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It’s been a long and bumpy road for CD Projekt Red after it released Cyberpunk 2077 a year ago to a Space X style disastrous launch (yep, I went there) that resulted in a major lawsuit ( four separate class-action lawsuits that were combined into one mega lawsuit) filed by fans and investors as the game failed to deliver on a couple of years of hype as the game at launch was described by many as incomplete and accusations were made against CDPR for knowingly releasing an incomplete game. It’s been just over a year, and several updates later, CDPR released Cyberpunk 2077 to next-gen consoles along with a major update promising to fix major issues. Did they really fix anything? Let’s see. I’ll admit, I did not play the game when it did first come out, another claim made against CDPR is that they kept many gaming journalists in the dark at launch and only gave review codes to
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From the Adams family, no, not that Addams family, we’re talking about the filmmaking family, comes Hellbender, the supernatural witchy coming of age film premiering on Shudder in just a few days. Hellbender centers on 16-year-old Izzy (Zelda Adams) who suffers from a rare illness that has kept her isolated on a mountaintop with her mother (Toby Poser) her whole life. As Izzy begins to question her sickness, she pushes back against her confinement and secretly befriends Amber (Lulu Adams), another girl living on the mountain, but her newfound happiness is derailed after she eats a live worm as part of a juvenile game and finds an insatiable and violent hunger awakened within her. To understand the hunger, Izzy must learn the dark secrets of her family’s past and the ancient power in her bloodline. This movie is a family affair, with the Adams family writing, directing, producing, scoring, and editing the film. It’s the sixth feature from Wonder Wheel
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ForeignMoviesReviews
The Burning Sea is the latest in a string of great-looking, well-acted Norwegian disaster films. It comes from The Quake director John Andreas Andersen and The Wave writer Harald Rosenløw-Eeg, the latter of whom cowrote this feature with Lars Gudmestad. The result is a thrilling epic boasting highly impressive CGI effects, fine performances, and solid direction. Andersen, Rosenløw-Eeg, and Gudmestad focus on making emotionally relatable characters that viewers can get behind before the titular catastrophe occurs. Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp in a terrific emotional and physical performance) is a submersible drone pilot who shares a loving relationship with her boyfriend Stian (Henrik Bjelland), an oil rig technician who has a young son. She also has a well-grounded professional relationship with her work partner Arthur (Rolf Kristian Larsen). Viewers get to know these characters well, so that when things inevitably go awry with the effects of offshore oil drilling on continental plates, we are genuinely invested in what happens to these
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After a little late night titty touch, solo style, a woman is stalked by a heavy breathin’, ski mask wearin’, son of a bitch resulting in her flying out a window to her doom! Meanwhile the victim’s sister Clarissa Jane Louise ‘Keegan’ Smart Ass Goof Ball Lawrence (Jo Ann Harris) returns home and begins hanging out with her ever-horny high school chums… but the good times stop a-rollin’ quick as the masked man strikes again! Now who could that killer be? Is it Billy Owens (Steve Railsback), the chain-smoking, beer keg lamp havin’, cat enthusiast/projectionist/asthma sufferer/board game creator/Nam vet (could you give this mother fucker any more affectations movie?!!)… or how about pervert policeman/counter sitter Roger Lane (Sam Groom)… or could it be someone else entirely? That’s what Keegan will have to figure out if she wants to keep on breathing! Deadly Games you do so much so very right, and a few things so shitty… Let’s start with the
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Sergey Noskov, the indie developer behind In Rays of Light and 7th Sector is back with their new walking sim “survival horror” (as it’s said to be on Steam) post-apocalyptic game 35MM. I would like to thank the Developer and publisher Sometimes You for the review opportunity. 35MM takes place in Russia after a global Pandemic wiped out most the of population. The story follows two travelers who are wandering the Russian countryside making their way towards a city where our main character lives. The controls in 35MM are a bit tricky and seem to now be meant for controllers, and don’t seem to respond well at times, especially during combat. The game was also classified as an FPS/Shooter, but the combat mechanics in the game leaves a lot to be desired as you can’t aim, and enemies have a lot more health than you. There are moments you have to do button mashing but most of the time it’s
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IndieMoviesReviews
In 1886, the notorious motherfucker known as Frank Clements (Mike Ammons)… wait, Frank Clements (cue loud as shit record scratch for maximum “laughs”)?!! That’s the name you’d give a wild west outlaw? Not even a “Frightnin’ Frank” Clements… shit, the name sounds like an attorney that could get you off from a drunk driving rap… where the fuck was I? 1886… Frank Clements… oh, yeah, Frank is hung out to dry (literally) by an angry mob lead by one Rev. Thadeous Sutton (Bill Shaw), and he vows unholy revenge on the descendants of those what done him wrong! Fast forward to… whhhooooaa duuuude, it’s the present day, which of course is 1986 as everyone knows. In 1986 we get some high voltage horseshit involving both a geezer, Professor Sutton (Shaw in a dual role) by name, letting two yokels fish on his land intercut with some airport hijinks (the best kind) where we see the high-larious antics of ace pilot/Shooter
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The upper middle class, but emotionally struggling, Engel clan (remember that Germanic handle cats n’ creeps) are all ready to weather the holidays, obnoxious extended family in tow… but young Max Engle (Emjay Anthony) has decidedly lost his Christmas spirit thanks almost entirely to his family’s non-stop bitch-o-rama. This results in Max having a conniption fit and tearing this year’s letter to Santa into pieces… therefore damning the entire town to a hell of endless snow and diabolic demons thanks to that tongue-lashin’ Teutonic terror; Krampus! Now the whole Engle fam has to put down the eggnog and take up arms against all manner of yuletide hooligans that bring the ho-ho-horror that will make surviving the holidays a real pain in the mistletoe… toes, feet, arms… pretty much any body part can feel pain… and be eaten like a Christmas goose! Michael Dougherty’s (Trick ‘r Treat) 2015 holiday horror comedy Krampus (presented here on 4K UHD courtesy of Scream Factory’s
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The next installment of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is heading exclusively to Netflix from director David Blue Garcia today. WARNING SPOILERS! The movie serves as a direct sequel to the original and picks up nearly fifty years after the first massacre. The movie sees a busload of investors arriving in the mostly abandoned town of Harlow, the home of Leatherface. They are looking to bring the town back to life and build a type of utopia, but when the three main characters make the mistake of accidentally causing the death of an elderly woman who has run an orphanage for decades, Leatherface comes after them with a vengeance. The original survivor, Sally, has never given up the hunt for the killer, but she’s about to come face to face with Leatherface after he begins a slaughter as we’ve never seen before in the franchise, delivering a massive body count. Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Jacob Latimore, and Nell Hudson star with
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Hot of the feels of the release of their hit series “Chapelwaite,” which landed on our “Top 10 Shows of 2021” list, Epix is gearing up to release their new horror series “From,” which has now earned its spot on our list for 2022. The synopsis goes like this: “FROM unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest; including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.” As I sat down to watch the first three episodes, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the cast list was enough to let me know it was worth checking out. Harold Perrineau and Eion Bailey lead the cast that also includes Catalina Sandino Moreno (The Affair), Hannah Cheramy, Simon Webster, Ricky He (The Good
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From writer-director Sean Ellis comes the Gothic werewolf horror film The Cursed (aka Eight For Silver). When the trailer debuted it automatically went on my “must-see” list. The trailer looked fantastic, but because we get so few great werewolf films these days I was expecting to be somewhat disappointed. I’m here to tell you, it exceeded my every expectation. The film begins with soldiers in the trenches in 1917, being pelted by gas, grenades, and gunfire. We see a soldier being carried into a tent, wounded with three gunshots. The next scene jumps thirty-five years in the past. A group of gypsies is slaughtered by men out to take their land. Before the last is killed, an old woman utters a curse as she’s buried alive. Soon, everyone in the village begins to have terrible dreams of the slaughter. When a group of children ventures to the spot of the killings occurred, they discover a set of silver teeth. A
Continue reading →
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It’s been a long and bumpy road for CD Projekt Red after it released Cyberpunk 2077 a year ago to a Space X style disastrous launch (yep, I went there) that resulted in a major lawsuit ( four separate class-action lawsuits that were combined into one mega lawsuit) filed by fans and investors as the game failed to deliver on a couple of years of hype as the game at launch was described by many as incomplete and accusations were made against CDPR for knowingly releasing an incomplete game. It’s been just over a year, and several updates later, CDPR released Cyberpunk 2077 to next-gen consoles along with a major update promising to fix major issues. Did they really fix anything? Let’s see. I’ll admit, I did not play the game when it did first come out, another claim made against CDPR is that they kept many gaming journalists in the dark at launch and only gave review codes to
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesNewsReviewsShudderStreaming TVTrailers
From the Adams family, no, not that Addams family, we’re talking about the filmmaking family, comes Hellbender, the supernatural witchy coming of age film premiering on Shudder in just a few days. Hellbender centers on 16-year-old Izzy (Zelda Adams) who suffers from a rare illness that has kept her isolated on a mountaintop with her mother (Toby Poser) her whole life. As Izzy begins to question her sickness, she pushes back against her confinement and secretly befriends Amber (Lulu Adams), another girl living on the mountain, but her newfound happiness is derailed after she eats a live worm as part of a juvenile game and finds an insatiable and violent hunger awakened within her. To understand the hunger, Izzy must learn the dark secrets of her family’s past and the ancient power in her bloodline. This movie is a family affair, with the Adams family writing, directing, producing, scoring, and editing the film. It’s the sixth feature from Wonder Wheel
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesReviews
The Burning Sea is the latest in a string of great-looking, well-acted Norwegian disaster films. It comes from The Quake director John Andreas Andersen and The Wave writer Harald Rosenløw-Eeg, the latter of whom cowrote this feature with Lars Gudmestad. The result is a thrilling epic boasting highly impressive CGI effects, fine performances, and solid direction. Andersen, Rosenløw-Eeg, and Gudmestad focus on making emotionally relatable characters that viewers can get behind before the titular catastrophe occurs. Sofia (Kristine Kujath Thorp in a terrific emotional and physical performance) is a submersible drone pilot who shares a loving relationship with her boyfriend Stian (Henrik Bjelland), an oil rig technician who has a young son. She also has a well-grounded professional relationship with her work partner Arthur (Rolf Kristian Larsen). Viewers get to know these characters well, so that when things inevitably go awry with the effects of offshore oil drilling on continental plates, we are genuinely invested in what happens to these
Continue reading →
MoviesReviews
After a little late night titty touch, solo style, a woman is stalked by a heavy breathin’, ski mask wearin’, son of a bitch resulting in her flying out a window to her doom! Meanwhile the victim’s sister Clarissa Jane Louise ‘Keegan’ Smart Ass Goof Ball Lawrence (Jo Ann Harris) returns home and begins hanging out with her ever-horny high school chums… but the good times stop a-rollin’ quick as the masked man strikes again! Now who could that killer be? Is it Billy Owens (Steve Railsback), the chain-smoking, beer keg lamp havin’, cat enthusiast/projectionist/asthma sufferer/board game creator/Nam vet (could you give this mother fucker any more affectations movie?!!)… or how about pervert policeman/counter sitter Roger Lane (Sam Groom)… or could it be someone else entirely? That’s what Keegan will have to figure out if she wants to keep on breathing! Deadly Games you do so much so very right, and a few things so shitty… Let’s start with the
Continue reading →
GamingIndieProductReviews
Sergey Noskov, the indie developer behind In Rays of Light and 7th Sector is back with their new walking sim “survival horror” (as it’s said to be on Steam) post-apocalyptic game 35MM. I would like to thank the Developer and publisher Sometimes You for the review opportunity. 35MM takes place in Russia after a global Pandemic wiped out most the of population. The story follows two travelers who are wandering the Russian countryside making their way towards a city where our main character lives. The controls in 35MM are a bit tricky and seem to now be meant for controllers, and don’t seem to respond well at times, especially during combat. The game was also classified as an FPS/Shooter, but the combat mechanics in the game leaves a lot to be desired as you can’t aim, and enemies have a lot more health than you. There are moments you have to do button mashing but most of the time it’s
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviews
In 1886, the notorious motherfucker known as Frank Clements (Mike Ammons)… wait, Frank Clements (cue loud as shit record scratch for maximum “laughs”)?!! That’s the name you’d give a wild west outlaw? Not even a “Frightnin’ Frank” Clements… shit, the name sounds like an attorney that could get you off from a drunk driving rap… where the fuck was I? 1886… Frank Clements… oh, yeah, Frank is hung out to dry (literally) by an angry mob lead by one Rev. Thadeous Sutton (Bill Shaw), and he vows unholy revenge on the descendants of those what done him wrong! Fast forward to… whhhooooaa duuuude, it’s the present day, which of course is 1986 as everyone knows. In 1986 we get some high voltage horseshit involving both a geezer, Professor Sutton (Shaw in a dual role) by name, letting two yokels fish on his land intercut with some airport hijinks (the best kind) where we see the high-larious antics of ace pilot/Shooter
Continue reading →
MoviesReviews
The upper middle class, but emotionally struggling, Engel clan (remember that Germanic handle cats n’ creeps) are all ready to weather the holidays, obnoxious extended family in tow… but young Max Engle (Emjay Anthony) has decidedly lost his Christmas spirit thanks almost entirely to his family’s non-stop bitch-o-rama. This results in Max having a conniption fit and tearing this year’s letter to Santa into pieces… therefore damning the entire town to a hell of endless snow and diabolic demons thanks to that tongue-lashin’ Teutonic terror; Krampus! Now the whole Engle fam has to put down the eggnog and take up arms against all manner of yuletide hooligans that bring the ho-ho-horror that will make surviving the holidays a real pain in the mistletoe… toes, feet, arms… pretty much any body part can feel pain… and be eaten like a Christmas goose! Michael Dougherty’s (Trick ‘r Treat) 2015 holiday horror comedy Krampus (presented here on 4K UHD courtesy of Scream Factory’s
Continue reading →
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The next installment of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is heading exclusively to Netflix from director David Blue Garcia today. WARNING SPOILERS! The movie serves as a direct sequel to the original and picks up nearly fifty years after the first massacre. The movie sees a busload of investors arriving in the mostly abandoned town of Harlow, the home of Leatherface. They are looking to bring the town back to life and build a type of utopia, but when the three main characters make the mistake of accidentally causing the death of an elderly woman who has run an orphanage for decades, Leatherface comes after them with a vengeance. The original survivor, Sally, has never given up the hunt for the killer, but she’s about to come face to face with Leatherface after he begins a slaughter as we’ve never seen before in the franchise, delivering a massive body count. Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Jacob Latimore, and Nell Hudson star with
Continue reading →
ReviewsStreaming TVTrailers
Hot of the feels of the release of their hit series “Chapelwaite,” which landed on our “Top 10 Shows of 2021” list, Epix is gearing up to release their new horror series “From,” which has now earned its spot on our list for 2022. The synopsis goes like this: “FROM unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest; including the terrifying creatures that come out when the sun goes down.” As I sat down to watch the first three episodes, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but the cast list was enough to let me know it was worth checking out. Harold Perrineau and Eion Bailey lead the cast that also includes Catalina Sandino Moreno (The Affair), Hannah Cheramy, Simon Webster, Ricky He (The Good
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsReviewsTrailers
From writer-director Sean Ellis comes the Gothic werewolf horror film The Cursed (aka Eight For Silver). When the trailer debuted it automatically went on my “must-see” list. The trailer looked fantastic, but because we get so few great werewolf films these days I was expecting to be somewhat disappointed. I’m here to tell you, it exceeded my every expectation. The film begins with soldiers in the trenches in 1917, being pelted by gas, grenades, and gunfire. We see a soldier being carried into a tent, wounded with three gunshots. The next scene jumps thirty-five years in the past. A group of gypsies is slaughtered by men out to take their land. Before the last is killed, an old woman utters a curse as she’s buried alive. Soon, everyone in the village begins to have terrible dreams of the slaughter. When a group of children ventures to the spot of the killings occurred, they discover a set of silver teeth. A
Continue reading →
