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    RoboCop (2014):
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...ck-review.html

    Is it a complete disaster? No. Is it a triumph? No. It's a bit of a clumsy mixture...

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    Death Walks On High Heels (Luciano Ercoli, 1971) Blu-Ray/DVD Review:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...s-luciano.html

    One of the most fetishistic giallo flicks ever made...

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    Pervert! (Jonathan Yudis, 2006):
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...vd-review.html

    A 21st century nostalgic ode to the films of Russ Meyer...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Death Walks On High Heels (Luciano Ercoli, 1971) Blu-Ray/DVD Review:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...s-luciano.html

    One of the most fetishistic giallo flicks ever made...
    How did you get ahold of it?

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    How did you get ahold of it?
    Arrow Video put out a premium Blu-Ray/DVD box set of "Death Walks On High Heels" and "Death Walks At Midnight" the other week (dubbed 'Death Walks Twice: Two Films by Luciano Ercoli'). It's a limited run of 3,000 copies - much like they recently did with their Black Cats boxset (which was The Black Cat, and Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key). They'll probably end up doing separate releases (minus the DVD copy, and minus the collector's booklet) for the Ercoli boxset, much like they did for the Black Cats set (I got the standalone "Your Vice..." Blu-Ray the other day).

    Arrow Video are a UK company, but they also put out various releases in the USA, so they're commonly Region 2/B or 1&2/A&B (if an item is released by Arrow in both territories). You should be able to find them on your local version of Amazon in order to import them - or through the Arrow Video website.

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    It Follows:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...ni-review.html

    I'm a smidge late to the party on this one, but if you've not yet seen it - do so - it's a little gem.

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    You're so late lad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shootemindehead View Post
    You're so late lad.
    Yeah, I know.

    You can't keep up with everything. Better late than never.

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    The Green Inferno:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...ck-review.html

    Biting satire meets flesh-munching violence!

    Having been a bit disappointed with "Knock Knock" (it was alright, and I enjoyed parts of it, but the following day all I could think about it concerned plot holes and scenes needing more work), I was a little worried that Eli Roth's 21st century throwback to the cannibal sub-genre would feel similarly patchy - fortunately that wasn't the case!
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    Death Walks At Midnight (Luciano Ercoli, 1972) DVD/Blu-Ray Review:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...no-ercoli.html

    In a genre that featured its fair share of female victims, here we have Nieves Navarro on arse-kicking duty in what is arguably a 'girl power giallo' flick...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MinionZombie View Post
    Yeah, I know.

    You can't keep up with everything. Better late than never.

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    The Green Inferno:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...ck-review.html

    Biting satire meets flesh-munching violence!

    Having been a bit disappointed with "Knock Knock" (it was alright, and I enjoyed parts of it, but the following day all I could think about it concerned plot holes and scenes needing more work), I was a little worried that Eli Roth's 21st century throwback to the cannibal sub-genre would feel similarly patchy - fortunately that wasn't the case!
    Glad you liked it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by EvilNed View Post
    Glad you liked it!
    Yeah! I remember you saying it was quite good a little while ago, so that allayed some trepidation I had going into it as well, and I'm still thinking about the movie now a few days since seeing it. It's not without flaws, but it's a very strong outing with something to say ... in fact, TGI's general strength makes "Knock Knock" more disappointing. Hopefully whatever Roth does after "Knock Knock" will see him in better shape again - TGI proved he's still capable.

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    The Hateful Eight:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...ck-review.html

    Grandiose in all regards...

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    ^^ It is a damn great film... A little too long IMHO, but damn good stuff!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    ^^ It is a damn great film... A little too long IMHO, but damn good stuff!
    Yeah, the pace is quite gradual up front.

    Now, Django Unchained is only two minutes shorter than The Hateful Eight, but I think DU feels shorter because there's a clearer sense of forward momentum - it's a film on the move - whereas The Hateful Eight is more akin to a stageplay in a confined space. What it gains in sheer tension, it loses in overall pacing. However, after that first 75 minutes, it really starts kicking off.

    Django Unchained was longer than Inglourious Basterds, and yet it felt shorter. IB was much more segmented as we skipped back and forth across different groups of people, so the pacing was stranger and not as clear - whereas Django Unchained was a far more focused film, essentially all about Django and whoever he came into contact with. His goal was clear and it was a journey towards him achieving that goal.

    The Hateful Eight, with its much broader cast, loses the clear mainline of Django, but in exchange you do get that wonderful sense of paranoia and distrust and mystery. There's a very different feel to it by comparison, but they're great in their own ways.

    That said, all three I've just talked about could do with some little trims at script stage and during production to generally tighten it all up. You look back to Reservoir Dogs and it's astonishing how much he crams into 92 minutes. Pulp Fiction is 154 minutes, so quite a leap there, and not that much shorter than what QT is currently doing ... although Pulp Fiction is a rare beast in that it can sustain that running time and maintain a slick pace even with different sets of characters in different stories scattered across the duration of the film.

    Anyway - The Hateful Eight - I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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    Deadpool:
    http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2016/...view-will.html

    Plus my thoughts on what Hollywood should learn from it.

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