Showing posts with label Ellen Burstyn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ellen Burstyn. Show all posts

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Pit Stop (1969)


































  Rick Bowman, a car junkie and speed addict, is approached by a shady guy who wants to sponsor him to participate in a new form of automobile racing, the Figure 8. This is a very dangerous kind of sport as the risks of crashing and getting killed is the actual point of it all. Rick will face his arch enemy and try to make it out alive...
  Jack Hill is a very respectable director and writer of the celluloid underground. Throughout the years he found his perfect balance of sleaze, trash and exploitation, all boosted by an aspiration to become something greater. Hence his films have a more "normal" feel to them than the average B-movie. His greatest achievements, though, were his contribution to the Blaxploitation genre and this film is just 3 years before that! By that token, Pit Stop should interest even as little as to see the progress he would later make. Of course, it is more than that...
  The cast some interesting appearances. It is the kind of cast that wanted something bigger for themselves although certain factors contributed to that never happening during their career. And you can feel and see that in their eyes. And you can imagine them at the same time as you are watching this film, sitting on their couch, reminiscing, with the whole nostalgic,melancholic Tarantinesque vibe. But, that is still OK, because people like Richard Davalos, Ellen Burstyn, Sid Haig, Beverly Washburn and Brian Donlevy are the actual everyday heroes we need to keep it going. To remind us that dreams are out there to be chased even if the chase is as vain as a car racing and chasing the sun...
Must watch this : on a hot spring Sunday morning. After the film, expect an unbeatable urge to get in your car,turn that key around and drive for as far as the tank can take ya!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064819/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Sponsorship, hmmm?!So, what kind of cash you willing to give?!
Girlfriend's face when you do a stunt with the car and risk getting killed *that moment right before*
We don't no need no brakes, mister. Take 'em off!

Saturday, June 21, 2014

The Exorcist (1973)


































  A young girl starts behaving unnaturally and her mother is convinced that she is possessed by some demonic entity. The mother asks the help of two priests who agree to perform the ritual of exorcism on the girl. But first they must test the depths of their faith in God...
  Totally groundbreaking in its time and still preserving its horror glory, The Exorcist is a film that with few special effects will manage to spook you out of your clothes. Directed by an already pro director back then, William Friedkin, this film paved the way for various other films of the same theme and is allegedly responsible for multiple massive social freakouts back in the 70s and not only for his world famous them song! A must see for anyone anywhere!
  Jason Miller has the lead role as Father Karras, a priest who seems to have lost his faith in God but manages to find it again through the hard practice of exorcism. A role that was intended for Jack Nicholson, Miller seems to make it his own! Max von Sydow helps him along the way but does not seem to hold well exorcising young Linda Blair, a sometimes beautiful but sometimes fucked-up possessed kid! Maybe it's all because of her stuck-up mother, Ellen Bursty. Who knows!?
Must watch this :  with an empty stomach because sensitive or not, this film contains some scenes that shake up the urge for vomit! Dim the lights, light up some candles and enjoy on a breezy autumn night!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070047/
Mom, stop staring! You are freaking me out!
Had a date with the Devil. Did not end well
Alright, it's not gay if it's in a threeway. So...how do we do this?