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The Collector’s Series of 1999’s Candyman 3: Day of the Dead has just been released. The question is, should you buy it? The film opens with a young woman, Caroline (Donna D’Errico) unhappy with the way a gallery owner is presenting the art by her ancestor, Daniel Robitaille, who became known as the legendary Candyman. His great, great, granddaughter also wants people to see him for who he was, a gifted artist. However, when she is pushed into calling his name by the gallery owner, her romantic notions of the artist give way to the horror of who he has become, a supernatural killer. This all begins just days before the Day of the Dead, the day that is celebrated as a day to honor the dead. While you can tell the movie was made in the ’90s, before special effects and camera quality reached today’s standards, it’s still entertaining. And is still is heavily connected to its predecessors story-wise,
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Nightdive Studios and Throwback Entertainment are back with another classic game for modern players, this time a classic FPS from 1996 that takes players to pixilated Egypt where they must halt an alien invasion and help the spirit of King Ramses defeat the growing evil that’s about to be unleashed on the world! A bit shoutout to Nightdive and Throwback for the reviewing opportunity! In PowerSlave Exhumed the controls are optimized for modern controllers, luckily there’s a lull at the start of the game that can allow you to play around with the controls to get a feel of the layout. Other than that, this game is a fun callback for those of us who grew up playing FPS games like Wolfenstein and DOOM on MS-DOS. The soundtrack, sound effects, (4k) graphics of pixilated violence, it’s everything old-school gamers loved from our humble beginnings. I hope that gamers not familiar with these kinds of games will give PowerSlave Exhumed a
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Thousands of horror films are released every year with some being a hit and some being a miss, the latter is where the new film Last Radio Call falls. In the film, a cop goes missing during a call at an abandoned hospital. One year after his disappearance, his wife decides to make a documentary and seek answers to what happened. This is where my first “What the hell?” moment happens. A year, she waits a year? If it was my husband, my ass would be hunting for him within the first 24 hours. But anyway. After a year, she goes about interviewing his boss and partner but no one will talk to her. Finally, she actually goes to the hospital where things go from bad to worse for the woman. A lot of the movie is just this woman talking to a camera in her room. In all, there may have been fifteen minutes of real action and the
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One voodoo rite later, Officer Matt Cordell (Robert Z’Dar), better known as the Maniac Cop, is resurrected from the grave and is back on the beat… and by beat, I mean beating people to death, of course… Meanwhile, Detective Sean McKinney (a returning Robert Davi… which after hearing his thoughts on Maniac Cop 2 I simply can’t believe… ) is dealing with the fallout of a robbery going very wrong… so wrong his protégé, Officer Kate Sullivan (Gretchen Becker) is left braindead and saddled with the rap of having shot both perpetrator and hostage (whom the press have no idea was actually an accomplice to the crime). As the body count rises in and around that harrowing hospital Kate now calls home, McKinney will be up to his hard-boiled ass in ghoulish goings on thanks to ol’ Maniac C-dawg and the homeless Houngan (Julius Harris) that’s pullin’ the strings! While not the stunt showcase the second entry in the series
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Plot “A Lovecraftian horror tale inspired by Native American Myths and colonial times.” This is the description given for Ahmed Alameed’s horror novella Harvest Nights. When comparing to anything, immediate expectations are set and comparing to Lovecraft sets those expectations to lofty heights. With that said, Harvest Nights meets and surpasses those expectations. This unpredictable historical fiction is based in Native American Lore and woven into a gory, twisted, journey into unearthly and unnerving darkness. Based around the famous Comet of 1822, the cosmic event thins the veil between our world and the supernatural world releasing creatures who will do anything to eat. The plot is experienced and told through the young boy Chua (Snake), who teams with a group of people who will do anything to survive. Characters The characters in this story are built exceptionally well. Using both fictional and historical characters, it is a challenge to blend both fictional and historical information…Alameed does this seamlessly. Chua, as
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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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The Collector’s Series of 1999’s Candyman 3: Day of the Dead has just been released. The question is, should you buy it? The film opens with a young woman, Caroline (Donna D’Errico) unhappy with the way a gallery owner is presenting the art by her ancestor, Daniel Robitaille, who became known as the legendary Candyman. His great, great, granddaughter also wants people to see him for who he was, a gifted artist. However, when she is pushed into calling his name by the gallery owner, her romantic notions of the artist give way to the horror of who he has become, a supernatural killer. This all begins just days before the Day of the Dead, the day that is celebrated as a day to honor the dead. While you can tell the movie was made in the ’90s, before special effects and camera quality reached today’s standards, it’s still entertaining. And is still is heavily connected to its predecessors story-wise,
Continue reading →
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Nightdive Studios and Throwback Entertainment are back with another classic game for modern players, this time a classic FPS from 1996 that takes players to pixilated Egypt where they must halt an alien invasion and help the spirit of King Ramses defeat the growing evil that’s about to be unleashed on the world! A bit shoutout to Nightdive and Throwback for the reviewing opportunity! In PowerSlave Exhumed the controls are optimized for modern controllers, luckily there’s a lull at the start of the game that can allow you to play around with the controls to get a feel of the layout. Other than that, this game is a fun callback for those of us who grew up playing FPS games like Wolfenstein and DOOM on MS-DOS. The soundtrack, sound effects, (4k) graphics of pixilated violence, it’s everything old-school gamers loved from our humble beginnings. I hope that gamers not familiar with these kinds of games will give PowerSlave Exhumed a
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Thousands of horror films are released every year with some being a hit and some being a miss, the latter is where the new film Last Radio Call falls. In the film, a cop goes missing during a call at an abandoned hospital. One year after his disappearance, his wife decides to make a documentary and seek answers to what happened. This is where my first “What the hell?” moment happens. A year, she waits a year? If it was my husband, my ass would be hunting for him within the first 24 hours. But anyway. After a year, she goes about interviewing his boss and partner but no one will talk to her. Finally, she actually goes to the hospital where things go from bad to worse for the woman. A lot of the movie is just this woman talking to a camera in her room. In all, there may have been fifteen minutes of real action and the
Continue reading →
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One voodoo rite later, Officer Matt Cordell (Robert Z’Dar), better known as the Maniac Cop, is resurrected from the grave and is back on the beat… and by beat, I mean beating people to death, of course… Meanwhile, Detective Sean McKinney (a returning Robert Davi… which after hearing his thoughts on Maniac Cop 2 I simply can’t believe… ) is dealing with the fallout of a robbery going very wrong… so wrong his protégé, Officer Kate Sullivan (Gretchen Becker) is left braindead and saddled with the rap of having shot both perpetrator and hostage (whom the press have no idea was actually an accomplice to the crime). As the body count rises in and around that harrowing hospital Kate now calls home, McKinney will be up to his hard-boiled ass in ghoulish goings on thanks to ol’ Maniac C-dawg and the homeless Houngan (Julius Harris) that’s pullin’ the strings! While not the stunt showcase the second entry in the series
Continue reading →
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Plot “A Lovecraftian horror tale inspired by Native American Myths and colonial times.” This is the description given for Ahmed Alameed’s horror novella Harvest Nights. When comparing to anything, immediate expectations are set and comparing to Lovecraft sets those expectations to lofty heights. With that said, Harvest Nights meets and surpasses those expectations. This unpredictable historical fiction is based in Native American Lore and woven into a gory, twisted, journey into unearthly and unnerving darkness. Based around the famous Comet of 1822, the cosmic event thins the veil between our world and the supernatural world releasing creatures who will do anything to eat. The plot is experienced and told through the young boy Chua (Snake), who teams with a group of people who will do anything to survive. Characters The characters in this story are built exceptionally well. Using both fictional and historical characters, it is a challenge to blend both fictional and historical information…Alameed does this seamlessly. Chua, as
Continue reading →
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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
Continue reading →
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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!
Continue reading →
GamingProductReviews
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 →
Film FestivalsForeignMoviesReviewsThriller
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
Continue reading →
