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Showing posts with label hungarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hungarian. Show all posts

Sunday, March 29, 2020

8mm 2 (2005)

A Hungarian American mystery thriller directed by J. S. Cardone, starring Johnathon Schaech.
A man and his rich fiancee are on vacation and have a threesome with a woman they meet at the hotel. He then receives photos of them from someone wanting money.
Really terrible. 8mm (1999) was bad enough, but a "sequel" like this is too much. It only borrowed the part of the plot involving someone having sex videos and had a different name in production. Characters and dialogue seemed like a cut and paste job from every other low budget thriller ever made. When Wikipedia says a film is "direct-to-video", that is always a very bad sign. It may not always turn out to be this horrible, but most are. There are only so many ways to say that a movie is bad. The only positive thing I can say is that there was plenty of nudity. If that's all you're looking for, go watch porn instead. I rate this shit because it is. Do not watch!

Monday, December 23, 2019

The Headsman A.K.A. Shadow of the Sword, Henker (2005)

A British Austrian Swiss Luxembourg Hungarian German romance drama directed by Simon Aeby, starring Nikolaj Coster.
During a time when the church is acting crazy, a pair of boys are split when they are young. One goes into the clergy and the other marries the executioner's daughter, becoming an executioner.
Mediocre crap. I found this while searching for Shadowless Sword (2005) and figured I would just get it anyway because it had English audio. I can see the production meeting: "This movie sucks. What can we do to get asses in seats?" "Let's make it look like Lord of the Rings!" The plot was rambling and uninteresting. The characters were shallow and the dialogue was poor. Audio was terrible too. People were either shouting or whispering. The ending was so cheesy that even if I spoiled it, nobody would care. It consisted of flashbacks and a ride into the sunset. But it all looked really modern and professional. I'm thinking there is some kind of digital setting or filter used to make films look this way (image). The era of proprietary cameras is over and digital footage is infinitely malleable. It should be easy to get the Peter Jackson look. Maybe a lighting setup? I rate this bad for being mediocre and boring. Don't watch it.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Taxidermia (2006)


A Hungarian drama by Gyorgy Palfi.
3 generations of a family are shown in their strange lives. The grandfather is a military orderly during world war 2, the father is a speed eating champion and the son is a taxidermist.
Yuck. This film showed gross and disgusting things nearly constantly. The orderly was always masturbating, the speed eater always puked up the food that he just ate and when he got old and too fat to move, he was raising giant speed eating cats. The taxidermist was the most disturbing, but I won't ruin the plot. If you're looking for a crazy and disgusting film, this is it. I'm rating it good for being just that weird.