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"Death Walks On High Heels" is another intense Itailian giallo film with lots of twists, turns, and eye openers from the beginning through the ending, along with a shock on who the killer actually turns out to be. After a heist, the notorious jewel thief Rochard is murdered in a train. In Paris, his daughter Nicole Rochard, who is a stripper, is summoned by the police that wants to know the whereabouts of valuable diamonds that her father had stolen. She goes with her boyfriend Michel Aumont and tells that does not know anything about the missing diamonds. During the night, a blue eye masked man breaks in her apartment and threatens her, asking where the diamonds are. Nicole seeks protection with Michel but in the morning she finds contact lens in his bathroom and she suspects Michel may be the masked man. She seeks out her costumer Dr. Robert Matthews, who had hit on her, and she asks him if she could go with in to London. Matthews, who is married, brings Nicole to a house by the sea in a village and she poses of his wife. But soon the masked man comes to England and begins a crime spree. The Scotland Yard Inspector Baxter and his assistant are assigned to investigate the case. Those into the Italian giallo era and murder mysteries should not be disappointed with this one.
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Camp Death III in 2D! (2019), an at-times painfully janky slasher spoof centering on a masked killer descending upon a summer camp a few years after a previous slaughter. Very cheap, tries way, WAY too hard to be funny, there's tons of skid row-level digital effects, only a couple of the actors seem to have a clue what they're doing (one of them being a pre-Kim's Convenience Andrea Bang, whose talents are wasted here). The script, if there actually was one, is all over the place. The editing is questionable. There is a high body count, but the poor FX and staging leave a lot to be desired. And the film is, for lack of a better term, "twitchy." I don't know if it's a result of the source video or if it was intentional, but everything appears to be happening in a sped-up, Benny Hill skit-kind of way. And yet, despite its countless flaws and general bizarreness, it's oddly watchable -- though it helps if you've developed a tolerance for bad cinema. I won't bother with an out-of-ten rating, though. You'll either be amused by its poorly executed absurdity, or you'll find it a painfully unfunny waste of time. Currently free to watch on Tubi, so if you give it a go and hate it, hey, at least it didn't cost you anything (except your time).
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A different take on a possession film. No one is tied to a bed and getting exorcised, no - these freaks are running around and eating people. Its quite well done, quite spooky and quite violent - especially for a Shudder production. Its good for the one viewing, if you dont know what to do of an evening. :thumbup:
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Morbius (2023). Sure, it's a Sony Marvel flick, but it's about a vampire, so, horror it is. And it's not nearly as terrible as you may have heard. I'm not saying it's good, either, just not abjectly horrible. I'd rate it as middling; it offers nothing new, you pretty much know how it's all going to play out, and the performances are adequate and nothing more. There is of course a shit-ton of CGI, but while it's not the best you've ever seen, it's not the worst, either. Will I watch it again? Nah. I only watched it this time because having grown up a comic book nerd, I know the character and was curious to see how they adapted him. But I can't stand Jared Leto, so once is enough. It does leave a couple unanswered questions, though -- questions which I don't recall being addressed in the comics, either. One being that if he gets his powers from splicing bat DNA, but the bat DNA didn't give him wings, how is he able to fly? Bats aren't capable of self-propulsion, they need wings. Ergo, thus, and so, Morbius would need wings as well. Also, bats aren't lightning fast or insanely strong, yet Morbius is both. Eh. I know the word "realistic" has no place in the discussion of comic book super powers, but these are the things I find myself thinking when presented with a movie that doesn't hold 100% of my attention. 4/10
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Landlocked (2021) - 7.5/10 Brilliant!
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Destroy All Neighbors 7/10
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Mute Witness (1995), a taut suspense/thriller about a mute special FX artist working on a film in Moscow who finds herself hunted by the makers of a snuff film she witnessed being shot on the set after hours. Lead Marina Zudina gives a stand-out performance as the hapless heroine, and the sequence wherein she attempts to evade her pursuers immediately after the act is a real nail-biter. I've actually been hankering to see this movie for a few years now but couldn't find it anywhere streaming (funny enough, I totally forgot I have a digital copy on my expansion drive) so I was pleasantly surprised to find it on Shudder this morning when I logged in to see what's new. To be honest, I feel the movie loses a bit of steam in the third act, but it's still very much worth checking out. That's Obi Wan Kenobi himself, Sir Alec Guinness, as the sinister snuff film ring leader, in one of his final film performances. Interestingly, his scenes were all shot years in advance. Writer/director Anthony Waller had a chance run-in with the actor in the mid-80s and asked him if he'd be open to appearing in a film. Guinness was such a cool dude that he shot his bits free of charge.
Self-brag: when the topic of '90s horror comes up, you'll often hear fans complain about the genre being dead at the time. My typical response is that it was only mainstream horror which was lacking. Indie and foreign horror, on the other hand, were absolutely thriving. There were heaps of quality horror flicks to be found if you knew where to look -- and Mute Witness is a movie I often cite as an example. 7.5/10
EDIT: I just looked the movie up on Wikipedia and saw that it includes the anecdote about Guinness. But that's not how I knew that. I gained that knowledge the old-fashioned way: by reading it in an issue of Fangoria 20 years ago. :D
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HP Lovecraft's "The Old Ones". 2024
Well, this is not only the worst Lovecraftian adaptation I have ever seen produced -- it is surely one of the worst films I have seen in a very long time. I am usually good with bad films, bad acting and rubbery monsters, and the film is acutally sort of unintentionally funny at times - but being the Lovecraftian geek that I am, this feels like absolute sacrilege. Obviously this film was made on the budget of what a large pepperoni pizza costs; nothing wrong with that as such - I have seen plenty of low and no budget films, but this is just terrible. The worst part is perhaps that I am left with this question: was this supposed to be funny? and I genuinely couldnt tell you the answer.
Most stinkiest this was... :negative:
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Most fun I had with a horror flick in quite some time. My expectations with vamp films have been renewed!
Very gory, very funny, great cast, good twists to the story, bonkers third act.
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Late Night With The Devil.
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