What was the last movie you watched?

[YorkshireNed]

The last one I made it to the end of [tried watching another since but passed out due to tiredness] was Doomwatch.

A movie based on a cult 70s British TV show I've never seen. It was like a 70s British X-Files (but with pollution being the bug bear rather than grey aliens) and the movie was good. They'd clearly made it so no prior knowledge of the TV show was needed.

The film was made by the mighty Tigon British Film Productions who made such horror classics as Witchfinder General, Blood On Satan's Cla and the Bery Reid classic The Beast In The Celllar.

If you like 70s Brit horror, this is a milder version but still very interesting

[panrocker]

I don't watch movies often :
most recent i can remember are : 'V For Vendetta' on tv , good '1984' Orwellian stuff.
'Baraka' dvd , excellent. 'This Is England' dvd commentary to Shane M's film that i've seen a few years ago ; very good.
before that on tv : entertaining tripe  1970s horror with Joan Collins in and entertaining tripe  early 1980s horror 'Patrick'  

[YorkshireNed]

I do enjoy rubbish horror if it is from the 70s!

I've not bothered with V For Vendetta for the simple reason that I have read the graphic novel so many times, I could recite you the whole plot word for word (could not would)

Baraka, though, I am deeply ashamed to say I have never seen excepting bits playing on a projector while The Window Right played.

Went to see "This Is England" at the cinema and loved it. Did you know Channel 4 are making a TV series of it?

[panrocker]

... no, i didn't know of the planned series.

2 other films (dvds) in recent months i've seen :
'lost control' the joy division film, i thought good.
and: i think it was called 'back woods' also sometimes called 'spiral of violence' : anglo spanish or french film with paddy considine : very good.

baraka + the window right ?! very different to the soundtrack of the film i imagine .....

a bandmate  (unfortuinately we ceased to be mates, youthful folly + all that !) of mine from  the 1980s had a book on british horror films published quite a few years ago.

[YorkshireNed]

Any movie with Paddy Considine in it is OK by me. He's a brilliant actor with a perfect understanding of what movies to appear in.

I've seen "Control" the dramatised Joy Division film. I liked it, Sam Morton is another actor who I know I can trust to choose interesting films, but it was weird how the locations were very obviously Nottingham rather than Manchester.

There is also a Joy Division documentary that I have not seen but I kind of wonder what I would get out of it that I don't know already.