Recently Watched Films

I actually saw the remake before this which has a very different ending. I'm not sure which one I prefer to be honest. I know purists will immediately leap down my throat for even doubting that it should be this one, but I think both have their merits. This one has that 70's charm and the newer one is much more in depth. A rare case for me where both movies are very worthwhile.

Not entirely what I expected it to be. Actually I found the film somewhat dragged out and unfocused and it was the shorter edit I saw. Great when it's great though. 

Very good early Hitchcock.

Another early Hitchcock. This one suffered compared to Sabotage though due to BFI Player's upload being clearly un-restored and poor quality. Sabotage was restored and in HD. 

This is quite an interesting vampire film in that it seems more like it's actually about drug addiction. The black and white imagery is very mood setting too. 

Hardly. I discover new niches of film all the time though and have certainly watched more films in the last year and a half than I have done in my whole life prior to that. 

Currently I just bought one month's worth of BFI Player subscription for £4.99 and am binge watching as much as possible through it. 

I still listen to music a fair bit though. Not so much checking out new stuff. Mostly it's played in the car these days. 

Nice! I have been lagging on films in the last few years as i've been obsessed by music but i feel a film binge coming soon. I'm also not to thrilled with a lot of new music lately. There's much more interesting things to still uncover from the past but a few newbies sneak in here and there. Cheers!

This is an excellent spy themed film noir. 

Only Samuel L. Jackson saves this from being completely boring. It's structure also made me feel like I was watching a sequel rather than a standalone film. 

Another Kurosawa gem. Unfortunately probably the last I will get to see for a while as BFI player upped and removed almost all of his work overnight except this one. So pissed off about that as I subscribed to them largely to watch these movies, which are hard to find in the UK otherwise. 

I find myself questioning this movie's legitimacy as a horror movie, though it certainly has elements towards the end. Great film though. 

I found this one a bit difficult to follow exactly what was going on but it has a great atmosphere. Pretty weird movie all told though, especially the ending.

Pretty great gothic horror. 

An odd 50's Italian movie. Despite it's title and re-titles overseas it's not really a vampire movie and is actually closer to science fiction, done up like a crime thriller at the same time. Could even be called proto-giallo I guess, at least in some respects. 

An anthology film of four Japanese ghost stories. I enjoyed the second one the most, but all are pretty good and often creepy.

Darkly comic, violence levels that would make Tarantino proud and fucked up on so many levels. 

I blind bought this on blu-ray in a second hand shop a few days ago. What a complete waste of money. I really wish this movie's infamy had reached my ears beforehand - never would have touched it otherwise. It's always a bad sign when a studio interferes with a movie so much that the director disowns it and forces it to be released under a pseudonym. The biggest shame is that the original vision of the movie may have been very good, but the studio wanted a Keanu Reeves cop-thriller, so the studio made sure they released a Keanu Reeves cop-thriller regardless of what the film was supposed to be. 

I haven't even finished watching it now but what they've released is so incomprehensible and feels like a mish-mash of two different movies that I'm pretty much bored and only occasionally glancing at the screen by this point. Worst movie I've seen for ages.