Sergio

Context: https://feddit.nl/post/29167255

Anyone who thinks Van Helsing was bad clearly hasn't seen GOTHIC VAMPIRES FROM HELL... just from the title you can tell that they were going for a B movie feel, and managed to hit several levels below that

• fake-looking fangs, fake-looking blood effects
• randomly inserted computer-generated animations
• bad acting, bad writing
• club scenes of people dancing with cheap video distortion effects overlayed
• occasional BDSM scenes interweaved ... to create a mood I guess?
• It all looks like it was filmed in a goth club somewhere with their friends as actors.

Surprisingly, it has a solid soundtrack made up of second-generation gothic industrial / deathrock music. I think Cleopatra Records had something to do with this movie. Anyway, this is a great movie to play in the background if you like dark vampiric stuff happening in the periphery and you're into "dark" music.

I caught it on Tubi (uBlock Origin adblocker on Firefox seems to work here):

• https://tubitv.com/movies/662920/gothic-vampires-from-hell

Frogs (1972) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Feb 23, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something...

How to watch the movie:

• someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• youtube (uBlock Origin adblocker works): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltc-DUACMfs
• archive: https://archive.org/details/frogs.-1972.1080p.-blu-ray.-h-264.-aac-rarbg
• they say it's on "pluto" as well which I think is some kind of corporate streaming site? Never tried it before, dunno if adblocking works there
• if you want to pay or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/frogs

Frogs ... falls into the "eco-horror" category, telling the story of a wildlife photographer who meets an upper-class U.S. Southern family who are victimized by several different animal species, including snakes, birds, leeches, lizards, and butterflies.

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A reviewer from HorrorNews.net found it odd for a horror film to be titled Frogs when all the killings in the film are done by animals other than frogs and discussed the acting: "Sam Elliott is good as always. He manages to feel like the outsider while also feeling like part of the group. It makes his role work in ways that it might not work in someone else's control. Ray Milland is also fairly good as the patriarch of the Crockett family. He personifies that bullheaded 'you listen to me because I'm always right' attitude in such a believable manner that you think he is that guy. The rest of the cast isn't as great as these two, but their lack of good performance only helps to make their deaths more fun to watch. They overact or underact in the perfect ways to make the movie priceless."[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogs_(film)

Burn Cycle (stylized as Burn:Cycle) is a 1994 point-and-click adventure video game for the CD-i that incorporates full motion video and is set in a surrealist cyberpunk world. The game follows Sol Cutter, a computer hacker and data thief, whose latest theft causes a virus named Burn Cycle to be implanted in his head. The game features a two-hour countdown timer to defuse the virus, with the player jumping back and forth between a fictional ingame virtual reality world known as the Televerse in order to destroy the Burn Cycle virus and solve the mystery of its creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_Cycle

Here's a walkthrough of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoLw7SEmLYk

The Bouncer (Original title: Lukas) is a 2018 French-Belgian action thriller film directed by Julien Leclercq, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme... Set in Belgium, the plot follows nightclub bouncer Lukas (Van Damme) who agrees to help Interpol hunt down crime boss Jan Dekkers (Louwyck) in order to regain custody of his 8-year-old daughter Sarah (Verset) from social services.

The original version of the film, which was released in Europe under the title Lukas, is mostly in French with some Flemish, and English with everything subtitled, while The Bouncer, released a year later in the United States, had some scenes cut and is dubbed into English.[3][4] The film received generally positive reviews from critics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bouncer_(film)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFD1k9D3mUg - available free in the US
• https://tubitv.com/movies/526267/the-bouncer - free in the US, England, Canada, and Australia (I think?) - uBlock Origin in Firefox makes it ad-free

Meng Li was betrayed by his brother. After being injured, he ran into obstacles and his life was unsustainable. Li decided to get back on his feet for the sake of his family and returned to the corner with the help of Shopkeeper Zhou.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32262824/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOhSu3cSIvA - english and chinese subtitles, chinese dub. the sound cuts out twice for a minute or two, dunno why (copyright?) but it's not too bad bc nothings happening when it cuts out and the movie has subtitles anyway. available free everywhere except Vietnam, Xin lỗi!
• https://tubitv.com/movies/100034573/the-ancient-wrestler - Hindi dub, english subtitles

• https://www.npr.org/2025/02/16/nx-s1-5297117/50501-movement-presidents-day-protests-explainer
• https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37890627

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

The Factory is a 2012 American crime thriller film directed by Morgan O'Neill and starring John Cusack... In the film, Cusack plays a Buffalo, New York cop who has been chasing a serial kidnapper who abducts young women.

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The Factory was scheduled to be released on December 19, 2011, but it was never theatrically released by Dark Castle Entertainment via Warner Bros. The company then considered a DVD release for the third quarter of 2012, but the film was finally released on February 19, 2013.[2] ...

Rohit Rao of DVD Talk rated it 2.5/5 stars and called it "a cookie cutter thriller" with a "supremely dumb, bone-headed twist".[5] Patrick Bromley of DVD Verdict wrote, "The movie only gets sillier and stupider as it goes along, leading to a climax that's utterly ridiculous and abandons any goodwill the movie might have built up to that point."[6] Scott Weinberg of Fearnet wrote, "The Factory is composed of seven or eight other films you've already seen before. And not composed especially well."[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Factory_(2012_film)

• free on youtube, blocked in Canada, Czech Republic, Slovakia but available everywhere else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO9OXjY2M_w
• if you hate yourself and want to pay for it: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-factory

Bryant befriends a troubled teen and introduces him to martial arts. As Bryant's mysterious and dangerous past catches up to him, he is forced into a life and death struggle to clear his name, save the boy and get back all he left behind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Good_as_Dead_(2022_film)

"My brother inspired me to write this," said White. "He had a great love for the Latino community. He drove his motorcycle from Florida into Mexico, and then fell in love with Playa del Carmen, a beautiful area there, and he then started a family. So when I moved to Los Angeles and got very connected with Mexico and the Latino community, I just always had a love for the family values that they've had, and the fact that they're just the hardest working people I've ever seen. So it was in my soul to kind of tell this movie, and I wanted to bring this martial arts action genre, like in a very Karate Kid type of way, but with a Latino child, and with this is kind of fusing of genres together. I wanted to tell this story about people, and how sometimes our heroes are wrapped in different packaging."

https://movieweb.com/michael-jai-white-good-as-dead-interview/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah_P7b3WIYI - full movie available free in Canada, UK, Ireland, USA, blocked elsewhere
• https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/as-good-as-dead-2022 - to pay/watch ads

In 1889 Vienna, Austria-Hungary, a magician named Eisenheim is arrested by Chief Inspector Walter Uhl of the Vienna Police during a magic show involving necromancy. Later, Uhl explains the story of Eisenheim's life to Crown Prince Leopold.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum's review in The Chicago Reader praised Paul Giamatti's performance of "a character who feels sympathy for the magician but owes allegiance to Leopold and is therefore divided and compromised ... Giamatti's performance is subtle, expressive, and richly nuanced."[13] Stephen Holden, in his review for The New York Times, praised Edward Norton's role, which, according to him, "perfectly fits his disturbing inscrutability".[14] Variety wrote that Jessica Biel "is entirely stunning enough to fight to the death over".[15] Roger Ebert rated 3.5/4 and wrote that, "The movie sets up a fascinating parable about art, religion and politics, and the misty boundaries between them".[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illusionist_(2006_film)

The link from above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2krcvO3z1A

It's got Christopher "Saruman / Count Dooku" Lee! It's got Peter "that guy who blew up Princess Leia's planet" Cushing! Yes, The Gorgon (1964) is the subject of this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

• Just start watching that movie this Sunday, Feb 16, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT, which is 2am Monday UTC
• and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
• I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something...

How to watch the movie:

• someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
• archive: https://archive.org/details/the-gorgon
• if you're in North America, Australia, or the UK try Tubi (uBlockOrigin adblocker still works there, I believe?): https://tubitv.com/movies/499226/the-gorgon
• youtube (uBO still works?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=172VQfCDi6Q
• another youtube (uBO still works?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFhABjmLy2M
• if you want to pay or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-gorgon

Germany 1910: The village of Vandorf has suffered seven horrific murders in five years. In each case, the unfortunate victim has been turned to stone.

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Variety wrote: "Though written and directed on a leisurely note, The Gorgon is a well-made, direct yarn that mainly gets its thrills through atmosphere. The period storyline is simple and predictable, but John Gilling has turned out a well-rounded piece and Terence Fisher's direction is restrained enough to avoid any unintentional yocks."[7]

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "The Gorgon myth does not fit happily into Transylvanian surroundings, and there are too many red-herrings indicative of the script's straining after horrific effect (the mad woman, the brain transplantation, etc.). The trouble is that one is never really in doubt as to who the Gorgon is. Also, as in Hammer's stablemate, The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, the monster's appearance is belated, vague and insufficiently spectacular. Still, it makes a change from vampires, and though the film has little genuine flair for atmosphere it is quite well acted by Richard Pasco and an appropriately blank-eyed, statuesque Barbara Shelley."[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gorgon

excerpt from https://thedevilspanties.com/