Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January, 2010

Castle Freak (1995) - Stuart Gordon

So I am picking these movies at random and I have already gotten 3 Stuart Gordon movies, each one was a first viewing. This guy is a Horror genius, he really knows his stuff. He is really on spot with putting Jeffery Combs in each film too, alongside Barbara Crampton. This guy is running up the list of my favorite horror directors. Not only is this the third Stuart Gordon movie that i have watched like in the last month, this is the third H.P. Lovecraft one too (This is Lovecraftian right?) Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton are married and they have/had two kids one of them is dead and one of them is blind and its all Mr. Combs' fault. With the exception of the dead one, they go to this castle that he inherited and its creeeeppppyyy. Remember that episode of the Simpson's where Bart has a brother hidden away in the attic and it eats fish heads? Well this is just like that but instead of fish heads its boobs... You heard it. Boobs... So if you really like HP Love

Halloween 2 (2009) - Rob Zombie

I had been very critical of the first movie. I trusted that Rob Zombie would treat this franchise well. I just didn't know where he was going with it. The first remake was monumental, or at least it felt that way. It had a new found brutality that was added into the mix. It was different to say the least. This one however, felt egregious right from the get-go.  Michael Myers looks like Zakk Wylde in this sequel to the Rob Zombie remake. Myers is still on the loose continuing his rampage from the first movie. He brutally massacres anyone in his way. His sister, Laurie, has been admitted to the local hospital after suffering from her wounds earlier as seen in the first movie. Doctor Loomis returns as well as the Sheriff from the first film, Brad Douriff.  This film has no problem of revealing Michael Myers much more than the any other movie had done in the franchise. He speaks, he grunts, he has a beard. The beard must be the source of his power. Zombie also explore

The Monster of Camp Sunshine or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nature (1964) - Ferenc Leroget

One of the dullest movies I have ever seen. I could pretty much leave it at that. Aside from it being dull, this hippy/beatnik/nudist film is weird and as important as an ant farting. The movie is of course X due to the nudity. However, it isn't a drawing point. It's pointless and boring. Nothing special. The antagonist is a goof ball that doesn't seem threatening even while he is killing people.  The acting is horrible and the quality is terrible. The soundtrack is atrocious it doesn't fit a single scene. It sounds like I am watching this movie under water too. It has too many echos and barely any dialog. The dialog it does have is in the form of narration and dub's. It's horrible.  It leaves me with nothing to say.  Shadow of camera and cameraman cast on sunbather during nudist camp montage.

The Curse (1987) - David Keith

Wil Wheaton is a terrible actor, well not terrible but not good. The Curse from 1987 is a good example of his acting chops. Here we have a redneck farming family who have a strange asteroid or egg or something crash land in their crops. Wil Wheaton plays a farmboy who's "loose" mother sleeps around with the help and a stepfather who is a backwoods country christian bible thumper. I see this movie as being inspiration to Eli Roth for his picture "Cabin Fever" where almost the exact same storyline happens. Asteroid crashes and oozes out some weird stuff that gets into the water supply for this small farm. The inhabitants of the farm eat the food that was nourished by this tainted water and drink it as well transforming themselves into walking melting candles with super strength. Wil Wheaton is too smart for this trickery though and spends the entire hour and a half fighting off the Zombified versions of his Hick Stepfather and Fat Pig of a Step Brother.

From Beyond (1986) - Stuart Gordon

A fun HP Lovecraft flick, From Beyond is one of the finest rides you will go on as a Lovecraft fan. The storyline is cheesy, the acting is sub par, and the graphics are laughable. I would love for someone to do a higher budget Lovecraft film, this is one of the best we have right now. Jeffery Combs and Barbara Crampton both return in this gem fresh off of Re-Animator. Ken Foree is also in this as a pretty cool "heavy" you may remember him from the original Dawn of the Dead. This was again made in the 80's quite possibly the greatest era in horror movie history.  Dr. Crawford Tillinghast and Dr. Edward Petorius invent a machine that can "awaken" your pineal gland and make you aware of the real world around you. It is too dangerous though when Dr. Petorius is killed and Dr. Katherine McMichaels is turned into a mad sexual deviant. Katherine, Crawford, and Bubba try to fight off the impending doom that is warding towards them. This movie has a specia

Meateater (1979) - Derek Savage

B-Movie paradise with this little POS movie that I found at Goodwill a few months ago. Meateater or The Meateater is really a bizarre little trip to a abandoned movie theater where an old projectionist, with an obsession with a girl named jean, is terrorizing the new owners! There is really no real mystery and the movie does move along with shameless plugs for random meat packing companies. This really kind of reminds me of an old 80's B Flick called Parents with Randy Quaid, really Bizarre. I don't know if the Director of this flick was paying attention to his shots because alot is cut out. It just might of been in the transfer from film to VHS but it looks horrible. The acting is pretty good considering they didn't have much money. The storyline is pretty solid all the way through with not many side trails. This really is actually a well done POS. On the horror scale, nothing about this really scared me. It could probably pass today as an episode of "Are y

Creepshow (1982) - George Romero

Creepshow is the quintessential eighties flick. It it's every high point on my scary movie scale. It is and always will be one of the greatest horror movies ever made. First introduced to me when I was six. I stayed up late one night and snuck out of my room to watch the movie that my dad had rented. Needless to say, I had insane nightmares that night. Steven King and George Romero team up to bring you some really terrorizing tales of the macabre. With 5 stories each with an awesome title and introduction. The prologue and epilogue also paint a neat little tale of horrific revenge. The film has an ensemble cast with Hal Holbrook, Tom Atkins, Tom Savini, Ed Harris, Stephen King, Lesley Neilsen, Ted Danson, Fritz Weaver, Adrienne Barbeau, and E. G. Marshall with most of them doing a great job. Leslie Neilsen is in one of his rare "straight man" roles and does a great job of being a villain. The story's are pretty evenly rated. They all have a good amount of s

Dead Air (2009) - Corbin Bernsen

Dead Air is a shitty version of Pontypool , a movie that was released a few months prior to this. This movie is directed by Psych actor Corbin Bernsen. It brings together both actor Bill Mosley and Patricia Tallman who worked previously on the late 80's remake of Night of the Living Dead . Seeing them together again on film is pretty cool i have to admit, but this is nothing like the Night of the Living Dead remake. This movie is really, really bad. Mosley is the best actor in the film and that's not saying much, this movie uses really little of the Zombie lore and preys much more on Post 9/11 fear. A cheap trick if you ask me. It makes Corbin Bernsen look like a bitter patriot. Chalk this movie up with Zombies of Mass Destruction or American Zombie.  The movie is so over saturated with political overtones, that I can't even begin commenting on the horrible acting of the Zombies. The usual shuffle is replaced with mindless meandering. They look stoned, not

Raw Force / Kung Fu Cannibals (1982) - Edward D. Murphey

Soooo  this is a really weird low budget crap-fest that doesn't let up on its invasion of your attention. This is really a fun movie to watch with friends maybe due to the less than B-Movie acting, or the weird Hitler type villain. I really kind of enjoyed this mad romp. This is my first horror film from the Philippines . The story line jumps everywhere and it makes this film that much more enjoyable. The movie has something to do with a group of Martial Arts instructors (Douche-bags) on a cruise to Spider Skull island or something like that (Warriors Island). Little do they know that on this island is where a group of really insane, and i'm talking bat shit crazy, monks control the Zombies of past fierce Martial Arts Warriors. What gets defecated onto film is one and a half hours of Exploitation and general craziness.  If you are a hardcore fan of scary movies this really won't do anything for you as its not very scary and has minimal amounts of fright. It do

Damien: The Omen 2 (1978) - Don Taylor

The VHS section at Goodwill's are chalk full of gems like this one. This horror, and I use the term lightly, film is pretty hilarious. It is dated and cheap and those two together provide for some really fun laugh out loud moments. I know this is supposed to be a scary horror movie. It's not. It is just an underwhelming sequel with no direction or creativity. The movie continues with the story of Damien the Antichrist child from the first movie. In this film, Damien is a teenager and he learns that he is put here by Satan to do his bidding. He becomes self-aware I suppose. It is a really good sounding story that just doesn't pan out very well. It is just really... blah. Even the actors seem bored. Unintentionally funny and frighteningly boring. I hope that makes sense. I would love to share with you my two favorite deaths from the film. Firstly, The woman that gets her eyes pecked out by satanic flocks of crows then stumbles into traffic only to be hit by a truck. Appa