Celebrating Irish Twitter's greatest late-night movie club
March 28, 2021 4:49 AM Subscribe
Like everybody else this time last year, Irish Film Twitter was newly in lockdown, bored and scared. So #BeyondFriday was launched, a celebration of cult classics and genre movies. To celebrate the 50th instalment last week, Dean Van Nguyen ranked all fifty movies featured.
The list really picked up around no. 20, as it should have. Hard Target! That's (almost) the best Van Damme, I (nearly) agree, plus it has everything, a man biting a snake's head off, motorbike jumps through fire repeated from multiple angles, 80's hair, everything. I saw Death Race 2000 at the time, I've only seen it once and it remains one of my favorite films, there's some gorgeous imagery in it.
Of others I've seen, the one with the biker buried on his bike in a standing stone circle ... yeah. Hmm. The Hammer anthologies ... Yeah! Ah-ha! It's pity there was no space made for The Devil Rides Out, with it's fabulous imagery and gorgeous colour - but oh well. Maybe it's not quite ridiculous enough. I was cross at first that Total Recall came in so high but having read the rationale for that it's ok. Even though Running Man should be in there instead. All in all a nice list with lots to check out. Especially with regard to lockdown brain.
posted by glasseyes at 2:05 PM on March 28, 2021 [1 favorite]
Of others I've seen, the one with the biker buried on his bike in a standing stone circle ... yeah. Hmm. The Hammer anthologies ... Yeah! Ah-ha! It's pity there was no space made for The Devil Rides Out, with it's fabulous imagery and gorgeous colour - but oh well. Maybe it's not quite ridiculous enough. I was cross at first that Total Recall came in so high but having read the rationale for that it's ok. Even though Running Man should be in there instead. All in all a nice list with lots to check out. Especially with regard to lockdown brain.
posted by glasseyes at 2:05 PM on March 28, 2021 [1 favorite]
Anyhow this post has made me go look up the OST for Red Sonia and it's nice to hear it again
posted by glasseyes at 2:07 PM on March 28, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by glasseyes at 2:07 PM on March 28, 2021 [1 favorite]
Man, #BeyondFriday loves Larry Cohen films almost as much as I do.
posted by KingEdRa at 5:35 PM on March 28, 2021
posted by KingEdRa at 5:35 PM on March 28, 2021
The Lucio Fulci entries, for your viewing, ummm, "convenience":
#1: Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
#6: Conquest (1983)
posted by kanuck at 5:52 PM on March 28, 2021
#1: Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979)
#6: Conquest (1983)
posted by kanuck at 5:52 PM on March 28, 2021
In The Glove (#40), I hope they at least allowed Rosey Grier to knock a building off its foundation with a giant knitting needle, or something.
posted by jamjam at 6:25 PM on March 28, 2021
posted by jamjam at 6:25 PM on March 28, 2021
The Glove is an interesting gritty low-budget late-70s detective movie. Worth seeing if that fits your scope. Swell theme song!
posted by ovvl at 9:42 PM on March 28, 2021
posted by ovvl at 9:42 PM on March 28, 2021
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