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After a contingent of Korean criminals extradited from the Philippines gets blown sky-high by a mad bomber, the decision is made to move the next load of no-good-niks via cargo ship to a private dock in Busan. While the overall plan is unconventional, the journey gets stranger by the second as the doctor on board is acting suspicious as all fuck, some of the ship’s crew have been replaced by gang members, and there’s a pseudo-zombie, code-named Alpha (Train to Busan‘s Gwi-hwa Choi) below decks… Before you can say “absolute shit-show” things become an absolute shit-show with (most of) the criminals engaging in a bloody (think gallons upon gallons) coup… but that previously mentioned “most of” leads to more tension as the more peaceful of the evil-doers find themselves at odds with their much, MUCH more psychotic brethren, and all are at odds with the remaining police force. Then Alpha, created decades ago by the eponymous Project who had hopes
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With the successful launch of the remaster of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, Koei Tecmo got to work to remaster the fourth game in the Fata Frame game series that originally came out in 2008 in Japan only, disappointing many North American fans (Me included!), but the right has been wronged and now Fata Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is here and I can’t thank Koei Tecmo enough for giving me a chance to review it! Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse follows three characters, Misaki and Ruka, two girls who went missing on the island of Rogetsu with three other friends when they were children, and Choushiro, a police detective who found the girls after they went missing ten years prior to the game’s story. The three are now searching for answers as to what happened on the island and the girls ten years ago, and why the girls are dying one by one. Now onto
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A phone call unites a visually impaired woman running for her life with a convenience store clerk having troubles of her own hundreds of miles away in director Yoko Okumura’s Unseen. Though it shares its basic conceit of a random stranger helping someone with vision impairment in a dangerous situation with the 2021 film See for Me, it does offer its own different take on the idea. Physician Emily (Midori Francis) has just escaped the clutches of her ex-boyfriend Charlie (Michael Patrick Lane), who drugged and kidnapped her and intends to kill her in the woods of Michigan. Intending to redial 911, she accidentally reaches clerk Sam (Jolene Purdy) instead, and asks Sam to guide her through the wild using her phone’s camera. Sam doesn’t believe she has the gumption to do so, plus she is low on battery, has an abusive customer named Carol (Missi Pyle) harassing her, and there’s also the broken slushie machine to deal with. Unseen
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The Uncanny Art therapist Zouzou (Marie Laurin) takes the suicide of one of her charges quite painfully, leaving her job and moving to a new area in The Uncanny. Her new home, initially unbeknownst to her, is filled with past traumas and no small amount of dread. Her neighbors and new acquaintances can’t help but notice her increasingly strange behavior, which is caused in part by recurring visits from a young girl. The Uncanny doesn’t offer shocks and gratuitous gore; rather, director Clara Gabrielle — who cowrote the screenplay with Laurin, her mother — focuses more on the drama regarding grief, loss, depression, and the slow decline of sanity, which are heightened here by supernatural forces. The third act does serve up a decidedly eerie set piece, though. Laurin’s hypnotic lead performance is something to behold, with solid assistance from the sizable supporting cast. Gabrielle does an impressive job at the helm, crafting a feature that should give aficionados of
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Those delightful devils have become criminally minded and have gathered five of director’s Umberto Lenzi’s (Nightmare City, Cannibal Ferox) crime flicks, all featuring actor Tomas Milian, and eleased them in one handy-dandy box-set aptly called Violent Streets – The Umberto Lenzi /Tomas Milian Collection. Things kick off with 1974’s Almost Human: Giulio (Milian) is a bank robber who gives zero fucks when it comes to being a murderous lunatic. It’s that last bit that finds him kicked soundly from his bank robbing gang straight into his girlfriend Iona’s (Anita Strindberg) abode. Human Sponge is super effective! Soon Giulio spies comely Mary Lou (Laura Belli), a girl that comes from a Richy Rich type of sitch with Daddy Dearest owning the company Iona works for no less, and gets the brilliant idea to throw together a lil’ gang and kidnap the heiress in the hopes of collecting a giant ransom. There’s a huge fuckin’ fly in the ointment however as Inspector
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Snake venom drinking, ex-Vietnam prisoner of war Sam Wood (Brent Huff of Cop Game, which I reviewed right here) spends his days… well, he seems to just sleep a lot and piss people off merely by existing… oh, and he looks like a Bayou Billy cosplayer, which given the difficulty of that game would go along way to adding towards the hostility leveled against him… Anyway, Sam is hired by documentarian Maryline Kane (Mary Stavin) to head back to the camp he was brutally tortured in for a series of interviews in exchange for which he’ll be paid an ass-load of cash. Once there Maryline’s crew is immediately attacked and killed by Vietnamese soldiers, and Sam finds out he was played like a chump and Maryline’s real goal is to rescue her military father who has become a P.O.W. as well… the same general that refused to rescue Wood’s comrades in ‘Nam. The promise of more money smooths that shit
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Have collectibles you display proudly at home but want to make them pop? Want to know how stocks are doing, what’s crypto up to, and what’s happening with the news, but don’t want to pick up your phone? Let me introduce you to Tidbyt your new friend to help make your morning routine faster, entertain you, and help you disconnect while still being connected. I want to give a big thank you to Tidbyt for sending over one of their displays for me to try out! The Tidbyt is 8.2″ x 4.4″ x 1.9″ (208mm x 112mm x 50mm), the right size for an end table, nightstand, shelf, or counter. It can also be mounted on a wall with a wall-mount kit (sold separately) BUT if you have a 3d printer or know someone who does, you can download the 3D file for free. The Tidbyt comes with instructions on how to set it up out of the box and
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P.G. Kelly (Mel Gibson) is the leader of a small group of special forces operatives charged with rescuing survivors of a downed plane located on a heavily Japanese occupied island during World War II. These are grim motherfuckers one and all, and they certainly aren’t above getting their hands very, very dirty in order to complete a mission… even if the blood they spill is from one of their own! As the men soldier on in their quest they take up with local farmer cum resistance fighter Lin (prolific Taiwanese actor/director Koo Chuan Hsiung) and his daughter Chien Hua (Hong Kong actress/singer/director Sylvia Chang) who prove to be valuable allies in a place where they are in short supply! Will Kelly and his men complete this seemingly suicidal mission, or will they succumb to the menace of the Japanese troops that surround them on all sides? Attack Force Z is a strange picture… Well, not strange in it’s narrative… this
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After a slew of assassinations against military personnel, the boys in camo do the only thing they possibly can; namely call in beer guzzlin’, male model-type/ex-commando Bob Ross (Tarzan the Ape Man/Ator the Fighting Eagle‘s Miles O’Keeffe) to create happy little accidents of extreme violence on those responsible! The only problem with that request is that it stands in the way of his primary life goal; namely retrieving his son from Vietnam, where he was forced to stay after the war… a goal he has attempted to fulfil by blowing shit sky-high with a rocket launcher fired from a helicopter. Fortunately for the narrative, Ross is soon convinced (i.e. forced) by the asthmatic, and ludicrously named, Senator Blaster (Halloween‘s Donald Pleasence) and his own personal Col. Trautman, Col. Waters (Mike Monty) to undertake the assassination investigation back in his old ‘Nam stomping grounds, a task he has five days to complete or he’ll be left to rot! The job totally
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GamingParanormalProductReviews
The name Bendy entered the social conciseness back in 2017 thanks to multiple youtube playthrough videos of the quirky and dark tale of the Mickey Mouse-like character Bendy the Demon and the cursed studio that created him. With a heavy viral following that spawned an array of children’s merchandise, it was clear that a sequel had to be made, and I had to dive into this inky rabbit hole. Grab a can of bacon soup, this is Bendy the Dark Revival. I want to thank Joey Drew Studios for the reviewing opportunity! Bendy the Dark Revival takes place in the 1970s when an animator named Audry who while staying late working on a Bendy cartoon, is brought into The Cycle, an alternate cartoonish reality where living animations live thanks to the infamous Ink Machine that’s capable of bringing cartoon characters to life. Audry is now stuck in this hellish world and must fight to find a way out. Now onto
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After a contingent of Korean criminals extradited from the Philippines gets blown sky-high by a mad bomber, the decision is made to move the next load of no-good-niks via cargo ship to a private dock in Busan. While the overall plan is unconventional, the journey gets stranger by the second as the doctor on board is acting suspicious as all fuck, some of the ship’s crew have been replaced by gang members, and there’s a pseudo-zombie, code-named Alpha (Train to Busan‘s Gwi-hwa Choi) below decks… Before you can say “absolute shit-show” things become an absolute shit-show with (most of) the criminals engaging in a bloody (think gallons upon gallons) coup… but that previously mentioned “most of” leads to more tension as the more peaceful of the evil-doers find themselves at odds with their much, MUCH more psychotic brethren, and all are at odds with the remaining police force. Then Alpha, created decades ago by the eponymous Project who had hopes
Continue reading →
GamingParanormalProductReviews
With the successful launch of the remaster of Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water, Koei Tecmo got to work to remaster the fourth game in the Fata Frame game series that originally came out in 2008 in Japan only, disappointing many North American fans (Me included!), but the right has been wronged and now Fata Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse is here and I can’t thank Koei Tecmo enough for giving me a chance to review it! Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse follows three characters, Misaki and Ruka, two girls who went missing on the island of Rogetsu with three other friends when they were children, and Choushiro, a police detective who found the girls after they went missing ten years prior to the game’s story. The three are now searching for answers as to what happened on the island and the girls ten years ago, and why the girls are dying one by one. Now onto
Continue reading →
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A phone call unites a visually impaired woman running for her life with a convenience store clerk having troubles of her own hundreds of miles away in director Yoko Okumura’s Unseen. Though it shares its basic conceit of a random stranger helping someone with vision impairment in a dangerous situation with the 2021 film See for Me, it does offer its own different take on the idea. Physician Emily (Midori Francis) has just escaped the clutches of her ex-boyfriend Charlie (Michael Patrick Lane), who drugged and kidnapped her and intends to kill her in the woods of Michigan. Intending to redial 911, she accidentally reaches clerk Sam (Jolene Purdy) instead, and asks Sam to guide her through the wild using her phone’s camera. Sam doesn’t believe she has the gumption to do so, plus she is low on battery, has an abusive customer named Carol (Missi Pyle) harassing her, and there’s also the broken slushie machine to deal with. Unseen
Continue reading →
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The Uncanny Art therapist Zouzou (Marie Laurin) takes the suicide of one of her charges quite painfully, leaving her job and moving to a new area in The Uncanny. Her new home, initially unbeknownst to her, is filled with past traumas and no small amount of dread. Her neighbors and new acquaintances can’t help but notice her increasingly strange behavior, which is caused in part by recurring visits from a young girl. The Uncanny doesn’t offer shocks and gratuitous gore; rather, director Clara Gabrielle — who cowrote the screenplay with Laurin, her mother — focuses more on the drama regarding grief, loss, depression, and the slow decline of sanity, which are heightened here by supernatural forces. The third act does serve up a decidedly eerie set piece, though. Laurin’s hypnotic lead performance is something to behold, with solid assistance from the sizable supporting cast. Gabrielle does an impressive job at the helm, crafting a feature that should give aficionados of
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesReviewsThriller
Those delightful devils have become criminally minded and have gathered five of director’s Umberto Lenzi’s (Nightmare City, Cannibal Ferox) crime flicks, all featuring actor Tomas Milian, and eleased them in one handy-dandy box-set aptly called Violent Streets – The Umberto Lenzi /Tomas Milian Collection. Things kick off with 1974’s Almost Human: Giulio (Milian) is a bank robber who gives zero fucks when it comes to being a murderous lunatic. It’s that last bit that finds him kicked soundly from his bank robbing gang straight into his girlfriend Iona’s (Anita Strindberg) abode. Human Sponge is super effective! Soon Giulio spies comely Mary Lou (Laura Belli), a girl that comes from a Richy Rich type of sitch with Daddy Dearest owning the company Iona works for no less, and gets the brilliant idea to throw together a lil’ gang and kidnap the heiress in the hopes of collecting a giant ransom. There’s a huge fuckin’ fly in the ointment however as Inspector
Continue reading →
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Snake venom drinking, ex-Vietnam prisoner of war Sam Wood (Brent Huff of Cop Game, which I reviewed right here) spends his days… well, he seems to just sleep a lot and piss people off merely by existing… oh, and he looks like a Bayou Billy cosplayer, which given the difficulty of that game would go along way to adding towards the hostility leveled against him… Anyway, Sam is hired by documentarian Maryline Kane (Mary Stavin) to head back to the camp he was brutally tortured in for a series of interviews in exchange for which he’ll be paid an ass-load of cash. Once there Maryline’s crew is immediately attacked and killed by Vietnamese soldiers, and Sam finds out he was played like a chump and Maryline’s real goal is to rescue her military father who has become a P.O.W. as well… the same general that refused to rescue Wood’s comrades in ‘Nam. The promise of more money smooths that shit
Continue reading →
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Have collectibles you display proudly at home but want to make them pop? Want to know how stocks are doing, what’s crypto up to, and what’s happening with the news, but don’t want to pick up your phone? Let me introduce you to Tidbyt your new friend to help make your morning routine faster, entertain you, and help you disconnect while still being connected. I want to give a big thank you to Tidbyt for sending over one of their displays for me to try out! The Tidbyt is 8.2″ x 4.4″ x 1.9″ (208mm x 112mm x 50mm), the right size for an end table, nightstand, shelf, or counter. It can also be mounted on a wall with a wall-mount kit (sold separately) BUT if you have a 3d printer or know someone who does, you can download the 3D file for free. The Tidbyt comes with instructions on how to set it up out of the box and
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesReviews
P.G. Kelly (Mel Gibson) is the leader of a small group of special forces operatives charged with rescuing survivors of a downed plane located on a heavily Japanese occupied island during World War II. These are grim motherfuckers one and all, and they certainly aren’t above getting their hands very, very dirty in order to complete a mission… even if the blood they spill is from one of their own! As the men soldier on in their quest they take up with local farmer cum resistance fighter Lin (prolific Taiwanese actor/director Koo Chuan Hsiung) and his daughter Chien Hua (Hong Kong actress/singer/director Sylvia Chang) who prove to be valuable allies in a place where they are in short supply! Will Kelly and his men complete this seemingly suicidal mission, or will they succumb to the menace of the Japanese troops that surround them on all sides? Attack Force Z is a strange picture… Well, not strange in it’s narrative… this
Continue reading →
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After a slew of assassinations against military personnel, the boys in camo do the only thing they possibly can; namely call in beer guzzlin’, male model-type/ex-commando Bob Ross (Tarzan the Ape Man/Ator the Fighting Eagle‘s Miles O’Keeffe) to create happy little accidents of extreme violence on those responsible! The only problem with that request is that it stands in the way of his primary life goal; namely retrieving his son from Vietnam, where he was forced to stay after the war… a goal he has attempted to fulfil by blowing shit sky-high with a rocket launcher fired from a helicopter. Fortunately for the narrative, Ross is soon convinced (i.e. forced) by the asthmatic, and ludicrously named, Senator Blaster (Halloween‘s Donald Pleasence) and his own personal Col. Trautman, Col. Waters (Mike Monty) to undertake the assassination investigation back in his old ‘Nam stomping grounds, a task he has five days to complete or he’ll be left to rot! The job totally
Continue reading →
GamingParanormalProductReviews
The name Bendy entered the social conciseness back in 2017 thanks to multiple youtube playthrough videos of the quirky and dark tale of the Mickey Mouse-like character Bendy the Demon and the cursed studio that created him. With a heavy viral following that spawned an array of children’s merchandise, it was clear that a sequel had to be made, and I had to dive into this inky rabbit hole. Grab a can of bacon soup, this is Bendy the Dark Revival. I want to thank Joey Drew Studios for the reviewing opportunity! Bendy the Dark Revival takes place in the 1970s when an animator named Audry who while staying late working on a Bendy cartoon, is brought into The Cycle, an alternate cartoonish reality where living animations live thanks to the infamous Ink Machine that’s capable of bringing cartoon characters to life. Audry is now stuck in this hellish world and must fight to find a way out. Now onto
Continue reading →
