What movies have you seen recently?

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Would it be a good night for Infinity Pool or should I go with something more like Peter Pan?

If you want to go WTF did I just watch, go for it, otherwise play it safe.

OK I'll do it tomorrow.
Tonight's going to be a self-deprecating music fest.

Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.

A bunch of coked out rich kids get together for a hurricane party, when they decide to play a game called, Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, in which they pretend one of their number is a murderer and another is a murder victim, after which the rest have to figure out who the said murderer is. Except their host actually dies from having his throat cut. With the power off, and no way to get help, paranoia and more deaths ensue.
Enjoyable horror/comedy.

McVicar (1980)


Based on the experiences of notorious British armed robber John McVicar in the late 1960s and early 1970s. McVicar is played by Roger Daltrey, and the film also features numerous interesting British actors like Adam Faith, Billy Murray, Steven Berkoff, Cheryl Campbell and Georgina Hale.

The first hour is set in Durham jail, and has all the standard stuff about brutality by the warders and resistance from the prisoners, and culminates in McVicar's escape. He then resumes his criminal career in London, before being betrayed by an associate and being rearrested.

This is an excellent movie, which I'd thoroughly recommend.

Last night I watched:

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man [1943]
Tag: "A Death Fight . . . Between Two Beasts !"



First Universal Horror film with two of their classic monsters.

Lon Chaney, Jr. is the Wolf Man and, of course, does it well.

Bela Lugosi played Frankenstein's monster. A disappointingly and disappointing small, nonspeaking part...and apparently he did not feel well during the shooting. It started out as a speaking part but was heavily edited, which also removed the explanation for why the monster walks as if he is sleep-walking.

The movie is adequate.

The Food of the Gods (1976)


A low-budget offering from Samuel Arkoff's American International Pictures. It's not very good on the production values front, the scriptwriting, the acting, or just about anything else, but it's loosely based on an HG Wells novel and has some sort of residual relevance in respect of man's desecration of nature and disrespect of the environment, one could argue....

One could, but this largely comes over as an update of the late 1950s B Movie The Killer Shrews and also has echoes of Hitchcock's The Birds. Pamela Franklin has a prominent role here - she looked destined for great things after starring in the 1968 film The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie, but thereafter her career seemed to go downhill, typically appearing in this kind of low-grade horror and sci-fi.

The film also features Ida Lupino - she had a very interesting and distinguished past career, not sure how she ended up in something like this.