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Finally got around to watching WW84. Meh. The first one was better. This one dragged on and the villain didn't feel very villainous to me.

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Mimi wrote:
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Finally got around to watching WW84. Meh. The first one was better. This one dragged on and the villain didn't feel very villainous to me.
It was awful. The first one was so good and this one was just wretched.
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You have gotten me obsessed with the Pinky Violence genre! Never knew it existed!

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coffeepotman wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 3:12pm
You have gotten me obsessed with the Pinky Violence genre! Never knew it existed!
YES!!!!! Please share, have you seen any yet! The best ones are the Female Prisoner Scorpion series, and Girl Boss Guerilla, and Zero Woman
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Perdita Durango aka Dance with the Devil (1997) Javier Bardim is a bank-robbing witch doctor with a ridiculous haircut, and Rosie Perez (as Perdita Durango) is his thrill-killing girlfriend who dresses like Tura Satana from Faster Pussycat. They kidnap a pair of blond teenagers for ritual sacrifice before a big truck heist, but FBI agent James Gandolfini, who is constantly being hit by cars, ruins the ceremony and the pair flees with their kidnap victims in tow, and possibly developing a case of the Stockholms. After all that fucking, why not! Also with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins in a rare acting role, and loaded with violence, some nudity and all around insanity, this action gem from the director of Day of the Beast and Witchin’ and Bitchin’ delivers for the entire 130 minute runtime. How the FUCK had I never heard of this? (available on Shudder and Midnight Pulp)

So Sweet… So Perverse (1969) A Frenchman begins an affair with the abused woman in the flat above him, and soon finds himself part of an assassination plot complete with double and triple crosses, in this early, semi-giallo crime-thriller from Umberto Lenzi, that really gains steam in the final act. Carroll Baker and Erika Blanc are the mistress and wife, and supply a bit of nudity.

Bird Box (2018) I liked it the first time, wanted to check it one more time before I dump Netflix. Speaking of, I’m almost through a season one rewatch of Ash vs Evil Dead. You don’t need me to describe Bird Box, you know what it’s about!

Caveat (2020) A man with memory loss due to a head injury accepts a job to look after the mentally ill niece of a friend, in the home where her father just killed himself and her mother went missing. The catch is he has to wear a harness that restricts his access to certain areas of the house. Secrets are revealed and all is not what it seems. Mediocre, would never watch twice.

Thirst (2019) Icelandic vampire comedy about a junkie girl who rescues a vampire from a gay-bashing attempt, only to have the vamp, who makes sure he tears and eats the dicks off all his victims, act as her guardian angel, which results in some unwanted consequences. The lead detective on the case has a televangelist wife who warns that the end of times is near! Very gory, I thought this was a lot of fun.

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Train to Busan (2016) Korean zombie apocalypse flick that takes place on a train. Characters include a pregnant couple, a daddy & daughter, and a high school baseball team. The characters were good, so it mattered when they died, which is why I’d say this is one of the better recent zombie flicks. Highly Recommended.

Spookies (1986) Two carloads of New York knuckleheads and their girlfriends drive two hours to find an abandoned house in a cemetery to drink there. These are adults, now, not teenagers. Anyway, some sort of spirit/sorcerer who inhabits the house has been waiting for this opportunity to sacrifice some innocents to resurrect his corpse bride. She doesn’t want to be resurrected though! Anyway, lots of creatures, some practical, some animatronic, a were-cat, a spider lady, a mini-creature from the black lagoon, mud-monsters, etc. No nudity, some gore, silly fun in this New York indie.

3rd time for Train, 2nd for Spookies, I think my previous reviews were too kind to Spookies, and not kind enough to Train! Joe Bob gave it the masterpiece treatment, deservedly so. He explained how Spookies got a re-shoot and explains why half the characters don’t interact.

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Sledgehammer (1983) Shot on Video cheapy is possibly the first of its kind to get a home video release. A group of unlikable 20-somethings vacation at a house in the woods where some murders took place 10 years ago. The ghost-killer, possibly possessed by the soul of a 9 year old boy, sledges most of them to death. The lead protagonist gives his girlfriend noogies, rests beer cans on her head, and douses her hair with mustard at the dinner table. What a charmer. The good news? First time director David A. Prior went on to make the very good Killer Workout a few years later, and a couple dozen action flicks in the 90s.

Things (1989) This notorious home-made Canadian oddity has a cult following because of how bad it is. I can’t even. Porn star Amber Lynn was somehow tricked into playing a TV anchorperson. I guess that’s something. Genetic experiments make a woman give birth (I think?) to cat-sized rubber ants with fangs, and two, or sometimes three men run around the house like idiots spouting nonsensical dialog. To make it worse, if that's possible, add in some awful dubbing because apparently the original audio was unusable. I’m not proud to have spent 2 hours on this.

As many bad movies as I watch, SOV has always been something that I've always made a point to avoid. I'd seen Blood Cult and Boardinghouse, but not too many more, If I'd been tricked into taking one home I'd usually stop the tape almost immediately. One I wish I had seen was 555, I don't know how many times I held that box in my hand and never took it home.
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tepista wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 6:38pm
coffeepotman wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 3:12pm
You have gotten me obsessed with the Pinky Violence genre! Never knew it existed!
YES!!!!! Please share, have you seen any yet! The best ones are the Female Prisoner Scorpion series, and Girl Boss Guerilla, and Zero Woman
I've seen Girl Boss Gurelilla, and Killing Melody...both great and found on the interwebs. I've also found that you can stream the Stray Cat Rock series, looking forward to watching them.

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coffeepotman wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 7:01pm
tepista wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 6:38pm
coffeepotman wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 3:12pm
You have gotten me obsessed with the Pinky Violence genre! Never knew it existed!
YES!!!!! Please share, have you seen any yet! The best ones are the Female Prisoner Scorpion series, and Girl Boss Guerilla, and Zero Woman
I've seen Girl Boss Gurelilla, and Killing Melody...both great and found on the interwebs. I've also found that you can stream the Stray Cat Rock series, looking forward to watching them.
I think the first 15 minutes of GBG had my eyeballs popping out of my skull, it was everything in the world i want to look at. Killing Melody isd on a box set I have, will probably be the next one I see. So far Stray Cat is a bit tame in comparison (i've seen 2) but I believe that's the series that got the ball rolling.
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tepista wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 7:11pm
coffeepotman wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 7:01pm
tepista wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 6:38pm
coffeepotman wrote:
21 Jun 2021, 3:12pm
You have gotten me obsessed with the Pinky Violence genre! Never knew it existed!
YES!!!!! Please share, have you seen any yet! The best ones are the Female Prisoner Scorpion series, and Girl Boss Guerilla, and Zero Woman
I've seen Girl Boss Gurelilla, and Killing Melody...both great and found on the interwebs. I've also found that you can stream the Stray Cat Rock series, looking forward to watching them.
I think the first 15 minutes of GBG had my eyeballs popping out of my skull, it was everything in the world i want to look at. Killing Melody isd on a box set I have, will probably be the next one I see. So far Stray Cat is a bit tame in comparison (i've seen 2) but I believe that's the series that got the ball rolling.
Just finished Stray Cat Beat 71, and it was a little "tame". Have to dig deeper, much deeper! I love getting turned on to anything new

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Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973) In the American South in the 1930s, pretty young Lila Lee is a ward of the church, but runs away when she hears her gangster father is on his death bed, and sets out on an adventure loaded with perverts, zombies, witches, and a mysterious vampire named Lemora. Future star of many cheerleader movies, Rainbeaux Smith, was 18 playing 13. Director and screenwriter Richard Blackburn wrote one other great movie, Eating Raoul, and that’s it!

Los Parecidos aka The Similars (2015) A stormy night at a Mexican bus station in 1968 becomes a supernatural terror for the eight people stranded there in this homage to at least three different Twilight Zone episodes. I couldn’t possibly reveal any more without spoiling the fun. I caught this one quite by accident, and damned if I didn’t love every minute of it. In Spanish with subtitles, and available on SHUDDER.

Eve’s Bayou (1997) Coming of age drama set in 1960’s Louisiana with enough of a pinch of Voodoo to make it horror-adjacent. Samuel L. Jackson is a philandering town doctor, his sister is a fortune teller, and his wife and three kids deal with it. The middle child is 10 year-old Jurnee Smolett (Lovecraft Country), and she is the main character. Diahann Carroll nails it as a Voodoo Queen. Directorial debut from Kassi Lemmons, who many will recognize as an actress, from Silence of the Lambs and Candyman. I think I loved this movie.

Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo (1970) The only connection this first Stray Cat sequel has to the original is that the lead biker has a cameo in which she sings in a club, and I’m not too sure that wasn’t just footage from the first one. This one is about a group of guys and two girls (one of them is Meiko Kaji of the Scorpion series) just lounging about and having a nice summer. The find some guns buried, and decide to rob an armored truck, that’s not until after the 60 minute mark. Very little excitement in this one, the least pink of the pinky films I’ve seen so far.

The Tag-Along (2015) A spirit in the form of a little girl steals your soul into the woods, and the only way out is to transfer the curse to a loved one. The main characters are a grandma’s boy and his afraid-of-marriage girlfriend who is a radio therapist that gives useless relationship advice. “Your boyfriend loves his mom? Mine too, Oh well.” Something like that, at least. Not the kind of movie I’m in to, though I understand it was the highest grossing Taiwanese horror movie of all time, and spawned two sequels.

Oldboy (2003) Breakout South Korean hit for Chan-Woo Park (Thirst) about a man imprisoned and released after 15 years for no apparent reason, and out for revenge. If you haven’t seen it, well, you probably should.

The Amusement Park (1973/2019) George A. Romero’s “lost film” is more like a 53 minute public service announcement, showing the horrors of elder abuse in an amusement park context. Filmed with mostly amateur extras and Lincoln Maazel in the lead role. Maazel’s only other film credit is the old man in Romero’s masterpiece, Martin. I suspect he mostly worked as a stage actor. Pretty unsettling, as it covers an ugly and uncomfortable subject that seems as though it hasn’t come any closer to resolution now as it had 40 years ago.

Willy’s Wonderland (2021) Nicolas Cage is railroaded into cleaning a cut-rate Chucky Cheese restaurant overnight (or is he?), where the animatronic creatures come to life and kill. A group of teenagers are trying to burn the building down, and the locals, for some reason, try to protect it. Highly illogical script, mildly entertaining, and I’m being kind. I think you’re supposed to watch this on mushrooms. The hundredth movie to feature Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Freebird”. Hard not to compare this to the recent Bananna Splits movie, which was better.

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Evilspeak (1981) Clint Howard is a bullied cadet at a military academy who finds a book of Satanic spells while cleaning the basement, which was punishment for him sucking at soccer. An outcast using Satan to get revenge isn’t the most unique premise, but the gimmick here is that he translated the curses through the school computer, computers were relatively new at the time. Good nudity from a hot babe who gets mauled in a bathtub by Satanic pigs. Some boy-butts too, quite a bit of this takes place in a locker room. This was an original “Video Nasty”, though I’m not sure it deserved to be, but the gore was decent and the Carrie-esque climax was entertaining. Bob from That 70s Show was the lead bully.

El Dia de la Bestia aka The Day of the Beast (1995) A priest, a metalhead, and a phony TV psychic become an unlikely trio attempting to prevent the birth of the Antichrist on Christmas Eve. This dark comedy was a breakthrough international hit for Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia, who would go on to direct two great movies (Perdita Durango and Witching & Bitching) and a buncha other stuff I never saw.

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Little Shop of Horrors (1960) A hapless flower shop employee creates a hybrid plant from a venus flytrap that grows to enormous size when it feeds on human blood. The store owner is thrilled at all business the novelty plant brigs in, but soon realizes that the plant, who now talks and is large enough to eat humans whole, must be stopped. Charming little comedy from Roger Corman.

Humanoids From the Deep (1980) My favorite 80s eco-horror. A cannery is set to open up in a Pacific Northwest fishing town, prompting a feud between local Native Americans and white fisherman. Scientists have been feeding growth hormones to the salmon, causing some of the more primitive fish to rapidly evolve into slimy fish people with an urge to reproduce! Gory, good nudity, lots of explosions, fish fucking, and a ventriloquist dummy who nearly gets laid in a tent. Doug McClure plays the hero, Vic Morrow the villain. Rob Bottin (The Thing, The Howling) created the humanoids and produced by Roger Corman's New World Pictures.
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I watched and enjoyed the Go Gos doc recently. I was hoping a little more for Belinda's coke problems, but was surprised by the other's heroin issues.

One thing I thought was hilarious was the part where they talk about going to England and how all their heroes are from there and it cuts to a bunch of stock photos of The Clash, etc. and one of The Sex Pistols, except it's a shot of the Pistols from Sid and Nancy. I feel like we've discussed this here, but I couldn't find it. Anyone else notice that?
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I watched and enjoyed the Go Gos doc recently. I was hoping a little more for Belinda's coke problems, but was surprised by the other's heroin issues.

One thing I thought was hilarious was the part where they talk about going to England and how all their heroes are from there and it cuts to a bunch of stock photos of The Clash, etc. and one of The Sex Pistols, except it's a shot of the Pistols from Sid and Nancy. I feel like we've discussed this here, but I couldn't find it. Anyone else notice that?
We've certainly discussed "professional" uses of whatever-the-hell Google image showed up first in the list...
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I watched and enjoyed the Go Gos doc recently. I was hoping a little more for Belinda's coke problems, but was surprised by the other's heroin issues.
The story of Charlotte Caffey being booted from Ozzy's room for being out of control is equal parts sad and amusing.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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matedog wrote:
29 Jun 2021, 4:04pm
I watched and enjoyed the Go Gos doc recently. I was hoping a little more for Belinda's coke problems, but was surprised by the other's heroin issues.
The story of Charlotte Caffey being booted from Ozzy's room for being out of control is equal parts sad and amusing.
That's pretty funny.

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The Matrix is on tonight. I haven't seen it, start to finish, since it was in the theatres (I remember the theatre I was in had the volume cranked uncomfortably loud). So I'm about to have my mind blown with, like, real truth.

edit: So, like, Trump is Neo and the Deep State is the Matrix …?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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The Matrix is on tonight. I haven't seen it, start to finish, since it was in the theatres (I remember the theatre I was in had the volume cranked uncomfortably loud). So I'm about to have my mind blown with, like, real truth.

edit: So, like, Trump is Neo and the Deep State is the Matrix …?
I really hate that movie. It's like a libertarian wet dream.
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