--/02/15 The Epic Of Everest (1924)

Absolutely stunning film.

Comprised entirely of silent footage taken during the Mallory and Irvine expedition of 1924.

I doubt I'm revealing much of a spoiler when I say it didn't end well.  Knowing the fate that befell the young men on the mountain, it makes the footage all the more poignant, particularly the early scenes featuring smiling, optimistic faces at the beginning of their challenge.

Although digitally remastered, it's hard to believe you're watching footage that is (almost) a century old. The skies, the mountain peaks, and the small, close details captured on film look almost as fresh as anything from the modern era.

There is a subtle ambient soundtrack played throughout the film that really adds to both the impressive, otherworldly landscape of wonder and the creeping, inescapable finality of how it will play out. A strangely disturbing mix of the ephemeral and the eternal. (Easily the most pretentious thing I've typed in years!)

Brilliant.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219671/
10/10

Perkin.

--/01/15 Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard (2015)

The title's almost an anagram of Arse Gravy Pant Shocker.

Arse Gravy Pant Shocker would be a much, much better film.

Billy Zane would probably be willing to 'star' in that as well.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2908090/
2/10

Perkin.

Also, isn't that apostrophe incorrect? surely it would be 'elepants' plural, rather than a graveyard in the possession of elephants?

--/02/15 Event Horizon (1997)

Some of the effects are quite dated, but this is still the best film about an inter-dimensional hell-portal on a spaceship.

Wheeeeeeeeee!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/
8/10

Perkin.

--/02/15 Mirage Men (2013)

Documentary about shady government types who fed false information to some of the better connected UFO conspiracists, (is that a word? Who cares, is now) knowing that it would pin-prick its way into the greater collective awareness. The plan, apparently, was to create enough suggestion of genuine alien activity to throw a veil over covert military experi-tech.

Sounds interesting but plays out rather boringly with absolutely nothing of interest revealed.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2254010/
5/10

Perkin.

--/02/15 Beyond Re-Animator (2003)

The first Re-Animator is considered a bit of a classic, it's worth seeing for the mental, and genuinely quite disturbing, final twenty minutes. This one's a bit, well, On The Buses in comparison.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0222812/
4.5/10

Perkin.

--/02/15 Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)

Can't remember what the exact dates are for the rest of the films so far this month, but who cares? Calendar accuracy probably isn't important when it comes to a piss-poor blog about films. Also, it's called Film Plop, not, like, 'Timothy's World Of Exact Timeline Events'.

Anyway, if you're familiar with Elvira, you're probably already a fan. Of tits.

First one's better, but this is still fun.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265171/
Boobs/10

Perkin.

01/02/15 The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Been a bit slack on this, been busy doing DIY nonsense as we wanna move this year.

That's enough of an insight into the fascinating world of Film Plop, now back to the films.

This is the one where where the man who looks like a teddy bear plays a record, digs a tunnel and gets bummed up the arse.

But you probably know that as most people have seen this.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/
8/10

Perkin.