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?
Now you can’t give a horror movie reviewer a movie like this and expect me not to pick up on all the “homages” to classic horror films. The sledgehammer whack is a near copy of TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. You even have a Bill Moseley character straight out of THE DEVIL’S REJECTS sporting a bloodied goatee and a gross pot belly. Clint Glenn runs in nothing but his undies, a veil of blood, and a chainsaw accessory. Tell me you don’t think of Christian Bale in AMERICAN PSYCHO. Luckily for Glenn, and the lady viewers, he can pull it off. Yummy.
And while some of these mentions may annoy the hell out of some people who would refer to them as rip offs, I think some of these cases should be considered more like updates. For instance, everyone knows the obligatory “dinner scene” that accompanies most cannibal or torture porn flicks. Well, surprise! It’s here too. But at least Nott made it his own. When I saw the victims sitting around a table, I rolled my eyes. But then it turned into an interesting game when the victims are prodded into selling out their own friends and negotiating body parts. You will giggle with glee when you hear one girl say, “Cut the bitch’s eyes out.”
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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.
This is Part 2 of the Leslie Easterbrook interview where we explore her recent horror films. The above quote is in reference to her amazing role as Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie’s THE DEVIL’S REJECTS. She has subsequently appeared in Zombie’s HALLOWEEN and several independent horror projects.
That is actress Leslie Easterbrook talking about the power her characters has over moviegoers that seems to extend into other countries. Leslie is famous for playing Sgt. Callahan in the POLICE ACADEMY series and most recently being in horror films like THE DEVILS REJECTS. In Part 1 of the interview, Leslie talks about her roles as strong women, mentoring young girls in real life, a betrayal during the making of PRIVATE RESORT, and the proposed POLICE ACADEMY 8.
Young Robin thinks his new stepmother is a witch after seeing some suspicious activities. Robin plots to kill her and begins to lose his sanity. Is everything he sees real or imagined?
