house of seven corpses (1974)

"Get the blood all over you."
A horror film is being made in a house where seven real murders were committed. The film re-enacts these murders, much to the annoyance of the caretaker (John Carradine). As the murders were occult related the director (John Ireland) tries to make the witchcraft elements as realistic as possible, maybe too realistic when the cast start being killed one by one.
Lacks a certain something for the first hour, concentrating on the mundanity of film making, but finally kicks in, and notches up the excitement for the last half hour.

chinwhaseon (2002)

AKA Drunk On Women and Poetry. Painted Fire. Strokes Of Fire.
"He seems to paint by the rules, yet he doesn't."
The story of a Korean painter in the 19th century, who rises from common pauper to feited artist, amidst the political and social unrest of the period.
Wonderfully constructed historical drama.

the years between (1946)

"Nothing will ever be the same again."
Lady of the manor Diana Wentworth (Valerie Hobson), is led to believe that her husband Michael (Michael Redgrave), a secret agent, has been killed in action. She adapts well to the situation and even finds love with local farmer Richard (James McKechnie). But then her husband returns from the dead believing things would be exactly as they were before the war. Only to find his wife an independent career woman.
A touchingly upper class view on love and the sacrifices of war. In other words it does not live in the real world for the vast majority of the very people it expected to watch this. A drama that did not reflect true life even then, and certainly hasn't aged well.

beyond the universe (1981)

"if we turn within, there the truth lies..."
21st-century scientists argue over how to save the Earth after a nuclear holocaust.
A psycho-babble script poses the question, who will win when the planets resources dwindle. Do we take to spirituality or do governments move to war and genocide? Once seen best forgotten.

time warp (1981)

"Its a big let down."
Solar 1 returns from a mission into the farthest reaches of space, after a year of no contact. Capt. Mark Devore (Chip Johnson) lands to find he has passed through a time warp, which has thrown him one year into the future, and thus invisible to everyone around him.
A film that dealves into the complex emotional and physical effects of deep space travel on the people involved. From the politics of high level military personel, to individual family relationships and emotions. Oh and with added comedy! Unfortunately none of this is rendered in anything but a superficial way, and with plot holes the size of a house, but what do you expect from a film that casts someone called Chip as an astronaut!

the millionairess (1960)

"I wish to make a man happy."
Epifania Parerga (Sophia Loren) inherits her fathers millions, but cannot find happiness. What she really wants is love. But the course of true love never runs smooth, so someone said! Then she meets and falls for an Indian doctor (Peter Sellers), who serves London's poor, but he wants nothing to do with her or her millions. What is a willful woman to do?
A slight romantic comedy, remembered more today for Sellers eccentric behaviour during filming than the film itself. What is presented is actually a gentle comedy that slips by easily enough, if you can get past how annoying the Epifania character is.

the day it came to earth (1979)

"If we corner the monster, do we still have to read him his rights?"
Some collage kids are learning about the solar system, whilst the media report sightings of UFO's. Meanwhile they go about normal collage activities, picking up girls and using the local swimming hole. Unfortunately this particular hole is used by some mafia hoods to dump a body into. Not a problem until a meteor strikes the pond and reanimates it.
A low budget film that takes as its template 50's sci-fi horror's, but it never really recreates the look and the feel of those cheesey classics, and falls flat in trying to.