Stewart Lee: 41st Best Stand-Up Ever! (2008)

I have this on DVD and still watched it on netflix. Why? Because it's fucking brilliant and I'm in the kitchen, that's why! Apart from the twat too near the mike during the giraffe joke at the end.

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The Hunter (2011)

Not as good as seeing Fatso falling off the kitchen counter (old-time Aussie soap fans may get that reference) but I'll take any film that contains wombats! Dafoe moves way too quickly and lacks patience (it's like they wanted to portray hunting accurately but were afraid to commit to the stillness needed) and you never leave a wood-burner door open when you sleep at night - shut the door to stop embers hitting rugs and causing a fire. It also reduces the amount of air feeding the flames which prolong the burn time, hopefully until morning. The last 30 minutes were silly, but... wombats!

Shit, that was almost a review. Stop it Andrew, stop it!

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Toy Soldiers (1991)

alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die

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Vampires (1979)

My life in 1979, except I had free school meal tickets.

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Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural (1973)

Bonkers!

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The Antichrist (1974)

A cross between The Exorcist and The Devils with a bit of Rosemary's Baby thrown in for good measure and a beautiful, violin-led Morrecone score.

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Zombi 3 (1988)

Silly, great, funny, ridiculous, illogical, wooden, hilarious, amazing, cheap, gruey, fast, inept, terrific, stupid, bloody, foggy, slow, slimy, putrescent, trashy, wonderful, insert adjective here.

"I'm feeling better Patricia, but I'm thirsty... for your blood!"

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The Exorcist III (1990)

George C. Scott. That is all.

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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)

An unholy mess of a film. Forget the original when you watch it and think of The Heretic as a great exploitation film and you can't go wrong. It's sad that I waited 30 years before watching this nutty film again.

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The Exorcist (1973)

Director's Cut AKA The Version You've Never Seen.

The eleventy-stupid time I've seen this film since about 1979 and it's still amazing.

Not a review but a couple of questions:

I'd like to think what others think of Ellen Burstyn's character, Chris MacNeil? Whiny, rich, entitled (two houses, three servants - and they are servants and not staff, an invitation to the White House that she casually dismisses and a daughter that wants a pony) and irritating as fuck but I think Burstyn nails it. Is her character a counterpoint for god? Is Blatty/Friedkin saying that our worship of false idols/films stars/celebrities has taken us further away from god?

It's funny how, as an atheist, and after watching some of the most gross and horrific films ever made that The Exorcist still scares me more than any other film. Is it because I'm subconsciously worried that my position could be wrong or that the dismissal of science for anything we cannot understand terrifies me?

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51 (2011)

Cheap, derivative, cliche-ridden, logically-flawed but good fun with loads of gruey practical effects.

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What We Do in the Shadows (2014)

I had to turn it off after 20 minutes as it was so tiring but I guess it's better than the Chelsea Flower Show. I'm afraid I'm just not built for comedies.

UPDATE: Well, I finished it and chuckled occasionally so maybe I was just in a bad mood on the first attempt and I've bumped it up to 2 stars. It was still tiring though. All the way through the film I had this feeling that it would make an excellent (short) series rather than a feature - but then I feel that way about most comedies.

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The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

The evocation of a 1930s Universal-styled film is perfectly realised and the film is filled with dread and the threat of cosmic horror. The Whisperer in Darkness has a much slower pace than The Call of Chuthulu but it does reward the patient. The only issue is the CGI creatures at the end; mechanical or stop-motion would have been more effective and better fitted the period but I assume that a limited budget made this impossible.

mglw'nafh fhthagn-ngah cf'ayak 'vulgtmm vugtlag'n

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The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

After watching the "making of" documentary I'm bumping Cthulhu up to 5 stars as what they accomplished and how they pulled it off was really amazing.

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In Order of Disappearance (2014)

Norsk Fargo!

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