No Point Stance
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2 hours ago, clintthecrippler said:
I caught Claudio Simonetti's Goblin doing a live score with a screening of Lamberto Bava's DEMONS (1985) and if you are remotely a fan of either that movie or Goblin's classic soundtracks, definitely try to get out to any of the remaining tour dates if they are near you. He has surrounded himself with incredible musicians in this current incarnation of the group, and on top of that, DEMONS is just a great old time to see with a live audience anyway. A couple of interesting live composition substitutions too for the actual heavy metal songs on the soundtrack, including subbing out Accept's "Fast as A Shark" for an incredibly killer live instrumental cover of Iron Maiden's "Flash of the Blade" (a fun easter egg for fans of Dario Argento's PHENOMENA) with keyboards taking the place of Bruce Dickinson's vocals.
Sounds awesome! I was at a Simonetti's Goblin gig a few years ago (livescoring an extended cut of DAWN OF THE DEAD) but I missed them a year or two later when they came back to do SUSPIRIA. The only downer for me is that Simonetti had assured me (on the first gig's Facebook page IIRC) that they'd play the title track to DEMONS and they didn't, so your experience - especially lifting Flash of the Blade for inclusion - beats mine.
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3 hours ago, J.T. said:
There have been a lot of good horror movies coming out in the past ten years from places you wouldn't normally expect them from like India and Middle Eastern countries like Jordan and Qatar.
I have been paying more attention to that scene since Under the Shadow, came out in 2018.
Under the Shadow's been on my radar for a while and I'll definitely get around to it at some point.
A couple of horror films from 'unexpected' nations that I've enjoyed the last couple of years were Baskin (Turkey, 2016) and Saloum (Senegal, 2022) FWIW.
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3 minutes ago, J.T. said:
I actually saw Tumbbad in the theaters as RVA has a surprisingly high Indian / Pakistani population and quite a few of the theaters in midtown regularly show the latest Hindi-language joints. I thought it was rather refreshing that a movie came out that simply focused on a cardinal sin like greed without adding needless complexity.
I'm guilty of the misconception that pretty much all of Indian cinema is made up of musicals - a genre I generally loathe - so Tumbbad had to get a lot of traction before I took notice. Even then, it's taken me two or three years of good intentions before I finally watched it. Like you said, very simple thematically but a story so richly told, with a nice eye for detail, and beautifully shot. A solid 9/10 film for me
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Finally got around to seeing Tumbbad (2018), and it just might be my favourite horror/horror-adjacent film of the past decade. That's considering I've really enjoyed everything Jordan Peele and Ari Aster have done in that period. Reminded me of Pan's Labyrinth, in that its horror is essentially baked into a fairy tale. It's included with Prime - in the UK at least - and well, well worth checking out if you haven't done so already.
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I've been working my way through Hammer's Frankenstein flicks in chronological order (girlfriend and I did Hammer's Dracula and extraneous vampire efforts last October). Hot take: the widely despised Horror of Frankenstein is a really good flick. Hotter take: Ralph Bates is every bit as good as Peter Cushing in the role, based on this one outing. It's been called a reworking of Curse of Frankenstein, and I can totally see that, but I think it's been short-changed for over 50 years now. As of this viewing I'd put it just slightly ahead of Curse... but behind ...Must Be Destroyed.
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I need to watch Kairo again. Saw it years ago after getting really excited about it from reviews, then ended up absolutely hating it. I've really enjoyed the other (Kiyoshi) Kurosawa projects I've seen though, so it's entirely possible that I just wasn't in the right frame of mind when I saw it.
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I'm watching my pick today - apologies for my tardiness.
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Alrighty, I'll PM you my pick now.
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Why do I never think of looking for these threads until after October has already started?
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Luchawiki is down. I hope this is temporary, as it's a lovely resource.
EDIT: my bad - I used an old bookmark but it seems sometime in the past few months luchawiki.com became luchawiki.org, and is still very much alive
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On 11/8/2022 at 2:47 PM, JLowe said:
That is some excellent electro as the theme music
It's the wacky disco theme from the opening titles to Friday the 13th Part III (in 3D)
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On 11/3/2022 at 3:16 AM, J.T. said:
...Mike has really hit his stride recently with Doctor Sleep, Gerald's Game, and The Legend of Hill House miniseries...
Jesus, I hated that one, and the model it seemingly popularised for Netflix horror fare; take a premise that is barely sufficient to sustain interest for a 90-minute feature and stretch it absurdly thin in order to fill up 10 hours of content.
I haven't seen his King adaptations though. The word-of-mouth and general critical of reception to Doctor Sleep was almost uniformly lukewarm, IIRC.-
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I'm that one asshole with the missing review but I'm watching the movie today and should have the review sent in by tomorrow at the latest.
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On 10/5/2022 at 11:44 PM, J.T. said:
I totally forgot about the random kung-fu scene in Pieces. Who wrote that shit?
IIRC it was some sort of weird crossover with the producer (notorious chancer Dick Randall) getting double duty out of Bruce Le, the star of Randall's previous opus, Challenge of the Tiger. I'd hazard a guess that the two films were shooting more-or-less simultaneously, or maybe Le was in town for a production meeting (he has both co-director and co-writer credits on COTT). Both films were shot at least partially in Spain, and Challenge is every bit as amusingly shitty a Brucesploitation picture as Pieces is a great, shitty slasher.
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Duplicate post. Sorry
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On 10/1/2022 at 3:15 PM, RIPPA said:
If @No Point Stance wants to still participate - I can work something out
Sounds good, if the offer still stands. Do we still PM you the pick and reason?
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Missed this year's deadline but I'll be checking in regularly to read the reviews as part of my annual routine.
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On 5/22/2022 at 9:57 PM, Happ Hazzard said:
Has anyone read Gil Culkin's The Mississippi Wrestling Territory - the Untold Story?
Just ordered a copy - thanks for the heads-up.
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10 hours ago, Rev Ray said:
I'm so confused. Is that Kawada? Is he...smiling?
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6 hours ago, Eivion said:
The Apache vs. NJPW match to see is them vs. CTU. It started out Liger vs. HIDO and turned into a 6-man streetfight. It was fun, and CTU were dicks if I recall correctly.
CTU were a fun stable. Literally nothing of them on YouTube the last I checked though.
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If the names weren't visible on that screen from WCW Superbrawl, I'd swear that was Simmons and Flair.
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I had no idea that Johnny B. Badd ever made it into a videogame. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if Marc Mero hadn't been in a game, now that I think of it.
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On 4/21/2022 at 1:43 PM, Pete said:
I remember those, yeah... I was just wondering if it's more readily available than "someone might have copies of their 15-year-old shows from Japanese cable." Nothing on Youtube for example...
I have one match that I know of on an external HD, that I downloaded a while back from YouTube or Dailymotion. I guess I could upload it to YT temporarily and post the link here, if you like.
EDIT: It's
Barbed Wire Board Six Man Tag Team Street Fight Death: Kintaro Kanemura, Satoshi Kojima & Tetsuhiro Kuroda VS Shiro Koshinaka, Takashi Sasaki & Togi Makabe -
18 hours ago, Blue Dragon said:
That execution looks all kinds of unsafe. WTF, Norton?
WRESTLING ON THE INTERNET NOT FROM THE NOW
in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING
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Wrong link used
Don't know if this has been posted before, but it certainly slipped under my radar until now and it's pretty great. I'm about half way through and, based on what I've watched, it might even be better than GAEA GIRLS.