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Thank you. That's nice.
Saw is horror, aye. But it's a sub-genre called torture porn (so you're quite right), which is horror with lots of focus on explicit violence, torture, mutilation, sadism, nudity and such. A sub-genre of the splatters, I guess you could say. While I like plenty of the American torture porns, I think the french mastered this genre with films such as Martyrs, À l'intérieur, Haute tension, In My Skin, Frontière(s) and more. Unlike most of the American torture porn, these films had a lot going for it underneath the shock. Yes, there's lots of violence and sexual ugliness, but there's so much more to them than just that. But if one doesn't like extreme violence, then these obviously ain't for you.
Martyrs are probably the best of the lot along with Saw IMO. But it's quite different. Bleak, dark, disturbing, raw and pitch black horror which just plays with your brain due to its bleak and disturbing content. But with this film, it isn't the violence, torture or sadism that hurts you, it's the pain itself. It's a fantastic film IMO.
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Oh fuck, that sounds good. Really good.
Speaking about Ghostface Killah, when the fucking fuck will the collab with MF Doom see the light of the day? These bastards ae slow as fuck. Finish it already.
Also, this here is amazing:
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Revenge of the Ninja - Second part of the Ninja trilogy in whih neither film have anything to do with eachother, other than Sho fucking Kosugi who plays a role in all, though different characters. In this they nail the story, the characters and action. OK, so it's not a proper good film and the story isn't very good or special, but it's an entertaining story that gets things going and it's a fun one. Sho fucking Kosugi is his usual self and he's proper badass like. So fucking brutal. It's more over the top than Enter.., except for the amount of bloody violence. There's a serious lack of blood throughout of the film IMO, and with more blood it'd be even better. But the end makes up for it. Ad the climax is better than in Enter... It's so fucking over the top and ridiculous, in a good way that is. Awesome stuff!
Sho Kosugi's two sons plays in the film as well. One plays a huge part actually. Cool as fuck.
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Night of the Living Dead (1990) - My girl wanted to watch this last night, so I played along. Long time since I last saw it anywaw. It's a decent remake and a good film, but it's not close to the original at all. The only thing in this I prefer to the original is the hanging scene, the rest doesn't come close. The original is superior in every way possible. It's a well-made film and all, but it just lacks that feeling of sheer terror and frustration from the original, as well as the claustrophobic feeling from the original. And the actors are mostly so-so.Especially Patricia Tallman is rather annoying here. Good, but not on par with the original. 7/10
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Enter the Ninja - While not the first American ninja film ever, this was the one that started the ninja boom of the 80's, just like Halloween did with slashers. The film stars Franco "Django" Nero, Susan George and Sho fucking Kosugi, and the latter is the star here. I mean, fuck! Sho was beyond awesome in the 80's. Not a good actor, but more than enough charisma and badassness to make up for it.
Enter the Ninja isn't a good film by any means, but it's got a great cast, lots of cheese and bood, cool ninjas and awesome fights. What more do you reall need? Nothing, I say. Nothing at all!
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Thought Mayhem gave us a good gig. The setlist was great, with 10/14 or 11/15 songs being pre-Chimera stuff. Hellhammer is Hellhammer and the drum sound could've been much better, but it wasn't as bad as I'd thought. Not very good, but not annoyingly bad either. Whore, Illuminate Eliminate and Psywar didn't work at all live, but apart from that they did a good job.
Necrobutcher seemed to have an absolute blast on stage. Seemed to really enjoy himself and Teloch seemed to enjoy himself, but you couldn't see his face as he's joined the latest tend in black metal, following Mgla and Svartidaudi as far as his image goes. Which is a bit of a problem to be honest. Attila being the only one with corpseish paint works well because he's the vocalist, but Teloch wearing his stuff looks a bit out of place considering what the rest of the band looks like. He did look awesome, though, but perhaps a BIT cheaper looking than mentioned Mgla and Svartidaudi.
And Charles Hedger looked like he was hating it. Just stood there and did his job, and that was it. Didn't look like he was into it at all.
But the highlight oh the show was Attila. He looked great and his theatricals were awesome on the night. He looked like a relaxed, black metallic version of a cybergoth dancer with his arm movements, with both a skull and inverted cross in hand. A lot will hate this, but I thought it worked really well, even though it shouldn't.
That was Attila like, just without the leg movements. It was so corny, yet so fucking cool. No idea how he pulled it off.
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Going to see Mayhem again today. Probably 10 yeas since I last saw them. Checked their recent setlists and 11 out of 15 songs are pre-Chimera stuff. Hoping for good sound, especially for the drums. But knowing Hellhammer I am sure he's death-triggered them as he always does.
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Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape - A documentary about the video nasties and how that went through. Albeit a bit short, this is a fantastic documentary. Interesting and entertaining. Listening to Martin Barker is like listening to some kind of a supreme being. One of the few who dared to stand up against the censorship, and listening to him talking about it is very interesting, and he's so obviously a clever man as well. Great stuff!
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Shinobi No Mono 3: Resurrection - Starts off directly where Vengeance ended, and it starts off really well and while it never gets bad or boring, it just never reaches the hights of the previous films. It drags on a bit too long, and the climax is very disappointing. Way too uneven pacing, not enough ninjaism and not epic enough. But it's still a fantastic film, though.
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Works for me.
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Zeku, Tsuzetsu and the two EPs are the way to go. Homnura Uta have plenty of good songs as well, but as an album it's 25-30 minutes too long and include übershit like Mae e. And there's no reason to check out anything released after Hoyoku IMO. The albums after are just proper shit like.
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Shinobi No Mono 2: Vengeance - The second in the series, and this is just as good as the first one, if not better. I was taken completely off guard with a few of the scenes. So brutal, grim and harsh, and this is 1963, man. Fucking hell! It both looks and sound as good as the fist one, and is just as well-acted and directed. Fantastic film. A bit more action-oriented and epic, with a bit less ninjaism. But it worked eally well, and I loved this one too. Raizo Ichikawa is still fantastic in the lead, Tomisaburo Wakayama is even better than in the first and Shiho Fujimura really caught my eye. So talented and so beautiful. Perfect!
Bloody, epic and even grim and harsh. This film should please any fan of old school jidaigeki and chambara. Top notch film!
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Nightcrawler is one of the films I have been looking the most forward to in 2014. I've already given it 9,5/10 because of the poster, and hailed Jake Gyllenhaal's fantastic performance as the performance of the year (as far as films goes). This is before I've watched it. Such massive expectations. Don't think it'll come to the movie theaters around here, and IF it comes it'll be in 2015. Ew.
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Anyone got any recommendations for documentary's about horror and exploitation film? Or film in general, but I am mainly looking for horor and exploitation docus. These are what I've seen:
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (10/10)
Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (10/10)
Machete Maidens Unleashed! (9/10)
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (9/10)
Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (9/10)
Rewind This! (9/10)
Best Worst Movie (9/10)
American Grindhouse (8/10)
Year of the Living Dead (8/10)
Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects (8/10)
The Sci-Fi Boys (7/10)
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel (7/10)
These Amazing Shadows (7/10)
The Slanted Screen (7/10)Next up is Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th and Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape. Looking forward to both, but espeially Crystal Lake Memories which is a 400 minute long docu about Friday the 13th. Really, really, really looking forward to that one.
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Cool! Film festivals are awesome. I'm going to Oslo Fright Fest in January. A film festival fo horror, cult and exploitation fans. They'll show What We Do in the Shadows, which I am extremely excited about, The ABCs of Death 2 and the Norwegian christmas slasher O'Hellige Jul!. There's gonna be more of course. Hoping for some awesome guests and some even more exciting films.
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What other bands did you see? I've seen a lot of people complainign about the awful sound at the Mgla gig, but most of them aso say that the two Clandestine Blaze covers with Mikko Aspa on vocals makes ut for it. I'd kill to experience that live. I also saw Goat Semen as one of the booking for next years festival. Crazy booking. Fantastic band.
Also, people seem to be very impressed with the new Mortuary Drape. Their first album in 10 years, and peope compare it to Secret Sudaria. That sounds awesome. Can't wait!
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Albums, clothes and patches. Simple as that. I own lenty of pins and posters as well, but they're either been a part of the album or in a zine.
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I've had a massive kick on Necrophobic the last days. Swedish black/death metal which at times goes into both melodic death/black and thrash metal territory. The earliest albums are my favourites, but Death to All, released in 2009 are pretty fucking cool as well. But it lacks the awesome production of the two first albums, and isn't as strong song wise either. But still awesome. This shit is highly recommended. The second, Darkside, is probably my favourite right now.
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Shinobi no Mono aka Ninja, a Band of Assassins - The first out of a eight-film long jidaigeki series, with the three first being based on novels. It was also so popular that it got a TV-series as well, just like Zatoichi did around the same time. This is old school ninja films. These ninjas doesn't have any super powers, there's no tunnelling through sand dunes and no flying through the air. This is pure old school ninjas who can be quiet, are smart and great fighters and strong, but nothing else really. It's realistic ninjas.
The first thing that hits me from the first moment of the film are the beautiful cinematography and amazing soundtrack. It both looks and sounds a billion dollars. Stunning stuff. It's well-written, well-directed and really fucking entertaining.
The cast is amazing and everyone truly impress, and among the cast you also find Tomisaburô Wakayama, best known as the lead in the Lone Wolf and Cub series. A genius! He steals the show for me, despite not getting much screentime. But he's fantastic.
Another thing that I noticed throughout the film is that it is incredibley violent for a 1962-film. There's some insanely bloody moments (for its time), and those made me go nuts. It was massively unexpected, and my eyes went huge a couple of times. Great action scenes too. Brilliantly done.
This was a fantastic film, and I am looking forward to seeing the rest and get them all on DVD or VHS or whatever.
The film series also has its own unofficial fansite. Do check out: http://www.shinobinomono.com/snm_wordpress/
The film also served as an inspiration for Roald Dahl as he wrote You Only Live Twice. Says it all really.
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Best Worst Movie - Fun, touching, heartwarming and sad. This documentary document a fantastic journey that the film Troll 2 had. From an unknown, hated film dubbed as the worst film ever to a cult film known all over the earth with lots of fans. Underground, but still cult as fuck, with a shitload of screenings and all that. They interview most of the actors as wel as the director and writer, fans and a lot more.
The highlight for me is Claudio Fragasso who stated is directo career in 1980, and had made 12 films before he directed Troll 2 in 1989. He comes off as very, very bitter and buttover bcause he thinks the films he made are great films and he insults the actors and just doesn't get why people like it. Well, until the end that is, but still. It's fantastic and it even out this documentary for being too touching and sweet. Fantastic addition.
Anyway, it's a great documentary about a fantastic film.
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This probably isn't of much interest to peope here, but there's finally a official comp with their demo, EP and album out these days. This shit is heavily recommended. Raw, brutal and occult black metal of the filthiest kind. Sarcofago meets Beherit. It sounds absolutely disgusting.
I don't buy CDs anymore unless it's something special, and this most definetly is. This is getting a spot in my collection. Masterpiece!
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A very old photo with Stevo from Impetigo. It was taken at Stevo's house in around 1990. I was probably 20 or so. We went to the vinyl hunting and I remember getting Mercyful Fate's fist 12"EP just for $4.
A very personal fire breathing practice scene. It says 1992. Yasuyuki from Abigail and I were often practicing breathing fire with a cigarette lighter, I mean without a grandiose torch. Thus you can breathe fire almost all of sudden on stage.
This one is from 1992, the second gig with this line-up. Pre-Scorn-Defeat day. One of the guys we knew back then was claiming "Playing cover songs is very amateurish. If you want to be a professional musician, you should play your own songs." So we did all-Venom setlist.
Mirai and Stevo.