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Bad Asses : Bad Ass 2 (2014) Seems to be shot on a 10$ budget, but Glover and Trejo kept exchanging one-liners, so it was fun to see them enjoy themselves.
It might not be a classic like Dracula, but it's still an enjoyable film.
and...
Heaving bosoms at the ready, as Hammer's Dracula series begins here.
31 Days Of Horror:
Day 1: The Resident (2011)
Day 2: The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Day 3: Horror Of Dracula (1958)
The worst? Udo Kier.
I do hope that we get another Parker movie as well with Jason Statham, it was not the best movie but entertaining.
Rightly so, imo.
I have not seen Kier's Dracula. The worst that I have seen are Gerard Butler (Dracula 2000) & Steven Billington (Dracula 2: Ascension).
They are both crap. You can check him out on youtube like I did.
I may have been too enthusiastic last time when I said that things would get better. This fifth film in the totally inconsistent COTC series demonstrates once again that quality can drop faster than a rock from the sky. So what if they bring in Eva Mendes, Alexis Arquette (pre-sex change), Kane Hodder in an almost-cameo and David Carradine...? I mean... *whoa!* ... for a fifth COTC instalment, those names are pretty impressive. It's a shame then that nothing these people do makes sense; like they're not even trying to write a decent film. Characters make choices that no sane person would, He Who Walks Behind The Rows suddenly doesn't mind grown-ups, there's another long-lost-relative involved (see previous film), actions are without consequences, stuff happens for no reason and nothing that transpires in the third act is set-up in the first act - not even marginally. This script feels like it was written after the shooting. Furthermore, it's bad effects galore, no matter the presence of David Carradine or Eva Mandes. This is the kind of film that doesn't triumph from its cast, and vice versa.
Two or three well-delivered lines barely make this film more enjoyable than The Final Sacrifice, which isn't saying much. Slightly better production design - I am trying my best here, folks - helps this film a little bit more too. But overall, a first-class stinker.
Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995) 4/5
Children Of The Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) 3/5
Children Of The Corn (1984): 2.5/5
Children Of The Corn V: Fields Of Terror (1998): 2/5
Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992): 1.5/5
Wow. Just wow.
Finches did an incredible job with this and the entire cast were amazing. Affleck was on top form and Pike, wow, Pike put on an Oscar worthy performance. She put on a master class of acting superiority for this movie and I've never been so engrossed in a film as I have with this movie in a very long time. I urge everyone to see it and guys, if you're thinking about ever wringing your woman, pause, think again and don't. That's all I'm saying.
I know what you mean would have been a great team up in there prime. Ending was great fun, a few nods to previous movies.
When Arnie does cheese for the camera, it was hilarious!
:))
One of my favourite horror films of the 2000's. Unlike May, The Woods (also from Lucky McGee) failed to earn a following, which is a pity as it's a different kind of horror film (an etheral ghost story) and I like Agnes Bruckner.
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Forget the remake (even if it stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and in little more than a cameo, Virginia Madsen), it's no match for this 1963 original, fueled not on CGI but on an erie atmosphere and the talent of its cast.
31 Days Of Horror:
Day 1: The Resident (2011)
Day 2: The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Day 3: Horror Of Dracula (1958)
Day 4: The Woods (2006)
Day 5: The Haunting (1963)
Let's see: Isaac returns, so for the first time we will have a direct link with the first film. Also, John Franklin, who played Isaac in the original film and resumed that role here, co-wrote the screenplay. And then there's Stacy Keach and Nancy Allen to fill out the cast. Pretty cool, huh? I mean, they've got to get it right this time, no?
No! Firstly, despite Isaac's titular return from the original, continuity with said original is almost entirely broken. Right from the start, questions pile up one after the other. Didn't John Franklin understand the story of the first film? Adults now all of a sudden survived the first Gatlin massacre, Isaac didn't get beaten by Vicky and Burt and whatever the logistics behind He Who Walks Behind The Rows, it's all just a mess.
Furthermore, one might think that Franklin would at least have written himself a better and bigger part. Instead, he hardly gets anything to do but aggravate Nancy Allen's character, whose sudden hostility towards the cult goes directly against the character's fierce loyalty to the cult in the first film. And while the lack of horror, both in terms of scares and of blood, invites dullness, there's a terrible sub-plot involving a young girl whose every action is part of some weird and insanely detailed prophesy, including her going to a barn after having fled a cultist mating ritual to have a shower of all things and then engage in some unsafe sex with the untrustworthy bloke who hosed her down. Wow.
Whatever hopes I had of this film bringing back the classic COTC charm - whatever that may mean in this barely passable series - got erased once we enter the lunatic wing of the local hospital. Because every hospital has a basement where it keeps its disturbed patients, right? Oh boy...
Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995) 4/5
Children Of The Corn IV: The Gathering (1996) 3/5
Children Of The Corn (1984): 2.5/5
Children Of The Corn V: Fields Of Terror (1998): 2/5
Children Of The Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999): 1.5/5
Children Of The Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1992): 1.5/5
Christian Bale was outstanding.
Mark Wahlberg was just being Markymark Walmark as usual.
DOP: Hoytemanvan Van Hoytevanman.
Not too impressed really.
A bouncy opening theme belies a very sombre spy thriller. Richard Johnson is Jonas Wilde, a spy who doesn't fire a single gun in the film, but he does chalk up a number of kills with his bare hands. This, along with the 2 Bulldog Drummond films, leaves no doubt in my mind that Johnson would have made a superb Bond.
A Shakespearean horror with a sliver of campy humour. Price clearly relished the role, and that make the film so much more enjoyable.
31 Days Of Horror:
Day 1: The Resident (2011)
Day 2: The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
Day 3: Horror Of Dracula (1958)
Day 4: The Woods (2006)
Day 5: The Haunting (1963)
Day 6: Theatre Of Blood (1973)
Pretty good. Liked seeing the war from a different angle, but thought it was a bit too sugarcoaty. Young Christian bale was fantastic though.
It's never had any release, but I took the plunge and bought it (along with another Richard Johnson film, A Twist Of Sand) from here:
http://www.stojo.com/
I remember the Bulldog Drummond films though been some years since I watched them. Matt Helm, Flint films and even Fathom was pretty good. Interesting I wonder what other films from that time period were not released. Thanks for link.
Remember having the Peter Gunn theme on cassette, and of course the theme was used for the game Spy Hunter. :)