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Morbidfilm, on 12 March 2012 - 12:33 PM, said:

watched
In the Mouth of Madness 8/10 Carpenter does Lovecraft!
Gojira 10/10 finally watched the original Japanese version of Godzilla.

ITMOM was all right, I dunno, I thought it'd be better for some reason. Better than a lot of the Lovecraft movies that's for sure.
Hey, been kinda curious as to Godzilla movies for some reason lately. If you were to recommend the very best one to watch, what'd it be? The original? I'm talking about the original ones of course from the 60s-70s or whatever. Keep in mind I have no sentimental attachment or any preconceived notions about it really, other than it'll be kinda cheesy (which is ok).

I recently watched The Warriors and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). I had only caught snippets of both before. The Warriors was pretty decent. I watched the director's edition or whatever, and really liked the Greek references and comic book style. Munchausen was a visual feast; Terry Gilliam knocked it out of the park again.

Also watched Make-Out With Violence, an indie, somewhat arty zombie movie. The zombie in it wasn't even really the main focus, but a subplot birthed from the original plot of the main characters' love. Left many questions unanswered and it was generally disappointing, but it was definitely one of the most original zombie movies I've seen (or maybe I should say "movie-with-a-zombie-in-it").

DarthJoe8, on 12 March 2012 - 03:15 PM, said:

Watched 28 Days and Weeks later.

Now those are some nice original zombie movies too. ;-D

[Morbidfilm]

paultagonist, on 12 March 2012 - 05:44 PM, said:

Morbidfilm, on 12 March 2012 - 12:33 PM, said:

watched
In the Mouth of Madness 8/10 Carpenter does Lovecraft!
Gojira 10/10 finally watched the original Japanese version of Godzilla.

ITMOM was all right, I dunno, I thought it'd be better for some reason. Better than a lot of the Lovecraft movies that's for sure.
Hey, been kinda curious as to Godzilla movies for some reason lately. If you were to recommend the very best one to watch, what'd it be? The original? I'm talking about the original ones of course from the 60s-70s or whatever. Keep in mind I have no sentimental attachment or any preconceived notions about it really, other than it'll be kinda cheesy (which is ok).

I recently watched The Warriors and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). I had only caught snippets of both before. The Warriors was pretty decent. I watched the director's edition or whatever, and really liked the Greek references and comic book style. Munchausen was a visual feast; Terry Gilliam knocked it out of the park again.

Also watched Make-Out With Violence, an indie, somewhat arty zombie movie. The zombie in it wasn't even really the main focus, but a subplot birthed from the original plot of the main characters' love. Left many questions unanswered and it was generally disappointing, but it was definitely one of the most original zombie movies I've seen (or maybe I should say "movie-with-a-zombie-in-it").

DarthJoe8, on 12 March 2012 - 03:15 PM, said:

Watched 28 Days and Weeks later.

Now those are some nice original zombie movies too. ;-D

Many Godzilla fans usually recommend Godzilla vs Mothra. I think it is the best suit they ever made and there are many great sequences. Godzilla vs Hedora (the Smog Monster) is really good and one of the darkest ones aside from the original. Terror of Mechagodzilla has some of the largest action scenes.
BTW I love The Warriors! Such as good movie!

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Morbidfilm, on 12 March 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Many Godzilla fans usually recommend Godzilla vs Mothra.

Thanks, I'm watching it now on Netflix :-)

[Morbidfilm]

paultagonist, on 12 March 2012 - 10:17 PM, said:

Morbidfilm, on 12 March 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Many Godzilla fans usually recommend Godzilla vs Mothra.

Thanks, I'm watching it now on Netflix :-)

Cool!

[RIP]

Watched:

The Deadly Spawn - watched it for the 1st time ever last night and really enjoyed this gory low budget alien creature film from 1983. I have it on bluray and it has alot of good special features on it.

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watched
War of the Gargantuas (yet again) 10/10
I love this movie.

[RIP]

Watched:

Psychic Killer - 1975 film about a man whose accused wrongly of a murder he didn't commit and then is sent to a mental asylum where he gains psychic powers from a voodoo inmate and then when he's released he goes out killing people with his telepathic powers who wronged him.

[Morbidfilm]

Watched the new movie
Drive 8/10
Very good movie made in an interesting subtle way. But then there is some brutal violence as well. Best new movie I've seen in a while.

[RIP]

Watched:

Seven Blood Stained Orchids - decent early 70's giallo from Umberto Lenzi(who directed 1980 Nightmare City). I give it a 7/10 rating

Mansion of the Doomed - late 70's or early 80's film directed by actor Michael Pataki(who starred in films like Halloween 4, Zombie Death House, etc..) and stars Lance Henriksen. I give it a 5/10 rating

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Hollywood Mortuary. Guy ressurects film stars in the 40s through macumba-style voodoo and they wreak havok. Impressive no-budget zombie movie.

[RIP]

Bought:

Curse of the Black Widow - 1977 made for tv film about a woman who turns into a black widow spider lol. I bought it used on vhs.

[RIP]

Bought:

The Sleeper - 1980's slasher

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Just got in the mail
Godzilla vs Mothra - Media Classics sp ed

Tales Beyond the Pale box set radio plays.
Saw these advertised over at Rue Morgue and listened to samples and they sound really good. The cds are some of the nicest digipacks that I have seen.

And a personalized 8x10 of John Carpenter because my wife and I donated to a shelter to help medical bills for an abused dog. If you donated so much John's wife awarded everyone with signed pics. I didn't expect it to be personalized though! Bonus!

[RIP]

Watched:

The Sleeper - low budget indie film that was made last year for $30,000 and was very cool indeed. This is a slasher film set up on a college campus and it's set in 1980 so it has that 80's vide to it and the kills in it were pretty good and decent. It has elemnts of slasher films Black Christmas, He knows You're Alone, Halloween, When a Stranger Calls, etc.....

[RIP]

Watched:

More Brains: Return of the Living Dead - great documentry on the film

Bought:

Mimic - bluray

Blade Runner - 4 disc dvd set

The Bloody Moon - 1997

My pure Joy

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Watched
The Intruder - 80's French adaption of a Dean Koontz book.
Godzilla vs Gigan

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Recently watched..

Melancholia -- New Lars von Trier film, original, artistic and excellent as always.
Mortuary -- pretty bad Lovecraftian flick with zombies in it, directed by Tobe Hooper. Shame.
Take Shelter -- watched this one per MorbidFilm's nonadvice. I really dug it, a unique examination of mental illness and family bonds. Michael Shannon was terrific as always. The whole movie had an uneasy feel to it, and the ending was very satisfying. Didn't really seem slow at all to me.
The Mystery Team -- HILARIOUS, about three recent high school graduate friends that still kind of act like they're in a Hardy Boys or Encyclopedia Brown detective kids' book. Reminded me of The Brady Bunch Movie a bit.
The Good, The Bad, The Weird -- Japanese Western stylistic film, pretty funny and an obvious homage to Sergio Leone.
A Cadaver Christmas -- laughed out loud so many times at this zombie flick. A real gem, very well done. Film makers were obviously competent and did everything right. Really surprised how much I liked it, will review it come the holiday season.
The Girl Next Door -- somewhat disturbing movie, inspired by real events.

I've also been going through Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, currently towards the beginning of season 2.

Recently bought the "limited edition" The Dead two-disc set on Blu-ray, from Germany (Amazon.de). Needed something to test out the multi-region feature on my new Blu-ray player, so that gave me the excuse pay for the $14 shipping charges.
As long as I was paying crazy shipping charges, I went ahead and got Born Undead (aka Garden of Love) while I was at it (didn't cost extra shipping), an Olaf Ittenbach film not available here in the States. It has English subtitles, unlike some of the other Olaf Ittenbach films that were available, and it got good reviews, and was fairly cheap. Hopefully this German zombie splatter film is decent. I've only ever seen Premutos: Lord of the Living Dead by him, and it was pretty crappy video quality so an actual DVD will be nice.

[RIP]

Watched:

Feardotcom - I use to hate this film alot but it wasn't as bad as a recall last night lol. Yes it still stinks but not as bad as it did then.

[Vorpal]

Samurai Princess - Japanese film. Dubbed. Comically gory.

[RIP]

Watched yesterday:

Halloween 2 - bluray edition of the 1981 film
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Fright Night - remake

Bought:

Horror Collection set of these films:
Blood Diner
Fido
Parents
Earth Girls are Easy
Sundown
Boy eats Girl