Reviews: "Kill List" and "Shriek of the Sasquatch!"
First I check out the bizarre hitman thriller "Kill List."
Then, out now on DVD, it's a new sasquatch movie!
Then, out now on DVD, it's a new sasquatch movie!
Have I told you today that I appreciate you for providing me with awesome content to watch while pregnant and on bed rest? No? Well, I do.
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If this is happening in 1979 then it really fucked up if someone was listening to Death Metal, Death Metal wasn't really birthed until 1980 when Venom debuted and birthed Trash, Death and Black Metal.
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You rent from a video store?
You HAVE a video store?
All we have here in Delaware are vending machines anymore..
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In CO we have Entertainmart.
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In Springfield we've got several Family Videos.
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Vending machines?
Still one step up from Blockbuster.
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Good for you, renting movies.
I buy a lot of movies, but never rent, because I don't like paying for something that I don't get to physically own.
Anyways, the idea of renting does bring one back, and that's always good.
Anyways, over in Delaware, you don't even have movie selling places? I can understand movie renting places going out of business, but where I'm from, we have a decent number of places to buy movies.
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If you like Sasquatch/ bigfoot films one you MUST track down is "Yeti Giant of the 20th Century" it's an Itallian ripoff of the 76 King Kong about a giant Yeti unfrozen and brought back to life in modern Canada. it's Directed by Frank Krammer ( really Gianfranco Parolini ) and I think would make an Excelent Snob video, please check it out it's bad but fun.
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Kill List
Occultist and Hitmen! SOLD!
Sounds weirdly interesting! I'm guessing by the way you talked here one of the 2 hitmen was in on the whole thing and betrays the other! Which!? I can't tell because movie cliches go both ways! The Family man turns on his partner (and possibly his family) for some sort of weird freedom thing and the Loner because he secretly wants to be the family man!
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Shriek of the Sasquatch!
Well the plot sounds cewl (Werewolf mixed with Bigfoot), but the execution sounds very poor! I'll look and see if there's any footage on youtube!
Lloyd: mew
Brad: No, Kitty! That's my ranch!
Lloyd: mew
Brad: NO KITTY! That's a bad Kitty!
Lloyd: mew
Brad: NOOO!!!
Lloyd: hsss
Brad: Honey, Lloyd's being a dildo!
Jillian: Well I know a little kitty that'll be spending the night with mommy.
Brad: Wait? wha...!?
Sorry that's all I could think of with the whole cat thing!
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I'm now 15 minutes into Kill List and already I'm hoping something violent and wretched happens to the wife. What a cunt!
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Hey Brad: it would be cool if you had a "fan surgestion month", in which you review some of the weird and diffferent movies fans have surgested you in Emails, in the official surgestion thread and in the comment section. That could be cool.
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I just finished Kill List, and, seriously what the fuck? I feel like there was probably about 10 minutes of exposition cut out of this by some dickbag director trying to "say something." Guess what, you can't say anything if you don't say anything! Violence and gore, while entertaining at a visceral level, aren't exactly enough to prop up this supposedly perfect blend of the hitman and horror genres. There was only one likable character in the whole movie, and the ending was a complete non-surprise when they did the big mask removal. I didn't think you could get pretentious with a B grade piece of British horror, but Ben Wheatley somehow managed to pull it off.
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I agree completely. I walked into this thinking there would be something really interesting going on, but no. The ending is abrupt, nothing is really explained very well.. What bothers me most tho, is the ending. Why?! What happened there?! I'd say there's an HOUR of exposition cut off, but that'd be too little.. I don't recommend this to anyone :C
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Kill List was OK. A solid 7/10 on a scale of 1-10. Nothing too spectacular, but once it gets going - an it takes a really long time to get going - it's a lot of fun. Even if it ended up being kinda predictable... I mean (*SPOILER ALERT*) once it starts getting weirder and darker you just know that he's going to kill his wife. You just know, 'cos they took a good third of the movie setting up their relationship. First I expected that he'd shoot one of the masked people in the sewer and it would be revealed it's his wife, but once it goes back to the family without that reveal I kinda wishing they'd surprise me with something unpredictale... but then... (*SPOILER*) "The Hunchback" shows up and I just went "oh, so she's got the kid on her back and he's going to kill them both".
If I had to put this movie on a TOP-10 list, I'd put the director on some "relatively new directors with a lot of potential" list.
But thanks for the recomendation. I'll be having my eye on this Ben Wheatley fella.
And the leading man to me kinda looked like a slighty fatter version of Michael Fassbender. Kept thinking about him troughout the movie. And I will certainly keep an eye on him as well...
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Not related to the videos, but I just noticed that on the left side of the site, the way the pictures are laid out, it looks like the Cinema Snob is rocking a huge set of tits.
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I am sure that was intentional.
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Yea, Brad himself mentioned this in one of his videos. I can't remember which video it was though.
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The look on his face makes it so much funnier.
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I didn't like kill list at all. It felt like a really bad soap opera.
It just comes down to not giving a shit about the characters. I found them all annoying, especially the wife and the husband. Every scene with the two of them was excruciating
Way too much dialog about bullshit. It felt like the same conversation over and over again.
The last 20 minutes were an improvement. The tunnel and cult scenes we're creepy, but they would have worked a lot better had there been a more engaging story.
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If you want to see good Sasquach movies, rent Abonimable (2006). Excellent movie! A Sasquach movie mated with a Rear Window ripoff, but done well. And the creatore and gore effects are done very well for what was probably low budget.
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What about doing a review of chillerama next? Seems like something you would certainly like.
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Man, those 70's bigfoot moves were silly, but I remember being scared half to death by one. I was a teenager, in Oregon (small town, no less), and our house was on a secluded, tree covered area. When I got home from watching the movie it was pitch black and I ran as fast as I could to get inside my house. I was certain that damned bigfoot was out there watching me.
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I don't know if you've seen it but check out 'Night of the Demon' (1980)
It might make a Cinema Snob wish list.
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At least you didn't have to watch Joyful Noise yesterday, like me. Had to take my mom for her birthday.
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For Kill List, one of the main characters, the friend to be precise, is Types (the delivery guy) from the series Spaced. Funny thing is when this premiered at FrightFest in Leicester Square, Simon Pegg turned up to watch Kill List because his friend was one the main characters. And I missed him, I didn't know Simon was there until afterward
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*Tires*... not Types.
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Hey Snob, have you heard of this film, it would seem like pretty good review material...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Safari
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Ah, film grain, not Film Brain.
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Brad, are you gonna do reviews of TinTin and Mission Impossible 4?
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If you like Sasquatch movies, Brad, I suggest you check out a sasquatch movie that came out in 2007 (i think) called Bigfoot. It's a Troma film, but it's a lot, um, smarter than other Troma films. It's definitely not as graphic, and whoever the amatuer filmmakers that put it together were did it quite well.
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Can't agree with you more about the hitman/wicker man tone of Kill List. Really great flick. You should definitely watch it more than once. Clues abound! Talk about a twist!
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(As I make this suggestion picture a guy holding his hands up shoulder height with palms up smiling with a forced grin)......"SASQUATCH WEEK ?!?
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Wow, that sasquatch movie sounds like it had a really awesome ending
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