description: Husband and wife, porkface, camera's, chainsaw, the big escape, choices.
(Geoffrey): (rating 1)
Is it art, or is it tortureporn? Does the movie have a deeper meaning or was it money thrown away by the producers? You decide! You see everything from a camera put on someones head, most of the time of the vicitims, caught by some butcher wannabe's in a slaughterhause, trying to use all kind of original torture ideas to keep on going on the 2 victims. Would you sacrifice your wife if you cannot take the torturing anymore and have a change of escape?
The last movie of the afff festival was also the worst. I was convinced the move Nobody was the worst I saw, until this one. Useless, pointeless, gross, a big f_ck off to this movie.
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description: Losers, movie in the making, brother in wheelchair, rented house, bad condition of house, accidents, death, faking death
(Geoffrey): (rating 8)
How big is the chance that in an hour, your dog dies because it is killed by a hanging closet, your brother by a lamp, your landlord by a screwdrier, your wife by a pin, a police cop by the window? That al in your house. Is it supernatural? No, what about accidents? Definately! How big is that chance? And if that happens, what would you do? Call 911, call the cops? How would they react to the story?
This movie is a very black comedy and very well done. Definately one of the better ones.
(Geoffrey): (rating 8)
How big is the chance that in an hour, your dog dies because it is killed by a hanging closet, your brother by a lamp, your landlord by a screwdrier, your wife by a pin, a police cop by the window? That al in your house. Is it supernatural? No, what about accidents? Definately! How big is that chance? And if that happens, what would you do? Call 911, call the cops? How would they react to the story?
This movie is a very black comedy and very well done. Definately one of the better ones.
description: Traumatised nightmare detective, girl patrenized, 3 girls, 2 death.
(Geoffrey): (rating 3,5)
Let's pretend you can go into people's dreams/nightmares and solve their nightmares. Sounds like a good story? It could have been a good story, but worked out quite dramatically. Specially when the editing is quite bad, like scenes were missing. Also the music was not very well done, more annoying than creating the sphere.
There is a story traumatised girl caused by another girl who feels like she is a victim as well. Then we have a traumatized nightmare detective. Every one seems traumatized or victimized. Too much for me, specially when it is worked out so badly.
(Geoffrey): (rating 3,5)
Let's pretend you can go into people's dreams/nightmares and solve their nightmares. Sounds like a good story? It could have been a good story, but worked out quite dramatically. Specially when the editing is quite bad, like scenes were missing. Also the music was not very well done, more annoying than creating the sphere.
There is a story traumatised girl caused by another girl who feels like she is a victim as well. Then we have a traumatized nightmare detective. Every one seems traumatized or victimized. Too much for me, specially when it is worked out so badly.
description: Chinese lovestory, demons, love, swordfighter, gone for 2 years, demon hunter, demon love.
(Geoffrey): (rating 7)
How deep is your love? Will you love her, even when she is a demon? And what if a demon loves you and wants to take you from your lover? Can you stand the seduction? The Asiatic movie sketses the story of true love. A little bit of melodramatic, but it turns out quite ok. The movie has a love story, sword fighting, demons and more. Not a classic, but nicely done.
(Geoffrey): (rating 7)
How deep is your love? Will you love her, even when she is a demon? And what if a demon loves you and wants to take you from your lover? Can you stand the seduction? The Asiatic movie sketses the story of true love. A little bit of melodramatic, but it turns out quite ok. The movie has a love story, sword fighting, demons and more. Not a classic, but nicely done.
description: post apocalyptic, prison camp/re-program center, forcing morality, hunting, free thinking, shooting, prison boss, woods, death, island.
(Geoffrey): (rating 7)
You are not free, you cannot be allowed to have other ideas than the government. If you do, you need to be re-educated. Behave and do well for the society. You have those nice camp bosses to make sure you 'grow' into the right direction. This could mean you getting raped or humiliated in some sort of way, but you must remember it is all for the greater good! Now....you have an opportunity to be free. Survive a hunting party of the rich and bored in the woods and you are ready to get back to society. Remember, there are guns, crossbows and other neat things involved, so you must be carefull not to get shot....
(Geoffrey): (rating 7)
You are not free, you cannot be allowed to have other ideas than the government. If you do, you need to be re-educated. Behave and do well for the society. You have those nice camp bosses to make sure you 'grow' into the right direction. This could mean you getting raped or humiliated in some sort of way, but you must remember it is all for the greater good! Now....you have an opportunity to be free. Survive a hunting party of the rich and bored in the woods and you are ready to get back to society. Remember, there are guns, crossbows and other neat things involved, so you must be carefull not to get shot....
description: Alvin Purple, Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Dead-End Drive In, Long Weekend, Mad Max, The Man from Hong Kong, Patrick, Razorback, Roadgames, Stork, Turkey Shoot and more
(Geoffrey): (rating 8,5)
One fantastic documentary about 70's and 80's Australian movies, inspiring for Director Tarantino and the guys from Saw. There are a lot of cult classics from that area. My desire is to see all the ones discussed in this documentary. Check IMDB for some titles mentioned in the description.
(Geoffrey): (rating 8,5)
One fantastic documentary about 70's and 80's Australian movies, inspiring for Director Tarantino and the guys from Saw. There are a lot of cult classics from that area. My desire is to see all the ones discussed in this documentary. Check IMDB for some titles mentioned in the description.
description: Son, mother, grandchildren, escaping child murderer, city chaos, news, cement factory, paranoia, end of the world.
(Geoffrey): (rating 8,5)
So your life is miserable, you have a shitty job, you still live with your mother and you have 78 hours yet to live before all life on earth with parrish due to a huge meteorite crashing. You have the chance do to some good with your life before the world ends, by helping your mother and stopping an escaped child murderer from attacking her family again (killing her grandchildren/your small nephews/nieces). Will you help? What's the use anyway if the world ends so soon.
That's what this story is all about and it did a wonderfull job. Enjoyable from beginning till the very end. The struggle between looking at things rationally and with your heart makes this movies very exiting. Definately one of the better movies of this festival. I expect a pointless American remake of this Spanish movie. Better watch this one though.
(Geoffrey): (rating 8,5)
So your life is miserable, you have a shitty job, you still live with your mother and you have 78 hours yet to live before all life on earth with parrish due to a huge meteorite crashing. You have the chance do to some good with your life before the world ends, by helping your mother and stopping an escaped child murderer from attacking her family again (killing her grandchildren/your small nephews/nieces). Will you help? What's the use anyway if the world ends so soon.
That's what this story is all about and it did a wonderfull job. Enjoyable from beginning till the very end. The struggle between looking at things rationally and with your heart makes this movies very exiting. Definately one of the better movies of this festival. I expect a pointless American remake of this Spanish movie. Better watch this one though.
description: husband & wife, restaurant, possessed by marten, truffle sniffer, strengle, beat to death, crawling like worms
(Geoffrey): (rating 7)
And then the demons came...or are they aliens....or genetic enhanced mutated marten ready to take over man kind's place in the world? Who knows? That does not become clear in this movie. What does is that they want to rule the world by destroying all competition on black truffle dealers. In the near future truffles are just as important as gold or oil. When a guy with a excellent nose for finding the truffles becomes known the by evil organisation, he is persuaded to join them.
People with an economic background or feeling will like the way they push this story with the economic 'downfall' since there is quite a price drop and it will leave some speculation if the story in this movie has some 'truth'.
For the people not , you can enjoy the movie by it's original story/concept and funny looking/crawling marten in black and white, though the movie is a little bit slow here and there.
(Geoffrey): (rating 7)
And then the demons came...or are they aliens....or genetic enhanced mutated marten ready to take over man kind's place in the world? Who knows? That does not become clear in this movie. What does is that they want to rule the world by destroying all competition on black truffle dealers. In the near future truffles are just as important as gold or oil. When a guy with a excellent nose for finding the truffles becomes known the by evil organisation, he is persuaded to join them.
People with an economic background or feeling will like the way they push this story with the economic 'downfall' since there is quite a price drop and it will leave some speculation if the story in this movie has some 'truth'.
For the people not , you can enjoy the movie by it's original story/concept and funny looking/crawling marten in black and white, though the movie is a little bit slow here and there.
description: Camping 2 couples, one good, splinter, monster, gas station, body temperature, police cop, splinterbodies merging, happy end, guy with arm chopped off, better with cutting off arms than with cars.
(Geoffrey): (rating 4,5)
Remember Eden Lake with the couple going on a trip? Well, this movie starts a little bit similar. Somewhere on the road in the f_ckin' woods, they meet another couple who are running from the authorities. They end up together (no, no orgie) at a gasstation where they are attacked by a mutilated body, infected by intelligent splinters. Little bit the same as with zombie infections, once you get stinged, your body dies and changes in a undead corpse with splinters.
This was the worst short night of terror movie. Slow building up, small environment, only few people to be killed and the most horrable thing was that the movie had a seemingly happy end. Booooooooooo
(Geoffrey): (rating 4,5)
Remember Eden Lake with the couple going on a trip? Well, this movie starts a little bit similar. Somewhere on the road in the f_ckin' woods, they meet another couple who are running from the authorities. They end up together (no, no orgie) at a gasstation where they are attacked by a mutilated body, infected by intelligent splinters. Little bit the same as with zombie infections, once you get stinged, your body dies and changes in a undead corpse with splinters.
This was the worst short night of terror movie. Slow building up, small environment, only few people to be killed and the most horrable thing was that the movie had a seemingly happy end. Booooooooooo
Pretty tense movie about a strange creature trying to eat people in a gas station. I think that the camera work and montage are a bit to quick. Montage I can imagine, so that the monster isn't shown immediately, but the camera movements are too fast (to my eye's). Nice monster effects.
Rating : 8
Rating : 8
description: American woman, chinese husband, china, moon demons, sacrefice, cave, path lights, village
(Geoffrey): (rating 4,5)
Say hello to the Moon Demons from Hell (or wherever they're from). Every 7th moon they come out of their hiding place and they need killing to feed, to add new demon members. If your village is near their hide-out, you, the inhabitants need to make some sacrificing. So, you and your village are tired to make the sacrifices? Well, then it means you need to make sure you get people outside the village for sacrificing. "Ooh look, there is a nice just married couple. Let's make them food for the demons".
The story had a few nice moments with chasing and all, but even that was not always good. I like the idea, but it could have been worked out better. The demons are reasonable done. Less CGI, more suits and old school make-up. Unfortunately the movie lost quite some points with some extremely bad acting and script.
(Geoffrey): (rating 4,5)
Say hello to the Moon Demons from Hell (or wherever they're from). Every 7th moon they come out of their hiding place and they need killing to feed, to add new demon members. If your village is near their hide-out, you, the inhabitants need to make some sacrificing. So, you and your village are tired to make the sacrifices? Well, then it means you need to make sure you get people outside the village for sacrificing. "Ooh look, there is a nice just married couple. Let's make them food for the demons".
The story had a few nice moments with chasing and all, but even that was not always good. I like the idea, but it could have been worked out better. The demons are reasonable done. Less CGI, more suits and old school make-up. Unfortunately the movie lost quite some points with some extremely bad acting and script.
Wow, this is some scary stuff. A bunch of hoodlums terrorize a couple. It's not all black and white. But the leader of the hoodlums, Brett, is definitely evil and the rest are followers who, without Brett, wouldn't do the things they do in the movie.
There is a moral in the story. Bad parents give bad kids.
Rating : 8
There is a moral in the story. Bad parents give bad kids.
Rating : 8
A girl is haunted by nightmares and to get rid of them she visits the Nightmare Detective. The movie has a dreamy atmosphere, the few special effects used are good and effective. The movie actually tells two stories, that of the girl with nightmares and the story of the Nightmare Detective (ND) himself. The stories have a connection which has to do with being scared.
Rating : 8
Rating : 8
description: male teenagers, abandoned mental institution, basement, dog, (un)dead girl, rape, fuck, shoot at body, pus, dick biting
(Geoffrey): (rating 6,5)
When you have some male teenagers, finding a supposed dead girl in a basement which comes to live. What do you do? Call 911? Nah, she looks beautiful, so just keep her tied up and start fucking her and fucking and fucking. Get some more friends and continue fucking. One of the teenagers does not agree, but is not able to escape the tirade. Both are actually a little bit of loosers, but gain more respect when a few other classmates find out they have a girl they can fuck for free.
The movie is quite disturbing, since it does not become quite clear that you are dealing with a zombie, unless you've seen tons of zombie movies already. The movie could be a little bit shorter, but otherwise it is done quite ok.
(Geoffrey): (rating 6,5)
When you have some male teenagers, finding a supposed dead girl in a basement which comes to live. What do you do? Call 911? Nah, she looks beautiful, so just keep her tied up and start fucking her and fucking and fucking. Get some more friends and continue fucking. One of the teenagers does not agree, but is not able to escape the tirade. Both are actually a little bit of loosers, but gain more respect when a few other classmates find out they have a girl they can fuck for free.
The movie is quite disturbing, since it does not become quite clear that you are dealing with a zombie, unless you've seen tons of zombie movies already. The movie could be a little bit shorter, but otherwise it is done quite ok.
description: Girl, 'daughter', 'son', real daughter, mom, dad, torture, happy family, be a family,
(Geoffrey): (rating 8)
Suppose you have a daught with both mental and physical disabilities and can only act as a plant in a wheelchair. That's very hard for the mother and father. If you got a mentally disturbed father who wants to have a normal family, what do you do? Well, you 'kidnap' children en start to mentally and physically torture them, until they act as your own adorable children.
That's a little bit what this movie is all about. Though the story isn't very great, I find acting of some of the family people good. This could mean overacting, or 'natural'. Quite a low budget movie from the UK, but it could be worse.
(Geoffrey): (rating 8)
Suppose you have a daught with both mental and physical disabilities and can only act as a plant in a wheelchair. That's very hard for the mother and father. If you got a mentally disturbed father who wants to have a normal family, what do you do? Well, you 'kidnap' children en start to mentally and physically torture them, until they act as your own adorable children.
That's a little bit what this movie is all about. Though the story isn't very great, I find acting of some of the family people good. This could mean overacting, or 'natural'. Quite a low budget movie from the UK, but it could be worse.
A fresh movie. It reminded me of Re-Animator by Stuart Gordon, the subjects are different, but the same energy flows through "I sell the dead". There is lots of humor in it, the gore is also well done. The story is about a grave robber, played by Dominic Monaghan. A monk, played by Ron Perlman visits Dominic in his cell before he is executed because of the grave robbery and supposed murder. There he tells the story of the movie.
There is also a role by Angus Scrimm, of Phantasm fame, the man with the balls :)
Rating : 9
There is also a role by Angus Scrimm, of Phantasm fame, the man with the balls :)
Rating : 9
description: wizard, the beast, re-incarnation, Satan's bible, space suite, virtual time/space traveling, alternative worlds, Schrodinger's cat, time ticking, stottering professor, posession, red haired student, orgy
(Geoffrey): (rating 3,5)
Don't get me wrong, I love movies about the occult, satanism, etc, but this movie is ridiculous. There is an old wizard who dies and reincarnates in a new body saying he is the beast and that the reincarnation will be complete in 4 days. I didn't know what happens, but I had difficulty following the story and to make sense of it all. There are so many gaps in the story, I don't know where to begin. At the end of the story, the reincarnation cannot be completed and the beast is somehow send to another universe via a virtual time/space machine and Al Gore became president in this universe. And they lived happily ever after.
(Geoffrey): (rating 3,5)
Don't get me wrong, I love movies about the occult, satanism, etc, but this movie is ridiculous. There is an old wizard who dies and reincarnates in a new body saying he is the beast and that the reincarnation will be complete in 4 days. I didn't know what happens, but I had difficulty following the story and to make sense of it all. There are so many gaps in the story, I don't know where to begin. At the end of the story, the reincarnation cannot be completed and the beast is somehow send to another universe via a virtual time/space machine and Al Gore became president in this universe. And they lived happily ever after.
Gore galore. They didn't save on the blood budget in this movie. A simple story but creative gore effects. This is a typical s/not movie.
Rating : 8
Rating : 8
This was a scary movie. Innocent children who become not so innocent children. Probably caused by a virus, in the movie you hear a part of a news bulletin where they mention it and the fact that children are more susceptible to infections.
The tension during the movie is high. Only some grown ups scream (out of fear) a little too much to my liking, but hey, what would I do if my (hypothetical) kids would start acting so violent. The gore was nice.
Rating : 8
The tension during the movie is high. Only some grown ups scream (out of fear) a little too much to my liking, but hey, what would I do if my (hypothetical) kids would start acting so violent. The gore was nice.
Rating : 8
Truffe is a Canadian SF film shot in Montreal, Quebec. I have a bond with Quebec, so it was nice to hear the Quebecois French dialect again.
Because of the Earth warming up, there are growing truffles in Montreal, a place where they normally not grow. A man has a very good sense of smell and is successful at finding truffles. A company discovers this and offers him a job. It's a weird company with strange acting employees, but the man needs money to pay the rent. And what are those furry snakes with led's in their head doing there ?
The movie is shot in black and white and is no hightech SF, but the story is nice and told in a relaxing way.
Rating : 7
Because of the Earth warming up, there are growing truffles in Montreal, a place where they normally not grow. A man has a very good sense of smell and is successful at finding truffles. A company discovers this and offers him a job. It's a weird company with strange acting employees, but the man needs money to pay the rent. And what are those furry snakes with led's in their head doing there ?
The movie is shot in black and white and is no hightech SF, but the story is nice and told in a relaxing way.
Rating : 7