tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75569712710833065462024-02-21T01:24:06.088-05:00Exploitation Nation Part 2The world of exploitation film ripped open and laid raw for you to experience. From 70's grindhouse to current underground, it is all here. So ripe you can practically smell it.Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-68099755263276436052013-01-17T15:02:00.000-05:002013-01-17T15:02:50.132-05:00Basket Full of Monster Babies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BASKET CASE 3 (1992)<br />D. Frank Henenlotter</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Many people do not care for the last of the <span style="color: red;"><b>BASKET CASE </b></span>trilogy. It is easy to see why with its odd shifts in tone, totally over the top cartoon like antics and a story that barely makes sense at best. I hated it when it came out in 1992. But for me the years have been kind to the movie and I am not nearly as hard on it as I once was. Calling it a good movie would be a lie. But calling it entertaining? That is about on track. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The movie picks up shortly after the berserk ending of the second film. <span style="color: red;"><b>Dwayne</b></span> has accidentally killed his girl <span style="color: red;"><b>Annie</b></span> when he panicked at her mutation/offspring. He had attempted to sew <span style="color: red;"><b>Belial</b></span> back onto his side to be back together with his brother. <span style="color: red;"><b>Belial</b></span> has knocked up his equally monstrous girlfriend in the dumbest sex scene in movie history. So Part 3 starts with trying to wrap up all these messy plot threads. Everyone is still living with <span style="color: red;"><b>Granny Ruth </b></span>and her menagerie of mutants. They discover they have to take Belial's monstrously pregnant girlfriend down south to a special Dr. friend who can facilitate the birth of what turns out to be a dozen or so Belial critters. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><br />Once in the south it becomes <span style="color: red;"><b>WALKING TALL </b></span>meets the monsters with the <b><span style="font-size: small;">occasional</span></b> Jess Franco homage thrown in. The loca<span style="font-size: small;">l Sheriff</span> and his sexbomb daughter get involved jailing the freaks and trying to keep the Belial babies. So it is up to the gang to break them out and get revenge. Once Belial's offspring show up in a souped up metal contraption it gets serious. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Basically this is like a <span style="color: red;"><b>Tex Avery</b></span> cartoon with the monsters from the other films.<span style="color: red;"><b> Henenlotter</b></span> has said that he basically doesn't like the movie much and only did it to fulfill a contract. But there is a certain off beat charm to it. I would say it works best as stoner cinema. Those who are very medicated will get the most out of it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>THE DEFINITIVE DOCUMENT OF THE DEAD (1979 - 2012)<br />D. ROY FRUNKES</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">I'm quite a big fan of director <span style="color: red;"><b>Roy Frumkes DOCUMENT OF THE DEAD</b></span>. It is one of those documentaries that I watched frequently while I was in film school. I found watching<span style="color: red;"><b> George Romero</b></span> create to be both comforting and inspirational. I missed <span style="color: red;"><b>Synapse </b></span>earlier release of the movie when DVD's first hit the market, but I did get it in the <span style="color: red;"><b>DAWN OF THE DEAD</b></span> five disc box set. So I was anxious to see what was new about it for this latest release. What exactly made it "definitive". </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">I'm afraid to say there is a LOT new about the film, and pretty much none of it good. It seems that <span style="color: red;"><b>Roy Frumkes</b></span> has felt the need to update and tinker with the movie as years go by. Even the VHS edition I used to watch in film school was a different edit than the one he initially created. That edition has some behind the scenes footage of <span style="color: red;"><b>TWO EVIL EYES</b></span> spliced in at the end. I guess the DVD edition was different too. But this time has has done a total facelift to the movie that feels more like corrective surgery gone horrible wrong. Something like a half hour of the original on the set of <span style="color: red;"><b>DAWN OF THE DEAD</b></span> footage has been removed and replaced with stuff that would barely pass muster as extras on a DVD. There is a whole stop motion animated cartoon of Romero fighting off zombies that opens the movie now. Then the meat of it is the same with the <span style="color: red;"><b>DAWN OF THE DEAD</b></span> stuff. Then it veers horrible wrong with a very long set of "interviews" from people who worked with George over the years. The problem is, this footage isn't interviews, it is some hotel party at a horror convention and Fru<span style="font-size: small;">m</span>kes sticking his palm-corder into various people's faces to get sound bites. It feels like some horror convention version of those awful <span style="color: red;"><b>TMZ</b></span> shows.Or worse extras on a <span style="color: red;"><b>Troma</b></span> DVD. Then we get an excruciatingly long behind the scenes clip from <span style="color: red;"><b>SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD</b></span> in which Fru<b>m</b>kes acts as a zombie and screws up take after take. These two bits take up a majority of the new running time. Replacing former footage that was much more interesting. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">I feel like shit slagging on this because everyone involved from Synapse to Frumkes himself. But this is just a painful missed opportunity.The DVD I reviewed had a commentary from Roy that is in some ways better than the final cut of the film. He explains why he removed things (generally he just liked the new stuff) and talks about being on the set of DAWN. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here is a promotional video for DOCUMENT OF THE DEAD from Japan. This is NOT on <span style="font-size: small;">any releas<span style="font-size: small;">es I know of. </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="color: #999999;">This little indie production picked up by <span style="color: red;"><b>Troma</b></span> turned out to be a surprise. For the first forty or so minutes it truly sucks, then something strange happens. Against all odds it begins to actually work and is very enjoyable for the next 35 to 40 minutes. Then the ending sucks again. But with all that said it is worth a curiosity viewing. It might even work better if watched with a group of rowdy horror fans. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The story revolves around a small group of people all of whom wake up mysteriously in someone's apartment. It is supposed to be something more nefarious, but it is clearly just someone's apartment. Still a very<span style="color: red;"><b> David Lynch</b></span> set up as these strangers realize they are trapped and try to figure out why. Seems all of them pulled some wrong shit in the recent past and this is some sort of punishment. The first half of the movie is taken up with the bickering and accusations among the group and not a one of them is interesting, likable or even a capable actor. Then another element is introduced to the film, the apartment/house has these demonic figures roaming around dressed in savage, Zulu-esque attire complete with huge freaky home-made masks. Suddenly and without warning the movie becomes a fairly effective stalker picture with some splashy gore. These figures are imposing and even a little frightening. I can recommend this part of the movie.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Then the ending reveals what is going on and momentarily it becomes THE TRUMAN SHOW for the indie no budget horror crowd. All I can say about that is that it beat <span style="color: red;"><b>CABIN IN THE WOODS</b></span> to the punch by a couple of years (or did it considering<span style="color: red;"><b> CABIN</b></span> sat on a shelf for a couple of years?). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This is the typical <span style="color: red;"><b>TROMA DVD</b></span> with a useless and annoying intro by Lloyd Kaufman, who is now just poorly dubbing over old intros putting it off as a joke and not that they company has become that low rent. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: DAY OF RECKONING (2012)</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This was a huge surprise. We popped this on expecting some silly action thrills, nothing too heady or taxing. What we got was an action movie by way of <span style="color: red;"><b>Gasper Noe.</b></span> Everything in this production is bigger, bolder, more wild and deeply dark. The opening scene sucker punches you and it rarely lets up from there. <br /><br />Martial artis<b>t</b> <span style="color: red;"><b>Scott Atkins</b></span> is the actual lead this time around, playing a special forces soldier. He has a great family and loves his job. That is until<span style="color: red;"><b> Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme </b></span>playing the villain here) storms his house, murders his family and leaves him for dead. When our hero gets out of the hospital some months later he goes after the paramilitary group that killed his family. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The story is actually a great deal more complex than that. But where the movie excels is in the direction and cinematography department. Which should come as no surprise since director <span style="color: red;"><b>John Hyams</b></span> is the son of <span style="color: red;"><b>Peter Hyams</b></span> (who in fact directed Van Damme in <span style="color: red;"><b>TIMECOP</b></span>). The camera prowls and climbs, often sitting right behind character's heads just like in <span style="color: red;"><b>ENTER THE VOID</b></span>. Nothing is ever covered from an expected vantage point. But when it comes time for the fight scenes the movie really shines. None of that Hollywood seven million cuts in one scene business. These are covered well but with minimal editing so you can get the feel and impact of the violence. Another trick Hyams uses is to use "ramp motion" where the footage starts at normal speed, slows way down, then speeds up when someone makes contact, then back to normal speed. He also does the old <span style="color: red;"><b>MONTY PYTHON</b></span> trick of cutting out a frame or two upon the impact of a punch. It makes it look like it landed, very hard. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The movie is also hyper violent. So violent in fact that the movie had to be re-edited to get an R rating. This hasn't happened for a while since the<span style="color: red;"><b> MPAA </b></span>loosens their grip a little bit. So that actually shows you how brutal this is. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Basically if you are an action fan of any sort it is criminal to miss this movie. </span><br />
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meet him pulling a Russian Roulette grift. What he doesn't get is
that he is pulling this fast one on some gangsters and they are non
too happy about it. He ends up working for the mobsters as an entry
level courier. But he screws that up too when he is trying to teach
his new wet behind the ears partner to shoot and he blows his brains
out. So Jack is sent out to a lonesome field and chained to a tree to
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name) biggest problem is that the director never sets a mood or tone.
So instead the movie feels like disconnected skits with no through
line of character or theme. It also can't make up it's mind if it is
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post effected to have a drained sepia tone. Some occasional color
bleeds through but it generally tries to look like some movie from
the 20's. There are a making of and another comedic short film called
HOMER also included on the disc. The presentation here is remarkably
good. Especially considering the film cost $4000 to make.
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more than enough good to great films to go around. Theatrical
releases, DVD's and foreign imports all were very good to us this
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<span style="color: #999999;"><b><span style="color: red;">20) ROCK OF AGES </span></b>– Yeah I said it.
The 80's hair metal movie musical that I am sure made the worst list
of most people this year is something I enjoyed thoroughly. I've
seen it twice now and I honestly don't get the hatred for this. What
is wrong with a fun movie that sets out to make you feel good? Maybe
it is because I grew up on the era this movie depicts, or that this
music was the background to my teen years, but this one had me
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red;"><b>19) THE THEATER BIZARRE</b> </span>– Finally a
horror anthology that is as good as some of the classic 70's and
80's ones. Granted, with five segments and different directors some
will be better than others, but all of them had some value. So for
the record, <b><span style="color: red;">Richard Stanley's</span></b> first segment is the weakest, with
some fun imagery, <span style="color: red;"><b>Buddy Giovanazzo's “I LOVE YOU”</b></span> is one of the
best on display with his typical black humor and very grim outlook,
<b><span style="color: red;">Tom Savini's</span></b> is not bad, but lacks the substantial punch of the
others, <span style="color: red;"><b>Douglas Buck's "THE ACCIDENT"</b></span> is simply incredible. A
haunting, nuanced work of art that could stand on its own outside of
the film. <span style="color: red;"><b>Karim Husain's VISION STAINS</b></span> contains some of the movie's
most startling imagery and a very original story to boot. Though the
constant narration wears thin after while. And finally <b><span style="color: red;">David
Gregory's</span></b> amazing <span style="color: red;"><b>SWEETS</b></span> is funny, gross, disturbing, outrageous and
the perfect antidote to the extremely serious nature of most of the
movie.<span style="color: red;"><b> Jeremy Kastin's</b></span> wrap around stuff falls completely flat and
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Goldthwait's</b></span> acerbic black comedy about the pop culture landscape
that passes for the American dream is one of the most savage
comedies in ages. With all the gun violence this past year I would
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first comic book movie on my list was rather poorly received but I
honestly am not sure why. I loved the fact that it put a human face
on being a superhero, making <span style="color: red;"><b>Peter Parker </b></span>a true awkward teen who we
take a lot of time to actually get to know. I liked the <span style="color: red;"><b>Lizard</b></span> as a villain, I LOVED <span style="color: red;"><b>Emma Stone</b></span> as the girl he falls for. The action was
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film is simply one of the best of the entire series. I am a big fan
of <span style="color: red;"><b>Daniel Craig </b></span>in the role and how he has humanized Bond. This one
takes it further giving us insight into his parents and what made him
the cold heart killer he is. Also <span style="color: red;"><b>Javier Bardem</b></span> as the villain is as
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action fest is actually one of the darkest and best street level
thrillers in many year. Taking it's ques from seventies and eighties
exploitation action films like <span style="color: red;"><b>NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER</b></span> or <b><span style="color: red;">PRIME CUT</span></b>
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pitch black, deeply personal vision of hopelessness and depravity.
The film stands out for many things, the cold B/W cinematography,
the intricate and highly unsettling sound design and score, the
flawless and fearless acting of the leads, and how the violence
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child and discovering love for the first time. Production wise it is
flawless as his films usually are. But this one has so much heart
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Christopher Nolan </b></span>finishes off his <span style="color: red;"><b>BATMAN </b></span>trilogy with, in my
opinion, the strongest film of the series. Yes it is VERY long, but
it is never boring. <span style="color: red;"><b>Tom Hardy's Bane</b></span> is the best villain to face off against
Batman because he actually has the manpower and brawn to take him.
But best of all is how it is not really about Batman but the way a
broken man can find himself again when pushed by extraordinary
circumstances. This one has the most meat on its bones of the three
films (all of which to be fair are quite good).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red;"><b>11) DEGENERATE ART: THE ART AND
CULTURE OF BLOWN GLASS</b></span> – This was a Netflix find for me and I
ended up watching it twice in two days. An amazing journey into a
world I had no idea about, the artistry behind creating glass pipes
aka bongs. There is a whole industry here I knew nothing about and
this film gets under every piece of broken glass to tell the story.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">EXCISION (2012)<br />D. RICHARD BATES JR. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">ANCHOR BAY</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This comedic, drama, horror film really misses the mark on most counts. It isn't that it is poorly made, far from it, it is the uneven tone that blows the whole thing. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The movie stars <span style="color: red;"><b>Amber Lynn-Mccord </b></span>as a disheveled and clearly disturbed teen age girl. She lives a rich fantasy life in which she is beautiful, sexual and enjoys bloodlust. In real life she wants to be a surgeon, but her personality disorder is clearly getting in the way of high school. Her mom (in a VERY good performance by <span style="color: red;"><b>Traci Lords</b></span>) is an overbearing bitch. But it is made clear she became that way from the lack of affection of her own mother. She also has a fatally ill little sister and an emotionally absent Dad. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">All of which sounds like the making of some sort of crazy family horror film. But instead writer/director Bates decides to play it as a black comedy and then shoehorn more cameos than a <span style="color: red;"><b>Rob Zombie</b></span> film. The tone never catches up with the film even in the last ten minutes when it turns deadly serious and fully becomes a horror film. So much jokey, silly stuff has transpired that it completely robs the finale from any power. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">On the other side her fantasies are simply astounding, filled with color and honestly disturbing imagery. They should have just made a movie of inside her head. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">I also have a long standing theory that any trailer that uses<span style="color: red;"><b> NINE INCH NAILS </b></span>music is automatically better. Often NIN's Music is used in trailers to an effect that ends up making the movies look MUCH better than they actually are. <span style="color: red;"><b>300, TERMINATOR SALVATION, THE AVENGERS</b></span> (though that turned out pretty alright) and now <span style="color: red;"><b>EXCISION</b></span> can be added to that list...<br /> </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/BOVG5VWulrU" width="560"></iframe>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-19279360737580486862012-10-24T01:14:00.002-04:002012-10-24T01:14:25.141-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLENGE Movie #30 - WITHOUT WARNING (1980)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">WITHOUT WARNING (1980)<br />D. GREYDEN CLARK</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Of all places I watched this sci-fi cum monster mash on You Tube. There are plenty of full length horror and exploitation films there now through both individuals and company uploads. So the quality on this was pretty poor but that didn't stop it from being highly enjoyable. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The film revolves around a small camping town where hunters and other people are turning up missing. The opening scene has a Father and Son hunting duo bickering their way through the woods. When suddenly tiny, spinning fleshy little flying discs land on the Father and stab him with tendrils that ultimately kill him. A few more attacks happen to a cub scout troop and a group of camping teens. Finally two of those surviving teens hole up in a tavern with a couple of old coots (Played by<span style="color: red;"><b> Jack Palance </b></span>and <span style="color: red;"><b>Martin Landau</b></span> both of whom went on to Oscars in the next twenty years) and put a hunt on to find what is killing everyone. What they find is an intergalactic hunter that looks like the alien puppet that used to appear during the end credits of <span style="color: red;"><b>STAR TREK</b></span>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Everything about this is fun, from the recognizable faces in the cast like <span style="color: red;"><b>David Caruso</b></span> as a teen. To the very low rent special effects. A lot of people have made a point of the plot similarities to <span style="color: red;"><b>PREDATOR</b></span> and there is no mistaking them. But both films seem to be operating on very different wavelengths. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This is not on DVD or BLU RAY just badly cropped VHS editions. So watch it where you can. I have heard rumors of it coming out on Digital but nothing has happened as of yet. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>KILLDOZER (1974)<br />D. JERRY LONDON</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This made for TV shocker is fondly remembered by those who lived through the 70's. Mostly for the outrageous title than any sort of groundbreaking content. There were comic books and even a punk band that swiped the name. This is one of those weird little movies that entered the popular zeitgeist. Hell there is probably a Family Guy episode that references it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">But does that mean the movie is any good? Not really. It is perfectly functional and well made enough, considering the era it was made. yet this is pretty much by the numbers stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">A meteor falls from space in all its paper mache glory and lands on the construction site of Warburton industries who are digging in Uganda to build some sort of something or other. The mutant space rock possesses the nearest bulldozer causing it to come to life and destroy things and kill people. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">That's it. An unmanned bulldozer wrecking the place and the occasional under paid character actor. Credit goes to the whole cast and crew for playing it serious as something like this could be campy. I'd also be curious to know which was first; this movie or the <span style="color: red;"><b>SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN </b></span>pair of episodes where Steve Austin fights an alien life form that is basically a runaway military war machine aka a Bulldozer. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Review © Andrew Copp</span>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-23278516769207739172012-10-15T01:43:00.000-04:002012-10-15T01:43:24.991-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLENGE Movie #28 - SHEITAN<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">SHEITAN (2006) aka SATAN</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">I should have known better when I realized the title of this movie could be pronounced <span style="color: red;"><b>"SHIT ON"</b></span> and that is pretty much how I felt by the time it was over. Like someone had come into my house and took a big old flaming shit on my TV. This is so far the worst movie I have watched for this challenge and that says a LOT after the fecal feast that was <span style="color: red;"><b>ZOMBIE BABIES!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">From the opening frames I knew I was on the last train to shitsville when far too much screen time is given to a sweaty, grotesque D.J. in a hipster club. One of those typical movie hip types where the guy is fat to be funny, and white but doing Hip Hop there for being ironic. I wanted to kick the guy in the balls the moment I saw him. Then we meet our actual characters a group of asshats to unlikable you wish the movie would take a sharp turn into <span style="color: red;"><b>MIDNIGHT EXPRESS</b></span> and give these imbeciles a good run for their money.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">So this group of club kids (ethnically diverse though, one black guy, a Turkish girl, an Asian skinhead and the B-Boy white motherfucker that needs his teeth kicked out) decide to go to the one babe's family home for some R&R. Along the way they meet a semi-retarded goat herder play by a slumming <span style="color: red;"><b>Vincent Cassell</b></span> in a performance that makes <span style="color: red;"><b>BORAT </b></span>look subdued and understated. You know he is supposed to be hill people because he has big fake crooked teeth in. He spends the movie trying to emotionally seduce the emotionally barren kids for reasons that are never all that clear. After 50 some minutes of the movie which is mostly the kids trying to be cool and fucking around, or Vincent chewing scenery it starts trying to introduce other material. They even start through in a lot of casual racism just too keep you awake. Once Vincent shows up in drag playing his own sister I sort of started finally tuning out. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">We do however get to see lots of guys in their underwear, a chick jack off a dog and a kid who looks like a mentally deficient Harry Potter get beat almost to death. This is the movie that aims low and still can't hit the mark.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">D. WES CRAVEN</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Surprisingly enough I had never seen this extremely mild <span style="color: red;"><b>Wes Craven</b></span> shocker. Everyone remembers the infamous cover art of a busty woman with a spider dropping into her mouth. But for reasons I do not know I never bothered with the movie. I suppose I had heard it was too tame or not very good and just passed it over for meatier fare. Now that I have seen it, I can safely say the film IS too tame for it's own good, but there is some god stuff to offer anyway. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Maren Jensen</b></span> stars as a young, pregnant woman living in Mennonite country. The late, great <span style="color: red;"><b>Earnest Borgnine</b></span> stars as the head of the local chapter of the Mennonite's who disprove of her and her husband (who is also Borgnine's fallen away son). <span style="color: red;"><b>Michael Berryman</b></span> is the semi retarded guy living with the Mennonites who chases around anyone who he thinks are evil, including the teenage artist who lives in a farm down the way. In fact he is constantly harassing her, calling her an Incubus and the whore of the devil. The husband is found killed, so our heroine calls in two former her girlfriends to stay with her for moral support including a very young <span style="color: red;"><b>Sharon Stone </b></span>and <span style="color: red;"><b>Susan Buckner.</b></span> Soon all three women are being tormented by things like snakes in the bathtub and spiders. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This is certainly not the first film written and directed by Craven that attacks religious structures and family values. Three fourths of the film make the Mennonites out to be the bad guys. Their repression being the true root of the evil they are so terrified of. But the movie takes a turn in the final reel, delivering us information that was previously not revealed which changes everything. This final bit of action, though nothing new all there years later is certainly groundbreaking for 1981. It really makes the movie feel like there are layers there that very well may not be.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Not a groundbreaking film, too slow moving and staid for it's own good, but still worth a look. Especially for fans of the troubled creator. Rumor has it that <span style="color: red;"><b>Sharon Stone</b></span> was having an affair with the director's wife during production. But that is certainly not verifiable. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Number eight in the <span style="color: red;"><b>Nikkatsu Erotic Films Collection</b></span> from<span style="color: red;"><b> Impulse pictures</b></span> treads on the potentially hazardous "horny teacher" sub genre with quite unexpected results. What appears to be a simple, and pretty normal, sexploiter ends up being something altogether more serious.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">A High School Teacher named <span style="color: red;"><b>Sakiko (Yuki Kazamatsuri) </b></span>gets a call during sex from the police station. One of her students is in big trouble. She heads down to find waifish<span style="color: red;"><b> Sueko (Ayako Ota)</b></span> being held for prostitution. They have a frank conversation as to why Sueko likes sleeping with strangers and part ways. But Sakiko begins to care for the girl and does some research on her backgroud, when she isn't nailing her own boyfriend that is. But in digging up the past, some memories that she would prefer to be buried come to the surface. Sakiko remembers being raped at a construction site by a guy with paint thinner on him (from huffing it). She begins to obsess over the rape and how it has affected her current, somewhat loveless relationships.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">But Sakiko discovers that the person she fingered for the rape and had put away is most likely NOT the person who did it. Seems someone else was raped after this man when to jail for a short while. She also discovers the person whom she did put away is Sueko's disabled father. Soon a bond forms between the woman and the Father as he slowly goes crazy. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Though the plot line is undeniably sleazy, the film itself, especially for a <span style="color: red;"><b>Nikkatsu Roman Porno </b></span>title, is very restrained. There is a lot of nudity and sex, as to be expected, but as the movie rolls forward it becomes more and more of a straight drama. The rape angle is just there as a plot device and soon put to the wayside so the story of this crazy old man and his new female friend can unfold. It really is a cross generation love story based in guilt and shame. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">As to be expected with these <span style="color: red;"><b>Synapse</b></span> produced discs, the picture and subtitles are impeccable. There is some useful liner notes from our friend <span style="color: red;"><b>Jasper Sharpe </b></span>as well. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This is Italian language, low budget gorefest is pretty damned impressive. Sure the story lack in a few areas, and there is zero characterization on board for most of the leads. But it makes up for the faults with boatloads of style, and more bloodshed than any recent movie I can name. It is like a <span style="color: red;"><b>LOONY TUNES</b></span> movie with action and gore effects. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Writer, Producer and Director<span style="color: red;"><b> Emanuelle De Santi </b></span>stars as the title character. A musclebound brute of a man (who has no past) who is avenging the death of his girlfriend. His girl was killed my monster/mutant/gangster <span style="color: red;"><b>Derek</b></span> -<span style="color: red;"><b>Giulio De Santi</b></span> (all the characters have deceivingly normal names) when she was late with money owed to him. Derek and his two sons set her on fire in a convincingly unpleasant sequence. The opening credits roll over her being wheeled into the hospital and worked on, her entire body one crisp and molten wad of skin. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">So Adam has not quite willingly called up a Demon that lives inside his back that helps drive him to find revenge. This demon also has given him supernatural powers that make him able to do things like punch a guy so hard he breaks though the cement wall, a half mile outside the building, sending him landing on, and destroying the car the villains are in. When Adam Chaplin hits someone their face explodes, gore showers everything. If someone tries to look at the demon their eyes burn out of their heads. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Imagine the gore of <span style="color: red;"><b>DEAD/ALIVE</b></span> being met with the brutality of <span style="color: red;"><b>STORY OF RIKKI </b></span>and you are in the ballpark or <span style="color: red;"><b>ADAM CHAPLIN</b></span>. I have no idea what the budget for the film is, but I know it is low, extremely low. But the production value is up on screen, the stunts, fights and special effects are all top of the line. Watching the final fifteen minutes where the main character lays waste to dozens of people, all I could keep thinking was "what could this guy do with a larger budget?"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Highly recommended. Right now it is doing a scant few theatrical engagements but will be hitting USA DVD very soon. If you see a chance to see this, jump on it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>SUICIDE (2003)</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>D. Raul Heimrich Yvonne Wunschell</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This shocker from Kosovo has been sitting on my shelf for the better part of 8 years. For whatever reason I have never gotten around to watching it until now. There is not much plot to it, a couple are wandering around video taping suicides for their death website. At first just through word of mouth, then as news of the site grows they get more and more people asking them to come witness their death. The more self inflicted killing they see the more tempted they become to lend a helping hand for the sake of good footage. Leading to a final death that is truly shocking because it is so fucking difficult to see where the special effects are.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The movie is basically a voyeuristic journey into death and hinges on which vignette is the most effective. It opens with a man walking up a long flight of stairs explaining to the camera the dozens of ways you could kill yourself and why he wont do any of those. He finally is about to jump off the ledge but can't bring himself to do it, running away. And slipping and falling out of a hole in the floor and severing his head on the way down. But it is his nonchalant discussion of suicide that is the creepiest part of the scene. A later scene with two girls in their 20's overdosing on pills is extremely harrowing and grim. The blonde girl keeps swigging vodka and taking more pills only to vomit them up (for real) immediately) while her girlfriend does not get sick, only sleepy and then finally dies. There is a guy who eats a shotgun but they cut away before impact thus blowing the whole feeling and making it too easy to see it is an effect. The guy who injects an air bubble into his vein is quite nasty too. And that one is all just acting. The movie gets all the details right; the ritualistic way each person takes off their wedding rings and watches, the difficulty in getting certain suicides to work, how each person panics at the end when they realize the true fatality of the situation. It is grim stuff folks. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Overall this is really just a freak show, but it is undeniable how effective of a freak show it is. It reminded me of the 70's experimental film <span style="color: red;"><b>TEENAGE WASTELAND</b></span> in which a realistic car crash aftermath is presented as totally real. The same thing is happening here. Certainly not for all tastes, hell even most tastes for that matter. But the movie achieves what it has set out to do. </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gxeWTiNk6Sg" width="420"></iframe>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-28861691518116088132012-10-08T14:56:00.000-04:002012-10-08T14:56:26.667-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLENGE movie #24 - WE'RE GOING TO EAT YOU <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999;">This early entry from Hong Kong wizard boy <span style="color: red;"><b>Tsui Hark </b></span>is full of energy, kung fu and some splashy gore. But it uses those things to mask that there is very little plot, no scares and tons of goofy comedy in the mix as well. It is as hyperactive as you would expect from this director and equally incoherent. But there is some fun to be had amidst the chaos. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Norman Chu </b></span>(once again as we saw him as the lead in <b><span style="color: red;">LEWD LIZARD</span></b>. No, I did not intentionally have a <span style="color: red;"><b>Norman Chu </b></span>double feature!) plays special <span style="color: red;"><b>Agent 999</b></span> who is on a small island looking for a criminal from his past named <span style="color: red;"><b>ROLEX (Melvin Wong)</b></span>. The island is overrun by mask wearing cannibals under order of the new chief of police. They are killing and eating people and giving a little of the left over meat to the mentally handicapped and poor villagers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">While this is a set up for a no holds barred gore fest, the movie instead chooses to be a slapstick comedy with lots of martial arts. The cannibals all fight with a series of people in long, drawn out, intricate Kung Fu sequences that play more like demo reels for another film job. There is also a strange use of real handicapped and deformed people for bit parts, under most circumstances I would be fine with this, but here they are often used a comedic relief such as the giant transvestite that keeps attempting to rape the various men in the story. It just comes off as poor taste. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">If you can turn off your expectations the movie is very fast paced and rarely boring. There is a couple of fight scenes that lead to some splashy gore and yest even a few laughs. But over all it should have been a lot more. </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oMHF3Di0D2M" width="560"></iframe>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-50581433722364207222012-10-08T03:47:00.002-04:002012-10-08T03:47:27.143-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLENGE Movie #23 - LEWD LIZARD (1985)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">LEWD LIZARD (1985) aka CHONG<br />D. Norman Chu</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This bit of total insanity from your friends in Hong Kong is easily one of the most outrageous ideas for a movie that I have witnessed in some time. A total gross out sexploitaion horror hybrid that aims to get a retching sound out of most anyone. Anyone but those with lizard fetishes that is.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The tortured insanity that passes as plot is as follows. A young man (played by director <span style="color: red;"><b>Norman Chu</b></span>) is spurned by his cute girlfriend because she has run off and married the local Mafiaso. She explains to him that she was more or less pushed into the marriage, but doesn't love his dumb ass anyway. She is much better off now. So while in a major depression our hero is hanging out on the beach and discovers dozens of tiny little lizards. No bigger than your pinky finger these guys are fast and unpredictable. So <span style="color: red;"><b>Chu </b></span>scoops them up and take a whole bunch of them home. Then suddenly he is peeping on women undressing, taking showers or hanging out at the beach. Why is he doing this? I am glad you asked because I asked the same question watching this filthy movie. He is stealing the panties of unsuspecting ladies. Stopping to sniff them to make sure they are saturated with the love juices of the women he stole them from. Soon it all makes sense as he uses the panties to concoct a potion that he then injects into the lizards (for real, yet another Hong Kong horror that PETA would love) sending the reptiles into a frenzy of pussy crazed lust!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">He stalks out various women that have spurned him, laughed at him or just generally pissed him off and attacks them. Pulling off there clothes in what looks to be a vicious rape. But instead he just dumps a beaker of the lizards onto the ladies and presto! They crawl into the women's underwear and right into the baby ovens. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Soon the ladies are writing around in pleasure as the phantom reptiles go to work. But as the women screech into ecstasy the lizards begin to eat they wear further into their supple bodies. Chu eventually meets a girl he doesn't hate (during one of the earlier scenes he screams out <i><b>"I HATE ALL WOMEN"!</b></i>) and they spend a day of happy romance. But she finds a jar of his sex addict lizards and all does not end well for her. Eventually he gets around to tormenting his ex, but some soul searching may be in order.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Frankly the movie is terrible, terrible acting, writing, direction and even cinematography, But what it lacks in coherency or even talent, it makes up for with sheer audacity. I guarantee you have not seen a movie like this one before. If you have you have been sinking into some fetishes that you probably shouldn't. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Review © Andrew Copp</span>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-33232910893339061402012-10-07T23:45:00.003-04:002012-10-07T23:45:55.877-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLENGE movie #22 - THE BEASTS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>THE BEASTS aka SHAN KOU aka THE BEASTS AND BLOODY TERROR (1980)</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>D. DENNIS YU<br />Bootleg</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">This Asian made horror film is basically<span style="color: red;"><b> I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE </b></span>meets <b><span style="color: red;">THE HILLS HAVE EYES </span></b>in the Chinese outback. The film is gritty, ugly and filled with unpleasant misogyny, but ultimately isn't all that good. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Within the first five minutes of the movie we have witnessed the real slaughter of a wild boar, a mouse and a snake. The movie is nothing if not really mean spirited. A brother and sister decide to go camping a few towns away. It doesn't take long for them to run afoul of the backwoods monsters who are terrorizing the small town. There are four normal guys and naturally one retarded cousin just like in every rape/revenge movie. These guys corner the sister in the woods and gang-rape her in a scene that, while sleazy, is for more restrained than you would expect. Her brother attempts to take on the thugs but they do him in, leaving him bleeding to death at the bottom of a trap/hole. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The sister ends up institutionalized from the trauma, leaving her muscle bound Father to hunt down and kill the criminal who violated his daughter and killed his son. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The problem with THE BEASTS is that the pacing is really all over the place. Nothing of interest happens in the first half hour except a lot of walking around to 80's pop music. Music that they in no way could have had permission to use such as AIR SUPPLY and THE POLICE. </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><br />THe last third with the Father taking his revenge has some splashy moments, but all the in between material is very questionable at best. The acting is atrocious and over the top, the cinematography is muddy and ugly, leaving not a lot to recommend. It is somewhat outrageous but ultimateely left me cold.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Review © Andy Copp</span>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-32582072976068989252012-10-05T19:25:00.000-04:002012-10-05T19:25:19.348-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLENGE Movie #21 - RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE aka LA VIOL DU VAMPIRE (1968)<br />D. JEAN ROLLIN</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Jean Rollin</b></span> is one of my favorite horror filmmakers of all time. But even with that said there are a handful of his films that I have not seen. But these new<span style="color: red;"><b> BLU RAY</b></span> releases from <span style="color: red;"><b>KINO</b></span> look to help me resolve that issue. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red;"><b>RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE</b></span> is Rollin's first feature length movie (His debut film <span style="color: red;"><b>THE NUDE VAMPIRE </b></span>is not quite feature length). But all his themes are present in this early film. The nostalgic mood, the return to the same beach, Lady Vampires in very little clothing, even his trope of the Vampires are not hurt by the sun if they cannot see it, hence blind vampires can walk in the daylight, is here and accounted for. The film is actually two very loosely connected short films wrapped into one. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The first story deals with four vampire sisters (one of whom was raped decades before and therefor hates men) who live in a villa. Several psych major young people arrive and take it upon themselves to "cure" the sisters as it is believed their Vampirism is actually just a mental condition. It doesn't turn out well for anyone. The second story picks up on the beach where the first one ends and deals with the Queen of The Vampires and her attempts to create more living dead to do her bidding and the scientists she does in during the process. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Even for Rollin the movie makes little to no sense. It is really just a fever dream of eroticism. Incredible, lush photography presents amazing images of naked flesh and bloodlust. The whole thing is like a half remembered dream that makes you smile. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The Blu Ray is absolutely gorgeous, with such clarity you feel like you can reach into the screen and touch the actors. There is some fine extras including a rather long making of, an older intro by Rollin himself, trailers and some fantastic Liner Notes. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This is yet another in the very long line of holiday themed slasher films that were released in the wake of <span style="color: red;"><b>HALLOWEEN</b></span>. But this is not <b><span style="color: red;">HALLOWEEN</span></b>, it isn't even<span style="color: red;"><b> FRIDAY THE 13th</b></span>. Hell this isn't even <span style="color: red;"><b>GRADUATION DAY</b></span>!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The set up is interesting though. On New Years Eve while the standard end of the year TV show is being broadcast a psycho begins calling the host on the year threatening to kill someone she knows, every hour until the show goes off the air. He starts making good right at midnight killing a nurse in an insane asylum. Somehow the cops get it in their heads that he is killing someone at midnight in each time zone. But that doesn't actually seem to be the case as he works his way back to the hotel of the tired, past middle age sex symbol host. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The movie is too concerned with the melodrama of the Host's kid or her ex husband who we do not see for a large portion of the movie. If it isn't the melodrama then it is long padded scenes of really shitty pre new-wave bands playing during the show. There is actually very little horror on the film.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The movie reminded me a little of <span style="color: red;"><b>VISITING HOURS (1981)</b></span> as it is clearly a larger budgeted production trying to mine the success of other indie horror films of the time. But where as<span style="color: red;"><b> VISITING HOURS </b></span>is very aware of what kind of film it is, never afraid to do what it is needed to be both scary and attention grabbing, <span style="color: red;"><b>NEW YEAR'S EVIL </b></span>tries to be too polite and fails because of it. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR (1980) - Ep #5 THE HOUSE THAT BLED TO DEATH</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Yet another episode in the 1980 British horror TV series. This one with the very scary sounding name <span style="color: red;"><b>THE HOUSE THAT BLED TO DEATH</b></span>. Unfortunately it is no where near as frightening as the title suggests. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The episode starts with an elderly couple enjoying a cup of tea. The man shiftily poisons his wife. When she is paralyzed he takes a large middle eastern knife off the wall and proceeds to carve her up. Flash forward a couple of year and the house where this atrocity occurred is no being sold to a young couple with a little girl. The first day there the little girl sees blood pouring out of the wall and the wife is almost gassed when she can't shut off a valve. The husband of course sees none of this. The knives from the first scene reappearing after they throw them out. They become friendly with the couple across the street (who spy on them fucking in a scene that I am sure didn't make it to American TV). Soon the family cat shows up dead and mutilated and the friends from across the way are being tormented anytime they are over. The haunting is well underway and the ghosts of the previous owners are apparently none to happy about the new family. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The whole thing is way slower than it should be as things just seem to limp along, until a set piece happens. Though the kids birthday party that turns into a literal bloodbath is pretty awesome. I also give them credit for the double twist ending that in fact kind of makes it all worth while. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">I had high hopes for this episode as the title is great. But it is only a middling effort for the series. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">I also watched the Season three Halloween episode of COMMUNITY- HORROR FICTION IN 7 EASY STEPS on Hulu. COMMUNITY is consistently the funniest show on TV (though now BOB'S BURGERS is giving it a run for its money) and I love their holiday episodes. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This one has Britta believing one of the gang is a psychopath because of the Jungian psych tests she forced them all to take. So each of the group proceeds to tell a ghost story while Britta tries to figure out who is crazy. Abed tells his own twisted, hyper logical take on the typical cabin in the woods tale, Troy has a great tale of him an Abed as "Awesome Fighter Pilots" being tormented by a psychotic mad scientist. Pierce tells an obscenely racist tale of punk black kids (Troy and Abed - in brown face) trying to break into his place and interrupting him sexing up the ladies of the group. Annie has the best as she tells a Twilight like tale of lusty vampires that ends with a werewolf twist. Naturally all of them are crazy, with the results not quite being what anyone thought because of Jeff. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The episode is a great homage to many different horror films from CANDYMAN to EVIL DEAD to FRIDAY THE 13th pt 2. Great stuff all around. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Actor <span style="color: red;"><b>Michael Biehn</b></span> apparently had a blast working on <span style="color: red;"><b>Robert Rodiguiz's Grindhouse</b></span> parody <span style="color: red;"><b>PLANET TERROR</b></span>. So much that he was inspired to make his own Grindhouse movie with his girlfriend <span style="color: red;"><b>Jennifer Blanc.</b></span> So together they wrote and produced <span style="color: red;"><b>THE VICTIM</b></span> with Biehn taking the directorial reigns for the first time. The result is a movie that is endearing in the earnestness that it exudes. But suffers from a lot of the first time director blues.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">The story is pure pulp novel fodder. A couple of strippers (<span style="color: red;"><b>Jennifer Blanc</b></span> and genre workhorse <span style="color: red;"><b>Danielle Harris</b></span>) go out for an afternoon of naughtiness with a couple of cops (<span style="color: red;"><b>Ryan Honey and Denny Kirkwood</b></span>) but when Harris dies during some rough sex play, it puts her friend on the run. She runs right to the cabin of Hermit <span style="color: red;"><b>Michael Biehn</b></span> who doesn't take nicely to being disturbed and a fairly violent bit of cat and mouse ensues. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">On the plus side the acting is fine all the way around. The entire cast clearly is in on the sense of play and gives it all they got. When the movie gets down to tacks, it gets really violent with a head crushing that could stand up next to <span style="color: red;"><b>DRIVE</b></span> or <span style="color: red;"><b>IRREVERSIBLE</b></span>. The script, by no means great, at least takes a fair amount of time setting up the female characters and their friendship. Through several flashbacks we get to know them, which adds a lot to the base of the movie. The twist in the final reel, though not shocking, is a nice turn of events. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">On the down side the movie has some really clunky direction like having characters talk directly into the camera when they are talking to each other. Or some severe padding. We used to tease a friend of mine who made backyard movies that his driving scenes existed just to fill enough time for him to play a song he liked. Well here that is actually true as there is a driving across the mountains scene that goes on for several minutes so we can fill time and hear the entire music cue. There is also an embarrassing opening credit scene that apes <span style="color: red;"><b>SE7EN</b></span> so much that it becomes really funny. Right down to the <span style="color: red;"><b>NINE INCH NAILS</b></span> rip off music. Throw in some really eye-straining day for night photography as it all adds up to hurting the final film. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red;"><b>THE VICTIM</b></span> is not a ground-breaker, but it is diverting enough for an hour and a half and I hope <span style="color: red;"><b>Michael Biehn</b></span> makes some more films. </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZXZCQMCqzHE" width="560"></iframe>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-63677319161096921092012-10-02T01:55:00.000-04:002012-10-02T01:55:35.372-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLENGE Movie 17 - HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR 2 more ep.<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR (1980)<br />SYNAPSE FILMS</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Two more episodes of the 1980 British TV show thanks to the five disc set from <span style="color: red;"><b>Synapse Films</b></span>. I watched <span style="color: red;">RUDE AWAKENING</span> (episode #3) and <span style="color: red;"><b>GROWING PAINS</b></span> (episode #4). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red;"><b>RUDE AWAKENING </b></span>stars <span style="color: red;"><b>Denholm Elliot</b></span> as a surveyor with a sleep problem. When we meet him he is feeling up his shapely but stupid secretary. A costumer comes in and asks him to come and look at his expensive house so it can be put on the market. He goes and checks it out and while there he sees his dead wife fall out of the dumbwaiter. But when the suits of armor start attacking him he wakes up. His nagging wife is still alive and he heads to work. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">This basically turns into a horror version of<span style="color: red;"><b> GROUNDHOG DAY </b></span>with our hero dreaming his day over and over again, but different each time. The players are the same, but the circumstances are different. It gets pretty extreme with some brain surgery and the leads trapped in a building being demolished but unfortunately it all adds up to a ending you see a mile off. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;"><span style="color: red;"><b>GROWING PAINS</b></span> is much better. A ten year old boy is messing around in his Father's lab. The kid eats some concoction his dad had been testing on rabbits. Soon he is in the backyard hallucinating, then dies. His broken parents end up adopting another child. A kid that is so well behaved it is downright creepy. The mother seems to incessantly bitch at the poor kid and the Dad hides in his basement lab working. We start to get the idea of why the other kid was so disconnected. Soon the house starts showing signs of being haunted. A rabbit shows up dead. the family dog loses its shit and eats the whole lab and attacks the Dad. The kid is clearly back to stake his claim on the family. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Both episodes have good acting and nice production values. <span style="color: red;"><b>RUDE AWAKENING</b></span> is not bad but <span style="color: red;"><b>GROWING PAINS</b></span> is actually very good. I will check out more soon. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999;">Review © Andrew Copp</span>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-15588245167738151132012-10-01T00:53:00.000-04:002012-10-01T00:53:30.034-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLENGE MOVIE #16 THE TALL MAN (2012)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666;">I had heard a lot of poor word of mouth about this movie, the sophomore effort from <span style="color: red;"><b>Pascal Laugier</b></span> director of <span style="color: red;"><b>MARTYRS</b></span>. Of course it isn't going to live up to that film because it is one of the best, most important horror films of the last decade. But I am pleased to say that<span style="color: red;"><b> THE TALL MAN</b></span> is a vivid, brave and intelligent horror film that is for grown ups. It may not be as visceral as his previous film, but it makes up for it with great plot twists and fantastic acting. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Structurally it is very similar to <span style="color: red;"><b>MARTYRS</b></span> in that it opens with one storyline and half way through switches gears dramatically to explore the story from a very different point of view. even the last couple of minutes have a slight shadow to his previous film. <span style="color: red;"><b>THE TALL MAN</b></span> deals with a small mountain mining town in which the industry has basically vanished. Also vanishing is the children in the town and a legend has grown up to explain it. That a mysterious, probably supernatural force called <span style="color: red;"><b>THE TALL MAN</b></span> has snatched the kids. Local Nurse <span style="color: red;"><b>Julia (Jessica Biel)</b></span> is doing what she can to take care of the people in the region. But she is a single mom herself and very busy trying to keep her own home life together. Then one night the Tall Man comes calling for her son, leading to a harrowing chase in which he is snatched away. But when she returns to the town, battered, bloody and mentally shaken everyone in the town seems to be against her, and harboring some sort of grudge...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">To say anymore would be to give too much away. The film goes to some very interesting places including some rather savage social commentary. The movie is very intense, growing more so as the film progresses and turns. The ending is surprisingly touching and effective. <br /><br />Just see the movie. It is on Netflix instant so there is no reason to not give this one the time of day. </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s_QqA0sDMec" width="560"></iframe>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-10609693051660635762012-09-30T21:59:00.002-04:002012-10-01T01:06:04.348-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLANGE <span style="color: #666666;">Tomorrow is the first of October and I have been at the challenge for a week. I have watched fifteen movies in that week which puts me already in line to beat last year and half way there if I intend to hit 30 movies. But I want to try to nail as many as possible between now and then. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">As always the rules are that I have to watch a horror film that I have never seen before. Idealy one a day until Halloween day. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">So far the two that stand out have been Denison Ramahlo's NINJAS, one of the most unpleasant and brutal horror films I have seen in a while and Pascal Laugier's follow up to MARTYRS, THE TALL MAN which is a refreshing horror film for grown ups. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Andy C</span>Andy Chttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17799134653910688356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7556971271083306546.post-77155059045150413302012-09-30T21:50:00.000-04:002012-09-30T21:50:38.372-04:00HALLOWEEN HORROR CHALLENGE MOVIE #15 NIGHTWISH (1988)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #666666;">Surprisingly good late 80's sci-fi/horror potboiler with decent acting, tight direction and fantastic special effects by the then just getting started <span style="color: red;"><b>KNB Effects</b></span>. It starts out with a zombie/slasher scene in which <span style="color: red;"><b>Elizabeth Kaitan</b></span> is threatened and stalked. Turns out she is part of an experiment at the local college in which the students go into a deprivation tank and have their dreams studied. The idea being they can effect their dreams with enough energy. The teacher heading up the experiment is a genuinely psycho old man who is going to lead them into more trouble. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">They are a little supernatural investigative team and the teacher sends them to an old farmhouse. The legend of the surrounding area talks of contamination, inbreeding and how the people that still live around there are mentally handicapped. Buffed out <span style="color: red;"><b>Brian Thompson</b></span> (later on the <span style="color: red;"><b>X-Files</b></span>) drives the kids out and is clearly loose in the screw dept. But it doesn't take long before things are going crazy. the kids are kept prisoner by the teacher and the haunted house starts taking over their minds. Soon Aliens are thrown into the mix. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The last third of this movie breaks out some unexpected plot twists and some seriously unsettling special effects. This is one of those movies that is actually really creative and has some nasty stuff to offer. Why it doesn't have more of a following than a lot of stuff from that era is a mystery. I had only vaguely heard of it and that was because of some documentary on KNB I had seen years ago that showed some of the effects. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">It also was competently unplanned to watch another movie with <span style="color: red;"><b>Elizabeth Kaitan</b></span> in it. It was just some weird synergy that two movies in a row had her as the start (and I was clueless about either one). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">This is on Netflix instant so it doesn't even cost much to take a look at it. <br /><br />Review © Andrew Copp</span><br />
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