08/11/15 Uncanny (2015)

Pretty much a cover version of Ex Machina, but not as good and the robot's a chap rather than a ladyborg. Twist is very predictable.

Definitely a decent effort, but (in my humble) Ex Machina is such a great film than one so similar will have to be fantastically good to better it, otherwise it'll sit in its shadow, never to go far. Like a small, modest hamster, next to a really massive fat one that somehow is still brilliant at doing hamster things.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2321502/

7/10

Perkin.

07/11/15 The Faculty (1998)

Podd watched this on TV. I didn't as I had gone to bed. Bastard shift work, often stops me from staying up watching slightly-above-average school-based horror films.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133751/

7/10

Perkin.

07/11/15 The Quiet Hour (2015)

On paper, this should be just my sorta thing, a bunch of desperate survivors trying to stay alive after Earth has been colonised by massive UFOs who have destroyed nearly everyone/thing. It was just dreary though. Looked good for the budget, but very dull.

Also, if it was on paper, it'd be a book, not a film and this ain't called Book Plop is it? Although I do keep thinking about starting a second blog called Game Plop where I review video games. Probably get even less readers than this old shit. Also thought about doing one called Mind Plop to cover anything else, but what'd be the point? The internet, and real world, has got enough cunts offering their poorly formed opinions as it is.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2645188/

5.5/10

Perkin.

05/11/15 Creature (1985)

Space nonsense. Monster.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088961/

5/10

"Been working on your delts, eh? Nice!"

"The name's MoonSabre. Captain Keneth MoonSabre."

"Let me just run that through the supermarket till. Hmm, interesting."

"Nah mate, the carb on the Transit's fucked. Gotta walk everywhere in these wanker suits."

                           

"You ready, Kenneth?"

"Yeah, bitch. Got my 'let's fuck some shit up' jumper on!"

"What's this area known as, Captain?"

"Technical name is 'Ship's Arse'"

"Great, let's go in."

Perkin.

05/11/15 The Mephisto Waltz (1971)

Normally I love films from the '70s about camp, elderly yet sinister piano players who decide to satanically inhabit the body of another man upon their death, however, this one just wasn't up to scratch. Dunno, just wasn't camp, sinister or piano-y enough for me.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067419/

4/10

Perkin.

04/11/15 The Final Girls (2015)

I expected to hate this, a film about a bunch of contemporary youths getting stuck in an '80s slasher film, but it was cracking good fun. Lots of jokes that actually work, decent performances and even one moment that I found unexpectedly quite touching.

Co-written by Joshua Miller, in one of the '80s best films himself, he was the 'nipper' in Near Dark.  The annoying child who bursts amusingly at the end.

(LOL, nipper, geddit? Aren't I brilliant?!)

Bit of a spoiler, that, if you haven't seen Near Dark. Although if you haven't, you should, it's cocking fantastic. Best vampire film ever made.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2118624/

8/10

Perkin.

02/11/15 The Exorcism f Molly Hartley (2015)

The title tells you everything you need to know. It's not too bad, however, no matter how decent a film about a possessed youth may be, nothing's ever gonna top The Exorcist. Forty years old and still, by far the best film of  its type.

The Last Exorcism is worth a go as well, but otherwise, seen one splash of burning holy water, seen 'em all.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3800796/

6.5/10

Perkin.