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hulkargh posted a review of Foundation

Sun, 05 Dec 2021 13:18:34 GMT

“Sorry but I really did not manage to go beyond the 4th episode of this series which I expected so much (probably too much).

I am a fan of the work of Isaac Asimov but the Apple series is constantly weighed down by an erratic storyline and changes too radical for the "old-fashioned" that I” read more

hulkargh posted a review of The Running Man

Sun, 28 Nov 2021 17:15:11 GMT

“There is no point in comparing it to Stephen King's novel because it stands out a lot from it. The book combines suspense and drama while Paul Michael "Starsky" Glaser's film is a totally enjoyable and uninhibited B series about the manipulation of the masses.

Pure pleasure bathed in a ve” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Prey

Sat, 18 Sep 2021 18:12:55 GMT

“Really nothing new in this survival. The same plot has been looping in this genre of film for decades. A bit like in the great majority of what is done in current cinema ...” read more

hulkargh posted a review of White Plague

Sun, 29 Aug 2021 13:58:25 GMT

“Sorry but I stopped reading this novel at the third because, despite its current resonances with the Covid crisis, it does not turn out to be very realistic (a single man, all super molecular biologist that he is, causes the end of the world without us being able to do anything? A somewhat dispropor” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Army of the Dead

Sat, 14 Aug 2021 18:48:10 GMT

“Zack Snyder will probably never do worse than this "Army of the Dead". Already in decline since "Superman vs Batman", Snyder accumulates here the worst stereotypes of the genre. It's déjà vu in almost every shot and storyline, non-stop recycling (Snyder is clearly 10 years late).

The cas” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Fantasma

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 07:53:36 GMT

“It starts off pretty well: a 1st part where you can feel the applied and sincere homage to the giallo ("Suspiria" at the top of the reference), beautiful vintage aesthetic, soundtrack in tune, pretty murder scenes, suspense, and we find ourselves thinking of holding the long awaited great neo-giallo” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Lovecraft Country

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 06:28:18 GMT

“Lots of differences between the tv series and the original novel but for once to the advantage of the series. Matt Ruff's tale is totally transfigured by the narrative power brilliantly imaged by various directors.

Tribute to the great Lovecraft and others (R.L. Stevenson ...), evil magic” read more

hulkargh posted a review of The Woman in the Window

Sun, 16 May 2021 13:01:17 GMT

“I think seriously that the great actresses that are Amy Adams, Julianne Moore and Jennifer Jason-Leigh really needed money (probably for paying their taxes...) for accepting to play in that very bad movie which looks like a poor poor poor TV movie to watch with eyes closed a rainy sunday...

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hulkargh posted a review of Island of Death

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:27:31 GMT

“Nasty. Dirty. Vulgar. Indecent. Abject. Bestial. Disturbing. Hell yeah but ...without a doubt a summit of subversion !!! Madness transformed into a film !!!

Is Nico Mastorakis a mental illness?! Probably...

You can go your way or...try?...But don't blame me after, ok?...” read more

hulkargh posted a review of The Pit and the Pendulum

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:28:54 GMT

“Roger Corman (the "pope of the B series" who here asserts himself as a great "gothic" filmmaker) + Vincent Price (imperial) + Barbara Steele (impeccable in a fairly short role) + the writer Richard Matheson ("I am a legend") who adapts the monumental Edgar Allan Poe: this association of geniuses cou” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Death Smiles on a Murderer

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 14:28:57 GMT

“Quite bizarre this giallo, sometimes fascinating sometimes irritating, a little messy too. But can we really talk about "giallo"? Nay! We are much more here in the 100% supernatural. Therefore, no or few explanations in the end on what we see on the screen. If I weren't indulgent towards this kind o” read more

hulkargh posted a review of The Stand

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:29:21 GMT

“The first half of this TV show is a disaster with its incessant and irritating time back and forth, the characters are very poorly introduced and I don't like the cast (except the excellent Owen Teague as Harold Lauder).

Things are a little better in the second half, more linear and fairly” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:03:18 GMT

“It is impossible not to view this film as a long episode of "The Twilight Zone". A long format that does not do justice to this singular story of a double universe because the rhythm is a little uneven.

A good B series of S-F to discover nevertheless, even if only to see the cult Roy "The” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Dan Oniroku hebi to muchi

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:47:48 GMT

“Warning! Probably one of the most subversive "pinku eiga" ever made. Because "Snake and Whip" does not not content with fulfilling the specifications inherent to the genre, namely the inevitable "sex/rape/bondage" trilogy (respected to the letter and very titillating...).

Against all expe” read more

hulkargh posted a review of The Stand

Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:30:42 GMT

“If this long TV movie adapted from the extraordinary "The Stand" by Stephen King is undoubtedly not in tune with the book, it nevertheless remains a beautiful little success, not free from flaws, but in the end very endearing, mainly thanks to its frankly excellent cast.

To discover for t” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Erotic Ghost Story

Tue, 09 Mar 2021 18:53:45 GMT

“It is the quintessence of great Asian bis cinema. Imagine "A Chinese Ghost Story" (one of my favourite movies) in erotic sauce, sex scenes full of sumptuous sensuality, asian beauties of stunning purity and photographic aesthetics of the famous Golden Harvest. Without forgetting the crazy fantastic ” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Night of the Living Dead

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 07:43:03 GMT

“1968: George Romero undoubtedly realizes THE classic of the film of the living dead which is also a great film on human stupidity endowed with a political (anti-political?) resonance totally subversive.

1978: ten years later, he would make THE masterpiece of the zombie film with "Dawn of t” read more

hulkargh posted a review of The Meg

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:50:28 GMT

“Okay, this film is a big nanardesque blockbuster a little (who said very?) stupid, a little (who said very?) rotten and stuffed with special effects. After ... uh ... for a Sunday afternoon when we didn't not much to do, frankly, this kind of film is rather top and downright sleazy.

No rea” read more

hulkargh posted a review of House

Sat, 20 Feb 2021 14:28:58 GMT

“A madness movie that this Japanese "House". Crazy, psychedelic, but a bit rough draft too and a little too musical for my taste. Not really horrific but rather funny and cartoonish.

A kind of roller coaster that would just have deserved a real dramatic line (almost non-existent in this ca” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Rome Armed to the Teeth

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 13:18:50 GMT

“Two years after the already brilliant "Almost Human", Umberto Lenzi does it again with a "poliziottesco" still nervous and excited.

Maurizio Merli and Tomas Millian are awesome, one in a "Dirty Harry" style, the other in the shoes of an unscrupulous thug.

Square, flawless and sta” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Deadly Daphne's Revenge

Fri, 12 Feb 2021 17:56:29 GMT

“Above all, do not trust the poster (this is not a horror film) or the title (we expect a "rape & revenge", it is not)

It's just a small exploitation film (with the appearance of a TV movie) not really innovative and even quite minimalist. There is a mundane main storyline and a side st” read more

hulkargh posted a review of The Ghost Galleon (Horror of the Zombies)

Sun, 07 Feb 2021 11:11:19 GMT

“The living dead are still impressive in this tetralogy known as The Templars but the pace is less sustained compared to the first two (more successful).

Despite clearly reduced resources and however very well used, such a story would have deserved more daring and also a little bit...eroti” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Cemetery Without Crosses (The Rope and the Colt) (1969)

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 12:48:56 GMT

“If it is well behind the best Italian westerns of the time (those of Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci of course), "The Rope and the Colt" remains an endearing film because it is atypical and oddly nonchalant in the image of its main character played by the regretted Robert Hossein.

Few sce” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Killer's Moon

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 07:46:05 GMT

“A horror film failed or in any case a little too smooth. The pitch was frankly promising and it should have been illustrated by an atmosphere of schizophrenic madness which, as it is, turns out cruelly boring.

Instead, chatter, no dread, no shocking scenes (except a shot at the end that pl” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Vortice Mortale

Fri, 22 Jan 2021 18:51:09 GMT

“Still a guilty pleasure that this movie of Ruggero "Cannibal Holocaust" Deodato that some

will treat turnip but which for me looks like one of the last bursts of the European bis

(we are in 1993).

"The Washing Machine" follows without too much boredom like a detective ” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Nurse Sherri

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 12:51:54 GMT

“Cinema bis a little broke but in the end very pleasant and even sometimes jubilant.

Despite derisory means, this story of a possessed nurse conceals some charms (to start with those of the two main actresses, Jill "Sherri" Jacobson and Marilyn Joi who plays the no less busty colleague of t” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Abrakadabra (2018)

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:10:40 GMT

“Almost everything in this film takes us back to the blessed era of the 60's / 70's giallo:

the aesthetics, the sets, the soundtrack (excellent) of Luciano Onetti (director / composer

from another neo-giallo: the successful "Francesca"), a certain way of filming, a small dose
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hulkargh posted a review of The Bow

Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:28:00 GMT

“The regretted Kim Ki Duk clearly marked South Korean cinema in the 2000s.

This "Bow" which looks at itself (no: contemplates itself ...) like a fable at the same time strange and disturbing on old age and the confrontation between modernity and tradition, a fable strewn with pieces sublime” read more

hulkargh posted a review of Knives of the Avenger (1966)

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 14:17:07 GMT

“Five years after the already very successful "Erik the Conqueror", Mario Bava makes another peplum in the great tradition of the time, peplum however a little atypical because it sometimes looks like a quasi- "leonian" western with its dark anti-hero figure with an unimpressive past and appeared fro” read more

hulkargh posted a review of The Monster Squad

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 12:09:29 GMT

“Very typical of the 80s productions at least aesthetically, "The Monster Squad" looks at the same time as a mix between "The Goonies" and a parody of the old films of the Hammer.

If he does not have the paw of a Zemeckis or a Spielberg, the director Fred Dekker nevertheless ensures the spe” read more