Sunshine on Blu-Ray

Shall I,shan't I....

Love Danny Boyle's Sunshine but heard it was only as good as DVD in quality so been putting it off to buy until today when I saw it for £9.99 and decided to take the risk.

So glad I did,the transfer is amazing, so much better than DVD,the colours so rich and the blacks blacker.No digital pixelating on the effects like the DVD either.The sound is totally immersing with the bass giving the sub a good work out.

Extra features are not much different from the DVD.

This is a quality film and my reservations about 20Th Century Fox movie transfers has been lifted for now.

10 Films That Scared You.

Name 10 films that have scared you.

Here's mine in no particular order:

1.Jaws

2.The Skull

3.Blair Witch Project

4.Halloween

5.Evil Dead

6.The Exorcist

7.The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

8.Poltergeist

9.The Omen

10.Last House On The Left

That was hard, only one has any effect now and that's Blair Witch.

Jaws stopped me going in the sea for life and I find it hard to watch Chainsaw due to the amount of screaming. I hate women screaming in films. The worst film on the list is Last House.I will never watch it again,bloody horrible,cruel movie.Not a fan of violence against women slasher type stuff at all,and the older I get the less tolerant I am of it too.

10 Films That Scarred You For Life.

Name 10 films from whatever genre that scarred you for life.By that I mean they have made such an undeniable impression in your brain that it turned you onto cinema forever.

Mine are in no particular order:

1. Planet Of The Apes

2. Alien

3.Blade runner

4.Curse Of The Werewolf

5.The Skull

6.Jungle Book

7.Land That Time Forgot

8.Jaws

9.Star Wars

1o.Jason and the Argonauts

Escape from New York DVD

Bollocks! My Escape from New York DVD doesn't play any more. Just goes to the menus then when select an option it freezes,was well looking forward to watching it.

Have to buy a new one,but not risking Region 2 as may do the same.

The Blu-Ray is a piece of shit so no go there.Will have to search for the Region 1.

Taste The Blood Of Dracula

Amazingly in all the years I've been a Hammer fan I've never watched Taste The Blood Of Dracula.

Wasn't sure what I was going to see as this is heading towards the end of the Hammer Dracula cycle of films so was pleasantly surprised.

Three gents are bored with their sexual experiences and get word of a bankrupt aristocrat, the wonderful Ralph Bates,can give them a new experience like thy never had.

He takes them to see curios shop keeper Roy Kinear,he witnessed Dracula's death at the end of the previous Dracula film,and has The Counts Cape,clasp and dried blood.

At a satanic ceremony Bates tries to get the three gents to drink re-hydrated Drac blood but they refuse in terror so Bates drinks it and tuns into Count Dracula.

As they refused Dracula possesses their daughters,the lovely Linda Hayden amongst them,and uses them to help kill the gents sons and ultimately the gents themselves.

Linda's forbidden boyfriend however gets to the church where Drac hangs out replaces a couple of candles and with the help of two crucifixes and what I presume is the hand of God destroys Dracula,whilst he and Linda escape to live happily ever after.

Chris Lee is wasted as Dracula his screen time is mere minutes and only speaks a few lines.

The rest of the cast take it all seriously which is part of the reason Hammer worked so well.

Still the DVD transfer was good and was entertaining enough, but the cracks are beginning to show on Hammers out put of the 70's.

If you buy the Region 1 version of this movie you can get Taste together with Horror,Risen from the Grave and AD 1972 all in one package for under a fiver.

The Fall Blu-Ray

Watched the fall on Blu-Ray today.

Was taken buy the trailer for the movie and really enjoyed Tarsam's previous effort The Cell.

Basically a little girl in hospital with a broken arm meets an injured actor/stuntman and she is transported via the story he tells her into her imagined version of the story placing various people she sees in the specific roles.

Visually amazing,the colours really spring alive on Blu-Ray but ultimately I found the story pretty vacuous, so on to Amazon shops it goes.

An American Werewolf In London.

Got the Region free Blu-Ray of An American Werewolf In London today.

This movie is soooo great.

Treading perfectly the fine line between comedy and horror.

What makes this movie work is that you belive all the characters and actually care about them,due to Landis great direction. Apart from Blues Brothers this is his only other great movie in my opinion.

The effects are still amazing,probably still THE greatest werewolf transformation thanks to Rick Baker.

The picture quality is a cut above the DVD slightly.It's still pretty grainy but for a film from 1981

I guess you have to expect it.

Sound is good but the majority is across the front apart from the werewolf circling the 2 boys as they wander across the moors.

Extra freaturs are the same as the last DVD release apart from a fantastic new feature length documentry tells you all you want to know and even visits the original locations here in the UK.

If only DVD docs were like this.

Worth a buy then,as I said this is the US release and its region free.