Review: The Burrowers

June 30, 2009

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Director: JT Petty
Year: 2008
Country: USA
In regard to my recent spate of negative reviews and outright hatred for most films fellow horror bloggers seem to love, I was met with this reply on Twitter when I voiced my excitement for my soon-to-arrive copy of The Burrowers, writer/director JT Petty’s popular and well-received creature flick:
PeterSHall @Bradmchargue If [...]

Review: Abominable

June 27, 2009

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Director: Ryan Schifirin
Year: 2006
Country: USA
“So bad it’s good” is a common phrase when dealing with made-for-TV horror and science fiction films. It’s clear these films won’t be the next Citizen Kane, but merely fodder for insomnia or a rousing rendition of Mystery Science Theater 3000, and that’s all we should come to expect from any [...]

Daybreakers trailer

June 26, 2009

The trailer for Daybreakers has hit the interblags, and while I’m not expecting much, it does look like a fun fuckin’ movie, on par with Doomsday but not retarded or completely unoriginal.

And is that…Placebo playing over the end of the trailer? Awful, awful choice.
For fun racial musings, check out Horror’s Not Dead’s piece on [...]

RIP MJ

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Two weeks…

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One month…
We must all fear ZOMBIE MICHAEL!!!
Your thoughts, Horatio?

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Man, I just don’t care that he died. I mean, it sucks and all, but only insofar as he was a person who died and it sucks when people die. I don’t care about his past or his music, and I personally didn’t know the [...]

Review: Dumplings (Three…Extremes)

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Director: Fruit Chan
Year: 2004
Country: Hong Kong
I’m not going to beat around the bush here: Dumplings is everything a good horror film ought to be.
Leaving much to the imagination though remaining explicit in its unmitigated morbidity, Dumplings tells the story of the lengths an aging actress will go to to regain her youth. In order to [...]

Zappa lives on.

June 25, 2009

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Rob Zombie is the reincarnation of Frank Zappa.

R.164 FRANK ZAPPA 75

Am I the only one who sees it?

The Box promises more of the same, and The Saturn Awards are just plain ridiculous.

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Based on the Richard Matheson short story “Button, Button,” which was adapted into a Twilight Zone episode, The Box synopsis belies the Saw-like qualities found in the trailer. B-D mentions a particular grievance with the use of the Saw theme, though I find this less of an annoyance than the fact that the movies bares [...]

And the story begins…

June 23, 2009

…with a house.

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A man.

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And a little girl.

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To be continued…

Review: Dance of the Dead

June 22, 2009

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Director: Gregg Bishop
Year: 2008
Country: USA
When Dance of the Dead, the independent zombie comedy written by Joe Ballarini and directed by Gregg Bishop began, I immediately drew similarities between it and Cemetery Man, that relatively under appreciated Italian zombie flick that features the fine acting of Rupert Everett and amazing tits of this babe. A cemetery [...]

Spierig Bros. next film – Daybreakers

Undead, the the zombie-alien mashup from first time writing/directing team the Spierig Brothers, was to me a monumental disappointment. What started as a hilarious and bloody good zombie movie eventually degraded into a near-nonsensical alien flick that sucked all the entertainment out of what could have been a solid zombie film.
Despite this, I am looking [...]