jeff leopard

the sheer bloodiest film i've seen is Brain Dead (Peter Jackson's 2nd film), just for the end bit where the hero turns a houseful of zombies into red sludgey goo with a flymo. Thats the final word in splatter-core right there. Everything since has been a footnote.

Most disturbing is maybe Funny Games or Eraser Head but they deal in psychological horror and feature very little blood or on-screen violence. As someone who was raised in the era of video nastiest, I watched Cannibal Holocaust recently, renowned as one of the most disturbing and down-right nastiest films ever, hoping that there was a part of me that could still be shocked. It’s a prototype for Blair Witch/Cloverfield/Rec where a documentary film crew go in search of cannibal tribes deep in a South American jungle, and keep filming regardless. The 'people being ripped apart and eaten' scenes at the end are brilliantly done and throw up plenty of images (pun intended) that have stayed with me since. Its all incredibly realistic, so much so that the director, who insisted that his actors didn't appear in anything for a year after CH, was at one point arrested for their murder. But this is a film that deserves its reputation. It contains unwatchably sickening scenes of real animals being tortured, dismembered and killed. And it’s a film which thinks that rape and sexual assault is the hottest and sexiest thing going. The best bit is the very end when, after seemingly endless hours of deprivation and brutality, the narrator basically says, 'are you still watching this? you sick f*ck!'

damn straight. and Cannibal Holocaust, which is some piece of work.

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde Probably their weakest album but still rammed full of humour and ideas and infinately better than 99% of everything else out there. They really were one of the great rock bands. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples & Playthrough. Two stunning albums of drone. Songs and lyrics and tunes are for gays.

It was a metaphor for Vietnam though, just like The Wild Bunch and Aliens.

If anyone enjoys reading first-rate children's fiction then get yourself some Moomin books. The tv series was aimed squarely at the very young but the books are just a joy for all ages. There's absolutely none of this Disney-esqe 'and everyone was very happy and loved each other' rubbish which gives children a dangerously inaccurate view of life. These books are seriously dark and complex. I've just read, 'Comet in Moominland' which was written in 1946 and is all about coming to terms with WW2 and the brand new fear of nuclear annihilation. Beautifully written and illustarted by Tove Jansson, all the books are well worth a read. I'm half way through 'Trainspotting' at the mo and loving every sick and twisted page of it, ken?

Michael Haneke is a guy racked with middle-class guilt. All his films are aimed at middle-class audiences and focus on middle-class families being tortured and destroyed for the crimes and failings of their social class/culture. He basically wants to torture his audience. He has issues. Nut he does make unforgettable pieces of cinema. I stongly recommend 'Hidden/Cache', its got more depth to it than Funny Games, but it aint no comedy.

Great film, obviously tackling a serious subject, but.... BEST SWEARING IN A FILM EVER. KUNT!

Because they're both huge fans of the original and wanted to work with the director, Michael Haneke. I've not seen the remake but the original is stunning, shocking and tortious in equal measures. No chance, they would have been paid peanuts by normal Hollywood standards. Probably the minimum actor's fee. Film's like this have a nightmare getting funding. The saddest thing about the remake is that it was heavily financed by Tartan Video which released loads of amazing world cinema, like all the Korean Extreme stuff, which never would have been available otherwise. Funny Games US made no money and Tartan went bye-bye. Very sad.

bingo!

our keeper is a liability :-?

Been off work for a week with the flu and between the sobbing and wailing, i squeezed in a few films (all watched through my special insomnia vision) postal - sick, crass, over-the-top attack on everyone and everything. i quite liked it, hollywood has made many worse films than this and there is a rare pleasure in seeing cutesy children being shot in slow motion. worth a squirt. last temptation of christ - scorsese's low budget but very powerful christ epic. not nearly as blasphemous as people made out on its release. unlike the film above, difficult issues are explored with great care and attention by marty. i think its one of his best. wall.e - very sweet and charming and as scathing on consumer culture as a Disney film will ever be. iron man - much much better than i thought it would be. rd jnr is a genius, the effects are great and it offers a grown up view of America's effects on the middle east. the mountain range has become hollywood's latest lawless wilderness. right i'm off for some cannibal holocaust

although its been a long time since i got excited about the floyd, part of me really wants to see Mason, Waters and Gilmour jamming as a three piece. on acid.

As annoying as Whiley is, she's a radio godess compared to that f*cking retard Fern Cotton. And Bowman's an annoying c*nt as well.

stairway to heaven - led zep (the rest of their stuff is alright) ironic - alanis morrisette (dire on every imaginable level) have a nice day - stereophonics (t e d i o u s) beautiful day - U2 (a painfully dry w*nk) the worst song ever is actually a piece of pop fluff but one which could potentially kill millions of people prematurely. the fast food rockers should be publicly castrated and forced to eat their deep fried genitals for their crimes against the planet. and the record is poo.

theres been a ghostbusters 3 script kicking around for years and years where they get sent to hell and have to take on the devil. bill murray couldn't bring himself to get involved (although that didn't stop him from sleep-walking through ghostbusters 2).

That's a pretty comprehensive top five. 36 Chambers is amazing, it looses half a point though for some of its skits, but i think we've had this conversation before. I'd also add the Quannum 'live on british radio' lyrics born, all the other quannum mc's, live band and dj shadow on the decks, recorded for the 'breaze-block' show. And maybe even 13 & God featuring dose one, for a bit of weird-arsed anticon action.

cypress hill - black sunday best hip hop album ever?

go for Lust:Caution, its great and you get some furburger and soft k0ck action.

I saw Hellboy 2 last night and it was pretty dire. There were some really nice touches from Del Torro, as you'd expect, but everything got lost in a sea of 2nd rate cgi and a frankly embarrasing script. Time to make another of your amazing non-Hollywood, spanish civil war films like the devil's backbone and pans labyrinth. 1.5/5

He wasn't happy about Milner being sold, but if you could get 12 million for a decidedly average player, you would, wouldn't you?

he did indeed and was reported as dead at one point, apparently Coppola responded by saying 'he isn't dead until i say he is!'. Just imagine a load of young men who suddenly made a fortune in hollywood who go to the heart of the jungle to make a great war film (tropical thunder springs to mind). they take way too much coke and everyone goes a little loco, everything falls apart and they get stuck there for three years, blowing all their cash. and somehow this amazing and insane film came out of it. If I can extend this thread for a moment, what are people's opinions on the war on terror films that have come out in the last five or so years? Lots of the Iraq films have been slated but maybe thats because lots of people dont want to know whats happeing until its 'over'. so, my fave war on terror films so far... Cache (Hidden) - its a film with its own style and pace, some may find it a bit slow and dry but give it a chance and it will rip you open, rape your soul and leave you crying and bleeding. In a good way. United 93 - ditto. Good Night and Good Luck - Liberal George steps up to the plate and says that censorships bad, mkay? Munich - its gots flaws but also a brave even-handed portrayal of the Israel/Palestine conflict. i much rather he made films like this instead of working with george lucas. The Three Burials of Melquades Estrada - the first great Iraq-western.

Yes, yes you are. I'm going to agree with however has said Apocalypse Now, it famously got a bit too close to the real thing, with everyone, hoovering up coke, going insaine and seemingly burning vast piles of money each day. The fact any kind of film came out of it is amazing. Also great...Paths of Glory, All Quiet on the Western Front, Thin Red Line, Aliens and the first 25 mins of saving private ryan.

it really is :smt022 next year the limes must play!

i saw **** buttons at green man, tip top they were! alas, i'm not going this year, much too much homework. but next weekend is Bestival!!!!!!!!!!