What was the last movie you saw?

Jeffbert said:
Eating Raoul (1982) Frumpy couple Paul (Paul Bartel) & Mary (Mary Woronov) Bland end up killing a rapist with iron skillet. Toss body in the trash compactor. Next thing, they have quit or lost their jobs, and now entertain people whose sexual fantasies they promise to fulfill, but, instead, murder them, keep their money and give the bodies to Raoul (Robert Beltran), who sells them to dog food manufacturer. Then, Raoul becomes aggressive with the woman, hence, the title.

Very enjoyable!
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One of the most amoral films I know and incredibly funny.

Last night daughter number 2 and I watched Kin-dza-dza! (she for the first time me for the third or fourth) I still have no idea what it's about and she couldn't help. One of these days I will find a better copy than the pillar-boxed (and - I hope! - clumsily translated) copy I currently own. Maybe it will make more sense with the sides on and legible subtitles.
 
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The Earth Dies Screaming A 1964 a shlock B science fiction film about Earth being Invaded by radio and sound guided blind space suited alien zombies aided by preborgified transistorized zombified blinded humans. Its really cheap looking and others dumbs since action movies which doesn't really answer the question of why the aliens decide to invade Earth in the first place.
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"Because it's there!"
 
Mr Harrington's Phone (2022)
A curious film based on a short story by Stephen King. A young lad visits with an old man (played by Donald Sutherland), reads books to him and develops a friendship. When the old man dies the boy puts the man's phone in with the coffin. For some reason he texts his phone. Then he gets a reply...
Enjoyed this one. The young lad was played by the kid who played Bill Denborough in IT
 
Eating Raoul I remember from early 80s cable tv.


Odd thing about the Earth Dies Screaming is how the test pilot looks around 60 and he picks a dead bird off the ground and puts it somewhere (this after he knows everyone is lying dead everywhere).

"There's special providence in the fall of a sparrow" I guess was his motive.


Terminator 2 used Photoshop to erase the support structure for the motorcycle jumping in front of the truck.
The stunt man had a lot of wires on him and he was wearing an Arnie mask too.
 
The Tingler (1959) One of my favorite of William Castle's films. Could not help but laugh all the way through it. Just the thought of the cheapness of the Tingler itself; that is the prop, made me laugh.
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Castle makes a rare intro for the film, perhaps suggesting that it might actually be frightening, hoping to stimulate fear among the audience.

Anyway TCM showed a day of Vincent Price films a week ago.

Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) performs autopsies on executed criminals, and meets Oliver Higgins (Philip Coolidge) the brother-in-law of the condemned man. A discussion of fear goes on for several minutes. Later in the film, several more discussions occur, and Chapin suggests that some force causes spinal columns to snap at times of extreme fear, when the victim cannot scream.

So, Higgins is married to a deaf mute woman (Judith Evelyn), who will figure into the plot at about midway through the film. The couple run a movie theater that shows nothing but silent films. Their apartment is above the theater, which also figures in the plot later.


A very fun film!
 
Blueprint For Robbery 1954
A heist movie from 1954 that I haven't seen? I'm in, and this one came off pretty good. Lots of use of screaming newspaper headlines and the usual stuff but hey, it's a believable heist, unlike most modren flicks.
 
I watched Under The Skin (I ordered the book after watching it), reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey, or anything by Kubrick. I also watched a new horror film called Cobweb. Most modern horror films are trash, this one made me wish I'd saved it for Halloween.
 
YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND I HAVE THE ONLY KEY 1972 --Seen it before but forgot it--then remembered it is a reworking of Poe's the Black Cat. The movie is about unpleasant characters with various schemes and a few twists. The final twist is rather a cheat since the character change comes after we see this person alone and still putting on an act but that sort of thing is standard with these films. I guess since it is just the Black Cat in the end it doesn't particularly unique. The title stands out the most but given the prominent product placement --which you find in many of these Italian films of the era, maybe the title should really be YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND I HAVE THE ONLY KEY TO YOUR J & C WHISKEY SUPPLY.
 
Warlords of the Twenty-First Century AKA Battletruck (1982)

Surprisingly serious, grim, and almost realistic post-apocalyptic film of the Road Warrior type. After the Oil Wars turn the Middle East into a radioactive wasteland (or so the helpful radio news guy tells us at the start) the lack of petroleum products led to food riots, looting, and all that. Folks went back to the land, other folks became roving bandits. The biggest of the latter is a renegade military officer and his ragtag team of sleazy creeps who run around in their BATTLETRUCK, a huge armored vehicle that looks dirty, battered, and built from spare parts, instead of the "cool" vehicles you see in this kind of movie.

The officer's adult daughter runs away after Dad tries to get her to kill a prisoner. She meets our hero, a loner who rides a motorcycle that runs on methane made from chicken manure. She lies about her background, so he takes her to a communal farm. Dad wants her back really bad, so he takes over the commune, but daughter runs away to hero's farm. Dad follows, hero takes her back to the commune. (There's a lot of back and forth in this film.)

Guy at the commune figures it would be better to side with Dad, so he kidnaps daughter and takes her back, shooting hero with a crossbow along the way. Hero survives, and takes an armored vehicle of his own, built by his mechanical genius buddy from an ordinary car. It's no match for BATTLETRUCK, of course, but it allows hero to wage a one-man war against Dad and his minions.

Filmed in New Zealand, so of course the scenery is gorgeous. Nicely filmed, although you can very obviously see the microphone hanging over the actors' heads sometimes. The guy playing Dad is particularly good, superficially soft spoken and polite, but ready to instantly kill anybody who talks back to him and capable of going into a blind rage when frustrated.

Not a bad film at all.
 
KGeo777 said:
YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND I HAVE THE ONLY KEY 1972 --Seen it before but forgot it--then remembered it is a reworking of Poe's the Black Cat. The movie is about unpleasant characters with various schemes and a few twists. The final twist is rather a cheat since the character change comes after we see this person alone and still putting on an act but that sort of thing is standard with these films. I guess since it is just the Black Cat in the end it doesn't particularly unique. The title stands out the most but given the prominent product placement --which you find in many of these Italian films of the era, maybe the title should really be YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND I HAVE THE ONLY KEY TO YOUR J & C WHISKEY SUPPLY.
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One of my favorite of the giallos I've seen, it changes tone and texture often enough to induce whiplash. As for unpleasant characters ... well, you know, Poe.
 
Anamorph
Willem Dafoe plays a cop on the trail of a serial killer who uses anamorphosis techniques to create artworks from his victims.
Anamorphs are images that stretch perspective so that they must be viewed from a certain angle in order to see the image. Hans Holbein the younger used the technique in a painting from 1533, featuring a strange stretched object which when viewed from a certain angle reveals a skull
 
Death Dorm AKA The Dorm That Dripped Blood AKA Pranks (1982)

Minimalist slasher. Dormitory is going to be turned into an apartment building. Five students hang around during Christmas break (although there is no hint whatsoever that the holiday is going on) to clean up the place and sell the stuff (tables, kitchen equipment, etc.) they take out of it. Seems to me that would be a job for professionals.

Anyway, one student has to leave with her parents, so our unseen killer murders Dad (bludgeoned), Mom (garroted), and the student (run over with Mom and Dad's car.) The other students do some ordinary stuff. There are a couple of red herring guys hanging around. Folks get killed, leading up to our Shocking Twist Ending.

Clearly filmed on a very low budget, it's got bland characters who have a lot of mundane conversations. The killer has to go from acting perfectly normal to complete cackling insanity. Lots of Psycho-style music on the soundtrack. Differs from the plot of typical slashers only by having a more cynical ending than usual. Not a good film, although not as abysmal as some.
 
The Aurora Encounter (1986)

Jack Elam pretty much tells the whole story in voiceover narration as the opening credits appear. In the Texan town of Aurora in 1897 a flying saucer lands. (This is based on a hoax account that appeared in that town's newspaper at the time.) The local schoolmarm/newspaper publisher fills her journal with reports from the folks who saw it, particularly Jack Elam, who played checkers with the diminutive humanoid who came out of it.

The schoolmarm goes to see the governor, who has no comment but secretly sends a Texas Ranger to check things out. Meanwhile, in an odd subplot, the schoolmarm builds a flying machine out of a bicycle -- and it works! The local schoolkids accidentally fall into a cavern holding what appears to be the skeletons of the alien's ancestors, although I'm just guessing. Anyway, he levitates them out of the cave.

This "E.T. of the Old West" yarn feels like something made for an Afterschool Special. The alien is played by a teenager boy with progeria, which is why he looks strange with minimal makeup. The poor guy died at age twenty. This bit of casting gives a odd feeling to watching the film, which is otherwise featherweight and forgettable.
 
THE WAR LORD 1965 - Charlton Heston is a miserable knight (the bowl cut hairdo doesn't help matters) who gets a pagan village to keep for an unseen duke. Grouchy man of few words Richard Boone is his sidekick. Maurice Evans is a local priest. Guy Stockwell is Heston's scenery-chewing brother. Rosemary Forsythe is a local girl who was to marry James Farentino but Heston is persuaded that he has the legal right to rape her with the village blessing but this leads to a big siege sequence which is the highlight. It's an easy to forget film--El Cid it isn't-I forgot the ending last time I watched it. I read it was a Broadway play with Darren McGavin and Robert Lansing that only lasted 4 performances.
 
The Bounty Hunter (1954) Jim Kipp (Randolph Scott) is hired by Pinkerton Detective Agency to find the unidentified criminals who got away with $100k, whom the Pinkertons have since decided they had already spent too much time investigating. So now, a man who typically pursues known criminals, and who is not known for being a detective is to discover who the criminals actually are. Seems unlikely to me, but, what do I know?

Anyway, Kipp comes to a small town, believing that the robbers are respectable citizens, and he must trick them into revealing themselves.

Supporting cast is very good. Sorry, I am already burned-out, or I would write more.
 
12 hour plane flight in a cramped seat, so got through a few low- brow movies. The lady next to me was watching French arthouse films, so I felt mildly embarrassed ( offset by the fact that I watched all of those as an undergraduate in my French existentialist phase, way back.)
The new Spiderman cartoon. I loved Into the Spiderverse. This is more of the same. Terrific. Very clever.
The new Shazam movie. Undemanding distraction for a couple of hours.
The new D&D movie. Switched it off after 30 miins. Probably not bad, but not in the mood.
The new Super Mario Bros Movie. Switched off after 30 mins. Nice graphics but a bit grating.
Rewatched Bullett Train. Brilliant. Rewatched most of the recent Suicide Squad. Likewise.
 
KILL ROMMEL - 1969 Anton Diffring in a rare lead role and as a British commando who is heading a team into the desert to kill someone. Take a wild guess who. It doesn't go as planned and they end up stranded with an Italian prisoner. Since it is an Italian film they aren't rooting for the Allies. Their prisoner ends up saving the British. The dub voice for Diffring sounded like Peter Cushing--he would have given it much more dramatic gravity but I like these desert war movies along the lines of Play Dirty. I have my own drinking game with these kind of movies--when someone drinks water--I usually do too.
 
The Visitant
Samantha, a fortune teller and skeptic, gets a customer who tells her of a man who was killed. When Samantha gets home strange things begin to happen
 
Paranormal:White Noise
A paranormal debunker visits on underground station to research a story of some haunting down there. Incredibly hard to watch because it is mostly dark, and the ambient sounds overpower the dialogue (I couldn't hear a word Christopher Lloyd said)
Boring, turned it off
 
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