What was the last movie you saw?

But first I watched The Land That Time Forgot with my 12 year old son because that's the sort of movie you should watch with your 12 year old son: Doug McClure Vs rubbish rubber dinosaurs... and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. (Rubber dinosaurs aside - they were pretty rubbish.) There was some nice imagery, and a downbeat doom-laden ending which wrongfooted me. Wasn't expecting that at all - even despite having seen in before (in the cinema in 1974 when it first came out). Though WHY volcanoes explode whenever white people get too close to them is mystery I'm still no nearer solving.
 
Scream of the Demon Lover (1970) AKA Blood Castle (Il castello dalle porte di fuoco, "The castle of the gates of fire")

Slow-moving and confusing Eurogothic chiller. Woman shows up at the castle of a Baron, in order to work for him as a biochemist. We find out right away that half a dozen young women, all of whom fooled around with the Baron, were slashed or clawed to death. Suspicion falls on the Baron and his two big dogs. This doesn't keep the lady scientist from working for the guy. Maybe it's because he's catnip to the ladies. Not only the six village women who were killed, but also his housekeeper/former mistress and a young maidservant are crazy about him. (The latter, apparently out of sudden jealously right after the scientist shows up, says to herself "I'll laugh at your funeral.")

In the Baron's lab, Mad Science is going on, in the form of the body of the Baron's brother, burned horribly in an explosion and kept in a tub of liquid while the Baron and the biochemist try to figure out how to revive him. The fact that the scientist assumes that the Baron is the killer, with two personalities, doesn't keep her from accepting a marriage proposal. (Right after the wedding, the father of the young maidservant, who was messing around with the Baron and then, of course, got killed, shoots him, but doesn't kill him.) Before this happens, she's been hauled off by a grotesquely deformed figure, who doesn't hurt her because she's "pure." She dismisses this experience as a nightmare. There's also a locked room which she is forbidden to enter. Eventually the truth about what's going on comes out:

The badly burned brother was kept locked up, but escaped easily enough so he could kill the "impure" women who messed around with the Baron. This directly contradicts the whole body in the tub stuff, so it doesn't really make any sense. If nothing else, the burned face makeup is pretty effective.

Not a great film.
 
TALES FROM THE CRYPT 1972 --- Released 50 years ago--but I watched it a little earlier than the release date. The Joan Collins story is much superior to the remake done for HBO's tv series, and the Peter Cushing episode sure is sad. This was the only time he played a monster (in makeup) but he said "Grimsdyke wasn't a monster."
 
Lamb (2021). Great horror flick by A24, the producing company who blew everyone away on the last decade. It's the kind of horror that you would call disturbing instead of scary. The cinematography has a beauty to it while evoking melancholy at the same time. Noomi Rapace, one of my favorite actresses, stars it. The ending made my jaw drop. Icelandic folklore sure is weird.
 
Nightmare Alley (2021): Guillermo del Toro's first non-speculative feature, a psychological thriller that's based on a novel. A carnie uses his mastery of cold reading to con people, but ends up biting off more than he can chew. I loved the acting, the writing, and the beautiful cinematography Guillermo is known for.

Save Yourselves! (2020): a romantic comedy of sorts with a sci-fi twist. A couple decides to shun technology and stay in a cabin for a few days, then soon finds themselves surrounded by fuzzy aliens with very long (and potentially lethal) tongues. I didn't enjoy it as much, but it was still pretty good.

To Sir, with Love (1967): I've watched this film numerous times, but it still entertains me. Sidney Poitier stars as a man from British Guyana who travels to England for a job as a teacher. The class consists of the brattiest "kids" you've ever known. They try to make his life a living hell, but he gains the upper hand and their adoration. Lulu lends her wonderful vocals to the main song in the film.
 
JunkMonkey said:
But first I watched The Land That Time Forgot with my 12 year old son because that's the sort of movie you should watch with your 12 year old son: Doug McClure Vs rubbish rubber dinosaurs... and I was pleasantly surprised at how good it was. (Rubber dinosaurs aside - they were pretty rubbish.) There was some nice imagery, and a downbeat doom-laden ending which wrongfooted me. Wasn't expecting that at all - even despite having seen in before (in the cinema in 1974 when it first came out). Though WHY volcanoes explode whenever white people get too close to them is mystery I'm still no nearer solving.
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I have it on Blue ray. The Land That Time Forgot is an adventure classic and fun to watch . Yes , the dinosaur effects are a bit dated but, I can suspend disbelief. :cool:(y)
 
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Last movie I saw was the billion dollar blockbuster Spider-Man: No Way Home. Great movie. Superhero movies are about the only reason I show up to theaters these days.
 
Venom AKA Spider's Venom AKA The Legend of Spider Forest (1971)

Confusing suspense film disguised as a horror movie. Starts with a scene of a young man and a young woman frolicking in the nude. Suddenly he screams and blood runs down his chest. Mind you, all this is filmed through a colored filter, so everything is bright green.

After the titles, we see a different young man wandering around Germany. He runs into the young woman from the first scene and photographs her. (We know it's her because she has the same spider tattoo on her shoulder.) She runs off. A trio of sinister types -- father, adult daughter, and a thuggish guy -- talk about the young man as if he's spying on them. Somebody has stolen the film from his camera, but he gets the photos back when the daughter hops into bed with him right after meeting him. It seems they are not interested in his pictures of the young woman, but in something else.

Later, we see the young woman with some guy, who drops dead right away. The young man finds an unknown painting by Bosch on the guy. There's a local legend of the Spider Goddess, whose eight-legged minions kill anybody who fools around with her. Fistfights, shootings, murders, whippings, and explosions follow. About ten minutes before the end, we get some kind of explanation for what the heck is going on.

The Bad Guys are developing a nerve toxin from the venom of the local deadly spiders (played by tarantulas.) They use the rather simple-minded young woman to make the locals believe in the Spider Goddess myth, killing any man she's with. In the last few minutes, the young woman's father, whom we've never seen before, shows up badly scarred and in full drag (!) so he can freak out and set the secret laboratory on fire, killing just about everybody in the film who isn't dead yet, except the hero.

It's a very eccentric and bewildering little film, but not entirely without interest.
 
Libido (1965)

Nifty little Italian shocker, in the tradition of Psycho. A little boy witnesses the death of a woman, tied up in his father's mirror-lined bedroom, after an apparent BSDM session got way out of hand. The father is then assumed to have thrown himself into the sea, although his body was never found. Twenty years later, the grown-up son returns to his father's mansion. With him are his wife, the guy who has been managing his inheritance all these years, and that fellow's wife. She's a bubbly blonde sex kitten, supplying the movie's cheesecake and comedy relief, and actually doing quite well with both. She also co-wrote the film!

Things start to happen that suggest the father has returned. By this time, you'll assume that somebody is trying to gaslight the son, in order to get his inheritance. Let me just say that the plot has a lot more twists and turns than that, and would require several paragraphs to explain. To be very brief:

By the end, all four characters are dead!

Beautifully filmed in black-and-white, the movie builds slowly, but leads to a frenzied climax. Recommended.
 
BAYLOR said:
I have it on Blue ray. The Land That Time Forgot is an adventure classic and fun to watch . Yes , the dinosaur effects are a bit dated but, I can suspend disbelief. :cool:(y)
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Glove puppets some of them apparently, which is not something you see every day. And I was quite impressed by the lack of music during some of the fight sequences.
 
Victoria Silverwolf said:
Libido (1965)

Nifty little Italian shocker, in the tradition of Psycho. A little boy witnesses the death of a woman, tied up in his father's mirror-lined bedroom, after an apparent BSDM session got way out of hand. The father is then assumed to have thrown himself into the sea, although his body was never found. Twenty years later, the grown-up son returns to his father's mansion. With him are his wife, the guy who has been managing his inheritance all these years, and that fellow's wife. She's a bubbly blonde sex kitten, supplying the movie's cheesecake and comedy relief, and actually doing quite well with both. She also co-wrote the film!

Things start to happen that suggest the father has returned. By this time, you'll assume that somebody is trying to gaslight the son, in order to get his inheritance. Let me just say that the plot has a lot more twists and turns than that, and would require several paragraphs to explain. To be very brief:

By the end, all four characters are dead!

Beautifully filmed in black-and-white, the movie builds slowly, but leads to a frenzied climax. Recommended.
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Where are you finding these glorious chunks of Eurocheese, Victoria? Sounds like a goldmine!
 
SIDE STREET (1950) Joe Norson (Farley Granger) has just taken a job as a mailman, and is at just the right place and time, to notice $200 on the floor of one of his deliveries. $$ in both his eyes, he decides to return to the place and steal the money. But, he got more than he expected, as the folder into which the guy at that office had stuffed to two 100 dollar bills, had $30,000. For a while he is planning to live the high life, but, eventually he begins to fear the guy whose money he had taken might come looking for it.

Good, tense drama!
 
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (La coda dello scorpione, 1971)

Stylish and suspenseful giallo. A woman in London finds out that her husband has been killed in an airplane explosion, and she stands to get one million bucks of insurance money. She has to go to Athens to claim the loot. Following her are an insurance investigator and an Interpol agent. Let's just say that killings by the mandatory disguised figure with black gloves begin, and that a female reporter/photographer gets romantically involved with the insurance investigator as they try to solve the case. Some quick but gruesome murders and some sequences that build a lot of tension. The solution to the crimes is as convoluted and clever as you might wish. A good choice for fans of the genre.
 
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