As in this girl has special powers due to how she came to be, not that she's giving out presents or anything. Though admittedly, it would be kinda nice to get a present right now. I mean, who doesn't love free stuff? In the very near future, the world sucks. Athlete's Foot has basically evolved … Continue reading The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
As a general rule, I'm not into found footage films. It's not that The Blair Witch Project hurt me as a child, or that Cannibal Holocaust murdered my cat or anything; when done well, it can prove to be a fascinating means of presenting a story in a unique way. Unfortunately, in both of those … Continue reading Frankenstein’s Army (2013)
Zombie horror movies. I couldn't tell you how many of them I've seen over the years by now. There just doesn't seem like much new that these kinds of films can give us, and then, BAM! Out of nowhere, you suddenly find one that makes the subgenre interesting, if not necessarily relevant. It's weird how … Continue reading Train to Busan (2016)
Take a joke about zombie beavers. Now imagine it as a feature length production. Yeah, that's pretty much what you get here. Gotta give it some points for being honest and straightforward. Basically, Bill Burr and John Mayer are terrible truckers who hit a deer and drop toxic waste into a lake full of beavers. … Continue reading Zombeavers (2014)
I have a personal rule: don't fuck with voodoo. This movie is a perfect example of why. Sugar Hill's boyfriend owns a successful club, but the local Houston mob want it, so they murder him. Since Sugar desires revenge, she reaches out to Mama Maitresse, a voodoo priestess who manages to summon up Baron Samedi. … Continue reading Sugar Hill (1974)
Ok, so Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo are cops, right? As in buddy cops, right? As in partners. And they have to solve a string of jewelry heists where the robbers take way too many bullets to drop, right? Ok, yeah, and then during an investigation at a pharmaceuticals company, Treat Williams gets killed, ok? … Continue reading Dead Heat (1988)
Ah, comedy horror. This movie is terrible, but it's ridiculously, hilariously terrible. I love C.H.U.D. 2. I know I have bad taste. I don't care. C.H.U.D. 2 is hilariously awful and awfully hilarious. It's incredibly stupid, it knows it, and it runs with it. Laugh at the CHUDs behavior. Thrill to its theme song, which … Continue reading C.H.U.D. II: Bud the C.H.U.D. (1989)
Well, here we are, at the end of the Blind Dead series. Night of the Seagulls is the fourth and final movie in Amando de Ossorio's tetralogy about blind undead Knights Templar, and once again it reinvents the formula. No longer are the Templars mere Satan worshippers; now they're visitors from France 600 years ago, … Continue reading Night of the Seagulls (1975)
My experience with the Blind Dead series continues with the third entry in the tetralogy. This time the formula has been changed up so that all the action takes place on a boat full of men who had sympathized and allied with the Knights Templar but had instead been lost on the high seas and … Continue reading The Ghost Galleon (1974)
Two years after Spanish director Amando de Ossorio finished his first Blind Dead movie, he released a sequel, El Ataque de los Muertos Sin Ojos, AKA Return of the Blind Dead or Return of the Evil Dead. Unfortunately no, it has nothing to do with the Evil Dead series, instead returning to the concept of … Continue reading Return of the Blind Dead (1973)
