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You know what’s better than a flick featuring good ol’ Peter Cushing? A flick featuring Peter Cushing you haven’t seen 3,457 times! To that end Severin’s new boxset, Cushing Curiosities; a 6 disc collection of Cushing-starring rarities will fit that bill nicely indeed! The whole shebang kicks off with 1960’s Cone of Silence… Cushing stars as pilot Clive Judd; a douche-par-excellence that has nothing better to do than fuck with an investigation into a fatal airline disaster. Why would he do that you may ask? Well, he kinda-sorta had everything to do with it and he’s sweating that shit in a major way. Defending the pilot of the doomed craft, Captain George Gort (Bernard Lee) by name, is Captain Hugh Dallas (Michael Craig)… but how pure are his motives what with his being in a romance with Gort’s daughter, Charlotte (Elizabeth Seal)? Directed by Charles Frend (Scott of the Antarctic,The Cruel Sea), Cone of Silence is a solid courtroom-centric thriller
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Neil Burger’s The Marsh King’s Daughter, now available on Blu-ray and DVD from Lionsgate, weaves a chilling tale of twisted family dynamics, survival instincts, and the enduring scars of the past. Based on Karen Dionne’s gripping novel, the film plunges viewers into the heart of a woman’s desperate fight against the shadow of her father, the infamous “Marsh King.” The narrative opens with a chilling glimpse into the psyche of a young Helena. Her idolization of her father starkly contrasted against her mother’s simmering rage. A daring escape shatters their fragile world, propelling Helena into a new life under a false identity. Years later, the Marsh King’s escape from prison reignites the demons of her past, forcing Helena to confront a chilling truth: her only hope for her own family’s safety lies in hunting down the very man who shaped her childhood in the unforgiving wilderness. Daisy Ridley delivers a hauntingly nuanced performance as Helena. A woman burdened by secrets
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When I heard that “True Detective” was returning for a new season, I was thrilled. I will confess, though, that when I sat down to watch “True Detective: Night Country,” I was already convinced that nothing could beat the first season of this incredibly brilliant dark show. I was wrong. This season is, in ways, the opposite of the first season. “Night Country” is female-driven and brings to light the true subject of missing and murdered indigenous women. It’s set in the dark, frozen Arctic, compared to the first season’s setting under the sweltering sun. In the first season, we were given moments of levity. You won’t find that in this season’s six episodes. Cast and Characters: Jody Foster, best known for her iconic role in Silence of the Lambs, never disappoints. She stars as Chief Danvers, who struggles with alcoholism and uses promiscuity and hostility as a way to distract herself from her misery and heartache after losing her
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HalloweenParanormalProductReviews
When we put on our outfits, we want to look good. But what about our feet? They need to look good too, right? Socks can be boring or don’t say enough about you. You’re not generic, or boring, FootCloths is here to help make your feet badass! I want to thank Chelsea, Cierra, and the other awesome folks at FootCloths for making this review possible and sending over some awesome socks! At FootCloths their socks come in different categories that fit your style, Occult I got to experience the Demon Crew socks (pictured in the main picture). Retro Horror I now have the perfect zombie hunter socks with the Night of the Killer Zombies! When I’m feeling a bit evil I can now wear my Evil AF Baphomet socks in the mythical creatures category. Classic Halloween has the perfect socks for you to wear either around the best time of year OR all year round as I’m not ashamed to
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When you sit down to The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, the debut feature from South Korean Director Park Sye-young, you may think you are settling in to a take on George Barry’s 1977 killer bed flick, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. Since both features contain killer beds… or more specifically in this film’s case a killer mattress… but the two experiences couldn’t be more different. While Death Bed is a more conventional horror movie, The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra is a melancholy, though completely bizarre, treatise on loneliness and emotion. Following the life cycle of a creature born of fungus that inhabits a mattress owned originally by a couple in a rather crummy relationship, the narrative moves from owner to owner (usually after it feeds on someone), allowing us to experience their sad existences. All of that packs quite an emotional punch that in a conventional drama would be almost overbearing in it’s depressive aesthetic, but since this is ostensibly a
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Remember like four years ago when I clued you beautiful cats n’ creeps in about writer/director Finn Callan’s sinister short Guest? Probably not, but click that highlighted text and you can catch right the hell up! Now that all of that biz is out of the way, let’s dive in to Callan’s follow up, the appropriately titled Guest 2; a longer (but still “short” in the “it’s not quite feature length” sense) deeper dive into the wicked world established in the frightful first go-around! Siblings Jill (Jennifer English) and Ethan (Simon Bigg) are tasked with setting up a support group confab, but E-Dawg has been shirking those responsibilities and sequestered himself in his room. Fed up with such bullshittery, Jill runs the group solo-style and becomes acquainted with with Mia (Natasha Biggs), a woman dealing with severe loneliness and isolation. Unfortunately for Jill, Mia hasn’t been suffering as all alone as she thinks… and soon the preternatural presence, the eponymous
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I’m a big fan of gummy worms… well… sour gummy worms to be exact. I once bought an eight-pound bag of neon-sour-gummy worms and almost ate the whole thing in one sitting! That may have been OK when I was 16, but I’m almost 40… that’s not good. Unbeknownst to me (till now) a mad scientist, Dr. Rotten created a better gastronomical experience, these are Rotten Gummy Worms! I want to thank Team Rotten for sending over some worms for me to try! First of all, I love the packaging. The bags the gummy worms come in are made from wood cellulose and biomaterials which will break down in compost facilities. I’m a sucker for art, and I love the art style Rotten has gone with! The Ed Roth art style brought back a wave of nostalgia growing up in the 90s when his style was being replicated everywhere. Now onto the worms! I was given two kinds to try,
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AdaptationForeignIndieMoviesReviews
What do you get when you combine Sir Christopher Lee, legendary horror/exploitation filmmaker Jess Franco, the madman that was Klaus Kinski, and an absolute fang-banger of Gothic literature? Why you get a surprisingly more faithful than most, though by no means complete, retelling of Bram Stoker’s 1897 literary masterpiece Dracula of course! After encountering a number of locals that look at him like a dead man walking, lawyer Jonathan Harker (Fred Williams) continues to the Borgo Pass where he is met by a mysterious coachman that takes him to his destination; the castle of Count Dracula (Lee), an aging aristocrat who wishes to secure property in England with Harker’s assistance. Right from the get-go things are off with ol’ Drac, as he casts no reflection in mirrors, has fangs like a wolf, gets excited around blood, and sleeps in a stone coffin… oh, he also has a trio of brides that sleep in coffins and eat the babies of the
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IndieMoviesReviews
Peter (Fred Vogel) and Crusty (Cristie Whiles) continue on their magical murder-y tour of torture and bloody chaos, but now they spice things right the fuck up and attempt to achieve penance for their violent ways, but that leads to even more misadventure! It’s that last bit of business that sets this entry in the series above it’s predecessors. While the previous August Underground films were basically FX showcases/endurance tests, Penance ups the drama which makes our killers seem more “real” (and almost unbelievably, a tad tragic), which in turn makes this film even more chilling to behold (but don’t worry GoreHounds, your sinister sweet tooth will surely be tickled by the copious violence on display)… oh and none other than the fuckin’ Murder Junkies show up… Since every cat n’ creep digs on comparisons, this is more Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in vibe than Guinea Pig, but it’s still absolutely brutal from beginning to end! But all
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ForeignMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
Beginning the way you’d imagine a live-action flick created in part by Go Nagai (Devilman, Violence Jack to name but a few… ) would; namely with a shit-ton of nudity (more on that in a bit) and folks turning into demons! After that bit of biz we learn that the world has been turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland due to meteor strikes with the resulting remains of said strikes turning compatible humans into space demons known as ANORAC (that’s Corona backwards, and more on that in a bit as well). Meanwhile Japan, now known as Neo-Nippon, has fallen under the rule of the tyrannical Shogun Nobuhide Fujinaga (Tomoki Kimura) and his cadre of bondage-gear clad samurai lead by Kaisei Kishi (the ever-popular Derek Mears, who has been in a ton of stuff, so let’s go with 2009’s Friday the 13th update and the 2019 Swamp Thing TV series… and really goes all-fuckin’-out in this role to comic book super-villain perfection!).
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You know what’s better than a flick featuring good ol’ Peter Cushing? A flick featuring Peter Cushing you haven’t seen 3,457 times! To that end Severin’s new boxset, Cushing Curiosities; a 6 disc collection of Cushing-starring rarities will fit that bill nicely indeed! The whole shebang kicks off with 1960’s Cone of Silence… Cushing stars as pilot Clive Judd; a douche-par-excellence that has nothing better to do than fuck with an investigation into a fatal airline disaster. Why would he do that you may ask? Well, he kinda-sorta had everything to do with it and he’s sweating that shit in a major way. Defending the pilot of the doomed craft, Captain George Gort (Bernard Lee) by name, is Captain Hugh Dallas (Michael Craig)… but how pure are his motives what with his being in a romance with Gort’s daughter, Charlotte (Elizabeth Seal)? Directed by Charles Frend (Scott of the Antarctic,The Cruel Sea), Cone of Silence is a solid courtroom-centric thriller
Continue reading →
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Neil Burger’s The Marsh King’s Daughter, now available on Blu-ray and DVD from Lionsgate, weaves a chilling tale of twisted family dynamics, survival instincts, and the enduring scars of the past. Based on Karen Dionne’s gripping novel, the film plunges viewers into the heart of a woman’s desperate fight against the shadow of her father, the infamous “Marsh King.” The narrative opens with a chilling glimpse into the psyche of a young Helena. Her idolization of her father starkly contrasted against her mother’s simmering rage. A daring escape shatters their fragile world, propelling Helena into a new life under a false identity. Years later, the Marsh King’s escape from prison reignites the demons of her past, forcing Helena to confront a chilling truth: her only hope for her own family’s safety lies in hunting down the very man who shaped her childhood in the unforgiving wilderness. Daisy Ridley delivers a hauntingly nuanced performance as Helena. A woman burdened by secrets
Continue reading →
HBO MaxNewsReviewsStreaming TV
When I heard that “True Detective” was returning for a new season, I was thrilled. I will confess, though, that when I sat down to watch “True Detective: Night Country,” I was already convinced that nothing could beat the first season of this incredibly brilliant dark show. I was wrong. This season is, in ways, the opposite of the first season. “Night Country” is female-driven and brings to light the true subject of missing and murdered indigenous women. It’s set in the dark, frozen Arctic, compared to the first season’s setting under the sweltering sun. In the first season, we were given moments of levity. You won’t find that in this season’s six episodes. Cast and Characters: Jody Foster, best known for her iconic role in Silence of the Lambs, never disappoints. She stars as Chief Danvers, who struggles with alcoholism and uses promiscuity and hostility as a way to distract herself from her misery and heartache after losing her
Continue reading →
HalloweenParanormalProductReviews
When we put on our outfits, we want to look good. But what about our feet? They need to look good too, right? Socks can be boring or don’t say enough about you. You’re not generic, or boring, FootCloths is here to help make your feet badass! I want to thank Chelsea, Cierra, and the other awesome folks at FootCloths for making this review possible and sending over some awesome socks! At FootCloths their socks come in different categories that fit your style, Occult I got to experience the Demon Crew socks (pictured in the main picture). Retro Horror I now have the perfect zombie hunter socks with the Night of the Killer Zombies! When I’m feeling a bit evil I can now wear my Evil AF Baphomet socks in the mythical creatures category. Classic Halloween has the perfect socks for you to wear either around the best time of year OR all year round as I’m not ashamed to
Continue reading →
ForeignIndieMoviesReviews
When you sit down to The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra, the debut feature from South Korean Director Park Sye-young, you may think you are settling in to a take on George Barry’s 1977 killer bed flick, Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. Since both features contain killer beds… or more specifically in this film’s case a killer mattress… but the two experiences couldn’t be more different. While Death Bed is a more conventional horror movie, The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra is a melancholy, though completely bizarre, treatise on loneliness and emotion. Following the life cycle of a creature born of fungus that inhabits a mattress owned originally by a couple in a rather crummy relationship, the narrative moves from owner to owner (usually after it feeds on someone), allowing us to experience their sad existences. All of that packs quite an emotional punch that in a conventional drama would be almost overbearing in it’s depressive aesthetic, but since this is ostensibly a
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviewsShort FilmsThriller
Remember like four years ago when I clued you beautiful cats n’ creeps in about writer/director Finn Callan’s sinister short Guest? Probably not, but click that highlighted text and you can catch right the hell up! Now that all of that biz is out of the way, let’s dive in to Callan’s follow up, the appropriately titled Guest 2; a longer (but still “short” in the “it’s not quite feature length” sense) deeper dive into the wicked world established in the frightful first go-around! Siblings Jill (Jennifer English) and Ethan (Simon Bigg) are tasked with setting up a support group confab, but E-Dawg has been shirking those responsibilities and sequestered himself in his room. Fed up with such bullshittery, Jill runs the group solo-style and becomes acquainted with with Mia (Natasha Biggs), a woman dealing with severe loneliness and isolation. Unfortunately for Jill, Mia hasn’t been suffering as all alone as she thinks… and soon the preternatural presence, the eponymous
Continue reading →
ProductReviews
I’m a big fan of gummy worms… well… sour gummy worms to be exact. I once bought an eight-pound bag of neon-sour-gummy worms and almost ate the whole thing in one sitting! That may have been OK when I was 16, but I’m almost 40… that’s not good. Unbeknownst to me (till now) a mad scientist, Dr. Rotten created a better gastronomical experience, these are Rotten Gummy Worms! I want to thank Team Rotten for sending over some worms for me to try! First of all, I love the packaging. The bags the gummy worms come in are made from wood cellulose and biomaterials which will break down in compost facilities. I’m a sucker for art, and I love the art style Rotten has gone with! The Ed Roth art style brought back a wave of nostalgia growing up in the 90s when his style was being replicated everywhere. Now onto the worms! I was given two kinds to try,
Continue reading →
AdaptationForeignIndieMoviesReviews
What do you get when you combine Sir Christopher Lee, legendary horror/exploitation filmmaker Jess Franco, the madman that was Klaus Kinski, and an absolute fang-banger of Gothic literature? Why you get a surprisingly more faithful than most, though by no means complete, retelling of Bram Stoker’s 1897 literary masterpiece Dracula of course! After encountering a number of locals that look at him like a dead man walking, lawyer Jonathan Harker (Fred Williams) continues to the Borgo Pass where he is met by a mysterious coachman that takes him to his destination; the castle of Count Dracula (Lee), an aging aristocrat who wishes to secure property in England with Harker’s assistance. Right from the get-go things are off with ol’ Drac, as he casts no reflection in mirrors, has fangs like a wolf, gets excited around blood, and sleeps in a stone coffin… oh, he also has a trio of brides that sleep in coffins and eat the babies of the
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviews
Peter (Fred Vogel) and Crusty (Cristie Whiles) continue on their magical murder-y tour of torture and bloody chaos, but now they spice things right the fuck up and attempt to achieve penance for their violent ways, but that leads to even more misadventure! It’s that last bit of business that sets this entry in the series above it’s predecessors. While the previous August Underground films were basically FX showcases/endurance tests, Penance ups the drama which makes our killers seem more “real” (and almost unbelievably, a tad tragic), which in turn makes this film even more chilling to behold (but don’t worry GoreHounds, your sinister sweet tooth will surely be tickled by the copious violence on display)… oh and none other than the fuckin’ Murder Junkies show up… Since every cat n’ creep digs on comparisons, this is more Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in vibe than Guinea Pig, but it’s still absolutely brutal from beginning to end! But all
Continue reading →
ForeignMoviesReviewsSci-Fi
Beginning the way you’d imagine a live-action flick created in part by Go Nagai (Devilman, Violence Jack to name but a few… ) would; namely with a shit-ton of nudity (more on that in a bit) and folks turning into demons! After that bit of biz we learn that the world has been turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland due to meteor strikes with the resulting remains of said strikes turning compatible humans into space demons known as ANORAC (that’s Corona backwards, and more on that in a bit as well). Meanwhile Japan, now known as Neo-Nippon, has fallen under the rule of the tyrannical Shogun Nobuhide Fujinaga (Tomoki Kimura) and his cadre of bondage-gear clad samurai lead by Kaisei Kishi (the ever-popular Derek Mears, who has been in a ton of stuff, so let’s go with 2009’s Friday the 13th update and the 2019 Swamp Thing TV series… and really goes all-fuckin’-out in this role to comic book super-villain perfection!).
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