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Out of the Mondo cycle, I’ve only actually seen Africa Addio Not sure it's really a mondo film, but you should try and see the late Leonard (brother of Paul) Schreader's documentary on rising crime rates in early 80s america The Killing of America . It's a very interesting, and very well done, but ...

Look for some noughtie musings in the near future from a new column of sorts. But until then, my year’s spirits were raised mostly by: 1. Inglourious Basterds 2. Not Quite Hollywood 3. Anvil 4. Trick 'R Treat 5. Watchmen 6. District 9 7. Away We Go 8. An Education 9. Knowing 10. Drag Me To Hell Alfr...

Out of the Mondo cycle, I’ve only actually seen Africa Addio . I mean, if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen most of them. It’s a fascinating sub-genre but it’s probably up to the individual viewer to judge how much existential philosophizing, spurious anthropological didacticism or plain pastoral/elegiac...

The Cabin Movie - Three couples (allegedly friends) meet to have sex in a log cabin and film the experience to painfully predictable cello music. Of course, being a mean bunch of prudes with more baggage than sex drive, they don't quite manage it and just hang around in their pants drinking and fal...

Hatchet - "A new and unexpected benchmark in horror" is a bit strong for what is little more than a fairly solid and entertaining comic slasher flick. The unexpurgated quote was actually "an new an unexpected bench mark in *zero-pretence, post-modern* horror" which is still true...

Rojo Sangre (2004): a timely entry for the legendary Paul Naschy who diesd this week. Though it’s not his last film, acts as an appropriately mischievous, rather somber swansong for a man who saw the exploitation boom come and fade away into torture porn aesthetics, aesthetics which he rails agains...

Great thread, Mr! I threw a less obscure bunch of these into my Halloween write up but I'll weigh in with a couple both US and non-US: * The Last Embrace -- which I'm guessing is almost Jonathan Demme's least seen picture and probably the least seen picture starring either Christopher Walken (althou...

Er...no. It's kind of cool, isn't it? I mean, what with 3D about to really break into the mainstream after the slew of animations, Christmas Carol and the upcoming Avatar . Can't think why Channel 4 *wouldn't* want to innovatively exploit a buzz trend. And Friday 13th ? In 3D? On terrestrial TV? Wat...

Was it The Last Train ? A meteor hits earth while a commuter train is in a tunnel, there's some kind of sci-fi device on the train which freezes all the passengers in stasis until they thaw out decades (I think) later. The whole country’s turned into an Enzo G. Castellari post-apocalypse film. Or, y...

Can someone *actually* explain the fucking story of part IV to me once they've gone heroically through the entire canon? Not that I actually care that much, but I'm still utterly confused about the whole engineering of the Mandylor character's involvement somewhere between part II and IV that invol...

Can someone *actually* explain the fucking story of part IV to me once they've gone heroically through the entire canon? Not that I actually care that much, but I'm still utterly confused about the whole engineering of the Mandylor character's involvement somewhere between part II and IV that involv...

DISAGREE - DON't LOOK NOW is possibly my favourite "horror" film ever... perhaps it was the time in life that i first watched it, i was around 10 or 12 and somehow me mum and dad let me watch it on tv... i could not get the final images out of my head and i had to go and sleep in their be...

Holy shit, so Home, Sweet Home is the Thanksgiving slasher picture that Eli Roth thought hadn't hapened yet?

Good catch, Richard.

Psychic power.

The colour red.

Also, two of the best horror pictures of the decade?

Best Slasher Laid to Rest, Anchor Bay Entertainment :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: Laid To Rest has been getting some, how you say, puzzlingly breathless praise on DVD sites over the pond. Whie I'm impressed that someone's managed to get their picture out there, I'm kind of...