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Lilith 2018 ★★
Bit of a revenge-story today.
Felissa Rose stars as the avenging angel/demon Lilith, catching up with and torturing all sorts of scummy men in a collection of separate stories.
The score and the gore are okay. The coherence, however, leaves a bit to be desired. The combination of different actresses playing Lilith and the constant switching between stories makes the experience a bit confusing.
It also does not help that the delivery in the demon-bits (in the overarching) is often a bit less Exorcist and a bit more Ten inch mutant ninja turtles.
For fans of Felissa Rose or if you like torture porn.
Braindead 1992 ★★★★★
Peter Jackson delivers a splatstick masterpiece, building on the last 30 minutes of Bad Taste. Nearly every scene is brilliant in its glorious silliness. Between I kick ass for the lord and Party's over, it's a veritable feast of hilarious dialogue and quotable oneliners.
Some of the top scenes have an over the topness and cruelty that remind me of Roald Dahl, with buckets of blood added, of course. Speaking of blood, seeing Lionel slipping over the blood also has hints of the Keystone Cops in it. So is Braindead Roald Dahl meets Eli Roth? Or would that be silly?
The opening scene already makes it pretty clear that the story is of lesser importance here. Yes, Lionel starts off as a wimp and has some sort of character arc. (Then again, when you see the greasers who call him a freak... I(!) am boozing in a graveyard and pissing on a grave, what are YOU doing?) And at the end he stands up to his controlling mother and eliminates all the remaining zombies. Credit where credit is due, uncle Douchwig McRaperface gets in his fair share of zombiekills too.
That's all secondary to the priest doing martial arts, the ear in the pudding, the zombie with the lightbulb head, the mohawk zombie baby,... It's a horror comedy and all you need to do is soak up the gore and cackle your ass off at the silliness. And I loved every second of it.
Braindead 1992 ★★★★★
Peter Jackson delivers a splatstick masterpiece, building on the last 30 minutes of Bad Taste. Nearly every scene is brilliant in its glorious silliness. Between I kick ass for the lord and Party's over, it's a veritable feast of hilarious dialogue and quotable oneliners.
Some of the top scenes have an over the topness and cruelty that remind me of Roald Dahl, with buckets of blood added, of course. Speaking of blood, seeing Lionel slipping over the blood also has hints of the Keystone Cops in it. So is Braindead Roald Dahl meets Eli Roth? Or would that be silly?
The opening scene already makes it pretty clear that the story is of lesser importance here. Yes, Lionel starts off as a wimp and has some sort of character arc. (Then again, when you see the greasers who call him a freak... I(!) am boozing in a graveyard and pissing on a grave, what are YOU doing?) And at the end he stands up to his controlling mother and eliminates all the remaining zombies. Credit where credit is due, uncle Douchwig McRaperface gets in his fair share of zombiekills too.
That's all secondary to the priest doing martial arts, the ear in the pudding, the zombie with the lightbulb head, the mohawk zombie baby,... It's a horror comedy and all you need to do is soak up the gore and cackle your ass off at the silliness. And I loved every second of it.
Primal Fear 1996 ★★★½
This movie is mostly carried by the actors. Or rather, one actor. Edward Norton's excells as Aaron/Roy in a performance that earned him a well deserved Oscar nomination. And there is of course the ever present charm of Richard Gere, which is not to be ignored.
The story is a solid courtroom drama. You can denounce the clichés like the crooked poltician/real estate developer and the diddler priest, but it flowed along quite nicely and some of the beats were brought to the table well, like the backs to the wall moment after the first session and the eureka moment before the deciding testimony. And of course the twist. The look on Gere's face when he pieces it together out is fantastic.
Recommended for fans of courtoom drama, people who can handle the truth.
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