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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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Lock stock and 3 out of 10. That terrible movie forced years of mockney cockney torture on us Xeb.
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The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
Very good giallo. Some of the performances are a poor (Barbara Bouchet) and the dialogue is very weak but it is impressive visually, has a fantastic score and the plot is excellent with lots of Murders and multiple suspects/red herrings. 6.5/10
I like this.one, too. Perhaps a little higher score on my part. I liked the the twist/ revelation near the end( hopefully you'll know what I mean. Stylish.
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Hercules Prisoner of Evil (1964) 7/10
With Reg Park and Ettore Manni
An enjoyable romp that isn't too outrageous for it's own good. Decent story that's a sort of twist on Jekyll and Hyde. A monster is attacking villages and then disappears. Puzzling. It turns out that a sort of witch is drugging various people( including our hero) and turning them badass. Until it wears off. Decent scenery and colour and quite well made. Plenty of bows 'n' arras, sword fights, some punchin'. There's even a scene where big H floors four baddies by pulling the carpet from under them! Classic.
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Jul 27, 2021 - 4:28 PM
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The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
Very good giallo. Some of the performances are a poor (Barbara Bouchet) and the dialogue is very weak but it is impressive visually, has a fantastic score and the plot is excellent with lots of Murders and multiple suspects/red herrings. 6.5/10
I like this.one, too. Perhaps a little higher score on my part. I liked the the twist/ revelation near the end( hopefully you'll know what I mean. Stylish.
HI Damian. Yes the twist was good. Liked your Hercules review.
Just watched....
Red Rings of Fear (1978) this is unofficially the third instalment of Massimo Dallamano's 'Schoolgirls in Peril' series following What Have They Done to Solange and What They Done to Our Daughters.
Unfortunately Dallamano died before making this film and Alberto Negrin took over. Negrin, who with the exception of this film, only ever worked in TV, doesn't do a good job - the plot is all over the place, never focused and the ending lacks oomph. He also spends more time perving over the schoolgirls, in orgy scenes (featuring a concrete dildo that would later reappear in the Naked Gun movie) and naked in the showers, than necessary. On the plus side Fabio Testi is good as the detective, the score by Ortolani is excellent (its the Counsellor) are there are soon good scenes here and there.
5.5. And this one has a good twist too
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Jul 27, 2021 - 11:26 PM
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BLOOD FOR DRACULA [AKA: Andy Warhol’s DRACULA] (1974) – 7/10
Count Dracula (Udo Kier) has a problem. He’s exhausted the supply of virgins in his native Romania and must leave home to find fresh blood. With his faithful servant “Anton” (Arno Juerging), he arrives in Catholic Italy at the estate of the “Marchese di Fiore” (Vittorio de Sica). Happily for both parties, the Marchese is broke, and sees in the Count a chance to marry off one of his four daughters to a rich man. But the Marchese’s handyman, the Marxist “Mario” (Joe Dallesandro), keeps ruining the plan. As Dracula approaches each of the virginal daughters in turn, Mario inserts himself, so to speak, into the proceedings, and deflowers the girl before Dracula can sink his fangs into her.
You can have a bloody good time at this film. Writer-director Paul Morrissey keeps the tone light, but not silly, with the humor built into Dracula’s dilemma. And on the horror side, Morrissey doesn’t spare the gore. The film was originally rated [X] in the U.S. for both sex and violence, but was later cut by 10 minutes to get an [R] rating. All current video versions are uncut. Claudio Gizzi’s score emphasizes the drama, with a mournful piano and oboe theme. It was released on a Varese Sarabande LP and re-issued on CD (along with Gizzi’s FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN score) by RCA in 1993 and in an expanded two-CD set by Digitmovies in 2011.
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Mark, don't think I've seen the red rings one( have the other two). One to check out.
And the Dracula has some lovely music, considering the gore.
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Mark, don't think I've seen the red rings one( have the other two). One to check out.
And the Dracula has some lovely music, considering the gore.
I'm happy to lend you Red Rings Damian. Drop me an email if you want to borrow it. I've got some other really obscure giallos too so could send you up a few at a time.
Thanks for the offer. I'll let you know. At the moment I have plenty I'm working my way through.
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Damian, guess what i watched last night....?
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The child catcher ?
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Barking mad but underrated musical..
Lost the plot 5, songs n sets n choreography 9.
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Barking mad but underrated musical..
Lost the plot 5, songs n sets n choreography 9.
I always found that character (Robert Helpman, I think) quite sinister , when I watched it , growing up. He must have been good, I suppose.
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Oh gawd, robotics engineer on a remote station is building prototype robots, but it is kinda female versions of Huey and Dewey, but they get jealous and give him attitude. Jealousy gets worse when he starts building a "human" form robot that he intends to implant with his dead wife's memories. All the while keeping his progress a secret from his financiers. It got crazier, confused, and more ambiguous toward the end, left me scratching head - I feel like i have a duty to spoil it to save anyone else from wasting their time but i wont. 
4 out of 10.
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) and a strong role for Barbara Shelley (never my favourite - sorry) with an excellent part for Michael Goodliffe. A few other well-known British actors fill the cast and happily the two youngsters who appear at the start don't last long enough to demonstrate their inexperience.