I guess I’ll start by saying my review will not be like the others. I was a bit disappointed and confused by this film, but sure enough, other reviewers blew this movie long and hard. I will not.
The basic premise is that a couple (played by Emmanuelle Beart and Rufus Sewell) travel into the dangerous jungles of Burmese looking for their missing son thinking he was captured by human traffickers. Rambo did not escort them, so they are not safe. Wife Janet slowly descends into madness while husband Paul still supports her lunacy. They run into monkeys and feral children. This ends badly inevitably.
There are a ton of comparisons to THE EMERALD FOREST, APOCALYPSE NOW, BEGOTTEN, and so on. The strong point of this film is obviously the gorgeous cinematography and the eerie music. But that is hardly enough to hold a horror fan’s interest. This is the type of film that will divide fans straight down the middle. You’ll have some calling it genius and others calling it boring as hell. I feel a little of both.
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Holy moly! Odette Yustman stars as Casey, a pretty chick in panties who must figure out why a creepy little kid is peeping on her. Instead of putting on clothes, she figures out that there is a ghost from some Jewish folklore, that nobody has ever heard about, that wants to be born. Plus some shit apparently went down at Aushwitz back in the day. Damn. An exorcism is performed, the day is saved, and I got to go home.
My Name is Bruce is his second directorial outing after the critically panned The Man with the Screaming Brain. But no worries. Bruce has come back with a more entertaining ride and is slipping back into his former Evil Dead clothing. Well, sort of. Bruce plays himself, the actor who played Ash from the Evil Dead series, who becomes a real life hero when he is asked to protect a small town from an unleashed demon.
A group of friends are stranded in the woods after their car breaks down. They stumble up on the house of a sadistic family and find their secret locked downstairs. Ah hell, I’ll tell you it is a metal mouth with an appetite for human flesh. Sound familiar?
You’ve probably seen the TV promos where John Waters introduces love and murder vignettes on CourtTV. So are these Real Tales From Darkside any good? The show is just as cheesy as you could hope from the guy who made Divine eat dog shit in Pink Flamingos.
Socially retarded Caleb follows nude model Ilene home one day. He decides to sell her and her 3 girlfriends out to his psychotic male centric family to get back in their good graces after showing up at home late. When the 4 lovely ladies take a trip to a cabin, the Cuckoo Clan show up looking to party with them. BYOKAN. Bring Your Own Knives And Nubs. Add in some local country bumpkins and two cops trying to piece together a crime and you have a recipe for some kind of wild night.
WRESTLEMANIAC is about an insane wrestler named El Mascarado (Rey Misterio Sr.) who apparently escaped from a loony bin after having 50 lobotomies. El Mascarado hunts down a porn film crew in Mexico and kills them one by one by ripping their faces (masks) off. Yep, 1 brain… yet 50 lobotomies. Go ahead and do the math on that one.
PRETTY is a short horror film about a young girl whose sole wish is to be the prettiest girl there is, an obsession that may ultimately destroy her.
I don’t know how to describe NOBODY LOVES ALICE other than to say it is an updated retelling of FATAL ATTRACTION. The catch is that the unlucky bastard picked on by the manipulative woman doesn’t actually cheat on his lady. In fact, he is set up by his would-be fiancée in an attempt to test his fidelity.
City Slab is a horror magazine that also specializes in fiction stories. This glossy mag totaled almost 80 pages with mostly color except for the fiction tales, which didn’t need it anyway.
Welcome to our second VIDEO interview! First we crashed FearZone.com’s interview with Todd Farmer (Watch Here). Then our sexy Molly Celaschi hunted down the man who created horror legend Jason Voorhees, the wonderful Victor Miller riding segways of all things (see picture). So watch as Molly and Victor talk Sean S. Cunningham, the Friday the 13th remake and Hayden Panettiere!
The book covers a zombie invasion in the mountains of the California Bay Area. When a meteorite hits during a geological school trip, all hell breaks loose. One survivor unwittingly carries the virus down the mountain, which causes it to spread further. Character stories involving campers and a paintball competition weave in and out until the final five are making their planned escape back to civilization.
This particular grindhouse experience starts with the sleazy DON’T ANSWER THE PHONE with some obscure trailers for druggie apesploitation HORROR HIGH and the ridiculous looking WEREWOLF VS. THE VAMPIRE WOMEN.
Who doesn’t like John Woo? Woo is one of the greatest action directors today lending great style to films like BROKEN ARROW or FACE/OFF. So wouldn’t you like to step into the shoes of one of his characters and shoot the hell out of things? The answer is Yes and the method is John Woo’s “Stranglehold” video game. Granted, I am not usually into PC games unless they are of the SIM-variety, but for an action-packed game this couldn’t be a better choice.
FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (formerly PLANE DEAD) is about… you guessed it, the undead being unleashed on a plane. Lethal cargo is hauled in the hull of a commercial airline on its way to Paris when hell breaks loose and the zombie infection spreads quickly leaving the living no where to run.
