Returning to this, and I include M.D. Geist too as part of this as in the review below, it is utterly ridiculous. Alien to modern anime in general, and something you would be surprised to see manage to do as well as it did in the USA as it did on VHS, M.D. Geist 1 & 2 are messes, ultra-violent and erratically animated productions entirely built on nihilism and a lack of logic. They are compelling, but as I get into…
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Detention 2011
By now, Detention has already aged to the late 2000s, but considering half of the jokes in Joseph Kahn's film, meant to be a slasher parody but giving up on this deliberately, were about early 1990s pop culture and the 2000s, he knew this was likely to happen.
Detention will annoy a lot of people - snark, irony and the lack of a cohesive slasher movie parody among the sci-fi touches and having a Cronenbergian bug-person just because - but…
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The Inglorious Bastards 1978
Watching this, I realise the 1) Italian genre cinema deserves as much praiseas being great cinema in craft and that 2) Enzo G. Castellari needs to be placed in the higher tier alongside the Fulcis and Bavas. He feels like a working director, not an author of his work, and he has some inconsistent films in what I've seen, but he needs more than a cult status behind him. This is good already, don't get me wrong, as it lead…
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Video Nasties: Draconian Days 2014
Ah, has it really been four years since the last documentary? The last box set for the first documentary has sat proudly in my DVD case, then suddenly a new chapter appears with the addition of two extra discs on Section 3 films, which I even made a list for - letterboxd.com/coheed/list/video-nasties-section-3/ - and I can add the new set side-by-side with the original.
In terms of the documentary, its your standard structured work in the genre, although I'm significantly…
