Viewings: March 2024

Free time was a bit scarce this month. Hence, the usual obscene amount of films took a hit. Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper was the only real highlight for me.

 

Film:

The Sniper (Edward Dmytryk, 1952)*

The Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957)

Dr. Who and the Daleks (Gordon Flemyng, 1965)

The Las Vegas Strangler AKA No Tears for the Damned (William Collins, 1968)*

Creatures the World Forgot (Don Chaffey, 1971)*

Craze (Freddie Francis, 1974)*

Identikit AKA The Driver’s Seat (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 1974)*

Damage (Louis Malle, 1992)*

Tokyo Decadence (Ryû Murakami, 1992)*

Sweatshop (Stacy Davidson, 2009)*

The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin, 2023/2024)*

Lisa Frankenstein (Zelda Williams, 2024)*

Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2023/2024)* 

Stopmotion (Robert Morgan, 2023/2024)*

 

Television:

Doctor Who - Various Episodes (Sydney Newman, 1963 - 2024)*

Mastermind - Episodes 27 - 30 (Bill Wright, 2023/2024)*

 

*First time viewings.

 

Dada Debaser Notes:

• The NSFWish film poster for Tokyo Decadence is better than the actual film. Would have enjoyed it a lot more if it didn't make such a radical tonal shift in the second half.
• Jack Palance as a London antiques dealer sacrificing women to an African wooden statue good called Chuku should have been an amazing film. Instead, Freddie Francis turns this bonkers concept into a police procedural. Great cast though, including Diana Dors as an amorous landlady.
• Expected Indentikit to be for Elizabeth Taylor what The Swimmer (1968) was for Burt Lancaster. Sadly, it wasn't. This was boring, but well shot shite.
• Really wish Stopmotion was a stop-motion feature film rather than the cliched horror that we got. Kind of pales in significance after the twisted awesomeness of Mad God (2021).
• Watched three Frankenstein themed films; best of the bunch was Terence Fisher's film. Forgot how cold blooded and ruthless Peter Cushing was in it.