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The two highest ranked films watched in October were Peter Bogdonavich's Targets and Brian Duffield's No One Will Save You. The latter being my favourite 2023 film thus far. However, what with it being Halloween, it's only appropriate that Boris Karloff's mug from Targets graces October's screenshot, don't you think?
It wasn't by design, but the majority of other notable films discovered this month were set in a pub: Revenge, Hotel Coolgardie and The Royal Hotel. The exception to the rule being Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby which is the type of amazing movie you stumble upon on late night TV when coming home half cut from the pub.
Film:
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich, 1968)*
Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey, 1970)*
Assault (Sidney Hayers, 1971)
Family Life (Ken Loach, 1971)*
Quest for Love (Ralph Thomas, 1971)*
Revenge (Sidney Hayers, 1971)*
All Coppers Are... (Sidney Hayers, 1972)*
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (Tsui Hark, 1980)*
Hard Rock Zombies (Krishna Shah, 1984)*
Der Todesking (Jörg Buttgereit, 1990)
Singapore Sling (Nikos Nikolaidis, 1990)*
Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (Matthew Bright, 1999/2000)*
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (Mike Hodges, 2004)*
Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror (Stacy Title, 2006)*
Death Sentence (James Wan, 2007)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (Uli Edel, 2008)*
The Canyons (Paul Schrader, 2013)*
The Dyatlov Pass Incident AKA Devil’s Pass (Renny Harlin, 2013)
Night of the Rat (David R.L, 2015)*
Hotel Coolgardie (Pete Gleeson, 2016)*
Beau Is Afraid (Ari Aster, 2023)*
Bottoms (Emma Seligman, 2023)*
The Equalizer 3 (Antoine Fuqua, 2023)*
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (André Øvredal, 2023)*
The Meg 2: The Trench (Ben Wheatley, 2023)*
Night of the Hunted (Franck Khalfoun, 2023)*
No One Will Save You (Brian Duffield, 2023)*
The Nun II (Michael Chaves, 2023)*
The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green, 2023)*
Saw X (Kevin Greutert, 2023)*
Suitable Flesh (Joe Lynch, 2023)*
Totally Killer (Nahnatchka Khan, 2023)*
V/H/S/85 (Scott Derrickson, David Bruckner, Mike P. Nelson, Gigi Saul Guerrero & Natasha Kermani, 2023)*
Television:
Batman - Season 1 (William Dozier, 1966)
Ghosts - Season 5 Epsiode 1 (Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard & Ben Willbond, 2023)*
Mastermind - Episodes 6 - 10 (Bill Wright, 2023)*
Only Connect - Season 19 - Episode 16 (Chris Stuart, 2023)*
*First time viewings.
Dada Debaser Notes:
- The Meg 2: The Trench is further proof Ben Wheatley has fallen off since he can't even make a half decent creature feature.
- Night of the Hunted is an inferior American remake to the Spanish thriller Night of the Rat. The cringeworthy political commentary really ruined the film. Can't believe Khalfoun and Aja made this.
- All for the current trend of action heroes acting like slasher villains, but you don't see Jason Voorhees cotching all day in a café when he's not slaughtering people like Denzel Washington does in The Equalizer 3.
- Nice of Nikos Nikolaidis' son to upload his old man's explicit noir uncut and in HD on YouTube. Won't ever see a kiwi fruit in the same way again.
- Ari Aster's Beau Is Afraid and André Øvredal's The Last Voyage of the Demeter turned out to be major disappointments for me.
- Marc Wilkinson's music for depressing mental health drama Family Life is perfectly suited to a vintage horror and completely wasted in a Ken Loach film.
- More a silly teen comedy than a proper horror film, but Totally Killer ended up being a suprisingly decent timewaster. Kudos to the film makers for featuring one of my favourite ever 80s jams in a slasher:
You converted to the charms of Only Connect?
ReplyDeleteI still need to get around to No One Will Save You.
Speaking of Jason Vorhees, am I alone in thinking that the Friday The 13th franchise is #actually mediocre? The first flick doesn't deserve to be mentioned alongside legit classics like Halloween and A Nightmare On Elm Street IMHO.
Couldn't be arsed watching another film after last night's Mastermind so I ended up watching Only Connect. Stuck with it due to one of the teams being called Video Nasties and the moderately attractive bird on that team was the same one who lost £93k on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
ReplyDeleteInterested to hear your thoughts on No One Will Save You. Noticed a generation divide over opinions on the film; the boomers praising it like me, while the zoomers kind of hating on it.
The first Friday the 13th is very much a rip-off of Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood, despite Sean S. Cunningham claiming he hadn't seen the film. It's more of a giallo if we're being honest. The sequels are way more enjoyable, particularly 2, 4 & 6. Greg has been trashing them on Letterboxd. Some of criticisms for them have been on point, but I can't take him remotely seriously whilst fawning over that Taylor Swift movie.
I knew I'd seen her somewhere before!
ReplyDeleteThe 6th Friday The 13th is the only one I've ever liked.
Any grown man with any interest in Taylor Swift is definitely a nonce.
Movies I saw:
And Then There Were None
Christine (cinema)
28 Days Later (cinema)
TV I saw:
Hotel Coolgardie
The Directors: John Carpenter
Ghosts (season 5)
Boiling Point (series 1)
The Reckoning (all episodes)
Neighbours (new episodes)
Only Connect (new episodes)
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (new episodes)
Match Of The Day 1 and 2
Oh, man! Watching Christine on the big screen must have been unreal. The "Show me!" scene is so cool. The death scene of Moochie Welch and a flaming Christine chasing Buddy Repperton are obvious highlights. One of my favourite movie vehicles. Guessing it was screened for its 40th anniversary, or something.
ReplyDeleteIt was indeed. Got a 50th anniversary screening of Mean Streets in November too.
ReplyDeleteAlas, no 40th anniversary double-bill screenings of The Outsiders and Rumble Fish tho 😕
There was a fancy and expensive 4K release of Mean Streets announced earlier this week.
ReplyDeleteNot one word about a 50th anniversary for Steptoe and Son Ride Again, though. We’re living amongst complete philistines, man.
As if by magic, critic turned director Mick Garris also chimed in on Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives the other day.
ReplyDeleteMagic indeed because he was a talking head on the Stephen King documentary I watched the other night.
ReplyDeleteNever knew he did a TV mini-series of The Shining which was faithful to the book. Is it any good?
Never seen it. I’ve seen Garris’ other King related material like Sleepwalkers and The Stand, which is why I didn’t bother with his take on The Shining.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen the Garris interview with Landis, Carpenter and Carpenter?
https://youtu.be/EL31jYevzTo?si=S6NSyTzBZFuD85o-
I haven't. All the lads!
ReplyDeleteThank you, beige gods.
ReplyDeleteI love Garris’ line “We look forward to The Thing and Videodrome this summer and your next secret project (Trading Places)”. Classic films in the making.