tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50911328800078363842024-03-18T20:32:41.692+00:00John Llewellyn Probert's House of Mortal CinemaJohn Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.comBlogger1122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-27156229938853982212024-03-14T09:44:00.003+00:002024-03-14T09:44:51.673+00:00Dark Water (2002)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNgK541tGTgUk5W6nT2SMEdunoCbAXAIkyn2d1RrCeEJ1eSYgth1nQlHUy0nPs4UIydkUyJ10p0CN2pJK47LL3G9Ba0OZFWiKhyphenhyphenz33Cy3-q_jaC9tLgzFimz3RQdSnbGqhP4f3GZbTl7DTQbQguvTaK5qLfaVwDFiwrNvhUSXu-3zJ0zeZNXsRfh7qEDcl/s2222/53419_1_DARK_WATER_ALT_UHD_OCARD_3D_UK_STICKER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2222" data-original-width="1658" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNgK541tGTgUk5W6nT2SMEdunoCbAXAIkyn2d1RrCeEJ1eSYgth1nQlHUy0nPs4UIydkUyJ10p0CN2pJK47LL3G9Ba0OZFWiKhyphenhyphenz33Cy3-q_jaC9tLgzFimz3RQdSnbGqhP4f3GZbTl7DTQbQguvTaK5qLfaVwDFiwrNvhUSXu-3zJ0zeZNXsRfh7qEDcl/w299-h400/53419_1_DARK_WATER_ALT_UHD_OCARD_3D_UK_STICKER.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hideo Nakata's film of Koji Suzuki's novella gets a UHD upgrade from Arrow.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GI4kKE4lXy8P7s9uYKp6ONo4hAKVYFf3cesB3WWYs59TOovM1YADAR7fUTgYe8qsRP4rFM8jbKa6iIfXgmTUwh1T5jDlTR0hlwde3Z_gA1G2lvuIb2bE-Sumr8SwuOpxeYs2KCDPGzhC0DkYZMlBLyhH7j777f7JBrseI5GyLACDhp1gjX1qYxhKncOX/s758/DW_Still002_tKAt85t.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="758" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GI4kKE4lXy8P7s9uYKp6ONo4hAKVYFf3cesB3WWYs59TOovM1YADAR7fUTgYe8qsRP4rFM8jbKa6iIfXgmTUwh1T5jDlTR0hlwde3Z_gA1G2lvuIb2bE-Sumr8SwuOpxeYs2KCDPGzhC0DkYZMlBLyhH7j777f7JBrseI5GyLACDhp1gjX1qYxhKncOX/w400-h266/DW_Still002_tKAt85t.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Yoshimi (Hitomi Kuroki) is getting divorced, and the big question is who is going to get custody of her six year old daughter Ikuko (Rio Kanno). For now it's Yoshimi, and the two of them move into an apartment in a refurbished but still rundown tower block.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-WZoUQ7f4kkco0wa9w9h2fZP8XX0n7q4ynhg2ylTYjPSYgxQ9bND-zUjlmAxveBjXoWfdCYhMq_mrvwOMzZoGqs_XN5WYZPGwbO5NZfK1mpLldJxR899l4xUpxJ7jLbVoPqjPi1BqiS3uZBkr4lWL1SSbWL7nfa6Mu1tGs4mox6g1n2pu6IgRm9BcwuZ5/s756/DW_Still004_kVwmWSS.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="756" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-WZoUQ7f4kkco0wa9w9h2fZP8XX0n7q4ynhg2ylTYjPSYgxQ9bND-zUjlmAxveBjXoWfdCYhMq_mrvwOMzZoGqs_XN5WYZPGwbO5NZfK1mpLldJxR899l4xUpxJ7jLbVoPqjPi1BqiS3uZBkr4lWL1SSbWL7nfa6Mu1tGs4mox6g1n2pu6IgRm9BcwuZ5/w400-h266/DW_Still004_kVwmWSS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Despite the flat having been redecorated, a bothersome damp patch persists on the bedroom ceiling, a patch which gets steadily larger and more drippy the longer they stay there. Then there's that blurred figure in a yellow raincoat, and the fact that apparently a little girl who lived in the block went missing a couple of years ago. And she lived in the flat above Yoshimi and Ikuko.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP7Cl-0uvRyQrOgnWrXHPAzi7Ls5GhKonOvR7LNIj8kDsfw2O548BVr-P8rh4VX_3xDqA5WrjeTQrkAMnlgl25DNvRQ2rwucS0HVTe2_OVi4YDGGCm_HBk9iuKAHKLzqCiMKxtQ8k_qdjY9_VoPJoDsmvglqFmI5OD4-eUDDFsViWy4bs5YL7VF6kaU3pm/s756/DW_Still008_RZSYhMz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="756" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP7Cl-0uvRyQrOgnWrXHPAzi7Ls5GhKonOvR7LNIj8kDsfw2O548BVr-P8rh4VX_3xDqA5WrjeTQrkAMnlgl25DNvRQ2rwucS0HVTe2_OVi4YDGGCm_HBk9iuKAHKLzqCiMKxtQ8k_qdjY9_VoPJoDsmvglqFmI5OD4-eUDDFsViWy4bs5YL7VF6kaU3pm/w400-h266/DW_Still008_RZSYhMz.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DARK WATER isn't as good as the team's previous RINGU (1999) and could probably have done with about 15 minutes trimming off its 101 minute runtime. It's still nicely atmospheric, though, and delivers at least one good ghostly scare.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaqzwOV2AMzAu4W8m5kkJDf1srytONGzhYjs2TKFR3YvJZ6lM_VXMZCzdG_E5NCAPDxwdtL_nqGQfa6f4MVsyZ9suuVo-c8YFjJu7evdYtYSCExVPsm1tOzYTshnF0JN3QqSsB3cJ980hWb8KjR5w0TEMirzbH-Jnz0tzHJ53AwTiJevaB6vNgtOy5jAO/s741/DW_Still007_ZokOIuz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="741" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHaqzwOV2AMzAu4W8m5kkJDf1srytONGzhYjs2TKFR3YvJZ6lM_VXMZCzdG_E5NCAPDxwdtL_nqGQfa6f4MVsyZ9suuVo-c8YFjJu7evdYtYSCExVPsm1tOzYTshnF0JN3QqSsB3cJ980hWb8KjR5w0TEMirzbH-Jnz0tzHJ53AwTiJevaB6vNgtOy5jAO/w400-h266/DW_Still007_ZokOIuz.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Arrow's UHD transfer looks fantastic. DARK WATER has always looked rather muddy on disc but the image here is crystal clear. Extras include interviews from 2016 with Nakata (26 minutes), Suzuki (20 minutes) and DP Junichiro Hayashi (20 minutes). There's also an archival 2002 making of and interviews with actors Kuroki and Asami Mizukawa (who plays the grown up Ikuko) and Shikao Suga who wrote the song at the end.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You also get trailers, TV spots and a booklet with writing on the film from Michael Gingold and David Kalat. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Hideo Nakata's DARK WATER is out on 4K UHD from Arrow on Monday 18th March 2024</span></p>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-2413056903181151202024-03-13T09:33:00.000+00:002024-03-13T09:33:06.887+00:00Possessor (2020)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJCRwH7N8YM4S_k3UjIwO_lOCdnZ5_dLPkzEYAOC4HwJpVGyx4eWqijZAvZGfQoj_fl0uBBfo_9U3oGysBF8MxxMZ5gLtqLDW2w_s65_oLppj7NlVAj534R3uMhiWFLqEFNXwEgd348DX4C97tLiy5hd6BIHGfvcjgh3H5DV45P5T_33wsRxlyWVcaTgkZ/s1500/81H4Bsd9q2L._AC_SL1500_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJCRwH7N8YM4S_k3UjIwO_lOCdnZ5_dLPkzEYAOC4HwJpVGyx4eWqijZAvZGfQoj_fl0uBBfo_9U3oGysBF8MxxMZ5gLtqLDW2w_s65_oLppj7NlVAj534R3uMhiWFLqEFNXwEgd348DX4C97tLiy5hd6BIHGfvcjgh3H5DV45P5T_33wsRxlyWVcaTgkZ/w309-h400/81H4Bsd9q2L._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Writer-director Brandon Cronenberg's second feature (after ANTIVIRAL but before INFINITY POOL) gets the Second Sight special treatment in a limited edition UHD & Blu-ray boxset, with individual releases for the different formats as well.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; 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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The very Cronenbergly-named Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is a hit-person employed by Girder (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who has a special device that allows Tasya to take control of other people's bodies. Her newest assignment is to possess Colin Tate (Christopher Abbott, most recent seen in POOR THINGS) whose girlfriend Ava (Tuppence Middleton) is the daughter of Tasya's target John Parse (Sean Bean). But Tasya's brain is starting to get affected by all the mind-jumping she's been doing and that, coupled with the nature of her job, is beginning to induce murderous psychopathic tendencies.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY8pUhdXZp7eHIjyyywOfOSnkpayzJ64-yz7WbaSeH2Tx4jwiPf0qENcJ99hxUgJFDADxQRISovcP73BBrL5eM8nvGrt9BHY4sHH1UMyk_2U-b7wnHrvqp8gsDrYqsLimf4MFWDVCl3dPwRhQE1ctWK7zohyphenhyphenN1mZ25mu0lTSsqhkwVHkuvC16Ski8uGIoK/s3462/Screenshot%202024-02-10%20at%2009.51.10.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1798" data-original-width="3462" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY8pUhdXZp7eHIjyyywOfOSnkpayzJ64-yz7WbaSeH2Tx4jwiPf0qENcJ99hxUgJFDADxQRISovcP73BBrL5eM8nvGrt9BHY4sHH1UMyk_2U-b7wnHrvqp8gsDrYqsLimf4MFWDVCl3dPwRhQE1ctWK7zohyphenhyphenN1mZ25mu0lTSsqhkwVHkuvC16Ski8uGIoK/w400-h208/Screenshot%202024-02-10%20at%2009.51.10.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>POSSESSOR is a right old brain-banger of a film: Philip K Dick by way of Michael Reeves' THE SORCERERS (which director Brandon Cronenberg gives a nod to early on, allowing us film nerds to nod sagely). The film's plots is straightforward enough, allowing Cronenberg to use his not inconsiderable skills to scramble your brain with visuals that will leave you staggering. Gorgeously shot by Karim Hussein and with terrific performances from everyone involved, this isn't a film you can watch everyday, but it's definitely one to regularly revisit. And then have a nice lie down in a darkened room afterwards.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqy55vI5K_8j848S7y0aARGKJcwKPtfFo9nWBmeeA-AX98E3ahlF8yQWJuRwtxg1xLj-GeAlRQb5cN64onzY01c-f9H89OPS71vTXX97LRgRBUB6RSziEg8KOR95IepLY9BVvIh95WQ-U8j1qUqmoMB6r4F-AxbFSwSOa2x-dkeEXyeCAYy3zIWXdmmGAP/s3408/Screenshot%202024-02-10%20at%2009.51.54.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1752" data-original-width="3408" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqy55vI5K_8j848S7y0aARGKJcwKPtfFo9nWBmeeA-AX98E3ahlF8yQWJuRwtxg1xLj-GeAlRQb5cN64onzY01c-f9H89OPS71vTXX97LRgRBUB6RSziEg8KOR95IepLY9BVvIh95WQ-U8j1qUqmoMB6r4F-AxbFSwSOa2x-dkeEXyeCAYy3zIWXdmmGAP/w400-h206/Screenshot%202024-02-10%20at%2009.51.54.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Second Sight's set comes with a stack of new extras including a commentary track from Cronenberg, Hussein, producer Rob Cotterill and SFX provider Dan Martin. There are also new interviews with Cronenberg, Cotterill and Hussein. Disassociating from Mind and Body is a new piece on the film from Zoe Rose Smith and there's an FX 'Show and Tell' with Dan Martin. You also get three archive featurettes, deleted scenes, and the short film Please Speak Continuously and Describe Your Experiences as They Come to You.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6zIqdrvgxxb5eF_HXWgT2dcAQe8Vk8rWnyNxdlSuMNvGsElal5jy7P70thWp9s-Q5qxpdfD-Yt0F8cPKPTJQVGwQS-N4sqiL5ZlPMH0rZ-Hi8qPMx5FXNRpFY8-Nd_UkBiif1sJhLJW-JL34r-NGUe4mQJv1id72-Lxj0sor29JtTAwM5FqIXQzL9A3_u/s3412/Screenshot%202024-02-10%20at%2009.51.33.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="3412" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6zIqdrvgxxb5eF_HXWgT2dcAQe8Vk8rWnyNxdlSuMNvGsElal5jy7P70thWp9s-Q5qxpdfD-Yt0F8cPKPTJQVGwQS-N4sqiL5ZlPMH0rZ-Hi8qPMx5FXNRpFY8-Nd_UkBiif1sJhLJW-JL34r-NGUe4mQJv1id72-Lxj0sor29JtTAwM5FqIXQzL9A3_u/w400-h208/Screenshot%202024-02-10%20at%2009.51.33.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Finally, there's a 120 page book with new essays, six art cards and a lovely box to keep everything in.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNu1y5DQD_lZRaPP-YOLEHLt2fYoYykXkg2NgAamL4DTa7Sy0HuB84kBlltG1gxPHqRwsOmsl-Z0G0RRxx7SFgfBQA2ENoFH8aNOa8a3wv0MpEwRxZC09LEeXKolxBRV3Lc5hexZK37oIKmMBSDKAwgVMsVziDBSFmdNyXQ87d2Mu-5RDEoSluYJ6eR-ee/s1500/71-APEhN2zL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="1500" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNu1y5DQD_lZRaPP-YOLEHLt2fYoYykXkg2NgAamL4DTa7Sy0HuB84kBlltG1gxPHqRwsOmsl-Z0G0RRxx7SFgfBQA2ENoFH8aNOa8a3wv0MpEwRxZC09LEeXKolxBRV3Lc5hexZK37oIKmMBSDKAwgVMsVziDBSFmdNyXQ87d2Mu-5RDEoSluYJ6eR-ee/w400-h331/71-APEhN2zL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Brandon Cronenberg's POSSESSOR is out in limited edition UHD & Blu-ray boxset, plus as individual UHD and Blu-ray discs, on Monday 18th March 2024</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-88919263113359573832024-03-06T08:48:00.001+00:002024-03-06T08:48:31.536+00:00Dogman (2024)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PapguPC-P7OaXAHDvR31qXVBByLqjEsoT84wshEaW4FVc48N_XWGEOjbfVlI6Wb_DoAGO4KQSf7rsEL56W39gRwDuWGfErNEMS0T5Vjo6__0ujtYlKmhiekkY9bUWeo56wUI4Kxua7kEjQaGlo6_R6Xe7xtbZ5Lry1QkKkEaITbn80utpDMDGiU3fm3z/s3000/DOGMAN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PapguPC-P7OaXAHDvR31qXVBByLqjEsoT84wshEaW4FVc48N_XWGEOjbfVlI6Wb_DoAGO4KQSf7rsEL56W39gRwDuWGfErNEMS0T5Vjo6__0ujtYlKmhiekkY9bUWeo56wUI4Kxua7kEjQaGlo6_R6Xe7xtbZ5Lry1QkKkEaITbn80utpDMDGiU3fm3z/w266-h400/DOGMAN.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"Luc Besson's JOKER - With Dogs...(Sort Of)"</b></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Writer-directot Luc Besson's latest feature gets a Blu-ray and digital release from Altitude Films.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Doug (Caleb Landry Jones) is stopped by the police after the abandoned school he calls home is found full of dead bodies. The van he is driving also happens to be full of very much living dogs, who he assures the police won't hurt them as long as the dogs don't feel Doug is under threat.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcWNx0XPoe-xkbFvjhAqmNzYluWPD01DpzZ_LnkNRHCxOAIS7r0jyX7Rp98KwJdOLW345HtBRTqB1lGQul6XoRZpD-yBH8mrRm2Mf-AKI0ZBRT4UkO-J5YdXEHOI-P0T7xMrmOs0YaAFgAyfjbnZdxFdIuG9CqO_2HGAKSr54MUaIXezorw160VotfTy_I/s2853/image001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1193" data-original-width="2853" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcWNx0XPoe-xkbFvjhAqmNzYluWPD01DpzZ_LnkNRHCxOAIS7r0jyX7Rp98KwJdOLW345HtBRTqB1lGQul6XoRZpD-yBH8mrRm2Mf-AKI0ZBRT4UkO-J5YdXEHOI-P0T7xMrmOs0YaAFgAyfjbnZdxFdIuG9CqO_2HGAKSr54MUaIXezorw160VotfTy_I/w400-h168/image001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Confined to a police cell he is interviewed by psychologist Evelyn (Jojo T Gibbs). In flashback we see the story of his awful upbringing by his father and brother who kept fighting dogs and who imprisoned him in the dogs' cage. Befriended by the animals who became his loyal companions, the number of dogs Doug looked after only increased when he starting working for the local pound. Now he has a veritable canine army who are happy to do his bidding.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3uERmsa96te1a1U-fIH76hYASSdYkHmh5cA8p0dbqfctlgAMd8YD_QU0wk03DpltRInj8dbPy7zrSvltwWFPqu7oniP7HwfE0XkQ9FbUPjhDdJF2BRk72y5hr9F5xBj8QYfScmM-9H6RKy7ICxCnrIcxppcbSGjvunwhvVTWPxl6M0gUkc0b_J69VPQ6/s2868/image002.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1202" data-original-width="2868" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3uERmsa96te1a1U-fIH76hYASSdYkHmh5cA8p0dbqfctlgAMd8YD_QU0wk03DpltRInj8dbPy7zrSvltwWFPqu7oniP7HwfE0XkQ9FbUPjhDdJF2BRk72y5hr9F5xBj8QYfScmM-9H6RKy7ICxCnrIcxppcbSGjvunwhvVTWPxl6M0gUkc0b_J69VPQ6/w400-h168/image002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>DOGMAN feels like JOKER by way of WILLARD, only with dogs instead of rats. It also feels like a film with a few too many ideas to form a satisfactory story. Doug is more or less paralysed from the waist down from a gunshot injury by his father, he sings at a nightclub in drag, and he has trained his dogs to steal from rich people's houses. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPyldnekmY_w6-XhrHcOXffLhKlibRcDK3J0eU9YU-vi7zr3Fj6ymvGFPfXPK4lR6fL95n-J52nkQOVMJ6kHqWKmdRzAZUVsWHQ_qoFD1W2KFGKzbaoBYIEHJCtX0oBnjemnjjpNy4bP3hJsG48KkQ10qTEWV191KYOynF3iOiNFJEpnR6LwZZS42EJF_/s2478/image003.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1206" data-original-width="2478" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggPyldnekmY_w6-XhrHcOXffLhKlibRcDK3J0eU9YU-vi7zr3Fj6ymvGFPfXPK4lR6fL95n-J52nkQOVMJ6kHqWKmdRzAZUVsWHQ_qoFD1W2KFGKzbaoBYIEHJCtX0oBnjemnjjpNy4bP3hJsG48KkQ10qTEWV191KYOynF3iOiNFJEpnR6LwZZS42EJF_/w400-h195/image003.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The result is a film that feels like a grungy super-villain origin story, but one that bumps along in too many fits and starts to satisfy the comic-book crowd. That said Jones is excellent in another quirky role, as are all the dogs, and any film directed by Luc Besson is worth checking out. DOGMAN is a far cry from his more recent glossy SF efforts like LUCY or VALERIAN and while it's nowhere near as good as NIKITA or LEON if you've ever been a fan of the director it's definitely worth checking out. Here's the trailer:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="331" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pg8tk50lXg0" width="480" youtube-src-id="Pg8tk50lXg0"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Luc Besson's DOGMAN is out on Blu-ray and Digital from Altitude Films on Monday 11th March 2024</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-71887464771621092032024-02-24T09:04:00.003+00:002024-02-24T09:04:48.337+00:00Bad Biology (2008)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFbPA4Ttl5-211e0_fQShhiHklY3vjavEyMlhlrwYrG7QnSIxCrY4S3rTDfhy93UdzQfDOBa-IM26O_2IBVV7T3BOYaPuunZmkf_RoYJvz_PJgWnvYQ5Rl9nS8drTiFC3DPVIJYSzufow0c-mJqWZyCqtQ6XUPDUY-9gtAwwKzLPmczL5C0Js5dnIMLyVR/s1277/61kpCvwug4L._AC_SL1277_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1277" data-original-width="1067" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFbPA4Ttl5-211e0_fQShhiHklY3vjavEyMlhlrwYrG7QnSIxCrY4S3rTDfhy93UdzQfDOBa-IM26O_2IBVV7T3BOYaPuunZmkf_RoYJvz_PJgWnvYQ5Rl9nS8drTiFC3DPVIJYSzufow0c-mJqWZyCqtQ6XUPDUY-9gtAwwKzLPmczL5C0Js5dnIMLyVR/w334-h400/61kpCvwug4L._AC_SL1277_.jpg" width="334" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"Completely Nuts"</b></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>If a David Cronenberg film were to be given a frontal lobotomy and then have electrodes wired to its testicles, the result might be something like Frank Henenlotter's BAD BIOLOGY, now getting a dual format UHD and Blu-ray release from Severin Films.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsv_wszaEd_qz4wL4ucz4BdzJTOr1ABtwpJM99IEOCOHRj0YrC4V-7w3oQUpUfFnLYfVmIQJMDSK0InX3J5qpX37NEtMvDDgFuym7RATOYkHoQMSuWbrKRCO0-bMhZzZiFo34i78tj12drm4rGSBvVyjXKrm2GniU-p7cfiBS5ySKXzv7uwACqWrl7LMOx/s2016/Screenshot%202024-02-02%20at%2009.34.24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1356" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsv_wszaEd_qz4wL4ucz4BdzJTOr1ABtwpJM99IEOCOHRj0YrC4V-7w3oQUpUfFnLYfVmIQJMDSK0InX3J5qpX37NEtMvDDgFuym7RATOYkHoQMSuWbrKRCO0-bMhZzZiFo34i78tj12drm4rGSBvVyjXKrm2GniU-p7cfiBS5ySKXzv7uwACqWrl7LMOx/w269-h400/Screenshot%202024-02-02%20at%2009.34.24.png" width="269" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jennifer (Charlee Danielson) was born with seven clitorises and is on a constant search for sexual satisfaction. If impregnated she brings to term, and gives birth to, a monstrous deformed baby within a matter of minutes. Meanwhile Batz (Anthony Sneed) was the victim of an unfortunate accident at birth where his penis was amputated. It was reattached but failed to function. Now, through the application of growth hormones, steroids, and erectile dysfunction medication, his penis is enormous and has developed a mind of its own. When the two get together, hilarity of a type only Henenlotter can realise ensues.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh11bUg0gXPPEYH1l4nIIViTOybBxzFRkfJsSMl30bgRGwoPrQvHFQAJB_e-Xf3vri-66tCt5Tt8W_i_emJyQ88YLhqIDfNej8Y7NxITY_fvgTtg1ioLeTMFv_giK0hxS7dmkXLo0ogBtsFw7bYvLMAPOLNcn2cdd6LQRLrPegxV08suzzgudMq7DGc6Z6y/s3174/Screenshot%202024-02-02%20at%2009.34.33.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1766" data-original-width="3174" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh11bUg0gXPPEYH1l4nIIViTOybBxzFRkfJsSMl30bgRGwoPrQvHFQAJB_e-Xf3vri-66tCt5Tt8W_i_emJyQ88YLhqIDfNej8Y7NxITY_fvgTtg1ioLeTMFv_giK0hxS7dmkXLo0ogBtsFw7bYvLMAPOLNcn2cdd6LQRLrPegxV08suzzgudMq7DGc6Z6y/w400-h223/Screenshot%202024-02-02%20at%2009.34.33.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>BAD BIOLOGY is very funny, but only if you're on Henenlotter's outrageous wavelength. Otherwise steer clear because many will find the subject matter offensive to the point of disgust or just plain silly to the point of ridiculousness. Suffice to say if you liked BASKET CASE or FRANKENHOOKER you'll want to check this out. In fact you've probably already seen it.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>If you're a fan of BAD BIOLOGY you'll be pleased to know Severin's UHD transfer looks fabulous and is a step up from the Blu-ray that's also included in the package. Two commentary tracks (one archival with Henelotter and producer R A Thorburn, the other with Henelotter, Sneed and DP Nicholas Deeh) are on both discs with all the other extras on the Blu-ray.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-m243Mye7rSyoBljRmurwTr5LiWxvM4jny1GqzaMcNqDTohSCb2fZ3VV3HjjldnxpuwKD7fbHpaYYTqUI158Ro5NbKTZX4GugwdCEkVuZ9jfgapkB8NPIdTHYO4U2xWaD2Dfn8qlDiGrJ6-9366ThGT-hCc8BnfW7ksJrOmPYFRpHfO6Kqv2sdqOkVO9/s2520/Screenshot%202024-02-02%20at%2009.34.48.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="2520" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx-m243Mye7rSyoBljRmurwTr5LiWxvM4jny1GqzaMcNqDTohSCb2fZ3VV3HjjldnxpuwKD7fbHpaYYTqUI158Ro5NbKTZX4GugwdCEkVuZ9jfgapkB8NPIdTHYO4U2xWaD2Dfn8qlDiGrJ6-9366ThGT-hCc8BnfW7ksJrOmPYFRpHfO6Kqv2sdqOkVO9/w400-h224/Screenshot%202024-02-02%20at%2009.34.48.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>These consist of 'Spook House - Interviews with the Crew and a Retired Detective' which is 30 minutes of chat about the allegedly haunted filming location with Henenlotter, Thorburn, Deeg and others. The retired detective is Frank's brother Dave who has also brought along Zeus the dog for his interview.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qrA_wXz2D1tbPqFMM-mKn2mW4CzKO-VRUSp__ouJaOeS9v3KnZs52SyPSQ6P-wdGLHWqsPIB_UgMIhC2y4VSwQEfCrtRKExFmv-uaYrm-R19ltTCigV27NucfmcWW3qC2zE92Oet-uBxF9ch9OtgOCjdpHJSo5VKIP5eVqzvHHVDDtzVNuMKinawfC-C/s2520/Screenshot%202024-02-02%20at%2009.35.08.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1406" data-original-width="2520" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-qrA_wXz2D1tbPqFMM-mKn2mW4CzKO-VRUSp__ouJaOeS9v3KnZs52SyPSQ6P-wdGLHWqsPIB_UgMIhC2y4VSwQEfCrtRKExFmv-uaYrm-R19ltTCigV27NucfmcWW3qC2zE92Oet-uBxF9ch9OtgOCjdpHJSo5VKIP5eVqzvHHVDDtzVNuMKinawfC-C/w400-h224/Screenshot%202024-02-02%20at%2009.35.08.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'In the Basement with Charlee Danielson and a Basketball' is four minutes of exactly what it says, while 'Swollen Agenda' gives us 12 minutes with Gabe Bartalos talking about his special effects for the film. Sneed and Deeg chat with each other about their careers and the film for a whopping 66 minutes. There's also 32 minutes of behind the scenes footage, Sneed's short film Suck, eight minutes of 'O' faces, a music video and still gallery.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN-N38Uxs4r4ZrQ19qrBv8Q7j4_-Oe_dAhogKUKcD2Nnu4fAhQb9qxQgOuqTHvRZ7tDip0ZfQoiL2Rod0DSgHOYhWYu45_PSD8A-IBSHbKhbJzEaqYz59PIGGmP33534d2SiJsuQOCn6OPuKdvfHb_tCIlo3nMHjzV5WT9agkpNgOOZ5eH7idnX8izLcl3/s1500/91871TqQwYL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1054" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN-N38Uxs4r4ZrQ19qrBv8Q7j4_-Oe_dAhogKUKcD2Nnu4fAhQb9qxQgOuqTHvRZ7tDip0ZfQoiL2Rod0DSgHOYhWYu45_PSD8A-IBSHbKhbJzEaqYz59PIGGmP33534d2SiJsuQOCn6OPuKdvfHb_tCIlo3nMHjzV5WT9agkpNgOOZ5eH7idnX8izLcl3/w281-h400/91871TqQwYL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="281" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /> </span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Frank Henenlotter's BAD BIOLOGY is out in a dual disc UHD and Blu-ray set and a single Blu-ray edition from Severin Films on Monday 26th February 2024</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-7870310654732603592024-02-23T08:33:00.000+00:002024-02-23T08:33:53.213+00:00Nightmares in a Damaged Brain (1981)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwSisV1DB9z_l8EmRGOdUsJ0vdHxMCc2w7_AZkEXmDJsg5uR-qmLs-Y1Z27n_VYTbnO_LZSptzjLHhCTQ6EwI0OpIXKlZRcd-2b5lx0B8L5ZM6GKYsxPYOnxGcPHw0cF8f5B2QGxVTrm4FauEmV7bMsXii3q72ti1egBuYIpfMXigI6V9Hw763dQGVETNM/s1451/71ak2BukrML._AC_SL1460_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1451" data-original-width="1074" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwSisV1DB9z_l8EmRGOdUsJ0vdHxMCc2w7_AZkEXmDJsg5uR-qmLs-Y1Z27n_VYTbnO_LZSptzjLHhCTQ6EwI0OpIXKlZRcd-2b5lx0B8L5ZM6GKYsxPYOnxGcPHw0cF8f5B2QGxVTrm4FauEmV7bMsXii3q72ti1egBuYIpfMXigI6V9Hw763dQGVETNM/w296-h400/71ak2BukrML._AC_SL1460_.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Who would ever have thought it? One of the most infamous (for a number of reasons which are all gone into in the copious extras on this disc) of the video nasties gets a UK two disc dual format UHD and Blu-ray release from Severin Films.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoEq0AX8SUVALMM3f4qod4XF6_TT1QIo7UziIwDjSEC1uI4YcZ6LAV95zxRVqrEMiwarRcSdO8RkCC70lwf8ktO-95QvEYL19s7EYvyVhUaJs6ptpxXcquh48cr-dLV4vOwFJK7hLO-aMB9TlAvVwzKmpthGH3RJpz2bwX2SKf7nyyJqeysuiGQ_IBWo2N/s3450/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2011.08.14.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1746" data-original-width="3450" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoEq0AX8SUVALMM3f4qod4XF6_TT1QIo7UziIwDjSEC1uI4YcZ6LAV95zxRVqrEMiwarRcSdO8RkCC70lwf8ktO-95QvEYL19s7EYvyVhUaJs6ptpxXcquh48cr-dLV4vOwFJK7hLO-aMB9TlAvVwzKmpthGH3RJpz2bwX2SKf7nyyJqeysuiGQ_IBWo2N/w400-h203/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2011.08.14.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tatum (Baird Stafford) is released from his very low budget-looking psychiatric institution having undergone a revolutionary new therapy that we know is bound not to work. Still plagued by nightmares (aha!) he sets off to find his ex-wife Susan (Sharon Smith), bumping people off along the way. At the climax, we see via a blood-drenched flashback, the reason for Tatum's original incarceration.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoEuRXwobgYuTLkM1xJ2KTVBRf_kS2GeXa7F-1lCykee0U7UJJ_EtlBPEOESdlTc1EdGRve6CC_LYsJtgsk-TUtXwHKyl5SRG5JsFzyQP-TgedtkxoKapdcJG09uz9qQxKeQE1mIvYocDsF_OPUe8V3nWwZGrcipV7W8z8Ide7Ljz0Vi97TEwHaHNpfc5p/s1660/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2011.07.40.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1660" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoEuRXwobgYuTLkM1xJ2KTVBRf_kS2GeXa7F-1lCykee0U7UJJ_EtlBPEOESdlTc1EdGRve6CC_LYsJtgsk-TUtXwHKyl5SRG5JsFzyQP-TgedtkxoKapdcJG09uz9qQxKeQE1mIvYocDsF_OPUe8V3nWwZGrcipV7W8z8Ide7Ljz0Vi97TEwHaHNpfc5p/w400-h219/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2011.07.40.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Adopting an almost Pete Walker-style disdain for the ineffectiveness of psychiatric treatment that kind of makes NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN the sleazy grindhouse FRIGHTMARE of the 1980s, Romano Scavolini's film also goes so far as to suggest that the causative trauma of Tatum's psychosis may be repeated by his own demise. That's not the reason the film got into trouble, though. In the US Tom Savini's name featured prominently on the press materials and in the credits despite him have little to do with the film. In the UK the film was released by World of Video 2000 uncut despite BBFC instructions to the commentary, and they might have got away with it were it not for their accompanying round British 'Guess the weight of a human brain in a jar' competition used to publicise the film. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5GZJwGXjLTCKRdqUvs2FHKDGEidcgP2Lf8WG2GtqC0myWJnEa9iHTNwgHoAezzlbemHBcw04n-kYWemhWvXABvw9xPlmxD2HCAAZXzPg2XV5T8OIJ1-YbXyZN0tES17-n_GdAJUJQwsUL7RNCX4XKgv-ppPX6gOW1LN4InhzQkGOz5MC5r-gGih_SiIpa/s2538/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2011.07.01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1404" data-original-width="2538" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5GZJwGXjLTCKRdqUvs2FHKDGEidcgP2Lf8WG2GtqC0myWJnEa9iHTNwgHoAezzlbemHBcw04n-kYWemhWvXABvw9xPlmxD2HCAAZXzPg2XV5T8OIJ1-YbXyZN0tES17-n_GdAJUJQwsUL7RNCX4XKgv-ppPX6gOW1LN4InhzQkGOz5MC5r-gGih_SiIpa/w400-h221/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2011.07.01.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras (which are on the Blu-ray) kick off with the superb 71 minute documentary 'Damaged' about the life and career of NIGHTMARE's original UK VHS distributor David Hamilton Grant. An infamous character whose life story would likely make a film even more controversial and 'likely to cause offence' than the film itself, this is probably the final word on the man unless he ever surfaces (or is found) to offer comment. Excellent stuff and, if you have any interest in the history of British exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 1980s, this alone is worth the price of the disc.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5DYt9P89pi3fn_oJ7jOOqOjbsylVRymluYnCXK4G5R8LkcrkQ_7dia6rTu9cOpflkazE7f9D82FQ1s2MhM_svLN44YWfjz0PEvMyZFpVlSh7L2akoY3V4YjaA_uQ8B7SrUDEmXFCyBryoHcugX4RnfYZAF_YRD1QfJzE_rVWj56C__iHzcZTCrmkHZrm/s3156/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2011.06.32.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1722" data-original-width="3156" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU5DYt9P89pi3fn_oJ7jOOqOjbsylVRymluYnCXK4G5R8LkcrkQ_7dia6rTu9cOpflkazE7f9D82FQ1s2MhM_svLN44YWfjz0PEvMyZFpVlSh7L2akoY3V4YjaA_uQ8B7SrUDEmXFCyBryoHcugX4RnfYZAF_YRD1QfJzE_rVWj56C__iHzcZTCrmkHZrm/w400-h219/Screenshot%202024-01-31%20at%2011.06.32.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>40 minutes of cast and crew interviews include star Baird Stafford, Simon Nuchtern (production supervisor), Ed French and Cleve Hall (makeup), and Arthur Schweitzer (head of 21st Century Distribution). Writer-Director Romano Scavolini talks for a whopping 71 minutes about his career and the film, while Tom Savini is interviewed to iron out the controversy concerning his alleged participation in the film (his credit is still present on the print presented here). There are also deleted scenes (only a minute or so), a still gallery, trailer, and two commentary tracks - one with Stafford and Cleve Hall, the other with producer William Paul. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0qUWU8MldoyqbMmdhPib_Y4RGyewZKaSsScND5gMCboXmWZk7_xtkYWPnK3BEmLfcJyW9-pe4qc4f0-yskCr-ravzF_o8GnvUZBC6FGIebhElUZrmTRN6ouK3H_R-I3H2wh_Bu2cZn2jGfZfB4Gbi356ay9bbD99_rUqNh12l11MRCjqwqSOkIR8AA6l8/s1500/91YCyFoJJjL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="1500" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0qUWU8MldoyqbMmdhPib_Y4RGyewZKaSsScND5gMCboXmWZk7_xtkYWPnK3BEmLfcJyW9-pe4qc4f0-yskCr-ravzF_o8GnvUZBC6FGIebhElUZrmTRN6ouK3H_R-I3H2wh_Bu2cZn2jGfZfB4Gbi356ay9bbD99_rUqNh12l11MRCjqwqSOkIR8AA6l8/w400-h275/91YCyFoJJjL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Romano Scavolini's NIGHTMARES IN A DAMAGED BRAIN is out in a double-disc UHD and Blu-ray set and also as a single Blu-ray from Severin Films in the UK on Monday 26th February 2024</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-70030367174789011012024-02-16T08:45:00.004+00:002024-02-16T08:45:59.688+00:00The Wages of Fear (1953)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegKZH8S3TDXJYCGwAng9XSZvK-hj4mHVuf1XbdNW7h3mHhPDbbNgkh-BZeCPi4IVR_7ST7nnGQGXY5Qe9ywm5Tx1h3BMv2p_jo7w0t1Gr8IiAzGd5agFgHKV8DAOO43QFuLzF2_nDh7lvMkDd8YK97Un86SanH-Y7kqjydap-8V7rVpBBCADUCGxIYW-R/s1500/81a9VTN7vcL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1207" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiegKZH8S3TDXJYCGwAng9XSZvK-hj4mHVuf1XbdNW7h3mHhPDbbNgkh-BZeCPi4IVR_7ST7nnGQGXY5Qe9ywm5Tx1h3BMv2p_jo7w0t1Gr8IiAzGd5agFgHKV8DAOO43QFuLzF2_nDh7lvMkDd8YK97Un86SanH-Y7kqjydap-8V7rVpBBCADUCGxIYW-R/w321-h400/81a9VTN7vcL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"In Which Four Men Drive Two Lorries Filled With 200 Gallons of Nitroglycerine Across A Lot Of Very Bumpy Roads"</b></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>After its 2017 DVD & Blu-ray release from the same label, Henri-Georges Clouzot's masterpiece gets a 4K UHD release from the BFI.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPkUEhOtg1M2a2as3iE9ZlmDBPtJGKuwrj-DFKgQQTijvNppQ95G876oi5-s4APjMKHLIsGQi51lCyw2enssPIWg844P1P0XgF7MTgENOClQRtc2vWmXyP4A5pqUsx5tbZzN1448a3vqiDRU7KwkQrHqjfRlQynzsWEv_ibMERpXotxNLg_89sBUTZpbyk/s2654/Screenshot%202024-02-15%20at%2020.00.54.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1766" data-original-width="2654" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPkUEhOtg1M2a2as3iE9ZlmDBPtJGKuwrj-DFKgQQTijvNppQ95G876oi5-s4APjMKHLIsGQi51lCyw2enssPIWg844P1P0XgF7MTgENOClQRtc2vWmXyP4A5pqUsx5tbZzN1448a3vqiDRU7KwkQrHqjfRlQynzsWEv_ibMERpXotxNLg_89sBUTZpbyk/w400-h266/Screenshot%202024-02-15%20at%2020.00.54.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In a dead end village in South America, four men decide to risk their lives to try and earn enough money for them to escape. They are Mario (Yves Montand), Jo (Charles Vanel), Bimba (Peter van Eyck) and Luigi (Folco Lulli). When oil drilling by an American company ("Wherever there's oil there's Americans" says Luigi in one of the lines cut for the original US release of this one) results in an increasingly uncontrollable fire, the only thing that can put it out are multiple timed explosions to cap it. Unfortunately the nitro-glycerine needed to do this is some distance away, is unstable, and the only way to get it there is over treacherous rounds in two trucks with little suspension.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKEdZ_nzph78TUOLRw9mkHhfs4Ca_Gk7GAT2wG6UnhZ4VTkOyabqVVKNHmvfIM4CVyNUg7czLsox4qo1kbpgKEFcFzelGpkiQ1y1XQRJ-otef0BZXXobFWYNJNftACv5noV5gai9_lJlvPfk5rIcct0iyHRYNygimhgQsIbwmegaX68Sbc3TyXreG0UwJ5/s2376/Screenshot%202024-02-15%20at%2020.01.06.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1620" data-original-width="2376" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKEdZ_nzph78TUOLRw9mkHhfs4Ca_Gk7GAT2wG6UnhZ4VTkOyabqVVKNHmvfIM4CVyNUg7czLsox4qo1kbpgKEFcFzelGpkiQ1y1XQRJ-otef0BZXXobFWYNJNftACv5noV5gai9_lJlvPfk5rIcct0iyHRYNygimhgQsIbwmegaX68Sbc3TyXreG0UwJ5/w400-h272/Screenshot%202024-02-15%20at%2020.01.06.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Clocking in at 153 minutes, the first hour of THE WAGES OF FEAR is given over to establishing the main characters and the town they have found themselves stuck in. William Friedkin's 1977 remake SORCERER spends some time going deeper into each man's backstory, but here we stay in the village and that works fine. Once the lorries are underway the film becomes superbly tense, with absolutely no let up until the final shot.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtw814J7f73PvLVUmH6GkBbJ4xc8sJHL1b_Qx9UbhmLdAkdoq724jCkZvl0mjm9oDQj8g8pGasZUab8cT3drPY2QnuZfUpUGhqjroJySVuCpHHqZu5hyphenhyphenScoAPLACHCc00n3YWV6DOUFHiAEjjUirvQdRYmtpYA2q2zSmbeF-1mkQwl1LqZrY4elvjRfONm/s2540/Screenshot%202024-02-15%20at%2020.01.24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="2540" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtw814J7f73PvLVUmH6GkBbJ4xc8sJHL1b_Qx9UbhmLdAkdoq724jCkZvl0mjm9oDQj8g8pGasZUab8cT3drPY2QnuZfUpUGhqjroJySVuCpHHqZu5hyphenhyphenScoAPLACHCc00n3YWV6DOUFHiAEjjUirvQdRYmtpYA2q2zSmbeF-1mkQwl1LqZrY4elvjRfONm/w400-h224/Screenshot%202024-02-15%20at%2020.01.24.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The BFI's UHD disc in 4K (2160p) in HDR compatible Dolby Vision. All the extras from the previous Blu-ray release have been carried over, including Adrian Martin commentary, interviews with assistant director Michel Romanoff, Clouzit biographer Marc Godin and Professor Lucy Mazdon (68 minutes in all) and the Guardian Lecture with Yves Montand.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD2PzC1MloolhUG6eJvhjGByUCU-E1hBs88ZZSpxR5Pmg1B6RKaMv-SmnMO79UpEXR5txlXiw4SFeSv2gDYwsoNaxsrO8wOV8HWz-ZOf1dgH0aRcs5-CpHCWU-JyvXqeRUc7mfcADJ9T4C14QAvNUl-CJdSqsrNFULDbQ8kZvFFJbfrLwzROMCi7R9oDi-/s1162/Screenshot%202024-02-15%20at%2020.02.13.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="1162" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD2PzC1MloolhUG6eJvhjGByUCU-E1hBs88ZZSpxR5Pmg1B6RKaMv-SmnMO79UpEXR5txlXiw4SFeSv2gDYwsoNaxsrO8wOV8HWz-ZOf1dgH0aRcs5-CpHCWU-JyvXqeRUc7mfcADJ9T4C14QAvNUl-CJdSqsrNFULDbQ8kZvFFJbfrLwzROMCi7R9oDi-/w400-h295/Screenshot%202024-02-15%20at%2020.02.13.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>New to the UHD disc are a new 13 minute video essay by Nic Wassell, and 30 minutes of 'Treasures From the BFI National Archive'. These include THEY TAKE THE HIGH ROAD (24 minutes) about cement transport in Scotland in 1960. It's a beautifully preserved colour film featuring a number of classic lorries from the period including AECs, ERFs and Leylands. If you're into that then you'll also want to watch the five minute silent short about Thornycroft all-terrain six wheelers. Finally there's a snippet (32 seconds) of an oil fire checked by explosives from 1928.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Henri-Georges Clouzot's THE WAGES OF FEAR is out on 4K UHD from the BFI on Monday 19th February 2024</span></p></div><div><br /></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-62698571412893137982024-02-15T08:55:00.000+00:002024-02-15T08:55:19.354+00:00Deliver Us (2024)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCDohNkdBW0R99_nSDkaGfHFSTcQbGDZ2Aygm5m75_rNw5RfuYS-mhq2Se1rN25hjRfxWvDCAGyULYYLUZ5_ZUpR6Tfhoildqtc7rP0iM1agcwHbSaEAasy31sMFKaJsLNFx8s1M_w3meog7HRF6-JM8ErgfqqKisBJtAv1-IUpEV88du1TiARl678EWv/s1500/mail.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfCDohNkdBW0R99_nSDkaGfHFSTcQbGDZ2Aygm5m75_rNw5RfuYS-mhq2Se1rN25hjRfxWvDCAGyULYYLUZ5_ZUpR6Tfhoildqtc7rP0iM1agcwHbSaEAasy31sMFKaJsLNFx8s1M_w3meog7HRF6-JM8ErgfqqKisBJtAv1-IUpEV88du1TiARl678EWv/w266-h400/mail.png" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"...From This?"</b></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A group of Zoroastrians are slaughtered and skinned so that the intricate tattoos that foretell of the coming of both the Messiah and the Antichrist can be preserved. Meanwhile, in a remote Russian convent a statue of Mary weeps while a nun develops bloody stigmata.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAWKEtD8Kw9ACaNFK54vReBryDQ8215ieBuzHKZkq4xgngcRrAOJcXQEKcLwwAYBcxY_08nSBWjkwveyFLd6LBgnDw-81WSsTdhjM_pAeOeL90G-XSsCdvkCm3N8HGrTy2NW8RhdmnecH7_RazWn04Tjp6DJlFZe5xPj7RV3odUkrY4-TLcLP2OHYHTNzN/s1920/Deliver_Us_MASTER.mp4.01_03_00_21.Still006.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAWKEtD8Kw9ACaNFK54vReBryDQ8215ieBuzHKZkq4xgngcRrAOJcXQEKcLwwAYBcxY_08nSBWjkwveyFLd6LBgnDw-81WSsTdhjM_pAeOeL90G-XSsCdvkCm3N8HGrTy2NW8RhdmnecH7_RazWn04Tjp6DJlFZe5xPj7RV3odUkrY4-TLcLP2OHYHTNzN/w400-h225/Deliver_Us_MASTER.mp4.01_03_00_21.Still006.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It's barely got started and DELIVER US is already doing well in the 'no idea what's going on but this looks entertaining' stakes. Things get even better when we learn that the nun we saw is pregnant with twins who she claims talk to her and say they are the promised Messiah and Antichrist. Television broadcasts are issuing news bulletins about an impending solar eclipse and there is the suggestion that disease is spreading across the world. Can DELIVER US maintain this frenzied level of Eurotrashtastic fun?</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Unfortunately, no it can't. (Booooo!)</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxX8npEvYTk-OMNH2Bon3g8CjslHycaBnkGsCWmdfsPziZqqhB6fI-lxKOwEbs-pP0PbXFjyTMK7s4t0pZMouuU6pkkekes2_lpcVAA-iRxCws7R30c28_NkYLwzk83Op07NubKEX01p9LGl8lq59ATOeEJ6PXtdJdbHck0FqBgQX5SPlyu31Pq9xdMWKb/s1920/Deliver_Us_MASTER.mp4.01_19_35_20.Still069.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxX8npEvYTk-OMNH2Bon3g8CjslHycaBnkGsCWmdfsPziZqqhB6fI-lxKOwEbs-pP0PbXFjyTMK7s4t0pZMouuU6pkkekes2_lpcVAA-iRxCws7R30c28_NkYLwzk83Op07NubKEX01p9LGl8lq59ATOeEJ6PXtdJdbHck0FqBgQX5SPlyu31Pq9xdMWKb/w400-h225/Deliver_Us_MASTER.mp4.01_19_35_20.Still069.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Discount store Jared Leto-style hipster Catholic priest Father Fox (co-writer, co-producer, co-director and star Lee Roy Kunz, from which we shall infer nothing just yet) is despatched to the convent to find out what's going on. There he meets Cardinal Russo (Alexander Siddig who is the best thing in this but that's not hard) and one-eyed, leather apron-wearing pistol-packing Father Saul (Thomas Kretschmann) who turns out to be a villain. Yes that's right. Who would have guessed? </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBdKcfGJ9rw279FEHnBP9wT0U-1tSJNcehWZIoDZo53f5DA9JvD9-eTIMT-ounhc40j41sgBRlq1JYrmkQ-7lCZ0JVy8hqcwWaJyf8Dyuisdg78v9EIPKDhajS56nwbo84TKlAF_picliKL_3yGAXtAi3LSKfnhkQoIKeA_ZbXzqT77Q20EFggxad5q2n/s1920/Deliver_Us_MASTER.mp4.01_07_46_00.Still015.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuBdKcfGJ9rw279FEHnBP9wT0U-1tSJNcehWZIoDZo53f5DA9JvD9-eTIMT-ounhc40j41sgBRlq1JYrmkQ-7lCZ0JVy8hqcwWaJyf8Dyuisdg78v9EIPKDhajS56nwbo84TKlAF_picliKL_3yGAXtAi3LSKfnhkQoIKeA_ZbXzqT77Q20EFggxad5q2n/w400-h225/Deliver_Us_MASTER.mp4.01_07_46_00.Still015.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Our two heroes have to save the nun from Father Saul. She gives birth on a train. They all hole up in a remote part of Estonia. The film gets slower. Father Fox's pregnant girlfriend turns up and says they are problems with the oil company she runs. The film gets slower. And sillier. And slower. Every now and then there are dream sequences to give the film a bit of a boost. It doesn't work. Eventually the film sputters to a halt by which time all the goodwill DELIVER US will have engendered amongst fans of this sort of thing in its opening act has been well and truly exhausted by some incredibly poor pacing. Oh, and a lot of the dialogue is so mumbled even the subtitling machine couldn't work out what was being said, but some of the poor thing's attempts were more entertaining than the action onscreen, so if you do end up watching this one try it for yourself. In fact I can already see the bad film fans itching to rent this one. In the meantime here's the trailer:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="365" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UaH26HbAt8M" width="516" youtube-src-id="UaH26HbAt8M"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">DELIVER US is out on Digital from Altitude Films on Monday 19th February 2024</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-49515408452200768362024-02-13T10:33:00.005+00:002024-02-13T10:33:55.564+00:00Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer (2022)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwSXcaYhW1a1nupZfv63AwLxLnQdEzakBaWUttcKY9o501oKxS76TDh482Jn6uV9L1Ah3ZGeOmFVGL3zy_LarMabD61Wlcrx3JVylkWhPet2Zhmzo09Kz5wAO6wlPr7IgtyIGFNDdGlgHq_Y2-wF0tQ2k8l3Oypx9xmwMfym2-xhZA-DYiXY93SroR2pTw/s1500/71NLh0qFRgL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1207" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwSXcaYhW1a1nupZfv63AwLxLnQdEzakBaWUttcKY9o501oKxS76TDh482Jn6uV9L1Ah3ZGeOmFVGL3zy_LarMabD61Wlcrx3JVylkWhPet2Zhmzo09Kz5wAO6wlPr7IgtyIGFNDdGlgHq_Y2-wF0tQ2k8l3Oypx9xmwMfym2-xhZA-DYiXY93SroR2pTw/w321-h400/71NLh0qFRgL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"Fine Profile of a Living Legend"</b></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thomas von Steinaeker's documentary of the iconic German film-maker is getting a Blu-ray release from the BFI. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It was always going to be difficult to provide a summary of the man and his work in 90 minutes, but von Steinaeker does an excellent job of getting Herzog himself to do most of the talking, taking us through important moments (and locations) from his childhood and then talking a little about most (but by no means all) of his films.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As such RADICAL DREAMER provides and excellent introduction to Herzog and his films, such that you don't really need to have any prior knowledge of him to enjoy this and find it supremely educational. You also don't necessarily even need to know who the other interview subjects are, but chances are you'll have heard of Robert Pattinson, Christian Bale and Nicole Kidman even if you're not so familiar with Wim Wenders or Volker Schlöndorff.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>If you are a seasoned Herzog fan then you'll still find the above's comments providing fascinating insights. His relationship with Klaus Kinski is touched upon for long enough for anyone to take home the fact that Kinski frequently acted like a madman and that Herzog obviously did an excellent job of either controlling that madness, or throwing it straight back at him. Probably the best compliment RADICAL DREAMER can be given is that it had me checking my shelves to ensure my Herzog collection was complete because it's been too long since I've watched one of his movies.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras on the BFI's Blu-ray consist of an extra 15 minutes of interview footage, a gallery of poster art from Herzog films, and a trailer for the documentary. There's also THE COLONIST, a short film from Robert A Smith whom Herzog mentored. It's an atmospheric piece with some striking landscape visuals and filled with vivid colour and well worth spending ten minutes watching. The first pressing of the disc also comes with a booklet featuring new writing on Herzog. Here's a trailer:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="355" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KcMOkHu0b-w" width="480" youtube-src-id="KcMOkHu0b-w"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">WERNER HERZOG: RADICAL DREAMER is out on Blu-ray from the BFI on Monday 19th February 2024</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-39055492127031560922024-02-02T09:10:00.001+00:002024-02-02T09:10:35.198+00:00Inside aka A l'intérieur (2007)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHe9flt6M8kY_QK778Bc4XApQ2Ev5IIp0D7lisFM46EmDbNeKkLEvUjAvBVIB01ed0gpdWrEfKDmbBaKWZxrCNiTbwK0zBawPVxSjAklZp0svv15TyJ7peEmOBccNt4cXhDg6eON_657vpkDega69VhmqotBI_qJzYk6JUjF4ZRWbTbjRDUgl08DDkKGtT/s1500/81-cJQwOf8L._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1160" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHe9flt6M8kY_QK778Bc4XApQ2Ev5IIp0D7lisFM46EmDbNeKkLEvUjAvBVIB01ed0gpdWrEfKDmbBaKWZxrCNiTbwK0zBawPVxSjAklZp0svv15TyJ7peEmOBccNt4cXhDg6eON_657vpkDega69VhmqotBI_qJzYk6JUjF4ZRWbTbjRDUgl08DDkKGtT/w309-h400/81-cJQwOf8L._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's debut feature, and one of the films that formed part of the 'New French Extreme' cinema movement of the late 2000s, is getting a special limited edition Blu-ray release from Second Sight.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; 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font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Four months after surviving a car accident that killed her husband, Sarah (Alysson Paradis) is heavily pregnant to the point that her doctors are planning to induce her. The night before that happens, however, she is visited at her home by a woman (Beatrice Dalle) who has plans to take Sarah's unborn baby for herself, even if it means drenching the house in the blood of numerous victims to do so.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAWcPgZ2fAOrjO1r95P6S5_TpCmi5tZ-ae9OTJlrewA7xyVXAicC9od-YYaLCFhyjFXHcasKs4QlvavKPyxLGKIbwkwdDlv7rPUBfsexNRf5GehIOpy95zkSXxekGr7q-sBUCa7jz3M5VgjHK6B4UzA5doB1Ln83IO6Sl9nX30y3YOSgrYdWRy19PW9_F/s2540/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%2020.53.56.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="2540" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvAWcPgZ2fAOrjO1r95P6S5_TpCmi5tZ-ae9OTJlrewA7xyVXAicC9od-YYaLCFhyjFXHcasKs4QlvavKPyxLGKIbwkwdDlv7rPUBfsexNRf5GehIOpy95zkSXxekGr7q-sBUCa7jz3M5VgjHK6B4UzA5doB1Ln83IO6Sl9nX30y3YOSgrYdWRy19PW9_F/w400-h213/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%2020.53.56.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All these years later, it's surprising to see how many of the French extreme films (including HAUTE TENSION, also release by Second Sight, Pascal Laugier's INCIDENT IN A GHOSTLAND and others) have a strong fairytale element to their gory proceedings. Here Dale's psychopath behaves like the evil witch who has been promised the heroine's baby and has now come to collect and even now, 16 years after it was released, the amount of blood and gore that's caused by her machinations may well be a bit much for some to handle. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzNyBqzsQusjhgbIokTaB74hpO7WPZlvZP2LRJQWRd3oe1Si3_gUktBGNpu4maA_oz0CBT59pYI4xnuRErvZjxjcK9td8XLq5HIGZ6e8SYYqhPiPswLsbK2ZB36Qx-lFC1R_jJ9YHKR7dLsynohuG3kmEO2BYlx5U1prej0JM5VYmRRBN9Cy77eBK84SF/s2530/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%2020.54.20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="2530" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwzNyBqzsQusjhgbIokTaB74hpO7WPZlvZP2LRJQWRd3oe1Si3_gUktBGNpu4maA_oz0CBT59pYI4xnuRErvZjxjcK9td8XLq5HIGZ6e8SYYqhPiPswLsbK2ZB36Qx-lFC1R_jJ9YHKR7dLsynohuG3kmEO2BYlx5U1prej0JM5VYmRRBN9Cy77eBK84SF/w400-h213/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%2020.54.20.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It's an intense and exacting watch for sure, and while Bustillo and Maury have made other movies, the best probably being LIVIDE and the worst possibly LEATHERFACE, INSIDE remains their most extreme contribution to horror cinema. Second Sight's Blu-ray is, as one would expect, a huge improvement on the old DVD release, and there is a bunch of new extras as well.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEvH_uon69Fxw1RsGcmeNMIkRm8sWdPuUT2GluAynZQa9NyTnSnUvQzPgHitRyLXZP9EyUHC4W3vRAO-19Wi_Z6uNzvTXPpUV5E1JQ16LFrwRCC5ED1b98PFXDjoPR7poA4pNhxmQG8R1Gb9G5WD2Hi_X2sv4hNeAJ0a6aFY_RgMPYCTB7tBiICs1_Bt11/s2538/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%2020.54.30.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1348" data-original-width="2538" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEvH_uon69Fxw1RsGcmeNMIkRm8sWdPuUT2GluAynZQa9NyTnSnUvQzPgHitRyLXZP9EyUHC4W3vRAO-19Wi_Z6uNzvTXPpUV5E1JQ16LFrwRCC5ED1b98PFXDjoPR7poA4pNhxmQG8R1Gb9G5WD2Hi_X2sv4hNeAJ0a6aFY_RgMPYCTB7tBiICs1_Bt11/w400-h213/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%2020.54.30.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>First off are two new commentary tracks, one from Anna Bogutskaya in which she contextualises the film within both French horror cinema in general and the cinema extreme movement in particular before moving on to the making of the picture. The other commentary by Elena Lazic, on the other hand, is considerably more scene specific.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-eAEYGmWSa-kmYJPiBXBBZ6Y4lPW8ZlpvOyu6sSOqhujJTQJfZ9odvtKSbMOkwJiYR-5ncfhelucpEKBzEIEqf3trd5gWgLwVOpjdHN3_cuhNAS-Vk0Lej6ZRGYzEhdKYgrKK6keDQg8eBGLb5HP5c9YsF-IbVEzqQSHkLKuO5_s85cWsBc4T9ZCBV87m/s2388/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%2020.54.07.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1340" data-original-width="2388" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-eAEYGmWSa-kmYJPiBXBBZ6Y4lPW8ZlpvOyu6sSOqhujJTQJfZ9odvtKSbMOkwJiYR-5ncfhelucpEKBzEIEqf3trd5gWgLwVOpjdHN3_cuhNAS-Vk0Lej6ZRGYzEhdKYgrKK6keDQg8eBGLb5HP5c9YsF-IbVEzqQSHkLKuO5_s85cWsBc4T9ZCBV87m/w400-h225/Screenshot%202023-12-30%20at%2020.54.07.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There are new interviews with Bustillo and Maury (31 minutes), Paradis (15 minutes), DP Laurent Barès (19 minutes, producer Franck Ribière (22 minutes) and stunt coordinator Emmanuel Lanzi (15 minutes) as well as a 15 minute piece by Jenn Adams in which she describes how she was able to relate her own experiences with pregnancy and delivery to what happens in the film.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The limited edition also comes with a rigid box, a 70 page book and six collector's art cards.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXws-AyvYUT0RYU4WivruCGkf8CiDJx-dYTM_mwO4NYcLDVeVxLqenCBVOA7stuuFqaTAWNyFkor7dhMA1mX97KNyBTLPBgofdJZrAZh-Gr9s2LcNikT3yOcF26799CwcvS8jnzg4qm2RwrtQirXCjLmObqYV1PrpE3ZP-uzYd4DwAlDiKFUhNHgrE-fy1/s1500/71xLj5KmbOL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="1500" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXws-AyvYUT0RYU4WivruCGkf8CiDJx-dYTM_mwO4NYcLDVeVxLqenCBVOA7stuuFqaTAWNyFkor7dhMA1mX97KNyBTLPBgofdJZrAZh-Gr9s2LcNikT3yOcF26799CwcvS8jnzg4qm2RwrtQirXCjLmObqYV1PrpE3ZP-uzYd4DwAlDiKFUhNHgrE-fy1/w400-h319/71xLj5KmbOL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury's INSIDE is out from Second Sight on Blu-ray in both limited and standard editions on Monday 5th February 2024</span></p>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-6304975180205741802024-01-24T09:19:00.000+00:002024-01-24T09:19:48.025+00:00The Eternal Daughter (2022)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_fS5udpYgJQfLewTBTfekPzZXxKl4e6N3-WtLuVDORYUfihlA_iU6N6lG2y6ZJxO7pL4v4ffPSP-GplCcgaX0KU7eoYP4CjJE0BfCG2PiFciERXtbs0oBdztFTwGHsod_a-1PRfbTsaq5nXRzB4dxbZP3RC6IhXy3QceA9MTTcyAx9C4OlwKJNccOAv1S/s1500/61idHr6NbML._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1207" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_fS5udpYgJQfLewTBTfekPzZXxKl4e6N3-WtLuVDORYUfihlA_iU6N6lG2y6ZJxO7pL4v4ffPSP-GplCcgaX0KU7eoYP4CjJE0BfCG2PiFciERXtbs0oBdztFTwGHsod_a-1PRfbTsaq5nXRzB4dxbZP3RC6IhXy3QceA9MTTcyAx9C4OlwKJNccOAv1S/w321-h400/61idHr6NbML._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"A24 Art House Gothic - And Very Good, Too"</b></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>After premiering at the LFF in 2022 and its subsequent run in cinemas last year, Joanna Hogg's atmospheric mood piece gets a Blu-ray release from the BFI.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjD9B6RpRf7QJ17VHVrjbTKLUwQYJ0hQDEE7jiOkswFAQ9Lbndv8w0VizcFRztVfKdVmBU0tsJkHxDbXId3KrXrpTFYrTemSFNlkNOVrVi2mU-dusiuPjrj-NxMqsFsVjjXuhe2guwf1qNpp07K02CHzW5t5QjATvBwRDGkXumz2IWi-Gsqy55LkN7jm1m/s3018/Screenshot%202024-01-23%20at%2020.14.44.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1354" data-original-width="3018" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjD9B6RpRf7QJ17VHVrjbTKLUwQYJ0hQDEE7jiOkswFAQ9Lbndv8w0VizcFRztVfKdVmBU0tsJkHxDbXId3KrXrpTFYrTemSFNlkNOVrVi2mU-dusiuPjrj-NxMqsFsVjjXuhe2guwf1qNpp07K02CHzW5t5QjATvBwRDGkXumz2IWi-Gsqy55LkN7jm1m/w400-h180/Screenshot%202024-01-23%20at%2020.14.44.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Julie Hart (Tilda Swinton) arrives at a remote Welsh country hotel with her mother Rosalind (Swinton again) for them to spend a few days together. Julie is a film-maker and plans to spend the daytime working on a new writing project. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5PZp44ok6R3Pi_0QsdU9_x-PD6SzJzLZV-aV7Z-_F2PlszAM65xgOxzx0n0_FpeZRThCbRz0GE05IMl-2dm6unjQxuxSr5DAeN9l3xSC5TbPR9NZ3ReWew4cX-JdFQYynHWIuNePCkfeDA8G79yU3t1luvba4fKsM2cIempU8rCBZySIn4DQssvr84_P4/s3000/Screenshot%202024-01-23%20at%2020.14.59.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1778" data-original-width="3000" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5PZp44ok6R3Pi_0QsdU9_x-PD6SzJzLZV-aV7Z-_F2PlszAM65xgOxzx0n0_FpeZRThCbRz0GE05IMl-2dm6unjQxuxSr5DAeN9l3xSC5TbPR9NZ3ReWew4cX-JdFQYynHWIuNePCkfeDA8G79yU3t1luvba4fKsM2cIempU8rCBZySIn4DQssvr84_P4/w400-h238/Screenshot%202024-01-23%20at%2020.14.59.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As time goes on it becomes apparent that there is nobody else staying at the hotel. It also seems that Julie's mother used to live there and she tells Julie how the rooms have changed since she was a resident. Things get stranger, culminating in Rosalind's birthday when the bringing in of a cake leads to revelations.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDgE8gDZMMQD_O_VWYL-m8175AOM554NKD9w7KRHYvNOBKohIJvcqAY8-6Mi1MHo1N3dU0HT0ueU3DvF81isr76NkCO1-54UfLR21qdRrV0S6f6xCXgsdn9tpXGfXMvnWyl1kgd_YajyJ_V99FDh0i8FnStJaWdfbP0kTfn447MO7JZZijBBb9M4QrEPR/s3002/Screenshot%202024-01-23%20at%2020.15.12.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1774" data-original-width="3002" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRDgE8gDZMMQD_O_VWYL-m8175AOM554NKD9w7KRHYvNOBKohIJvcqAY8-6Mi1MHo1N3dU0HT0ueU3DvF81isr76NkCO1-54UfLR21qdRrV0S6f6xCXgsdn9tpXGfXMvnWyl1kgd_YajyJ_V99FDh0i8FnStJaWdfbP0kTfn447MO7JZZijBBb9M4QrEPR/w400-h236/Screenshot%202024-01-23%20at%2020.15.12.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER has a very slight plot but makes up for it with a lot of very well done gothic atmosphere. Hogg films both interiors and exteriors from just the right angle and with just the right amount of lighting (or lack of it) to suggest extreme creepiness. In fact if Mike Flanagan hadn't already recently remade THE HAUNTING for Netflix the thought of Joanna Hogg making it would have been most welcome. </span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Swinton is excellent in both roles (no surprises there) and the film gets bonus points for having her character reading the original Robert Aickman-edited Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories at breakfast. Like Aickman's own stories, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER is more about gradually building a sense of unease than delivering shocks, so you'll be best rewarded if you go in not expecting the kind of blood and thunder one might associate with the term 'Gothic', but rather something that's going to get under your skin and keep you thinking about it for days afterwards.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWiO-16HgQfYL044OYuuwJ_uTGKLEz6UjOozAd08a3dEmSv_bAdgdpXko6wbdJjTXTzXlRfAcDqEwf2zz2lFdWXg2zbLW_EN-z8puLKcCaarnvHeGQ3GShq6T7awb084MBROV3ZT3_E5Y32jJZsIoLLU94uRZlBSX9PVY6hwsyookW5EysjbtJCr284qNQ/s3022/Screenshot%202024-01-23%20at%2020.15.22.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="3022" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWiO-16HgQfYL044OYuuwJ_uTGKLEz6UjOozAd08a3dEmSv_bAdgdpXko6wbdJjTXTzXlRfAcDqEwf2zz2lFdWXg2zbLW_EN-z8puLKcCaarnvHeGQ3GShq6T7awb084MBROV3ZT3_E5Y32jJZsIoLLU94uRZlBSX9PVY6hwsyookW5EysjbtJCr284qNQ/w400-h238/Screenshot%202024-01-23%20at%2020.15.22.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras on the BFI's Blu-ray include an excellent commentary track with Hogg and production designer Stéphane Collonge which discusses some of the inspiration for the film (NIGHT OF THE DEMON, THE INNOCENTS) as well as many of the details about how it was made. Another audio track provides audio description which more discs should have. There's a 35 minute Q&A with Hogg and Swinton and a separate, 76 minute conversation with Hogg which covers her entire career. You also get PRESAGES, an 11 minute short film with Hogg narration. Finally the disc comes with an informative booklet featuring essays by Catherine Bray and Hannah Strong, and an interview with Hogg by Roger Luckhurst.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Joanna Hogg's THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER is out now from the BFI on Blu-ray and Digital</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-44177201974695705542024-01-20T09:06:00.001+00:002024-01-20T09:06:12.884+00:00Haute Tension (2004)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUyUITm6XyvUAq9BcQ8n1vXJYneIrpBwoRl3QCuJK5LifHizUmmP-D_c09c1suPcBq4whBwKKNGZWsum9eQTGWhrqN9521Ayo3niwTvtbMdqHeEP4GxHjaOweLj-Plvup7gTiYTCscycJHAHqGxuJ9oaKGSUceFZw0mJV5B1igze-mFtPGDEEXGvW4Osb/s782/image002.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="684" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXUyUITm6XyvUAq9BcQ8n1vXJYneIrpBwoRl3QCuJK5LifHizUmmP-D_c09c1suPcBq4whBwKKNGZWsum9eQTGWhrqN9521Ayo3niwTvtbMdqHeEP4GxHjaOweLj-Plvup7gTiYTCscycJHAHqGxuJ9oaKGSUceFZw0mJV5B1igze-mFtPGDEEXGvW4Osb/w350-h400/image002.png" width="350" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Co-writer and director Alexandre Aja's 'French Extreme' movie gets the special edition treatment from Second Sight on UHD and Blu-ray. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0wjFLtmU9ut6jLo4eHTfzuqDA7Le820_bWcg4LxBcb4A0G6_VKK3Sf8sFwoVqAesM7uunhuUPV0vrdTIXVb35JMHwc-ft903fzHnaOyWCFTtLTKofU4i1kY2425u-i10SYsggoglaUy0hOoP7NOYbz2IjZ4_8BMQLXdi1wZp90-cMHHLBySPt05YdvJI/s3442/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2021.37.41.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1454" data-original-width="3442" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0wjFLtmU9ut6jLo4eHTfzuqDA7Le820_bWcg4LxBcb4A0G6_VKK3Sf8sFwoVqAesM7uunhuUPV0vrdTIXVb35JMHwc-ft903fzHnaOyWCFTtLTKofU4i1kY2425u-i10SYsggoglaUy0hOoP7NOYbz2IjZ4_8BMQLXdi1wZp90-cMHHLBySPt05YdvJI/w400-h169/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2021.37.41.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Marie (Cécile De France) and Alex (Maïwenn) are planning to spend the weekend with Alex's family at their remote country farmhouse. However, as night falls a brutal killer invades the building and kills everyone but Alex, whom he imprisons in his van, and Marie whom he is unable to find and who gives pursuit. As the night progresses and the chase continues it eventually transpires that this is a more complex game of killer and prey than seems initially apparent. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGWBtAzMw6y_96vA6zKbdFJEx-0gvgrkmtUmLGQzJwEFV_gTVSZEp7oaF9xyYp6UsATWKoc-vFIN3emXe3dARZqumDfpgvbMDCCCnbYFxkwYnLb4-F_BRewfBrrFAchyphenhyphenTTPHzCerTvGm3_KrpY0Y6S-axucR25eocbCHca_bYxlFEr2F37M22j2TKMi5q1/s2530/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2021.37.52.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1076" data-original-width="2530" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGWBtAzMw6y_96vA6zKbdFJEx-0gvgrkmtUmLGQzJwEFV_gTVSZEp7oaF9xyYp6UsATWKoc-vFIN3emXe3dARZqumDfpgvbMDCCCnbYFxkwYnLb4-F_BRewfBrrFAchyphenhyphenTTPHzCerTvGm3_KrpY0Y6S-axucR25eocbCHca_bYxlFEr2F37M22j2TKMi5q1/w400-h170/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2021.37.52.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HAUTE TENSION is a film made to be watched at least twice, because as Dr Lindsay Hallam says in her extremely detailed, listenable and enlightening new commentary, the second time round you find yourself watching a completely different film. What doesn't change anytime you watch this, though, is the degree of violence and gore, demonstrated via some excellent physical effects by one of the masters of the form, Giannetto De Rossi. It's a testament to the man's skill that even in UHD his makeups look painfully convincing. As is the case with any film that can be classed under 'Extreme French Cinema' the cast are really put through their paces, especially the leads, and Aja wrings every bit of tension he can out of what everyone admits on the extras was a very small budget.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_j9J5tGsBTWl55TOGjtcQ5VMyHwPyAAzTIu3NEEvqxJLMX7wf7aljR6b2WaAB4FxP-DDMlz1QoSJ6c9eACgDpZjTehDoHhX73pMCkZQJaXJ37spj4Qkz3lMuiTWp-gwSfq2lkAgkQZTJmFTVu8Qs2PPinYPOAYu0bO_Vf2tAX8Qpk5-Bm3dH0YJrv_WIf/s2512/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2021.38.17.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="2512" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_j9J5tGsBTWl55TOGjtcQ5VMyHwPyAAzTIu3NEEvqxJLMX7wf7aljR6b2WaAB4FxP-DDMlz1QoSJ6c9eACgDpZjTehDoHhX73pMCkZQJaXJ37spj4Qkz3lMuiTWp-gwSfq2lkAgkQZTJmFTVu8Qs2PPinYPOAYu0bO_Vf2tAX8Qpk5-Bm3dH0YJrv_WIf/w400-h169/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2021.38.17.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>As for the new extras, along with the excellent commentary Second Sight provide us with a bunch of new interviews including Alexandre Aja (35 minutes) who admits he loves the UK title of SWITCHBLADE ROMANCE, co-writer Gregory Levasseur (19 minutes), DP Maxime Alexandre (18 minutes) and FX man De Rossi (18 minutes). There's also a 13 minute piece from Alexandra Heller-Nicholas that discusses the film in relation to the concept of the 'final girl'.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ported over are a number of archival extras including a making of (38 minutes) and interviews with actors De France (23 minutes), Maïwenn (6 minutes) and Philippe Nahon (5 minutes) who plays the killer. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWG7nuOazI-kiMuKter5cAjLzdqP7WfwSlpeatn4GwjcvQi_pzkfIFTS2V-p5dgSfrlgcZ65XGDCpsQsD2nwI_6e5qF0zFrZET1YnIDLNzBeMFM6gpfM8EyhQnGSB9q4O4TtBn7DJ2YtD2cOHxIGoWSLb5lGN-NGJTX-dlaeGlkaFzi44FCW-NYAi_RO9Y/s2512/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2021.38.37.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="2512" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWG7nuOazI-kiMuKter5cAjLzdqP7WfwSlpeatn4GwjcvQi_pzkfIFTS2V-p5dgSfrlgcZ65XGDCpsQsD2nwI_6e5qF0zFrZET1YnIDLNzBeMFM6gpfM8EyhQnGSB9q4O4TtBn7DJ2YtD2cOHxIGoWSLb5lGN-NGJTX-dlaeGlkaFzi44FCW-NYAi_RO9Y/w400-h170/Screenshot%202023-12-08%20at%2021.38.37.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Finally, Second Sight's set comes with a 70 page book with new writing on the film, six art cards and a rigid slipcase to keep it all in. Here's Second Sight's trailer:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="420" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/o-HYZIWAo8M" width="505" youtube-src-id="o-HYZIWAo8M"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNRr9cQ0iaWMrf8t3kLyExGsVRP3x0cgDE8U5uwirWvwHfqGvFB0QyduB8Ww6xABEIQS7n69kQTUsD-Sw_5LNg7KmpHIq6HKLAoJ-2BYLC6PumuhadGK-2fjm75VD2hWJvKUVN82cs_ehMv0Z-DprTB2k-xN_X21iAH5X8VVpQtlty6xV-D3TfoRCfKMKU/s609/image003.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="609" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNRr9cQ0iaWMrf8t3kLyExGsVRP3x0cgDE8U5uwirWvwHfqGvFB0QyduB8Ww6xABEIQS7n69kQTUsD-Sw_5LNg7KmpHIq6HKLAoJ-2BYLC6PumuhadGK-2fjm75VD2hWJvKUVN82cs_ehMv0Z-DprTB2k-xN_X21iAH5X8VVpQtlty6xV-D3TfoRCfKMKU/w400-h400/image003.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Alexandre Aja's HAUTE TENSION is getting a UHD and Blu-ray limited edition release from Second Sight Films on Monday 22nd January 2023</span></p>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-58146891999865944542024-01-19T08:54:00.000+00:002024-01-19T08:54:12.983+00:00Scala!!! (2023)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Lq3uTPElKY7fZBJbwuF9bmzYp-sEJXXqR1-3GtNiMoiBJHOArmQo0MW0LoLW9uLE6U8VxHUeEpU_iK6s8onsCMmkwIXyycXmezjaLZdCayGHYynDFpQrIvsd9r0sK6r4NDYrAXdRp_iGJQu7hFujm4D-3fWx7lkCkm7ZaJ30k-T2KT5pD2Nc268AGrsd/s1500/91WeQ7Fgj5L._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1207" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Lq3uTPElKY7fZBJbwuF9bmzYp-sEJXXqR1-3GtNiMoiBJHOArmQo0MW0LoLW9uLE6U8VxHUeEpU_iK6s8onsCMmkwIXyycXmezjaLZdCayGHYynDFpQrIvsd9r0sK6r4NDYrAXdRp_iGJQu7hFujm4D-3fWx7lkCkm7ZaJ30k-T2KT5pD2Nc268AGrsd/w321-h400/91WeQ7Fgj5L._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"A Joyous & Nostalgic Celebration of a Unique Cultural Entity"</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Following on from the utterly gorgeous book published by FAB Press on the very same subject, Jane Giles and Ali Catterall's documentary on the iconic Scala cinema gets a Blu-ray and Digital release (full detail of platforms below) from the BFI.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It's a fascinating, well put-together documentary that chronicles, through first-hand reminiscences from a wide variety of interviewees, the rise and fall of the London cinema (eventually based at King's Cross) whose audience was almost as bizarre and eclectic as the films that were screened there. </span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The only place you could see stuff like Curt McDowells' 1975 THUNDERCRACK, Russ Meyer retrospectives, and even Kubrick's A CLOCKWORK ORANGE in the UK (the illegal nature of which led to the cinema's undoing) I only attended the Scala twice in its heyday, for two of the Shock Around the Clock film festivals organised by Alan Jones and Stejan Jaworzyn, but I'm happy to testify that SCALA!!! really does convey the sticky, grungy, crazy atmosphere of what the place was like at that time. It was obviously loved by an awful lot of people and that love comes across in the 96 minute history we get of it here.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuYJmrM3JZqmU6bMWbJekZnqebP44Tae81BQZo_0feE0pWxQZcsH4YRYnioB8cXQrMv69Szj9wIkNISMP9lUUHygoKh375m79JxbE5zNShM3Js8hgfp2whfh4JnYYnndxFt6YsaaR53YVXPKwUvfaNHOylXJyKSRgXqV3sua7JA7ZCE-vwXJnV-2Ljmvr/s3102/Screenshot%202024-01-09%20at%2020.43.30.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1840" data-original-width="3102" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuYJmrM3JZqmU6bMWbJekZnqebP44Tae81BQZo_0feE0pWxQZcsH4YRYnioB8cXQrMv69Szj9wIkNISMP9lUUHygoKh375m79JxbE5zNShM3Js8hgfp2whfh4JnYYnndxFt6YsaaR53YVXPKwUvfaNHOylXJyKSRgXqV3sua7JA7ZCE-vwXJnV-2Ljmvr/w400-h238/Screenshot%202024-01-09%20at%2020.43.30.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras include an extra hour of interview footage with the likes of Peter Strickland, Mary Harron, Douglas Hart, Kim Newman, Stewart Lee, Jane Giles and Stephen Woolley. Osbert Parker's animations and Davey Jones' cartoons for the documentary are also included in their entirety. There's the twelve minute London Film Festival introduction from programmer Jason Wood, in which he quite rightly states that all culture has value and that something that means nothing to one person may mean the world to another, so don't be a snob. Wise words for us all to live by.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>There's a short film included also called Scala, which is a 35 minute archival made for cable documentary, and you also get a four minute shot on video student film about the Scala in 1992. Three short 'Scala favourites' are also included - Relax (23 minutes), Flames of Passion (18 minutes) and Viv Albertine's Coping With Cupid (19 minutes). Cabinet of Curiosities is 18 minutes of curios from the cinema with narration by Jane Giles, who also talks us through 15 of the Scala's monthly programmes. Finally, Giles and Ali Catterall provide a commentary for the film.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The BFI's Blu-ray also comes with a booklet with original writing on the film from Jane Giles and Ali Catterall, plus even more memories from those who were there and a piece from Osbert Parker about his animations. Here's the trailer:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="337" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jovQuVxS2hk" width="479" youtube-src-id="jovQuVxS2hk"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SCALA!!! is out on Blu-ray and on Digital on BFI Player, iTunes and Amazon Prime from Monday 22nd January 2024</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-23915899371761043592024-01-18T08:35:00.000+00:002024-01-18T08:35:01.989+00:00The Civil Dead (2022)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSMAAYj7b1_3tbtNbFw2cXdjkD7gJePYMqHBd32amFvJkF_xvcgV-VAjIzu6rGW4QvN3D37izWwaAi7GqxzN_Tbj21ZKEKTYRVGhby_6ZfuVJ9v2IXzF1eA3sHQF6MDN2xhUXSmjR_rcSIkxfSUbuSgg_uZ8CMsf3UBotuD2AmzzHUbQMyFqI8p3j1MfXi/s4000/TheCivilDead_Quad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSMAAYj7b1_3tbtNbFw2cXdjkD7gJePYMqHBd32amFvJkF_xvcgV-VAjIzu6rGW4QvN3D37izWwaAi7GqxzN_Tbj21ZKEKTYRVGhby_6ZfuVJ9v2IXzF1eA3sHQF6MDN2xhUXSmjR_rcSIkxfSUbuSgg_uZ8CMsf3UBotuD2AmzzHUbQMyFqI8p3j1MfXi/w400-h300/TheCivilDead_Quad.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"All a Bit Too One-Note"</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The debut feature of writers-producers-stars Clay Tatum and Whitmer Thomas, with Tatum directing, gets a digital and selected cinema release from Bulldog Distribution.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUJGot8d4Z9Vqc0Z_OL7d9FCli8q5tfXU47otd3mGlowwfCb4sbANxCreQEytPMpsCLFNmvd83P1AkQf73VAMr9S97sce0iVjYfe81uLEcqYh9N6NQs6OHtdWfx1taTGYxEApIQyf4_kWVNGtesdO4Ia5TKbTlQ6WUk5YIs9B17Y2Y0JnfmOO4YY4yVYK/s1920/Clay%20Tatum%20and%20Whitmer%20Thomas%20in%20THE%20CIVIL%20DEAD%20(Bulldog%20Film%20Distribution).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUJGot8d4Z9Vqc0Z_OL7d9FCli8q5tfXU47otd3mGlowwfCb4sbANxCreQEytPMpsCLFNmvd83P1AkQf73VAMr9S97sce0iVjYfe81uLEcqYh9N6NQs6OHtdWfx1taTGYxEApIQyf4_kWVNGtesdO4Ia5TKbTlQ6WUk5YIs9B17Y2Y0JnfmOO4YY4yVYK/w400-h225/Clay%20Tatum%20and%20Whitmer%20Thomas%20in%20THE%20CIVIL%20DEAD%20(Bulldog%20Film%20Distribution).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hopeless slacker of a photographer Clay (Tatum), a man who can't even get his haircut right, is desperately short of cash to pay his rent. His latest scam involves pretending his house is for rent and then charging prospective applicants $50 just to apply to live there. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwYZUb9Qsmz2v5FTcPCG35III-NgA-JmIkHFrCsrpx1nTO2xuYwBb3k2QSzDftfkxvcw9Xfw9iAfxVexrgXzeiIy4T5YLB8xr34CsXd5SuX5gzDYn5FJ5EFO2VnonLuxGcRGiUrm2T6alLlq5A4O6PdM6nh_oF6tGfG3o_5DuAqSCovN1s-gD5FrSq6y0/s1920/Whitmer%20Thomas%20and%20Clay%20Tatum%20in%20THE%20CIVIL%20DEAD%20(Bulldog%20Film%20Distribution)%20(01).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwYZUb9Qsmz2v5FTcPCG35III-NgA-JmIkHFrCsrpx1nTO2xuYwBb3k2QSzDftfkxvcw9Xfw9iAfxVexrgXzeiIy4T5YLB8xr34CsXd5SuX5gzDYn5FJ5EFO2VnonLuxGcRGiUrm2T6alLlq5A4O6PdM6nh_oF6tGfG3o_5DuAqSCovN1s-gD5FrSq6y0/w400-h225/Whitmer%20Thomas%20and%20Clay%20Tatum%20in%20THE%20CIVIL%20DEAD%20(Bulldog%20Film%20Distribution)%20(01).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>With no job prospects Clay decides to take some random 'art' shots and meets Whit (Thomas). Whit is an old friend from high school who says he now works as an actor. He also happens to be a ghost and only Clay can see him. This comes in useful when Clay enters a poker game and wins big with Whit's help. But Whit hasn't exactly told Clay the truth about himself.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdAzNe5PzfpCGGsfEL0XgwWjnpnYiLq5vi0saq81BZ1imo5klHrQqZ3mmXYCQSkVjGNHV7sXZ5lqS9aVtFc4O4Q6XreOvqyo3DHeCm9vq9LARWDI-i4G53vEH9upIJQ5YzwhzbpzgLWXmivBtirfs1lAtdLLKYDXl5Tt52M8YZrV6lY_9hTYZUvidC3UUN/s1920/Whitmer%20Thomas%20in%20THE%20CIVIL%20DEAD%20(Bulldog%20Film%20Distribution).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdAzNe5PzfpCGGsfEL0XgwWjnpnYiLq5vi0saq81BZ1imo5klHrQqZ3mmXYCQSkVjGNHV7sXZ5lqS9aVtFc4O4Q6XreOvqyo3DHeCm9vq9LARWDI-i4G53vEH9upIJQ5YzwhzbpzgLWXmivBtirfs1lAtdLLKYDXl5Tt52M8YZrV6lY_9hTYZUvidC3UUN/w400-h225/Whitmer%20Thomas%20in%20THE%20CIVIL%20DEAD%20(Bulldog%20Film%20Distribution).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shot during lockdown on a budget of allegedly $30 000, which is admirable, THE CIVIL DEAD suffers from being way too long at 104 minutes, with scenes that could easily have been edited down or cut altogether to make the film a lot tighter. The somewhat one-note nature of the relationship of the 'comedy pair' doesn't really develop over the running time, and while the film has obviously been shot for no money, the muddy, sepia-tinted photography starts to grate on the eyes after a while. It's possible that Tatum and Thomas have talent, and there seem to be a lot of more positive reviews out there which is why I haven't felt too bad about being honest with this one, but THE CIVIL DEAD outstays its welcome long before Whitmer Thomas' ghost does the same in the movie. Anyway, here's the trailer, which does succeed in making the film look rather more appealing:</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="317" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VciWjySiqnI" width="484" youtube-src-id="VciWjySiqnI"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">THE CIVIL DEAD is out in selected cinemas and on Digital from Bulldog Distribution on Friday 19th January 2024</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-67245371223011315602024-01-17T09:33:00.000+00:002024-01-17T09:33:24.536+00:00Punch (2023)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsGvluO15lahXyNvyu9fLeiJ-3a1-QwFEoaCqIcAX166omP7joFIPut4UofNuZmN47jiTb0jyicHZJH4bgvAKc8hvM8M3z2p4rgawvkL59SSqM_Yh6-Np64l5kF2GiogUyAnCx8YmXGJ_Kt0wY0Gu7k2II16vZVVB7up9kOKZKNq0SaauAum1knhyesjuQ/s766/image002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="766" data-original-width="510" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsGvluO15lahXyNvyu9fLeiJ-3a1-QwFEoaCqIcAX166omP7joFIPut4UofNuZmN47jiTb0jyicHZJH4bgvAKc8hvM8M3z2p4rgawvkL59SSqM_Yh6-Np64l5kF2GiogUyAnCx8YmXGJ_Kt0wY0Gu7k2II16vZVVB7up9kOKZKNq0SaauAum1knhyesjuQ/w266-h400/image002.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"Really Not the Way to Do It"</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Where would ultra low-budget British horror films be without drone shots, those often professional-looking pieces of footage that are then interspersed between scenes of characters talking about nothing in particular, frequently in nightclubs or at parties until 'some horror happens', eventually, in films that tend to last around 80 minutes and still feel as if they take an age to get going?</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And so we come to PUNCH, which somehow premiered at this year's Frightfest, is getting a digital release from Miracle media, and is guilty of all the above. Girls have been disappearing at a grim seaside resort and it looks like a man in a 'Punch' mask (as in 'and Judy' although the film assumes the viewer has a working knowledge of this seaside tradition) is responsible. He whacks people over the head with a baseball bat, talks in a frequently unintelligible 'Punch' voice, and sets his sights on Frankie (Alina Allison) with the climax taking place in an amusement park at night.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>PUNCH boasts a great, grim, seaside location, and the killer's mask is scary, but otherwise this is pretty low rent stuff with numerous missed opportunities to build suspense and atmosphere. Here's the trailer:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="304" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VJxlN5yKVh4" width="432" youtube-src-id="VJxlN5yKVh4"></iframe></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">PUNCH is out on Digital from Miracle Media on Monday 22nd January 2024</span></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-27244084727477492202024-01-16T09:14:00.002+00:002024-01-16T09:14:16.565+00:00Devil Girl From Mars (1954)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsT_f60D491ZyUaNhKEjdDeD257iadNt6khbdnZn_gFm6JDpOK_hvW70hytV7kuFpclBgIMnZB0-AaHfHfb94KYfl1OFwLWqFCyzs5tRBYVS4FYh5znIqO9MThcti7whkCE_ZGd9Ib5pymv4uoxSSl5GaMdLbxyLbAP3HuYPynGcgwzLMpBaMsSEHnHEG/s2014/1296x2014_DevilGirlFromMars_BD_OR_3DPack.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2014" data-original-width="1296" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMsT_f60D491ZyUaNhKEjdDeD257iadNt6khbdnZn_gFm6JDpOK_hvW70hytV7kuFpclBgIMnZB0-AaHfHfb94KYfl1OFwLWqFCyzs5tRBYVS4FYh5znIqO9MThcti7whkCE_ZGd9Ib5pymv4uoxSSl5GaMdLbxyLbAP3HuYPynGcgwzLMpBaMsSEHnHEG/w258-h400/1296x2014_DevilGirlFromMars_BD_OR_3DPack.png" width="258" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"Classic Ropey Old British Tat"</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Oh yes, the UK wasn't just making all-time classic SF like THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT in the 1950s, there was stuff like this as well (and FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE and if you liked that you'll love this). DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS is getting a Blu-ray and DVD release from Studio Canal and of you didn't get to see it on Saturday morning TV back in the day now's your chance.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjtm5ztU1ff8IcivPQeU9kfOOyRVO3CuNAN9kFayPcaSj5QfvYtoqD2foRfmfT1VEeC0Mg6LjLA-Mdhl0wB9ytD936ALQbFH1QthB-lhafBLVAvYZ5E-ykDOjVNy95Xg7kUmbUidObMEDlaNLfO2cTwfYekPhBGDx6mV9It-HR8eQI86LeA3IZRyxxCtn-/s3564/BW004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2835" data-original-width="3564" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjtm5ztU1ff8IcivPQeU9kfOOyRVO3CuNAN9kFayPcaSj5QfvYtoqD2foRfmfT1VEeC0Mg6LjLA-Mdhl0wB9ytD936ALQbFH1QthB-lhafBLVAvYZ5E-ykDOjVNy95Xg7kUmbUidObMEDlaNLfO2cTwfYekPhBGDx6mV9It-HR8eQI86LeA3IZRyxxCtn-/w400-h319/BW004.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A motley assortment of characters including a model (Hazel Court), a physics professor who is essentially Quatermass-lite (Joseph Tomelty), an annoying alcoholic journalist (Hugh McDermott who probably wasn't supposed to be annoying back in 1954) and an escaped convict (Peter Reynolds) all find themselves together in a remote Scottish pub run by John Laurie with Adrienne Corri behind the bar.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb8eKROY8si2UW1wDxllfU3rmluYr2GSdSpeIAFy3jyd_cGX-twZlmhPZN9IGY8p-5RVoUp5mY11EZDIloY2i_Mc4R60VwYjto8yeLGp_w63Ult2XGPOIRhuRKmI5lPC4YXn6FJvGBebZ2rnRyj-oBcD5HWiAwQ6xWSOz2Eq9SGCgPb6o2TXUh4wVrhkLF/s3677/BW005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2835" data-original-width="3677" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb8eKROY8si2UW1wDxllfU3rmluYr2GSdSpeIAFy3jyd_cGX-twZlmhPZN9IGY8p-5RVoUp5mY11EZDIloY2i_Mc4R60VwYjto8yeLGp_w63Ult2XGPOIRhuRKmI5lPC4YXn6FJvGBebZ2rnRyj-oBcD5HWiAwQ6xWSOz2Eq9SGCgPb6o2TXUh4wVrhkLF/w400-h309/BW005.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A massive spaceship lands in their back garden and Patricia Laffan in a supremely impressive black leather outfit emerges, along with her enormous robot. She's come to collect men to take back to Mars and humanity has no chance. We know this because she keeps coming in through the French windows that are more a conceit to British drama than Scottish accuracy to tell them so. Does she succeed in her scheme or is it thwarted in a welter of very low-budget but creative effects?</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbHSqK2Zy_To75Iw9tkTmiuSOTtkx8OjXymhyYxYmkD6WieTTWo0z5xdMxuwAlPJjWmOPPUZ8o4k61NWgZY_l7mGyWscPF8wsG3DZ0ObS3VC2xbRKyH1oNaYzI3VcyvWjiRzId3-vTHQzDCWo7e0a0w2nsfW3dzCk2Qd-wUO5UZl5PKNoENMAfOUnXmjKI/s3595/BW002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2835" data-original-width="3595" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbHSqK2Zy_To75Iw9tkTmiuSOTtkx8OjXymhyYxYmkD6WieTTWo0z5xdMxuwAlPJjWmOPPUZ8o4k61NWgZY_l7mGyWscPF8wsG3DZ0ObS3VC2xbRKyH1oNaYzI3VcyvWjiRzId3-vTHQzDCWo7e0a0w2nsfW3dzCk2Qd-wUO5UZl5PKNoENMAfOUnXmjKI/w400-h315/BW002.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In their commentary included on this disc, Kim Newman and Barry Forshaw express considerable affection for this film, even going so far as to cheekily suggest that Jonathan Glazer's Scarlet Johansson-starring UNDER THE SKIN is a remake (well she does land in Scotland). Certainly the two films would make a good double bill. They also quite rightly say that the US equivalent of this would be ROBOT MONSTER or possibly even PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE but in terms of quality (cast wise if nothing else) this is way above those film in terms of quality. Studio Canal's disc also comes with a 17 minute talking head piece from Newman which includes some of what's in the commentary but also has different material.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Important: A DVD was provided for review and worked fine on our player, but numerous reports have come in about the Blu-ray of DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS having synchronisation issues so you may want to wait before you buy.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS is out from Studio Canal on Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 15th January 2024</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-9160330253647123972024-01-10T09:34:00.000+00:002024-01-10T09:34:06.973+00:00Horrors of the Black Museum (1959)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdma0SeqLR2Vj1kVJO2BSg2csPHtPnGPU_0dOZaR8uwCR0HHpzpBQLH7DEkvv7rBYW0FJKfitgdei54dr-EHS8WK9F_nTp3lBTGfKbdEPZchMgrl7cyKdALWLU-DL2AWM7e1YBce54-tDWkOme3nynGjByDOh9uLFygErM4ZoEdwKj-TK53EqqAAmG9Ivr/s2014/1612x2014_HorrorsOfTheBlackMuseum_BD_OR_2DPack.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2014" data-original-width="1612" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdma0SeqLR2Vj1kVJO2BSg2csPHtPnGPU_0dOZaR8uwCR0HHpzpBQLH7DEkvv7rBYW0FJKfitgdei54dr-EHS8WK9F_nTp3lBTGfKbdEPZchMgrl7cyKdALWLU-DL2AWM7e1YBce54-tDWkOme3nynGjByDOh9uLFygErM4ZoEdwKj-TK53EqqAAmG9Ivr/w320-h400/1612x2014_HorrorsOfTheBlackMuseum_BD_OR_2DPack.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Producer Herman Cohen's contribution to Anglo-Amalgamated's trio of 'Sadean' releases of 1959 (the others being Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM and Sidney Hayers' CIRCUS OF HORRORS) gets a UK Blu-ray release from Studio Canal.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3V2hcJrDz178H2-ozauSVh99GrIcE3Qbr4MR8gK_0RcUh1aNsyooG70uRkRiwFTSZOaYHFQcr6JScw06QhykvpQr_wSTh5NrUQ0rBu9SQsWq138eijX_9y4Izc0BhRwM9Q8UJ5nM9Q3stn-MZP0H3WHJIg4v2BWnXpOukA1SscITLr-EmADVVohTmYEp/s4102/02CAP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="4102" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy3V2hcJrDz178H2-ozauSVh99GrIcE3Qbr4MR8gK_0RcUh1aNsyooG70uRkRiwFTSZOaYHFQcr6JScw06QhykvpQr_wSTh5NrUQ0rBu9SQsWq138eijX_9y4Izc0BhRwM9Q8UJ5nM9Q3stn-MZP0H3WHJIg4v2BWnXpOukA1SscITLr-EmADVVohTmYEp/w400-h173/02CAP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A girl unwraps a parcel, puts the binoculars she finds inside to her eyes, adjusts the focus and two spikes shoot into her eye sockets. It's just the latest in a series of gruesome killings in which Scotland Yard are baffled, which is good for us the audience as it means we get to see more of them, including a decapitation by guillotine and death by huge ice tongs.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQex-OouIGMsriU1NjRNeJ8pcYQWGoy5GFKdG_CsIn6mS_lBvsa3wCxwiaiBbdSKCiXzW3byibqRaUqK6JLUael8kRdnmDnCN4-4T-h4obfoXBUUpaXbhiN9s8B8C-31N9be5_NHKUTeXLiCJ8Xiroh0rXhqHaVb_Ik8R16-dy2ZQCierGJbmj6HKgQWAR/s4076/03CAP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="4076" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQex-OouIGMsriU1NjRNeJ8pcYQWGoy5GFKdG_CsIn6mS_lBvsa3wCxwiaiBbdSKCiXzW3byibqRaUqK6JLUael8kRdnmDnCN4-4T-h4obfoXBUUpaXbhiN9s8B8C-31N9be5_NHKUTeXLiCJ8Xiroh0rXhqHaVb_Ik8R16-dy2ZQCierGJbmj6HKgQWAR/w400-h174/03CAP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But who's responsible for this? Well it becomes very obvious early on so it's not a spoiler to say that it's mad best-selling writer Michael Gough, who lives in the kind of a lovely house that comes with an immense secret torture dungeon basement complete with always-bubbling acid vat. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqDZFcKUL-O98UztdRa3F39SI3AmimMCJ3nVVRftMG0soczOj8_YrZt71QlpgtUbEveekKSMb140aEN1Jzw1Z1PVhUBCiHpkh9NgZWlXo8oQ2rQhrBw2SZFmdy7T1NN4UtxnTXQSAHWMc9hBZeDEeCeda9ronCseJgXu3o59bnujg_1pCkJwoLaD7XL_6E/s4085/19CAP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="4085" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqDZFcKUL-O98UztdRa3F39SI3AmimMCJ3nVVRftMG0soczOj8_YrZt71QlpgtUbEveekKSMb140aEN1Jzw1Z1PVhUBCiHpkh9NgZWlXo8oQ2rQhrBw2SZFmdy7T1NN4UtxnTXQSAHWMc9hBZeDEeCeda9ronCseJgXu3o59bnujg_1pCkJwoLaD7XL_6E/w400-h174/19CAP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Director Arthur Crabtree was never one of the 'UK greats' and HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM isn't even his personal best (that's probably FIEND WITHOUT A FACE) but even the static camera setups and long takes can't take detract from the fact that this is an entertaining and extremely lurid pulp thriller, with Gough going so over the top you almost expect lasers to shoot from his eyes towards the end. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKahDcBjxEC3hjCxv3muybS4p5oYbwpseknqRXoS6bGao1Mdyk-MtWl42zV3NsNpfmW4CJyj6Cn_YJnbDvePvrNCVzUYS0bO3kd_FUeFuf_YIXGDl1PY74td3FY-L2g735AkJQ7mUTPlFmChGbJvYiiExfJ78VMkvvPkWMkUGQ0SwtZnS7LQAlou9UuFHM/s4074/17CAP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="4074" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKahDcBjxEC3hjCxv3muybS4p5oYbwpseknqRXoS6bGao1Mdyk-MtWl42zV3NsNpfmW4CJyj6Cn_YJnbDvePvrNCVzUYS0bO3kd_FUeFuf_YIXGDl1PY74td3FY-L2g735AkJQ7mUTPlFmChGbJvYiiExfJ78VMkvvPkWMkUGQ0SwtZnS7LQAlou9UuFHM/w400-h174/17CAP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras on Studio Canal's Blu-ray includes the 11 minute 'Hypnovista' introduction tacked onto the front of the US version, in which a 'psychologist and hypnotist' takes you through a number of scenarios, many of which have nothing to do with hypnosis at all, but then neither does the film. It begins with him yawning and suggesting you are now going to do the same. You certainly might be by the end of this but not for the reasons he states. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4H-G_txp1D1pqfnDFrGG17pp2e1XKdVxTbVqHgCB1d7A882PcLzEz9v7uDuBKfSUJ7WFHhtH5iqFrt3gcDEqToNeaYpsSFoJ6weJRxAcHSc4IZkIowCA4TZFQ3uD5eVb7zFhu9034lK7Ug-FZrnOWLywsVC5D_TXcP2QwD-7Tc9RVS4rUbPDIPG4dG8N7/s4127/14CAP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="4127" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4H-G_txp1D1pqfnDFrGG17pp2e1XKdVxTbVqHgCB1d7A882PcLzEz9v7uDuBKfSUJ7WFHhtH5iqFrt3gcDEqToNeaYpsSFoJ6weJRxAcHSc4IZkIowCA4TZFQ3uD5eVb7zFhu9034lK7Ug-FZrnOWLywsVC5D_TXcP2QwD-7Tc9RVS4rUbPDIPG4dG8N7/w400-h171/14CAP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There'a a new commentary track from Kim Newman and Stephen Jones which is as entertaining and fact-filled (and opinionated!) as always, and an interview with Kim Newman about the film that lasts 21 minutes. I agree with him that out of all the movies released in this period HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM would have been the SAW of its day. You also a lobby cards gallery and trailer, and the DVD & Blu-ray comes with four art cards. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguAEJ5RrpZZQ8i4_Sqw6eUFVMRUrR3f7Vo7BnHtcPbp1as1eeDxntuV2gzqXIv6Y23gN9ZmrYxqcbiZD0FvMFgcTI2zMDvKotXkdx9W75N7d0BOBg_ChJeAv81sKTNZEImZKTNnMLw_DH1480wr6jloQsixAJnqJaV3Ydcg6aO3FVuBpE7vLW_a87VZ_5u/s1080/1080x1080_HorrorsOfTheBlackMuseum_BD_ExplodePackshot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguAEJ5RrpZZQ8i4_Sqw6eUFVMRUrR3f7Vo7BnHtcPbp1as1eeDxntuV2gzqXIv6Y23gN9ZmrYxqcbiZD0FvMFgcTI2zMDvKotXkdx9W75N7d0BOBg_ChJeAv81sKTNZEImZKTNnMLw_DH1480wr6jloQsixAJnqJaV3Ydcg6aO3FVuBpE7vLW_a87VZ_5u/w400-h400/1080x1080_HorrorsOfTheBlackMuseum_BD_ExplodePackshot.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">HORRORS OF THE BLACK MUSEUM is out on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital Download from Studio Canal on Monday 15th January 2024</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-42374051614476084742024-01-05T10:51:00.007+00:002024-01-05T11:56:30.731+00:00Lord of Misrule (2023)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KKtn7qzN6uOHFUwJ8fFQIMn9mW7F4ELg6oDfO4wxiReGAAF_nNkTq7avkwYVVoDGToekWXP1IiRjYNJElbmkEvV0H-bV3ucGPDvSD-PsKov9lw8MRqlB3LbjUmEFj4LRZFLVOA2Ss9bOJhm6cIf_UbRREjwRrHVNVFuCwkzWWHHyZlkgs-f2ky3XZWDC/s1600/Lord%20of%20Misrule%20UK%20Poster%20Artwork%20(Signature%20Entertainment).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6KKtn7qzN6uOHFUwJ8fFQIMn9mW7F4ELg6oDfO4wxiReGAAF_nNkTq7avkwYVVoDGToekWXP1IiRjYNJElbmkEvV0H-bV3ucGPDvSD-PsKov9lw8MRqlB3LbjUmEFj4LRZFLVOA2Ss9bOJhm6cIf_UbRREjwRrHVNVFuCwkzWWHHyZlkgs-f2ky3XZWDC/w300-h400/Lord%20of%20Misrule%20UK%20Poster%20Artwork%20(Signature%20Entertainment).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tuppence Middleton and Ralph Ineson star in the new film from horror specialist William Brent Bell (THE BOY, WER, ORPHAN: FIRST KILL), now getting a UK digital release from Signature Entertainment.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZmvHSgWx6b6sphI8cw2FRkMjiqb061I8dmuFetuvKKNa5Jm6irk1Zbj0mbfq71Y1J1pkNP4SgKGUM99HcS_tV8AkPp_gwVr6M0VAGKa0F_fbHJt43YJh5fWrLcvzDIv9dBRFwPSE7DC9XoVQUPQYfJ-CrjzpzN9VW0NX4HG3gOaWsU4pXJ2fRni2ajHWl/s3066/Ralph%20Ineson%20in%20Lord%20of%20Misrule%20(Signature%20Entertainment)%20(5).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2044" data-original-width="3066" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZmvHSgWx6b6sphI8cw2FRkMjiqb061I8dmuFetuvKKNa5Jm6irk1Zbj0mbfq71Y1J1pkNP4SgKGUM99HcS_tV8AkPp_gwVr6M0VAGKa0F_fbHJt43YJh5fWrLcvzDIv9dBRFwPSE7DC9XoVQUPQYfJ-CrjzpzN9VW0NX4HG3gOaWsU4pXJ2fRni2ajHWl/w400-h266/Ralph%20Ineson%20in%20Lord%20of%20Misrule%20(Signature%20Entertainment)%20(5).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The English village of Berrow is preparing for its annual Harvest Festival, which includes a ritual in which the masked Lord of Misrule casts out the evil spirit Gallowgog. This year the Harvest Angel is to be played by Grace, the young daughter of the local vicar, Rebecca (Middleton). When Grace goes missing at the festival Rebecca uncovers a tale of Pagan (and Christian) horrors stretching back hundreds of years, one in which both she and her daughter are now destined to play a part.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ypQwYHrGqT6NxfoYaRhmvz6zF0ZdhBPmZ43tcgnTh_gbDgzuYGJ_IodhPXxvEHNGtKNq8LZG8nMpvhJmjEqAJKWChZrsZGlACZA9DkIMqyJDgJH6oqzB172RK3pPHCykMllhdMf2DFRHABCMUEqH7lPv4xlssl0eQ3ZseprNsE9gStUE-2Rhbx63apoC/s3066/Ralph%20Ineson%20in%20Lord%20of%20Misrule%20(Signature%20Entertainment)%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2044" data-original-width="3066" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ypQwYHrGqT6NxfoYaRhmvz6zF0ZdhBPmZ43tcgnTh_gbDgzuYGJ_IodhPXxvEHNGtKNq8LZG8nMpvhJmjEqAJKWChZrsZGlACZA9DkIMqyJDgJH6oqzB172RK3pPHCykMllhdMf2DFRHABCMUEqH7lPv4xlssl0eQ3ZseprNsE9gStUE-2Rhbx63apoC/w400-h266/Ralph%20Ineson%20in%20Lord%20of%20Misrule%20(Signature%20Entertainment)%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>LORD OF MISRULE is an engrossing, well made folk horror picture that gets so much right it's a joy to watch. The production design and set dressing are wall to wall creepy, there are fine performances from the leads, with Ineson playing the leader of the Pagans and a bunch of British character actors who look born to play weird villagers. The literate script that deals with the Christian versus Pagan religion is by Tom DeVille, best known to readers here for his 2000 TV anthology series URBAN GOTHIC.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRLosppYZPdeNDSmacJBV5bc6OGk9yfoJOyTqDk2lQJNR01f310IW4uITNFPljAN_M_ltPvNDG8Gio5ejeEFTEnYw8Q81XWPraUjAZzJadoYlwhpXgpg1RD7OBqiCU5JAalCdK6dfboy-vP1fnwvVenYPJ4B-K3j6-w_oA-Wcd2xNZpIfbVUUmCzIAmWKT/s3066/Tuppence%20Middleton%20in%20Lord%20of%20Misrule%20(Signature%20Entertainment).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2044" data-original-width="3066" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRLosppYZPdeNDSmacJBV5bc6OGk9yfoJOyTqDk2lQJNR01f310IW4uITNFPljAN_M_ltPvNDG8Gio5ejeEFTEnYw8Q81XWPraUjAZzJadoYlwhpXgpg1RD7OBqiCU5JAalCdK6dfboy-vP1fnwvVenYPJ4B-K3j6-w_oA-Wcd2xNZpIfbVUUmCzIAmWKT/w400-h266/Tuppence%20Middleton%20in%20Lord%20of%20Misrule%20(Signature%20Entertainment).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Guiding everything with a sure and steady hand is director William Brent Bell. I've previously likened Bell's style to that evinced by some of the great British B horror directors</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> of the 1960s like Don Sharp, whose 1964 WITCHCRAFT is a classic, and LORD OF MISRULE may well be Mr Bell's best film yet. It's assured, creepy and doesn't miss an opportunity for a well-orchestrated scare or a chance to build creeping unease. A must-see for fans of British horror films, LORD OF MISRULE has the makings of a future classic. Here's the trailer:</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="311" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q4IlwOTzyPc" width="482" youtube-src-id="Q4IlwOTzyPc"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">William Brent Bell's LORD OF MISRULE is out on Digital Platforms from Signature Entertainment on Monday 8th January 2024</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-89364826932540013372024-01-04T08:56:00.000+00:002024-01-04T08:56:25.636+00:00Femina Ridens aka The Laughing Woman (1969)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJga9jiHp6goX6lWSXG8NW2PBwPOdVTX7vnxLp6n5RAoFXa1oFguwUVOhlVkNqUAh3jHB30Q1YnS05VoxC0miQTyxb1xtL5Llt7grOSAD7SFhXgqmQa-CgpM7Nyhq5bUkQtpZI5XgVL03jx6V-8qMEYiveVv0c76JRjuKuXbOYrJDebpNWGAREU-tNLIgO/s1268/The%20Frightened%20Woman%202D%20O-Card%20Packshot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1268" data-original-width="1016" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJga9jiHp6goX6lWSXG8NW2PBwPOdVTX7vnxLp6n5RAoFXa1oFguwUVOhlVkNqUAh3jHB30Q1YnS05VoxC0miQTyxb1xtL5Llt7grOSAD7SFhXgqmQa-CgpM7Nyhq5bUkQtpZI5XgVL03jx6V-8qMEYiveVv0c76JRjuKuXbOYrJDebpNWGAREU-tNLIgO/w320-h400/The%20Frightened%20Woman%202D%20O-Card%20Packshot.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"Excellent 4K Scan of a 1960s Cult Curio"</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Also aka THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN, Piero Schivazappa's bizarre examination of the battle of the sexes, and apparently star Dagmar Lassander's own personal favourite of her films, gets a 4K Blu-ray release from Shameless.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreIkhtzfZxZ7aFl3wV3qgG3XZNtW8rKqcDDbay46wD7X8iQaYBPfmTga9ZMkGLMp6Xvk1zBIyuJ3baC2Ep-Ht1q-9mpQpSlpthn-C7SyW8K5urFFPzCBKAmP8T4LxdVXZ4XJrxUGy72Jr0zS-uFrM9uWmhVjs_mTapazngPVIEXHqlY4pdYKMNrjl9dei/s2560/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20(Shameless%20Films)%20(7).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhreIkhtzfZxZ7aFl3wV3qgG3XZNtW8rKqcDDbay46wD7X8iQaYBPfmTga9ZMkGLMp6Xvk1zBIyuJ3baC2Ep-Ht1q-9mpQpSlpthn-C7SyW8K5urFFPzCBKAmP8T4LxdVXZ4XJrxUGy72Jr0zS-uFrM9uWmhVjs_mTapazngPVIEXHqlY4pdYKMNrjl9dei/w400-h225/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20(Shameless%20Films)%20(7).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr Sayer (Philippe Leroy) who at the start of this could be a Bond villain but is actually the director of a philanthropic foundation, gets blown out by his booked weekend entertainment and so instead he invites Maria (Lassander) a member of his staff, to come and stay with him. Little does she know that his weekend entertainment consists of subjecting women to a variety of tortures and humiliations. Or does she?</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilN7ihrGwRlFbAVIzSILPTiOAtmZLUmpNhfcfwem2gWgHT-yqjfb1fmaN59yRfdO5pX8tvGQnlWlJRyah1uiu1KKqMgm8KYSIY-yos8q4s_vwdVm6CqgIsowPxmwvQ0LeC6e_-0cYQiZ8lU7MMYYULGVmZOiE5lB2pC8OWDqambi9ranL5OaOBdPqA43mf/s2560/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20(Shameless%20Films)%20(5).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilN7ihrGwRlFbAVIzSILPTiOAtmZLUmpNhfcfwem2gWgHT-yqjfb1fmaN59yRfdO5pX8tvGQnlWlJRyah1uiu1KKqMgm8KYSIY-yos8q4s_vwdVm6CqgIsowPxmwvQ0LeC6e_-0cYQiZ8lU7MMYYULGVmZOiE5lB2pC8OWDqambi9ranL5OaOBdPqA43mf/w400-h225/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20(Shameless%20Films)%20(5).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Made at the tail end of the 1960s, FEMINA RIDENS no doubt seemed very daring and forward thinking for its time, despite being heavily informed by the popular cinema of the period. Mind you, it's unlikely a huge walk-in vagina dentata would ever appear in a big budget spy movie (except perhaps one by Jess Franco).</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh14ESyjMtlP7ptzagw5rvnxYPStD5emSUpCON3spCW-IJpBtN-8xTxSN11AcrAQbkeHss_vnMO-FzQm2YvO2V3A74qtRv3DXmsiByZhdDlD1eX0UhBDbx4pU2oIroEHgK4NAKydFstJnJy9GAn5ZW1qKg5jxZrFOdsEdRA2X-TxPzbUuRGenZ2fyYByTlg/s2560/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20(Shameless%20Films)%20(3).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh14ESyjMtlP7ptzagw5rvnxYPStD5emSUpCON3spCW-IJpBtN-8xTxSN11AcrAQbkeHss_vnMO-FzQm2YvO2V3A74qtRv3DXmsiByZhdDlD1eX0UhBDbx4pU2oIroEHgK4NAKydFstJnJy9GAn5ZW1qKg5jxZrFOdsEdRA2X-TxPzbUuRGenZ2fyYByTlg/w400-h225/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20(Shameless%20Films)%20(3).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Viewed now, the film is so of its time that it's almost like watching a film from another planet. It's a decidedly kinky piece featuring crazy production design and some of the most uncomfortable and impractical-looking furniture you'll ever see. The ending feels as if it's there just to justify the prior onscreen depiction of a whole series of the director's obsessions and doesn't quite work, but since when did an Italian film of this era need to make sense?</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydcOeNXMonR4GvH68GA2gt_WahX0KyW1yKo3AS0ygwQ1dK1gQy8ec57Ot7YWxNZNV5K0zbu8oebzMKv0rqLDJAkoH-B1xUsFVJ6lfwiQRMg6S9SH4yZVvGx3GgFCLsyewkNL_pLb-1QNIvpYSH67jLHZWUrjgq4ji61vb1xE435VwH5D-JUS9ylDgrb0R/s2560/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20(Shameless%20Films)%20(8).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydcOeNXMonR4GvH68GA2gt_WahX0KyW1yKo3AS0ygwQ1dK1gQy8ec57Ot7YWxNZNV5K0zbu8oebzMKv0rqLDJAkoH-B1xUsFVJ6lfwiQRMg6S9SH4yZVvGx3GgFCLsyewkNL_pLb-1QNIvpYSH67jLHZWUrjgq4ji61vb1xE435VwH5D-JUS9ylDgrb0R/w400-h225/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20(Shameless%20Films)%20(8).png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Shameless proudly announce at the start of this that they were the first UK company to release FEMINA RIDENS in its director-approved form. That's because the previous Salvation films DVD has 16 seconds cut, but the subsequent Shameless release also included extra footage. The disc comes with both English and Italian dialogue tracks. The English dub is actually very good, and even if you're a subtitle 'purist' it's worth watching the film this way.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras consist of a new 28 minute interview with Lassander as well as a 32 minute interview with director Schivazappa.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVvUiQBsAERWRlkW_tk6JoSXAF06Mm_-yVvB-30HjUYSdcHhzgySpoV9WDJLBfAN4eN6SCFp170bS1-8wnpSXm-s8bO6UXcxvTog2fqiiGtpsiei76FsCJHTjwNapLEVH_EbgEGs_ZwvZmB2h0nNp0nml8uPmkDbEqy-atLGJXDrC8z0rNQBhmhGA3szBr/s1054/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20-%20Exploded%20Packshot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="1054" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVvUiQBsAERWRlkW_tk6JoSXAF06Mm_-yVvB-30HjUYSdcHhzgySpoV9WDJLBfAN4eN6SCFp170bS1-8wnpSXm-s8bO6UXcxvTog2fqiiGtpsiei76FsCJHTjwNapLEVH_EbgEGs_ZwvZmB2h0nNp0nml8uPmkDbEqy-atLGJXDrC8z0rNQBhmhGA3szBr/w400-h217/The%20Frightened%20Woman%20-%20Exploded%20Packshot.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Piero Schivazappa's FEMINA RIDENS is out on Blu-ray from Shameless on Monday 8th January 2024</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-6456181075770633292024-01-03T08:57:00.003+00:002024-01-03T08:57:54.632+00:00Mayfair Witches (2023)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbcu8wfIfyZnDa9Tvj4vzzi9cyJWooCJvQMK1cHGMhlEcwvIzpJf7UOi6ULTacaZTz2zg7bF-3avKUmUhi-omEVJkwRlNfyeKDYI5KeIP_lI_-diDLYyK1Yx-sMHnPhmbKIHTg99znytHTs5jqik5k1IOChHcy7FSwnTCyNIISAy81QLzGp9tggahA_1C/s1500/81KJ0EyeqmL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1164" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbcu8wfIfyZnDa9Tvj4vzzi9cyJWooCJvQMK1cHGMhlEcwvIzpJf7UOi6ULTacaZTz2zg7bF-3avKUmUhi-omEVJkwRlNfyeKDYI5KeIP_lI_-diDLYyK1Yx-sMHnPhmbKIHTg99znytHTs5jqik5k1IOChHcy7FSwnTCyNIISAy81QLzGp9tggahA_1C/w310-h400/81KJ0EyeqmL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Following on from the success of the TV adaptation of Anne Rice's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, Acorn International Media are releasing AMC's version of the author's Mayfair Witches series of books.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBPylHJonIw0w4f2Z1wA7W1qYzK8EgtXRna_JmOEB9axaLMym3ghyphenhyphenFi2D0jZqloGPyYxfLjtqsc2ZipFgMvYNtVDVPKAwQ0pljhDAgMNnMi_uZkZAmTLgmPsbaLXNhfDzILXmKaS8cy6x_2075m3cZeUedC4fmc6AQ_TxPta5zQ3Pp-mQBaGqVLmS581m/s2544/Screenshot%202023-12-26%20at%2009.05.15.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1690" data-original-width="2544" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBPylHJonIw0w4f2Z1wA7W1qYzK8EgtXRna_JmOEB9axaLMym3ghyphenhyphenFi2D0jZqloGPyYxfLjtqsc2ZipFgMvYNtVDVPKAwQ0pljhDAgMNnMi_uZkZAmTLgmPsbaLXNhfDzILXmKaS8cy6x_2075m3cZeUedC4fmc6AQ_TxPta5zQ3Pp-mQBaGqVLmS581m/w400-h266/Screenshot%202023-12-26%20at%2009.05.15.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) is a neurosurgeon with a mysterious past, and the seemingly new and concerning ability to cause men she gets angry with to have strokes. When her adoptive mother dies, her investigations into her history take her from San Francisco to New Orleans and the powerful Mayfair family, who have been keeping her real mother Deirdre (Annabeth Gish) sedated because of the dangerous powers they believe she harbours in the form of a demon called Lasher (Jack Huston). </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifSKefikXiKaaQlDbti9ko6PtpUu0uD00iuZgN2dZZHVqQyvtOO9R_7VUrlG_lgbaar4pUM8bU9CzrtGA_9mrObw3Slo4nVMF9eX0-xIJ6Q3tw20EfC9qn_XIGr58IKJirkJCGOpuNBVgiaPL8nuAZAWhDnAJrt5N4dKoChaKOXN73PB3erhRSqd1dHvq1/s2532/Screenshot%202023-12-26%20at%2009.05.02.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1676" data-original-width="2532" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifSKefikXiKaaQlDbti9ko6PtpUu0uD00iuZgN2dZZHVqQyvtOO9R_7VUrlG_lgbaar4pUM8bU9CzrtGA_9mrObw3Slo4nVMF9eX0-xIJ6Q3tw20EfC9qn_XIGr58IKJirkJCGOpuNBVgiaPL8nuAZAWhDnAJrt5N4dKoChaKOXN73PB3erhRSqd1dHvq1/w400-h265/Screenshot%202023-12-26%20at%2009.05.02.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When Deirdre dies in spectacular fashion in a New Orleans elevator, Rowan becomes heir to the Mayfair fortune and all that goes with it, including the supernatural. Ciprien Grieve (Tongayi Chirisa) has been assigned by a secret organisation to protect Rowan from the demon's advances, but as she comes into her full power, there seems to be little he can do to alter Rowan's destiny.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9kMXLZ1tkTsS9UIel5o9uvdyWuX3u_0dJ-bC4tQYS7VGwGVbsbzAMEoE_9ypO_W0zJmbhChLOxJuXP0lLz9oQbPJgRAjfp3O8iREvqLAppo1oK44CUV_HIjtW-igTVPgtZRod7AAGG3PftyXSLQEUvU71MwwMAnB7RY4jJlalerzWhZ5Pa5dIYtmjV18I/s3012/Screenshot%202023-12-26%20at%2009.06.57.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1766" data-original-width="3012" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9kMXLZ1tkTsS9UIel5o9uvdyWuX3u_0dJ-bC4tQYS7VGwGVbsbzAMEoE_9ypO_W0zJmbhChLOxJuXP0lLz9oQbPJgRAjfp3O8iREvqLAppo1oK44CUV_HIjtW-igTVPgtZRod7AAGG3PftyXSLQEUvU71MwwMAnB7RY4jJlalerzWhZ5Pa5dIYtmjV18I/w400-h235/Screenshot%202023-12-26%20at%2009.06.57.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The recent INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE was a rich, complex, well-acted, beautifully designed and engrossing piece of work. It's a shame to report, then, that in almost all respects MAYFAIR WITCHES is as flat as a pancake. One cannot level the blame at Daddario who is surprisingly one-note in this, because all the performances are similarly dull, suggesting a decision made higher up to play things this way. Lasher offers Rowan immense power with all the charisma of someone asking if she'd like to go to Tesco's with him, and Ciprien is so ineffectual then the forces of good are in real trouble if that's all they've got. The only real achievement of his character is to fall into bed with Rowan, but as the eroticism on display here is of the blandest 'keep your bra on' variety there's precious little energy there, either. I cannot comment on how faithful this adaptation is as I haven't read the source but I hope for Ms Rice's sake (and her readers) that it's rather more engrossing and has a less fumbled climax than this. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7tBMfvdj8fViOh-4Hb7K6jKSClbjQf808Z0JDRWMuqJPfUynRqMK0MmhZpNmixmXW6TgtpbqzDvX65xlyGYevwI3hcfhqbuJpUoqZWpCcB972U0RTqDNKoKFgAAsp9DYXtwgTIm4pTYQMpGf9kElkQFkkW-QxgF21TBzrkNQN4QuAY0ThABY-UfEbjOHV/s3092/Screenshot%202023-12-26%20at%2009.07.41.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1784" data-original-width="3092" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7tBMfvdj8fViOh-4Hb7K6jKSClbjQf808Z0JDRWMuqJPfUynRqMK0MmhZpNmixmXW6TgtpbqzDvX65xlyGYevwI3hcfhqbuJpUoqZWpCcB972U0RTqDNKoKFgAAsp9DYXtwgTIm4pTYQMpGf9kElkQFkkW-QxgF21TBzrkNQN4QuAY0ThABY-UfEbjOHV/w400-h231/Screenshot%202023-12-26%20at%2009.07.41.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Acorn's Blu-ray includes all eight episodes of season one over two discs. There are no extras.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Anne Rice's MAYFAIR WITCHES is out on Blu-ray and DVD on Monday 8th January 2024. It's already available on Digital</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-85533186703676168942023-12-29T09:15:00.004+00:002023-12-29T09:15:24.188+00:00Thanksgiving (2023)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvAfTLBmLP_71dVu3g7NSamDbise6486E30TThiMUhbcAEMDJKq8_w7wrFWBvFo814TVHOxhdZXe3aLfalmnJsdoUwVHpR8uL8LyMq34y3UeSzhDSuypAOeU8dhRRXUwrmAsMa_LJNQtnTq_LJRCnEtu1fPFNYK9lfZD9O9LSUtvurbva6OOrvE1eZiZBy/s1878/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2013.50.55.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1878" data-original-width="1338" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvAfTLBmLP_71dVu3g7NSamDbise6486E30TThiMUhbcAEMDJKq8_w7wrFWBvFo814TVHOxhdZXe3aLfalmnJsdoUwVHpR8uL8LyMq34y3UeSzhDSuypAOeU8dhRRXUwrmAsMa_LJNQtnTq_LJRCnEtu1fPFNYK9lfZD9O9LSUtvurbva6OOrvE1eZiZBy/w285-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2013.50.55.png" width="285" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"Perfectly Adequate Slasher"</b></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Following on from its recent UK cinema release, Eli Roth's latest directorial effort gets its UK Digital premiere from Sony.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKdWuqqop7IjSl1iQ1_Mbp8cTY19vYHr6ZqzDjmHL-BYR73saX7C2ifO-FRMl0IoXPeEBADCmknZ9bbb2fTRDQgQvuUYDDG_ThBqeibvgqHYWnop1ieb7XNcuQr5jJT8_B7sn6NVtoqPfgfpkby1AZKk8VRg-_S6tzqV6K7m5znXx02LYI4OFwUdso0Stm/s3454/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2013.51.23.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1444" data-original-width="3454" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKdWuqqop7IjSl1iQ1_Mbp8cTY19vYHr6ZqzDjmHL-BYR73saX7C2ifO-FRMl0IoXPeEBADCmknZ9bbb2fTRDQgQvuUYDDG_ThBqeibvgqHYWnop1ieb7XNcuQr5jJT8_B7sn6NVtoqPfgfpkby1AZKk8VRg-_S6tzqV6K7m5znXx02LYI4OFwUdso0Stm/w400-h168/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2013.51.23.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A terrible riot on Black Friday at the RightMart superstore in Plymouth, Massachusetts result in numerous injured and several deaths. One year later, those whom someone deems instrumental in the disaster are being bumped off in ways that are all linked to the theme of the American festival of Thanksgiving. Dressed in a pilgrim's outfit and wearing the mask of Mayflower passenger and New World colonist John Carver, the killer regularly posts pictures on the internet of an increasingly well-populated dinner table with reservations being filled by his victims. And so the hunt is on by both the law and a group of teenaged friends to stop the killer before he gets them all with his great big axe. Or basting kit.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsthWMiuaflmULIKnNS8ZCe-OH9ovEfiCeWR7ut84wimjeVQ3wLClaXgvRt1aIGDBQiDb4ye_nYvvzJR_xmvrL2rZa9T1aoJ7F8iBDUaf_u5PISy0ZN1ARTkuGX5Mfqj3DREB_jbpBG_FaeSv5nn3XX8BoKQ02SkbreS83ec1VEfhUiRtQ325AzTwGoFeV/s3216/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2013.52.25.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1428" data-original-width="3216" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsthWMiuaflmULIKnNS8ZCe-OH9ovEfiCeWR7ut84wimjeVQ3wLClaXgvRt1aIGDBQiDb4ye_nYvvzJR_xmvrL2rZa9T1aoJ7F8iBDUaf_u5PISy0ZN1ARTkuGX5Mfqj3DREB_jbpBG_FaeSv5nn3XX8BoKQ02SkbreS83ec1VEfhUiRtQ325AzTwGoFeV/w400-h178/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2013.52.25.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>THANKSGIVING starts off rather brilliantly, with the Black Friday stampede superbly built up to and choreographed, resulting in an unnerving opening sequence. Unfortunately it all goes down hill after that, deteriorating into an overlong, generic slasher which starts to feel all a bit silly as we head towards the (rather fumbled) climax. The killer's explanation for the selection of his particular victims at times feels misjudged and rather unfair (although one presumes the killer is mad after all) and the John Carver mask does at times make it look as if the killer is instead William Shakespeare in a funny hat. Of course US viewers might well see it differently.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTV5z6rKdrrwZupig3RFD0fPpcjyeurpnWdm11iaexlOwryUwG7lXUKbWuNHwz-IrNQpwuQP80iW-kZLWoX6Q8vib8eluQon4wNn20Sea8edHduUmCbNoZpvzukLL52DBBmE6kmofrc7LS9TnXkhKvFMnZEfR2q_xQvojkm1WnFwEkKdfZATRtLWhiHKym/s3454/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2013.53.11.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1430" data-original-width="3454" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTV5z6rKdrrwZupig3RFD0fPpcjyeurpnWdm11iaexlOwryUwG7lXUKbWuNHwz-IrNQpwuQP80iW-kZLWoX6Q8vib8eluQon4wNn20Sea8edHduUmCbNoZpvzukLL52DBBmE6kmofrc7LS9TnXkhKvFMnZEfR2q_xQvojkm1WnFwEkKdfZATRtLWhiHKym/w400-h165/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2013.53.11.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The gore effects are good and well executed, the young leads are perfecting likeable, and the cold, damp Plymouth location is nicely reminiscent of classic slashers like MY BLOODY VALENTINE. Even so, THANKSGIVING is highly unlikely to win the slasher subgenre any new converts but if you're already a fan you'll want to check this one out, too. Here's the trailer:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="376" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KbU50SdL8zA" width="452" youtube-src-id="KbU50SdL8zA"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Eli Roth's THANKSGIVING is available on Digital from Sony to rent or buy from Monday 1st January 2024 </span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-36992767880972105632023-12-23T08:49:00.001+00:002023-12-23T10:52:40.396+00:00The Top Ten Films of 2023<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">It's time for HMC's traditional 'Best of Year' list (now in its twelfth year!). As usual the rules are that the film has to have had a release in 2023 for the first time - either at the cinema, at a festival, or on Blu-ray. Big budget widely-released studio successes (like BARBIE and OPPENHEIMER, two films that made the biggest splashes of the year) don't get a look in because you already know about them. Instead what I'm presenting here is a list of films that are all highly worthy of attention but which even seasoned film fans may have either missed or don't even know exist. It should also be pointed out that despite my best efforts, the arrival of Magnus the Utterly Splendid Brindle Staffordshire Bull Terrier at HMC has meant I haven't been able to catch all the new releases or all the festival films, so if your favourite of the year isn't on here it may well be because I haven't seen it yet. Ready? Ok here we go!</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>10<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>My Mother's Eyes</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDqjwjl31tltOJW8V8lqgSqKgkLORcaQBBXq4rfk-WnA2vFrscpkc3j-qINQG3N1PDNqFdZYdOOp2IEhJYsQ6CZ4B_a6MsI0EMb4GQK06rGLrARTuuZosSO9QmhqVBLOtrcNKn6Swh6vAs9VTqgjEkRl_78jmqEKVqmZP9eO6YhhC9YzrDs90CNuxbgTj/s1960/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.25.24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1960" data-original-width="1276" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnDqjwjl31tltOJW8V8lqgSqKgkLORcaQBBXq4rfk-WnA2vFrscpkc3j-qINQG3N1PDNqFdZYdOOp2IEhJYsQ6CZ4B_a6MsI0EMb4GQK06rGLrARTuuZosSO9QmhqVBLOtrcNKn6Swh6vAs9VTqgjEkRl_78jmqEKVqmZP9eO6YhhC9YzrDs90CNuxbgTj/w260-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.25.24.png" width="260" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The new film from WOMAN OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS writer-director Takeshi Kushida, which received its UK premiere at this year's Frightfest. Combining mad science, maternal guilt and cellos, the latest film from Kushida feels like the next natural step in what is promising to become a fascinating oeuvre. A woman suffering from retinitis pigmentosa is going slowly blind. During an episode of blindness she crashes her car and renders her young daughter paralysed from the neck down. A revolutionary new contact lens allows her to see again, and linking it to a VR headset allows her daughter to live through her eyes. But the scientist has his own reasons for having created the device. Perhaps needless to say, none of this ends well, Stylish, moving and (eventually) blood drenched, this is one that's going to reward repeat viewings.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Another Day to Live Through</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBowXR23VW2ygllX1xqMGkVK_1rrFRdbF1cSwz6_kPB-2d7yET3Nu99rUunhkCXQf5sNtwhuKIvCHXo_Qef3baOpGSGpc2O_3nUWrutsMIrU6zuJd0y6XX0IVytVIR9qS0seLhKyeWyfBKN6EdGRE6lz2uxANMJkec6352NpgzFn0YLZIeD54uAhCcTPYL/s2012/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.28.22.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2012" data-original-width="1374" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBowXR23VW2ygllX1xqMGkVK_1rrFRdbF1cSwz6_kPB-2d7yET3Nu99rUunhkCXQf5sNtwhuKIvCHXo_Qef3baOpGSGpc2O_3nUWrutsMIrU6zuJd0y6XX0IVytVIR9qS0seLhKyeWyfBKN6EdGRE6lz2uxANMJkec6352NpgzFn0YLZIeD54uAhCcTPYL/w274-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.28.22.png" width="274" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Satu (Lene Kqiku), a young woman hiking through forestland, meets the much older Lauri (Timo Torikka) who directs her to the cabin she is seeking. The next thing she knows she is waking up in bed with Lauri attending her, with no memory of how she got there. The longer she stays in the cabin the more time seems to be distorting and folding in on itself. Sidney Salkow's 1964 THE LAST MAN ON EARTH plays constantly on the television in the lounge, and eventually Satu ends up parroting dialogue from it. Lauri seems to drift in and out of her reality as the days blur one into another. She sometimes eats breakfast on the cabin's veranda while the dead body of <i>someone</i> lies just beyond the cabin's steps. Eventually all the pieces fall into place. Or do they? That in essence is the appeal (and likely also the turn off for some) of writer-director Peter Simmons' film, because by the end you'll be asking all sorts of questions, ruminating on all sorts of possibilities and, if you've been in what can best be described as a 'Jess Franco state of mind' you'll be wanting to watch it again. Finland is having a great year in horror and this is another unexpected surprise, and a must-see if you love weird art-house fractured narrative 1970s-style EuroHorror. Released on digital in the UK from Reel 2 Reel Films.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>8<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Home Sweet Home: Where Evil Lives</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWXbSG3VhZ5D9UARMKpqLCuAHpXr8Oa_8NVj67vrpsiA_UChMT1sAaDqPLuuZLv4SVDH9NJK3-gV99AY32vclgo0O2HlkVcnASMv6f-3wneAoEe-a2dyjZxNbHHVnBFyknVLzxJS9KKoF_40imS6UYFyC_GEgo9pnMd-vAWlFfRBvMDew8tY60RxTOb595/s2004/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.26.50.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2004" data-original-width="1418" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWXbSG3VhZ5D9UARMKpqLCuAHpXr8Oa_8NVj67vrpsiA_UChMT1sAaDqPLuuZLv4SVDH9NJK3-gV99AY32vclgo0O2HlkVcnASMv6f-3wneAoEe-a2dyjZxNbHHVnBFyknVLzxJS9KKoF_40imS6UYFyC_GEgo9pnMd-vAWlFfRBvMDew8tY60RxTOb595/w283-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.26.50.png" width="283" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Another UK Frightfest premiere, and a somewhat unwieldy title (presumably to help distinguish it from the plethora of other HOME SWEET HOME movies out there) for this German production that turned out to be an unexpected highlight of the festival. Shot in one take, that was actually something of an unnecessary gimmick in the telling of a supremely creepy ghost story. As the sun sets a pregnant woman arrives at the remote country house of her husband's family. It's deserted and as she starts to wander round she discovers a secret room filled with African artefacts and a diary that describes a terrible event in the past. Some great scary moments as well as a gradually building atmosphere of dread and inevitability leading to a final shot that's just right all made this one a winner.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Good Boy</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNlgbCsMkd6_xhnQz008YA89hYmP9HAmG1uX6fQi1iUMADFW4BWSw40GrrtYcz6FP94HfO37LLQFLHS20esWyTDvEt4ngniEMUieL8vA6G6h_zidQw0dfTC3iaLurW87ewuxd2QYDlGnyncJd-rsKPPB193rWj0xYSs-LtPNQ08TtaF4foVc8tOxKZ0UnL/s2002/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.26.17.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2002" data-original-width="1348" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNlgbCsMkd6_xhnQz008YA89hYmP9HAmG1uX6fQi1iUMADFW4BWSw40GrrtYcz6FP94HfO37LLQFLHS20esWyTDvEt4ngniEMUieL8vA6G6h_zidQw0dfTC3iaLurW87ewuxd2QYDlGnyncJd-rsKPPB193rWj0xYSs-LtPNQ08TtaF4foVc8tOxKZ0UnL/w269-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.26.17.png" width="269" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The old-fashioned tale of girl meets boy, girl discovers boy is millionaire and girl goes out with millionaire, is given a gleefully perverse spin in GOOD BOY, which was another (along with THE KNOCKING) of this year's Frightfest offerings from Finland. Sigrid believes she's met the perfect man in rich, handsome young Christian, except for one thing: his dog Frank, or rather the fact that Frank is actually a man in a dog costume who, according to Christian, wants to be treated as a dog at all times. There's more going on, of course, but it's unlikely you'll guess exactly where this one is going by the decidedly kinky and over the top climax. A bit like a lengthy and especially odd episode of Inside No.9, (they could have called it Furry Shades of Grey - thanks Mrs Probert!) GOOD BOY is the kind of off-kilter, disturbing, well-made low budget horror fare that Frightfest was designed to showcase. After the end credits have rolled you'll still be wondering about the horrible possible reasons for the final shot. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>6<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mother May I?</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-fEQg1zVo2sL8zoe7G8o9C_eM9lvnUsn_s-f5mtT9nJaOoI-RFfYCOPnbaDebddF0_IpQUSd6SJHLgryH39D0NyW9bLXmu_rOZvYZMP40mZl5EfCncjKXUXGFjhnpvoDqZKtVHsv9-JP8v7zwlcL7K7TIS1q_2Di2SAmfgBCSuHtqRX9YFVLuqPyFlgs/s2000/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.27.31.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1336" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-fEQg1zVo2sL8zoe7G8o9C_eM9lvnUsn_s-f5mtT9nJaOoI-RFfYCOPnbaDebddF0_IpQUSd6SJHLgryH39D0NyW9bLXmu_rOZvYZMP40mZl5EfCncjKXUXGFjhnpvoDqZKtVHsv9-JP8v7zwlcL7K7TIS1q_2Di2SAmfgBCSuHtqRX9YFVLuqPyFlgs/w268-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.27.31.png" width="268" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Released by Vertigo on Digital in the UK, MOTHER MAY I is the story of Emmett (Kyle Gallner) who inherits his mother's remote house in rural Connecticut. Once he arrives there with his fiancé it transpires that Emmett is harbouring deep resentment towards his deceased mother because of, it seems, abandonment issues. Anya fancies herself as an amateur psychoanalyst (we learn her mother is a real one) and tries to get Emmett to open up about his feelings. However, everything gets complicated when one morning Emmett wakes up to find Anya has taken on the persona of his mother. Is she embarking on a potentially dangerous attempt at psychotherapy? Or has Emmett's mother actually taken possession of her? As well as a carefully thought out script that's acted well, the film benefits immensely from some stunning visual compositions, making the most of the lush countryside that surrounds the house and inserting blurred, ghostly, Jamesian images into it for maximum effect. One overhead shot of a boat on a lake looks like a white eye staring out of a sea of darkness so if you want it there are cosmic horror allusions, too. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>5<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Monolith</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOcFzsedf0-XTT9mrLzR4hRXK72i_h7Hru20qzJBg9PtvN_vrOPzjh1xIpwe40g3MeDhUJowOeKk3Bz9WONIUk-_yDmqxHbmwOzXijZ2bBK74HGmACm1PHxpVlDNZTZTbJbWDQCHtUe10-fFyhbGof8YGw5ucrB40APM9N0ZzT_YCcwFcBwBqtFLbVYWHS/s2004/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.28.49.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2004" data-original-width="1348" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOcFzsedf0-XTT9mrLzR4hRXK72i_h7Hru20qzJBg9PtvN_vrOPzjh1xIpwe40g3MeDhUJowOeKk3Bz9WONIUk-_yDmqxHbmwOzXijZ2bBK74HGmACm1PHxpVlDNZTZTbJbWDQCHtUe10-fFyhbGof8YGw5ucrB40APM9N0ZzT_YCcwFcBwBqtFLbVYWHS/w269-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.28.49.png" width="269" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Deservedly playing a number of UK festivals this year including Frightfest and Abertoir, MONOLITH is a fine science fiction piece from Australia, set in a single location and with only a single actress (Lily Sullivan from EVIL DEAD RISE) onscreen. A disgraced reporter chances across a story regarding something people can only describe as a black brick. A few telephone calls and interviews later and it sounds as if various people across the world have received mysterious black bricks that have changed their lives. Then it's revealed that internal scans of the bricks' structures have revealed mysterious symbols folded in on themselves, each different for every brick / person. Combining a strong allegory for how we deal with guilt with a mounting sense of dread, cosmic horror & possible alien invasion, MONOLITH is a riveting and fascinating watch.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>4<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Sick of Myself</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXaHWdMJQzzQXzkWne4muG-tQDLMmAH4pmwHfJ7tQyMqQcLozaO5n-61ykVaW6VKst0p3B58r42ZLPZp8ZisWkeek-xSw_IiTjwLL80YPumkxbBAm3b-WTsBBpvpdqwmhUcRsPAMKx-MfvRIquNkNysqMpltKH4lHeebHN-i9_gS6V9_4hxpSP95FLxipX/s2004/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.30.00.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2004" data-original-width="1398" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXaHWdMJQzzQXzkWne4muG-tQDLMmAH4pmwHfJ7tQyMqQcLozaO5n-61ykVaW6VKst0p3B58r42ZLPZp8ZisWkeek-xSw_IiTjwLL80YPumkxbBAm3b-WTsBBpvpdqwmhUcRsPAMKx-MfvRIquNkNysqMpltKH4lHeebHN-i9_gS6V9_4hxpSP95FLxipX/w279-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.30.00.png" width="279" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Writer-Director Kristoffer Borgli was in UK cinemas recently with the Nicolas Cage-starring DREAM SCENARIO. Released on Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome earlier in the year was this, his previous effort and one well worth seeking out. SICK OF MYSELF is a razor sharp satire on the nature of modern narcissism starring Kristine Kujath Thorp as Signe, a young woman so self-obsessed that she goes to increasingly horrific lengths to get the attention she craves, from trying to get dogs to bite her, to ingesting large quantities of pills known to have severely disfiguring side effects. Her artist boyfriend is almost as bad, and her sexual fantasies are fuelled by who she imagines might come to her funeral (and who would be refused entry). As her condition worsens and she becomes both the subject of front page newspaper articles and the poster girl for a fashion house one wonders where it will all end. By turns horrific and hilarious, and often both at the same time. DREAM SCENARIO is good but SICK OF MYSELF is great. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Red Rooms</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1hRePS0W5s5zoETFUZf1YnqfdgcTu83NKcvrYnpF1Ag3IKglniPuvQkegglXSYJfI41fusMyLqXVcup-4MSQwolivOsalJBr2jkdbPAhV1wo_OVAiD6UG6SLRiir0dQxTQ1aH1eUISXHgLjE7JFAFRI4fsTLhYttEkOB4COMaaAcoeC8BcL9cjJCTDr8G/s2012/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.30.31.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2012" data-original-width="1378" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1hRePS0W5s5zoETFUZf1YnqfdgcTu83NKcvrYnpF1Ag3IKglniPuvQkegglXSYJfI41fusMyLqXVcup-4MSQwolivOsalJBr2jkdbPAhV1wo_OVAiD6UG6SLRiir0dQxTQ1aH1eUISXHgLjE7JFAFRI4fsTLhYttEkOB4COMaaAcoeC8BcL9cjJCTDr8G/w274-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.30.31.png" width="274" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Pascal Plante's RED ROOMS uses the courtroom drama to provide a searing commentary on true crime obsession while also being a tense and grim thriller in its own right. Fashion model Kelly-Anne is obsessed with the trial of alleged serial killer Ludovic Chevalier, accused of chopping up three teenagers and filming their deaths as a live broadcast to a 'Red Room' on the dark web. But the video of the final murder, the one that might either clear or condemn Chevalier, is yet to be found. Should she go looking for it? Or just carry on spending her nights sleeping outside the courtroom to make sure she gets a good seat at the trial every morning? RED ROOMS is a real surprise - well directed, cleverly written and sensitively performed. You never see a drop of blood but this might just be the most horrifying film of the year.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Moor</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwd83Hw-4p3dWevRxl62Lqz3AQEnmhyQZ0TxNyTNfo6Keh6K2BLkmbwPkMrN2AnK3dyugJ59y77rCvvVxWuYWk1mf1ANpFlz6dbogrQQPsJY2WuaXPYh0aUTz-TNyEjrsjQV6f3ipGmtxlVtoeulpNScTl1ZbEhZ7HGRM6DPNDaowDeF2LMEOlLv4VLdY/s2014/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.30.54.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2014" data-original-width="1394" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwd83Hw-4p3dWevRxl62Lqz3AQEnmhyQZ0TxNyTNfo6Keh6K2BLkmbwPkMrN2AnK3dyugJ59y77rCvvVxWuYWk1mf1ANpFlz6dbogrQQPsJY2WuaXPYh0aUTz-TNyEjrsjQV6f3ipGmtxlVtoeulpNScTl1ZbEhZ7HGRM6DPNDaowDeF2LMEOlLv4VLdY/w276-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.30.54.png" width="276" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">25 years after a series of child abductions in a small Yorkshire village one father is still determined to locate the body of his missing son, and he's prepared to go to supernatural lengths to do so if necessary. Needless to say it all goes horribly wrong. There's much of Machen (stone circles, petroglyphs, something possibly lurking beneath the land) in Chris Cronin's excellent THE MOOR, a film that drops you into the location of the title (in the case the Yorkshire moors) and proceeds to scare you silly. Cronin really knows how to make an already pretty forbidding landscape seem all the more brooding, and despite all that wide open space this is splendidly claustrophobic when it needs to be. One of the best of the year and deserving of a cinema release to experience all that panoramic grimness on the big screen. We'll see if gets one in 2024</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Godzilla Minus One</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_zj0o46KjGvoAIsr9DTmnreD9BWkVyQ44ubGJUpyKnFyONp8-DAZrNEnhqC6fzOZDrZ4f-6hqe82OuFvpi93vCaeygezU9zmgql2K42SvwwYmErBCEH-o5OX1WT5o2OEtlPY-zPmWJ9BgokaXm3a82vxZz7sz5uAUUKMypg-B-Q2BCvdVVlig6V0AFBAY/s2012/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.31.30.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2012" data-original-width="1422" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_zj0o46KjGvoAIsr9DTmnreD9BWkVyQ44ubGJUpyKnFyONp8-DAZrNEnhqC6fzOZDrZ4f-6hqe82OuFvpi93vCaeygezU9zmgql2K42SvwwYmErBCEH-o5OX1WT5o2OEtlPY-zPmWJ9BgokaXm3a82vxZz7sz5uAUUKMypg-B-Q2BCvdVVlig6V0AFBAY/w283-h400/Screenshot%202023-12-22%20at%2016.31.30.png" width="283" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">At a recent ComicCon writer-director Takashi Yamazaki was challenged about the alleged $15 million budget of GODZILLA MINUS ONE, only to reply that he wished they had actually had that much money to spend. Which just makes its success all the sweeter and all the more impressive. GODZILLA MINUS ONE is jaw-droppingly marvellous, blew me away, and was the best time I've had at the cinema since LAST NIGHT IN SOHO almost exactly two years ago. After several of years of trying hard to like major Hollywood studio fantasy movies I had almost forgotten what it was like to watch something as good as this. Quite possibly a candidate for best Godzilla film ever, and one that's worth watching on a great big screen with an excellent sound system and a full audience. The pin-drop silence during the (fantastic) climax may well end up as one of my favourite cinema-going moments of all time. As I write this the film is still on general release in over 400 screens in the UK and is No.2 at the box office. Well done to everyone concerned.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">OK! Somehow I manage to keep putting together this list, even though with the event of Magnus I didn't expect to see enough great films to warrant a top ten this year. In the end I didn't even have space to include PEARL (Ti West's best film by far in a somewhat chequered career) or WHEN EVIL LURKS (from the talented Argentinian team who made the equally recommended TERRIFIED, but both of those are very much worth watching, as is EVIL DEAD RISE, the surprisingly successful (and far superior) follow up to 2013's EVIL DEAD reboot. Normally this is where I sign off for the year but Eli Roth's THANKSGIVING is getting a UK digital release on New Year's Day so this year it will be Eli who will be getting the final post. However I will take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone who has read and enjoyed the reviews this year. I never expected the site to last this long & I already have five films waiting to be written about here on my desk for 2024. So until the next time be nice to each other & I'll see you all again soon. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-70751123110987570622023-12-08T09:33:00.003+00:002023-12-08T10:01:15.413+00:00The Chucky Collection (1988 - 2022)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvjGNncCxFfeSQo_NunjJIPaign5hzIoueoFxm61a3MhPSRX73G6_ecCJqHjuA8WuMQM6PI5FRENoqxc47FN8zcGTn0g2A6E7d1YITEb5XO_IeT9PHc_uTuocg03EV9e7Lw8gFG689U8XXSpyigZntSLrInj10dx2s3k3mKoMQZsNonZXpbhKawVYBRS3z/s6238/CHUCKY_3D_OUTERBOX_UHD_Yellow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6238" data-original-width="6238" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvjGNncCxFfeSQo_NunjJIPaign5hzIoueoFxm61a3MhPSRX73G6_ecCJqHjuA8WuMQM6PI5FRENoqxc47FN8zcGTn0g2A6E7d1YITEb5XO_IeT9PHc_uTuocg03EV9e7Lw8gFG689U8XXSpyigZntSLrInj10dx2s3k3mKoMQZsNonZXpbhKawVYBRS3z/w400-h400/CHUCKY_3D_OUTERBOX_UHD_Yellow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Arrow Films are releasing the entire cinematic saga of Chucky as played by Brad Dourif. That's by way of a qualifier, because you won't find Lars Klevberg's 2019 remake in here, nor will you find the TV series that kicked off in 2021 and so far has run to three seasons. But apart from those, it's all here. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Before we dig in, a word about rights issues. The rights to Tom Holland's original CHILD'S PLAY has a different owner to the next six films in the series. This is also the case with the documentary LIVING WITH CHUCKY which takes up the eighth disc in this eight disc set. Both of those films have only been made available to Arrow on Blu-ray. Consequently, while Arrow have gone the extra mile to give us top notch UHD transfers of the films that they could, this collection is being released in two different versions - one is all Blu-ray, the other with CHILD'S PLAY 2,3 BRIDE OF CHUCKY, SEED OF CHUCKY, CURSE OF CHUCKY all in UHD but with the other two films included on Blu-ray.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Right, that's the boring (but worth spelling out bit) sorted. Let's take a look at the films!</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc One: Child's Play</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqU3XaF6IHsrq1Ged7z26Q4GrURikSapd9Y1GDcFhuFO4pFQ-U8lYFtM4NtdBUMhvsr4SZVd7QdFHox6xB3-kYTU54tS1jNGSou_4-NWRqj8N2xHclN0vD6yDKXv_B-lYyCI38f1STxApItEdNLLm3Cp0PHRRcVydPYBtanHZ3kIMay50mzoruX8gTv9Nd/s2020/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2009.37.03.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2020" data-original-width="1348" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqU3XaF6IHsrq1Ged7z26Q4GrURikSapd9Y1GDcFhuFO4pFQ-U8lYFtM4NtdBUMhvsr4SZVd7QdFHox6xB3-kYTU54tS1jNGSou_4-NWRqj8N2xHclN0vD6yDKXv_B-lYyCI38f1STxApItEdNLLm3Cp0PHRRcVydPYBtanHZ3kIMay50mzoruX8gTv9Nd/w268-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2009.37.03.png" width="268" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> Not provided for review, and only available on Blu-ray in both sets. Even though it was a film that helped rock the world of the average 1980s horror fan it was impossible to think at the time that the character of Chucky would become so enduring. Now, in retrospect, perhaps it's not so difficult. A combination of Don Mancini's script, Tom Holland's direction and perhaps above all the design of the Chucky doll (for which producer David Kirschner takes prominent credit in a number of these films but special effects wizard Kevin Yagher must take some of the credit, along with Mancini) combined with Brad Dourif's performance led to the creation of a horror icon. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ4y2QdnLAzc_MvglfsuM2U-4OedZPcnX25S48iT7M-eT7r2rvetulGouRDpwDGZfUA35L31gAn8M_IA63xf7q2d-3O2cW96VUCLsBb_etsKXZoI_ImLXe0rpiFme2QpGVlVs1eT9WPfMud5G_hPN00hp1zNBI1KW6JOq6oX7fO2b5OUEao6eRiU6Y07Sd/s2984/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2009.37.34.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="2984" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ4y2QdnLAzc_MvglfsuM2U-4OedZPcnX25S48iT7M-eT7r2rvetulGouRDpwDGZfUA35L31gAn8M_IA63xf7q2d-3O2cW96VUCLsBb_etsKXZoI_ImLXe0rpiFme2QpGVlVs1eT9WPfMud5G_hPN00hp1zNBI1KW6JOq6oX7fO2b5OUEao6eRiU6Y07Sd/w400-h240/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2009.37.34.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> The secret is that when Chucky isn't stabbing, crushing or pushing people out of windows, he looks like an actual child's toy. Contrast that with more recent doll movie characters like ANNABELLE, M3GAN, or even the Chucky of the remake, which are dolls no sane child (or adult) would want in their homes. There's a quote about the greatest feat the devil managed was to get people not to believe in him. CHILD'S PLAY, and it's sequels, works because Chucky is an entirely believable toy. Who's possessed by the soul of a serial killer who swears and kills people and wants to possess the body of a little boy.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVFud8fOo-3oY1wiaokqgrI-yIbWYJNAa3dASK-0BBihdKFUSbHAuE7QAqwWYNkJnO-ig1sSK8QWHw_LrYMpwov1TGSEeYvB_QCtibBZ7NJUybMU1vv0mj7mFSzG-p_TRE6ZcvNvSC3VdK9hBAyJufYPuvSNBsr50_lWGOuZmXR7O4xRoMPiBoAvHWwHz/s2988/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2009.37.53.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1790" data-original-width="2988" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijVFud8fOo-3oY1wiaokqgrI-yIbWYJNAa3dASK-0BBihdKFUSbHAuE7QAqwWYNkJnO-ig1sSK8QWHw_LrYMpwov1TGSEeYvB_QCtibBZ7NJUybMU1vv0mj7mFSzG-p_TRE6ZcvNvSC3VdK9hBAyJufYPuvSNBsr50_lWGOuZmXR7O4xRoMPiBoAvHWwHz/w400-h240/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2009.37.53.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras are (presumably) archival, with a commentary track from stars Catherine Hicks and Alex Vincent, as well as Kevin Yagher, another from Kirschner & Mancini, four featurettes and an image gallery.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc Two: Child's Play 2 (1990)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-SOAsJSMKwkK0zJ5WetWL4oe8GW_ii_IM24EY3TR0V2LBSpuC7a6wJcf6uzVRLBjthUqfcbaeJ7jzL-FD-DoYo7prXm1YngLNvV2QmYpWhVEpV1S-35mUdx3dwJsu47GKSXtXy25B7iSLTqcywS87ifxgU-nsI52HG6DtTyAFaQX5LC8om7ol9uguLv4G/s4632/5404_00100.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3068" data-original-width="4632" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-SOAsJSMKwkK0zJ5WetWL4oe8GW_ii_IM24EY3TR0V2LBSpuC7a6wJcf6uzVRLBjthUqfcbaeJ7jzL-FD-DoYo7prXm1YngLNvV2QmYpWhVEpV1S-35mUdx3dwJsu47GKSXtXy25B7iSLTqcywS87ifxgU-nsI52HG6DtTyAFaQX5LC8om7ol9uguLv4G/w400-h265/5404_00100.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>After being burned to a crisp (almost) in the previous movie Chucky's back in a film that's a slight step down from the first. However, there are three very good reasons to watch Arrow's disc:</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The UHD transfer is absolutely sparkling and very impressive indeed for a 1990s film.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The climax in the toy factory is still cracking. Chucky's 'resurrection' at the same factory at the beginning isn't bad, either.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">3<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jenny Agutter. Although admittedly she's rather wasted in this and really should have been the one to accompany Andy to the toy factory at the end. But it's still Jenny Agutter, even if they get her to wear some dreadful sleeping attire.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIq2Lt2yg6V2cRGMwp2qtKqFHQE55l375dMFLKI_IgU2CIps6jPYgWmHKKHkoi6Fl-Ngz23kLyk619OdKQNgNA7lxkkHQY14_W3k2Clddqey3D-VoCdc6HuQk9fIdp-l77GOQrstwiP8TxVNuI3k_2MIs3Q7bMdRVttpSKCbfyyNkgcFs1nDpJu2bs-Jw3/s4632/5404_00102.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3068" data-original-width="4632" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIq2Lt2yg6V2cRGMwp2qtKqFHQE55l375dMFLKI_IgU2CIps6jPYgWmHKKHkoi6Fl-Ngz23kLyk619OdKQNgNA7lxkkHQY14_W3k2Clddqey3D-VoCdc6HuQk9fIdp-l77GOQrstwiP8TxVNuI3k_2MIs3Q7bMdRVttpSKCbfyyNkgcFs1nDpJu2bs-Jw3/w400-h265/5404_00102.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Extras include an archival commentary from director John Lafia, plus a whole collection of stuff ported over from the 2022 Scream Factory Region A release. These include interviews with screenwriter Don Mancini (13 minutes), stars Alex Vincent (8 minutes), Beth Grant (5 minutes) and Christine Elise (10 minutes), producer David Kirschner (8 minutes) and Robert Latham Brown (4 minutes). There are also 11 minutes of extra scenes taken from an off-air recording from the Sci Fi channel (surely the vault elements for these would be available, but then again perhaps not), 9 minutes of original promotional featurettes, trailers and an image gallery. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc Three: Child's Play 3 (1991)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieXLEU285jn0G3jPEYJKdxiYKK_vCht5SjItj08SX7rJhoi_0OBm89AZ13drcZn767xIMVZoN3u5DG3KT0qSEMnYt93KPZCtcCSZZMJCgN8wG2emmmh4ztXftOf77rO7cfBxY_r-ANljGAY1eHUilo64V8G3ceq9Q5XeaVZjcztUYx2Qeqf_qCPA_cRwZa/s4688/2205_00065.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4688" data-original-width="3104" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieXLEU285jn0G3jPEYJKdxiYKK_vCht5SjItj08SX7rJhoi_0OBm89AZ13drcZn767xIMVZoN3u5DG3KT0qSEMnYt93KPZCtcCSZZMJCgN8wG2emmmh4ztXftOf77rO7cfBxY_r-ANljGAY1eHUilo64V8G3ceq9Q5XeaVZjcztUYx2Qeqf_qCPA_cRwZa/w265-h400/2205_00065.JPG" width="265" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Eight years after the events of the previous film, Chucky is improbably resurrected (would fans have it any other way?) and sets off in search of Andy Barclay (now played by Justin Whalen) who is now at one of those uniquely American educational establishments known as Military Academies. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWILm7uG6uUj9YF79ujnpGJJWgrH_h-3j2OCZ8NaoqAmoI8msK8cLIogjzq1PzOfyfgEcNtZZxRZHb0Rh1YGex52iS7il1zaLlWwnAE1IUsAaRCGFuiiursY9IwAFKq2iYWKKyidpWaKBGkTcVDMpEET-ocwp13SaS4dfuHjfuiEgtL9BvMtArZ4XdYIqV/s4688/2205_00135.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3104" data-original-width="4688" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWILm7uG6uUj9YF79ujnpGJJWgrH_h-3j2OCZ8NaoqAmoI8msK8cLIogjzq1PzOfyfgEcNtZZxRZHb0Rh1YGex52iS7il1zaLlWwnAE1IUsAaRCGFuiiursY9IwAFKq2iYWKKyidpWaKBGkTcVDMpEET-ocwp13SaS4dfuHjfuiEgtL9BvMtArZ4XdYIqV/w400-h265/2205_00135.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This one's a definite low point of the series, with a script that feels as if it was thrown together grudgingly over a weekend. The result is a film that stumbles along, never builds up a head of steam, and has a fairground climax that comes out of left field. Surprisingly, things would get substantially better as the series went on.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgDB9WG4AIHBI5AhT7vgZey22n50LRpknG2xQUUM_4_NfSasCyuEYY9WSMtnmUZ5uo2hX-yeNDztyfr4qUss_vQmO3UHHhpkgmn6nxYOFXK2AA_zbkWNf8vN5-vLpDq8tUDsQ0kv5dXaQScIhcVdaqls52RQn-eLhX6digothTYJQ_3I8qaoMHxFJz6C-Z/s4688/2205_00074.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3104" data-original-width="4688" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgDB9WG4AIHBI5AhT7vgZey22n50LRpknG2xQUUM_4_NfSasCyuEYY9WSMtnmUZ5uo2hX-yeNDztyfr4qUss_vQmO3UHHhpkgmn6nxYOFXK2AA_zbkWNf8vN5-vLpDq8tUDsQ0kv5dXaQScIhcVdaqls52RQn-eLhX6digothTYJQ_3I8qaoMHxFJz6C-Z/w400-h265/2205_00074.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras on Arrow's disk include two commentary tracks, one from TV movie veteran director Jack Bender, the other from producer Robert Latham Brown. Most of the other extras have been ported over from the Scream Factory Region A release including brief interviews with Brown (4 minutes), Mancini (13 minutes, who agrees this is probably the worst Chucky film), Kirschner (7 minutes), actors Perrey Reeves (6 minutes) and Michael Chieffo (4 minutes), production designer Richard Sawyer (& minutes) and makeup artist Craig Reardon (8 minutes). There are also five minutes of extra scenes from the TV version, a trailer and an image gallery. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc Four: Bride of Chucky (1998)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19c0IH9LExPXrxifF1ou40UPvCzHJbPALry-kO7h3AK3B8-vM2_Pt_T1dE6O_GRd59hMyUfvQt07Yvyl_RjotSMsYFNjkfHYXlTvzOwGTX2lTwwkiFTQjeV-RKIQm_IeYnGHWGTmpAGU_exkQ804CIGUnKU-osZL8k21VWF-Q7A_B0wra4GvNL0N_I0N0/s4535/5518_01267.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3082" data-original-width="4535" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg19c0IH9LExPXrxifF1ou40UPvCzHJbPALry-kO7h3AK3B8-vM2_Pt_T1dE6O_GRd59hMyUfvQt07Yvyl_RjotSMsYFNjkfHYXlTvzOwGTX2lTwwkiFTQjeV-RKIQm_IeYnGHWGTmpAGU_exkQ804CIGUnKU-osZL8k21VWF-Q7A_B0wra4GvNL0N_I0N0/w400-h271/5518_01267.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Things become far more entertaining with the fourth entry in the series, in which Chucky gets rescued from a crime evidence locker and stitched back together by Charles Lee Ray's girlfriend Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly). However, Chucky and Tiffany end up having an argument, the result of which is Tiffany being electrocuted in the bath. But a little bit of voodoo later and BRIDE OF CHUCKY is born.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXpNKwymKML6kVwjv2M52omj77mG0KUpvUIu4gwqcSFUwwZNFXCwsxCSWuZadBCIMiX-HGIAF7oUvm-RqdLOlpXdcjoolyflEjpozCfqDStzLSffgo0zbD-ggK2luWTnTTOEgsNAVCAYB2m5TqlIzlowoQ0ctqF5kYOxjFfzAEHR8aphN-BUjGQ5SSYSF/s6242/5518_K0031_19A.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6242" data-original-width="4140" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinXpNKwymKML6kVwjv2M52omj77mG0KUpvUIu4gwqcSFUwwZNFXCwsxCSWuZadBCIMiX-HGIAF7oUvm-RqdLOlpXdcjoolyflEjpozCfqDStzLSffgo0zbD-ggK2luWTnTTOEgsNAVCAYB2m5TqlIzlowoQ0ctqF5kYOxjFfzAEHR8aphN-BUjGQ5SSYSF/w265-h400/5518_K0031_19A.JPG" width="265" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There's a definite move towards the comedic with this one, and judging from the previous film it wasn't a moment too soon. There are plenty of sight gags related to popular horror films of the time (you might want to freeze frame on the police evidence room at the start) and the leads are definitely in on the joke.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihPNU9qaOVHIpkS4ADiF66VfjNOtBvglmJXYztQDOj2YtWAIlwqq-BcPY8VxDYF_DpMdpwCLe8IVYYXigHCvEZScx1eCiNa7k5Adgc86-SeS6q1d_29XtbTjUUf1mjGHGXHDeSvEtkg_fPjpQEhGUeJWLSwO7kXfEy7uiB8dYn_CmvKQdYg53ZAzX2nEX/s4600/5518_04995.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3034" data-original-width="4600" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjihPNU9qaOVHIpkS4ADiF66VfjNOtBvglmJXYztQDOj2YtWAIlwqq-BcPY8VxDYF_DpMdpwCLe8IVYYXigHCvEZScx1eCiNa7k5Adgc86-SeS6q1d_29XtbTjUUf1mjGHGXHDeSvEtkg_fPjpQEhGUeJWLSwO7kXfEy7uiB8dYn_CmvKQdYg53ZAzX2nEX/w400-h264/5518_04995.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras include a suitably over the top archival introduction from Tilly, and there are two commentary tracks, one from director Ronny Yu and the other, which is one of the must-listen of the set if you've not already heard it (it's archival) is with Tilly, Dourif and Don Mancini. There's also a piece on the locations, a making of, trailer, and scenes from the TV version.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc Five: Seed of Chucky (2004)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzsbGXGjpbqcgSe3_kTMc8lbq04ayOprHKHPBd_oNmRZVR6nrAaesvLh_74pA6IcaLv6l9aymQ4tDk7uhUMlRuA7I4lBEW-fF9KryAprbXAvwsMdROYcips_PBsbzYVGBg38s3wk3dPfu81fJvaSAd_zKwnww2DoNpm9f_rVZhZxQzmRSEZoZ0lYM9L7p/s3072/SDCHYPK01_0959.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="3072" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXzsbGXGjpbqcgSe3_kTMc8lbq04ayOprHKHPBd_oNmRZVR6nrAaesvLh_74pA6IcaLv6l9aymQ4tDk7uhUMlRuA7I4lBEW-fF9KryAprbXAvwsMdROYcips_PBsbzYVGBg38s3wk3dPfu81fJvaSAd_zKwnww2DoNpm9f_rVZhZxQzmRSEZoZ0lYM9L7p/w400-h266/SDCHYPK01_0959.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The comedy and crudeness is upped for the fifth entry in the series, which some believe is the worst but I agree with writer-director Don Mancini (from his extra on CHILD'S PLAY 3) that they're all wrong. SEED OF CHUCKY is the unsung classic of the series, a film that channels John Waters, William Castle, is way ahead of its time about gender identity issues and has a fearless and utterly winning performance from Jennifer Tilly, who gets to play both 'herself' and Tiffany.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMTGXKQQ46abY2jx4-qpF1DlzmEbQoBpe_9Y9h3r6B0eop2T4yjRjbwtdR0E3l2SvEjjLKgIR0WTt-E29icVhs8WmggAj0WSIju4-zn_UxDW3b0Gy3VYw9E-m0B9NIhm0lCWsRk7RCY9SagjXH4HPEkJGe2-3VQ_rF0QlCs7zdvSMDVy1t27YCCfhjbug/s4064/SDCHYPK01_2694.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2704" data-original-width="4064" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLMTGXKQQ46abY2jx4-qpF1DlzmEbQoBpe_9Y9h3r6B0eop2T4yjRjbwtdR0E3l2SvEjjLKgIR0WTt-E29icVhs8WmggAj0WSIju4-zn_UxDW3b0Gy3VYw9E-m0B9NIhm0lCWsRk7RCY9SagjXH4HPEkJGe2-3VQ_rF0QlCs7zdvSMDVy1t27YCCfhjbug/w400-h266/SDCHYPK01_2694.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>And as well as her, is this the most bizarre cast for a horror sequel? Pope of Trash himself John Waters, S Club 7's Hannah Spearrit, Jason (son of Gordon DALEKS INVASION EARTH 2150AD) Flemyng, Billy Boyd as well as, of course Brad Dourif. It's set in Glastobury and Los Angeles but was actually filmed in Romania and yes, if you like John Waters-style humour (Tilly's role could almost have been written for Divine) you'll have a blast with this.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZIpODR6q6jtgqmaNexPV65Yq2IVGIQ2C4iwjTZeaXG8ZAC5VW45uetuH6qW35ftAY5xuFDXoXD0bdkqLx6CdNMedxo5Zs4Us-7m5VzA3MQFNirHyuGWCckAUhq9dBGHgzU6ruCmE5DFBdsRAzyF9VaE47HsTvoswa7qX0JYvAR-odkP2FhI3SzQLQQfr/s4064/SDCHYPK01_4822.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2704" data-original-width="4064" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZIpODR6q6jtgqmaNexPV65Yq2IVGIQ2C4iwjTZeaXG8ZAC5VW45uetuH6qW35ftAY5xuFDXoXD0bdkqLx6CdNMedxo5Zs4Us-7m5VzA3MQFNirHyuGWCckAUhq9dBGHgzU6ruCmE5DFBdsRAzyF9VaE47HsTvoswa7qX0JYvAR-odkP2FhI3SzQLQQfr/w400-h266/SDCHYPK01_4822.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras include two commentary tracks, one with Mancini and Tilly, the other with Mancini and FX wiz Tony Gardner. There are also interviews with Gardner (19 minutes), John Waters (6 minutes), and Chucky himself (2 minutes) as well as a 'Family Slide Show' (3 minutes), storyboard to film sequences (14 minutes) and an archival making of (19 minutes). If you don't watch anything else Jennifer Tilly In Romania is a two minute must-see that cements her reputation as someone with a great sense of humour. There are also trailers, an image gallery, and a deleted scene with commentary. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc Six: Curse of Chucky (2013)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI89xBq5PZNKjXotCnkKeW76zStAKK14FOC1b2X8g67EDmMufu4EwnpTKmc3OQAahxQ4I0oHXV9mJaLyA5uPdaTFwOH5D2Am_OmM6Cjxmsh6aGkh_qTbtuK0xb7MjMUoDteROP8eGShcDy86cB0F39C1-ZD7WuNF6DXkPy_mDonXBwxFelVIU3MBI8OD4C/s4928/387728_D015_00152.DNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3280" data-original-width="4928" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI89xBq5PZNKjXotCnkKeW76zStAKK14FOC1b2X8g67EDmMufu4EwnpTKmc3OQAahxQ4I0oHXV9mJaLyA5uPdaTFwOH5D2Am_OmM6Cjxmsh6aGkh_qTbtuK0xb7MjMUoDteROP8eGShcDy86cB0F39C1-ZD7WuNF6DXkPy_mDonXBwxFelVIU3MBI8OD4C/w400-h266/387728_D015_00152.DNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The longest period between Chucky films also resulted in one of the best. In fact one could go so far as to say CURSE OF CHUCKY is the best in the franchise since the first film. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5WmxzM2XLx9VFGJUd7nydpSb58MnQNGFtthrVIoKgJXUQtw8__Xv0O6k719ka-5cDV7Rp0Eb34e5MWMyynE4ToSv1yylWbYVAiBKUuay-GrL-oPqIwVlJaXvam_kM0vz7afa1jeyK3RtJGFeouQZFnTttmiGO3W4N2BsAyW5Bz7GMvVz_ju6ewcUunce/s4928/387728_D021_00053.DNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4928" data-original-width="3280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv5WmxzM2XLx9VFGJUd7nydpSb58MnQNGFtthrVIoKgJXUQtw8__Xv0O6k719ka-5cDV7Rp0Eb34e5MWMyynE4ToSv1yylWbYVAiBKUuay-GrL-oPqIwVlJaXvam_kM0vz7afa1jeyK3RtJGFeouQZFnTttmiGO3W4N2BsAyW5Bz7GMvVz_ju6ewcUunce/w266-h400/387728_D021_00053.DNG" width="266" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>In a creepy old house in the middle of nowhere lives wheelchair-bound Nica (Fiona Dourif, daughter of Brad) with her mother. A large box mysteriously arrives in the mail and, to no-one’s surprise except those on the screen, is revealed to contain Chucky (voiced once again by Brad Dourif). Chucky kills mum, who is found dead from a presumed self-inflicted stab wound. In the wake of her mother’s death, Nica’s sister Barb (Danielle Bisutti) arrives with her husband, daughter, live-in nanny and a priest, all of whom are going to come in handy to up the ensuing body count. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhge9wh7RAvy_0yw55xenbBBnKdk9IYiOwho1vkm28DSV04PMcxFsOtaabZ6QyvzkZGNXP3j6lA9lY0tgW0msHqTzNnG2p-O0NZqQsUphjMo1su4EzvwB66Wg9wXE0P4pDDxNztLrtm9grW1BhqtYe7WO4IH8UsIqenrtex4uUchI-sBYb9bdiKdzfneSm_/s4928/387728_D016_00026.DNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3280" data-original-width="4928" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhge9wh7RAvy_0yw55xenbBBnKdk9IYiOwho1vkm28DSV04PMcxFsOtaabZ6QyvzkZGNXP3j6lA9lY0tgW0msHqTzNnG2p-O0NZqQsUphjMo1su4EzvwB66Wg9wXE0P4pDDxNztLrtm9grW1BhqtYe7WO4IH8UsIqenrtex4uUchI-sBYb9bdiKdzfneSm_/w400-h266/387728_D016_00026.DNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It’s obvious writer-director Don Mancini still loves his creation, and this love comes through with this thoroughly enjoyable old school horror romp. Brad Dourif is excellent as always and the real revelation here is his daughter Fiona who does an excellent job of making Nica a three-dimensional character that you’ll be rooting for by the end.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras include a commentary track with Mancini, Fiona Dourif and Tony Gardner, interviews with Alex Vincent and Danielle Bisutti, three making of featurettes, deleted scenes, storyboard comparisons and a brief gag reel.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc Seven: Cult of Chucky (2017)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixLnRY7CoDxTMI5BDJvBh0tlTaXK5QLEZPERFyHh66Iy7QG6I1LeSALQ3GN1VszVDmCFwde-nDf7UOtYFYT69h0Vc5AwB9uZj09ejJK2i7f1BvBROEFVKQPyvjfY_2FApD-WRUf25xOpHfC0Dr6E5KLT-1_13gdQwM5cmEoMADXSWXAlK8luvUfWp3kk0r/s1024/478910_D012_00216.DNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="684" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixLnRY7CoDxTMI5BDJvBh0tlTaXK5QLEZPERFyHh66Iy7QG6I1LeSALQ3GN1VszVDmCFwde-nDf7UOtYFYT69h0Vc5AwB9uZj09ejJK2i7f1BvBROEFVKQPyvjfY_2FApD-WRUf25xOpHfC0Dr6E5KLT-1_13gdQwM5cmEoMADXSWXAlK8luvUfWp3kk0r/w268-h400/478910_D012_00216.DNG" width="268" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The final Mancini feature before he and his creation moved to television. This time Chucky's in an asylum, where he has followed Mica (Fiona Dourif) who is now incarcerated having been found guilty of the murders in 2013's CURSE OF CHUCKY. But is it really him? Because surely that's the remnant of his talking head that Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent) has in a safe? Who is delivering all the other Good Guy dolls to the asylum? And more importantly, who is responsible for the spate of new murders? Don Mancini's latest Chucky sequel isn't perfect, and it isn't as riotously entertaining as CURSE, but there's some good stuff in here, and a climax that's absolutely worth waiting for as everything goes quite nuts. Not at all bad for what is essentially CHILD'S PLAY VII, especially as they've had the sense to let Jennifer Tilly out of her box again. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwE0BdngTHevyFmmfBzsxUL7LudcynHQ0k-AAhxDFrjR_7IOUuPyyL3KIEwAQuEYj5HLlfwLQhTAxniGd0E3I6XLarzLJMBLJmvfuuL1MvakDO1tVDKTAdLXt_n-7uuN69C9px6erfWZVg7QoPzXy8pp4Ck95hhqgqIPnkmF2Rx31S68l88nDBMFfNdpou/s1024/478910_D013_00262.DNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="1024" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwE0BdngTHevyFmmfBzsxUL7LudcynHQ0k-AAhxDFrjR_7IOUuPyyL3KIEwAQuEYj5HLlfwLQhTAxniGd0E3I6XLarzLJMBLJmvfuuL1MvakDO1tVDKTAdLXt_n-7uuN69C9px6erfWZVg7QoPzXy8pp4Ck95hhqgqIPnkmF2Rx31S68l88nDBMFfNdpou/w400-h268/478910_D013_00262.DNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Don Mancini & Tony Gardner provide the commentary this time, with Gardner also profiled in a featurette, and his daughter Kyra provides another in which she talks about working with her father. There's an interview with Alex Vincent (and a piece on his recording studio), two short making of featurettes, deleted scenes, trailers, and an image gallery.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc Eight: Living With Chucky (2022)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqFETb5qYxpFF6SMvqjFGrzuHKSEaowWxGRUSFx6zM3eZzJImF6z_urL-0DVzdK6074IUywULtJYmMc_fzf7xvh4cZIRDXCblBNagG5S7RU-Af2nJ48Q956hZXDlPXUSard9hbIihZqsMTKPAZ914cf7IqwW0oZvvlz3qQVJnKIn2_OKeThjKM8INsp3K/s2006/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2009.38.38.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2004" data-original-width="2006" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMqFETb5qYxpFF6SMvqjFGrzuHKSEaowWxGRUSFx6zM3eZzJImF6z_urL-0DVzdK6074IUywULtJYmMc_fzf7xvh4cZIRDXCblBNagG5S7RU-Af2nJ48Q956hZXDlPXUSard9hbIihZqsMTKPAZ914cf7IqwW0oZvvlz3qQVJnKIn2_OKeThjKM8INsp3K/w400-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2009.38.38.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Not provided for review, and not in UHD in either set, this is Kyra Gardner's documentary on the CHILD'S PLAY franchise, very much concentrating (unsurprisingly) on the work contributed by her father Tony, but there are also interviews with other cast and crew, including Brad and Fiona Dourif. Extras include a commentary track from Kyra Gardner, plus three featurettes - candid conversations, favourite death scenes and strange families.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_qR-2-YkqOlwHQqJcRLdXtk6NO0WXw8SQbjOnY9lZAMuaYJo-i8YvTJp3o3yuX93x82NHtueRbv4EQ3yH_j_dfBtdjxUvGnZz59LplbzOBpfBs3kPoxHNcZ5vRjuldsQaYNtZh5EBLrJXdUec_RnvqgNsnNlEdn37wlpn_wDar6IzHPkMDwhN72dyGJ-/s2670/CHUCKY_EXPLODEDSHOT_UHD_Yellow.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2241" data-original-width="2670" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw_qR-2-YkqOlwHQqJcRLdXtk6NO0WXw8SQbjOnY9lZAMuaYJo-i8YvTJp3o3yuX93x82NHtueRbv4EQ3yH_j_dfBtdjxUvGnZz59LplbzOBpfBs3kPoxHNcZ5vRjuldsQaYNtZh5EBLrJXdUec_RnvqgNsnNlEdn37wlpn_wDar6IzHPkMDwhN72dyGJ-/w400-h336/CHUCKY_EXPLODEDSHOT_UHD_Yellow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Chucky Collection is out in an eight disc Blu-ray or six disc UHD and two disc Blu-ray set on Monday 18th December 2023</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-6892537906533063362023-11-23T08:47:00.002+00:002023-12-08T09:16:53.386+00:00Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe (1964 - 2008)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghDmdhe18_tLRuTNZISgFAN0iDeSBf-xwsLrBQTRHuG9gM4Lj9-qOFdiENLWbsxnqUOMj72uI-jwWm_TJXBymB4hYmfbPrVjZoo5-NJPDiWEhaZew3xfi6NmMNoMm0f1bwLMqCo1XlU3NUE1S2siHbDtKW8DgwuwaoEuvVPlV7cH3qSNF1Pxn3biaw8lTP/s15991/52567_9_COFFIN_JOE_EXPLODED_PACKSHOT_UK_ALT.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="8682" data-original-width="15991" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghDmdhe18_tLRuTNZISgFAN0iDeSBf-xwsLrBQTRHuG9gM4Lj9-qOFdiENLWbsxnqUOMj72uI-jwWm_TJXBymB4hYmfbPrVjZoo5-NJPDiWEhaZew3xfi6NmMNoMm0f1bwLMqCo1XlU3NUE1S2siHbDtKW8DgwuwaoEuvVPlV7cH3qSNF1Pxn3biaw8lTP/w400-h217/52567_9_COFFIN_JOE_EXPLODED_PACKSHOT_UK_ALT.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>"Excellent Box Set That's a Fine Tribute to a Unique Film-Maker"</b></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>You can't help but admire José Mojica Marins, the one-man Brazilian horror film industry who started off by making more mainstream fare, but when he was criticised for being too violent he decided to just go even further in that direction. With nothing to live up (or down) to, Marins created a body of work that thoroughly deserves the description 'extreme'. Arrow has put together a box set of ten of his films, many of them from new 4K transfers. These films are all low budget, most are over the top, and a couple may threaten to drive you insane. Overall, though, I came away from these films not just admiring but actually having some degree of affection for Mr Marins, who, as well as starring in all the films on here, gets to appear as his 'real' self in a couple of the extras on these discs. So let's take a look at what's in Arrow's set:</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Disc One:</u> </i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEN1-SxfLm-1Uuq8EgKdU407gaFeaXNEy31FZDqpw00K9HHJUKnuk3e_sV3L0PvTfC9-zBBjB50386OflU5EGMx5h8mwiZpMUjFfZ-vq7HKEos4xk9sy21-quvBLemKOxDRTxKpll1orPViB_6NoAXtp-7dSDmJW9VtATxiY3D2wNZATeS-EbN5u5iDFbM/s1986/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2023.19.47.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1986" data-original-width="1392" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEN1-SxfLm-1Uuq8EgKdU407gaFeaXNEy31FZDqpw00K9HHJUKnuk3e_sV3L0PvTfC9-zBBjB50386OflU5EGMx5h8mwiZpMUjFfZ-vq7HKEos4xk9sy21-quvBLemKOxDRTxKpll1orPViB_6NoAXtp-7dSDmJW9VtATxiY3D2wNZATeS-EbN5u5iDFbM/w280-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2023.19.47.png" width="280" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This is where it all took off - both the iconic Brazilian horror character of Ze do Caixao aka Coffin Joe and the career of charismatic / visionary / raving mad writer-director-star José Mojica Marins. Coffin Joe is the local undertaker in a small Brazilian town. He deliberately flouts religious convention, believes himself to be superior to most men, and his one over-riding obsession is to continue his bloodline. Unfortunately his wife is unable to bear children so he kills her (kudos to actress Valeria Vasquez who allows a massive spider to crawl all over her) and pursues the girlfriend of his best friend Antonio, bashing Antonio's head in in the process. Joe gets his comeuppance for being such a complete and utter bastard but not before he's done in more victims, delivered a few raving monologues to camera, and gurned for Brazil as he beats people senseless.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0xxDMzEMxJa3J_YFTFdHie1DPL0cvfBZSGU_HLK2PnwEFDN4tod9uJm3DZjj67pgafFZwapN9pb9V1BcKPk4yCdWZ6NHSEHc05FgnDqzqBXD43_6C0zEbmoPUCaVVn0k6AXqC1qthhRNKaS29kQ-XbsKftdRf_aOD1_gCzGgtKj7psUhO8F_HhUfi20rf/s1868/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.12.51.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1454" data-original-width="1868" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0xxDMzEMxJa3J_YFTFdHie1DPL0cvfBZSGU_HLK2PnwEFDN4tod9uJm3DZjj67pgafFZwapN9pb9V1BcKPk4yCdWZ6NHSEHc05FgnDqzqBXD43_6C0zEbmoPUCaVVn0k6AXqC1qthhRNKaS29kQ-XbsKftdRf_aOD1_gCzGgtKj7psUhO8F_HhUfi20rf/w400-h311/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.12.51.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There's no denying the vigour of Marins' film, which is professionally shot and edited, features some horrible murders, and an impressive, fully-formed 'villain you love to hate' in Coffin Joe with his top hat and murderous pointed fingernails. The film only runs 84 minutes but there's so much in it that's intense and delirious that it's actually quite enough, and that final shot is a winner in the annals of horror cinema.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJfxnOpUQIfTHwC9QNXtOexneOW0aC2s1Jsn-cASyxUMaBPI6H9zRfV3cp-8Wu9nNewU6swk-nwevJAt2Zh_T1NcC7i7aQytYc1SJrNLTCK_DezKbPbCaRc2NcXfMALebry9RWly7ioN6UT4f3EMmqb5DFC19WSzTzMmL19MC1iYUX9u717kusDMQRSBN/s2374/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.12.21.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1314" data-original-width="2374" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTJfxnOpUQIfTHwC9QNXtOexneOW0aC2s1Jsn-cASyxUMaBPI6H9zRfV3cp-8Wu9nNewU6swk-nwevJAt2Zh_T1NcC7i7aQytYc1SJrNLTCK_DezKbPbCaRc2NcXfMALebry9RWly7ioN6UT4f3EMmqb5DFC19WSzTzMmL19MC1iYUX9u717kusDMQRSBN/w400-h221/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.12.21.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Arrow's transfer is a 4K restoration and looks fantastic, and there's an archival commentary track from Marins in Portuguese with English subtitles. Extras kick off with Lindsay Hallam's 12 minute piece on Coffin Joe's Sadean Underworld in which she discusses the character in terms of being both Sadean libertine and Nietzschean superman. 'Damned - The Strange World of Coffin Joe' is a 65 minute documentary in which Marins himself discusses his life and career. As such it's a fascinating insight into the man himself and his career. Other members of his cast and crew join in as we go on and eventually the whole thing goes in a rather strange direction. Animal lovers be warned that this film contains both bullfighting and dog bestiality and yes, I was wondering quite why this stuff was in there too.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Otherwise we get some fragments of movies - BLODDY KINGDOM (1958) for which the sound has been lost but with a Marins commentary, ADVENTURERS' FATE (1958) a virtually unwatchable (in terms of print quality) Western and MY DESTINY IS IN YOUR HANDS (1963) which again is really rough in terms of print quality. There are also two trailers for AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL. </span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Disc Two: </u></i></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)</i></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A direct sequel to AT MIDNIGHT which kicks off showing us that Coffin Joe actually survived the climax of that film, although he did need a prolonged stay in hospital, over which the distorted and frankly weird opening credits play. Once out he is now very much a figure of fear in the small Brazilian town where he lives, and Marins parades along the main street like the horror star he had very much become by this stage. Joe still wants the perfect son and kidnaps six women to torture with spiders and snakes, the plan being that the one who can withstand all this abuse is best suited to sire his offspring. However, one of his victims is already pregnant and before she dies she curses him with the title of the film.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8FtqmrHHYnewY4zNGyKL2RKQFZUQYkpxgSHjsBqyYWr-J5n3MFp-d7K8U9MP0u3yDzqibMm5drVodyT_OCu9wSaLkUE93OQSjsrNusaQGIGWwsSnsaksFt1GCSgpNRm2tZe045Zo1H1hwVMYyQF_-l17Np9DFXSHrxDl14FCbgC3w47Q_hsVtakVW971x/s1792/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.13.51.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="1498" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8FtqmrHHYnewY4zNGyKL2RKQFZUQYkpxgSHjsBqyYWr-J5n3MFp-d7K8U9MP0u3yDzqibMm5drVodyT_OCu9wSaLkUE93OQSjsrNusaQGIGWwsSnsaksFt1GCSgpNRm2tZe045Zo1H1hwVMYyQF_-l17Np9DFXSHrxDl14FCbgC3w47Q_hsVtakVW971x/w335-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.13.51.png" width="335" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The highlight of THIS NIGHT is undoubtedly Joe's kidnapping by a stick-thin Dr Freudstein-like figure that drags him down to hell. While most of the film is shot in black and white the hell sequences are in colour and, as if we were in any doubt, feel very much like that creation of a lunatic Bosch-inspired imagination. Like AT MIDNIGHT it's a bit old and bit creaky but if you can suspend your disbelief this is weird, disturbing stuff from a unique talent who deserved his horror star status, both as actor and writer-director.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968)</i></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Coffin Joe doesn't actually appear in this one, unless you include the opening title sequence that's accompanied by the 'Coffin Joe Song', a piece of music that sounds more like a communist party marching anthem. Instead STRANGE WORLD is an anthology picture consisting of three very good short stories. The Dollmaker tells the tale of four men who attempt to rob the title character and get up to no good with his four daughters, with horrific results, Obsession is about a balloon seller whose obsession with a young woman goes beyond her death, and finally there's Ideology which stars Marins himself and is a piece of nasty conte-cruele-style horror that could have been taken from the most lurid of the shudder pulps. In other words it's excellent. Marins plays a professor with some daft theories that result in his taking a couple on a tour of his own personal cannibal sex orgy torture dungeon. Frequently eye-opening, it would be shame to spoil the horrors Marins presents to the audience here.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras on disc two include archival commentaries by the director on the two films, as well as trailers for both. You also get an alternate ending for STRANGE WORLD. Miranda Corcoran provides a 17 minute video essay that attempts to link the character of Coffin Joe to both Freddy Krueger and US TV horror hosts of the 1950s. But by far the highlight of the disc, and indeed one of the highlights of the entire set, is Stephen Thrower's 88 minute 'Eccentric of Cinema', the main body of which looks at the life and career of Jose Mojica Marins up to and including THIS NIGHT I'LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE, with his subsequent work added as a footnote. It's fascinating stuff, well presented as always, and a must watch. </span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Disc Three:</u></i></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Awakening of the Beast (1969)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghfHN-TjByICQevbHAPncB9Dk9RvdDKaJqnFwfKI5NR5Cfy7Cs9ZMux7zrfx957n-Rad3XVWhgz3WLdJQMykv_2f_2YEF3XWwwpBtERnngAiu4nFuJRoy5dTUTdVctpVcMLNc0eLjry-DJ1Np7FfCRL8_guO6t37vpy4HOSy1E65uCIf0WDUgXPPmBtleK/s1818/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.15.46.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1818" data-original-width="1174" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghfHN-TjByICQevbHAPncB9Dk9RvdDKaJqnFwfKI5NR5Cfy7Cs9ZMux7zrfx957n-Rad3XVWhgz3WLdJQMykv_2f_2YEF3XWwwpBtERnngAiu4nFuJRoy5dTUTdVctpVcMLNc0eLjry-DJ1Np7FfCRL8_guO6t37vpy4HOSy1E65uCIf0WDUgXPPmBtleK/w259-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.15.46.png" width="259" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Four drug addicts are given LSD as part of an experiment and experience a journey into the very strange world of Coffin Joe. That's about it for plot with this one. There's a lengthy black and white build up to the colour hallucinatory sequence which features things never seen before (and possibly afterwards) in cinema. The buildup itself features the addicts, involved in a number of bizarre situations. Because AWAKENING is essentially a series of whacked-out vignettes some may find it hard going and you may want to have another, more 'normal' film lined up for afterwards to bend your brain back into shape. But if you fancy watching it again there's an archival director's commentary to keep you company.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Finis Hominis / The End of Man (1971)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQg2YPz5Dx8okG2QJWrelxMboaUlqWKvuMRE6kNdxMm-DghOrrqQi5eN2vNTfiEw3CU285FsuPZVE7qBIwqsRohJFQuGD6FBUWTctQ7POfYZB3TUPe0l0LA_qIhiZ1OwgL6OrJiwE1vIORI67wl8wGpuXDDUjwGcEVkPkUlzT3bTVl0TitVwltx0nYM0t8/s1432/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.16.13.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1432" data-original-width="986" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQg2YPz5Dx8okG2QJWrelxMboaUlqWKvuMRE6kNdxMm-DghOrrqQi5eN2vNTfiEw3CU285FsuPZVE7qBIwqsRohJFQuGD6FBUWTctQ7POfYZB3TUPe0l0LA_qIhiZ1OwgL6OrJiwE1vIORI67wl8wGpuXDDUjwGcEVkPkUlzT3bTVl0TitVwltx0nYM0t8/w275-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.16.13.png" width="275" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jose Mojica Marins plays the title character (of course he does) in yet another oddity. A naked man emerges from the sea and, once someone has given him a trippy costume complete with turban, begins to perform magnanimous acts. A priest dubs him 'Finis Hominis' (though I'm still not quite sure why) and soon his acts of benevolence are known nationwide and are inspiring a cult. There are some asides into the lives of people who are up to no good, which Mr Finis then sorts out, and the by now familiar ranting monologues from Mr Marins. As with AWAKENING there's an archival commentary to go along with this one, too.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Other extras include the irrepressible Guy Adams discussing the work of Marins from a neurodivergent point of view (18 minutes), Alexander Heller-Nicholas discussing the gender politics of Marins' work (18 minutes), trailers, and alternate opening titles for AWAKENING that includes a different song. </span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Disc Four:</u></i></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>When the Gods Fall Asleep (1972)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPiw8pOxsFa2adetXm-AEOUq8vVbZjQUzukfgm4E63B4v7bK0nW4IxPGRBLulqhryBYltwAN9GeMajovcjy-tOFkDhutSAKC44wDxy0AQJU1pOmW2_VvWgQtZG4XvQ2Qc62Y3aoSsqLiugzg_VYI5fMyNQBvVFZH0PXufLBGAcS1fUzQCszeqZZhER8YiE/s1012/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.16.50.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1012" data-original-width="648" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPiw8pOxsFa2adetXm-AEOUq8vVbZjQUzukfgm4E63B4v7bK0nW4IxPGRBLulqhryBYltwAN9GeMajovcjy-tOFkDhutSAKC44wDxy0AQJU1pOmW2_VvWgQtZG4XvQ2Qc62Y3aoSsqLiugzg_VYI5fMyNQBvVFZH0PXufLBGAcS1fUzQCszeqZZhER8YiE/w256-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.16.50.png" width="256" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Or, Finis Hominis Rides Again! Did anyone really need a sequel to FINIS HOMINIS? Well here it is anyway, as our messiah-like figure escapes from his mental institution (admittedly they don't seem to be trying to hard to keep him there) and wanders Sao Paulo bringing harmony to gang warfare, resolving gypsy fights, and doing what Marins does, if not best, then certainly an awful lot, delivering long pontifications on the nature of life and death. No commentary this time, but if you manage to get through this one without using the fast forward button give yourself a pat on the back.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures (1976)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ctFSrNAjF0maJ5WUerCzOax45H39yBNFglMvBl8TzYr74a0PfbqhRKJbs804rEss5inkXPp5eogOTR2rYiEtMVIRPw-Yo0V0b2zNxHb6hoh1uIj7kQgFTcpf9ky0cUSkQfhC2Z-_LGQZAXoCYNIkvI6A-p7MJS3ZaV0JYsnqeYPN9JyZYgwLLH07LQ6T/s1946/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.17.23.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1946" data-original-width="1336" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3ctFSrNAjF0maJ5WUerCzOax45H39yBNFglMvBl8TzYr74a0PfbqhRKJbs804rEss5inkXPp5eogOTR2rYiEtMVIRPw-Yo0V0b2zNxHb6hoh1uIj7kQgFTcpf9ky0cUSkQfhC2Z-_LGQZAXoCYNIkvI6A-p7MJS3ZaV0JYsnqeYPN9JyZYgwLLH07LQ6T/w275-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.17.23.png" width="275" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The best thing about this one is the title (and it really is a great title). Otherwise this is a supremely disappointing affair given the plot and the fact it's from the same man who gave us THE STRANGE WORLD OF COFFIN JOE. People turn up at Coffin Joe's boarding house and indulge in acts of decadence that are considerably duller than in Marins' previous films. If you can stick with the film you'll soon guess where it's going, which is fun but it's really lacking the distinct oomph of those earlier movies.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras-wise run, don't walk, to Raymond Castile's short film THE BLIND DATE OF COFFIN JOE. It only lasts eight minutes but if you've watched the set in order so far this is very funny, with a spot-on performance of the title character by Castile. Otherwise you bet Virginie Sélavy on Marins and the surrealist movement (25 minutes), Jack Sargeant on Marins' filmography, talking about eyeball violence and more (13 minutes), Brazilian film-maker Dennison Ramahlo on his olife with Coffin Joe (11 minutes) and finally, a warm and touching portrayal of Marins at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, with special guest appearance by Michael Stipe of REM.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hellish Flesh (1977)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2u2fgJAXhXVxScXQ2wpemffO9zniC9_Re56tqrnH-Kxv8ewoCmMz7I-OWWnM-oSx946uXCwm80qr_K58q-yz1gL7gVQp6QUa27Nt4RvFPqvqbD4CYs_5uBvMMA8fYXRyPJXFCNRKTSVHZGy07WT-jDLFT-iNJoqEMjw8euxenPAEa2T37_OS_TKry4w1k/s1486/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.17.57.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1486" data-original-width="1064" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2u2fgJAXhXVxScXQ2wpemffO9zniC9_Re56tqrnH-Kxv8ewoCmMz7I-OWWnM-oSx946uXCwm80qr_K58q-yz1gL7gVQp6QUa27Nt4RvFPqvqbD4CYs_5uBvMMA8fYXRyPJXFCNRKTSVHZGy07WT-jDLFT-iNJoqEMjw8euxenPAEa2T37_OS_TKry4w1k/w286-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.17.57.png" width="286" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>One of my personal favourite Marins films, INFERNO CARNAL eschews rambling philosophising and random happenings for a tightly plotted conte cruele in the Pan Books of Horror style. I covered the plot of this one in much greater detail eleven years ago <a href="https://johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2012/06/inferno-carnal-1977.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Suffice to say Arrow's transfer is sparkling and the subtitle translation is rather better this time around. </span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMuZ3Chr9J2Io-ZLPwjVMupwT32zTv1SOK2SHw1j_T9vQXrkFdRJZp1x-DWqgvCubV9AozC0ypTCMLCt5EzQWFKadRsCPFFIS_yqeTlW17vU5dkRJY96y0SMtpn6cyRYyIG5M3BndR-OEvtkf3_MKeEYrgmhy70VpgCAedMfzAyC_H4OFuTLEMT4U3meo/s1232/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.18.28.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYMuZ3Chr9J2Io-ZLPwjVMupwT32zTv1SOK2SHw1j_T9vQXrkFdRJZp1x-DWqgvCubV9AozC0ypTCMLCt5EzQWFKadRsCPFFIS_yqeTlW17vU5dkRJY96y0SMtpn6cyRYyIG5M3BndR-OEvtkf3_MKeEYrgmhy70VpgCAedMfzAyC_H4OFuTLEMT4U3meo/w286-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.18.28.png" width="286" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There are a lot of clips from previous Coffin Joe movies in this one, which serve not so much as padding as a lunatic odyssey through the hell dimension of the mind of Jose Mojica Marins. The minimal but fun plot has a man believing the character of Coffin Joe is real and is after his wife. Marins, playing himself, is called in by psychiatrists to help, which he does. Or does he? </span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Because of the amount of repetition from previous movies this is either the film to watch last (and possibly on fast forward) or first but with something psychologically therapeutic on hand for after. It's actually a lot of fun and the final shot had me smiling, but I've watched this box set through in just a few days so perhaps the spirit of Coffin Joe was affecting me a bit by this time.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><u>Disc Six:</u></i></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Embodiment of Evil (2008)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVABHjiIVYjb-7e0bDgiBhYXeCi-giZm0U_rWQKLPY9viNY4BC1ouUK8k-4JIKg3Zq7WsnVmopYvFsaiMoG1ucMPvYIRpGPWIA-8pWeKuDnM8j9rJ8qTcXjpFgwo6vTwj0Ya-QMfUdI0oLVW-OZ4xKCFDVomdZIWL5jikFMVV5-UNAmHo_SGLHZOPUVYE1/s1510/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.19.10.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="1042" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVABHjiIVYjb-7e0bDgiBhYXeCi-giZm0U_rWQKLPY9viNY4BC1ouUK8k-4JIKg3Zq7WsnVmopYvFsaiMoG1ucMPvYIRpGPWIA-8pWeKuDnM8j9rJ8qTcXjpFgwo6vTwj0Ya-QMfUdI0oLVW-OZ4xKCFDVomdZIWL5jikFMVV5-UNAmHo_SGLHZOPUVYE1/w276-h400/Screenshot%202023-11-06%20at%2017.19.10.png" width="276" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Coffin Joe trilogy concludes with this final entry, made 40 years after part 2. It's best watched after the first two films and has call backs to them. Coffin Joe is released from prison after forty years (we get a flashback to see how he survived the end of part 2) and sets about his usual business, looking for a woman to sire his child and proving in the process (as if it were needed) that Jose Mojica Marins was still the reigning king of torture porn in 2008. If you can stand the extremity of some of this (and why are you here if you can't?) then EMBODIMENT OF EVIL is actually a pretty good film and provides a very satisfactory end to the saga, and to the box set.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras include a commentary track with co-writer Dennison Ramalho and producer Paula Sacramento. Ramalho also features on two interviews, one recorded especially for this disc and which is about the film (37 minutes) and another from the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival, conducted by Zoom, which runs to a whopping 85 minutes and discusses his career relationship with Marins.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There's also a 32 minute 'official' making of and a 13 minute sanity-wrecking 'experimental' making of - you have been warned. Add to that 12 minutes of deleted scenes (with commentary), VFX and storyboard footage and footage of the premiere at Fantasia and this disc is a fitting tribute to Marins' final Coffin Joe movie.</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">INSIDE THE MIND OF COFFIN JOE is a six-disc Blu-ray box set that has now had its release date pushed back to Monday 15th January 2024</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-80648832011900080492023-11-17T08:30:00.003+00:002023-11-17T08:30:47.707+00:00Ghost Stories For Christmas Volume 2 (1974 - 2006)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivswfiJJ_QXpr9jB_iA4jBDtXPq96GgMRbVkq63qdBqL8Rv6SDeVqjFU4hqWIElq3iKwCyKkeXw1S9sJgkdzWBvicmE6T22PFzVk-ttGr5fqrDrmdadvlhBz-5PoDypSo21PhSwZubLmZeAYdVSX75-qozCrNzMMk4PB2w-MTv9nqCTRH44nZD4AU9qCHj/s1500/81CxXvP4bUL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1207" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivswfiJJ_QXpr9jB_iA4jBDtXPq96GgMRbVkq63qdBqL8Rv6SDeVqjFU4hqWIElq3iKwCyKkeXw1S9sJgkdzWBvicmE6T22PFzVk-ttGr5fqrDrmdadvlhBz-5PoDypSo21PhSwZubLmZeAYdVSX75-qozCrNzMMk4PB2w-MTv9nqCTRH44nZD4AU9qCHj/w321-h400/81CxXvP4bUL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><br /><div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Just under a year following their release of Volume One of the BBC's GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS which I reviewed <a href="https://johnlprobert.blogspot.com/2022/12/ghost-stories-for-christmas-volume-one.html" target="_blank">here</a>, the BFI are bringing out Volume Two, which completes the annual series of stories that went out under that title, and includes some worthwhile extras as well.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Before I get into the detail of what's on the discs, it's worth saying upfront that if you're a fan of the BBC Ghost Stories then this set is going to be a must have. The picture quality of each episode is a major step up from previous DVD releases and each of the original series stories comes with an excellent new commentary. If that's all you need to know then you can order this with confidence, but if you need a bit more, then read on. </span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc One: The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974) and The Ash Tree (1975)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQF6YPrwQlLHAmHrgXBRxP-G4d9XetSyJ032EDjbwTiKFXSSAX3dqWjqNKt_ecDFC8slmRNMqaOUozySHx07cO_A0Uobhr3JhQQo3OzV2qwBfLGfKUf0eUsh0MQNteBHcWXW3JmqhBpHklaDMZzUlR6j2LDrDjw20dcWJM8gr4L4cNISpYmXnZ32FgjbYZ/s1398/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.45.01.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1398" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQF6YPrwQlLHAmHrgXBRxP-G4d9XetSyJ032EDjbwTiKFXSSAX3dqWjqNKt_ecDFC8slmRNMqaOUozySHx07cO_A0Uobhr3JhQQo3OzV2qwBfLGfKUf0eUsh0MQNteBHcWXW3JmqhBpHklaDMZzUlR6j2LDrDjw20dcWJM8gr4L4cNISpYmXnZ32FgjbYZ/w400-h234/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.45.01.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The set kicks off with a personal favourite M R James story, filmed in and around Wells Cathedral and featuring the attempts of Michael Bryant's crusty academic (aided by Paul Lavers as his assistant) to locate a hidden treasure by decoding Latin clues (one of the most delicious elements for us classics students back in the day). Needless to say his efforts are rewarded with something horrible that comes to get him.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ZsRVzfuxZ55Wl1d6lHFI8Cn5QPVG612-4oHYrXpzFrc8DAlWALV2PJrfN2qQIY6AeNu5WulZYLCNCv9XDXRa5P9Rn6py-3K9SzddPEzpiAP6NstjssCHaCZdHBNzEbx2MM-9O7KUPNazeKUCnn8vqAOo7eRZ-MhxzxwEwTJ1d0oIsCiLzWU0qsU1vaY_/s1380/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.46.20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1380" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-ZsRVzfuxZ55Wl1d6lHFI8Cn5QPVG612-4oHYrXpzFrc8DAlWALV2PJrfN2qQIY6AeNu5WulZYLCNCv9XDXRa5P9Rn6py-3K9SzddPEzpiAP6NstjssCHaCZdHBNzEbx2MM-9O7KUPNazeKUCnn8vqAOo7eRZ-MhxzxwEwTJ1d0oIsCiLzWU0qsU1vaY_/w400-h300/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.46.20.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Ash Tree is David Rudkin's adaptation of M R James' tale of the witch Mrs Mothersole (Barbara Ewing) who takes a terrible revenge on the family of the witchfinder who executed her using spiders that live in the tree of the title. Previous DVD transfers have always been too dark but the BFI's new version finally allows us to see the special effects spiders very nicely and they're a perfectly creditable TV screen monster of the period. </span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Abbot Thomas comes with a commentary track from Simon Farquar which is full of facts about the episode, including cast, crew, locations, and even the music score. The Ash Tree's commentary is by Jon Dear working from notes by Johnny Mains and is also excellent.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Other extras include director Lawrence Gordon Clark introductions to both stories (20 minutes in all) and a 16 minute video essay from Nic Wassell that points out all kinds of interesting details about all the Christmas Ghost Stories. </span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc Two: The Signalman (1976) and Stigma (1977)</i></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPD_IDVSJN6zKtIWhAZkJ9RpUoIZPKMx647KDqKXGoHiv3Wn_JVYWmrT-lO_nXddts-FeMVScHDjK2MPN0UYl-A6IOj2QuMTfVU3UathlSxVvZKRADv0b1nlNjVUi47P5PAjjTu_zvY9Y5CeMMjCiqnOO6BpHy0cmgzyyq9OWH5PzixQezydzaFRr3qsig/s1420/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.46.43.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1062" data-original-width="1420" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPD_IDVSJN6zKtIWhAZkJ9RpUoIZPKMx647KDqKXGoHiv3Wn_JVYWmrT-lO_nXddts-FeMVScHDjK2MPN0UYl-A6IOj2QuMTfVU3UathlSxVvZKRADv0b1nlNjVUi47P5PAjjTu_zvY9Y5CeMMjCiqnOO6BpHy0cmgzyyq9OWH5PzixQezydzaFRr3qsig/w400-h299/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.46.43.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Time to switch from M R James to Charles Dickens and Clive Exton. The Signalman stars Denholm Elliott at his twitchiest as the title character with a terrible sense of foreboding, while Stigma is an original story filmed in Avebury (location of the previous year's Children of the Stones) about the unleashing of a vengeful witch's spirit.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvodc8-_DZP-nAm-f-Nz1iWCBOegBCO3Z3mfJi1ySHJ20SNoDQKdWDobDy30h-RriGF9ioXgJnK6ABnFSY6OKxCVR706j9TnnWD2hE5X0bbQqmPUbgyRRsVMNXbam_A5UZSgAYR48IxePHG5AfTkvJtjqLNcqnOkspBw8sT8FWE1kYarzmWWRyYYXVXIGQ/s1860/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.47.14.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1408" data-original-width="1860" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvodc8-_DZP-nAm-f-Nz1iWCBOegBCO3Z3mfJi1ySHJ20SNoDQKdWDobDy30h-RriGF9ioXgJnK6ABnFSY6OKxCVR706j9TnnWD2hE5X0bbQqmPUbgyRRsVMNXbam_A5UZSgAYR48IxePHG5AfTkvJtjqLNcqnOkspBw8sT8FWE1kYarzmWWRyYYXVXIGQ/w400-h303/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.47.14.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The commentary on The Signalman is from Jon Dear with special guest Mark Gatiss, while Kim Newman and Sean Hogan provide commentary duties on Stigma, with kudos to Mr Hogan for managing to get a PSYCHOMANIA reference in there.</span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Extras on disc two are limited to two Lawrence Gordon Clark introductions (19 minutes in all)</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Disc Three: The Ice House (1978), A View From A Hill (2005), Number 13 (2006)</i></span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The main feature on disc three is The Ice House, John Bowen's weird Aickmanesque story of the strange events that befall a man (John Stride) when he attends a health spa. It's very different from the way the series started off in 1971, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact both The Ice House and Stigma are superb examples of the television horror short story form for the late 1970s and it's a shame that there weren't more like them.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi53LZv7NqDTwo8Xff7husLXEMSmeDrFYYVGG_Ouudcq-rlT_4E88ZZI4YnO-gckggsR5Q3t8TU-qmci_uxvP8JZ6U8_1D88Sy7fBAdLNSNPwfj4Wif87MWn3ez0-0hqwJ1WG0FMPXtRfIYV3pkj1CUvMRbF_LdqECDn35Nw5ddPX7QfyR5EUCtADFaWRJd/s2520/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.48.22.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1308" data-original-width="2520" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi53LZv7NqDTwo8Xff7husLXEMSmeDrFYYVGG_Ouudcq-rlT_4E88ZZI4YnO-gckggsR5Q3t8TU-qmci_uxvP8JZ6U8_1D88Sy7fBAdLNSNPwfj4Wif87MWn3ez0-0hqwJ1WG0FMPXtRfIYV3pkj1CUvMRbF_LdqECDn35Nw5ddPX7QfyR5EUCtADFaWRJd/w400-h208/Screenshot%202023-11-16%20at%2022.48.22.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Kim Newman and Sean Hogan are on hand for another excellent commentary, and this time the special features consist of two of the more recent Ghost Stories For Christmas - A View From a Hill and Number 13, and you also get the 2000 version of Christopher Lee reading Number 13 as well. The set also comes with a booklet that includes new essays on all of the classic original series episodes on the set. All top quality stuff</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS VOLUME TWO is out in a three disc Blu-ray set from the BFI on Monday 20th November 2023</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5091132880007836384.post-54331714848667685532023-11-13T08:44:00.001+00:002023-11-13T08:44:53.611+00:00Feed Me (2022)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGRKs4eJ7qSJyr_A07S6XNa3LxN-tH5dv13v0YxNI7Cx_Po1bsWHbOCrDR2ASKbtQqopteM23q275AFvsBavj71x4atGb9bEC2DbLGaQfBfNjGefIYihNBttaAH-mXT4D0fXQPg3_vAq6P06FE8Cksa6TutFDXuKnXekwff51j81L-SdD8t7-Bsw0TrJ6/s918/thumbnail.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="918" data-original-width="649" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGRKs4eJ7qSJyr_A07S6XNa3LxN-tH5dv13v0YxNI7Cx_Po1bsWHbOCrDR2ASKbtQqopteM23q275AFvsBavj71x4atGb9bEC2DbLGaQfBfNjGefIYihNBttaAH-mXT4D0fXQPg3_vAq6P06FE8Cksa6TutFDXuKnXekwff51j81L-SdD8t7-Bsw0TrJ6/w283-h400/thumbnail.jpeg" width="283" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">After winning the Best Film award at 2022's Grimmfest, Richard Oakes and Adam Leader's FEED ME is getting a digital release from Bingo Films.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnF-_-zyQt3SS50ZNR-kQ8dcJ_I6cdHxVEDBXmDTQ6Z06-UQkx1lTZPC-txzs9U0hdQDiX4Vilxd4clyo2gqAhpDP4hyycR0tC5-WQ-7AOv8fIfKp5q95FsozbNZyOEyDdo7b9_zVJGnIrIdtzLITPPxw2EyyGtwuxjwgoX-0HHLNgsRsXGmAJfChlKnfc/s2710/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2020.56.03.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1110" data-original-width="2710" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnF-_-zyQt3SS50ZNR-kQ8dcJ_I6cdHxVEDBXmDTQ6Z06-UQkx1lTZPC-txzs9U0hdQDiX4Vilxd4clyo2gqAhpDP4hyycR0tC5-WQ-7AOv8fIfKp5q95FsozbNZyOEyDdo7b9_zVJGnIrIdtzLITPPxw2EyyGtwuxjwgoX-0HHLNgsRsXGmAJfChlKnfc/w400-h164/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2020.56.03.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When the wife of Jed Freeman (Christopher Mulvin) is found dead following a long battle with bulimia nervosa, Jed plunges into deep depression. He meets the bizarre Lionel Flack (Neal Ward) who has an even more bizarre proposition for him - that Jed be freed from his grief by allowing Lionel to eat him. </span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxc-9wns7I9txbzvCmMaLMg6-r4y5iffc2Lqf7xIaRg-XtF6rd92sPUPaunwybFVKB4T1n6JYNaHqrBgj_rRGWm57TJzj4PW_U47znlVmA3DYuO8JlO7hUqJxHsWHVYE-V0S-ShAlXAi5wH5xyRLulT451mDxul6O6I_u_EzI0fqjFSmFZs22WMAZRL__/s2700/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2020.56.22.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1100" data-original-width="2700" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxc-9wns7I9txbzvCmMaLMg6-r4y5iffc2Lqf7xIaRg-XtF6rd92sPUPaunwybFVKB4T1n6JYNaHqrBgj_rRGWm57TJzj4PW_U47znlVmA3DYuO8JlO7hUqJxHsWHVYE-V0S-ShAlXAi5wH5xyRLulT451mDxul6O6I_u_EzI0fqjFSmFZs22WMAZRL__/w400-h163/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2020.56.22.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Allegedly based on a true story that took place in Germany in 2002 (one that was spoofed in an episode of Channel 4's The IT Crowd several years ago), FEED ME is being advertised as a 'cannibal comedy horror', but don't come to this one expecting it to be an easy laugh a minute endeavour. The character of Flack is so broadly drawn and portrayed that he comes across like a sitcom version of Jeffrey Dahmer, which would be fine if the rest of the film's tone was in keeping with that, but it isn't.</span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MscD0EJQS9Hqm4UL8VQIfrjlXM6lEqgOXTIcpi8nKnmJnoddDBY0LJNxJnrnwByE_6-y8g05QQO-1CxOz7nSi25JB7I7vyJKZ6kY5uyZnnQOvUjBBH_wiSeSme0ltJoGivG9NI170ifgcFzSLu1n63-13PqCTOGQj_h3bXE5VcMfudJiOiHll9slLkIw/s2670/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2021.00.36.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="2670" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MscD0EJQS9Hqm4UL8VQIfrjlXM6lEqgOXTIcpi8nKnmJnoddDBY0LJNxJnrnwByE_6-y8g05QQO-1CxOz7nSi25JB7I7vyJKZ6kY5uyZnnQOvUjBBH_wiSeSme0ltJoGivG9NI170ifgcFzSLu1n63-13PqCTOGQj_h3bXE5VcMfudJiOiHll9slLkIw/w400-h163/Screenshot%202023-11-09%20at%2021.00.36.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Flack lives in unbelievable squalor and his house is decorated with pictures of his naked mother, giving it a John Waters by way of Pete Walker feel. His proposed victim has undergone severe emotional trauma such that the tone of the opening act is grim indeed. Grimmfest's programme notes compare FEED ME to DELICATESSEN and HOTEL POSEIDON, while the directors were previously responsible for HOSTS. All of those are rather better (or perhaps better judged) than what's on offer here. However, if you do fancy something that's going to leave you confused as to just how you should respond to it, or if you like movies that make you wonder what on earth you just saw, then FEED ME should be added to your watch list. Here's the trailer:</span></p>
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<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fuF1WW-EWKg" width="438" youtube-src-id="fuF1WW-EWKg"></iframe></div><br /><p></p>
<div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">FEED ME is out on Digital from Bingo Films on Monday 13th November 2023</span></p></div>John Llewellyn Proberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05241619429561718201noreply@blogger.com0