What movies have you seen recently?

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10/9: Rigor Mortis (Japanese vampire/martial arts horror film)

10/10: Dracula (1931 film with Bela Lugosi)

I'd describe it as 'watchable'. If you ever feel the need to check it out, bear in mind that there are two other films with the same title.

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Mission Impossible ghost proticol

Anne of Green Gables

Sister Act

10/11: The Cry of the Werewolf

10/12: Ghostbusters (1986 film)

10/13: The Descent (Unrated director's cut)

What is your opinion, Brother Cecil?

I liked it.

Blue Rita

How many Jess Franco films can you watch before it does irretrievable damage to your mental health? Luckily I don't have much of that to begin with! This is a typically sleazy and borderline-perverted offering from 1977, based around some kind of lap dancing club, beneath which there's a torture chamber where the dancers imprison their victims, apparently to get information and money from them. There seems to be an espionage-related story in here somewhere as well.

It's the familiar Franco mix of dreadful acting and dialogue, incoherent plot, and naked women all over the set. The potential redeeming factor is that there are some very striking and quite imaginative colour combinations in many of the scenes - it might be interesting to watch them after taking a couple of LSD tabs, if you're so inclined.

Coneheads

Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.

Spoiler alert!!{/sarcasm}

This week I watched Sleepy Hollow, which is still quite impressive twenty-one years later. Last weekend I watched the incredible documentary Wigstock, which is about the LGBT drag festival in NYC. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would, they're definitely an incredibly fun and expressive bunch of folks! I really do miss living in a real city. Sometimes I feel like the world around me is literally in black and white [except for the black].... But Chattanooga was planning a Pride fest this year, maybe there's hope for the Tennessee Valley yet! #AsexualAlly

Blue Streak

The Machinist

A film from 2004. I don't usually watch stuff made after about 1980, but found this one quite interesting. Reznik, a factory worker, finds his mental state deteriorating alarmingly, and the boundaries between reality and his imaginary world begin to break down. In the end the trauma that has caused all this is revealed, and despite the many clues along the way, I never saw it coming.

Some very striking individual scenes and images here, but maybe the film amounts to less than the sum of its parts. The plot is certainly a bit absurd at times, such as when the hapless Reznik is thrown twenty feet across the road by a car which hits him at fairly high speed, then walks into the nearby police station with just a bit of a limp!

The male lead is Christian Bale - he's unrecognizable as the person who starred in 'American Psycho' just a few years earlier, as he lost over four stones in weight for this role. Never knew he was British before this either. Another actor (actress) I didn't recognize was Anna Massey, who had a prominent part in the controversial film Peeping Tom, though it's hardly surprising, as that was made in 1960.

What is your opinion, Brother Cecil?

10/14: The Mummy (1931 film)

10/15: Terror in the Wax Museum and Eraserhead

10/16: Cube and Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist