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Post by fenris on Nov 19, 2020 20:28:05 GMT
Holy crap. After thirty seven years of wistfully hoping without hope, it's finally been completed.
Too bad they didn't keep the original title - Grizzly II: The Predator - but I suppose they didn't want to potentially incur the wrath of Disney's lawyers.
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Post by fenris on Dec 6, 2020 17:43:17 GMT
Holy crap. After thirty seven years of wistfully hoping without hope, it's finally been completed. Too bad they didn't keep the original title - Grizzly II: The Predator - but I suppose they didn't want to potentially incur the wrath of Disney's lawyers. I am still completely geeking out about Grizzly II being completed. It may mean less-than-nothing to 99.9% of the population, but to a self-confessed horror movie nut like me, this is A Big Deal - the film equivalent of finding the Ark of the Covenant or the lost city of Atlantis (though not the Holy Grail - that would be someone discovering a complete print of London After Midnight). Hope it gets a DVD release in the UK sometime soon in the New Year - but not one of those annoying & pointless dual DVD/Blu-ray packs, which only exist so they can add an extra £10 to the price.
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Post by fenris on Dec 13, 2020 12:38:18 GMT
Didn't even know this movie existed until I saw these trailers, but now? I. MUST. SEE. THIS.
Quite a few people have been very critical on-line of one particular scene (you'll know it when you see it), saying that it's very silly and defiles the laws of physics. True and true. But this is a movie about gremlins attacking a plane, for heaven's sake. Get over it.
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Post by fenris on Jan 2, 2021 19:49:40 GMT
If you've read some of my other posts on this forum, you've probably gathered that I'm a fan of low budget superhero films. Yes, there have undeniably been some very well made and entertaining studio-produced superhero blockbusters, but given the choice between watching (i.) a corporate product that's been focus-grouped to death, made by committee, helmed by a director-for-hire, had a nine figure budget thrown at it, and produced primarily to shift oodles of tie-in merchandise, or (ii.) a flawed low budget effort made by people who understand and appreciate the genre, and are doing their best with whatever limited resources are available to them, I will almost certainly pick the latter. Which brings us to Monster Force Zero, which debuted in America on DVD and streaming services a couple of months ago. A gonzo melding of The Last Starfighter, Galaxy Quest and Scott Pilgrim, the storyline has three friends attending a comic book convention and attempting to promote their fledging indie superteam series by cosplaying as the group's members. They are subsequently abducted by aliens, given the same superpowers as their characters, and tasked with saving the multiverse. Here are three (!) trailers;
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Post by fenris on Jan 16, 2021 16:17:34 GMT
Somebody clearly saw The Banana Splits Movie and thought to themselves "Good film, but what it really needed was Nicolas Cage being an absolute badass."
Whoever that person is, I love them for it.
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Post by fenris on Jan 24, 2021 17:20:44 GMT
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Post by fenris on Feb 17, 2021 19:54:48 GMT
Disney's Joker...? And unless I'm mistaken, Stone appears to be mimicking Elizabeth Hurley's voice.
One of my all-time favourite movies is Split Second (1992), and when it was first released in cinemas and on VHS the end credits stated 'Harley Stone will return in 'The Tunnel'' as a sequel was planned in which Stone (Rutger Hauer) would tackle terrorists who had seized control of the Channel Tunnel (which was still under construction at the time). Sadly that sequel never happened, and the reference to The Tunnel was removed from the credits of Split Second's subsequent VHS, DVD and BluRay releases. So I suppose this is the next best thing;
Hmm. I remain to be convinced. Despite being produced with the best of intentions, British attempts at large scale action movies always seem to come off as slightly embarrassed and threadbare. Remember Stratton?
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Post by fenris on Mar 31, 2021 15:33:36 GMT
The Suicide Squad is being directed by James Gunn (responsible for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy movies) and the fact that he's (1.) included so many characters and (2.) chosen for the majority of them to be semi-obscure second-stringers, surely indicates that he's taking a Dirty Dozen-style approach with this movie - by which I mean there's going to be a high body count and only a handful will survive to the end of the film. There's going to be plentiful speculation on-line, right up until the movie's release, about who's going to make it and who's not. My prediction? Harley's safe, and I think Polka Dot Man will also survive, because I don't believe Gunn will be able to resist keeping such a lame and goofy character around, but otherwise all bets are off. I suspect the first time the Squad goes into action there'll be a Saving Private Ryan-type massacre with half the team instantly wiped out, and during the course of the film at least a couple of the bigger names (Rooker, Elba, Fillion, Cena) will bite the bullet, just to keep the audience on their toes and remind them that nobody is safe.
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Post by fenris on Jun 27, 2021 18:53:31 GMT
Have recently become aware of American writer/director Joshua Kennedy, who has spent over a decade making low budget films (at least ten features of varying lengths and several shorts) that are all homages to the genre movies of yesteryear. His work includes Attack of the Octopus People (2010), Curse of the Insect Woman (2011), Voyage to the Planet of Teenage Cavewomen (2012), The Menace with Five Arms (2013), Slave Girls on the Moon (2014), Airport '79 (2015), The Vesuvius Xperiment (2015), Dracula A.D. 2015 (2015), The Night of Medusa (2016), The Return of Sherlock Holmes (2016), The St. Augustus Monster (2016), The Alpha Omega Man (2017), Theseus and the Minotaur (2017), The Fungus Among Us (2018) and House of the Gorgon (2019). Here's the trailer for his latest effort, Cowgirls vs Pterodactyls, which was a troubled production. The three leading actresses are personal friends of Kennedy (they all attended college together and have appeared in most of his previous films) and as he had decided to move permanently to the UK, he wrote the script for Cowgirls vs Pterodactyls specifically for them, so they could all work together one last time before he left the US. Production began in early 2020, but then filming was halted due to Covid 19 and the resulting lockdown, and when Kennedy moved to the UK as planned, the movie as still uncompleted. He promptly finished the film by reworking the script, using the unfilmed scenes to form a subplot about a brand new character played by British scream queen Dani Thompson. Incidentally, in the shapely form of ex-glamour model and former Babestation presenter Thompson, Kennedy appears to have found his muse. She has leading roles in his two upcoming movies: in Saturnalia - about comic strip characters emerging into the real world - she plays dual roles as the title character (an alien cavewoman) and an arch-villainess; and she's also in Mantopus!, a movie about the making of a monster movie.
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Post by fenris on Dec 28, 2021 20:38:36 GMT
The Friday the 13th movies are a true guilty pleasure of mine. The majority of the films are bloody awful (no pun intended) but I can't help but have a grudging admiration for the series. So here's the trailer for 13 Fanboy, released in America two months ago, but which I've only just become aware of. Directed by actress Deborah Vorhees (who appeared in Friday the 13th Part V), it concerns a rabid Jason fan who starts stalking and killing several of the franchise's most memorable cast members, all of whom play themselves;
And that's not all. Here are two trailers for RoseBlood, a ninety minute fan-film in which Jason faces off for a second time against Tina, the telekinetic Final Girl from Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Lar Park Lincoln, Terry Kiser and Kevin Spirtas all respectively reprise their roles as Tina, Dr. Crews and Nick from the original movie, and there are also references to characters and locations from Jason Goes To Hell and Jason X.
RoseBlood is available to watch on YouTube.
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Post by fenris on Mar 5, 2022 20:19:56 GMT
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Post by matsee on Mar 7, 2022 13:52:58 GMT
With the woman I love my wife Karen Gillan.
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