adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 16, 2020 3:30:26 GMT -5
Leprechaun *Amazon Prime* I always remember this movie for Wayne terrorizing Garth with his impersonation of the title character in the second Wayne’s World. It took me almost twenty seven years to actually get around to seeing this. It’s also notable for having pre-Friends Jennifer Aniston back when she was actually really hot. I wonder when the last time she called Warwick Davis was? Probably a desperation call trying to get a cameo in Star Wars. The movie is pretty dumb. For a horror/comedy it wasn’t too funny. Or scary. I read that they amped the gore up to appeal to an older market and I really wonder what the original cut was like. Because this wasn’t violent or gory at all. Not scary either (not that that’s what I was looking for) so I don’t know what Garths problem with it was. Warwick Davis’ “Leprechaun” was pretty funny in parts. But there are way better horror/comedies. I suggest the second and third Sleepaway Camps.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Nov 16, 2020 8:07:30 GMT -5
... Jennifer Aniston is STILL really good looking. Just sayin'
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Nov 16, 2020 17:16:25 GMT -5
My review of The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
Plot: Kharis, the 3,000-year-old mummy from ancient Egypt, is resurrected once again and seeks out a young woman in Massachusetts who may be the reincarnate of Princess Ananka.
When the Universal monsters were permanently relegated to B-movie status in the mid 1940s, The Mummy series used it as an opportunity to churn out as many low-effort sequels as possible, each going further and further off the rails than the last. It’s admirable in a way; no other series said in so many words to damn it all to hell and just dished out the goods everyone wanted to see. The Mummy’s Ghost is more of the same but at just 61 minutes, it more than makes for adequate light entertainment.
The sequels, more or less, follow the same story: A follower of Andoheb, an aging high priest who I think dies at least 3 times over the course of the series, resurrects the mummy Kharis with tana leaves. Casual mayhem ensues, a woman is kidnapped because she looks like Princess Ananka, blah blah blah. Ghost doesn’t stray too far from this formula, this time with the slight twist that our heroine may actually have a spiritual connection to ancient Egyptian princess. In an inexplicable decision set by the previous film The Mummy’s Tomb, the events of Ghost take place in the fictional town of Mappleton, Massachusetts because, as we know, New England is the hub for any and all things Egyptian culture. I love how gleefully careless the film is about it. It knows setting the story in New England is unbelievable, but it really could not care less. It looks you dead in the eye, tells you it’s the truth, and goes on its stupidly merry way.
For as much as the 1932 original is considered the definitive mummy movie, Boris Karloff only appears in the tissue paper for only a few minutes. It’s actually the later entries that helped reinforce the idea of the mummy as this hulking, zombie-like figure who takes his cues from Frankenstein’s monster. In Ghost, he’s portrayed by Lon Chaney Jr., though you would have no clue it’s him underneath all the wrapping. In fact, you could probably swap out his mummy with his Frankenstein’s monster and there wouldn’t be that much of a difference. Since the mummy has been completely stripped of his complexity by this point, the vessel for much of the mayhem this time out is Yousef Bay played by John Carradine because heaven forbid there’s a movie role he doesn’t turn down.
Without revealing too much, what truly differentiates Ghost from the other sequels is its ending. Normally most Universal horror of the era ends happily. The day is saved, the monster is defeated, and our protagonists can put it all behind them. That doesn’t quite happen here and it’s a bit refreshing. The subplot of Amina (played by Ramsay Ames) discovering her connection to Princess Ananka is something that absolutely could’ve had serious legs in a grander, big-time production. Alas, the movie wants to be in and out of our view while we’re young, so it doesn’t dig beyond the surface in the story.
I can’t honestly say you’re missing out if you’ve yet to watch The Mummy’s Ghost, but I don’t say it in a mean way. At 61 minutes, this is shorter than plenty of episodes for your average Netflix show. At least with this movie, you don’t have to worry about getting too wrapped up in the story.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 16, 2020 18:24:28 GMT -5
Just finished watching Prom Night(1980).
For years I have seen the horrible VHS looking DVDs of this that were everywhere. Saw it is now on Shudder. And while the print they used isn't remastered it looks way way better than any dvd I have seen of this film.
I've always wondered why this film has such a huge cult following. It isn't that great. And really until the last 20 minutes not much happens. Sure it has Jamie Lee before she decieded she was too good to do horror. And a pre-Naked Gun Leslie Neilson.
But man all that horrid disco music and disco dancing...
The handful of kills aren't bad. Too bad the blood is that 70s era movie blood that looks like paint. But being able to actually see and make out what is happening for the first time did improve this movie.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Nov 16, 2020 19:25:30 GMT -5
Just finished watching Prom Night(1980). For years I have seen the horrible VHS looking DVDs of this that were everywhere. Saw it is now on Shudder. And while the print they used isn't remastered it looks way way better than any dvd I have seen of this film. I've always wondered why this film has such a huge cult following. It isn't that great. And really until the last 20 minutes not much happens. Sure it has Jamie Lee before she decieded she was too good to do horror. And a pre-Naked Gun Leslie Neilson. But man all that horrid disco music and disco dancing... The handful of kills aren't bad. Too bad the blood is that 70s era movie blood that looks like paint. But being able to actually see and make out what is happening for the first time did improve this movie. Prom Night 2 is so much better
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Post by DSR on Nov 16, 2020 19:51:22 GMT -5
50 states horror project: Minnesota
(No, I haven't forgotten.)
TALES FROM THE CANNIBAL SIDE (1998) is an anthology horror film from director/producer/editor/musician/camera operator/makeup effects man/co-writer Michael W. Johnson, whose Nightmare Productions is (or at least was) housed in Bloomington, Minnesota. We're offered three stories with nothing in the way of a wraparound segment (though the beginning and end credits are highlighted by third-rate Marilyn Manson-esque metal music).
"Weekend in the City" is about an attractive redhead with a recurring fantasy about being carved up and eaten like a Thanksgiving turkey. She meets up with an eccentric couple who take her to their home, have sex with her a couple of times, and then ultimately fulfill her wish.
"Trick or Treat" sees two leather-clad lesbians approach a young goth woman in a park. They invite her to their Halloween party. The young lady insists that they better have something really scary lined up for her, as she's obsessed with horror films (we later get a scene in which the girl masturbates to a horror film). Cut to Halloween night, and the lesbians constantly reference how they would string up and gut our heroine. The tone of their voices indicates this is either a.) part of their designs to scare her or b.) some really bizarre flirtations. Our main girl just might find out too late that the leather lovin' ladies are serious when they say she looks good enough to eat.
"Meat's Meat (and Man's Gotta Eat)" concerns a family of hillbillies. Brother and Sister frequently find and kill unsuspecting folks and bring them home where Ma and Pa carve them up and prep them for supper. Victims include an unfaithful wife (played by the redhead from the first story), her angry husband, the private investigator the husband hired to find out about his wife's cheating, the private investigator's wife, and a couple of characters who are less fleshed out (pardon the pun). Finally, a quartet of suburban douchebags head off to the woods for a vacation and end up on the chopping block of the cannibalistic yokels.
Michael W. Johnson and his filmmaking partner Kevin K. Smith specialized in making gory/pornographic flicks on a next-to-nothing budget. References I made in the synopses to sexual activity aren't there solely for my amusement, it's because the stories are almost entirely excuses to get Minnesotan women nude. Other than the premise of a woman with a cannibalism fetish, "Weekend" barely touches on horror. There isn't even suspense to the story. It's just a woman wanted a weird thing to happen to her and then (SPOILER ALERT) that thing happens to her. "Trick or Treat" follows the first story's structure almost completely. The main character here doesn't know she's getting prepared for dinner, but otherwise the pattern is the same.
"Meat's Meat" doesn't focus quite so heavily on the erotic aspects, but like the previous two stories, it lacks suspense. The killer characters simply show up when the director decides it's time for a character to die. How did this big burly cannibal show up in the house of a couple he's never met before? Who knows and who cares, it's time for a throat-slitting!
Even if you're a person who doesn't care about plot inconsistencies as long as there's gore to be had, TALES FROM THE CANNIBAL SIDE isn't the flick for you. Most of the gore effects are simply strips of meat being pulled from a victim's bloody t-shirt.
This flick is kind of enjoyable if you're nostalgic for an era in which porn wasn't readily available on the internet. But I think even then there's better Skinemax-style flicks to be found.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 16, 2020 20:49:32 GMT -5
After we finished Prom Night,Dad wanted to see more. Looked and Hello Mary Lou Prom Night II was on Shudder. Hosted by Joe Bob and Darcy the mail girl. They just finished that one. And sadly Prom Night III ain't streaming on anything. But found Prom Night IV on Tubi. Kinda surprising me how much both of them are enjoying the films.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 16, 2020 22:01:00 GMT -5
And now I found Prom Night III uncut on Youtube. Still wondering why III has never got a good dvd or blu ray release. The Double feature dvd of it and part 2,well the version of III they use is the tv edit. I got the VHS release of III. Need to rip that and put it on a DVD.
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Post by DSR on Nov 16, 2020 22:04:37 GMT -5
And now I found Prom Night III uncut on Youtube. Still wondering why III has never got a good dvd or blu ray release. The Double feature dvd of it and part 2,well the version of III they use is the tv edit. I got the VHS release of III. Need to rip that and put it on a DVD. Yeah, I have the DVD of Part III. Wish they put it out unedited.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 17, 2020 1:14:28 GMT -5
And now I found Prom Night III uncut on Youtube. Still wondering why III has never got a good dvd or blu ray release. The Double feature dvd of it and part 2,well the version of III they use is the tv edit. I got the VHS release of III. Need to rip that and put it on a DVD. Yeah, I have the DVD of Part III. Wish they put it out unedited. I have that set that is Prom Night 3 and 4 on a disc. 3 is of course the tv edit but 4 is uncut. Found the VHS of 3 about 4 years ago. Just need to hook my vcr thru my macrovision blocker and into my stand alone DVD recorder and make a copy. Surprised Scream Factory hasn't done a big boxed Blu Ray set of the Prom Night films. There appear to be enough demand that it would sell.
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Post by GuyOfOwnage on Nov 17, 2020 1:28:45 GMT -5
Yeah, I have the DVD of Part III. Wish they put it out unedited. I have that set that is Prom Night 3 and 4 on a disc. 3 is of course the tv edit but 4 is uncut. Found the VHS of 3 about 4 years ago. Just need to hook my vcr thru my macrovision blocker and into my stand alone DVD recorder and make a copy. Surprised Scream Factory hasn't done a big boxed Blu Ray set of the Prom Night films. There appear to be enough demand that it would sell. I have the Region 4 release of Prom Night III on DVD and I'm pretty sure it's the uncut version. I haven't gotten my hands on 4 but I'm pretty sure it's the same case there too.
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Post by DSR on Nov 17, 2020 2:07:17 GMT -5
Yeah, I have the DVD of Part III. Wish they put it out unedited. I have that set that is Prom Night 3 and 4 on a disc. 3 is of course the tv edit but 4 is uncut. Found the VHS of 3 about 4 years ago. Just need to hook my vcr thru my macrovision blocker and into my stand alone DVD recorder and make a copy. Surprised Scream Factory hasn't done a big boxed Blu Ray set of the Prom Night films. There appear to be enough demand that it would sell. I have that same Double Feature DVD. I don't know why Part III has never been released uncut. Speaking of things being uncut... 50 states horror project: Michigan AMITYVILLE VIBRATOR (2020) is an over-the-top gory porno parody of the type of AMITYVILLE flicks that are so far removed from the actual events, the producers obviously slapped the name onto an inferior movie in hopes of getting some eyes on it. VIBRATOR comes to us from writer/director/producer/editor Nathan Rumler, who I found because we're both in a cult film collecting group on Facebook. On June 6th, 1976, at 6:66am, a woman in a Baphomet mask pleasures herself with the titular sextoy. A mysterious assailant blows her head off with a shotgun! Or does he?! In the present day, a tattooed young woman, Cathy, is living in that earlier woman's house and has recently broken up with her loser boyfriend. While she and an equally tattooed friend, Roxi, are driving and blowing off steam about Cathy's situation, they stop at a yard sale. The man running the yard sale presents the girls with the toy from the prologue, and Cathy seemingly becomes transfixed. She purchases it and immediately rushes home to try it out. Cathy's ex-boyfriend (played by Rumler) is a paranormal investigator, and he and his co-worker (another tattooed young hottie) have been collecting items from the famed murder house where Cathy is currently living. Of course they're missing one particular item and seemingly have no idea how to locate it. Maybe taking a day off from investigating to do shrooms will help? While those two are getting high, we in the audience learn the vibrator is possessed by Satan, who wants to turn Cathy and Roxi into undead sex slaves! Much like TALES FROM THE CANNIBAL SIDE, AMITYVILLE VIBRATOR was made for very little money and is more concerned with female nudity than it is with spookiness. Buuuuut, this film does provide ample bloodshed when the situation calls for it (including that pre-credits shotgun to the face and a really well-done face removal by a haunted ventriloquist dummy...I didn't mention the ventriloquist dummy earlier because I suck as a writer). There's also some bizarre imagery that combines horror AND gore AND would absolutely upset Christian folks. This is a very blasphemous film. It's also pretty damn funny, and deliberately so. Rumler has solid comedic timing, both in his role as the dimwitted ex-boyfriend and in his editing. As the ventriloquist dummy gets an erection (yes!), we smash-cut to Cathy eating a corndog! As Cathy and Roxi complain about the sudden cold feeling in the haunted house, Cathy says she can think of a way for the two of them to *warm up*! Instead of immediately engaging in sex with one another (like the porno music was suggesting was about to happen), they hang out in front of a space heater! AMITYVILLE VIBRATOR is somehow quick-witted about playing slow-witted. It's almost like if THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA featured girl-on-girl scenes. What can I say, I had fun.
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 17, 2020 4:42:08 GMT -5
Death on Demand *DVD* This was a pretty insufferable low budget college kids horror with a lame setup and bad acting all around. It’s based around a web series reality show (strike one) of college kids spending a night in a house where a murder happened twenty years earlier (strike two) for a grand prize of...$5000. $5000??? What is this, the county fair? Strike three, you’re out. Thankfully there was some gratuitous nudity (although the cute goth chick didn’t show her boobs, guess she didn’t want it to stunt her future roles) and the violence was hilarious. I’m not sure if I was supposed to laugh but I did. It was pretty good too, once it finally started up what felt like an hour into the movie. The one jock guy was actually pretty funny because the last thing on his mind was sex. That was a nice change. Honestly, if this had gone more the horror comedy route and had some better casting it would have been a really good movie. As it was it was an extremely surprising 7/10, which is a lot more than I expected considering it’s a part of this one comp I bought that’s been nothing but garbage so far. It took a while to get to the f***ing point but once it did I actually liked it. It reminded me of something that would have came out seven or eight years earlier than it did. I don’t remember 2008 bit I don’t think webcam streams of crap like this mattered then. But in 1999-2001 this would have felt a lot more...cool. It gains special points for having the guy who did Roy Koopas voice in most on the Super Mario media of the last ten years... ...that shit goes on resumes. I mean...what Koopa Kid have you voiced? I didn’t think so.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Nov 17, 2020 11:13:25 GMT -5
I have that set that is Prom Night 3 and 4 on a disc. 3 is of course the tv edit but 4 is uncut. Found the VHS of 3 about 4 years ago. Just need to hook my vcr thru my macrovision blocker and into my stand alone DVD recorder and make a copy. Surprised Scream Factory hasn't done a big boxed Blu Ray set of the Prom Night films. There appear to be enough demand that it would sell. I have the Region 4 release of Prom Night III on DVD and I'm pretty sure it's the uncut version. I haven't gotten my hands on 4 but I'm pretty sure it's the same case there too. Region 4 is Australia right? Heard rumors that that is the only uncut release. But never saw enough proof to order it.
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 19, 2020 4:44:10 GMT -5
Shadows of the Dead *DVD* An interesting take on the zombie genre: a guy and girl are stranded in the woods, they see a dead body, then the body is gone. When the guy goes out he’s bitten by “something” and they flee. Then he slowly begins the transformation to the undead. He doesn’t seem too worried about what’s happening to him. He came across as being more inconvenienced. And she doesn’t see too surprised. It was never established in the early parts of the movie that the undead was a reoccurring problem in their universe. You’d have thought they’d have been a little more panicked? Then when he bites her and she’s just mad at him. So what do they do? They turn into junkies of course. It’s too bad the script dragged this down. It was a really neat concept. It reminded me of Return of the Living Dead, except the undead were a big problem in that movies universe. Some better actors would have really helped. Not even a-listers. Just better than what they got. But it was enjoyable for a one-and-done viewing.
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 20, 2020 4:29:01 GMT -5
Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead *DVD* I won’t lie. I’m a fat, middle aged white male. I have certain fetishes. I see a cover like this and I’m pretty much sold. f***ing sue me. This was much more what I had hoped Big Tits Zombie would be. There weren’t many boobs but what there was were glorious. The gore was much more and much better. Lots of poop and lots of farting. But that meant much more Japanese schoolgirl ass and... ...I’m so lonely.
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 21, 2020 2:25:37 GMT -5
Demons *DVD* One of my favourite horror movies. I wish I could watch it again for the first time. A simple plot, a wicked soundtrack and some great gore. Everything fires on “11”. The only downer is the pimp dies but the actor was recast in the sequel in an entirely different role. That’s honestly even better than him surviving. An absolute must for any fan of 1980’s horror.
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 22, 2020 2:06:06 GMT -5
Demons 2: the Nightmare is Back *DVD* Sadly lacking the gore and heavy metal of the first one but I find it almost as good. I really liked how it tied into the first movie and the apartment building setting. Truth be told I really enjoyed the build towards the Demons arrival more than any part of the movie. I found all the different sub groups of characters really interesting. But the true highlight for me is Bobby Rhodes and his being cast as an entirely different character from the first movie. I really have to check more of his work out but I don’t know if I can accept him in anything other than a Lamberto Bava horror movie.
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 24, 2020 4:58:58 GMT -5
Violent Shit *DVD* Holy mackerel. This was some good...shit. It had no real story. No lead protagonist. No one to root for. A character is introduced and Karl the Butcher butchers them in different gruesome fashion. It does go into Karl’s background enough to let you know what the f*** is going on. What it does have is blood. Lots of blood. Gore. Lots of gore. Terrible video. Incredible music. Cannibalism. Jesus on a cross getting disemboweled followed by Karl crawling into the empty cavity of his stomach. Genital mutilation. And gore. Gore. GORE! Be on the lookout for the scene where young Karl meets with Satan while locked in his mother’s basement. That is the stuff of legend. This is becoming my favourite series of horror movies. 22/10
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Post by adamclark52 on Nov 25, 2020 4:54:39 GMT -5
Violent Shit II: Mother Hold my Hand *DVD* I went into this with much higher expectations than a sane person would but wow it exceeded them. It was definitely more violent and gorier than its predecessor, with Son of Karl being even more brutal than his deceased father (who I don’t even remember dying in the first one). It does more to explain what the hell was going on in the first movie in five minutes than that movie did in its entire run-time. And also adds humour (which can be lost in all the splatter) and some incest, because why not. If there’s any downside it’s that it eschews that arty edge the first movie had. That was sick shit that mesmerized you. This was sick shit that made your jaw drop. That and there was a scene at a construction site where there was a wood chipper or something and it didn’t get used. So it’s settled. f*** Freddy. f*** Leatherface. f*** Pinhead. And f*** even Jason. Karl the Butcher is the King and Violent Shit is the shit. 21/10
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