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ForeignIndieMoviesReviews
The Philippines are entering one of those pesky virus-induced zombie apocalypses that can always turn a sunny day into a shit maelstrom, and so is the case here… soon… but first… Ex-U.S. Special Forces operative/man-mountain Emon (MMA ass-kicker Brandon Vera) is looking forward to seeing his family as his sterling prison record has resulted in his chance at parole. Unfortunately, some assholes fuck that up for him right proper by picking a fight with our hero… but since the city, including the apartment his family calls home sweet home, is currently chock full of lightning-fast, rabid, plague-bringers I’d say that’s some silver lining shit right there cats n’ creeps… Anyhow, Emon soon finds himself a free man, as all of the prison’s inmates are set free in the chaos, and he immediately begins the journey home as those creepy creatures attempt to hinder his ass at every turn! Will Emon make it home before his family get turned into more
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HalloweenNewsProductReviews
The splendid and spooky folks at Spirit Halloween sent us a mystery surprise! When I opened the cardboard box, I found a big wooden box with “Spirit Hallows Cemetary” carved on its lid. I was surprised when I opened it to discover a miniature graveyard and a small shovel. I found a plastic pull, and it opened, revealing a dirt-filled grave. I dug up a casket. Inside I found a vampire, which is a magnet, wrapped up in bloody rags. After I closed the box, one of the coolest things we’ve ever gotten, I scanned the code on the back of the card that came with it, and it took me to a page with a video (watch it below) and a list of tombstones teasing the names of the new animatronics Spirit Halloween will soon release. Be sure to visit Spirit Halloween for all your haunting needs! Check out their collection of exclusive limited edition Funkos, too, like the
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GamingParanormalProductReviews
Continuing on the journey of entering the world of Table Top RPG, I learned that every good adventurer and Dungeon Master needs a battle map to help build their world (or at least plant the seeds of creativity to make it). The awesome folks over at 1985 Games got you covered with their Dungeon Craft series of products that allows you the player to create your own world for your characters to explore at their own risk! I was sent the Cursed Lands set along with the Turned Earth battle map. First off, the battle map is perfect for the dark foresty world I want to make with one side being full of dark lively grass while on the other side, dead dirt for a land suffering a curse! To add to this map is where the Cursed Lands set comes in, it comes with over 50 pages with terrain pieces you can set up to form the map of
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GamingProductReviewsSci-Fi
Tindalos Interactive and Focus Entertainment, in collaboration with 20th Century Games, have come together to bring the next heart-pounding installment into the Alien game franchise with Aliens: Dark Descent where players take control of a squad of space marines as they face off against Xenomorphs and other enemies as they fight for survival. Is this another bug hunt OR something else… Let’s take a look! Aliens: Dark Descent follows the Marines of the Otago that has become stranded on the planet of Lethe. Along with the Marines is a rescued Weyland-Yutani big wig that barely escaped from the station orbiting the planet that has become overrun with Xenomorphs unfortunately for everyone on Lethe…the Xenos are on the loose there as well, along with other never before seen terrors in the Alien universe… Now onto the game itself! Aliens: Dark Descent warns you even before playing that the game is challenging and that you really should pay attention to the tutorial,
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Here’s a little-known fact about me, I am a total dinosaur nerd, so I was super excited when I first saw the trailer for writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ movie 65. I finally got a chance to see it this weekend, and needless to say, I have some thoughts. Warning Spoilers Ahead! The trailer gave viewers the impression that it was nonstop action, which is false. We were lied to. Instead of an action film, we get a drama that happens to have a few dinosaurs in it. The major plot twist, which was a pretty good one, was that the planet they landed on was Earth 65 million years ago, only a few days before the asteroid hit Earth that wiped out the dinosaurs. There’s a character problem. Adam Driver’s character is disconnected and aloof in 99% of the movie, in which he plays the transport ship, Captain Mills. It makes it hard to connect with him. If
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IndieMoviesReviews
Back in the late 1970’s, ol’ Ben (Matt Whelan) inherits some property down Oregon way. So before you can say “Shitty idea”, Ben packs the fam and heads off to that newly acquired property. Naturally, the house the family is set to move in looks creepy as all hell, and despite the beautiful view, the place would be avoided by anyone with half a brain cell in real life… and that’s not even factoring in the bizarre water feature, the eponymous tank, sure to detract even more value from the dread domicile. From there we get some Horror Tropes 101 as we get a blast of bumps in the night, dark family secrets, a legacy of missing persons, and mysterious creatures. Will Ben and his brood survive their wicked windfall, or will the secrets of the house be their demise?! Lets get the elephant in the room out of the way first; writer/director Scott Walker walks some familiar ground with
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IndieMoviesReviews
Writer/director Billy Hanson‘s Bone Cold begins with a real Debbie Downer of a sitch; namely snipers Jon (Jonathan Stoddard) and Marco (Matt Munroe) try and return to the day-to-day of family life after completing some top secret wet-work down Afghanistan way, but that ol’ double punch of guilt and PTSD make it tough going. They don’t have long to get all domestic-like however as they are soon sent on a new mission to stop Russian military activity in the Ukraine. The mission goes tits-up however, as our lads accidentally kill a civilian bringing military down upon them post-fucking-haste! That would be a bad day under any circumstances but it just so happens to be another wicked wrinkle in the Black Ops as a vicious creature stalks the surrounding forests, and this thing is pissed to all hell and back! Bone Cold is a tight lil’ creature feature for sure, but let me tell ya my cats n’ creeps, it has
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GamingParanormalProductReviews
Bloober Team and Anshar Studios are taking players back with a reimagining of the cult classic horror-narrative game, Layers of Fear. This time the game is served up with a twist for fans that include an all-new narrative following the story of The Writer, being tortured by her craft. I want to thank Bloober Team for allowing me the opportunity to check out the game, how does this latest installment fair compared to the others? Let’s check it out! Layers of Fear takes place at an old lighthouse where players take on the role of a writer who is struggling with both writer’s block, and success, all the while she’s trying to make a deadline but a supernatural entity makes its presence known and offers to help. Now onto the game itself. I’m going to be very brief here because there are other things that should be mentioned about this game: Overall control-wise, fans of the first two games will
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Film FestivalsMoviesReviewsTrue Crime
What do you get when you cross a serial killer saga, a road movie, a thriller, some comedy, a variation on an odd-couple buddy film, and a celebrity chimpanzee? In the case of He Went That Way (U.S., 2023), the answer is a film that lacks clear focus but is nevertheless entertaining throughout. He Went That Way features a title card that proclaims that the events in the film mostly happened. The real-life story involved animal trainer Dave Pitts and the actual chimpanzee Spanky traveling with hitchhiker and serial killer Larry Lee Ranes. Pitts gives an accounting of his tale during the end credits, which also feature a clip of Spanky performing in The Ice Capades. For the fictionalized version, animal trainer Jim (Zachary Quinto) is traveling America’s Route 66 with his beloved chimpanzee Spanky, who was once the toast of highly rated television variety shows and live performances but who has fallen out of favor in the film’s 1964
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ForeignReviewsStreaming TV
The first thing you lascivious lot may notice about Severin’s new release of The Complete Comic Strip Presents… Channel 4 Films 3-Disc Collector’s Edition is the number of familiar faces it contains… well familiar if you dig on amazing British comedy that is… or had MTV in the mid to late 80’s… Featured in the copious short films in this collection are none other that The Young Ones’ Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, and Nigel Planer as well as Absolutely Fabulous’ Jennifer Saunders (along with her frequent comedy partner-in-crime Dawn French) as well as the troupe’s mainstay to this day; Peter Richardson… also keep your eyes’ peeled for Alexei Sayle (who played every member of the zany Balowski Family on the aforementioned The Young Ones before starring in his own self-titled sketch-comedy program) as well as the Harry Potter franchise’s Hagrid himself, Robbie Coltrane! So, what are all of these talented-ass mother fuckers getting up to? Unbridled hilarity (spread out over
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The Philippines are entering one of those pesky virus-induced zombie apocalypses that can always turn a sunny day into a shit maelstrom, and so is the case here… soon… but first… Ex-U.S. Special Forces operative/man-mountain Emon (MMA ass-kicker Brandon Vera) is looking forward to seeing his family as his sterling prison record has resulted in his chance at parole. Unfortunately, some assholes fuck that up for him right proper by picking a fight with our hero… but since the city, including the apartment his family calls home sweet home, is currently chock full of lightning-fast, rabid, plague-bringers I’d say that’s some silver lining shit right there cats n’ creeps… Anyhow, Emon soon finds himself a free man, as all of the prison’s inmates are set free in the chaos, and he immediately begins the journey home as those creepy creatures attempt to hinder his ass at every turn! Will Emon make it home before his family get turned into more
Continue reading →
HalloweenNewsProductReviews
The splendid and spooky folks at Spirit Halloween sent us a mystery surprise! When I opened the cardboard box, I found a big wooden box with “Spirit Hallows Cemetary” carved on its lid. I was surprised when I opened it to discover a miniature graveyard and a small shovel. I found a plastic pull, and it opened, revealing a dirt-filled grave. I dug up a casket. Inside I found a vampire, which is a magnet, wrapped up in bloody rags. After I closed the box, one of the coolest things we’ve ever gotten, I scanned the code on the back of the card that came with it, and it took me to a page with a video (watch it below) and a list of tombstones teasing the names of the new animatronics Spirit Halloween will soon release. Be sure to visit Spirit Halloween for all your haunting needs! Check out their collection of exclusive limited edition Funkos, too, like the
Continue reading →
GamingParanormalProductReviews
Continuing on the journey of entering the world of Table Top RPG, I learned that every good adventurer and Dungeon Master needs a battle map to help build their world (or at least plant the seeds of creativity to make it). The awesome folks over at 1985 Games got you covered with their Dungeon Craft series of products that allows you the player to create your own world for your characters to explore at their own risk! I was sent the Cursed Lands set along with the Turned Earth battle map. First off, the battle map is perfect for the dark foresty world I want to make with one side being full of dark lively grass while on the other side, dead dirt for a land suffering a curse! To add to this map is where the Cursed Lands set comes in, it comes with over 50 pages with terrain pieces you can set up to form the map of
Continue reading →
GamingProductReviewsSci-Fi
Tindalos Interactive and Focus Entertainment, in collaboration with 20th Century Games, have come together to bring the next heart-pounding installment into the Alien game franchise with Aliens: Dark Descent where players take control of a squad of space marines as they face off against Xenomorphs and other enemies as they fight for survival. Is this another bug hunt OR something else… Let’s take a look! Aliens: Dark Descent follows the Marines of the Otago that has become stranded on the planet of Lethe. Along with the Marines is a rescued Weyland-Yutani big wig that barely escaped from the station orbiting the planet that has become overrun with Xenomorphs unfortunately for everyone on Lethe…the Xenos are on the loose there as well, along with other never before seen terrors in the Alien universe… Now onto the game itself! Aliens: Dark Descent warns you even before playing that the game is challenging and that you really should pay attention to the tutorial,
Continue reading →
MoviesNewsReviewsTrailers
Here’s a little-known fact about me, I am a total dinosaur nerd, so I was super excited when I first saw the trailer for writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ movie 65. I finally got a chance to see it this weekend, and needless to say, I have some thoughts. Warning Spoilers Ahead! The trailer gave viewers the impression that it was nonstop action, which is false. We were lied to. Instead of an action film, we get a drama that happens to have a few dinosaurs in it. The major plot twist, which was a pretty good one, was that the planet they landed on was Earth 65 million years ago, only a few days before the asteroid hit Earth that wiped out the dinosaurs. There’s a character problem. Adam Driver’s character is disconnected and aloof in 99% of the movie, in which he plays the transport ship, Captain Mills. It makes it hard to connect with him. If
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviews
Back in the late 1970’s, ol’ Ben (Matt Whelan) inherits some property down Oregon way. So before you can say “Shitty idea”, Ben packs the fam and heads off to that newly acquired property. Naturally, the house the family is set to move in looks creepy as all hell, and despite the beautiful view, the place would be avoided by anyone with half a brain cell in real life… and that’s not even factoring in the bizarre water feature, the eponymous tank, sure to detract even more value from the dread domicile. From there we get some Horror Tropes 101 as we get a blast of bumps in the night, dark family secrets, a legacy of missing persons, and mysterious creatures. Will Ben and his brood survive their wicked windfall, or will the secrets of the house be their demise?! Lets get the elephant in the room out of the way first; writer/director Scott Walker walks some familiar ground with
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviews
Writer/director Billy Hanson‘s Bone Cold begins with a real Debbie Downer of a sitch; namely snipers Jon (Jonathan Stoddard) and Marco (Matt Munroe) try and return to the day-to-day of family life after completing some top secret wet-work down Afghanistan way, but that ol’ double punch of guilt and PTSD make it tough going. They don’t have long to get all domestic-like however as they are soon sent on a new mission to stop Russian military activity in the Ukraine. The mission goes tits-up however, as our lads accidentally kill a civilian bringing military down upon them post-fucking-haste! That would be a bad day under any circumstances but it just so happens to be another wicked wrinkle in the Black Ops as a vicious creature stalks the surrounding forests, and this thing is pissed to all hell and back! Bone Cold is a tight lil’ creature feature for sure, but let me tell ya my cats n’ creeps, it has
Continue reading →
GamingParanormalProductReviews
Bloober Team and Anshar Studios are taking players back with a reimagining of the cult classic horror-narrative game, Layers of Fear. This time the game is served up with a twist for fans that include an all-new narrative following the story of The Writer, being tortured by her craft. I want to thank Bloober Team for allowing me the opportunity to check out the game, how does this latest installment fair compared to the others? Let’s check it out! Layers of Fear takes place at an old lighthouse where players take on the role of a writer who is struggling with both writer’s block, and success, all the while she’s trying to make a deadline but a supernatural entity makes its presence known and offers to help. Now onto the game itself. I’m going to be very brief here because there are other things that should be mentioned about this game: Overall control-wise, fans of the first two games will
Continue reading →
Film FestivalsMoviesReviewsTrue Crime
What do you get when you cross a serial killer saga, a road movie, a thriller, some comedy, a variation on an odd-couple buddy film, and a celebrity chimpanzee? In the case of He Went That Way (U.S., 2023), the answer is a film that lacks clear focus but is nevertheless entertaining throughout. He Went That Way features a title card that proclaims that the events in the film mostly happened. The real-life story involved animal trainer Dave Pitts and the actual chimpanzee Spanky traveling with hitchhiker and serial killer Larry Lee Ranes. Pitts gives an accounting of his tale during the end credits, which also feature a clip of Spanky performing in The Ice Capades. For the fictionalized version, animal trainer Jim (Zachary Quinto) is traveling America’s Route 66 with his beloved chimpanzee Spanky, who was once the toast of highly rated television variety shows and live performances but who has fallen out of favor in the film’s 1964
Continue reading →
ForeignReviewsStreaming TV
The first thing you lascivious lot may notice about Severin’s new release of The Complete Comic Strip Presents… Channel 4 Films 3-Disc Collector’s Edition is the number of familiar faces it contains… well familiar if you dig on amazing British comedy that is… or had MTV in the mid to late 80’s… Featured in the copious short films in this collection are none other that The Young Ones’ Adrian Edmondson, Rik Mayall, and Nigel Planer as well as Absolutely Fabulous’ Jennifer Saunders (along with her frequent comedy partner-in-crime Dawn French) as well as the troupe’s mainstay to this day; Peter Richardson… also keep your eyes’ peeled for Alexei Sayle (who played every member of the zany Balowski Family on the aforementioned The Young Ones before starring in his own self-titled sketch-comedy program) as well as the Harry Potter franchise’s Hagrid himself, Robbie Coltrane! So, what are all of these talented-ass mother fuckers getting up to? Unbridled hilarity (spread out over
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