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A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
Tuck into this...
Paddy Considine's performance alone is worthy of the 10/10 rating. Considine's character Morell truly pulls you into the film, funny, creepy, twisted, sad, emotional, his character touches all emotions. Screen time without Morell can best be described as taking cigarettes away from a smoker. It's amazing how films like this go under the radar and are never brought up in conversation about great British films.
I've watched this twice in 2 days, mainly down to Considine's performance and I'm pretty sure it won't be my last viewing.
Morell has now become one of my favourite cult film characters, great quotes, great mannerisms, great performance... oh and great clothes.
Les mémés cannibales (1988)
..."That's Smashing"
I was 10 years old (now 26) and this film was the first gore horror i laid my eyes on and it's mentally scared me in a way.
Now and again i watch the odd clip of it on youtube and even now it gives me this strange feeling that 'i don't really want to be watching this'..
Even though, since... i've seen hundreds of gory films, but this one is still implanted in my head, possibly because it was my first.
Even the front cover of the video, with the little girl and the two rabid grannies stood behind her freaks me out.
Maybe i should talk about the plot... well, there isn't one. It doesn't need one really. It's just a couple of Grannies ripping their claws through a bunch of middle class relatives. I don't even think they're rabid from what i remember!?
The setting of a remote mansion works really well, gives it a creepy feel to the daftness going on inside the house.
On the downside, the films English dubbing doesn't really do it any justice, making it into more of a comedy than an actual horror. I'd like to watch the subtitled version, if one exists, to see if takes away that comedic effect.
My verdict from what i remember 7 out of 10... and thank you for poisoning my angelic childhood Grandma's.
King Kung Fu (1976)
What on Earth did you expect?
It blows my mind how people can generally slate movies like this...
If you rent or buy a movie with the title "King Kung Fu" that should be a good implication that this movie shouldn't be taken seriously.
I mean, you're going to watch a film about a Gorilla who knows Kung Fu, you should know by now that it's hardly gonna be Oscar nominated material.
Films like these should be praised not knocked. It's a no nonsense approach to the consumer, it lets you know exactly what the films about straight from the title.
This is one of those films that.. say you're lying in bed, late at night, watching TV, channel flicking and you came across this movie, you'd sit though it and maybe fall for its charms of being absolutely daft.
Believe me, I've seen a lot worse than "King Kung Fu" and would pick this movie ahead of some of the over budgeted movies we see today and have in recent years.
If it wasn't for films like "King Kung Fu" our memory's of B-movie nostalgia would not exist.
So...
Long Live Nostalgia!
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
The possessed goat belonged in Sesame Street...
During watching this film i was left scratching my head trying to work out what i was watching!? I told the wife beforehand that this was the best horror/scary film in years (so i heard)..
She fell asleep with 30 minutes remaining of the film and i was left alone to see it out, i should have joined her thinking back.
The plot was terrible, the twist obvious and the effects were laughable.
I felt Sam Raimi tried to use elements of the Evil Dead series but it just didn't work, with regards to most of the main leads dialogue. Dialogue as such can only be pulled off by one man... Bruce Campbell.
By the way, note to all loan officers, if you ever have the choice to evict a creepy old woman with false teeth, do the sensible thing and just give her a loan extension.