Bad Apple Movie Theead

[DieselDaisy]

2 hours ago, Jack Burton said:

 

Idk if it was because I watched them out of order, or what but I thought Dawn of the Dead was so boring and poorly paced. I thought I heard that the American cut might have been different, but between the score and all the goofy dress-up type scenes, I couldn't stay interested.

 

Absolute masterpiece. Just about the film that got me into exploitation-splatter horror. 

[wasted]

It's crazy that Obama's production company made Leave the World Behind. And the message of the movie is there is no way back. 

[wasted]

The Founder (2016)

 

First time I've cried since the last time I watched Rocky. 

[AxlisOld]

Mission Impossible III. Taking a break from Breath of the Wild and stupid bullshit cheap ass Thunderblight Ganon. @EstrangedTWAT PSH is fucking awesome in the first scene.

edit...Maggie Q. Me-fucking-yow

[MAGATRON]

On 12/20/2023 at 11:16 PM, wasted said:

The Founder (2016)

 

First time I've cried since the last time I watched Rocky. 

I wonder when we’ll get a movie about Colonel Sanders. Hollywood has yet to exploit the Fast Food Universe. 

[wasted]

5 minutes ago, MAGATRON said:

I wonder when we’ll get a movie about Colonel Sanders. Hollywood has yet to exploit the Fast Food Universe. 

Was there a movie about Kellogs cornflakes by Alan Parker? 
 

Pizza Hut needs a movie. 
 

Coca Cola definitely. The Pepsi Challenge. 
 

Marlboro movie. 

[DieselDaisy]

Trying to torrent Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive (1976), I ended up with an awful Italian cannibal film by the same name (1980) in its place! The Italians, for reasons I have not fathomed, got a bit obsessed with hacking real life animals up in cannibal pictures circa 1980, e.g., Cannibal Holocaust; this is of that genre. Worth it for the moment main antagonist dices up a snake, fashioning snake's remains into a penis, a dildo I suppose, and proceeding to rape the main female lead with the instrument - this is indeed a scene to rival Citizen Kane's 'Rosebud' and Casablanca's ''here's looking at you kid''?

 

The female protagonist is this naughty Swedish minx, so...every cloud?

 

 

[wasted]

 

[wasted]

1 hour ago, DieselDaisy said:

Trying to torrent Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive (1976), I ended up with an awful Italian cannibal film by the same name (1980) in its place! The Italians, for reasons I have not fathomed, got a bit obsessed with hacking real life animals up in cannibal pictures circa 1980, e.g., Cannibal Holocaust; this is of that genre. Worth it for the moment main antagonist dices up a snake, fashioning snake's remains into a penis, a dildo I suppose, and proceeding to rape the main female lead with the instrument - this is indeed a scene to rival Citizen Kane's 'Rosebud' and Casablanca's ''here's looking at you kid''?

 

The female protagonist is this naughty Swedish minx, so...every cloud?

 

 

What movie is this? 
 

Let me get my glasses. 

[DieselDaisy]

2 hours ago, wasted said:

What movie is this? 
 

Let me get my glasses. 

 

Pure trash,

 

[wasted]

29 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

 

Pure trash,

 

At that point you might  as well go Italian soft core. 

 

 

[MAGATRON]

7 hours ago, wasted said:

Was there a movie about Kellogs cornflakes by Alan Parker? 
 

Pizza Hut needs a movie. 
 

Coca Cola definitely. The Pepsi Challenge. 
 

Marlboro movie. 

I think there was a Kellog’s movie. I thought they were invented by a Dr. Kellog who was running a fat farm for fat people trying to lose weight? I could be wrong. 

[wasted]

11 minutes ago, MAGATRON said:

I think there was a Kellog’s movie. I thought they were invented by a Dr. Kellog who was running a fat farm for fat people trying to lose weight? I could be wrong. 

The Road to Welville.
But I might just be equating Kellogg with cornflakes. 

[MAGATRON]

31 minutes ago, wasted said:

The Road to Welville.
But I might just be equating Kellogg with cornflakes. 

I think Kellog was responsible for Rice Crispies, Special K, and Cornflakes. A movie about the creator of Count Chocula would probably be more entertaining. Some say sugary breakfast cereal as part of a balanced diet for kids was the greatest bit of a deception the advertising industry has ever sold to the American public. 

[Bill Brasky]

I watched The Killer by David Fincher. I really enjoyed it. Remind of films from the 70's ala the mechanic with Charles Bronson.

 

The beginning where he goes to McDonald's had me immediately think @wasted.

 

[Jack Burton]

Big Bully. Just as good as I remembered it from when I was a kid.

 

 

[wasted]

11 hours ago, MAGATRON said:

I think Kellog was responsible for Rice Crispies, Special K, and Cornflakes. A movie about the creator of Count Chocula would probably be more entertaining. Some say sugary breakfast cereal as part of a balanced diet for kids was the greatest bit of a deception the advertising industry has ever sold to the American public. 

It's a bowl of sugar. Mass production kind of defeats itself. If you have a starving kid in rural China then the calories and vitamins and storability of Cornflakes is ok. But if you eat 3 epic bowls Coco Frosties at 1am with 2L of milk it's not going to be good for you. 
 

The Variety is probably the right portion, and you need cut bananas into or something. I worked on something for Special K it target young girls who want to be slim but also as a way to add nutrition to milk. Which true but too much sugar especially if you crush the entire like I do in One sitting. It really lacks fiber. 

[wasted]

13 hours ago, Bill Brasky said:

I watched The Killer by David Fincher. I really enjoyed it. Remind of films from the 70's ala the mechanic with Charles Bronson.

 

The beginning where he goes to McDonald's had me immediately think @wasted.

 

It's almost as if I was spitballing ideas with Fincher.
 

There's somekind of irony in the corporate serial killer movie having product placement for McDonald's and Amazon. 
 

A serial killer that eats McDonald's who would think of that. 

[DieselDaisy]

Eaten Alive (1976)

 

Tobe Hooper's follow-up to his The Texas Chainsaw Massacre yet that earlier film is considered a seminal horror milestone whereas its follow-up is largely ignored, perhaps due to the dodgy looking crocodile prop which is the film's weakest aspect I feel. Both films depict the ''otherness'' of homesteads/small towns by which metropolitan ''normies'' travel to shitsville America and are confronted with sadistic ''characters'' like Judd (here) and Leatherface (TTCM) populating America's forgotten hinterland. It is an America of weird looking faces, clamped-out motels, barren mom n' pop stores, state troopers/sheriffs and roadkill. It is the America of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Deliverance and Rob Zombie's entire film career. You could even argue that these is a smug element of classicism and stereotyping: if Leatherface and Judd voted, they'd vote Trump and if they were British, they'd vote Brexit and eat at Greggs.

 

Hooper would become a mainstream horror director after this and less interesting for it.

 

A young Robert Englund is very memorable: ''my Name is Buck and i'm here to fuck'' - ripped off by Quentin the shameless hack that he is for the rapey fella at the beginning of Kill Bill. 

 

 

[DieselDaisy]

When I say Tobe Hooper became a mainstream horror director, I mean only one film separates Eaten Alive from Poltergeist! Peter Jackson's career is similar, albeit infinitely more successful in the latter portion: from Braindead and Bad Taste to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. And Sam Raimi: Evil Dead to the Spiderman trilogy.

 

'70s-80s studenty splatter films=a gateway to modern day CGI franchise properties.

[Johnny Ramone]

On 12/23/2023 at 5:29 AM, wasted said:

At that point you might  as well go Italian soft core. 

 

 

 

Tinto Brass has some great movies. That chick in Paprika has one of the best racks I’ve ever seen. 

[Guest The Monkey]

Home Alone

 

A timeless masterpiece from a better time.

[DieselDaisy]

The Funhouse (1981)

It's a slasher, with superficially the archetypical slasher scenario of horny irreverent teenagers smoking pot, in this film going to a fair ground and sampling the rides rather than visiting Camp Crystal Lake. It is also on a major (Universal), budgeted at 3m, yet it is a slasher that has more than a foot in Exploitation's door. There is a scene - SPOILER - where the freak, Gunther, pays $100 to an old astrologist gypsy hag for her to wank him off; then, not happy that he ''didn't go the distance'', he tries to get his money back and proceeds to strangle her! Furthermore, there is an earlier scene that sends-off Psycho's shower scene where the younger brother is disturbing his sister nude in the shower. Very weird throughout! 

 

Again, carnival (=itinerant amusement park staffed by gypsies): a perfect opportunity for Hooper's customary ''otherness'' showing weirdos from fringes of hinterland America. The cinematography, depicting carnival, is superb. Kevin Conway is a tour de force - you'll know him from the film Gettysburg. This is probably one of my favourite Tobe Hooper films. Did alright at the box office also, riding the slasher craze: 7m.

 

So Tobe Hooper went from working with English thespians like James Mason on Stephen King's Salem's Lot, to working on this freaky little film with its legendary hand job scene, to then basically doing a big budget Spielberg horror with Poltergeist? Crazy few years!

 

One of Rick Baker's creatures,

 

Spoiler

This is the fella who wants his 100 dollars back, Gunther,

 

 

 

Lifeforce (1985)

Bonkers film. Huge budget as part of this Cannon distribution deal he received after Poltergeist's success. Budgeted at 25mill (Poltergeist's was only 10m). Hooper never commanded a budget remotely like that anywhere else in his filmography.

 

How even to describe this film? It starts out like 2001, an almost cerebral slow-paced space discovery, but then becomes a sci-fi energy sucking vampire film set amidst a (British) military bureaucracy. Chuck in some magnificent zombie-apocalypse scenes of London. Throw in Captain Picard. Throw in this big oblong alien spacecraft. I definitely see a big Hammer influence on Lifeforce. The British setting/actors helps, but it is basically riffing on Quatermass. Throughout film a naked chick walks around, played by Mathilda May (yes, I looked her up on the internet, a French actress); no red-blooded male will ever forget the sight of this naked chick walking around. Cropped,

 

 

Lifeforce is an incoherent mess but I like it as it is completely bonkers. I suppose that is what happens when you chuck a 25m cheque at a grindhouse director who was making films for only 100k a few years earlier. Also, a lot of drugs were consumed I expect during production?

[wasted]

It's amazing how physically exhausting it can be to do nothing. 

[wasted]

Every time I watch The Killer I can't believe he misses that shot.