I recently saw “Rampage” from 2009. Its basically a movie where a spree shooter is portrayed as the good guy/anti-hero. Several parts gave me that pit in your stomach, teeth gritting uncomfortable moment. I really hated it. Although I’m not surprised there are sequals I am disappointed and will not be watching them.
Troma of course a mixed bag but i have a big soft spot for more or less anything of theirs, agree T&J high up the ranking
cheers for The Surrender, haven’t come across that, i’ll get it to add to Bring Her Back already on the backlog
When Evil Lurks is excellent, very high stakes, noone safe. And even though ST wasn’t much cop the same guy made Fried Barry before that which i think you might like
Thanks for the recommendation for Fried Barry, looks like a lot of fun. Much Appreciated! I haven’t watched anything out of South Africa for years. Not since Oats Studios which feels like a million years ago now.
Ah yes. The ‘Backlog’. I keep seeing films come up on Kodi or Jellfin that I would quite like to watch but there’s always a ‘but’. I don’t know quite when I started obsessively paying attention to exactly how long a film runs but probably somewhere around the same time I started asking myself: “Am I going to fall asleep after an hour?” and “Will I bother picking it up again tomorrow if I do?” Lee Cronin’s The Mummy almost fell by the wayside, saved only by the young woman playing the titular being (I thought) rather good (also is he trying for a Clive Barker thing or is just to avoid confusion with Tom Cruise’s The Mummy?)
Sometimes I even start films I know for a fact I am not going to watch just so I can sit there grumbling for fifteen minutes or so. In much the same way you might speculate over the existence of an especially egregious turd - “The size! the smell! Who would lay such a thing!?” The Bone Keeper is the most recent one I can remember the name of. Though there seems to be a recent glut of Loosely Lovecraft films that seem to be made of old dried up bits of Shoggoth shit.
I am quite enjoying Widow’s Bay though. Thirty five minutes, a monster of the week and it’s funny.
cool, i know nothing else from seff effriceh except District 9 (good) and Chappie (shit) so will check Oats, they’ve got stuff on youtube it looks like
film length opinion is 90 minutes is ideal, i read John Waters saying that about comedy before but it applies just as well to horror as far as i’m concerned and i watch little else (with extra broad definition of horror). if i watch something at home after dinner there’s a decent chance i’ll fall asleep regardless of quality - in fact if i’m enjoying it the probability increases and i’ll happily restart after. home setups have their insurmountable limits but there’s no such luxury in the cinema
loosely lovecraft is a neat way to put it but i think i’ve avoided the brunt of that - what i can think of off the top is mainly tv series, brand new cherry flavour (good), lovecraft county (didn’t get far), that one with newspaper delivery kids? the shorthand for films i would guess is that the poster is in a pinky purply colour (out of space)
will dl Widow’s Bay, i don’t have much patience for long series tv but always interested in horror comedy and if individual episodes are fun by themselves it suits me fine, i liked Welcome to Derry well enough on this basis