A man is killed in action and brought back as a cyborg to fight Nazi demons in the future along with Liu Kang from Mortal Kombat. There is your basic plot. Is it a simple one? Yes, but that is part of Manborg's charm.
Astron 6 return with this dystopian future epic that seems to be a lost "Sega CD" game. This is a movie I would of grabbed off the shelf at my neighborhood video store as a child. Manborg could of ended up being a bad spoof, but instead it brings back all of the elements that made these movies great in the eighties/nineties. The acting is the right kind of bad, the writing is the right kind of fun, and the length is the right kind of short.
Manborg is a legitimate sci-fi/action film that can proudly sit on your shelf with films like "Robocop" and "They Live" as well as "Class of 1999" and "1990: The Bronx Warriors."
3.5/5
-Tromeric
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Subspecies, Or How I Spent My Post Oscar Hangover Day
Sunday started with a day full of work as usual. I wanted this day to be over so I could start my yearly Oscar party. Sure the Oscars are outdated and usually wrong but I still have to watch. I don't care that they snub my favorite films. I am glad they do. I love sitting around drinking with friends yelling at the TV. It is probably the closest thing to a sports game I will ever care about. Well the Oscars came and went and by the end I was a bit inebriated. We continued the party listening to music, drinking and dancing. Well I was dancing. It only takes one for a dance party god dammit. Well it was late and I puked my insides to the outside and passed out. The next morning I woke up feeling less than a hundred percent. I had to do something with myself so I looked around my room and saw my Subspecies box set. I hadn't watched any of them in years. Growing up I always would go for puppets over vampires so I figured it was about time to see what Radu was up to.
Subspecies(1991)- Ted Nicolaou
A couple of American girls show up in Romania to study Romanian culture with a friend. Radu shows up and kills the Tall Man. Radu wants these bitches but his brother is the nice one and loves their feelings. Radu wants their blood. He is cooler. The overall feel of this film is awesome, which is not surprising when you get a guy named Vlad to be your DP. It is Full of great sets and the countryside lends itself to the creepy nature of the film. There are some great effects in this. One moment is when Radu cuts off his fingers and they do a metamorphosis from gross finger to gusher, gusher to coyote dick, coyote dick to some awesome Harryhausen stop motion cyclops looking bastards. There is also a great scene at one the local rituals that is insanely unnerving. The whole town is dressed up and doing a ritualistic dance/parade in what looks like Muppet's costumes if they were designed by the Marques DE Sade. All in all I have nothing but love for the origins of this series.
BloodStone: Subspecies II- Ted Nicolaou
This picks up right after the end of the first one. Michelle tries to escape Radu but he wants to bang her vampire style. She takes the bloodstone and runs. Her sister comes to help but Radu is one persistent bitch. This is probably my favorite of the series. The effects are fucking amped up like Jose Canseco in the ninety's. Some of the highlights are the head reattachment scene which is quickly followed by a blood geyser of awesome. Numerous stabs to the face and all around badassary. The plot is unique and at times turns into a random buddy cop comedy. The cast is awesome and features William Shatner's daughter and the final guy from Friday the 13th part seven. They go to the coolest most realistic metal club that even has Beavis and Butthead style graffiti including the term "Metal Rules" as well as other super creative phrases.
Bloodlust: Subspecies III- Ted Nicolaou
A direct continuation from two keeps Becky and Michelle running from Radu. All the same characters are back and to me is the least impressive out of the series. Still necessary in its own right and not bad by any means just the slowest of the series. The mummy in this one is pretty awesome I will say. She is trying to keep Radu grounded but he wants nothing to do with it. He says "Fuck you mummy, I will train this bitch." There is some sweet shadow stop motion and a great melting scene where you find out Radu kind of looks like King Diamond when he is on fire. There are plenty of sex and death scenes to keep you happy including one where Radu is fucking some chick Frombee and draining her neck. That alone is worth it.
Vampire Journals- Ted Nicolaou
Not a direct sequel but it does take place in the same universe. Radu is mentioned and Ash ends up in Subspecies four. I really enjoy this one. I feel like I am watching the flashbacks in old episodes of Angel/Buffy or even the more recent Vampire Diaries. Zachary, who is the younger James brother in one of my personal favorite films Real Killers is a vampire out to severe his bloodline. He has feelings and all that bullshit. He is still kinda badass in this. Well he is on the hunt for Ash who is being an evil weirdo. Their paths cross when Ash get this super hot Pianist(I said pianist you child) in his sights. Zachary wants to protect her because of those stupid feelings. I am not trying to paint this movie as a tweenish bullshit film. It's not. In the first minute of the movie you get nipples and a beheading. I like those numbers. There are plenty of great kills including a exorcist style forced head spin. In the end while not fully a Subspecies film this is a great watch and full of blood and boobs. Two of my favorite B's.
Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm- Ted Nicolaou
The final installment of Subspecies finds Michelle in a hospital after a car crash. The Doctor realizes she is a vampire and tries to help her. He of course also has ulterior motives as he knows of Radu and wants the Bloodstone. Ash also is there and along with his lady friend sets out to fuck up Radu's day. They get help from the humans to get rid of him. Basically everyone wants to fuck over everyone to get the bloodstone.
A lot of people hate this one. It is by no means perfect but I still had a lot of fun with it. The opening is great and reminded me of Lethal Weapon four or Final Destination five with the montage of clips from all the previous films. The montage is a bit different as it is Enter the Void style with its fast cuts that would most definitely send a epileptic into seizure. Some of the effects are less than perfect but overall they work. This one probably has the most be headings and they are all bad ass. It ties everything up nicely and for a final entry works for me.
Well that is it for my revisit of the Subspecies series. In the end I was very happy to go back. In a time full of bullshit romantipires it was refreshing to see some Gothic vampires that actually drink fuck and kill.
Tromeric
Subspecies(1991)- Ted Nicolaou A couple of American girls show up in Romania to study Romanian culture with a friend. Radu shows up and kills the Tall Man. Radu wants these bitches but his brother is the nice one and loves their feelings. Radu wants their blood. He is cooler. The overall feel of this film is awesome, which is not surprising when you get a guy named Vlad to be your DP. It is Full of great sets and the countryside lends itself to the creepy nature of the film. There are some great effects in this. One moment is when Radu cuts off his fingers and they do a metamorphosis from gross finger to gusher, gusher to coyote dick, coyote dick to some awesome Harryhausen stop motion cyclops looking bastards. There is also a great scene at one the local rituals that is insanely unnerving. The whole town is dressed up and doing a ritualistic dance/parade in what looks like Muppet's costumes if they were designed by the Marques DE Sade. All in all I have nothing but love for the origins of this series.
BloodStone: Subspecies II- Ted Nicolaou This picks up right after the end of the first one. Michelle tries to escape Radu but he wants to bang her vampire style. She takes the bloodstone and runs. Her sister comes to help but Radu is one persistent bitch. This is probably my favorite of the series. The effects are fucking amped up like Jose Canseco in the ninety's. Some of the highlights are the head reattachment scene which is quickly followed by a blood geyser of awesome. Numerous stabs to the face and all around badassary. The plot is unique and at times turns into a random buddy cop comedy. The cast is awesome and features William Shatner's daughter and the final guy from Friday the 13th part seven. They go to the coolest most realistic metal club that even has Beavis and Butthead style graffiti including the term "Metal Rules" as well as other super creative phrases.
Bloodlust: Subspecies III- Ted Nicolaou
A direct continuation from two keeps Becky and Michelle running from Radu. All the same characters are back and to me is the least impressive out of the series. Still necessary in its own right and not bad by any means just the slowest of the series. The mummy in this one is pretty awesome I will say. She is trying to keep Radu grounded but he wants nothing to do with it. He says "Fuck you mummy, I will train this bitch." There is some sweet shadow stop motion and a great melting scene where you find out Radu kind of looks like King Diamond when he is on fire. There are plenty of sex and death scenes to keep you happy including one where Radu is fucking some chick Frombee and draining her neck. That alone is worth it.
Vampire Journals- Ted Nicolaou
Not a direct sequel but it does take place in the same universe. Radu is mentioned and Ash ends up in Subspecies four. I really enjoy this one. I feel like I am watching the flashbacks in old episodes of Angel/Buffy or even the more recent Vampire Diaries. Zachary, who is the younger James brother in one of my personal favorite films Real Killers is a vampire out to severe his bloodline. He has feelings and all that bullshit. He is still kinda badass in this. Well he is on the hunt for Ash who is being an evil weirdo. Their paths cross when Ash get this super hot Pianist(I said pianist you child) in his sights. Zachary wants to protect her because of those stupid feelings. I am not trying to paint this movie as a tweenish bullshit film. It's not. In the first minute of the movie you get nipples and a beheading. I like those numbers. There are plenty of great kills including a exorcist style forced head spin. In the end while not fully a Subspecies film this is a great watch and full of blood and boobs. Two of my favorite B's.Subspecies 4: Bloodstorm- Ted Nicolaou
The final installment of Subspecies finds Michelle in a hospital after a car crash. The Doctor realizes she is a vampire and tries to help her. He of course also has ulterior motives as he knows of Radu and wants the Bloodstone. Ash also is there and along with his lady friend sets out to fuck up Radu's day. They get help from the humans to get rid of him. Basically everyone wants to fuck over everyone to get the bloodstone.
A lot of people hate this one. It is by no means perfect but I still had a lot of fun with it. The opening is great and reminded me of Lethal Weapon four or Final Destination five with the montage of clips from all the previous films. The montage is a bit different as it is Enter the Void style with its fast cuts that would most definitely send a epileptic into seizure. Some of the effects are less than perfect but overall they work. This one probably has the most be headings and they are all bad ass. It ties everything up nicely and for a final entry works for me.
Well that is it for my revisit of the Subspecies series. In the end I was very happy to go back. In a time full of bullshit romantipires it was refreshing to see some Gothic vampires that actually drink fuck and kill.
Tromeric
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Silent Night, Deadly Night: All Day Drunken Marathon
So after a night of debauchery with many of the Grog's contributors which included lots of booze, gift exchanges, wandering of the streets of Portland, multiple bars and strip clubs and just all around family fun I slept for a few hours, got up and started an epic journey. It seemed right. It is only a couple of weeks away from Christmas, and even though I am seeing Silent Night, Deadly Night in all its 35mm glory next week, I wanted to sit down and watch all five of them in a row with nothing but a couple bottles of booze, a notebook and my sanity. I was curious which of those I would have left when it was over. Well I am proud to say pretty much the notebook is all that made it out, and that is just further proof of me losing my sanity. I sit here the next day at the crack of noon with a notebook that supposedly has reviews of all five films. I am getting out my decoder ring and trying to decipher this long lost language I created.
Silent Night, Deadly Night- Charles E. Sellier Jr.
A family goes to see their Grandpa who gives grandpa from Troll 2 a run for his money in the crazy department. When he gets Billy alone he scares the shit out of him. They then leave and see a stranded Santa on the side of the road. Thinking they will win parents of the year award they stop so the kids can meet Santa early. They have instead signed their death warrants and created a couple of monsters. This Santa brings rape and murder and we have him to thank for the next ten hours of my life.
We now jump ahead and Billy and his brother Ricky are just hanging out being orphans with a bunch of boring ass crazy nuns. Billy draws a sweet picture of a reindeer getting decapitated that mirrors many of the pictures I drew back in elementary that got a call home to my mom about my stability. Well since they don't have a phone that reaches six feet under they just punish him. He then catches some teens having some pretty awesome Catholic guilt sex. The mega bitch nun now whips him in a scene that has turned on pedophiles for years. We now jump ahead again and Billy is all grown up. He gets a job at a toy store. Everything seems fine until they ask him to be Santa and he thinks about it and is like "I am insanely afraid of Santa, he killed my parents while I watched and I wake up screaming from night terrors dealing with it every night, sure I'll be Santa, why not?" Well maybe he didn't actually say this, but it was implied. We are now where we want to be. The reason you go to see Silent Night, Deadly Night is to see a madman dressed like Santa punish and kill innocents. Silent Night delivers. There are some super creative kills, fun campy dialogue and Billy is basically the Bukowski of killer Santas with all his poetry reading.
Silent Night caused quite the controversy when it was released. Every major critic condemned it, Jesus freaks were disgusted with it and there were more protests at screenings than you would find at a liberal arts college. People take shit way to seriously. Have fun. When I was a kid I watched it and it didn't traumatize me. I loved it. It scared the shit out of me, which is what I was going for so good job. Today when I watch it I have a blast. It is a fun yearly tradition and the house of grog is not complete without a viewing of it.
4/5

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2- Lee Harry
Silent Night two follows Ricky, Billy's younger brother who saw him gunned down after his exploits in the first one. He is in a psych ward learning about his feelings. Silent Night two is so many flashbacks to the first one it is hard to count it as a separate film. You get moments of Ricky using his eyebrows to tell the story of Billy and other crazy things but it isn't till about forty five minutes in you really get any new footage. With that said. I don't give a shit because part two is god damn amazing.
You get such memorable moments as a redneck trying to rape a girl who takes a break to get a beer. Ricky then runs him over for which the girl thanks him. Finally a intelligent woman in a horror film. She recognizes that Ricky is like every crocodile from any giant creature film and is the rape avenger. She is appreciative and not whiny like " you're crazy! Why would you kill someone that was attacking me? That makes no sense." Once Ricky gets a gun the fun really begins. He takes out his girlfriend like Bambi's mom because he realizes she's a lying whore. "Garbage Day" two words that will forever live in infamy thanks to this movie. If nothing I say convinces you how awesome this is, let me tell you "Garbage Day" will. It is the best line reading in the history of film. The Acadamy owes Eric Freeman an apology for not winning best actor in 1987. That's right, " Fuck you Paul Newman" The Color of not garbage day is more like it. It comes to its finale with Ricky vs the nun that looks like Seal. Now that is a fight I would pay to see, and have many times.
4/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out- Monte Hellman
I always remembered liking three the most outside of the first two but after revisiting them all back to back I feel I was wrong. Monte Hellman takes the reigns for this and is the first one to take the Christmas theme out, it is there in the background and used as a backdrop but overall it is a paranormal slasher. Ricky who is in a coma after the events of two is being treated by Benjamin Horne himself, Richard Beymer. He has a patient who is the world champion of blind orphans, he realizes she can get into Ricky's dreams and thinks he can somehow fix Ricky. This of course goes all wrong when Ricky wakes up and starts stalking her. He gets a ride to her grandmas house with some dude who doesn't think it's weird that he is in a robe and looks like the bad guy from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She is there with her brother who is played by another Twin Peaks alum Eric Da Re who looks like the result of Kenny G joining W.A.S.P.
It has moments of fun, and some cool shots which I am sure Monte had a lot to do with. You get more flashbacks in case you didn't get enough in part two and the cast is pretty rad with all the Twin Peaks faces, as well as another Lynch lady Laura Harring who shows off her boobies before science fucked em up. Bill Moseley gets the part of Ricky which is quite different from the other two psychos he is known for as Ricky hardly speaks, as he has a glass cage for a head. In the end it is pretty forgettable but for the completest like me it is a must own.
2.5/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation- Brian Yuzna
Brian Yuzna came along and was like "yeah I'll make SNDN4 but instead of Christmas I am gonna fill it with bugs and witches." (*may not be an accurate quote)
A lady jumps off a building while being on fire. Clint Howard(who plays Ricky, not sure how that works) finds a burger with no cheese. He is pissed. A newspaper worker decides she wants to be a real reporter so she investigates and ends up getting sucked into a world where the cast of The View chases her down, gives her an insect facial and invites The Applegates over. Her vagina pukes and she is transformed into a combination of Belial and Grant Grant.
This gets a lot of hate and I don't get it. It is nothing like the other films. It can't be compared to the other films. It is full of slimy, splattery awesome that only Yuzna can bring. The score is done by Full Moon favorite Richard Band and it is full of "surrealistic visual effects" by Screaming Mad George. When I saw that credit I must admit I chuckled but after finishing the film it works and I can totally get behind it. Like Brad Pitt did for Gwyneth Paltrow get your head out of the box and enjoy this.
3.5/5

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker- Martin Kitrosser
The final entry brings us Mickey Rooney who was very vocal of his distaste for the first one as a toymaker who runs a shop called Pettos's. His name is Joe so I guess it is suppose to be clever, to me it is the complete opposite of what you should call a store for children unless your store is in the back of a windowless van. Mickey Rooney looks like the left side of a ball sack anyways so what does he know? I will tell you something he knows and that is how to make toys even cooler than they already are. The surrealistic visual effects are back in full force and Yuzna steps down as director and just sticks to producing this time.
SNDN5 opens with a very Lynchian slow mo shot of a kid watching his dad get killed by a bad ass evil Santa that he found on his doorstep. We then jump ahead a bit and the kid doesn't talk and is not so stoked on Christmas. I don't get it. He sees a commercial for the toy that killed his dad and freaks out. Get over it dude. I don't throw a hissy every time I see Maximum Overdrive. The next seventy minutes or so are filled with plenty of awesome. Toys that shoot, a real life Leech Woman, Roller Blades that kill you(which they should), fake arms that will finger your butt hole like the one that got away a giant size Ken doll trying to rape a lady with his nodick while calling her mom.
The Toymaker is an excellent film that should be watched and not compared to the other SNDN films but set aside in its own world of badassary.
3.5/5
Well I survived. Five films, lots of liquor, and a notebook of what would be memories if I could understand them or remember them.
Tromeric
Silent Night, Deadly Night- Charles E. Sellier Jr.
A family goes to see their Grandpa who gives grandpa from Troll 2 a run for his money in the crazy department. When he gets Billy alone he scares the shit out of him. They then leave and see a stranded Santa on the side of the road. Thinking they will win parents of the year award they stop so the kids can meet Santa early. They have instead signed their death warrants and created a couple of monsters. This Santa brings rape and murder and we have him to thank for the next ten hours of my life.
We now jump ahead and Billy and his brother Ricky are just hanging out being orphans with a bunch of boring ass crazy nuns. Billy draws a sweet picture of a reindeer getting decapitated that mirrors many of the pictures I drew back in elementary that got a call home to my mom about my stability. Well since they don't have a phone that reaches six feet under they just punish him. He then catches some teens having some pretty awesome Catholic guilt sex. The mega bitch nun now whips him in a scene that has turned on pedophiles for years. We now jump ahead again and Billy is all grown up. He gets a job at a toy store. Everything seems fine until they ask him to be Santa and he thinks about it and is like "I am insanely afraid of Santa, he killed my parents while I watched and I wake up screaming from night terrors dealing with it every night, sure I'll be Santa, why not?" Well maybe he didn't actually say this, but it was implied. We are now where we want to be. The reason you go to see Silent Night, Deadly Night is to see a madman dressed like Santa punish and kill innocents. Silent Night delivers. There are some super creative kills, fun campy dialogue and Billy is basically the Bukowski of killer Santas with all his poetry reading.
Silent Night caused quite the controversy when it was released. Every major critic condemned it, Jesus freaks were disgusted with it and there were more protests at screenings than you would find at a liberal arts college. People take shit way to seriously. Have fun. When I was a kid I watched it and it didn't traumatize me. I loved it. It scared the shit out of me, which is what I was going for so good job. Today when I watch it I have a blast. It is a fun yearly tradition and the house of grog is not complete without a viewing of it.
4/5

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2- Lee Harry
Silent Night two follows Ricky, Billy's younger brother who saw him gunned down after his exploits in the first one. He is in a psych ward learning about his feelings. Silent Night two is so many flashbacks to the first one it is hard to count it as a separate film. You get moments of Ricky using his eyebrows to tell the story of Billy and other crazy things but it isn't till about forty five minutes in you really get any new footage. With that said. I don't give a shit because part two is god damn amazing.
You get such memorable moments as a redneck trying to rape a girl who takes a break to get a beer. Ricky then runs him over for which the girl thanks him. Finally a intelligent woman in a horror film. She recognizes that Ricky is like every crocodile from any giant creature film and is the rape avenger. She is appreciative and not whiny like " you're crazy! Why would you kill someone that was attacking me? That makes no sense." Once Ricky gets a gun the fun really begins. He takes out his girlfriend like Bambi's mom because he realizes she's a lying whore. "Garbage Day" two words that will forever live in infamy thanks to this movie. If nothing I say convinces you how awesome this is, let me tell you "Garbage Day" will. It is the best line reading in the history of film. The Acadamy owes Eric Freeman an apology for not winning best actor in 1987. That's right, " Fuck you Paul Newman" The Color of not garbage day is more like it. It comes to its finale with Ricky vs the nun that looks like Seal. Now that is a fight I would pay to see, and have many times.
4/5
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out- Monte Hellman I always remembered liking three the most outside of the first two but after revisiting them all back to back I feel I was wrong. Monte Hellman takes the reigns for this and is the first one to take the Christmas theme out, it is there in the background and used as a backdrop but overall it is a paranormal slasher. Ricky who is in a coma after the events of two is being treated by Benjamin Horne himself, Richard Beymer. He has a patient who is the world champion of blind orphans, he realizes she can get into Ricky's dreams and thinks he can somehow fix Ricky. This of course goes all wrong when Ricky wakes up and starts stalking her. He gets a ride to her grandmas house with some dude who doesn't think it's weird that he is in a robe and looks like the bad guy from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. She is there with her brother who is played by another Twin Peaks alum Eric Da Re who looks like the result of Kenny G joining W.A.S.P.
It has moments of fun, and some cool shots which I am sure Monte had a lot to do with. You get more flashbacks in case you didn't get enough in part two and the cast is pretty rad with all the Twin Peaks faces, as well as another Lynch lady Laura Harring who shows off her boobies before science fucked em up. Bill Moseley gets the part of Ricky which is quite different from the other two psychos he is known for as Ricky hardly speaks, as he has a glass cage for a head. In the end it is pretty forgettable but for the completest like me it is a must own.
2.5/5Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation- Brian Yuzna
Brian Yuzna came along and was like "yeah I'll make SNDN4 but instead of Christmas I am gonna fill it with bugs and witches." (*may not be an accurate quote)
A lady jumps off a building while being on fire. Clint Howard(who plays Ricky, not sure how that works) finds a burger with no cheese. He is pissed. A newspaper worker decides she wants to be a real reporter so she investigates and ends up getting sucked into a world where the cast of The View chases her down, gives her an insect facial and invites The Applegates over. Her vagina pukes and she is transformed into a combination of Belial and Grant Grant.
This gets a lot of hate and I don't get it. It is nothing like the other films. It can't be compared to the other films. It is full of slimy, splattery awesome that only Yuzna can bring. The score is done by Full Moon favorite Richard Band and it is full of "surrealistic visual effects" by Screaming Mad George. When I saw that credit I must admit I chuckled but after finishing the film it works and I can totally get behind it. Like Brad Pitt did for Gwyneth Paltrow get your head out of the box and enjoy this.
3.5/5

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker- Martin Kitrosser
The final entry brings us Mickey Rooney who was very vocal of his distaste for the first one as a toymaker who runs a shop called Pettos's. His name is Joe so I guess it is suppose to be clever, to me it is the complete opposite of what you should call a store for children unless your store is in the back of a windowless van. Mickey Rooney looks like the left side of a ball sack anyways so what does he know? I will tell you something he knows and that is how to make toys even cooler than they already are. The surrealistic visual effects are back in full force and Yuzna steps down as director and just sticks to producing this time.
SNDN5 opens with a very Lynchian slow mo shot of a kid watching his dad get killed by a bad ass evil Santa that he found on his doorstep. We then jump ahead a bit and the kid doesn't talk and is not so stoked on Christmas. I don't get it. He sees a commercial for the toy that killed his dad and freaks out. Get over it dude. I don't throw a hissy every time I see Maximum Overdrive. The next seventy minutes or so are filled with plenty of awesome. Toys that shoot, a real life Leech Woman, Roller Blades that kill you(which they should), fake arms that will finger your butt hole like the one that got away a giant size Ken doll trying to rape a lady with his nodick while calling her mom.
The Toymaker is an excellent film that should be watched and not compared to the other SNDN films but set aside in its own world of badassary.
3.5/5
Well I survived. Five films, lots of liquor, and a notebook of what would be memories if I could understand them or remember them.
Tromeric
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Popcorn- Mark Herrier/Allen Ormsby
Early ninety's slasher film that is basically a big William Castle facial. This movie just oozes so much love cum to Castle and I love it. It is the adult Matinee which of course also was a huge homage to Castle but luckily since Matinee is more kid friendly it has less semen being sprayed all over its face as I wouldn't want to see Dante or Ormsby going to prison due to not checking the license.
OK, back to as much of a point as I am capable of. A bunch of nerds take over a theater and show some shitty movies and make everyone smell dead dog and farts and whatnot. They get a film from a guy that died after he killed some people. He is basically the love child of H.G. Lewis and Joel Reed, or maybe Donald Sutherland. People are dying. Is it him?
So many great lines and kills in this, not to mention references. You have one of the sexiest woman in the world Jill Schoelen previously seen as a stepdaughter to that crippy from lost and Dee Wallace. A lot of times this is looked down upon. I don't get it. If you wanna have a good time a few laughs check it, otherwise maybe you should just go off to bible study or something.
3.5/5
Tromeric
OK, back to as much of a point as I am capable of. A bunch of nerds take over a theater and show some shitty movies and make everyone smell dead dog and farts and whatnot. They get a film from a guy that died after he killed some people. He is basically the love child of H.G. Lewis and Joel Reed, or maybe Donald Sutherland. People are dying. Is it him?
So many great lines and kills in this, not to mention references. You have one of the sexiest woman in the world Jill Schoelen previously seen as a stepdaughter to that crippy from lost and Dee Wallace. A lot of times this is looked down upon. I don't get it. If you wanna have a good time a few laughs check it, otherwise maybe you should just go off to bible study or something.
3.5/5
Tromeric
Friday, September 30, 2011
The Simpsons: Tree House of Horror a Retrospective
Being thirty one and growing up I am sure it goes without saying The Simpsons played an integral part in my growing up. Since I also was a huge horror nerd and spent more time on the playground talking about Chucky and Freddy than I did about about poontang and the Halloween special was something I looked forward to more than finally blowing a load(seriously it was like three years of dick chafe) after jerkin my gerkin. I loved all the references to Dracula and Clockwork Orange and plenty that at the time I didn't get. Seeing Bart as the raven was amazing as I was a huge Poe fan and every year there I would eat my candy and laugh my god damn ass off. This of course continued into High School and beyond. There was a few years I would say fifteen to nineteen that I didn't have TV and to be honest had grown tired of The Simpsons. Since then I have went back and watched all of them and for the most part love most. My biggest complaint would be the Mr and Mrs Smith one. Wow, who gives a shit? That movie wasn't horror and lasted about five minutes in the spot light.
I have been wanting to sit down and watch all of them back to back for a while now but just never found the time to do it. I knew it would be fun, I also knew it would be painful. I have learned over the years that all marathons get hard no matter how good the subject is. I am not talking double features I am talking balls to the wall marathons. I have done everything from A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Saw, Puppet Master, Children of the Corn, Tremors and Critters. Over at the Badnetflix Crew I am known as captain of the endurance division. The grog does help but by the end of any of these marathons I am tired, drunk, irritable and question my sanity. That of course doesn't stop me and I will always to them as Pinhead would agree pain is pleasure. Well the time came and I saw an opportunity so I took it. Steph Infection was here and Gabe Nye the Science guy was gonna come join in.
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Episode One
Haunted house storyWhen a Stranger Calls reference
Poltergeist reference
Aliens Rule, kind of a Hansel and Gretel in space
Edgar Allen Poe
Bart's a Raven
Episode Two
Bride of Frankenstein Hair
Monkeys Paw
Twilight Zone
Frankenstein meets Robowar
Thing with two Heads
Episode Three
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alex from Clockwork Bart
Gremlins meets Trilogy of Terror
King Kong
Smithers doesn't think girls and seaman mix
Night of the Living Dead meets Return of the Living Dead meets Serpent and the Rainbow
Episode Four
Night Gallery Opening
The Devil and Homer Simpson= The Devil and Miss Jones
Devil Flanders
Hot Dog Jokes
Terror at five and a half feet(Wheres Shatner?)
Burns as Dracula
Lost Boys
Charlie Brown Christmas
Adams Family Simpsons song
Episode Five
Outer Limits intro
Shining like a mother fucker
Freddy/Jason/Pinhead/Frankie/Mummy
Ray Bradbury's Sound of Thunder
Episode Six
Sleepy Hollow
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
Godzilla Roar
Nightmare on Elm Street references like a mother fucker
Episode Seven
Innerspace?
Twilight Zone of course
Earth vs The Flying Saucers
Episode Eight
Omega Man- Obviously. I am as drunk as Hasslehoff and I got that.
The Fly
Spy vs Spy
Origins of Halloween
Episode Nine
Freddy and Jason on couch gag
Stay Tuned?
Starship Troopers
How Stella got her Groove Back reference
Jerry Springer in his hay day
Episode Ten
I know what you did last Summer
Xena
Sixties Batman
Pauly Shore and Tom Arnold
Rossie O Donnell not in S & M
Episode Eleven
Munsters Intro
Ghost Dad title
This episode was Casey Anthony's inspiration
Fairy Tales without Linea Quigley
Free Willy fucked Echo the Dolphin
Jaws reference with less bush
Deep Blue Sea but more white
Dolphins are Indians
Sea=Casinos
The Birds reference
Quote of the day "I wanna punch a dolphin so bad." - Gabe Nye the Science Guy
Episode Twelve
Psycho House
Flinstones and Shining twins costumes
Thinner without road head
Bart is like those African lady's I used to jerk off to in National Geographic
2001 reference
Harry Potter
Episode Thirteen
Officially becomes Tree House of Horror
Multiplicity
Dr Strangelove to save the day
Apocalypse Now FTW
Island of Dr Moreau
Episode Fourteen
Charlie Brown opening
Benny Hill
Reefer Madness title
Frankenstein
Staying Alive Walk=less retarded than Spider-Man 3
Jerry Lewis
Superman vs Patty Hearst=Amazing
Fantastic reference
Episode Fifteen
Perfect Strangers intro
Dead Zone(I use to have Dead Zone powers)
Homer is Lex in Smallville
Jack the Ripper
Sherlock without dinosaurs
Fantastic Voyage
Episode Sixteen
13 Ghosts fucked The Most Dangerous Game
Edward Scissorhands reference
A.I. is a douche
Like that episode of Buffy where her mom fucks Giles
Bewitched reference
Sports jokes make as much sense to me as reality does to religious nutzos
Episode Seventeen
Tales from the mother fucking Crypt opening
The Blob without the less Dillon(who I like better)
Homers stomach is like that bitch from the new Twilight trailer
Sir Mix a Lot song upgraded
DER GOLEM
Day the Earth stood Still
Episode Eighteen
Kenny Loggins Jewish Space Creature
ET
One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest
Fuck you Mr and Mrs Smith
Ramones!!!!
Hell House-Christian Scare doc reference
Devil Flanders 2: Electric Boogaloo
Transformers reference
Episode Nineteen
Transformers
Foosball for real
Madmen
Prince is deadaroo
John Wayne in Heaven
Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
Episode Twenty
Monster Squad sports heroes
Heath Ledger without pill popping action
Dial M for Murder
Hitchcockapalooza
Hitch Cameo
28 Days Later
McBain meets Terminator
Phantom of the Opera
Random musical bullshit
Episode Twenty One
Office intro with monsters
Satan=Awesome
Board Games come to life= Told the future IE Battleship
Titanic reference
Dead Calm is pretty sweet
Second Clockwork costume
Twilight Simpsons>Twighlight
Jock from Can't Hardly Wait is Dracula?
I wanna hang out with Count Chocula, Dracula, Grandpa Munster, Elvira, Blacula, and the Muppet Drac
Well I spent my whole day watching this and hope that someone out there can figure out what the fuck I am saying. I don't know.
Tromeric
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Dark Waters- Mariano Baino
This is a slow burner. It may burn slower than the Challenger did thanks to that teacher fireproofing it. It is obviously inspired by the great Howard(not the duck) I mean Lovecraft mother fucks. It is also very atmospheric, and I don't mean full of rhymes about Jack Tripper or the ripper.
The plot is not important. It is just fucking beautiful. It has more crosses on fire than Mississippi Burning. It has so many nun's crucified I couldn't stand up for like an hour and the creepiest twins since The Shining.
If you enjoy Lovecraft or beautiful imagery watch this. If you need everything spoon fed to you I got a high chair I can put you in mother fucker. Ill sick Casey Anthony on you though, so you better decide if it's worth it.
4/5
Tromeric
The plot is not important. It is just fucking beautiful. It has more crosses on fire than Mississippi Burning. It has so many nun's crucified I couldn't stand up for like an hour and the creepiest twins since The Shining.
If you enjoy Lovecraft or beautiful imagery watch this. If you need everything spoon fed to you I got a high chair I can put you in mother fucker. Ill sick Casey Anthony on you though, so you better decide if it's worth it.
4/5
Tromeric
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Ice Cream Man- Paul Norman
The ninety's. What a shitty time for horror films. Sure there were some exceptions but overall you got bullshit like I Know what you did last Summer and Urban Legend. I remember watching this around the time it came out and thought it was pretty awful. Well I am here to tell you seventeen years later I watched it again and.......It's still kind of a piece of shit(does that mean I didn't enjoy it?).
Clint Howard likes Kids and Ice Cream. He like Big Worm drives and awesome truck and does some sketchy shit. He feeds kids ice cream made out of other kids, he give a kid a case of Stockholm Syndrome and he asked a kid if he was trolling for tuna. This dude is wacka doo.
There are so many people in this that have been in classic film and TV. I mean underage naked Juliet is a nutzo, Thomas Eckhardt is a priest and that dude from Airwolf is a cop, and don't forget about the foreign wolf food. Yeah, he gets the shit killed out of him again.
OK. This is my turnaround. I am like Bonnie Tyler up in this hizzie. This time through I still thought it was a piece of shit. I however loved it. So many great moments. Clint Howard putting on a puppet show for kids using severed heads, knocking out cops with ice cream scoops and well the main thing comes back to CLINT MOTHER FUCKING HOWARD. His brother makes shitty movies but this guy owns me. Evilspeak, The Wraith, House of the Dead, Silent Night Deadly Night 4, and countless more badassary.
This movie is definitely something that needs to be watched under the right circumstances. Tonight I drank a fuck ton of Spider Bites and watched an old VHS rip of the Monster Vision episode with all the Joe Bob amazingness. Don't watch this sober, don't watch it if you want to see quality. If you have some time to kill and want to enjoy the bad put this shit in.
Why have Ben and Jerry not made a flavor out of this? Get on that hippies.
2/5
Tromeric
Clint Howard likes Kids and Ice Cream. He like Big Worm drives and awesome truck and does some sketchy shit. He feeds kids ice cream made out of other kids, he give a kid a case of Stockholm Syndrome and he asked a kid if he was trolling for tuna. This dude is wacka doo.
There are so many people in this that have been in classic film and TV. I mean underage naked Juliet is a nutzo, Thomas Eckhardt is a priest and that dude from Airwolf is a cop, and don't forget about the foreign wolf food. Yeah, he gets the shit killed out of him again.
OK. This is my turnaround. I am like Bonnie Tyler up in this hizzie. This time through I still thought it was a piece of shit. I however loved it. So many great moments. Clint Howard putting on a puppet show for kids using severed heads, knocking out cops with ice cream scoops and well the main thing comes back to CLINT MOTHER FUCKING HOWARD. His brother makes shitty movies but this guy owns me. Evilspeak, The Wraith, House of the Dead, Silent Night Deadly Night 4, and countless more badassary.
This movie is definitely something that needs to be watched under the right circumstances. Tonight I drank a fuck ton of Spider Bites and watched an old VHS rip of the Monster Vision episode with all the Joe Bob amazingness. Don't watch this sober, don't watch it if you want to see quality. If you have some time to kill and want to enjoy the bad put this shit in.
Why have Ben and Jerry not made a flavor out of this? Get on that hippies.
2/5
Tromeric
Monday, July 4, 2011
Uncle Sam- William Lustig
It's the fourth of July and I had to celebrate. I don't join in on the usual activities. My fourth involves some inebriation, so BBQ and watching Bill Lustig's classic Uncle Sam. OK that my be close to the usual but I doubt these redneck fucks are watching sweet films. They are to busy celebrating being the smallpox champions and blowing shit up. That's murica I guess.
Jody's uncle who coincidentally is named Sam gets sent home in a coffin. Jody finds out that his uncle was kind of a douche and maybe he shouldn't worship this hero(chefs definition of hero is a crazy person who runs into danger and doesn't die so he gets a medal and is told not to be crazy anymore).That is really all you need to know plot wise. What you do need to know is that there is a kid in a wheelchair who is some kinda crazy wise man, Chef is crazy and has a wooden leg, they hang a kid like a flag( I would salute that flag, douche on a pole), and they cook up some head on the smoker. These are just a few of the highlights of this classic film from the decade where rotary phones were still on their last leg.
Not perfect but a fun ride and who can not love Bill Lustig and Larry Cohen teaming up?
3.5/5
Tromeric
Jody's uncle who coincidentally is named Sam gets sent home in a coffin. Jody finds out that his uncle was kind of a douche and maybe he shouldn't worship this hero(chefs definition of hero is a crazy person who runs into danger and doesn't die so he gets a medal and is told not to be crazy anymore).That is really all you need to know plot wise. What you do need to know is that there is a kid in a wheelchair who is some kinda crazy wise man, Chef is crazy and has a wooden leg, they hang a kid like a flag( I would salute that flag, douche on a pole), and they cook up some head on the smoker. These are just a few of the highlights of this classic film from the decade where rotary phones were still on their last leg.
Not perfect but a fun ride and who can not love Bill Lustig and Larry Cohen teaming up?
3.5/5
Tromeric
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