MZ's Movie Review Thread

[MinionZombie]

Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (Umberto Lenzi, 1972): http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...s-umberto.html The "Half-Moon Killer" is slicing & dicing their way through Rome ... the cops have no idea ... plucky civilian tries to figure it out for himself, you get the jist. So how does it stack up against the the genre and some of Lenzi's other work? Review and screenshots via the link.

[MinionZombie]

2019 After the Fall of New York (Sergio Martino, 1983): http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...rk-sergio.html It's a big old cheesy Italian post-apocalyptic rip-off of several movies, but in a good way...

[shootemindehead]

One of the best "worst films ever". Skip to 0.13:50 for a prime example of the acting master class... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4yb0iZEFUQ

[AcesandEights]

Glad you got the review up so quickly, MZ! Wish I could find that PA movie thread we had going for a while a couple of years back.

[MoonSylver]

Glad you got the review up so quickly, MZ! Wish I could find that PA movie thread we had going for a while a couple of years back. Askith? Receiveth. http://forum.homepageofthedead.com/s...ad.php?t=10855

[slickwilly13]

2019 After the Fall of New York (Sergio Martino, 1983): http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...rk-sergio.html It's a big old cheesy Italian post-apocalyptic rip-off of several movies, but in a good way... I have not viewed that movie in at least 20 years. Who could forget George Eastman?

[MinionZombie]

One of the best "worst films ever". Skip to 0.13:50 for a prime example of the acting master class... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4yb0iZEFUQ Yeah, she ain't exactly gonna give Meryl Streep a run for her money. Then again, seeing as all these movies were dubbed, the blame could perhaps be just for the voice actress in that part, who knows ... but yeah, subtle acting isn't exactly in this flick's wheelhouse of strengths. Aye, it's bad in a good way and there's some things about it that work quite well ... but acting isn't one of them. Glad you got the review up so quickly, MZ! Wish I could find that PA movie thread we had going for a while a couple of years back. 1) I ended up writing it on Sunday night, but didn't get around to posting it until last night. Give a little bit of breathing room between other reviews I'd done recently which had kind of stacked up as done-but-not-posted-yet ... now they have been ... I think I'll do "The Black Belly of the Tarantula" (a giallo) next. 2) Hmmm ... I wonder how that thread passed me by. I have not viewed that movie in at least 20 years. Who could forget George Eastman? The man pulls off some tremendous cocked eyebrows in this flick! Once he starting shooting people those looks in the flick I couldn't stop noticing how many times he does it, and it's kinda great. This has whetted my appetite for the Bronx Warriors trilogy, which was on my radar somewhat, but which Capn recommended to me t'other day, so it's gone up the list ... I'll get to it sometime soon hopefully if I can find the boxset for the right price.

[AcesandEights]

This has whetted my appetite for the Bronx Warriors trilogy, which was on my radar somewhat, but which Capn recommended to me t'other day... Wait, the Bronx Warriors was a trilogy?!

[shootemindehead]

This has whetted my appetite for the Bronx Warriors trilogy, which was on my radar somewhat, but which Capn recommended to me t'other day, so it's gone up the list ... I'll get to it sometime soon hopefully if I can find the boxset for the right price. Ahem..YouTube. Don't waste your shillings Mini.

[AcesandEights]

Askith? Receiveth. http://forum.homepageofthedead.com/s...ad.php?t=10855 Nice, Moon! Many thanks. You know, I couldn't find it through a standard forum search. Too many similar threads for me to plow through when I paired "movie" and "post apocalypse." - - - Updated - - - Ahem..YouTube. Don't waste your shillings Mini. Yeah, if the copy that was uploaded is good it's fine viewing. I ended up re-watching all of My Science Project one night last year when all I wanted to do was see a single clip.

[MinionZombie]

He Knows You're Alone (Armand Mastroianni, 1980): http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...stroianni.html One of the earliest rip-offs of Halloween, and the feature film debut of an A-List Oscar winner ... read on to find out who it was! ... Shoot - aye, but only the first of the three movies is up on there. I have been able to see some very hard-to-find, or very expensive, or out of print, flicks on YT (providing that they're actually in English, that is!). However, if it gives me a tingle I like to get it on DVD and add it to my collection ... I quite like the look of the Bronx Warriors boxset.

[MinionZombie]

Cloud Atlas, Compliance, and Seduced & Abandoned: http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...i-musings.html 1) The Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer's really hard-to-summarise three hour sci-fi epic that's no Matrix, but shits all over Speed Racer. 2) Essentially a beat-by-unbelievably-true-beat telling of how - in actual real life - workers at a fast food joint were convinced by a voice over the phone to strip search and abuse one of their female co-workers because the voice on the phone said they were a cop. 3) A documentary about filmmaking that spends half of the time perusing it's own colon.

[shootemindehead]

'Compliance' is great. I had to get on the net to see if what they were saying was actually true. It's incredible how bloody thick some people can be. It really is.

[AcesandEights]

'Compliance' is great. I had to get on the net to see if what they were saying was actually true. It's incredible how bloody thick some people can be. It really is. I rememebr when this story first hit the news!

[MinionZombie]

The Black Belly of the Tarantula (Paolo Cavara, 1971): http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2014/...ula-paolo.html Featuring perhaps the most unique Modus Operandi in the gialli genre, and quite the connection to the James Bond franchise. Sightseers, Kick-Ass 2, This Is The End, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...-holidays.html 1) Caravanning meets serial murder. 2) Patchy, but good on its own terms. 3) A lewd & crude fun-pocalypse. 4) Part 2 of Peter Jackson's fangasm. A Good Day To Die Hard, and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa: http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2013/...partridge.html 1) As Neil might say, "oh dear"... 2) A rarity indeed. It's a shame they didn't use the alternate title of "Hectic Danger Day", mind.