Can you not sneak your own snacks in? When my wife would go watch a movie with me, I'd make sure she took her big purse.
Yeah, we do sneak (have to!). But we still have to buy them from other places.
Any old winkle...
"Insanitarium"
Okay, we have a plot hole filled script that at times annoys with how silly it all is, but also some finely crafted chaos.
Guy wants to see suicidal Sister in Psychiatric Hospital.
Guy pretend to go nuts in the local park, gets sent to Psychiatric Hospital.
While there he finds out the the loony head of it, Peter Stormare, is experimenting on the patients by removing the higher brain functions (!) so he can get to the lower brain functions (those pesky primordial suckers like to hide) and cure madness.
On top of this he's also been injecting himself with the experimental serum for some reason never really made clear.
Despite the fact a load of the patients now have seriously weird eyes, act like wild animals around blood and rip the heads of cats, no one thinks anything is wrong until it's too late.
Too late means lots of primordial nutters escaping their very chic glass cells and eating everyone...or themselves!
Extremely bloody, well made, violent, gory with a splash of exploitative goodies (2nd best blood covered bared breasts in cinema after the mighty "Alucarda") this moves at a good pace as it builds the (very silly and unlikely) 'lunatics running the asylum' plot towards its manic, blood caked conclusion.
Some moist deaths and munching scenes are here for our delight (plus a groovy cleaver to the face demise that is something we see too little of in Horror cinema these days) but very little actual flesh biting is seen. Thus showing just how cutting edge, and stunningly extreme, Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" was and still is in this department.
The film's problems though are the aforementioned plot silliness and glaring stupidity (for example a Nurse gets bitten, in a hospital no less, but simply wraps an increasingly blood dripping bandage around the wound and carries on without a care), some very bad dialogue and needless, 90's style Horror, one-liners.
But the real drop in quality comes from a truly annoying turn by the ever barking Peter Stormare.
Hell fire and cobble stones! This makes his turn in "Armageddon" look like the height of subtlety.
He's an eye-rolling, word slurring pain in the ass! And that's
before his character really starts to turn psychotic!
A pretty good twist ending caps off what is a very retro feeling Horror movie (has that 80's Euro trash/gore film feel) which delivers a no-nonsense, if rather silly, viewing experience but utilises lots of modern and well executed gore FX to really drive the crimson covered carnage forward during the balls-out last half.
We needed more mayhem though, and less Peter Stormare, who needs to see The Cohen's again for a lesson in the difference between an annoying, hammy, silliness packed performance and an effective, off the wall, exciting and scary performance.
Otherwise though..We have another good, graphic, 21st century Horror flick.
Check this out for cannibal carnage galore.
"Tenebre"
Still an absolute gem.
Simply one of his best, this is top 3 Argento.
It's also the first Argento I watched, like 22 odd years ago, and it was unlike anything I had seen.
The, utterly pointless as far as plot goes, camera pan around and over the house, as this great music blared out, had me goggle eyed and riveted to the TV.
What the hell was this?
No plot, no dialogue, no story progression...just a cacophony of sound and vision that built up a dam of expectation and excitement that Argento then skilfully blew apart to completely swamp the viewer as the majestically composed slaughter reached it's conclusion.
Seriously underrated at the time, this is perhaps good as Argento gets for me.
Great finale as well!