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When
the last angel falls, the fight for mankind begins.
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 God
has lost faith in humanity and sends an army of angels to end
the world. Michael, the lone angel who's love for man won't let
him abandon us, fights alongside a group of unlikely heroes to
protect the unborn child who is man's last hope.
This
movie is scary as Hell. Good Lord, everything that happens is
creepy and nasty in a way only the Bible can inspire. I'm endlessly
fascinated and horrified by the different ways religious people
envision God. Some see him as really into rules, some see him
as a hippie personification of love and joy, while others see
Him as a God of almost pure hatred. Some Gods love everyone, some
only love white people, or heterosexuals, or people who worship
only a certain way, or ones that have had the right water splashed
on them, or were born of certain parentage, or vote for the right
person, or follow the right rules...
My
point is, the God you choose to believe in is a refection of you,
and those with dark hearts have a very dark God indeed, and that's
the one this movie is about. This is the bloodthirsty God of the
people who pour over Revelations and pray for doomsday. It's a
horror movie and it's scary as Hell.
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Some
houses are born bad.
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 Steven
Kings Rose Red miniseries is about a sleeping house, the Rimbauer
estate, based upon the popular Winchester mansion. Professor Joyce
Reardon, Nancy Travis, is funding a project where a group of people
with psychic powers gather together at the Rimbauer estate for
a chance to gather data to prove paranormal activity exists. Reardon’s
co-worker Professor Miller, David Dukes, is out to shut her down
no matter what the cost. The collaboration of psychic energy,
a houses hunger, and a professor’s desire for proof may be
too much for this arrogant professor to handle.
I
really enjoyed this four hour long mini-series. Although lengthy
it allowed you to get to know each character a bit personally
so you could make your own determination of what you thought and
felt for each one. I loved Nick and Annie but, I didn’t care
so much for Emery or Bollinger right off. I never had a gasping
moment in the entire show but, there were a couple of parts where
it disturbed a nerve or two, the thing under the carpet. The puppetry
was not the most impressive but the setting was amazing.
I
laughed a few times even; Emery’s mother getting dragged
away killed me I had to watch it twice. Karma is such a bitch
but, I love her.
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 A
group of university students, roughing it in the harsh, remote
wilderness, closes in on a cache of gold once possessed by a brutal
regiment of Nazi soldiers buried nearby. Unfortunately for our
hapless, horny heroes, the Nazi soldiers weren’t buried very
deep, and are now closing in on them.
“Wait
a sec, is this a review of Dead Snow or Oasis of the
Zombies?”
If
that thought occurred to you, you have my sympathies; you sound
like a total zombie geek. (If you're not, why in the world were
you watching Oasis of the Zombies? You have my sympathies
there, too.) Anyway, despite the plot points shared with Oasis
(and even a nearly identical prologue), Dead Snow rises
above its brethren as certainly the best Nazi zombie movie to
come out in decades.
Actually,
it has less of a plot than nearly all of the Nazi zombie movies
I’ve seen — except for 1977’s atmospheric Shock
Waves, which is telling. I guess less is more; too many
of these Nazi zombie flicks bog themselves down with backstory
or tepid plot twists. Dead Snow does it right for what
it is, offering just enough explanation to set things up and add
to the suspense before moving on to the undead mayhem we’ve
all been waiting for.
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 Zé
do Caixão (or "Coffin Joe"), the cinematic alter
ego of Brazilian film maker Jose Mojica Marins, is an odd phenomenon.
Apparently, the Coffin Joe movies are pretty well known in Brazil,
which I find sort of amazing. Not because they are terrible, though
they are by most standards. It is because they are so very, deeply
weird (and famously censored), and I just find it hard to imagine
anything so weird finding renown beyond the ranks of cult film
enthusiasts. Then again, Cannibal Holocaust was supposedly the
highest grossing film in Japanese history, so maybe we Americans,
with our conventional ideas of propriety and, oh, plot, are the
outliers.
Well,
for a Coffin Joe movie, The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures
is downright conventional. The plot is not exactly linear, but
because it is clearly allegorical from the start the deviations
from realism are easier to swallow. There are relatively few long
speeches on the nature of immortality, faith and sin (though lots
of short ones), not too many scenes are completely abstract representations
of heaven or hell, and, for the most part, you know more or less
what is going on. In fact, the basic plot is one that I've seen
used as the framing device in multiple "horror anthology"
films.
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N
e w e s t . P o s t s .
i n . t h e .
F o r u m s
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[Scrawled in Blood]
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DVD Purchases and Rentals
by Splatterscribe
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Today at 06:45:14 AM
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[Scrawled in Blood]
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Cabin in the Woods
by WL Paynecraft
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May 19, 2013, 03:44:18 PM
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[Scrawled in Blood]
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Lords of Salem
by Lord J
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May 19, 2013, 08:06:59 AM
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[Scrawled in Blood]
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Hannibal
by GeneralCinema
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May 17, 2013, 08:46:12 PM
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[Book of the Dead]
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Quote of the Day
by Splatterscribe
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May 14, 2013, 06:24:16 AM
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[Scrawled in Blood]
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This is going to rock...literally
by Splatterscribe
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May 08, 2013, 11:45:04 AM
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[Book of the Dead]
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Music
by GeneralCinema
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May 03, 2013, 07:57:19 PM
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[Scrawled in Blood]
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The Purge
by Vamp Vixen
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May 02, 2013, 03:16:22 PM
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 A
tourist is given a mysterious magic game called "Mamba"
that was created during the Spanish Inquisition. The winner of
the game will have a wish granted, and the losers will all die
horribly.
This
flick has some of the most unlikable characters I've encountered
in my life, I spent the first thirty minutes of this film looking
forward to seeing some of them die later on. Of course the lovely
Eliza Dushku was the exception. Once the group broke out the game
and started rolling dice and moving little wooden miniatures I
felt myself getting interested. I'm an OG nerd, started with first
edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and my addictions
have only grown, so a movie about a game does appeal to me. Although
I am reasonably sure the modern boardgame with it's rolling dice,
moving pieces, then picking cards, wasn't really an idea during
the Dark Ages, but if I can believe in ghosts and all manner of
beasties, I can believe in ancient Hasbro.
The
deaths all fall somewhere between cringe-worthy and damn nasty.
Seriously, this is one vicious game. It seems like more and more
horror movies are really taking advantage of the freedom of an
"R" rating.
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Even
nice people can go to hell.
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 Pity
poor Christine Brown (Alison Lohman). All she wants to do is earn
the Assistant Bank Manager job she’s worked so hard for and
settle into a life of domestic bliss with her loving and good
natured fiancee, psychiatrist Clay Dolton (Justin Long).
Unfortunately
, a couple of things stand in her way. One is that her new, ass
kissing co-worker has commanded the attention of her employer
Mr. Jacks (David Paymer). Also, Clay’s parents -old school
elitists from the word go- are not so willing to greet this former
farm girl with open arms. Oh and did I mention that Christine
has pissed off an evil gypsy woman (Lorna Raver) and is facing
the possibility of literally being pulled into the bowels of Hell?
That’s
right horror fans, sit back, strap yourselves in and prepare to
be taken for one hell of a wild ride, because Sam “groovy”
Raimi has returned to the genre which made him a star with this
latest terror offering, the deliciously diabolical and furiously
funny bone cracker Drag Me to Hell.
When
elderly gypsy Sylvia Ganush appears at the bank where Christine
works, all she wants is an extension on her loan so that she doesn’t
have to lose her home. Christine, who handles the loan department,
could grant the extension, but if she doesn’t- her boss informs
her- the bank will turn a profit on repossessing the Ganush house.
This, he informs her, is one of those tough decisions which employees
need to learn to make in order to become Assistant Bank Managers.
Take a wild guess what choice Christine makes?
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 First,
a warning: If you really dislike Jane Austin, you will probably
not love this book. That is because this revision of Pride
and Prejudice is not really a rewriting of the original; it
pretty much stays the same, but with zombies added. It is still
about 85% Jane Austin, and 15% zombies. The zombie fighting and
carnage are actually quite good, but you do feel, during some
of the longer passages where people just socialize, that the second
author is throwing in the odd zombie reference as an empty gesture,
and you start wishing for some proper gore and carnage. God help
me ensure that my high school English lit teacher never finds
out I said that, but it is true. Anyhow, I am not sure the zombie
action is sufficient to make up for a loathing of Regency-period
comedies of manners.
On the other hand, if you have never read Pride and Prejudice
or Jane Austin, I am really not sure what you will make of the
book. It certainly stands on its own, but I'm not sure it does
so purely as as zombie fiction. If you just want a good zombie
novel, go read World War Z (seriously: go read it right now if
you haven't already), or any of a number of other fine classics.
If, however, you read Pride & Prejudice in high school,
remember it more or less (waspish heroine starts off hating the
rich, arrogant guy she ends up marrying, and various people act
like idiots due to snobbery and misunderstanding), and you didn't
hate it, you will probably get a major kick out of it when zombies
are added. Because, really, what isn't improved by the addition
of some brain-eating savagery by the walking dead? (Zombies are
kind of like salsa in that.)
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Something
unspeakable has come home.
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 Andy
Brooks is killed in Vietnam. Back home, his parents are informed
of his death, but his mother can't accept it, sitting awake at
night praying and repeating over and over that he promised to
come home and can't die. Later that night Andy does arrive home,
but something is horribly different. Despite Andy's strange behavior,
and the concerns of his father and sister, Andy's mother refuses
to acknowledge that anything has changed. But Andy is dead, and
others soon start to turn up horribly mutilated. (Andy died for
them, after all, why shouldn't they return the favor?)
Originally
titled Dead of Night (and released under about six other
names as well), this film is something of a classic, and with
good reason. Directed by Bob Clark and written by Alan Ormsby
(the team that brought you Children
Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Deranged, Popcorn
and, um Porky's II), and featuring Tom Savini's makeup
debut, this is an absolutely terrific movie, nevermind horror
movie.
Something
on the box described this as a version of The Monkey's Paw,
which I guess is correct, if by that they mean reversing the ending
and taking that as a new starting point.
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