What was the last movie you saw?

Virgin Sacrifice (1960)

Cheap little jungle adventure flick. Great White Hunter type tells us how he witnessed a VIRGIN SACRIFICE some time ago. Flashback shows us a woman tied to a tree, having her blouse torn off (this thing must have been shown in "adults only" theaters) and getting stabbed. Rest of movie is his fight to keep another woman from a VIRGIN SACRIFICE. Only a little more than an hour long, but it really drags. Filmed in Guatemala and in color, which much have used most of the budget.
 
Ha I love that title Guns, Girls, and Gangsters--it is so to the point. And they flash the titles in dramatic fashion at the beginning.

THE INFERNO 1911 ( A Baylor recommendation) - It was very interesting-inspiring when you consider at the time this was made, people like Vincent Price had not been born yet. It had a lot of Gustave Dore' influences and some of the spfx were quite ambitious. It's not every day you see a movie where Mohammad is walking around in Hell with his entrails sticking out.

TASTE OF EXCITEMENT 1970 - It's hard to describe--a giallo or Hitchcockian thriller--Eva Renzi portrays a computer programmer--that is bizarre and unique right off the bat, but she also a plain Jane (her name is Jane) and to believe that she supposed to be average-looking is weird enough. She meets a painter--and the dialogue is so oddish I felt like I was watching a Police Squad! episode.

"What's your name?"
"Jane Karrell."
"Mine's Paul Hedley."
"Oh..the painter?"
"Yes, that's right...do you like my work?"
"I don't actually."
"Oh."

...
"They thought I was crazy. And so did that doctor."
"Doctor?"
"Doctor Faller, he's a psychiatrist. I was running away from him just now. He was in the zoo. What was he doing in the zoo? "
"Search me."
"He knew something about that gibbon."
"What gibbon?"
"The one on the phone last night."
"I really think I should be getting on.."
"That's why I went to the zoo this morning."
"What-to finish the conversation with the gibbon?"

It gets weirder.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Cat Women of the Moon for the umpteenth time but for the first time with Number One Son who thought it was hilarious.
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I know I have seen this, but, is it the one with the giant spider that just bounces toward its intended victim (a woman) and / or the one with the Gumby-shaped rock monsters? :giggle:
 
Jeffbert said:
I know I have seen this, but, is it the one with the giant spider that just bounces toward its intended victim (a woman) and / or the one with the Gumby-shaped rock monsters? :giggle:
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The giant spiders in Cat Women of the Moon lower themselves from the ceiling of a cave - they also have a weird horn in the middle of their heads. 'Spiders' plural because after being attacked by the first spider, the girl is thrust aside as the men fight the spider and the same prop attacks her a second time. You never see 'both' animals in the same shot.

More likely you are thinking of Missile to the Moon which is practically a remake of Cat Women of the Moon. The giant woman-attacking spider in the cave in that one is a lot more bouncy.


and has Gumby shaped Rock Monsters


EDIT: Just noticed J Riff beat me to it.
 
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I just love those 1950s B-grade scifi films! :LOL:


ROCK 'N' ROLL HIGH SCHOOL (1979) If not for the music, I would have found this unwatchable; it was just over the top silly. Vince Lombardi HS has a new no-nonsense principle Evelyn Togar (Mary Woronov), who is very strict, etc. But, those naughty students want rock & roll instead of classical music. The Ramones are coming to town, & Riff Randell (P. J. Soles) is skipping school to camp-out at the theater's box office fot 3 days, so she can be 1st in line to buy tickets for the beast seats for herself & all her friends.

Eaglebauer (Clint Howard; rememer him? The boy from GENTLE BEN & THE CORBOMITE MANUVER) has an office in one of the stalls in the BOYS' ROOM, and fixes-up dates and such for his clients. One of the boys wants to date Riff, but, he just lacks the social skills to get her. Eaglebauer will help him get those skills. No other reason why I mention Clint Howard, except for those earlier roles. The police Chief (Dick Miller; one of Roger Corman's regular actors) had very little screen time, but his name was in the opening credits.

I was never a fan of so-called PUNK ROCK, but I did enjoy the music; which the captions did identify.
 
Beat the Devil - I just wanted something to keep me sat still for 90 minutes and not tax my poor old brain too much so I picked something out of the Safe Old Movies shelf (I.E. nothing likely to have too much sex and violence in case the kids walk in) of my To Be Watched shelves. Beat the Devil , starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston, turned out to be a lot better than I was expecting. Very odd in places and very funny too.
 
All the Colors of Giallo (2019)

Documentary about the film genre mentioned in the title. Mostly interviews with directors, writers, actors, etc., in Italian, so be patient with subtitles. Some trailers and footage from the films. Fairly interesting and informative.
 
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)

At a resort in Utah, the body of a woman slashed to death turns up. As the local sheriff tries to figure out whodunit, other folks are killed. It all leads up to a twist ending.

Lots of familiar faces here, including Mamie Van Doren as a model. A very young Anne Bancroft is the love interest for our nominal hero. There's a washed-up actor, a hard-drinking native American, and so forth. Most notable are the owner of the resort, who is not only in a wheelchair but has totally paralyzed hands and arms, and his sister, who has to take care of him.

With a gruesome, if unseen, series of murders committed by an unknown killer, and that twist ending, this almost seems like a proto-giallo.
 
Pacific Rim.

I have to admit I wasn’t too keen on this one when it first came out. I took too much notice of its flaws, but it’s grown on me with repeated viewings. Now, I can appreciate the sheer majesty of giant robots beating up giant monsters:)
 
DOWN 3 DARK STREETS (1954) NOIR ALLEY. FBI Agent John Ripley (Broderick Crawford) investigates 3 case that his late partner had been pursuing; hence, the title. Features an ending at the HOLLYWOOD sign. An extortionist has learned of a widow's $10k life insurance, & uses her fears of violence to motivate her to give him the money, which he has her place at the base of one of those large letters.

Interesting twist ending.
 
The Wrestler (2008)
Micky Rourke is the wrestler and his fighting days are coming to an end. He learns that the pain he endures in the ring is nothing to pain of reality beyond the ropes.

Possibly Darren Aronofsky’s finest movie.
 
Jeffbert said:
MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945) This woman (Nina Foch) who has no living relatives takes a job as a live-in secretary, becomes an unwilling pawn in an insurance fraud scheme. Moreover, she is knocked-out with chloroform, dressed in a dead woman's clothes, and called by her name. Thoroughly confused, she insists on her own identity, but they attempt to persuade her that she had suffered memory loss. Of course the house is fenced-in, & the gatekeeper is instructed that she is never to leave.
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Saw this not long ago. Good little thriller. Not great, but it held my attention.

THE VELVET VAMPIRE (1971; dir. Stephanie Rothman; starring Michael Blodgett, Celeste Yarnell, Sherry E. DeBoer)

Lee and Susan, husband and wife (Blodgett & DeBoer) visit friend's art gallery, meet Diane (Yarnell). Lee is instantly attracted much to Susan's dismay, and she's more dismayed when he accepts an invitation to Diane's home out in the desert. Way out in the desert. Car trouble leaves them stranded, two legged noshes for Diane's delectation. Besides nudity and implied sex, and so the sensuality of surrender to the vamp, the movie does touch on aging, a core theme of The Hunger, which not coincidentally ...

TVV was shown late night on Turner Cable Movies (the U.S. old movie channel as an entry in their "TCM Underground" feature), and paired with The Hunger. Good choice, since this seems like a precursor, whether purposely or accidentally. Anyway, low budget vampire movie, tipping hat to older vampire stories (one character's last name is Stoker; Diane's last name is Le Fanu), tapping into the sensuality of "Carmilla," and imaginatively using a bit of the trippy special effects of the '70s -- the shoe-string budget version -- with dream sequences.

Rothman strikes me as a capable director and I'm sorry to see she only had 7 movies as director listed in IMDB.


NO TIME TO DIE (2021; dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga; starring Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Rami Malek, Ana de Armas)

For me, it's now confirmed, the odd number Bonds of the Craig years are definitely the best. I know there's been some criticism of this one, but it seems to me this movie is consistent with the trajectory begun in Casino Royale. Besides the usual over-the-top fight scenes, which are well-done -- de Armas nearly steals the movie in her appearance which culminates in one of these; and someone needs to cast her in a comedy, stat -- there are several grace notes as Craig's craggy appearance and solid presence ground the movie and to my surprise Seydoux turns out to be quite good when given something to do. I'm a bit surprised by the criticism of Malek's acting; I thought it was refreshing that a Bond villain didn't overact. For fans, several call backs to the older Bonds, notably Casino Royale, Dr. No, and the music from On Her Majesty's Secret Service is well deployed. There are probably others that I'd need a second viewing to recognize.
 
NO TIME TO DIE (2021; dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga; starring Daniel Craig, Lea Seydoux, Rami Malek, Ana de Armas)
Randy M. said:
For me, it's now confirmed, the odd number Bonds of the Craig years are definitely the best. I know there's been some criticism of this one, but it seems to me this movie is consistent with the trajectory begun in Casino Royale. Besides the usual over-the-top fight scenes, which are well-done -- de Armas nearly steals the movie in her appearance which culminates in one of these; and someone needs to cast her in a comedy, stat -- there are several grace notes as Craig's craggy appearance and solid presence ground the movie and to my surprise Seydoux turns out to be quite good when given something to do. I'm a bit surprised by the criticism of Malek's acting; I thought it was refreshing that a Bond villain didn't overact. For fans, several call backs to the older Bonds, notably Casino Royale, Dr. No, and the music from On Her Majesty's Secret Service is well deployed. There are probably others that I'd need a second viewing to recognize.
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The guy who composed the famous Bond music just died.



DEAD MAN (1997) Milquetoast Easterner accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) goes West for a job, arrive late, is left unemployed, & experiences a series of events that should have left him dazed. Anyway, he becomes a wanted man, and a notorious killer.

Was this meant to be a comedy? :unsure: There are funny elements, as the plot is just beyond belief.

Many supporting actors, including Robert Mitchum as John Dickinson the town boss, whose son Charlie (Gabriel Byrne) murders Blake's bed-mate, which starts the domino-effect of one thing after another.

A so-called revisionist Western.
 
The Revenge of Dr X (1970) - I have a phenomenally high tolerance level for bad movies (as superpowers go it's pretty sh*t but you take what you're given in this life) but The Revenge of Dr X really stretched my endurance to the limits. It gets off to an incredibly bad start. Two people stood around in a room with their backs to the camera looking at a picture of Cape Canaveral stuck to the studio wall just outside the set's window. They take it turns to mangle their lines:

"Liftoff to countdown now at three hours and sixteen minutes!" being the best.

"Could be? Could be? There is no room for 'could be's in this project! (pulls something from his pocket ) See this? - A mathematical error the width of this small coin in space could represent the distance between New York and Tokyo! The (indistinguishable) dimensions of space it could throw our rocket a million miles of its targets! Dr Stanley, 'could be's I cannot use!"

Our grumpy, unappealing, unsympathetic lead is convinced to take a holiday - it will be months before his space probe arrives at... wherever it is it is going - no one bothers to tell us. He drives somewhere and digs up a Venus Fly-trap then takes it to Japan where, with a not unattractive lousy actress as an assistant, holes up in an abandoned hotel (which has a Christian graveyard in the garden) and grafts the Fly-trap with a carnivorous chunk of seaweed he gathers with the help of a bunch of topless women. When not being incredibly rude and obnoxious to anyone within shouting distance, the doctor expounds his incredibly loopy theory that humans are descended from plants.

When there is no one around to be rude and obnoxious to or shout at, the doctor is rude to and shouts at his 'creation' instead, "The soil was your mother - the lightning will be your FATHER!" (The scriptwriters were so chuffed with this line they used it at least two more times)

It takes a whole HOUR before the doctor's creation is revealed to the audience and then it just stands around in a pot getting feebler and feebler... till it eats a convenient puppy! and then only gets into full Frankenstein rampage mode for a few brief incoherent minutes as it meanders about a hitherto unmentioned nearby village. In the final few moments of the movie the maddened doctor - who, inexplicably, is somehow himself turning into a carnivorous plant - uses a goat to lure the monster up the side of, and then into, a conveniently active volcano and they both die off screen. The goat survived. So did I. (Just.)

The music was AWFUL!

You can watch the whole thing here:

(The topless women turn up around the 48 minute mark.)
 
POSSE (1993) another revisionist Western. A Black unit of Union soldiers is tasked with infiltrating a Confederate camp & stealing weapons, but, doing so wearing civilian clothes. Things happen, etc., & they return not only with weapons, but a chest full of gold coins. As a reward for their service the evil commander accuses them of desertion, & condemns then to prison.

Somehow they escape, and go West to find that other black people are suffering under the racism of the villains.

Interesting film.
 
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