Thanks for the recommendation for Fried Barry, looks like a lot of fun. Much Appreciated! I haven’t watched anything out of South Africa for years. Not since Oats Studios which feels like a million years ago now.

Ah yes. The ‘Backlog’. I keep seeing films come up on Kodi or Jellfin that I would quite like to watch but there’s always a ‘but’. I don’t know quite when I started obsessively paying attention to exactly how long a film runs but probably somewhere around the same time I started asking myself: “Am I going to fall asleep after an hour?” and “Will I bother picking it up again tomorrow if I do?” Lee Cronin’s The Mummy almost fell by the wayside, saved only by the young woman playing the titular being (I thought) rather good (also is he trying for a Clive Barker thing or is just to avoid confusion with Tom Cruise’s The Mummy?)

Sometimes I even start films I know for a fact I am not going to watch just so I can sit there grumbling for fifteen minutes or so. In much the same way you might speculate over the existence of an especially egregious turd - “The size! the smell! Who would lay such a thing!?” The Bone Keeper is the most recent one I can remember the name of. Though there seems to be a recent glut of Loosely Lovecraft films that seem to be made of old dried up bits of Shoggoth shit.

I am quite enjoying Widow’s Bay though. Thirty five minutes, a monster of the week and it’s funny.

MadS looks good. I will dl it tonight. Haven’t seen the Toxic Avenger remake but I have it on the server, but tbh I’d probably rather rewatch Tromeo and Juliet. Some films have a magic to them and that film is a sputtering dark candle in a gutter o’erflowed with filth.

I recently rate The Surrender 2025, Bring Her Back 2024 (not just cos I have a thing for Sally Hawkins) and if you haven’t seen it When Evil Lurks from 2023. All scratched the horror itch.

Agree on the pointless Street Trash remake. Feels like ‘they’ have done that a lot recently, i.e. remake schlock and double down on the shit bits in some kind of ironic crapfest. Like with the new Anaconda film. Why not just remake something good instead of microwaving crap bc they got the IP for pennies.

Do you know I have had Funny Games on DVD for years and I haven’t watched it. I got so burned out by dark films that I have to ‘fall’ into watching them organically somehow. Like either they are on and I get pulled in or I have to creep up on them without quite realising/admitting they’re going to be a fucking brutal trip, or go see them at the cinema.

You sound like your a bit of a film buff as well. What have you watched recently that you rate or hate?

Pasolini’s Salo/120 Days of Sodom - Nobody ever regrets watching it.

Bad Boy Bubby - One of many grim Aussie films of that era. A classic.

The Warzone - Tim Roth’s directorial feature. Incestuous rape introducing Colin Farrell in his feature debut.

Drowning By Numbers/ A Zed and Two Noughts - Peter Greenaway shoots his films like renaissance paintings. Do you like lots and lots of snails on naked bodies? No? Tough. The Michael Nyman scores are terrific though.

You can pretty much take your pic with any of Lars Von Triers films. Breaking the Waves, Antichrist, Dogville etc.

Festen - which is Danish but NOT a Lars Von Trier film is probably the best Dogme 95 films of all. Including that fucking MAGAT Harmony Korine. Don’t know if this is that haunting but a good film anyway.

Come and See - Yes yes come and see! and in the vein of horrible WW2 films…

Salon Kitty - Tinto Brass before he went full porno.

Baise Moi - FUCK ME! No really that’s what its called.

Christiane F : Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo - Not a documentary but based on fact.

Reckon that should be enough. Happy viewing! LOL.

Long John Silver from Treasure Island. The OG and best anti-hero and heel turn of any character.

Miss Havisham from Great Expectations . An textbook example of how to do capricious rot.

Baby Jane played by Bette Davis from ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?’. God I love Bette Davis.

Traitor General from the comic Rogue Trooper. Traitor General has been a wonderful bastard over the years.

Arthur ‘Cody’ Jarrett played by James Cagney from ‘White Heat’.

Clarence Bodicker played by Kurtwood Smith from ‘Robocop’. “Can you fly, Bobby?” 'Nuff said.

Daimyo Matsudaira Naritsugu played by Goro Inagaki in Takashi Miike’s ‘13 Assassins’. Perfect psychotic aristo upheld by corrupt flunkeys who has no real conception of the effects of his actions.

Prince Nuada played by one of the Bros twins from ‘Hellboy II’. So sympathetic. Team Prince Nuada all the way.

Syd played by Peter Mullan from ‘Children of Men’. Syd refers to himself in the third person (An actual sign of psychopathy) and does not care about anyone else, not even the first pregnant woman in a decade…

Begbie played by Robert Carlyle from ‘Trainspotting’. “Nae cunt leaves here til we find oot what cunt glassed yon lassie.” Never mind that he threw the glass.

Awesome. Pretty cool he likes ReBoot. Sounds like such a fun breakfast morning. I’ve been trying to do something similar but they’re like little media limpets at toddler age; sticking to one thing and one thing only and of course atm it’s become Mr Tumble (an irritating clown whose schtick is that they dress up and do makaton). So while the weather has been nice I’ve been shucking mine off the rock, so to speak and getting them in the garden. Hope you have fun. :)

It seems like you have a massive list already. So here’s a few more!

A few ones I enjoyed (mostly as a kid) which aren’t listed or mentioned:

Conan the Barbarian the Animated Series - very 90’s. I used to record it on VHS

Visionaries - Knights of the Magical Light. - Commissioned to help sell a toy line with holograms (all the rage in the 80s) Cartoon was pretty good quality for the time.

Pole Position- Ulysses 31 (currently seeding btw)- Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors - which are all French Japanese Cartoons scored by Shuky Levy who really encapsulates the sound of an 80’s after school cartoon for me. Even if the plot is a bit meh at times the intro music is absolutely cracking.

Around the World with Willy Fogg - Dogtanian and Three Muskahounds - Spanish Japanese production. Also great theme tunes!

ReBoot - (Ian Gibson who worked on 2000AD developed this. The CG might have aged a bit though! Kids cartoon but had some quite adult reference at the time)

Camp Lazlo - by creator of Rocko’s Modern Life

Whatever Happened to Robot Jones? - Short lived Cartoon Network offereing circa 2002.

No 70s Hanna Barbera? Short formats but I enjoyed Roger Ramjet, Batfink (both not Hanna Barbera) and Topcat (which is but was made in the 60’s.)

Mine I think, is younger than yours but absolutely adores Hey Duggee and Squirrel Club and they are very good with great music. Check out the Space or Music Video episodes in particular.