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Following the demise of murder machine Officer Matt Cordell (Robert Z’Dar) Officers Jack Forrest (living legend Bruce Campbell) and Theresa Mallory (Hundra herself Laurene Landon) return to the force, but are assigned a shrink in the person of one Officer Susan Riley (Claudia Christian). This proves to be a moot point for our heroes however as Maniac Matt is back from the dead and he begins his murder biz once again resulting in their untimely demise. Now it’s up to Riley to contend not only with the resurrected Maniac Cop, but a stripper slashin’ lunatic named Turkell (Leo Rossi) prowling the streets… and that Manson mother fucker has teamed up with Cordell to form an evil alliance guaranteed to have the streets runnin’ red! Returning director William Lustig (Maniac) and writer Larry Cohen (let’s go with The Stuff this time) return to the scene of the crime with their follow up to 1988’s Maniac Cop (bet you didn’t see that
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Ever wonder what ALF would be like if Gordon Shumway was constructed from 80/20 ground beef? No? Well you are readin’ the wrong column mother fucker! Speaking of “mother fucker”, those words start with the letters “M” and “F” just like the new short Meat Friend, which comes flingin’ our way from director/co-writer Izzy Lee! Meat Friend stars the eponymous creature (voiced and puppeteered by co-writer Steve Johanson), a living wad of hamburger meat with cataract eyes who befriends young Billie (a fantastic performance from child thespian Marnie McKendry), a kid that really needs to pick better people… or more accurately “ground chuck” to pal around with. To put it bluntly, Meat Friend is a Grade-A, U.S.D.A. approved psychopath and when he isn’t being resurrected (via Billie’s science prowess) after being rightfully tossed in the trash by Billie’s long-suffering mother (Megan Duffy), he’s giving life lessons learned straight from the streets of Hell and demanding strange meat-centric ceremonies take place!
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In 2015 players and zombie fans were introduced to Dying Light, a twist not seen in the genre of survival horror, a zombie apocalypse where parkour is a means of survival, and when the sun goes down, the true terror begins. Now players are tasked with returning to the world of Dying Light but now the infection is no longer contained and ravaged the world and where they must fight not only for survival but to literally stay human, this is Dying Light 2: Stay Human. I want to give a big thank you to Techland for the reviewing opportunity! In Dying Light 2: Stay Human, players will play as Aiden, a survivor who wanders the wastelands rather than staying put for too long who are known in the game as “Pilgrims” who has arrived in the fictitious European city in search of his sister as well as clues to his past. Things get complicated as Aiden becomes infected by
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While Mortals Sleep In writer/director Alex Fofonoff’s brilliant short While Mortals Sleep, Susan (Carie Kawa) is a cold case novelist who is going through a difficult patch so bad that she is rather reluctantly getting away from it all for a while at the vacation home of some friends. She spies a man named Eddy (Will Brill) ostensibly repairing a problem with black gunk who claims he is taking care of the property along with a woman named Abby (Grace Morrison). Abby asks the hesitant Susan to join her for tea, and things quickly get increasingly peculiar because of a startling sound before going full-on outré. Fofonoff packs his short with one mind-bending surprise after another in a story that blends a few different horror subgenres. The three leads are all superb, and excellent, startling visual effects and sound design combine to create an unsettling atmosphere and an unnerving slice of cinema that lingers long after the closing credits. Huella
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Something in the Dirt The filmmaking duo of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead consistently turn out compelling, thought-provoking genre films, and their fifth and latest feature, Something in the Dirt, may be their best yet. The duo proved in 2017’s The Endless that they are as solid in front of the camera as behind it, and they bring that multihyphenate magic on both sides once again here in a spellbinding tale of two men who witness what seems to be a supernatural miracle in one of their apartments. The event sends hard-luck case Levi (Benson) and religious neighbor John (Moorhead) down a rabbit hole where one conspiracy theory leads to another and so on. These two men, living on the fringes of society, see this as their big opportunity to get rich quick by way of putting together a documentary about the strange phenomena that they witness. This being a horror movie, things of course don’t turn out the way
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Dora Baldini (Daria Nicolodi), her kiddo Marco (Beyond the Door‘s David Colin Jr.), and her new husband Bruno (we don’t talk about Bruno no no… okay, we do, and he’s played by Yor: the Hunter From the Future‘s Overlord himself, John Steiner) make the dumbass decision to move into the old house where Dora lived with her first husband Carlo, a Joe Dirt lookin’ heroin addicted son of a bitch who supposedly died at sea (the dead part is true, the sea is hazy… ). Minus the obvious psychological damage moving back into that space would cause anyone, ol’ Marco (who I’m kinda surprised they didn’t go with a Peter Bark style of situation with… if ya know, then ya know… but if not, watch Andrea Bianchi’s 1981 zombie sleaze-fest Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror… you’ll thank me for it later) seems to getting rather horny for Mommy Dearest… and as the days pass, Dora seems to be coming
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If you are in the mood for something decidedly different, director Clay Tatum’s The Civil Dead delivers in spades. This offbeat horror-adjacent comedy gets dark and delivers an emotional gut-punch of a climax. The Civil Dead begins with quirky humor as unemployed photographer Clay (Tatum), left to his own devices when his wife goes on a business trip, scams people when he poses as a real estate agent and takes deposit money from potential renters, when showing his own home that he has no intention of leaving. One day while out shooting photos, he runs across acquaintance Whit (Whitmer Thomas) from his old hometown, and ends up reluctantly inviting him home for drinks. The next morning, Whit is still hanging around, and confesses he has nowhere to go — because he is a ghost. Whit just wants a friend because of the loneliness of being a specter, but Clay is a misanthrope and the idea of having unwanted supernatural company
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Prolific cinematic maverick Jess Franco directed roughly 7,865 movies in his career, so it seems inevitable he would ply his trade with a lil’ film noir… and he sure as shit did! To that end we turn our putrid peepers towards Severin’s release of Franco Noir, a collection of two noir film’s Franco created between 1962 and 1963. Kicking things off we have 1962’s (or 1964’s… the box says ’62 IMDb says ’64… feel free to let me know) Death Whistles the Blues: Trafficking sumbitch Vogel (Georges Rollin) sells out his accomplices Castro and Smith (Manuel Alexandre) which results in Castro being ventilated by the boys in blue, and Smith coolin’ his joltin’ jets in prison. Well all things come to pass, and our man Smith finally sees the light of day again… and he is hellbent on settlin’ the score against Vogel, with only a blues tune to herald his coming to lay down an ultimate ass-whippin’! All manner
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In The Deep House, A young couple, out to gain followers on social media, explore abandoned and long-forgotten places. On a mission to make it to 1,000,000 followers head out to find the location of a man-made lake where many homes lay drowned under its surface. After finding a guide, they hit the jackpot, discovering a large home intact many meters underwater. From the moment they enter the once beautiful home, things seem off, but when they make a disturbing discovery in the home’s basement, everything turns into a nightmare. When I first heard about The Deep House, I’ll be honest, I had my doubts. Billed as “a haunted house movie underwater,” I assumed the movie would not be anything more than a disappointment. I now regret jumping to that conclusion. I will admit when I am wrong. After watching it, I can tell you that it is the haunted house movie that I didn’t know we needed. The moment
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Tubi has been on a roll with their new line of original horror films. The latest release, Unborn, is what I’m here to review today, though you should check out my review for their previous horror film Hellblazers. Pregnant women naturally face a range of fears, both real and valid, and those that seem a bit silly while they are pregnant. Unborn takes those fears and combines them with supernatural horrors. In the film, a couple desperate for a child finally get the good news they have been hoping for, but it doesn’t take long for Rachel (Jade Harlow) to begin experiencing strange things beginning with the image of her dead mother’s face showing up on her ultrasound. When people around her begin to become possessed, Rachel begins to search for answers, learning that her family has long been connected to a satanic cult that worships Lillith. The film is filled with emotion that by the end seemed to have
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Following the demise of murder machine Officer Matt Cordell (Robert Z’Dar) Officers Jack Forrest (living legend Bruce Campbell) and Theresa Mallory (Hundra herself Laurene Landon) return to the force, but are assigned a shrink in the person of one Officer Susan Riley (Claudia Christian). This proves to be a moot point for our heroes however as Maniac Matt is back from the dead and he begins his murder biz once again resulting in their untimely demise. Now it’s up to Riley to contend not only with the resurrected Maniac Cop, but a stripper slashin’ lunatic named Turkell (Leo Rossi) prowling the streets… and that Manson mother fucker has teamed up with Cordell to form an evil alliance guaranteed to have the streets runnin’ red! Returning director William Lustig (Maniac) and writer Larry Cohen (let’s go with The Stuff this time) return to the scene of the crime with their follow up to 1988’s Maniac Cop (bet you didn’t see that
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Ever wonder what ALF would be like if Gordon Shumway was constructed from 80/20 ground beef? No? Well you are readin’ the wrong column mother fucker! Speaking of “mother fucker”, those words start with the letters “M” and “F” just like the new short Meat Friend, which comes flingin’ our way from director/co-writer Izzy Lee! Meat Friend stars the eponymous creature (voiced and puppeteered by co-writer Steve Johanson), a living wad of hamburger meat with cataract eyes who befriends young Billie (a fantastic performance from child thespian Marnie McKendry), a kid that really needs to pick better people… or more accurately “ground chuck” to pal around with. To put it bluntly, Meat Friend is a Grade-A, U.S.D.A. approved psychopath and when he isn’t being resurrected (via Billie’s science prowess) after being rightfully tossed in the trash by Billie’s long-suffering mother (Megan Duffy), he’s giving life lessons learned straight from the streets of Hell and demanding strange meat-centric ceremonies take place!
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In 2015 players and zombie fans were introduced to Dying Light, a twist not seen in the genre of survival horror, a zombie apocalypse where parkour is a means of survival, and when the sun goes down, the true terror begins. Now players are tasked with returning to the world of Dying Light but now the infection is no longer contained and ravaged the world and where they must fight not only for survival but to literally stay human, this is Dying Light 2: Stay Human. I want to give a big thank you to Techland for the reviewing opportunity! In Dying Light 2: Stay Human, players will play as Aiden, a survivor who wanders the wastelands rather than staying put for too long who are known in the game as “Pilgrims” who has arrived in the fictitious European city in search of his sister as well as clues to his past. Things get complicated as Aiden becomes infected by
Continue reading →
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While Mortals Sleep In writer/director Alex Fofonoff’s brilliant short While Mortals Sleep, Susan (Carie Kawa) is a cold case novelist who is going through a difficult patch so bad that she is rather reluctantly getting away from it all for a while at the vacation home of some friends. She spies a man named Eddy (Will Brill) ostensibly repairing a problem with black gunk who claims he is taking care of the property along with a woman named Abby (Grace Morrison). Abby asks the hesitant Susan to join her for tea, and things quickly get increasingly peculiar because of a startling sound before going full-on outré. Fofonoff packs his short with one mind-bending surprise after another in a story that blends a few different horror subgenres. The three leads are all superb, and excellent, startling visual effects and sound design combine to create an unsettling atmosphere and an unnerving slice of cinema that lingers long after the closing credits. Huella
Continue reading →
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Something in the Dirt The filmmaking duo of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead consistently turn out compelling, thought-provoking genre films, and their fifth and latest feature, Something in the Dirt, may be their best yet. The duo proved in 2017’s The Endless that they are as solid in front of the camera as behind it, and they bring that multihyphenate magic on both sides once again here in a spellbinding tale of two men who witness what seems to be a supernatural miracle in one of their apartments. The event sends hard-luck case Levi (Benson) and religious neighbor John (Moorhead) down a rabbit hole where one conspiracy theory leads to another and so on. These two men, living on the fringes of society, see this as their big opportunity to get rich quick by way of putting together a documentary about the strange phenomena that they witness. This being a horror movie, things of course don’t turn out the way
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Dora Baldini (Daria Nicolodi), her kiddo Marco (Beyond the Door‘s David Colin Jr.), and her new husband Bruno (we don’t talk about Bruno no no… okay, we do, and he’s played by Yor: the Hunter From the Future‘s Overlord himself, John Steiner) make the dumbass decision to move into the old house where Dora lived with her first husband Carlo, a Joe Dirt lookin’ heroin addicted son of a bitch who supposedly died at sea (the dead part is true, the sea is hazy… ). Minus the obvious psychological damage moving back into that space would cause anyone, ol’ Marco (who I’m kinda surprised they didn’t go with a Peter Bark style of situation with… if ya know, then ya know… but if not, watch Andrea Bianchi’s 1981 zombie sleaze-fest Burial Ground: The Nights of Terror… you’ll thank me for it later) seems to getting rather horny for Mommy Dearest… and as the days pass, Dora seems to be coming
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If you are in the mood for something decidedly different, director Clay Tatum’s The Civil Dead delivers in spades. This offbeat horror-adjacent comedy gets dark and delivers an emotional gut-punch of a climax. The Civil Dead begins with quirky humor as unemployed photographer Clay (Tatum), left to his own devices when his wife goes on a business trip, scams people when he poses as a real estate agent and takes deposit money from potential renters, when showing his own home that he has no intention of leaving. One day while out shooting photos, he runs across acquaintance Whit (Whitmer Thomas) from his old hometown, and ends up reluctantly inviting him home for drinks. The next morning, Whit is still hanging around, and confesses he has nowhere to go — because he is a ghost. Whit just wants a friend because of the loneliness of being a specter, but Clay is a misanthrope and the idea of having unwanted supernatural company
Continue reading →
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Prolific cinematic maverick Jess Franco directed roughly 7,865 movies in his career, so it seems inevitable he would ply his trade with a lil’ film noir… and he sure as shit did! To that end we turn our putrid peepers towards Severin’s release of Franco Noir, a collection of two noir film’s Franco created between 1962 and 1963. Kicking things off we have 1962’s (or 1964’s… the box says ’62 IMDb says ’64… feel free to let me know) Death Whistles the Blues: Trafficking sumbitch Vogel (Georges Rollin) sells out his accomplices Castro and Smith (Manuel Alexandre) which results in Castro being ventilated by the boys in blue, and Smith coolin’ his joltin’ jets in prison. Well all things come to pass, and our man Smith finally sees the light of day again… and he is hellbent on settlin’ the score against Vogel, with only a blues tune to herald his coming to lay down an ultimate ass-whippin’! All manner
Continue reading →
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In The Deep House, A young couple, out to gain followers on social media, explore abandoned and long-forgotten places. On a mission to make it to 1,000,000 followers head out to find the location of a man-made lake where many homes lay drowned under its surface. After finding a guide, they hit the jackpot, discovering a large home intact many meters underwater. From the moment they enter the once beautiful home, things seem off, but when they make a disturbing discovery in the home’s basement, everything turns into a nightmare. When I first heard about The Deep House, I’ll be honest, I had my doubts. Billed as “a haunted house movie underwater,” I assumed the movie would not be anything more than a disappointment. I now regret jumping to that conclusion. I will admit when I am wrong. After watching it, I can tell you that it is the haunted house movie that I didn’t know we needed. The moment
Continue reading →
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Tubi has been on a roll with their new line of original horror films. The latest release, Unborn, is what I’m here to review today, though you should check out my review for their previous horror film Hellblazers. Pregnant women naturally face a range of fears, both real and valid, and those that seem a bit silly while they are pregnant. Unborn takes those fears and combines them with supernatural horrors. In the film, a couple desperate for a child finally get the good news they have been hoping for, but it doesn’t take long for Rachel (Jade Harlow) to begin experiencing strange things beginning with the image of her dead mother’s face showing up on her ultrasound. When people around her begin to become possessed, Rachel begins to search for answers, learning that her family has long been connected to a satanic cult that worships Lillith. The film is filled with emotion that by the end seemed to have
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