What films have you watched recently?

Philly_Q

boogieman said:

Blood on Satan’s Claw (on Talking Pictures’ Cellar Club). Odd little early 70s folk horror film with more than a whiff of The Wicker Man about it. It’s too long, the effects are very “ketchup for blood” and the plot pacing isn’t great but it’s still quite intriguing… apparently Mark Gattis rates it, if that counts for anything. 

Fun fact: the young lady who plays Angel Blake (the lead baddy) was Robin Askwith’s girlfriend and starred in several of the “Confessions” sex comedies with him. 

Another fun fact: the director Piers Haggard is the father of actress Daisy Haggard, who was on Inside No.9 this week.

Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man are often lumped into the "folk horror" category.  I got this box set a few months ago, which doesn't include either of them, but is mighty cool.
 

Grangousier

I went to see Everything Everywhere All At Once this afternoon. I thought it was completely wonderful, and I can't imagine seeing anything likely to usurp it as my favourite film of the year - it would have to be a hell of a year for that to happen. It's as frenetic as it seems from the trailer, but every detail, however ridiculous-seeming, makes sense. The only point of comparison I have is something like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, but it's simultaneously more over the top and more grounded than that. I want to go and see it again, immediately. 

goldtop

^ Sounds like something I should see. 

fretmeister

goldtop said:

The Hunt (Amazon Prime). Jeebus - it starts dark and just gets darker and darker. Mads Mikkelsen is brilliant - as is the rest of the cast. All understated Swedish acting, scenery and filming. 7/10

Danish! Not Swedish.

goldtop

(ahem) To be fair, I only learned my Swedish from the chef on The Muppets.

boogieman

Philly_Q said:

boogieman said:

Blood on Satan’s Claw (on Talking Pictures’ Cellar Club). Odd little early 70s folk horror film with more than a whiff of The Wicker Man about it. It’s too long, the effects are very “ketchup for blood” and the plot pacing isn’t great but it’s still quite intriguing… apparently Mark Gattis rates it, if that counts for anything. 

Fun fact: the young lady who plays Angel Blake (the lead baddy) was Robin Askwith’s girlfriend and starred in several of the “Confessions” sex comedies with him. 

Another fun fact: the director Piers Haggard is the father of actress Daisy Haggard, who was on Inside No.9 this week.

Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man are often lumped into the "folk horror" category.  I got this box set a few months ago, which doesn't include either of them, but is mighty cool.
 

Ooh, want ! 

Philly_Q

boogieman said:

Ooh, want ! 

It wasn't cheap!  But it was a must-buy.

boogieman

Philly_Q said:

boogieman said:

Ooh, want ! 

It wasn't cheap!  But it was a must-buy.

I’ll have to ask Father Xmas then.
 

@Philly_Q have you seen Midsommar? Very much in the style of Wicker Man. It’s very good. 

Offset

Philly_Q said:

boogieman said:

Blood on Satan’s Claw (on Talking Pictures’ Cellar Club). Odd little early 70s folk horror film with more than a whiff of The Wicker Man about it. It’s too long, the effects are very “ketchup for blood” and the plot pacing isn’t great but it’s still quite intriguing… apparently Mark Gattis rates it, if that counts for anything. 

Fun fact: the young lady who plays Angel Blake (the lead baddy) was Robin Askwith’s girlfriend and starred in several of the “Confessions” sex comedies with him. 

Another fun fact: the director Piers Haggard is the father of actress Daisy Haggard, who was on Inside No.9 this week.

Blood on Satan’s Claw and The Wicker Man are often lumped into the "folk horror" category.  I got this box set a few months ago, which doesn't include either of them, but is mighty cool.
 

@Philly_Q , this is right up my passage.  However... I had a squizz on Amazon, and one review said that there was no UK release pending and that Blu Ray discs  11 & 12 are region A only...

Philly_Q

boogieman said: 

@Philly_Q have you seen Midsommar? Very much in the style of Wicker Man. It’s very good. 

I have.  Only the director's cut, which is about half an hour longer and I gather that's all just fleshing out parts of the story.  It's a long slow build-up anyway so I'd imagine the longer version just adds to the tension.  It's not going to displace The Wicker Man in my affections but it's very good.

Offset said:

@Philly_Q , this is right up my passage.  However... I had a squizz on Amazon, and one review said that there was no UK release pending and that Blu Ray discs  11 & 12 are region A only...

Yeah, I should think a UK release is very unlikely.  Severin's an indie label and all those films will have different UK distributors, if they have UK distribution at all  - some of them are on BFI, Celia's on Second Sight I think.  I didn't know about the region A discs, but I have a multi-region player.

Some of these films are on Shudder, if you subscribe to that - including the Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched documentary.

Moominpapa

Love and Honour (2006) the last film in Yoji Yamada's Samurai Trilogy. A superb exploration of what it means to love someone. Compared to the combat insanity of Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins (also a great film in its own, different way), there is almost no swordplay in this - but what there is is intensely pitched. A wonderful film, especially for anyone interested in Edo period samurai culture.

VimFuego

oooh, that folk horror thing sounds right up my snickleway, I do like that sort of thing.

BluesLover

Midsommar is available now on Netflix 

guitartango

BluesLover said:

Midsommar is available now on Netflix 

Weird but good film

Rabs

Grangousier said:

I went to see Everything Everywhere All At Once this afternoon. I thought it was completely wonderful, and I can't imagine seeing anything likely to usurp it as my favourite film of the year - it would have to be a hell of a year for that to happen. It's as frenetic as it seems from the trailer, but every detail, however ridiculous-seeming, makes sense. The only point of comparison I have is something like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, but it's simultaneously more over the top and more grounded than that. I want to go and see it again, immediately. 

I saw that too recently...  Absolutely brilliant film..  Creative and fun and totally bat shit crazy....  Very highly recommended. Just dont expect to understand anything thats going on for like the first 20 or 30mins.  9/10

paulnb57

The Good Liar
What a great film
I had it sussed after 5 mins, except I didnt
Helen Mirren and Sir Ian McKellen doing what they do best
9/10

Haych

The Marksman

Goodness, I do watch some rubbish!

A straight to streaming Liam Neeson action/drama thing.  

What can I say, too long, shallow plot, no depth to the characters, hardly any action, not even a mild twist and an obvious but undramatic ending.

I'll be kind and give it 4/10 - on Prime if you have too much life left and need to shorten it by a couple of hours.

Reggaebass

Watched the original 1986 Top Gun last night, don’t think I’ve seen it since it came out, really good watching it again, good flight scenes for it’s day 

Moominpapa

Everything Everywhere All at Once I agree with @Rabs & @Grangousier above that this is a wonderful film, well worth seeing. The cast were all good so it seems unfair to single people out but it has to be said that Michelle Yeoh is superb  and Jamie Lee Curtis is just wonderful - the scenes between them are hilarious.

 I also have to mention the wonderful callbacks & homages to famous films or types of film. One of them is very obvious, but the ones that pleased me most were the homages to late 1970s Jackie `Chan films. In those early films in his career Chan did lots of intricate prop fighting with things like traditional Chinese wooden inn stools, clay pipes, etc - whatever happened to be lying around in the scene where the fight was taking place. Michelle Yeoh of course knows all that stull and they incorporate it hilariously into the fight scenes, along with numerous kung-fu tropes from the classic Shaw Brothers period. It's very funny stuff.

UnclePsychosis

Grangousier said:

I went to see Everything Everywhere All At Once this afternoon. I thought it was completely wonderful, and I can't imagine seeing anything likely to usurp it as my favourite film of the year - it would have to be a hell of a year for that to happen. It's as frenetic as it seems from the trailer, but every detail, however ridiculous-seeming, makes sense. The only point of comparison I have is something like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, but it's simultaneously more over the top and more grounded than that. I want to go and see it again, immediately. 

That sounds right up my street. Need to go see it.