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IndieMoviesReviews
After a lil’ shooty-shooty; a team of FBI agents capture arms dealin’ dastardly devil Diego (Noel Gugliemi) and proceed to load him on a civilian-packed plane headed down Puerto Rico-way… regardless of the threat of a major incoming storm and the chagrin of Air Marshall Jonas (Natural Born Killers’ Tom Sizemore). Naturally the plane experiences a patch of turbulence that sends the craft hurtling towards the ocean… more specifically the preternatural dead zone known as the Bermuda Triangle! Our heroes soon make it to an island where everything is puppies and rainbows… or cannibal monsters and a long-lived survivor to be more accurate… but will these folks ever stop bitchin’ long enough to face the threats at hand?!! Coming from Mahal Empire Productions; I expected Bermuda Island to be an action-packed, monster-filled, gore-splashed, rollickin’ romp… and it sure as shit was… so, I win! End of review. Okay, okay… here’s some more of my wicked words (by unpopular demand!)… Director
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IndieMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
In a dystopian future, armored masked guards chase a man named Jacob Stryker (Auggi Alvarez) all over hell and back in an industrial area. Why are they so pissed at our man Stryker? Well he escaped from an experimental prison center where hewas involved in something called Project: Moonchild… but before we learn just what that means for our hero he falls in with a group of heavily armed juvenile soldiers, their pit fightin’ pal Talon (Dave Miller), and their bad-ass leader Athena (Kathleen McSweeney) who decide to join him in finding his missing son and defeat the Solidarity who control the city. Meanwhile it is learned that our hero is a bio-engineered werewolf created to fight wars, and before long a group of bounty hunters (including a ninja, a cyborg, a mature lady named Medusa, and eventually a comely blonde lady) is set loose to bring him back to those that made him, resulting in explosive battles among the
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MoviesReviewsShudder
Horror comedies can be hit or miss, but writer-director Emily Hagins’ (My Sucky Teen Romance) new offering Sorry About the Demon is one that fans of the genre should put high on their need-to-see lists. The Sellers family are real estate agents who have found that their home is inhabited by a demon named Demonous that wants to possess their young daughter Grace (Presley Allard). They strike a bargain with Demonous that if they find a suitable replacement for Grace, they will get their daughter and their home back. So the Sellers rent, at a very low bargain price, their spacious home and all of its elegant furnishings to the unsuspecting Will (John Michael Simpson), a nebbish ne’er-do-well working as a complaints department phone representative for the country’s saltiest tasting toothpaste, who has just been dumped by his more ambitious now-ex-girlfriend Amy (Paige Evans). Will’s nervous friend Patrick (Jeff McQuilty) tries to get Will to move on, introducing him to
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BooksComic Books/Graphic NovelsGamingProductReviews
Gaming is serious to a lot of people, but unfortunately what seems to be harmless can affect you if you’re not careful. You can have a nice gaming chair, a comfy spot on the couch, or even use your own bed for your gaming sessions but unknowingly develop what gamers call “Gamer lean/Shrimping” or “Gamer neck”. Leave it to gamers to come up with a solution to help prevent this problem, Say hello to The Valari! The Valari has developed a gaming pillow that’s designed to improve your posture while gaming as well as make your sessions more comfortable by providing support for your elbows and forearms. There are two types of pillows available, Rare Edition and Legendary. I want to thank The Valari for sending me over one of their Legendary Edition pillows that’s in Horror Fuel colors and features an embroidered image of an Oni Mask (I love Japanese folklore, so sue me.). I’ve put it to the
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ForeignMoviesReviews
Indonesian horror cinema is gaining a well-deserved reputation as some of the finest fear-fare film offering in the world, but it must be killing any tourism interest in the country’s most rural areas. Director/cowriter/star Cornelio Sunny’s Death Knot (2021) is the latest such feature to get a U.S. release, a folk horror outing focused on brooding atmosphere rather than shocks and gore. If only characters in horror movies would learn from their predecessors that it is never a good idea to go to their childhood homes after an estranged parent dies. Hari (Sunny) and his sister Eka (Widika Sidmore) do just that, despite the fact that they have both had nightmares about their mother hanging herself and warning them not to come home. They should have followed the instruction in the dreams, as they are shunned by locals because the villagers believe that their mother was in league with the devil for harvesting souls. Hari especially is not the superstitious
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IndieMoviesReviews
Meanwhile in the rootin, tootin ol’ West… A group of miners blast open a new section of the mine they work and unleash murderous, gold lustin’, zombie-like monsters known as Tommyknockers… which cuts their work day short, that’s for damn sure… Adjacent to that horror biz, The Dirt Gang, lead by a dude named Dirk (Richard Grieco), are haulin’ ass towards their next bank heist after fucking up the last one six ways to Sunday in a rather messy (read: fatal) fashion. They soon arrive at the eerily deserted town of Deer Creek; a town that should be busy as a basket of beastly bees thanks to it’s location next to a prosperous gold mine… but as you can guess, that sinister shaft is Ground Zero for those terrible Tommyknockers! Will the Gang survive to ride another day or will they end up Monster Chow… or brought to justice by bounty hunters… or die by revenge for their past deeds…
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GamingIndieProductReviews
Low-poly rendered games that remind you of the way games looked back in the late 90s and early 2000s are becoming more of a thing now, Chasing Static did well on PC and was ported over to consoles to bring the nostalgia back, did it work? Let’s find out. I want to give Headware Games and Ratalaika Games S.L. for the reviewing opportunity. Chasing Static takes place in Wales where players take on the role of Chris, a man who came back to burry his late father and is trying to make his way back home but gets caught up in a strange turn of events where he must explore the surrounding area to find clues to what is happening and how he can help stop the anomalies being caused by an unseen force as well as looking for a waitress, Aneira, that has gone missing after their meeting. Now onto the game itself. The game’s controls are OK. You
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Scott Cooper’s (Antlers) new film The Pale Bue Eye has just made its debut on Netflix, and boy, have I been waiting to see it! The film centers on Christian Bale’s Augustus Landor, a retired detective tasked with investigating a rash of murders. Set at “West Point, 1830, when Poe did attend in real life, a cadet is found dead in the early hours of a winter morning. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully cut out. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry—a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).
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DocumentariesMoviesReviews
Look, if you cats n’ creeps don’t recognize the name Tom Savini, then you are most likely readin’ the wrong column… that being said, if you’ve seen the likes of Dawn of the Dead, Creepshow, and the original recipe Friday the 13th (to name a few) you sure as shit know his handy work in the field of special effects! Speaking of which; the flick under the monstrous microscope today is all about Savini! Let’s focus our putrid peepers on Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini… Filmmaker Jason Baker, himself a professional special effects artist, begins his documentary with a quick montage of the maestro’s work before getting down to the first 1/3rd of the picture’s main concern; exploring Savini’s personal life, from his formative years in Pittsburgh, some of which were spent working a travelling spook-show, to his service in the Vietnam War, in an effort to learn what led him to become one of the greatest
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MoviesReviewsThriller
After one hell of a swinging opening theme, writer/director Crane Wilbur’s The Bat gets underway… Mystery author Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead, known best these days for her regular appearances on ’60s sitcom Bewitched) along with her assistant Lizzie (Lenita Lane), rents The Oaks; a Gothic mansion/summer home owned by bank prez John Fleming (Harvey Stephens)… who just so happens to have embezzled a million dollars from said bank, and is planning on faking his death with his doctor, Malcolm Wells (Vincent Price) who quickly pulls a double-cross in order to grab those sweet-ass greenbacks! Meanwhile the are has been plagued by woman-killer The Bat; a mysterious shadow-figure who soon makes the scene at The Oaks, and releases a bat which puts the bite on Lizzie which causes a fear of “the rabies” infection… and who do you think they call in to take a look-see? None other than Wicked Wells! Will the wily Wells get his hands on the
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IndieMoviesReviews
After a lil’ shooty-shooty; a team of FBI agents capture arms dealin’ dastardly devil Diego (Noel Gugliemi) and proceed to load him on a civilian-packed plane headed down Puerto Rico-way… regardless of the threat of a major incoming storm and the chagrin of Air Marshall Jonas (Natural Born Killers’ Tom Sizemore). Naturally the plane experiences a patch of turbulence that sends the craft hurtling towards the ocean… more specifically the preternatural dead zone known as the Bermuda Triangle! Our heroes soon make it to an island where everything is puppies and rainbows… or cannibal monsters and a long-lived survivor to be more accurate… but will these folks ever stop bitchin’ long enough to face the threats at hand?!! Coming from Mahal Empire Productions; I expected Bermuda Island to be an action-packed, monster-filled, gore-splashed, rollickin’ romp… and it sure as shit was… so, I win! End of review. Okay, okay… here’s some more of my wicked words (by unpopular demand!)… Director
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
In a dystopian future, armored masked guards chase a man named Jacob Stryker (Auggi Alvarez) all over hell and back in an industrial area. Why are they so pissed at our man Stryker? Well he escaped from an experimental prison center where hewas involved in something called Project: Moonchild… but before we learn just what that means for our hero he falls in with a group of heavily armed juvenile soldiers, their pit fightin’ pal Talon (Dave Miller), and their bad-ass leader Athena (Kathleen McSweeney) who decide to join him in finding his missing son and defeat the Solidarity who control the city. Meanwhile it is learned that our hero is a bio-engineered werewolf created to fight wars, and before long a group of bounty hunters (including a ninja, a cyborg, a mature lady named Medusa, and eventually a comely blonde lady) is set loose to bring him back to those that made him, resulting in explosive battles among the
Continue reading →
MoviesReviewsShudder
Horror comedies can be hit or miss, but writer-director Emily Hagins’ (My Sucky Teen Romance) new offering Sorry About the Demon is one that fans of the genre should put high on their need-to-see lists. The Sellers family are real estate agents who have found that their home is inhabited by a demon named Demonous that wants to possess their young daughter Grace (Presley Allard). They strike a bargain with Demonous that if they find a suitable replacement for Grace, they will get their daughter and their home back. So the Sellers rent, at a very low bargain price, their spacious home and all of its elegant furnishings to the unsuspecting Will (John Michael Simpson), a nebbish ne’er-do-well working as a complaints department phone representative for the country’s saltiest tasting toothpaste, who has just been dumped by his more ambitious now-ex-girlfriend Amy (Paige Evans). Will’s nervous friend Patrick (Jeff McQuilty) tries to get Will to move on, introducing him to
Continue reading →
BooksComic Books/Graphic NovelsGamingProductReviews
Gaming is serious to a lot of people, but unfortunately what seems to be harmless can affect you if you’re not careful. You can have a nice gaming chair, a comfy spot on the couch, or even use your own bed for your gaming sessions but unknowingly develop what gamers call “Gamer lean/Shrimping” or “Gamer neck”. Leave it to gamers to come up with a solution to help prevent this problem, Say hello to The Valari! The Valari has developed a gaming pillow that’s designed to improve your posture while gaming as well as make your sessions more comfortable by providing support for your elbows and forearms. There are two types of pillows available, Rare Edition and Legendary. I want to thank The Valari for sending me over one of their Legendary Edition pillows that’s in Horror Fuel colors and features an embroidered image of an Oni Mask (I love Japanese folklore, so sue me.). I’ve put it to the
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesReviews
Indonesian horror cinema is gaining a well-deserved reputation as some of the finest fear-fare film offering in the world, but it must be killing any tourism interest in the country’s most rural areas. Director/cowriter/star Cornelio Sunny’s Death Knot (2021) is the latest such feature to get a U.S. release, a folk horror outing focused on brooding atmosphere rather than shocks and gore. If only characters in horror movies would learn from their predecessors that it is never a good idea to go to their childhood homes after an estranged parent dies. Hari (Sunny) and his sister Eka (Widika Sidmore) do just that, despite the fact that they have both had nightmares about their mother hanging herself and warning them not to come home. They should have followed the instruction in the dreams, as they are shunned by locals because the villagers believe that their mother was in league with the devil for harvesting souls. Hari especially is not the superstitious
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviews
Meanwhile in the rootin, tootin ol’ West… A group of miners blast open a new section of the mine they work and unleash murderous, gold lustin’, zombie-like monsters known as Tommyknockers… which cuts their work day short, that’s for damn sure… Adjacent to that horror biz, The Dirt Gang, lead by a dude named Dirk (Richard Grieco), are haulin’ ass towards their next bank heist after fucking up the last one six ways to Sunday in a rather messy (read: fatal) fashion. They soon arrive at the eerily deserted town of Deer Creek; a town that should be busy as a basket of beastly bees thanks to it’s location next to a prosperous gold mine… but as you can guess, that sinister shaft is Ground Zero for those terrible Tommyknockers! Will the Gang survive to ride another day or will they end up Monster Chow… or brought to justice by bounty hunters… or die by revenge for their past deeds…
Continue reading →
GamingIndieProductReviews
Low-poly rendered games that remind you of the way games looked back in the late 90s and early 2000s are becoming more of a thing now, Chasing Static did well on PC and was ported over to consoles to bring the nostalgia back, did it work? Let’s find out. I want to give Headware Games and Ratalaika Games S.L. for the reviewing opportunity. Chasing Static takes place in Wales where players take on the role of Chris, a man who came back to burry his late father and is trying to make his way back home but gets caught up in a strange turn of events where he must explore the surrounding area to find clues to what is happening and how he can help stop the anomalies being caused by an unseen force as well as looking for a waitress, Aneira, that has gone missing after their meeting. Now onto the game itself. The game’s controls are OK. You
Continue reading →
AdaptationBooksMoviesNetflixNewsReviewsStreaming TVThrillerTrailers
Scott Cooper’s (Antlers) new film The Pale Bue Eye has just made its debut on Netflix, and boy, have I been waiting to see it! The film centers on Christian Bale’s Augustus Landor, a retired detective tasked with investigating a rash of murders. Set at “West Point, 1830, when Poe did attend in real life, a cadet is found dead in the early hours of a winter morning. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully cut out. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry—a young man named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).
Continue reading →
DocumentariesMoviesReviews
Look, if you cats n’ creeps don’t recognize the name Tom Savini, then you are most likely readin’ the wrong column… that being said, if you’ve seen the likes of Dawn of the Dead, Creepshow, and the original recipe Friday the 13th (to name a few) you sure as shit know his handy work in the field of special effects! Speaking of which; the flick under the monstrous microscope today is all about Savini! Let’s focus our putrid peepers on Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini… Filmmaker Jason Baker, himself a professional special effects artist, begins his documentary with a quick montage of the maestro’s work before getting down to the first 1/3rd of the picture’s main concern; exploring Savini’s personal life, from his formative years in Pittsburgh, some of which were spent working a travelling spook-show, to his service in the Vietnam War, in an effort to learn what led him to become one of the greatest
Continue reading →
MoviesReviewsThriller
After one hell of a swinging opening theme, writer/director Crane Wilbur’s The Bat gets underway… Mystery author Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead, known best these days for her regular appearances on ’60s sitcom Bewitched) along with her assistant Lizzie (Lenita Lane), rents The Oaks; a Gothic mansion/summer home owned by bank prez John Fleming (Harvey Stephens)… who just so happens to have embezzled a million dollars from said bank, and is planning on faking his death with his doctor, Malcolm Wells (Vincent Price) who quickly pulls a double-cross in order to grab those sweet-ass greenbacks! Meanwhile the are has been plagued by woman-killer The Bat; a mysterious shadow-figure who soon makes the scene at The Oaks, and releases a bat which puts the bite on Lizzie which causes a fear of “the rabies” infection… and who do you think they call in to take a look-see? None other than Wicked Wells! Will the wily Wells get his hands on the
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