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That sounds incredible as usual from these guys.

Grave Encounters 2 - I thought the first one was pretty good, but this was a god damn abomination. Where the first had a cool plot, good atmosphere and several likeable characters, this had nothing of that and was incredibly stupid from begining to end. There's simply nothing of value in this film at all. Absolute garbage!

Well, this could be cool. I'm interested.

The Duel/Duel of the Iron Fist - I talked about Chang Cheh in my previous post and what I personally expected from him with me being a bit disappointed with The Heroic Ones, and this film is what I expect from him. In many ways it's different than the other Chang Cheh films I've seen, but everything about it just oozes of Changh Cheh. It's a bloody, brutal kung fu gangster flick with magnificent action scenes, plenty of blood squirting beautifully, some lovely characters and Ti Lung and David Chiang at their very best. The plot here is more than enough to please me, and I like its twists and turns. But 75-85 minutes of the film's 100 is one big massacre with Chang Cheh's name written all over it. Brutal, bloody, slick and stylized action that will pleae any fan of martial arts action film. Also, I get a very spaghetti western- and film noir-esque feeling at times. Very cool! I thought this flick was amazing. I also really like the soundtrack with some of it being stolen from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The theme for David Chiang's character is really look to. Every single time he enters the screen his theme starts, and that is something I really like. David Chiang plays one of his coolest characters ever as well. A slick, motherfucking badass gangster with impressive skills. It's just too cool! Soul of the Sword - A nice, wuxia film with Ti Lung as Wu Ming/nameless, a man without status fighting to beat the King of Swords, and become the King of Swords. It's a rather dark film with a great, complex plot, lovely sets and beautiful action scenes. Ti Lung is at his very best here. His slick acting and movement fits the entire film - the character, the atmosphere and the plot. He's just excellent as usual. Highly recommended for fans of dark Chinese fantasy, wuxia and martial arts films.

Shit, I am really looking forward to hearing the new Birth Ritual album called Turn Up the Evil. The bands sounds a lot like Japanese black/speed metal legends Zadkiel, which means punky Motorhead- and Venom-inspired black/thrash. The leads sounds very NWOBHM-ish, and it sounds neat as fuck. I've liked their previous stuff very much, but it sounds like they've turned everything up a notch this time around. Can't wait til this leaks.

Honeymoon - A nice, bloody horror film by newcommer Leigh Janiak, with Rose "You know nothing, Jon Snow" Leslie and Harry Treadaway as a newly wedded couple. It's a skin-crawling, nightmarish and claustrophobic horror film with a decent performance by both leads and nice work by Janiak. It does reveal a bit too much a bit too soon and loses some of its effectivity because of that, but the mystery still kept me interested even though I knew a bit too early how it would end. But it was a cool, low-budget horror film.

Creep - A nice, kinda original horror film that is sniffing on the 8/10 for me. I'm jut not sure about a few elements. I feel like director/writer Patrick Brice expect his audience to be dumb as fuck and just pushes and pushe a certain element of the film onto you as if you aren't smart enough to understand what's going on by yourself, and it kinda takes away the greatness of the film. Still enjoyable despite that, thouh. looking forward to the sequels.

A few that might please you, some are awfully obvious though so you might have seen them. Some older and some newer films, but I think all of them are genuinly creepy. But creepy for me might not mean creepy for you, but give 'em a try: The Exorcist (1973) Ringu (1998) Ju-On: The Grudge (2000) Blair Witch Project (1999) Noroi (2005) Alien (1979) The House of the Devil (2009) The Conjuring (2013) À l'intérieur (2007) Martyrs (2008) The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) Kairo (2001) The Woman In Black (1989) The Omen (1976) A few film I find very creepy.

Can someone recommend me some music similar to Major Lazer's Lean On? Something that is really chill yet catchy, and goes very well with a beer outside in the heating sun? Fantastic song. I'm looking for full albums, be it regular full lenghts or compilations. Or if someone would care to put together a compilation of songs similar to that.

Knockabout - Sammo Hung's fourt film as a director, and a film where he continues what he stated on his previous film, Warriors Two. A superb mix of innovative kung fu, crazy good acrobatics and comedy. The film stars Yuen Biao, one of the Seven Little Fortunes from Peking Opera School among Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Corey Yuen, in what I believe to be his full lead debut, and he does well both as an actor, martial artist and acrobat, as well as Sammo Hung, Bryan Leung and Lau Kar-wing. The plot isn't original, but it's something that works very well and the fights are superb, with Yuen Biao's acrobatics stealing the show. Overll a bloody fantastic film! The Heroic Ones - A great, yet somewhat disappointing Chang Cheh flick with an incredible cast. I'm a huge Chang Cheh fan, and the cast including the likes of Ti Lung, David Chiang, Lau Kar-wing, Ku Feng, Chan Sing, Bolo Yeung, Lily Li and more, so my expectations were extremely high. But this film was something different than what I had expected, being very un-Chang Cheh-ish (at least very different from the Chang Cheh films I like), and while that itself isn't something negative, I just though this lacked the usual ingenius Chang Cheh style that I have grown very fond of. Unlike the more exploitation oriented films I know from the man himself, this is more a costume period drama with huge sets, a good story and an epic feeling to top it all. Great cast, lovely action scenes and shit, but it wasn't close to as good as I expected, but then again I expected a 10/10, which is really stupid to begin with. Anyway, it's a nice, dramtic epic, and I truly enjoyed the film. A bit uneven in pace, but all in all very good. 8/10

Preservation - Meh, this wasn't all that. It was basically Eden Lake with another setting, poor acting, awful, artificial dialogue, dumb, unlikeable characters and a lack of atmosphere. And I don't feel the badguys at all. Just nah, they didn't do anything for me. If you ask me this is nothing but a poor man's Eden Lake, just lacking all the quality of Eden Lake.

Event Horizon is a cool and slightly underrated film. A 7/10 for me. Love those space-, or even sea-terror films, even the ones that aren't all that good. Just add some nice suspense and atmosphere and combine it with a claustrophobic feeling and you have me hooked. Alien, Event Horizon, Sunshine, Sphere, The Abyss or hell, even non-space nor sea-themed The Thing, but it's similar as far as the claustrophobia and suspense goes. Just love these kind of films. Both Event Horizon and Sphere are very underrated in my eyes. Not great films, but very enjoyable films for what they are.

Shaolin Wooden Men - Old school Jackie Chan martial arts film from 1976. It's a very classic kun fu film, and if you are heavily into the genre like me, you won't find anything new here. But that doesn't mean it isn't good. I thought this was excellent with high quality fights and an excellent and very interesting training session. This is one of his more serious and darker films. No slap-stick-fu or anything like that. Just pure kung fu excellncy. The last fight is odd, though. They've cut it a few times to make it faster, which seems a bit off. But it's nothing I can't real with it. Becuase the choreography itself is great. Not his best 70's flick, but great nonetheless. Dragon's Claw - Absolutely brilliant kung fu film by Joseph Kuo (7 Grandmasters, Born Invincible, 8 Masters). There's nothing new, original or anything like this. There's a fairly standard story, event though it does feel very bleak and dark compared to many of the similar films. Especially the rape shit surprised the shit out of me. But it's about revenge and being badass. I just love the three badguys of the film. They are exactly how I love my badguyses in these types of films. Evil and sleazy but really likeable chaps. Event he look of them are excellent. Jang Lee Hwang was born for this kind of roles. He's just got the look of a badguy. How cool is that? It's bloody magnificent!

The Heroic Trio - This is one of those film I've been wanting to watch for years but which simply have had to make way for other films for no special reason at all. I'm not all that familiar with Johnnie To, but the 6-7 films I had seen before this have all been great, so my expectations were up high, and a cast consisting of Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Damian Lau and Anthony Chau-Sang Wong among other didn't exactly make my expectations any lower. But despite my sky high expectations this film managed to not only live up to my expectations, but go far beyond that and impress the living shit out of me. This film was pure fun from begining to end. It's very over the top, silly, cartoonish and cheesy as fuck, but everything, even the silliest scenes (such as the motorcycle scene) works out. The overall tone of the film is very light and, as already stated, cartoonish, and that's by far the strongest point of the film. If not for that cartoonish feeling this wouldn't have worked half as well. Well-acted, extremely well-choreographed and highly stylized in a super cool way. There's something really cool and futuristic over the entire film and I dig it. Top notch special effects. God damn! Also, top, top badguy even though I wish we'd get to learn more about him. But other than that, amazing film! And I'll have to add that the obvious homage to Flying Guillotine was cool as fuck. That shit was awesome! Executioners - A decent enough sequel to The Heroic Trio, but this film just doesn't hit the right nerve. Was I entertained? Yeah, I was. But I'm also really disappointed by this film. The silly, over the top, cheesy and cartoonish elements are gone and the badguy feels like a Phantom of the Opera parody. It's a darker, bleaker and more serious film, and that's also where it fails. It just isn't as fun, interesting or cool as The Heroic Trio. It's ok (6/10), but nothing more. The Heroic Trio were a 9/10. Huge difference. It's such a shame.Could've been so good this one like.

Grandma's Boy - Had nothing to do de other day and were too tired to watch something heavy, so I decided on this film as I just wanted some good, dumb, silly fun, but halfway through I realised I had seen this before and remembered not laughing at all. But I watched it through anyway, and I hate myself for it. Awful film. Not at least funny. Just awfully bad. It just tried so hard to be funny but neve is. It's annoying. That's what it is. Shit film! The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - I was disgusted by the first one, but since I watched it I thought I had to watch the other films too. I'm not getting this at all. It's still Battle Royale for the Twilight generation. This is however an improved version of the first one, though. Much more interesting characters, and it's not all that sugar coated. But it's still a piss poor film on so many levels. I really like Jennifer Lawrence, but even the way she screams in this film is annoying. No one actually buy those screams, right? They're so fake and try-hard. Disgusting. But it was an improved film, even though it's much of the same as the first one, so hopefully they'll keep improving with each film. Maybe we'll actually get a decent film before the series is over. Minions - The cute yellow creatures from Despicable Me were so cool and adoreable that they go their own film, and I'll admit that I really enjoyed the film. It's not on par with Despicable Me 1 & 2, but it's still good, silly fun. It's a bit uneven and the pacing feels a bit off at times, but ther than that I thought it was good, even with norwegian dubbing. It was a nice, sweet, fun and very adorable prequel to a couple of very good films.

Tales From the Crypt: Episode 4, This'll Kill Ya - A predictable but fun episode with no surprises and some poor acting. It's entertaining, but not very good. Episode 5, On a Deadman's Chest - Fantastic episode by none other than William Friedkin. There's some poor acting involved, but everything else makes up for it and the ending is so crazy and goofy, but yet so very, very good. Loved this episode! Episode 6, Seance - Another great episode. Predictable, but the fun of it makes up for it. Lovely stuff!

I like the new album. It's not as immediate and catchy as Invaders Must Die so it needs some time to grown, but after 10-15 spins I am really enjoying the album. I expect it to get even better with more listens as well. Not quite up there with the band's 2-3 best albums, but good anyway.

Kingsman: The Secret Service - A potential fantastic film ruined by godawful CGI, Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine. It's as simple as that. It's well-acted other than the two mentioned, it's very violent and over the top, and it's an overall fun spy-parody. But the CGI gets on my nerve. There's much of it, and it's never above SyFy quality, which is a huge problem for me personally. Also, the church scene is ruined by this. The CGI is poor, and there's not a single hit or kick that seems powerful at all. It doesn't look like they are actually hitting eachother. I liked the film, but it's far from as good as everybody says. And unless you love poor CGI and bad action choreohrahy, yuo won't love this film either.

Went to the movie theaters with my job today, which mean I had 13 kids with me, and some other school came as well so it was something like 40 kids there. And despite this amount of kids there, it was still the best movie experience I've had at the cinema in many, many years. There was some talking, but way less than in a regular show for old teens/grown ups. That is shocking. It's kids for fucks sake. How can they have better manners than adults? Good for me, though. A nice way to earn ones living. Shame it was a one-off thing. I'd do that every single day if I could.

Reign of Assassins - Wow, this was a huge surprise. I expected an barely above mediocre CGI-wanking wuxia film, but this was something else. It's not original, you can see influences from plenty films, I thought especially Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Kill Bill. But it feels rather fresh in a way. It's got a very classic and old school feelig to it, never really going too over the top with its wirework or fucking computer effects, which by the way has been like a plague to epics like this in modern time. It's well-acted, it looks beautiful for most part (a bit too "glossy" at times, though) and it's fun. It's a bit predictable, but for a martial arts freak like myself it delievers everything I'd want in a film like this. I really enjoyed it

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! - After watching the Mad Max trilogy I got a sudden urge to rewatch this, and so I did. And I still concider it to be among the best documentaries ever. Not Quite Hollywood is directed by Mark Hartley, the same man who's behind the masterpieces Machete Maidens Unleashed! and Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films. I just knows what he's doing when making films about films. They are interesting, provide lots of cool and funny facts and are very, very entertaining. It's everything you'd want from a documentary. For those unaware, Ozploitation was the name given to Australian exploitation films. This goes through the history of ozploitation from the early 70's to the late 80's, through sexy comedies, sex romps, action and road movies and horrors. It's divided in three parts, sex, horror and action. While it's short and straight to point, it manages to give you more than enough info to wake your interest in ozploitation. Interviews with people like George Miller, George Lazenby, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Hopper, James Wan and Quentin Tarantino among many gives you more than enough info and anecdotes to entertain you for the 100 minutes it lasts. Lots to dig into and lots to enjoy. Say what you want about Quentin Tarantino and his films, but he knows his exploitation film and has an enormous knowledge of Australian exploitation films. He's as enthusiastic as ever, and I understand that people hate that, but there's no denying that the info he provides are golden. And he's spot on: They manage to shoot cars with this fetishistic lens that just makes you want to jerk off. The best part of the docu is when they talk about how fucking mad the production of the action films were. The stunts and everything. That part is more than worth making you see this.

Mad Max - Rewatched this last week, and this just keeps getting better and better with every year. It's so badass, it's so cool and it's so god damn fun. And this film is total madness. The stunts are crazy as fuck, and as in many ozloitation films, you can feel the madness on set in the film itself. Madness, nothing less than madness. Atmosphere and attitude is spot on, and there's a certain rawness about it all that is unbelieveable. If you don't worship this I'll beat ya, bro. I just love how they shot the car chases and shit in these films too. Everything from the ground, and you can feel the car's power and speed, and it's like your in it yourself. I believe that was quite unique for its time. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior - A different film than the first one, but it's got the same rawness and attitude, but is even better because it's got a better story and way better pacing, which says a lot as I rewarded the first one with 9/10. So this is a perfect masterpiece in my eyes. The atmosphere, man. It's so dirty and nice. It's awesome! Dosen't feel as crazy as the first one, though, but it's just top notch. And Mel Gibson just went from a boy in the first one to a proper man in this. Love it! I also love how this set the standard for "every" post-apocalyptic film to come after it, and especially in Australia. So many films took after this films, especially for the badguyses. You'll see that kind of badguys everywhere in films in Australia after this one, no matter what kind of film it actually is. How cool is that? Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome - Much better than I remembered, but still not much more than decent entertainment at best. Everything with the exception of Tine Turner is actually amazing up until the thunderdome fight is over. Then it totally changes tone and turns into a Peter Pan-kind of film, which I don't really get at all. And the entire act 2 is uninteresting at best. But act 3 is, again, amazing. But that act 2 is way too long and too fucking uninteresting. The thunderdome fight is incredible, though. It's original, fresh and beyond coolio. One of the greatest fights ever. This deserves a directors cut without the fucking Peter Pan-esque second act. The film's just got everything it needs to be a fantastic film, but it's got some elements that just shouldn't have been there either. Such a shame. 6/10 for me like. The theme song is shitty as well. Fuck TIna Turner.

Faults - I just randomly stumbled upon the poster of this film and decided to check it out because the poster ruled, and I was not disappointed. It's a fairly strange film I'd say. On one side it's hilarious and absurd as fuck, but on the other side it's dead serious, but it mixes it up perfectly and despite being hilarious here and serious there, it never really changes tone or anything. Nothing is out of place. It's a fresh thriller, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Leland Orser's amazing chemestry is nothing short of impressive. And I adore the twist on the cult films they've gone for here, moving away from the cult communities themself and rather focusing on the brainwashing and case of lost identity, or whatever I should call it. Worked really well. Witness - Classic mid-80's Harrison Ford thriller. An intelligent thriller about corruption and love. It's a very fine film. Very believeable, and the chemestry between Harrison Ford and Kelly McGillis is really nice. That dance scene is magic. I love how they portray the Amish's challenge with living together with someone from the outside. It's a struggle for them, and it's so obvious throughout this film. However, I do think act 2 is a bit long, though. Could've been shorten down a bit IMO. But other than that it's a very fine film. Goon - Fantastic film this, like. A love-letter to the violent side of hockey about a nice and ploite, but lesser skilled man that out of nowhere becomes a minor league's enforcer, and is fantstic at it as well. It may sound dumb and boring, but this film is amazing. It's got that feeling. It'll nicely paced, it's hilarious and it's got a main character you'll care about. It's hardly a film worth any Oscars (even if it's way better than 90% of the films nominated for an Oscar in the 2000's), but who gives a fuck? It's fun! And I am looking the fuck forward to Goon: Last of the Enforcers which is set for a release next year.

Yesterday we were 10 grown ups at work and only 12 kids. That's just crazy. Gives us the chance to have long lunch brakes, though, and still get paid for it. It's beautiful.

Confession of Murder - What an odd film from first-time director Byeong-gil Jeong. It starts off as a thriller in the vein of Memoirs of a Murder and The Chaser, just a bit more action-oriented in the fights. It's dark, gloomy and very interesting. A solid cast is on place and whatnot. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, comes an awful, "funny scene" and the film change its tone from dark and gloomy to action-packed fun. This fun lasts for a while, and then they go back to the dark, serious and gloomy tone of the begining. It was so odd, because the action-packed Fast & Furious-scenes were so out of place in the film and the humour just didn't belong either. Overall it was enjoyable, but these action and comedy scenes just ruined the total experience of it for me. I am not sure why they went for Park Si-hoo in that role either. He does good, but he comes off as way too young. I don't buy it. The film deserves a re-writing and a remake because this could so easily have been a masterpiece. Cyborg - Late 80's so-bad-it's-good post-apocalyptic action with Jean-Claude Van Damme. The only thing actually good about this film is the sets and score, but I like it a lot for what it is anyway. The atmosphere is very nice, Van Damme is his usual self aka awesome and Vincent Klyn is bloody hilarious. He's so bad like. If you think Van Damme is a bad actor, just wath this guy. Fantastic! Anyway, it's violent with lots of action that just never stops and I like that kind of stuff. So I like this film a lot. Van Damme actually took out a man's eye under the production of this film. Jesus, you don't fuck around with Van Damme. That's for sure. He just doesn't play around. How to Steal a Million - An absolute masterpiece starring Audrey Hepburn in her prime and Peter O'Toole, both which are fantastic, and Hugh Griffith who stands behind the majority of laughs in the film. He's amazing as well. It's a romantic heist-comedy where the romance feels genuine, the heist is exciting and the comedy hilarious. What more can one ask for? I don't know, because I don't ask for more than that. I loved this film!