twice, it's every scene transition.
Oh yeah he also has to fight a gang called the "White Boys" that is comprised entirely of Lambo driving Wall Street yuppies that have machine guns and can kickbox.
It's pretty awesome. I remembered seeing bits of it on cable as a kid but watching it as an adult looking back at the genre and time period elevates it's to something special. It has enough budget, it's creative and Dolph is strong enough to pull off the lead, so it's not a so bad it's good. It's just legitimately entertaining all the way though. It's also got Jan Hammer doing the soundtrack.
In the movie, she's supposed to be formerly hot. Aging out of hot. It's a pretty solid movie with kind of a wobbly finish. It was good enough to interest me in reading the source novels. Half just to see what the real ending was. Holy shit, that was a mistake. Dude writes like a beat poet on meth yelling random sentence fragments in an empty all-night laundromat. The later books are nigh-unintelligible. It's like the author is less interested in conveying a narrative than he is in creating a mood, simulating an actual physical feeling in the reader of hungover nausea through only the power of his words. The books also read like the author presenting a passionate case for why the entire human race ought to be exterminated.LA Confidential- Somehow I'd never seen this before. I'd heard of it, knew who was in it and knew the basic premise but never actually watched it. It was alright for a modern noir. Better than Wild Things but not as good as Body Heat, still all things considered pretty enjoyable. A bit long though, could have benefitted with some editing to tighten the pace. Also is it just me or is Kim Basinger not that hot? All the pieces are there for her to be super hot but she always seems a bit off. I can't quite put my finger on it.
Pearce.In the movie, she's supposed to be formerly hot. Aging out of hot. It's a pretty solid movie with kind of a wobbly finish. It was good enough to interest me in reading the source novels. Half just to see what the real ending was. Holy shit, that was a mistake. Dude writes like a beat poet on meth yelling random sentence fragments in an empty all-night laundromat. The later books are nigh-unintelligible. It's like the author is less interested in conveying a narrative than he is in creating a mood, simulating an actual physical feeling in the reader of hungover nausea through only the power of his words. The books also read like the author presenting a passionate case for why the entire human race ought to be exterminated.
On the good side, there's an interesting shared continuity throughout the novels, even though no two books star the same characters. Former main characters like Guy Pierce's show up as background characters and you see what's happened to them down the line (and how they've been further compromised) years or even decades later. Oh yeah, and that character Meakes (sp?) who was found dead under the house? He was a main character in an earlier novel, if I remember right.
Sonic 2 is very, very stupid. In case anyone actually needs that warning.
The movie based on the video game about the interdimensional talking blue hedgehog that can run at light speed and use magic gems to become invincible?Sonic 2 is very, very stupid. In case anyone actually needs that warning.
Waste of time stupid or…?
The movie based on the video game about the interdimensional talking blue hedgehog that can run at light speed and use magic gems to become invincible?
Stupid?
I don't believe you.
I am Divine- Doc about John Water muse and the filthiest person in the world Divine. I had no idea she had such a big music career, pretty much only knew about the work with Waters. Some good interviews and insight into what made the persona and how it evolved. Really a shame that he died so young just when his career was starting to take off. I had no idea he had been cast as a main character in Married with Children. Unfortunately he died of a heart attack in his sleep the night before he was scheduled to start shooting the show. Recommended of you're a fan of the character and John Waters early movies.
Yeah it's a weird one. The psychological stuff is interesting since it's played perfectly straight but the personas and costumes are so ridiculous and elaborate. It also has an almost guerrilla quality to it with all the street scenes and random weirdos that naturally populate Hollywood. The main character is pretty well cast, he really has that creepy loner vibe/look and is believably crazy for the most part.Fade to Black is one of those movies that would be completely buried on like AppleTV or Shudder these days and no one would see it. It's not great by any stretch but it's interesting in a weird way. The number of distribution outlets has become so vast that there's almost no way for a tiny little movie to catch the mainstream or even the viral/cult hit wave without a significant amount of momentum.