What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[Captain Russ]

Double feature at the house featuring limb removal as a bridging topic.

The Severed Arm (1973) and Body Parts (1991).

The Severed Arm, while stilted and amateurish, had a bit of the Herschel Gordon Lewis aesthetic to it all. Done on the cheap, but there were legitimately solid sequences and experimentation with what would become the slasher genre throughout. Killer POV shots, bizarre yet somewhat catchy synth scoring, extreme amounts of cross cutting during the many dispatches of characters (a fuckton of coverage for the first victim especially), a proto-Dressed to Kill elevator sequence that found a way to make a four floor ascent suspenseful, a wonderful waterfall distortion dissolve into the flashback that sets the whole film up (shout out to Wayne's World), and a really solid nod to Eddy Allan Poe at the conclusion. All in all, not bad. Not great, but entertaining. Wish the print were cleaner, but for what is available, the graininess is a feature.

Body Parts. Following a wild road accident that is as horrifying as it is technically impressive to behold, Jeff Fahey is gifted the arm of Orlac. Only this Orlac had most of himself donated to others lacking appendages. One being Brad Dourif. Each donated part starts rebelling and rejecting its donor in wild ways, and some squirrelly shit starts to make ol' Fahey become junior detective to uncover the how and why of it all. Some great body horror sequences (including one toward the end that would be right at home in Robocop), a third act involving a reveal that hits overdrive on the insanity of the premise (excellent stunt work there and one slow motion shot that just rules), all anchored by pretty entertaining performances by both Fahey and Dourif. The bar scene alone is worth the price of admission, really. This really does have a bit more meat to it than most high concept horror/thrillers of the era. Definitely worth the time.

[Matt]

I've heard good things on THE POPE'S EXORCIST. That's supposed to hit Netflix soon.

[Abraham Smashington]

Wall-E in 4k Criterion version. Fucking amazing looking and filled with lots of cool extras.

Pope's Exorcist - Russell Crowe as the Chief Exorcist Officer of the Vatican does exorcism shit with a fantastic Italian accent. Fun and goofy.

[Abraham Smashington]

At least they acknowledged how shitty Starlord's writing was during Endgame. Surprisingly gory for a Marvel film. Better than the second one for sure.

[Ingrid]

Watched the third Guardians movie today and, while not without its flaws, overall I really enjoyed it. It got me in the feels more than once and I felt like it was a good “final act”. Am I still mostly burned out on Marvel? Yes. But would I watch this one at least a couple more times? Probably. Definitely liked this Marvel offering better than the newest Thor.

[Timothy225]

Watched the Dark Side of the 90s episode about TY and the Beanie Babies awhile back, so I should check this film out. Full disclosure: I had a Beanie Baby shark, Jen had a couple, and we bought a cat one that looked EXACTLY like our cat Stitch (RIP). He used to give it a nose kiss when we put it in front of him, and we'd go "awwww..."

Currently on my annual Summer stay-cation, so I rewatched Cabin In The Woods (still holds up), Black Mass (loves me some true crime drama), Spectre (fuck it, haters, I still like this Bond film) and have Evil Dead Rise on the DVR.

Also watched Fall, which was meh. I'll grant the dizzying heights on display made my acrophobia kick in slightly (hasn't done that since the final act of Peter Jackson's King Kong, or when that guy jumped from a balloon that hit the upper atmosphere before space begins), but the main gist of the story plays a hell of a lot like The Descent, 'cept without the underground cannibal albino monster thingys, and a couple of other gal pals. Only thing it had going for it was Virginia Gardner's gams.

[BillyG]

The Beanie Bubble. Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, and the lady from Succession (don't know her name, never watched the show) showing the rise and fall of the TY company. Wasn't bad and as someone who still finds that whole time fascinating the documentary was a bit more interesting overall. Not terrible, but 20 mins too long.

We wanna watch this. The divorce photo of people on the floor in court dividing beanie babies is still so funny.

[BillyG]

The Cursed

We started a horror movie club at work, someone picked this. A waste of Boyd Holbrook, gypsies, and werewolves. Did have one SICK practical puppet that was gnarly as fuck though.

[Abraham Smashington]

The Beanie Bubble. Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, and the lady from Succession (don't know her name, never watched the show) showing the rise and fall of the TY company. Wasn't bad and as someone who still finds that whole time fascinating the documentary was a bit more interesting overall. Not terrible, but 20 mins too long.

[Abraham Smashington]

I still think TF1/Bumblebee are the most enjoyable of all of them, I couldn't tell you the plot of Rise even though I watched it less than a week ago but like all of the other ones it's about a missing key, Optimus is racist until he's not, a character knows everything about anything when needed even though it makes zero sense, exposition exposition, insane cg fight scenes, giant robot gorilla, space laser, Mortal Kombat fatalities.

6 out of 9 Orson Well commercial takes.

[BillyG]

but Ron Pearlman as a giant robot gorilla is not too shabby.

Well, guess I will put this on in the background one day.

[Abraham Smashington]

Rise of the Beasts. The 4th time they've rebooted Transformers at this point? I dunno. The 90s hip hop soundtrack was decent, the brutality in a cartoon robot movie was unexpected but it didn't have the charm of Bumblebee and only a fraction of the stupid of the last 4 Bay flicks. If you still even care about these and you can watch it streaming on a Sunday afternoon it's not the worst thing you could waste your time on.

I was too old when the OG Beast Wars came out and always thought that was fucking dumb, it's still pretty dumb here but Ron Pearlman as a giant robot gorilla is not too shabby.

[Captain Russ]

I read that as "Night of the Juggalo" no less than 3 times. I need to check that out.

If only they made a Faygofied version of that movie.

[Ingrid]

I should rewatch those as well. Haven’t seen them since they were all in theater, I think.

[Abraham Smashington]

I read that as "Night of the Juggalo" no less than 3 times. I need to check that out.

Finished the Apes Trilogy and realized I didn't remember a goddamn thing about War except that Woody was pulling a budget Brando but the twist of why was great, totally forgotten about, and capped off the trilogy perfectly.