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Post by lemming13 on Oct 10, 2010 19:06:41 GMT
Cut versions are indeed better than no versions, she drools, clutching the unbelievable copies of Dario Argento's Demons and Bird With the Crystal Plumage that she grabbed on Friday. I already have City of the Dead and White Zombie in a box set I got from Amazon US before the previous administration cottoned to the fact that people with a multi-region dvd player were helping themselves to cut-price entertainment and slapped prohibitive duty on them. Some of them are terrible copies, true, but City of the Dead is excellent. 250 movies for a total of £14, unbelievable. Includes a lipsmacking selection of outrageous Tod Slaughter films, several atrociously dubbed Japanese monster and UFO flicks, and Wild Women of Wongo. Not quite sure why it has so many sword and sandal epics, though, amusing as Hercules and the Captive Women is...
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Post by dem bones on Oct 10, 2010 19:51:38 GMT
Includes a lipsmacking selection of outrageous Tod Slaughter films, several atrociously dubbed Japanese monster and UFO flicks, and Wild Women of Wongo. dear old Tod was something of a fixture on our old board but all i can find here is a measly thread devoted to Maria Marten, or The Murder In The Red Barn. i once had a site devoted to the great man's work but it god murdered by the never to be forgiven spangles at *ra*ge.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 11, 2010 12:26:54 GMT
I finally got to see Tod in Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Pleasant enough time passer, but I really couldn't see quite why you rate him so much Dem. Are his other pictures better?
One of the local Poundlands has brought in a few more Public Domain classics, with the Mrs treating herself to Bela Lugosi in The Invisible Ghost, and myself going for The Screaming Skull and more Corman - Creature From The Haunted Sea.
Lemming - I picked up Bird With The Crystal Plumage, Cat O'Nine Tails , Profondo Rosso and Phenomena at various Poundlands - all kosher widescreen copies in Eyetalian with English subs.
Last night I were mostly watchin' Terror Train (Jaime Lee Curtis! Ben Johnson! David Copperfield! (The US magician, not the Three Of A Kind bloke)) and The Bloody Judge (censored version) with Sir Chris givin' it a Rasputin-style shot at overacting as Judge Jeffries in Jess Franco's zoom-filled farrago of English history. There's something wonderfully bizarre about a Eurotrash bumpkin dubbed extravangaza mentioning 'Taunton Castle' and 'Lyme Regis.'
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Post by dem bones on Oct 11, 2010 13:28:51 GMT
I finally got to see Tod in Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Pleasant enough time passer, but I really couldn't see quite why you rate him so much Dem. Are his other pictures better? well, seeing as Sweeney Todd is generally held to be his masterpiece, the answer is probably "no, infinitely worse" but i'm a sucker for his unabashed scenery chewing approach to melodrama and can't help but love his films. You might like to give Murder In The Red Barn a try should it hit Poundland. His super-lecherous portrayal of Squire William Corder is what first got me into him.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Oct 11, 2010 13:41:12 GMT
The Bloody Judge (censored version) with Sir Chris givin' it a Rasputin-style shot at overacting as Judge Jeffries in Jess Franco's zoom-filled farrago of English history. There's something wonderfully bizarre about a Eurotrash bumpkin dubbed extravangaza mentioning 'Taunton Castle' and 'Lyme Regis.' Couldn't have put it better myself
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Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 11, 2010 14:45:55 GMT
At one point we're down in the dungeons with Howard Vernon as executioner/torturer Jack Ketch dishing out horridness to various young lovelies. The Mrs looks up from her painting and I squirm expecting an excoriating lecture for watching such puerile sadistic drivel, but she merely mentions that one hapless wretch is displaying a bikini line, and another has false eyelashes. Phew!
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Oct 12, 2010 13:36:50 GMT
My poundland doesn't seem to have many of the ones mentioned here, but I got these:
The Indestructible Man Little Erin Merryweather Bloodsuckers (aka Incense For The Damned) - Prism disc, labelled as 4:3, but could be widescreen, not checked yet. Prism do mislabel their discs sometimes. AvH - Alien Versus Hunter - What it sounds like, another close to the wind rip-off from the asylum. Lizard Woman - Thai horror from Anchor Bay.
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Post by lemming13 on Oct 14, 2010 12:19:13 GMT
Regarding Tod Slaughter, I've got Crimes at the Dark House, The Crimes of Stephen Hawke, The Face at the Window, Never Too Late, Murder in the Red Barn and Sweeney Todd, and for my money they're all terrible, but so joyously OTT that I can't help liking them. Murder in the Red Barn is my favourite, he comes over like a psychotic panda. Enjoyed my Italian selection immensely, but Little Erin Merryweather was another dead loss; germ of a good idea in there, and I liked the creepy fairytale illustrations, but it was just too bloody obvious - no tension at all. Everything gets telegraphed to the point of desperation. Reminded me of Roald Dahl's Tales of the Utterly Predictable, only not so misogynistic.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 21, 2010 12:25:11 GMT
Watched The Screaming Skull - nothing much to write home about apart from the lovely coffin shown at the start with 'Reserved For You' note inside, as anyone watching this is liable to die of fright according to the producers. Boredom is far more likely. A fillum that outstays its welcome when only 62 minutes long is ghastly for all the wrong reasons. However, I did learn that ladies in late 1950s America had incredibly pointy braziers (You'll have someone's eye out!) and men had gull-wing cars. The Mrs came back with a couple of more modern efforts recently. I haven't seen them but they look strangely familiar.....seems they're from a company called The Asylum who specialise in checking out upcoming films and then rushing out a low budget rip off version, which brings back happy memories of Woolworth's cheap chart. Was anyone actually fooled by Snakes On A Train or Flight Of The Living Dead? Having sat through these dreadful but fun 1930s - 1950s efforts I wondered why people these days were incapable of churning out dreck but apparently these Asylum people are. Not exclusively horror (The Da Vinci Treasure/Sunday School Musical anyone?) but often of the Mega Shark Vs Giant Octopus variety. I have Halloween Night (which came out just before Rob Zombie's Halloween rejig) and Invasion : The Beginning (US Title : Invasion Of The Pod People) which narrowly preceded the studio tampered with Nicole Kidman/Daniel Craig (with long hair! Well, relatively speaking) Invasion revamp of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers - which apparently was disastrous but I liked it. Saucey's Alien vs Hunter is apparently their homage to AVP : Requiem. I'm expecting awful reading-cue-cards-behind-the-camera "acting", gratuitous unrealistic violence and even more gratuitous sex (of the Sapphic variety).
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Oct 21, 2010 19:46:40 GMT
I have most of those you mentioned, Franklyn - not watched many yet, in fact I think I've only watched I Am Omega (there's no way I'm watching the will smith film, I can't stand him).
Alien vs Hunter looks like fun & will be the first thing I've seen Deedee Pfieffer in since Vamp.
I Am Omega is good fun btw. My local library is selling off some of their ex-rental discs at £1.50 each, so I may pick up The Day The Earth Stopped - The Asylum's version of The Day The Earth Stood Still remake, directed by & starring C.Thomas Howell (yes, the same one from The Hitcher). These films are often more entertaining than their high budget originals.
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Post by lemming13 on Oct 23, 2010 10:33:57 GMT
I wondered why people these days were incapable of churning out dreck but apparently these Asylum people are. I think the problem is, there's so much dreck being put out as quality movies or blockbuster successes, that people come to see it as good. I mean, here's the top-grossing horror movies of 2009: paranormal Activity, The Final Destination, Underworld 3, Halloween II, Saw VI, Jennifer's Body, The Vampire's Assistant and Twilight. Am I wrong, or is that list pretty much wall-to-wall dreck? Of course, if you want real, old-fashioned dreck, go east; the Japanese, Koreans, and Thais are really pumping them out. X-Cross is my favourite piece of utterly bizarre trash entertainment. And let's not forget Russia, source of such joys as Shark In Venice.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Oct 25, 2010 8:19:54 GMT
And let's not forget Russia, source of such joys as Shark In Venice.
Hee! I've seen Shark In Venice! Deplorable. I'd like to see Shark Attack 3 : Megladon - purely for John Barrowman playing it straight. Another Poundland Festival yesterday. The Children, Phantasm (which I saw at the cinema back in the day), The Indestructible Man, Alien Vs Hunter, Dangerous 'Chucky' Dolls, Hillside Cannibals, 48 Weeks Later. Really must watch some of 'em.
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