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The Hot Rock
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it… Starring Robert Redford and George Segal in the lead roles, this has many good things going for it. Instead of a run of the mill crime caper we get a well scripted movie that has fun oozing from every frame. As the movie progresses, the crooks lurch from one bad luck scenario to another and it's impossible not to side with our charmingly unlucky thieves. Redford and Segal play off each other very well. Amongst all the hilarity, the movie has a cool 70's vibe to it with director Peter Yates finding a happy medium between comedy and crime drama. It may not be an Oscar winning movie but I thought it was very enjoyable.
3 years, 6 months ago
The Big Day
Three men are vying for the job of director at a small engineering company with two of the men even going so far as playing dirty tricks on each other in order to get the job. This is an interesting movie all about the three candidates gunning for a job. Donald Pleasance plays a meek fellow who is having an affair with his secretary, Harry H Corbett who believes as he is married to the managing director's sister he'll get the post and the very confident and young William Franklin. The movie portrays each of their home lives as well as what happens at work. It isn't a surprise to the viewer when the managing director announces to the three who is successful but whatever victory the winning candidate gets as a result of this is a hollow one as one of his first duties is being forced to fire one of the workforce. The closing scene showing the new director stuck at his desk and having to work throughout the weekend is a bleak one to end the movie. The three leads are great with the best being Donald Pleasance playing a sad loser. An enjoyable movie overall.
3 years, 6 months ago
The Big Day
 The Big Day 6/10
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The Ritual
 The Ritual 6/10
3 years, 6 months ago
The Ritual
A group of men reunite for a trip to the forest to remember a friend that was killed but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that’s stalking them. This is a competent and conceptually confident British horror movie that does manage to crank up the tension without relying on false or obnoxious jump-scares, instead using its ominous musical score and foreboding to create a slow-building sense that there's something sinister lurking amongst the trees. When the movie moves into the final third, it starts to lose its way a little. The closer it comes to the ritual, the less tense and unique it gets. I liked the design of the ginormous god-like creature though it is shown a bit too much near the end. Good acting by the main four leads. All in all, a great and really creepy movie that I enjoyed.
3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago
It Happened Here
It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is caught in the middle. A fairly interesting but ultimately bland 'what if?' movie. It took 8 years for this movie to be made. One of its most important qualities is the way it allows us to understand how the Nazi philosophy is allowed to take root and to spread, and the movie manages to show this happening in a very plausible way; I liked in particular the way it plays up to the fears of the English people by emphasizing the threat of Communism, thus making it seem that they are really on the same side fighting the same enemy. What I found the most chilling was seeing Nazi soldiers walking outside Parliament and other locations in London. The plot of the movie mostly revolves around a nurse who joins a national socialist organisation for work even though she's not happy about doing it. Slowly over the course of the movie, the viewer sees her change her views about socialism and the Nazis and how she thinks it's doing the power of good in the country. I found a lot of the movie rather tedious and boring. Overall, even though it had a lot of good ideas, this movie didn't have enough to hold my interest and the pacing was too slow. Average at best.
3 years, 6 months ago
Ghosthouse
 Ghosthouse 4/10
3 years, 6 months ago
Ghosthouse
A group of unlikely companions receive a radio call leading to a deserted house with a grisly past. After exploring the house, the group makes the foolish decision to split up, leading to a trail of death and destruction as the house unleashes its deadly past. Along the way expect severed heads, exploding light bulbs, demonic clown dolls, and a creepy little girl. A below average horror movie from director Umberto Lenzi. He pulls out all the stops in this movie - unleashing a crazed hillbilly, an unconvincing head in a washing machine, exploding glass jars/bottles, a shaky campervan, a devil dog, an indoor feather-storm, an acid/slime bubble bath, the grim reaper, and a cute little girl and her evil clown doll! The mindless dialogue is perfectly suited to the awful characters, who simply wander through the house until something bad happens. The death scenes are OK though. The ending felt a bit rushed. Perhaps the budget ran out and Lenzi had to come up with something less expensive at the last minute? In the end, this is just a run-of-the-mill haunted house slasher.
3 years, 6 months ago
Lone Wolf
 Lone Wolf 3/10
3 years, 6 months ago
Lone Wolf
A struggling rock band and other college students cope with the trials and tribulations of their young lives and find themselves in the role of determining what exactly is behind the recent full-moon killings which have been attributed to wild dogs. This amateurish low budget horror movie fits quite snugly in the "so bad it's good" category for the first half but then it quickly loses steam and you're forced to sit through absolutely pointless filler so much so that the payoff in the end is almost never worth it. It's funny seeing the cast who are all portraying high school students looking more like in their late 20's and early 30's. The wolf transformation sequence in the end is decent but that's probably the only good thing I can really say about the movie. Unless you're really desperate to see every werewolf movie, give this one a miss.
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The Glove
 The Glove 2/10
3 years, 6 months ago
The Glove
A bounty hunter who is desperate for money is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steel. Ross Hagen directs this low key, low budget, action, crime, revenge b-movie caper and it isn't good I'm afraid. There is very little action involving the deadly glove but what is shown is fairly good. The movie did start rather well before it grinds to a halt until near the end. John Saxon as the lead star also narrates the story detailing his day to day activities which acts as a means to further the plot. It makes the movie rather cheesy I thought. He's also not that convincing as the bounty hunter. There's a fight in a meat factory which is unintentionally funny which sees Saxon and a villain hitting each other with slabs of meat! This movie could have been so much better but as it is it's not worth bothering with.
3 years, 6 months ago
Ghost Riders
 Ghost Riders 4/10
3 years, 6 months ago
Ghost Riders
An outlaw gang hanged by a posse in the late 1880's comes back from the grave to terrorize the descendants of the posse’s leader. Don't be deceived by the cover for this obscure movie. There are no skeletal cowboys here at all - in fact the so-called dead outlaws look like flesh and blood human beings that stepped out from a western clothing store. Their clothes, faces and demeanor is fresh and sunny. What this movie is essentially some guys with cowboy hats chasing a couple of young adults and a Vietnam veteran around some woods. There is no horror element to it at all and whilst there is some blood, that is from gun shot wounds and nothing else. The acting is at least competent and the camerawork is OK but there's zero tension and zero thrills. There is some entertainment to be had from this movie but if you intend to seek this thinking it's going to be a decent horror then go and watch something else instead.
3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago
Alone in the Dark
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor’s house. This is a good early 80's slasher movie. The movie has enough gore and usual slasher hijinks to keep the average horror fan satisfied. Director Jack Sholder includes enough twists and turns and attempts to set up a good enough cast for suspense and atmosphere so that the movie's rough edges are smoothed out a bit. The movie even briefly examines the hypocrisy in the medical world in what is crazy exactly to us or to anyone else? Though not a major standout, this along with some great over the top acting by Jack Palance and Martin Landau help to set the movie apart from other slashers of the era.
3 years, 6 months ago
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The Alien Dead
A meteor strikes a houseboat in the swamps near a southern town. The people on the houseboat become zombies who feed on the alligators in the swamp. Once they run out of alligators, they start going for the citizens. One of the sorriest excuses for a zombie movie you'll ever get to see. It is no doubt one of the worst movie experience I've ever had. Fred Olen Ray has been called one of worst directors ever and on the evidence of this one that might have been true but he did make some decent movies later on in the 80's. The script, editing, acting and makeup effects in this movie are breath taking in how awful they are. What made Larry 'Buster' Crabbe take part in this monstrosity I'll never know. I can't think of one decent thing to say about this movie, that's how bad it is.
3 years, 6 months ago
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The Hot Potato
When a Ministry of Defence's facility in London is completely destroyed by a huge explosion, two men come into possession of a strange object from the blast; a large lump of solid uranium. The pair quickly learn of their find's potential worth from criminals as well as its radioactive dangers. This movie is apparently based on a real life incident back in the late 60's. It tries it's best to emulate 60's crime caper movies but fails miserably. It just lacks the fun of a good caper and ends up more of a dry drama with a series of amusing characters and funny lines which end up not being funny at all. To be honest, the first third of the movie was great but as soon as the story went gallivanting abroad, it lost it's sparkle and it's humour too. I like Ray Winstone as an actor and he does OK here. Alongside him is his daughter Lois, Jack Husron and Colm Meaney. There is just no sense of excitement or tension to engage the viewer so this movie isn't that good I'm afraid.
3 years, 6 months ago
Arnold (1973)
 Arnold (1973) 5/10
3 years, 6 months ago
Arnold (1973)
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold’s wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways. An OK comedy. The main problem is it isn't consistently funny, but it was kooky enough to make me watch right until the end. There are some goofy deaths (Roddy McDowall’s probably being the best), dry humour, and a bit of a theme song, but the movie as a whole never rises above the basic expectations. It's more of an oddity than anything else that doesn’t quite surprise as much as it should. The sets are cheap but atmospheric. The cast are fine in their roles. This is a kind of movie that only certain people will like so I think that's why it's rather an obscure title.
3 years, 6 months ago
Hog Wild
A boy, expelled from military school, returns home to his father's disappointment. He discovers that a motorcycle gang called The Rustlers has been terrorising his high school, and falls in love with the girlfriend of the gang’s leader. He decides that the gang need to be taught a lesson. The success of Animal House and Meatballs was the inspiration for this Canadian comedy. It's basically just a series of tit for tat pranks pitting a young Michael Biehn and his friends against The Rustlers. The biggest laugh here comes from trying to accept that anyone in this cast is of high school age. The jokes are pretty obvious but at least they do make you smile. It might not be in the same league as Animal House but I thought it was funny. This is quite an obscure comedy but if you do seek it out I'm sure you'll get something out of it.
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