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On 2018-11-02, Jared <bijgh@hotmail.com> intoned:

The Welsh WICKERMAN, though this island is a lot more Pyke than Summerisle. Troubled protagonist responds to the kidnapping of his sister by sneaking onto the island home of Michael Steele's Dagon-esque cult.

I enjoyed this. It's not quite the dour treatise on man's inhumanity
to man that it starts out looking like, but pretty quickly moves into
action and daft horror. The shit thing about the horror genre is how predictable everything is - something you couldn't really accuse this of.

Steele is great as the charismatic Prophet and happily Dan Stevens fairly smartly loses the tortured drug addict routine to reveal surprise martial arts skills.

The gore is pretty ridiculous and certainly makes the overall tone less

serious. Who is in charge of making the torture machines on an island that can
barely feed

itself?

Not a classic but OK for a Netflix effort.

Netflix? The stakes are low so SOLD.

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From: bijgh@hotmail.com

The Welsh WICKERMAN, though this island is a lot more Pyke than Summerisle. Troubled protagonist responds to the kidnapping of his sister by sneaking
onto the island home of Michael Steele's Dagon-esque cult.

I enjoyed this. It's not quite the dour treatise on man's inhumanity
to man that it starts out looking like, but pretty quickly moves into
action and daft horror. The shit thing about the horror genre is how predictable everything is - something you couldn't really accuse this of.

Steele is great as the charismatic Prophet and happily Dan Stevens fairly smartly loses the tortured drug addict routine to reveal surprise martial
arts skills.

The gore is pretty ridiculous and certainly makes the overall tone less serious. Who is in charge of making the torture machines on an island that can
barely feed
itself?

Not a classic but OK for a Netflix effort.

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From: me@privacy.net

Jared <bijgh@hotmail.com> wrote in news:29af0cec-baf6-4e0d-ba63-609cf0fc7ae9@googlegroups.com:

The Welsh WICKERMAN,

I had no idea that's what this was. Good work.

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From: ReVulse@psychaoticREMOVETHIS.fsnet.co.uk

On Thu, 01 Nov 2018 21:05:20 -0700, Jared wrote:

The Welsh WICKERMAN, though this island is a lot more Pyke than
Summerisle.
Troubled protagonist responds to the kidnapping of his sister by
sneaking onto the island home of Michael Steele's Dagon-esque cult.

I enjoyed this. It's not quite the dour treatise on man's inhumanity to
man that it starts out looking like, but pretty quickly moves into
action and daft horror. The shit thing about the horror genre is how predictable everything is - something you couldn't really accuse this
of.

Steele is great as the charismatic Prophet and happily Dan Stevens
fairly smartly loses the tortured drug addict routine to reveal surprise martial arts skills.

The gore is pretty ridiculous and certainly makes the overall tone less serious. Who is in charge of making the torture machines on an island
that can barely feed itself?

Not a classic but OK for a Netflix effort.

Neflix has some really good stuff - I would recommend ERREMENTARI,
although it's a folk-tale rather than horror.

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The White Lady <me@privacy.net> wrote:

Jared <bijgh@hotmail.com> wrote in news:29af0cec-baf6-4e0d-ba63-609cf0fc7ae9@googlegroups.com:

The Welsh WICKERMAN,

I had no idea that's what this was. Good work.

Indeed. For some reason I thought it was a series and not a film. Nor did
I know Dan Stevens was in it. (He was great in THE GUEST!) I'm intrigued
and am starting it now.

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From: bijgh@hotmail.com

On Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 5:11:51 AM UTC+11, ReVulse wrote:

Neflix has some really good stuff - I would recommend ERREMENTARI,
although it's a folk-tale rather than horror.

Watched that over the weekend and it was great fun. Produced by Alex de la Iglesia and it was definitely his sort of thing. I advise watching it without reading Netflix's spoiler-y description.

And I only put up with five minutes of dodgy dubbing before I realised you can change Netflix settings to give you subtitles and Basque dialogue. I do so like my cinema in the original Basque.

Just noticed that the crappy looking "THE BAR" that Netflix keeps trying to foist on me is directed by de la Iglesia. Will move that up the list.

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From: me@privacy.net

Jared <bijgh@hotmail.com> wrote in news:09c3d491-e10d-48e5-8e0d-0dc6ecd34806@googlegroups.com:

Just noticed that the crappy looking "THE BAR" that Netflix keeps
trying to foist on me is directed by de la Iglesia. Will move that up
the list.

Not at all crappy, in fact.

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