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on May 01, 2016

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Ichi the Killer’s such a great film, really twisted.

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Ibiza Undead

A group of friends go on holiday to Ibiza, where they intend to party hard. However, a nightclub owner is running a business, using zombies as dancers and entertainment. It’s safe

"> Thomas Turgoose (star of This Is England) plays joint protagonist with Polish actor Piotr Jagiello, who plays a Polish immigrant in England who Thomas Turgoose's character befriends. They both are outcasts and get up to some nefarious deeds (e.g. stealing). It's a movie that just focuses on the characters, seeing where they go. There's not a lot of plot, but it is raw and gritty, complemented perfectly with the black and white cinematography (only changed to colour for the ending, which I liked). It's a very short film, a bit over an hour and it doesn't overstay it's welcome. If you like cinema realism, then I think you'll definitely enjoy this film. I really liked it and recommend it.

The Grindhouse Massacre

I am a fan of exploitation films, especially the grindhouse films. However, this to me felt like a cheap homage to them, cheap in a bad way, mind you. I wasn’t really expecting much, and I wasn’t really impressed by the film. It has to look cheap and grainy, that’s part of the grindhouse aesthetic. But, it looked like it was filmed on a modern camera, then converted to grainy in post-production. That left it feeling too modern and, another major thing about this film is that it’s not very sleazy. These films were very sleazy, probably the definition of sleazy. They had violence and sex by the bucketload. This has some violence, which isn’t very graphic, apart from one scene in a toilet which is greatly graphic. However, apart from that, it looks badly cheap. If it was not trying to be a grindhouse film, then it would have seemed worse because the acting was a bit better than amateur and most of the effects were shoddy. It looked like it was trying to imitate the grindhouse feel, d...

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