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GamingProductReviews
Frogwares is no stranger to the genre of making mystery thrillers and making gamers solve crimes as the famed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, but now comes a new twist to the genre where players play as the popular detective BEFORE he became famous in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. Players take on the young detective as he visits a Mediterranian island full of corruption, lack of justice and morality, and plenty of crimes to solve as he goes to solve the biggest mystery in his young life, his mother’s death with the help of his imaginary friend John. A big thank you to Frogwares for the opportunity to review this title! The controls for the game may be a bit tricky at first but as you start off and get used to it, they’re not so bad, and you can always refer to the game’s instructions for them as well as other helpful hints at any time. This is very helpful
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Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes Similar to how films like The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears and Berberian Sound Studio have evoked giallo, director Kevin Kopacka’s Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (Germany, 2021) draws its inspiration from European arthouse films, of the horror genre and otherwise. It’s best to go into this outing cold, so I will only give a brief, spoiler-free set-up regarding its plot: Margot (Luisa Taraz) and her husband Deiter (Frederik von Lüttichau) have inherited a remote castle — with Bava influences in more than just lighting — and as the tension between the couple rises, gothic-horror madness sets in. Try learning nothing more than that for maximum surprise from the film. Kopacka, who cowrote the screenplay with Lili Villányi, has crafted a mind-bender of a movie that fairly drips eerie atmosphere, with scenes that range from the tried-and-true method of having off-screen occurrences for viewers to fill in with their imagination, to a graphic gore
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ForeignMoviesReviews
So peep this shit; a real ballsy mother fucker by the name of Diao Erh-yeh (Chao Hsiung) strolls on into the Chung Yi Chinese kung-fu school and starts whipping ass like a human tornado… until the school’s Master arrives and delivers an absolutely savage beating to that crass Judo master! Defeat goes over like a fart in church for Diao, and he vows revenge in the form of “karate-men” … and indeed, men that know karate (eventually joined by a couple of samurai, because fuck yeah!) bestow an absolute shitstorm of karate-based murder and mayhem on the student body of Chung Yi… which leaves the town rather defenseless and an easy target for karate-men conquest… which involves more casino ownership than karate… This doesn’t sit well with Chung Yi star pupil/karate abuse survivor Lei Ming (Jimmy Wang Yu… who wrote and directed this picture with production from the legendary Shaw Brothers Studios) so he decides to undergo some of that
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MoviesReviews
Cristina (Brigitte Kali Canales), a journalist from L.A., has returned home down Mexico way to investigate some local ruins. There are a few snags on this workcation however, as the heroin addicted, childhood exorcism witness has been set up by her cousin who believes she is possessed. To that end she experiences the hospitality (read: her ass is chained to a bed in a dank cell and she’s forced to drink more goat milk than one would assume to be pleasurable) of an ancient bruja,,, a shaman witch if you will, named Luz (Julia Vera) and her son Javi (Sal Lopez) who go right ahead and work an exorcism on her ass right quick! Cristina naturally she assumes this is bullshit (her own past be damned!), but before you can say no bueno, that bruja begins pulling human teeth and snakes out of her belly… just reached right on in and pulled that shit out , they did… well, the
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Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight) is having some real horror humdinger nightmares in which she pictures herself as a monster out on the town, but it certainly won’t stand in the way of a good game of tennis… as it shouldn’t. The gaggle of Grease cast members she calls friends think it’s all a load of bullshit, except for Trudy’s frenemy Suzie (Sally Todd), who experienced the same “dream”. As fate would have it, the elderly scientist uncle Trudy lives with, Carter Morgan (Felix Maurice Locher) by name, has a real douchebag of a lab assistant; the rude-as-fuck, Felix Flankin lookin’ motherfucker Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy)… short for Frankenstein ‘natch… who is working a side-hustle in the lab; making a “female” creature out of random body-parts (no surprise given Oliver’s family history) while Carter aims to eliminate all disease in the world. Oh, and Oliver has been spiking Trudy’s daily fruit punch with a formula that turns her into a scantily
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GamingParanormalProductReviews
When it comes to horror games one always stood out to me as being truly scary and actually invoked nightmares for me in the past, and that’s Fatal Frame. I was super disappointed that after the game’s third installment that they stopped releasing it in the US, but when I heard about the series fifth installment being re-released for consols I said “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”. Let’s see if the series is still had its scares or if it’s lost it, lets check out Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. First a big thank you to Koei Tecmo for the reviewing opportunity! Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water takes place on Hikami Mountain that is a popular location for people to commit suicide much like the real-life suicide forest of Japan. The game follows three playable characters, Yuri a young woman with a developing sixth sense, Ren an author with a connection to the events on the
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Film FestivalsForeignMoviesReviews
Director Carlo Ledesma takes viewers on a wild ride of the supernatural in Sunod (AKA Followed; Philippines, 2019), which captured the awards for Best International Feature Film, Best Performance in an International Feature Film (Carmina Villarroel), and Best International Feature Film Director (Ledesma) at the recent A Night of Horror International Film Festival in Australia. Although the film sometimes deals in familiar fear-fare trappings, the overall result is a gripping chiller well worth a watch. Villarroel portrays Olivia, a single mother to teen daughter Anelle (Krystal Brimner) who is hospitalized with a heart condition. Olivia asserts herself, out of financial desperation, into a new night job at a call center. Her place of employment happens to be the same building that served as a hospital in the 1970s, and savvy horror movie viewers know that nothing good ever comes of being in a former hospital. Below the call center are abandoned floors. When Olivia finds herself on one of those
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ProductReviews
Whether you’re out riding your bike, attending parties, or slaying creatures of the night, it helps to have unique jewelry to hold your attire together, and no one knows unique jewelry better than Serpent Forge! Founded in 2012 in Sydney, Australia, Serpent Forge makes unique biker jewelry may it be rings, pendants, or bracelets made from 100% sterling silver and gold. I want to give a big thank you to Serpent Forge for making this review possible! The ring I got is called the Demon Wolf, quite fitting, made of silver, and looks like an awesome Werewolf, and it also reminds me of the wolf art on the poster for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The ring has some weight to it but fits amazingly comfortably on my finger and does not interfere with my finger’s movement. The amazing quality of the designs will surely grab the attention of friends and family as well as strangers as you can’t find these rings
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MoviesReviews
Down Amityville way, professional fuck-up Detective Kimball (Trey McCurley) takes the “Light Duty Highway” and is assigned to investigate missing woman at a church-run rehabilitation facility for wayward women. While there he meets the rag-tag denizens of that haunted half-way house, including new girl Mandy (genre mainstay Augie Duke), who is having none of this dreaded domicile’s bullshit… bullshit that includes an escalating number of missing persons. Now, just who is responsible for these vanishing acts? Could it be low-key beard-meister Father Peter (David B. Meadows)? How about hissing pop-eyed Sister Ruth (A nightmare on Elm Street 4’s Tuesday Knight)? Maybe professional papal weird-o Father Michael (Michael Cervantes)? Well whoever the fuck it is, it’s a hundo-P guarantee they are a mother fuckin’ werewolf! Speaking of werewolves… you know what always gets me about these particular creature features, the big transformation scene. If the person changing is anywhere in the proximity of another, non-werewolf type of person, then said non-werewolf
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Film FestivalsForeignMoviesReviews
You’ll rarely find a character that you can’t wait to see get his as much as you will with paranormal researcher/exploiter Steven Caramore (Corey Johnson) in the U.K. feature Lair. As if being responsible for his business partner Ben’s (Oded Fehr) slaughtering of his wife and child, Caramore then sets up shop in a London apartment building, outfitting one flat with allegedly cursed objects while rigging up cameras in a neighboring one to watch what happens to an unsuspecting family in the first flat. The vacationing family in question brings their own personal demons into the mix — lots of arguing, bickering, bruised egos, and teen rebellion — and really they should have demanded a refund on their vacation rental as soon as Caramore told them — on their second day of the stay — that he placed a cursed doll in their flat, a toy to which little Lily (Lara Mount) took an instant liking. But Lily and her
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GamingProductReviews
Frogwares is no stranger to the genre of making mystery thrillers and making gamers solve crimes as the famed fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, but now comes a new twist to the genre where players play as the popular detective BEFORE he became famous in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. Players take on the young detective as he visits a Mediterranian island full of corruption, lack of justice and morality, and plenty of crimes to solve as he goes to solve the biggest mystery in his young life, his mother’s death with the help of his imaginary friend John. A big thank you to Frogwares for the opportunity to review this title! The controls for the game may be a bit tricky at first but as you start off and get used to it, they’re not so bad, and you can always refer to the game’s instructions for them as well as other helpful hints at any time. This is very helpful
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsForeignMoviesReviews
Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes Similar to how films like The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears and Berberian Sound Studio have evoked giallo, director Kevin Kopacka’s Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes (Germany, 2021) draws its inspiration from European arthouse films, of the horror genre and otherwise. It’s best to go into this outing cold, so I will only give a brief, spoiler-free set-up regarding its plot: Margot (Luisa Taraz) and her husband Deiter (Frederik von Lüttichau) have inherited a remote castle — with Bava influences in more than just lighting — and as the tension between the couple rises, gothic-horror madness sets in. Try learning nothing more than that for maximum surprise from the film. Kopacka, who cowrote the screenplay with Lili Villányi, has crafted a mind-bender of a movie that fairly drips eerie atmosphere, with scenes that range from the tried-and-true method of having off-screen occurrences for viewers to fill in with their imagination, to a graphic gore
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesReviews
So peep this shit; a real ballsy mother fucker by the name of Diao Erh-yeh (Chao Hsiung) strolls on into the Chung Yi Chinese kung-fu school and starts whipping ass like a human tornado… until the school’s Master arrives and delivers an absolutely savage beating to that crass Judo master! Defeat goes over like a fart in church for Diao, and he vows revenge in the form of “karate-men” … and indeed, men that know karate (eventually joined by a couple of samurai, because fuck yeah!) bestow an absolute shitstorm of karate-based murder and mayhem on the student body of Chung Yi… which leaves the town rather defenseless and an easy target for karate-men conquest… which involves more casino ownership than karate… This doesn’t sit well with Chung Yi star pupil/karate abuse survivor Lei Ming (Jimmy Wang Yu… who wrote and directed this picture with production from the legendary Shaw Brothers Studios) so he decides to undergo some of that
Continue reading →
MoviesReviews
Cristina (Brigitte Kali Canales), a journalist from L.A., has returned home down Mexico way to investigate some local ruins. There are a few snags on this workcation however, as the heroin addicted, childhood exorcism witness has been set up by her cousin who believes she is possessed. To that end she experiences the hospitality (read: her ass is chained to a bed in a dank cell and she’s forced to drink more goat milk than one would assume to be pleasurable) of an ancient bruja,,, a shaman witch if you will, named Luz (Julia Vera) and her son Javi (Sal Lopez) who go right ahead and work an exorcism on her ass right quick! Cristina naturally she assumes this is bullshit (her own past be damned!), but before you can say no bueno, that bruja begins pulling human teeth and snakes out of her belly… just reached right on in and pulled that shit out , they did… well, the
Continue reading →
MoviesReviews
Trudy Morton (Sandra Knight) is having some real horror humdinger nightmares in which she pictures herself as a monster out on the town, but it certainly won’t stand in the way of a good game of tennis… as it shouldn’t. The gaggle of Grease cast members she calls friends think it’s all a load of bullshit, except for Trudy’s frenemy Suzie (Sally Todd), who experienced the same “dream”. As fate would have it, the elderly scientist uncle Trudy lives with, Carter Morgan (Felix Maurice Locher) by name, has a real douchebag of a lab assistant; the rude-as-fuck, Felix Flankin lookin’ motherfucker Oliver Frank (Donald Murphy)… short for Frankenstein ‘natch… who is working a side-hustle in the lab; making a “female” creature out of random body-parts (no surprise given Oliver’s family history) while Carter aims to eliminate all disease in the world. Oh, and Oliver has been spiking Trudy’s daily fruit punch with a formula that turns her into a scantily
Continue reading →
GamingParanormalProductReviews
When it comes to horror games one always stood out to me as being truly scary and actually invoked nightmares for me in the past, and that’s Fatal Frame. I was super disappointed that after the game’s third installment that they stopped releasing it in the US, but when I heard about the series fifth installment being re-released for consols I said “You son of a bitch, I’m in!”. Let’s see if the series is still had its scares or if it’s lost it, lets check out Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water. First a big thank you to Koei Tecmo for the reviewing opportunity! Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water takes place on Hikami Mountain that is a popular location for people to commit suicide much like the real-life suicide forest of Japan. The game follows three playable characters, Yuri a young woman with a developing sixth sense, Ren an author with a connection to the events on the
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsForeignMoviesReviews
Director Carlo Ledesma takes viewers on a wild ride of the supernatural in Sunod (AKA Followed; Philippines, 2019), which captured the awards for Best International Feature Film, Best Performance in an International Feature Film (Carmina Villarroel), and Best International Feature Film Director (Ledesma) at the recent A Night of Horror International Film Festival in Australia. Although the film sometimes deals in familiar fear-fare trappings, the overall result is a gripping chiller well worth a watch. Villarroel portrays Olivia, a single mother to teen daughter Anelle (Krystal Brimner) who is hospitalized with a heart condition. Olivia asserts herself, out of financial desperation, into a new night job at a call center. Her place of employment happens to be the same building that served as a hospital in the 1970s, and savvy horror movie viewers know that nothing good ever comes of being in a former hospital. Below the call center are abandoned floors. When Olivia finds herself on one of those
Continue reading →
ProductReviews
Whether you’re out riding your bike, attending parties, or slaying creatures of the night, it helps to have unique jewelry to hold your attire together, and no one knows unique jewelry better than Serpent Forge! Founded in 2012 in Sydney, Australia, Serpent Forge makes unique biker jewelry may it be rings, pendants, or bracelets made from 100% sterling silver and gold. I want to give a big thank you to Serpent Forge for making this review possible! The ring I got is called the Demon Wolf, quite fitting, made of silver, and looks like an awesome Werewolf, and it also reminds me of the wolf art on the poster for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The ring has some weight to it but fits amazingly comfortably on my finger and does not interfere with my finger’s movement. The amazing quality of the designs will surely grab the attention of friends and family as well as strangers as you can’t find these rings
Continue reading →
MoviesReviews
Down Amityville way, professional fuck-up Detective Kimball (Trey McCurley) takes the “Light Duty Highway” and is assigned to investigate missing woman at a church-run rehabilitation facility for wayward women. While there he meets the rag-tag denizens of that haunted half-way house, including new girl Mandy (genre mainstay Augie Duke), who is having none of this dreaded domicile’s bullshit… bullshit that includes an escalating number of missing persons. Now, just who is responsible for these vanishing acts? Could it be low-key beard-meister Father Peter (David B. Meadows)? How about hissing pop-eyed Sister Ruth (A nightmare on Elm Street 4’s Tuesday Knight)? Maybe professional papal weird-o Father Michael (Michael Cervantes)? Well whoever the fuck it is, it’s a hundo-P guarantee they are a mother fuckin’ werewolf! Speaking of werewolves… you know what always gets me about these particular creature features, the big transformation scene. If the person changing is anywhere in the proximity of another, non-werewolf type of person, then said non-werewolf
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsForeignMoviesReviews
You’ll rarely find a character that you can’t wait to see get his as much as you will with paranormal researcher/exploiter Steven Caramore (Corey Johnson) in the U.K. feature Lair. As if being responsible for his business partner Ben’s (Oded Fehr) slaughtering of his wife and child, Caramore then sets up shop in a London apartment building, outfitting one flat with allegedly cursed objects while rigging up cameras in a neighboring one to watch what happens to an unsuspecting family in the first flat. The vacationing family in question brings their own personal demons into the mix — lots of arguing, bickering, bruised egos, and teen rebellion — and really they should have demanded a refund on their vacation rental as soon as Caramore told them — on their second day of the stay — that he placed a cursed doll in their flat, a toy to which little Lily (Lara Mount) took an instant liking. But Lily and her
Continue reading →
