Let's Discuss Potential Movie Purchases/Viewings

[Spartan]

Hardly worth creating a new thread for, but worth posting about.

The Duke of Burgundy is supposedly Peter Strickand's ode to The Story of O and other erotic works from the seventies, and I keep seeing the names of Jess Franco and Jean Rollin brought up to describe this film, which piques my interest even further. No trailers yet, but this NSFWish clip is dope:

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Loved Strickland's Berberian Sound Studio, and this looks like a worthy follow-up with serious potential.

[Tommy Bunz]

Spartan?

[Spartan]

Ordered it a few days ago, i'll let you know.

[Tommy Bunz]

Awesome. It sounds pretty great. I feel like the female werewolf has been underused in horror movies.

[Spartan]

There's The Howling and its sequels and in more recent times the Ginger Snaps franchise. I only copped Werewolf Woman because I kept seeing it referenced in a bunch of film books I've read, plus Dagmar Lassander hasn't disappointed me yet.

Also copped this lot as part of the same order:
Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods
Tropic of Cancer

And paid way too much on eBay for So Sweet, So Dead to fuel my giallo addiction.

[Tommy Bunz]

The only other ones I can think of are Michelle Pfeiffer in Wolf and Ricci in Cursed. And Paquin in Trick R Treat. And there's that really terrible Werewolf movie that MST3K spoofed.

[Spartan]

There's also The Beast Must Die, An American Werewolf in Paris and If I remember right Werewolf in a Women's Prison.

[Tommy Bunz]

Ah I forgot about Beast Must Die and I actually own that one. I try to pretend Werewolf in Paris didn't happen.

[Spartan]

Hoping to watch this tonight possibly. Odds are unfairly stacked against the movie living up to a fraction of that awesome artwork, especially when it's directed by Umberto Lenzi.

[Tommy Bunz]

So its a Lenzi rip on The Beastmaster? Looks awesome.

Speaking of Lenzi, this came out this year and it somehow slipped past me until recently


And raro is also putting out Slaughter Hotel next month, which looks sweet. Di Leo giallo with Kinski? I'm all in.

[Spartan]

Slaughter Hotel is pretty fucking terrible, but enjoyable nonetheless.

EDIT: I should add the film's ending is fucking epic.

[Spartan]

So this arrived today. Excited to see the US version with alternate scenes as I've never ever seen this version before.

[Spartan]

Anyone copped anything from this site http://www.cultaction.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Looks like a treasure trove of rare movie bootlegs

[Tommy Bunz]

Never even heard of it.

My total Black Friday haul:

Blu-ray
Riddick: The Complete Collection
Grudge Match
Mission Impossible Trilogy
Lego Movie
The Avengers
Noah
Godzilla
Prisoners
Gravity
Man of Steel
Justified - Season 4
Dark Knight Rises
The Simpsons - Season 17
The Americans - Season 1
Duck, You Sucker
Wild River
Panic in the Streets
The Last House on the Left (original)
Force 10 From Navarone
American Hustle
Funny People
Lone Survivor
Spartacus: War of the Damned
The Edge
Deadly Blessing
Prince of Darkness
Body Bags
Warrior
Deadly Duo
Fast Five
In the Mouth of Madness
Breaking Bad: The Final Season
Oblivion
This is the End
Sorcerer
The League - Season 4
Hang 'Em High
Inside Man
Beyond the Black Rainbow
The Manchurian Candidate (original)
The Thomas Crown Affair (original)
Fantastic Voyage
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Leaving Las Vegas
Planet of the Apes - Legacy Collection
Ace in the Hole - Criterion Collection
Insomnia - Criterion Collection
Kiss Me Deadly - Criterion Collection
Blow Out - Criterion Collection
My Darling Clementine - Criterion Collection
The Shooting/Ride in the Whirlwind - Criterion Collection
Red River - Criterion Collection
The Vanishing - Criterion Collection

DVD:
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Seasons 3 & 4
Parks & Recreation - Season 6
Emperor of the North
The Yellow Sea
Bob's Burgers - Season 1

[drizzle]

Anyone copped anything from this site http://www.cultaction.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Looks like a treasure trove of rare movie bootlegs

feel like i've used them before but it was a long time ago. i don't think they screwed me or anything

i think imma go in on this 5 for 50 thing they got

[Spartan]

Just ordered from them a bunch of obscure gialli that I've been trying to track down for ages.

[drizzle]

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yooo

[drizzle]

Strange Color is out on bluray reg a this week fyi

[Spartan]

UK got fucked over with the home release of The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears. Only available on DVD with bullshit burnt-in English subs.

Copped a couple of movies as recommended by my less articulate brother from another mother:

[darkwingduck]

grabbed these two...haven't seen VIOLENT SATURDAY...looking forward to adding that to the NOIR library.

[drizzle]

spartan what's the word on cultaction, was their stuff good quality?

totally forgot about them but randomly got an itch for new rares. saw like a half-dozen things i want just on their new release page. wish i thought of this a week ago when everything was on sale

[Spartan]

spartan what's the word on cultaction, was their stuff good quality?

They're all bootlegs. Depending on the film's rarity, then the quality ranges wildly from an OOP DVD rip to foreign TV rip and nth generation 4:3 VHS rip. All the films are English friendly though with either an English dub or fan-made subs available.

Copped a second batch of movies from cultaction on the day of my previous post in this thread and they already arrived before the new year, so shipping is very fast.

[Spartan]

Obviously not a popular opinion, but I really struggled with Branded to Kill. Is this more of the same?

Eureka Entertainment are also releasing Ganja & Hess soon; which is one of those movies I'm always made to feel like I should have seen already.



On an unrelated note, I'm completely jealous of any film nerds in NYC going to this:



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[Tommy Bunz]

Is Branded to Kill the only Suzuki film you've seen?
Youth of the Beast is more of a classical gangster film, it has only minor flashes of the style Suzuki developed a few years later.
Its pretty much Yojimbo set in the amongst the Yakuza world of the 60's. I'm a pretty big fan.

[drizzle]

Spartan which ones in the giallo series would you say are essential? Only seen 3 of them

[Spartan]

That sounds a lot more palatable than Branded to Kill.

TBH, this doesn't apply just to Suzuki, but I find it pretty tough to get into many Japanese cult/genre movies, other than a few personal exceptions. It might be because of the way narratives are constructed or lack thereof, but I find a lot of the praiseworthy stuff a real chore to sit through; kind of regretting coppin' the Stray Cat Rock blu-ray set, believe it or not!

Might be a huge contradiction considering the out there and offbeat shit I tend to watch, but for whatever reason, they've always felt much more accessible to me.

[Spartan]

Spartan which ones in the giallo series would you say are essential? Only seen 3 of them

I've seen all of them and if I was going there I would have gone Mindbender hyper to see this lot on the big screen:

Tenebre
Footprints on the Moon
All The Colors of the Dark
A Bay of Blood
Torso

Footprints on the Moon isn't really a giallo, and but it's an incredible film all the same. Way classier than the films it get lumped with, like what I just did.

[ZiekeFons]

This looks dope!

[Tommy Bunz]

you know you have a problem when you receive $30 blu-rays in the mail that you don't remember ordering

[zombie]

This looks dope!

cant wait