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Movie Review: Swamp Thing (1982) – MVD Rewind Collection 4K

Deep in the humid green hell of the Louisiana bayou, Dr. Alec Holland (Ray Wise, Twin Peaks) toils with his sister Linda (played by Nannette Brown… and changed from his wife in the DC Comics source material upon which this film is based) in a government-funded high tech lab hidden in an abandoned church. Because of that whole “government-funded” biz, Washington wants to keep the duo’s experiments involving rapid plant without soil under close scrutiny so they send Agent Alice Cable (Adrienne Barbeau, Escape From New York, The Fog, Creepshow… and gender swapped from the comic’s Matthew Cable, an ally/foe of Alec’s) to give it all the ol’ look-see. Unfortunately the Holland’s work has also fallen under the ghoulish gaze of suave villain Anton Arcane (Louis Jourdan) who plans on using the resulting chemical to make himself immortal, and he just up and steals the formula for that shit with the help of his private army lead by the sadistic

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Jul 31, 2023

IndieMoviesReviewsShort Films

Short Film Review: Bus Stop (2023)

In the middle of nowhere, a man, Holden by name (Joshua Shea), waits for seemingly an eternity for his bus to arrive as he tries to cope with the problems life has thrown his way. Suddenly he is joined by a mysterious woman (Poppie Boyes) who seems to have materialized out of the aether… a woman who fluctuates between playful and threateningly serious with shocking ease. To make matters worse, our hero sees a pale man in a gold suit (Mike Kelson) hovering in the darkness, as well as a pointing woman (Olivia Post) just beyond the bus stop, though his companion seems not to notice. What is the true meaning behind the mysterious goings-on at the shadow-surrounded bus stop, and how will these mysteries effect Holden? Written & Directed by Zora Cielle Anri (based on an idea from producer Ivan Veselov), Bus Stop is presented not unlike a one act play; we have one, nearly expressionistic locale (the fluorescent

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Jul 30, 2023

IndieMoviesReviewsSci-Fi

Movie Review: The Primevals (2023)

Some Sherpas actually manage to kill a giant yeti, and the corpse is promptly shipped overseas to be studied by renowned anthropologist Dr. Claire Collier (Juliet Mills) who discovers something strange… this yeti was purposefully mutated into existence, but by who… or what… is unknown. Enter: Matthew Connor (Richard Joseph Paul); Claire’s former student and shit-hot anthropologist as well. Matt is flat-out amazed by all things yeti-corpse, as one would imagine, and before you know it, he’s recruited into the ranks of Claire’s Himalayan excursion… along with hard-ass, big game huntin’ mother fucker Rondo Montana (Leon Russom), Sherpa guide Siku (Tai Thai), and yet another anthro-thusiast, Kathleen (Walker Brandt). So off these cats trek, all fired up to retrieve a living specimen… which they find, along with an entrance to a hollow earth paradise/living hell chock-full of ape-like cavemen, lizard people, U.F.O.’s, and aliens. Sounds like my kinda party cats n’ creeps! Will our intrepid heroes survive their ordeal and

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Jul 30, 2023

DocumentariesMoviesReviews

Movie Review: Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist (2014) – Synapse Blu-ray

Filmmaker Ryan Meade’s Invaluable; The True Story of an Epic Artist presents a look at the life and career of artist Tom Sullivan, the Michigan-based creator that many of you fine cats n’ creeps may recognize as the man that brought much of the iconography of our beloved Evil Dead franchise to screaming, biting life! Speaking of Evil Dead, during the course of this demonic doc we get talkin’ head footage of many of the frightful franchises’ luminaries including the likes of Bruce Campbell, Ted Raimi, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker, Danny Hicks, Theresa Tilly, Hal Delrich, and Josh Becker… and let me tell ya; there are plenty of anecdotes that I can pretty much guarantee many of you fine fiends have never, ever heard before… and to that end I’m going to stop this revoltin’ review in it’s tracks to share something I learned watching this flick… I have always wondered why Scotty has a frickin’ dog nose in a

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DanXIII

Jul 26, 2023

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Movie Review: Robot Monster (1953) – Bayview Blu-ray

SEE: Two kids wandering around in space helmets! SEE: Two archeologists farting around in the caves of Bronson Canyon! SEE: A nap… after a picnic! And let me tell ya boils n’ ghouls, all of that pulse pounding excitement is only in the first few minutes of reel one… of course 2 seconds later a burning object screams through the skies as pilfered footage of lizards that are supposed to be dinosaurs (and a little stop-motion dino action… also borrowed) ‘rassle! It’s about then that one of those kids mentioned up yonder awakens from his egg-salad slumber, let’s call him Johnny (Gregory Moffett)… mostly because that’s the character’s name… and discovers a gorilla in a space helmet named Ro-Man (George Barrows with voice acting provided by John Brown) has arrived from the stars, and he has wiped out most all of Earth’s inhabitants with his Calcinator death ray (minus our main cast, who have all been injected with a super-serum

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Jul 21, 2023

MoviesSci-Fi

Movie Review: Time Bandits (1981) – Criterion 4K UHD

In the safe if predictable ultra-suburbs, the last thing you’d expect is for a Medieval knight to blast forth from your wardrobe and ride his horse straight through your bedroom wall… which fades to reveal a lush forest beyond before returning to it’s normal state… but that’s exactly what happens to young Kevin (Craig Warnock). Of course that fails to compare to the following night’s visitors… namely Randall (David Rappaport)and his diminutive band of thieves; thieves that have stolen a map of time portals from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson) in the pursuit of pilfering history’s great treasures, and ol’ S.B. is none to happy about that biz… and soon Kevin finds himself tumbling through the time-stream with his new found friends! Along the way, Kev and the lads rub elbows with the likes of Napoleon (Ian Holm), Robin Hood (John Cleese), and King Agamemnon (Sean Connery)… the latter of which becomes a kind of surrogate father (as his real

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DanXIII

Jul 21, 2023

GamingReviews

Game Review: Stay Out of the House (2023) – Nintendo Switch

In an effort to make us experience first-hand the kind of terror present in the sinister slashers that appeared just a tick before the genre’s Golden Age, Puppet Combo brings us Stay Out of the House; a new vicious video game now available on the Nintendo Switch. In direct defiance of the games title, your ass definitely does not want to Stay Out of the House, in fact it won’t be much of a game if you do! Rather, after playing through a couple of prologue stories (which aren’t mandatory, but naturally they add considerably to the world building at hand while offering a tense yet less intense experience than the main event… and one of them has a playable, Driller Killer-esque arcade game, so HUGE fuckin’ plus there boils n’ ghouls) you make your way to the eponymous structure, in which you will stealthy avoid the cannibals (including hiding from them underneath various pieces of furniture) that call the

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DanXIII

Jul 7, 2023

IndieMoviesParanormalReviews

Movie Review: The Devil’s Left Hand (2023)

You know what’s worse than one of those baby gender reveal parties where like half the guests get burned or some such shit? Try a housewarming party with a séance as the entertainment, during which the Medium is more than touched by a literal goddamned demon (redundant, I know… ). Speaking of that demon; that one man (monster?) Satanic Panic… who is also a shape-shifter, but more on that in a bit… makes it a malevolent mission to stalk n’ slay every attendee of that supernatural soaked soiree! How many of these fine folks have R.S.V.P.’d to their own demise, or can they solve the mystery of the evil that wants them extinct?!! So, what’s the good word with Harley Wallen’s The Devil’s Left Hand? Well, it’s a polished, suspenseful preternatural picture, so there’s that! Remember that shape-shifting bit I mentioned up yonder? It provides a shit-ton of suspense (also which was just mentioned for the forgetful among you) because,

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DanXIII

Jul 6, 2023

MoviesReviews

Movie Review: Evil Dead Rise (2023) – Warner Bros. 4K UHD

Hey, check this out cats n’ creeps; a group of young adults are frolicking in nature’s splendor when some ancient evil entity possesses one of the gang who then transforms into a demonic killing machine! Business as usual for most of the Evil Dead franchise… Now what isn’t business as usual for an Evil Dead flick is where the story of Evil Dead Rise takes us next, namely an apartment building located in a city (which would be business as usual for Lamberto Bava’s Demons 2 however… ). Anyway, said building is currently the residence of one Ellie (Alyssa Sutherland), an industrious tattoo artist and single mom of three, namely near-perfect, creatively minded siblings Danny, Bridget, and Kassie (played by Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, and Nell Fisher respectively), as well as Ellie’s free wheelin ‘ (and free loadin’) sister Beth (Lily Sullivan)… but only temporarily as hard times have necessitated the family hitting the bricks in the immediate future. Before

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DanXIII

Jul 2, 2023

ForeignIndieMoviesReviews

Movie Review: What the Waters Left Behind: Scars (2022) – Cleopatra Blu-ray

The Ravens, a hard rock rock outfit are stuck playing small gigs in shitty venues, such as the one they currently played down Falkland Islands way. Tired from rockin’ and rollin’… and drinkin’ and snortin’, The Ravens agree to follow a sexy fan back to her parents pad in the country for a lil’ rest and relaxation… a journey that takes them through a decimated Argentinian city that was completely destroyed by a flood a few decades past. As you may have surmised, the family in question, literally the only living beings in the entire post-apocalyptic area, are complete psychos who are all too ready to welcome their latest victims to their home. What survival skills does a substance-battered rock band possess, and will it be enough for them to make it alive with their skins intact? Coming from director Nicolás Onetti and writer Camilo Zaffora, What the Waters Left Behind: Scars is a strong, terror filled experience who’s production

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Jul 2, 2023

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