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Creature from the Black Lagoon: Complete Legacy Collection Is up for pre order if anyone interested but they definitely don't need a 12 more like a pg and jaws should of stayed a pg.
The Lodge is set to be this year's big horror, like Hereditary was last year:
Although good luck working out what it's about from that trailer. Turn a bloody light on! Presumably it's about Riley Keough trying to escape Scientology. Oh wait, The LODGE - she's trying to escape the Masons.
Reminds me of the so called research currently being done iIRL - having blood transfusions from young people to aging people in search of the fountain of youth.Painkillers: A new take on the Vampire Mythos. Opens with a woman being attacked by another (crazed) woman in an alley. The victim's wrist is cut with a knife and the assailant starts to drink her blood. Surgeon John Clark (Adam Huss) is involved in a car crash in which his son is killed. Physically he recovers but for no apparent reason he suffers from great physical pain. He meets a stranger, Herb Morris (Grant Bowler) who offers a solution to his suffering - blood. Clark dismisses this but his debilitating condition makes him realise that blood is indeed a palliative.
The film convincingly portrays the breakdown of a surgeon, the only way he can stop shaking is to ingest blood. But when he returns to work he is caught drinking waste blood after an operation. A doctor of course would have access to the hospital blood store but eventually discrepancies would be noted. These vampires operate in daylight and are not deterred by garlic or crosses, nor do they possess eternal life, but to function "normally", drinking blood is a necessity. Morris offers to supply Clark but it's at a cost, either he joins in hunting society's pariahs and using them as bloddanks or he pays a high financial price.
Effective horror showing that a vampire doesn't need a cape and fangs to be scary. This is the very banality of evil in action. But an evil which has been visited upon these Vampires, the great pain demands blood. Director Roxy Shih has created an interesting addition to the Vampire Film Canon. 7/10. On Horror Channel.
Apparently, that has had some results.Reminds me of the so called research currently being done iIRL - having blood transfusions from young people to aging people in search of the fountain of youth.
Apparently, that has had some results.
Ha ha, no - but older people who get a transfusion of blood from a young person can get the benefit of faster healing and a feeling of vitality.Recipients de-age by 27 minutes?
That looks great!The Lodge is set to be this year's big horror, like Hereditary was last year:
Although good luck working out what it's about from that trailer. Turn a bloody light on! Presumably it's about Riley Keough trying to escape Scientology. Oh wait, The LODGE - she's trying to escape the Masons.
I also understand that you can have allergic(?) reactions to blood transfusions, which in a life or death situation would be a reasonable risk, but just for unproven effects is questionable.Ha ha, no - but older people who get a transfusion of blood from a young person can get the benefit of faster healing and a feeling of vitality.
They may also look a little younger.
However, there is conflicting evidence about this:
For: https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/6/238/238ec95
Against: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fda-issues-warning-about-young-blood-transfusions/
My Dad had a few blood transfusions over the years, and he reported feeling a lot better when he'd had it done. But he was anaemic... so of course he'd feel a benefit.
Good news, there is a Dead Snow 2!Rarely watch horror movies these days, found the DVD of this in a charity shop a while back and it looked amusing for a quid.
DVD rather usefully came with no subtitle track and two choices of audio both of which were Norweigan, managed to download a sub track for it which crapped out on me 2/3 of the way through lol or it may have gone sooner and I didn't realise as you hardly need it.
Totally stupid but good fun and very creative.
Good news, there is a Dead Snow 2!
Agreed, you don’t regret the time watching them but probably a long time before you check them out again.They are both good movies but nowhere near as great as some people make them out to be.
Agreed, you don’t regret the time watching them but probably a long time before you check them out again.
They're good zombie comedies, too many attempts at that combination fail.
Is that the newish one with him from League of Gentlemen in it?The haunting of Borley Rectory.
Got this as a gift after one of the kids saw it in Morrisons and knew of my interest in the whole Borley scene, Rectory, church and Harry Price. (We drove up to the church on a couple of occasions as it isn’t too far from home). Anyway this was very poor, nothing to do with the original story, bad dialogue and poor acting. Give it a miss.
Is that the newish one with him from League of Gentlemen in it?
Rarely watch horror movies these days, found the DVD of this in a charity shop a while back and it looked amusing for a quid.
DVD rather usefully came with no subtitle track and two choices of audio both of which were Norweigan, managed to download a sub track for it which crapped out on me 2/3 of the way through lol or it may have gone sooner and I didn't realise as you hardly need it.
Totally stupid but good fun and very creative.
I was looking at this in ASDA for £3 and wondered if it was any good, thanks for this, I will steer clearThe haunting of Borley Rectory.
Got this as a gift after one of the kids saw it in Morrisons and knew of my interest in the whole Borley scene, Rectory, church and Harry Price. (We drove up to the church on a couple of occasions as it isn’t too far from home). Anyway this was very poor, nothing to do with the original story, bad dialogue and poor acting. Give it a miss.
Defoe's pipe is upside down, this is film is going to be fucking mental.