Anyone seen any good movies lately?

Once you realize the world etc. is chaos--and you'd better be pretty shifty (feet don't fail me now!) to dodge the constant fusilade of 'things' that are out to get someone--maybe you.

 

Which is scarier---"Punk'd" or "Scare Tactics"

 

If anyone wants to go into space, look at www.rocketplane.com--pretty amazing stuff about to happen for real.

 

Huuh, this thread has grown like hell in these 10 days I was on vacation!

I re-watched recently Cannibal Holocaust because previous time I watched it was many years ago and I updated my old tape to uncut LD from Cult Epics last week. It was quite surprising to notice how my opinions and feelings about that movies had changed during years: When I saw it on first time on 80's I was absolute beginner as horror collector, and all I required from "good" horror movie was massive amount of violence and gore. Now, when I'm way more concentrated to movies themselves and their deeper meaning than effects only, the real message behind the story hit me like a punch to the head. Cannibal Holocaust is sleaze indeed, but also very well-made sleaze and along with it's exploitatous style it's very powerful story about humankind's evil and selfish nature: Masqueraded partially in document form it tells how some of us are capable to do immoral things without any regrets if they can help themselves to get what they want, and how other people who suffer from their doings will be driven to hit back. It's like poking snake with the stick: If you continue it too long you will get what you deserve. But which one is evil after all, poker or poked who decides to poke back? I didn't smiled much that day.

 

Last night me and my wife watched Ghostbuster 1 & 2. A true classic for movie comedy. I had almost forgot how funny Dan Aykroyd & Bill Murray were. Not to mention the supporting comedy of Rick Moranis. If you haven't seen it in a while its a great reminder of how movies used to be. You'd be suprised how realistic the ghost look for an 80's film.

 

Another good horror flick is the 1963 classic--"The Birds". I saw it when it came out when I was a kid--and as people left the theater--most people looked up and around before traveling far past the door. Still a good movie--with the bonus of a very pretty Tippi Hedren.

I think the "Blade" movies are great current movies. The scene where they used a flashlight to burn up the fat puddle-guy (Rose??) was fun. Also, a good one a few years ago--"Near Dark" with Bill Paxton and Adrian Pasdar. Vampires will always be in the movies--they seldom fail to produce profit.

 

Near Dark is quite different vampire movie: It shows vampires as a race trying to survive along with humans their own way instead of making them just bloodsucking beasts of the night.

 

I think the movie cannibal holocaust is banned in Australia.

 

I just looked on Netflix and they have the "Cannibal Holocaust."..and also one made 2 years earlier--"Jungle Holocaust" with similar subjects...they called it the "ultimate Mondo movie".

 

I know of three movies,

Cannibal Apocalypse
Cannibal Holocaust
Cannibal Ferox

 

Is a "ferox" a mating between foxes and ferrets?
I have a large pecan tree and have a number of squirrels around, they are too cute to be speed bumps...I think politicians make much better speedbumps--and lots more fun to drive over!
Was there ever a movie "Mondo Bizarro"? It came to mind just now, not unlike a "word of knowledge" evangelists claim to have often.

 

There's a lot of cannibal movies around but none of them match Cannibal Holocaust what comes to their strongness. The whole genre started from Man From The Deep River, and Jungle Holocaust (known better as Ultimo Mondo Cannibale) came quite soon after that. Those two are actually very good movies since at the beginning the cannibal movies consentrated mostly on primitive rites and behaviour instead of gore, so they were more some subform of mondo movies than pieces of horror: Both movies have only few scenes which can really be counted as violent. After those two many directors, most italian, started to make cannibal movies which overcrowded the whole genre very badly because most of them were made straight from same mold. These later cannibal films like Cannibal Ferox and Eaten Alive (aka Mangiati Vivi) were also much more exploitative than first ones, natives were showed as brutal and bloodthirsty monsters and movies were filled with bloody mutilating of both animals and humans - and that was the reason why most of them were banned on many countries. Only few of them brought something new on the genre, Cannibal Apocalypse is one of them because in it cannibalism is shown as dicease instead of native's violent way of life as threat for white man. At later years cannibal movies have improved very much, they are very rare nowadays but they handle the matter much uniquer ways than their predeccors: Take a look at Eating Raoul or Delicatessen to see what I mean.

Jmark: http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0188909/

 

Jmark mentioned the birds, I never really considered it a true horror flick, but wonderful suspense. It's rated pg13, and considered a thriller. Alfered Hitchcock, never had to splash blood all over the screen to keep you glued to the edge of your seat. There are very few producers that can, or will, do that anymore.

 

Some time ago, I was in Boulder CO (U. of Colorado)and ate at an on-campus cafeteria. Emblazoned on the wall above entrance..."Alfred E. Packer Cafeteria", so named in memory of Alfred E. Packer, a cannibal (I think from the famous "Donner Party" that was stranded in snow in the mts. during the later 1800's). A noteworthy episode to read about is during German siege (900 days) of Leningrad, USSR--people apparently ate some of the dead after eating the wooden baseboards in thier homes. During the winter of 1941-42, at times 10,000 people a day died, mostly of starvation. In the freezing winter, citizens wrapped their dead in sheets and left them on the sidewalk for pickup by wagons every day.

 

RE: "The Birds"...beware the TV version, which deletes the scenes where several people get thier eyes pecked out by the vicious birds.
Two good movies on TNT later tonight--"Bats" with Lou Diamond Philips, and "Dracula 2000" which I really enjoyed...looks at vampires in a different way.

 

Why isn't anybody talking about new movies out, like Wedding Crashers. That was a funny a** movie in my mind.

 

I have 2 movies here to watch..."Valentine (2001) and "The Final Cut"--anyone seen these? A funny thing about vampire movies--the way they die...some just blow up...some turn to dust (the older movies like Hammer stuff...some burn for a while then blow up...and some just blowup like gasoline in a car wreck. Su8ppose it might depend on the SPF number of their sun tan lotion?? "Fright Night" was a pretty good one with Roddy McDowell.

 

Hey Nephilim---that scene in "Near Dark" at the redneck bar where they tore the place up...the "finger-lickin' good" part was a classic bar fight scene. Reminded me of a dying Rory Calhoun (of cowboy movies) claimed that his sausage was made of humans--but he did NOT add preservatives in the 1980 flick "Motel Hell". I bet everyone will agree the movie "From Dusk til Dawn" was great...and the name of the bar they went to in Mexico was hilarious. And don't forget the wonderfully cool hidden six-shooter that some of them had coming out their fly...