Recently Watched Films

Not particularly great and the sgi is pretty cheap, but yeah it was entertaining enough for last night:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3300542/

Watchable but slow and a bit bland. 

Was intrigued to start with despite the obvious low budget effects, but this quickly lost my interest. Could have done with a lot more actual alien. 

Amateur zombie movie, but it had its moments:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1705134/

This was better than expected. Very tense psych thriller. There isn't much to the actual story but the performance of the daughter character is just so compelling so unlike most movies with disabled characters the actress really is disabled and while it's possible that they may have used a stunt double for some of the more intense scenes when she's out of her wheelchair, her performance is an absolute powerhouse. 

I just mean that it's not available through any of the normal means like DVD or blu-ray, streaming or even digital stores. 

With the Criterion Collection gaining more of a foothold in the UK I keep hoping that they will release it here since they have it in the US. This and a number of other movies.

I'll check out YouTube though in the meantime. 

I quite enjoyed this. There's some excellent underwater scenes, and there's cricket! (It's a proper game too, not just some faked up crap for the cameras. Sorry, I'm a hopeless cricket fan...)

Story by Peter Benchley, who also wrote Jaws. Literary types didn't like his books because of his lack of style. Fuck 'em. The dude could spin a fucking ripping yarn!