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Product Review: AtmosFX Digital Decorations

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, we’re quickly reaching Halloween and it’s time to get festive! Time to break out the decorations and set up props in the yard and carve up some pumpkins, great traditions but it could use a bit of flair to help make it pop and to make you the popular house on the street, and Atmos FX is here to help make it so! A big THANK YOU to the awesome folks over at Atmos FX for making this review possible! I was sent a screen for my window that I can project the scene on, the screen is pretty light so I was actually able to just hang it over a curtain rod without having to use hooks (that were included). Then came setting up the projector they sent along as well. The ViewSonic M1 projector may be small but it packs a projecting punch! What I loved most about it was

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DanXIII

Nov 21, 2021

Reviews

Blu-ray Review: The Fourth Victim (1971)

Ol’ rich-bitch Arthur (Michael Craig) discovers his wife tits up (or more accurately “down”) in the swimming pool, and the police get suspicious… especially since this is his third marriage featuring a murdered wife and a large life insurance policy. Without anything to directly tie the Art-ful Dodger to the case, he walks away free as a beastly bird… seems reasonable… His troubles are far from over however, as soon he’s hitched to a woman named Julie Spencer (Carroll Baker) who just showed up a-swimming in the same pool wife number trois met her untimely demise…. but as one would expect, Jules has more to her than meets the eye, and soon the couple are balls deep in suspicion as the tension between them grows, and the shadow of death grows longer! Will Julie become the fourth mother fuckin’ victim? Lord, I wish that was the title… The first thing one should realize about The Fourth Victim, is that this

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DanXIII

Sep 11, 2021

IndieReviews

Blu-ray Review: Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman (1955 – 1957)

Producer Sam Katzman was responsible for a stunning array of poverty-row shockers, and this new box set from Arrow Video (along with MVD Entertainment) brings forth the creepy cream of the crop! Without further arcane ado, let’s dip out terror toes in this putrid pond, shall we? First comes Creature with the Atom Brain (1955): Gangsters are being found tits up, with radioactive dead man’s fingerprints found all over the scene, so the police are baffled. How is this a thing? Well, exiled gangster Frank Buchanan (Michael Granger) hooks up with Wilhelm Steigg (Gregory Gaye), a Nazi mad scientist who is trying to create a new mindless work force created from the bodies of the dead. Frank likes the sound of that shit, believe you me, and before long him and Dr. Feelbad are back in the States and putting a murder on each and every gangster that has ever crossed Buchanan… wait, why are the police angry this dude

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DanXIII

Sep 5, 2021

Reviews

4k UHD Review: Dune (1984)

Holy hell, how in the shit am I going to condense down David Lynch’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 epic sci-fi novel; Dune for the sinister synopsis portion of this revoltin’ review?!! Umm, so the Emperor of the Universe (José Ferrer) decides that the two most powerful houses in the galaxy; the noble House Atreides and the vile House Harkonnen… the latter of which is about to be relieved of their duty running the day to day of the harvesting and processing of the most precious item in all of space; the Spice Melange (which can be used to “fold” space making travel times nearly non-existent) on the dessert world of Arrakis by the Atreides (who have been developing a fighting system based on sound) by command of the Emperor… which will not only put the House Atreides so far away that they can’t possibly cause him static… and just to make sure they won’t, he has plans of returning

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DanXIII

Sep 4, 2021

IndieReviews

Blu-ray Review: Weird Wisconsin: The Bill Rebane Collection (1965 – 1988)

Bill Rebane; that Wisconsin bred mother fucker of a regional schlock-meister… I love him, and I wager after you park your ass in front of this rich motherload of drive-in awesome-fuckery flyin’ your way from Arrow Video (along with MVD Entertainment) you will too! Kicking off the collection is 1965’s cobbled together mess-terpiece, Monster a Go-Go: A space capsule (pronounced here as cap-soool, which was too much for me) tumbles back to Earth and the astronaut inside goes missing. Coincidentally, a ten foot tall, radiation scarred mutant begins wandering about, just waiting to put the gruesome murder biz upon anyone that stands in his way of… well, wandering around killing people mostly… In a flash of cinematic Frankenstein frenzy, the Godfather of Gore himself; Herschell Gordon Lewis acquired the footage to an unfinished Rebane picture from 1961, added some new footage and narration (provided by H.G. Lewis himself), and released the jarring results to horror hounds everywhere back in ’65!

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DanXIII

Sep 3, 2021

MusicNews

Dracula Party releases debut album, Video Wasteland in October!

My pals, the scintillating’ sonic sorcerers Dracula Party are crawlin’ from their terror tomb to unleash their next creepy collection; Video Wasteland! Here’s the lowdown straight from the coffin crew themselves! Seattle, September 1, 2021 – The Seattle based Horror Industrial band, Dracula Party, will release their debut album, Video Wasteland, on October 1, 2021 on all digital platforms. Now available for Preorder on Bandcamp: The follow-up to their EP, The Devil Wears a Mask (2019), Video Wasteland is a synth-driven exploration of 80s and 90s VHS Horror films. Combining elements of Industrial, EBM, Synthesizer Movie Scores, and Darkwave, every track feels like a living Horror film; one you can dance to. Frontman, Byron C. Miller, recalls the inspiration for the album, “When I was a horror geek teen in the early 90s I would read about these awesome sounding straight to video horror films in Fangoria Magazine. These titles were often hard to find at your local mom and

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DanXIII

Sep 3, 2021

News

THE LAST FRANKENSTEIN Rises This Halloween Season!

Hey cats n’ creeps, here’s the skinny on a new supernatural suspense shocker that yours cruelly was lucky enough to both work on and cameo in; David Weaver’s The Last Frankenstein! AMSTERDAM, NY (August 31, 2021) – Gila Films announces their debut feature film, the horror movie “The Last Frankenstein”, will be premiering at the Underground Cinema Film Festival in Dublin, Ireland, on September 3rd, to be followed by its theatrical premiere at the historic Proctor’s Theatre in Schenectady, NY, on October 23rd, in time for the Halloween season. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Amsterdam native and Gila Films owner David Weaver, who shot the movie primarily in his hometown. “The Last Frankenstein” centers on Jason Frankenstein (William Barnet), last of his family line. Buried in a dormant life and a dead end relationship, Jason finds himself frustratingly approaching mid-life with little progress to show towards carrying forward his ancestors’ experiment. But after a creature from his

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DanXIII

Sep 1, 2021

ForeignMoviesReviews

Blu-ray Review: Brotherhood of the Wolf – Collector’s Edition (2001)

Picture it, France, 1764 a giant beast stalks the lands of Gévaudan and gives zero fucks when it comes to eating women and children. Enter: the knight Grégoire de Fronsac, (Samuel Le Bihan), the royal naturalist of King Louis XV of France, and his Iroquois/Mohawk martial-artist companion Mani (Mark Dacascos, who’s been in a ton of great stuff, but you doubtless know him as the host of Iron Chef America) two dudes hellbent on figuring out the exact nature of the beast… a beast all who have glimpsed it swear is a giant wolf! While investigatin’, Fronsac gets the hot n’ hornies for comely Marianne de Morangias (Émilie Dequenne), the daughter of a local count… who just so happens to have a one-armed brother named Jean-François (Vincent Cassel); the victim of a lion attack and a big-time hunter/pain-in-the-ass in his own right. Oh, Fronsac also fucks an Italian, fortune telling prostitute named by Sylvia (Monica Bellucci)… Relationship Status: It’s complicated

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DanXIII

Aug 28, 2021

ForeignMoviesReviewsThriller

Blu-ray Review: No One Heard The Scream (1973)

Jet-setting, gold diggin’ beauty Elisa (Carmen Sevilla delivering the sexy in spades) peeps her neighbor Miguel (Vincente Parra), chucking his dead wife, Nuria (María Asquerino) down an elevator shaft… but it’s a double-peep back-fire as Miguel sees her seeing him and forces her to help him thus making her an accomplice and more likely to keep her flappin’ yapper closed, ya see? As you may not expect, Elisa digs on this action and goes balls deep in helping Miguel keep that lil’ indiscretion on the down low… until she doesn’t and tries to kill him… and then things go completely sideways. Spanish giallo (sort of) ensues! Coming hot on the heels of the previous year’s Cannibal Man (which I set my eerie eyeballs right here), but predating perhaps his most well-known work; the juvenile delinquent pictures he dove head first into in the early ‘80s (and which I covered right here), Eloy de la Iglesia’s No One Heard the Scream

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DanXIII

Aug 28, 2021

ForeignMoviesReviewsThriller

Blu-ray Review: Eloy De La Iglesia’s Quinqui Collection (Navajeros, El Pico & El Pico 2)

Eloy de la Iglesia… now there is a mother fucker that wasn’t afraid to bring the seedy side of life to the silver screen (check out my review of his classic home invasion shocker Cannibal Man right here to bear witness to this) and Quinqui; a three-movie collection of his work, will only drive that point further home… not unlike a hypodermic needle straight to the ol’ hairy beanbag! Comprised of a trio of juvenile delinquent crime thrillers, Navajeros, El Pico & El Pico 2 to put a name to ‘em, these flicks are gritty, street-level, feel bad flicks through and through! Navajeros (1980) concerns José Manuel Gomez Perales or “El Jaro” ( José Luis Manzano) as he’s known among friends; a fifteen year-old criminal with a record a mile and a fuckin’ half long. Thankfully he spends most of his free time practicing the wholesome art of stealing purses with his rough n’ tumble pals. At night, El Jaro

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Aug 28, 2021

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