20/07/15 Exorcismus (2010)

If this film was a cake, it would be boring flavour.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1322306/
3/10

She's not screaming, she's asleep and snoring.

Perkin.

20/07/15 Blood Creek (2009)

Starring Michael F. Assbender and Henry Cavill before they became Magneto and Posh Superman.

In the 1930s some German bloke goes to a farm in America because it's got a magic stone in the shed. He rubs a dead bird against it and then spends 80 years living in the farm's cellar drinking people's blood.

One of the people escapes, goes home for a shave, then comes back to shoot everyone.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450336/

6.5/10

Perkin.

20/07/15 Terminator Genysis (2015)

More enjoyable than Salvation, but that's really not saying much, is it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340138/

4.2/10

Perkin.

19/07/15 River City Panic (2015)

Made for the price of a sandwich (from a corner shop, not some poncey expensive one from Waitrose) and appears to be, as the kids say, filmed on a potato.

It's cheap, has sluggish pacing, badly acted, and poorly plotted. However, unlike so many pocket money efforts, it doesn't try to be anything other than silly nonsense and I enjoyed it much more than many films that cost a thousand times as much yet have none of its soul.

Shit but fun.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3549474/

5.5/10

Perkin.

18/07/2015 Stake Land (2010)

Cracking vampire film by Jim Mickle (who also wrote and directed the recommended Mulberry St). These are nasty murderous vampires, not foppish mincers floating about in billowy white shirts. Nick Damici who co-wrote is excellent,as is Connor Paolo who plays the young fella he takes under his wing.

Our only niggle was how their nemesis becomes a super vampire.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464580

8.5/10

Podd

17/07/2015 Shallow Grave (1994)

Another 90s film which hasn't fared so well under the retroscope.  Unlike Scream I was a proper fan of this when it was released but I didn't like it as much this time around.  The plot is still sound but the characters are total wankers even before they started on the morally questionable deeds. It has aged a bit in terms of the fashions and general vibe. I'd never noticed before that Ewan McGregor and Kerry Fox have interchangeable haircuts.

It's held up better than Scream though and Danny Boyle has done some decent films.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111149

6/10

Podd

17/07/2015 Scream (1996)

Perkin said when this first came out that it was shite and all the people flanneling on about it were wrong. I didn't think it was that bad. This was the first time I'd watched it in a long time. It really is that bad. Smug, too sure of itself, unlikeable characters, bad dialogue, shockingly obvious red herrings and too many sequels.

If you liked it at the time watch it again and see if you still do.

3/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117571

Podd