Yeah Miss Burning is an intense flick…that’s an Alan Parker movie who is the same guy who did Pink Floyd The Wall…he also did the great Angel Heart with Micky Rourke and DeNiro as Louis Cypher haha…a lesser known film that he did called Birdy I would highly recommend also…really emotional flick with Matthew Modine about a traumatized war vet and his buddy who tries to help him…Parker was a great filmmaker…
It was an OK slasher film, but a terrible TCM movie. Could’ve been Michael Myers or Jason or anyone like that. Very little of what makes the original so harrowing even 50 years later.
Well yeah they made Leatherface supernatural like Jason Voorhees…he was never supernatural…although he is supposed to be 70 also and he was running around like a 20 year old…go for the gory kills and forget the rest of it…it was mostly ludicrous but tons of fun…
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I’ve never seen this flick either, but I’ve always wanted to. Just never got around to it. Maybe if it hits one of the streaming services I’ll check it out.
It’s def worth checking out,grmps…can’t go wrong with Gene Hackman and Willem Da Foe
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Doing a grindhouse fest this weekend at Queer Bait Estates
Last night:
Eaten Alive
Dead and Buried
Vice Squad
Tonight:
Humanoids from the Deep
Vigilante
Death Wish 2
Tomorrow:
Night of the Demons
The Toxic Avenger
Cannibal Holocaust
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Those Italian cannibal movies were insane. My buddies and I rented MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY in college solely because of the salacious cover and packaging. “Banned in 82 Countries!!!” It was a wild ride, haha!
“Eaten Alive” is the aligátor one, right? I think it claimed to be made by some of the Texas Chainsaw folk? We used to pick movies solely by the outrageous VHS covers. Most of the time this was a winning strategy. And other times we ended up with “Future Kill”.
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“Eaten Alive” is the aligátor one, right? I think it claimed to be made by some of the Texas Chainsaw folk?
Tobe Hooper directed it, yes.
Yeah Eaten Alive is the movie Tobe Hooper did after Texas Chainsaw Massacre…it’s a sleazy little southern gothic ditty…a young Robert England(Freddy Krueger) is in it so is Carolyn Jones who played Morticia Adams on the Addams Family, William Finley who is the Phantom in DePalmas excellent Phantom of the Paradise and Marilyn Burns returns to work for Tobe…she was the final girl in Chainsaw…fun skeezy flick
Haha! I was gonna guess Tobe, but had a feeling it was one of those dirty plays on the VHS where you assume it’s Tobe, but “from the folks who brought you Texas Chainsaw Massacre” actually equates to a backup camera man, a boom mic holder, and a sandwich artist.
Tobe did great stuff. I remember really digging another low key one called “Funhouse” which I’ve been meaning to pick up again.
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Yeah The Funhouse was shot down here in Miami…a lesser known entry of his…spooky and creepy carnival horror…always dug it…then of course after that he achieved much bigger fame for directing Poltergeist…even though the debate will always rage on about how much of it he was responsible for and how much was producer Steven Spielberg…
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The Wolf Of Snow Hollow
A lot better than I expected. Mix of horror, suspense and comedy often clashed with varying results and the characters could have been a little more fleshed out, but overall one of the better horror films I’ve seen in the past year or so.
Black Phone
I was curious about the Black Phone…I like Ethan. Hawke and read some decent reviews…any good?
I recently watched the new Cronenberg film Crimes of the Future…really enjoyed it…nice to see him get back to his “body horror” roots…strange film that gave off the good old school Cronenberg vibe of films like Videodrome, Dead Ringers, Scanners etc…
Also saw Censor which is a cool film about a British censor of the "video nasties’ of the early 80s…it goes into some cool areas, great lighting,good atmosphere and a nice throwback feel… ultimately I don’t think it stuck the landing but it was entertaining…
Aside from that just watching the usual old grindhouse and horror shit…
I saw this one a few weeks ago with my clients in Mexico. I hate 90% of new movies and I loved it. The story was clever, the characters believable, and there was a bunch of cool nostalgic tidbits to excite the jaded old fuckers like me. I enjoyed it.
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Ahhh good to hear…I’m pretty picky about modern horror…I’ve read some good reviews and a few ppl I trust told me it was real good also…will check it out this weekend…
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I liked the Black Phone pretty well. I thought the direction and performances were fantastic but the story felt very Stephen King to me (was based on one of his son’s short stories) and I’ve never been a huge King fan.
Not that you should trust my taste in horror as I subscribed to the Full Moon streaming service on July 1 and have been watching a ton of those crappy 90s b-movie Full Moon classics and having a ton of fun with them. Puppet Master, Subspecies, Dark Angel: The Ascension, Bad Channels - all that shit!
^ Been about 25 years since seeing any, but I loved all those PUPPET MASTER movies too.
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I don’t know much about Full Moon…I do subscribe to Shudder though and they have a pretty good extensive selection…and yeah those Puppet master movies are gloriously shitty…I shamelessly love all of them…Bad Channels isn’t a great film but Blue Oyster Cult does the soundtrack so it has that going for it…
Full Moon were the kings of direct to VHS in the early 90s and I have a huge amount of nostalgia for them for that reason. Don’t trust any of my opinions about their movies because my memories color any contemporary viewing.
I’m only doing a month of them though and am going to jump over to Shudder next month because I’m dead set to watch “Mad God”. Have you seen that?
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