New blu-rays ordered:
Both classics!! POZ is my personal favourite zombie movie. The graveyard nightmare sequence is still chilling 50 years later.
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For many years I got nicknamed Manuel.
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That’s my favourite scene in the movie. Quite trippy.
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Mine too.
My favourite one in Curse of the Werewolf is the baptism scene. It spooks me. My late Grandmother was a Catholic probably why.
Just ordered:
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Another order:
Looks like that creature that killed Tasha Yar on Star Trek TNG 
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Ah yes much better than Pitt and Co.
I have that blu-ray. Great picture quality but I remember the audio being really inconsistent.
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Two minor classics, in my opinion (having only just watched them for the first time), by two of my favourite directors.
I resisted buying Pontecorvo’s Queimada (1969) until now because the box and online spec. make no mention of English subtitles. In fact the 129 minute version has both German and English subs, with a choice of German or Italian dub. There’s also a 112 minute version with English dub. Having listened to a bit of that, I opted for full length with Italian dub and English subs. The subs leave something be desired in one or two places, but overall this is an excellent disc. The print and transfer are very good.
Powerful film, served well by Brando’s and Evaristo Márquez’s performances and Morricone’s score (conducted by Bruno Nicolai).
Tonight I watched Mackendrick’s A High Wind in Jamaica (1965). Again, an excellent transfer from Koch Media, this blu ray really does justice to the movie’s Cinamascope format. Another great cast. As a background character, Kenji Takaki, as the Chinese cook was great, but the wonderful Gert Fröbe’s role was too small. I haven’t read the book, and gather that the main complaint is that the film doesn’t quite live up to it, but there’s plenty here to enjoy.
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Just pre-ordered the following from ‘Amazon.co.uk’.
The rumoured release date is August 3rd.
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I saw this at the cinema and hated it! LOL
Perhaps it has now grown in cult / camp popularity? though I don’t believe in major releases attaining cult status.
As a ‘no nonsense’ 14 year old it was a BIG disappointment … a gaudy, unfunny, unexciting mess.
Mingin’ in fact 
I met Sam J. Jones last year at a convention. When taking Q&A on stage he made stipulation you had to do 10 push ups. I asked two questions, but because I showed him up I had to do an extra 10.
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Those StudioCanal UHD collector’s editions are nice. Got them all. This is on my internal wishlist also.
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Haha!
I wasn’t a fan when I was young especially when seen next to the original Star Wars films. 4-6 mind. However I read the comics and got a VHS of the Buster Crabbe serials. I was able to appreciate the dodgy effects, even though they baffled Jones at the time. The smutty humour is the thing I still don’t like about it.
I can’t remember that aspect - what struck me about it was every area of production and cast seemed 2nd rate, maybe with the exception of Von Sydow, not that he’s excused - I don’t have much time for actors who talk pretentiously about “Their Craft” … fuck me!!! and then accept roles in big budget crap of this type.
I like sci-fi, and most genres if they’re done well - but this most certainly wasn’t.
Orson Welles and his role in Casino Royale 1967 springs to mind, when you mentioned “The craft”.
It is a credit to Lucas and his team who had $12 million on the first Star wars Flash cost $30 million!
I think Flash is a bad movie but an enjoyable one. Each to there own.
Pre-ordered (out in July):
