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Staff Picks: Joachim Andersson 2/12

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Feb 222012

Monsters (2010) – Hands down the best movie I have seen in the last five years, there aren’t enough words in the English language to describe the feelings I have for this one. It isn’t even a proper movie, more of a journey through a landscape slowly transforming into something alien and speaking of alien, this is one of the more probable versions of what actually would happen if space creatures arrived on earth. Last but not least, the movie also has a totally awesome soundtrack that fits the movie like a glove and makes me all warm and fuzzy when I listen to it. A prequel and a sequel is in the works – I will be first in line. Frankly, I will kill to get in line ahead of all of you. Continue reading »

Staff Picks: Joachim Andersson 1/12

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Jan 162012

Night of the Devils (La notte dei diavoli – 1972) – This superior chiller was based on the same Tolstoy story that Mario Bava used in Black Sabbath. In my opinion this one is superior, with Gianni Garko taking a shortcut through a forest, smashing up his car and ends up in a house besieged by vampires. Lots of atmosphere, a bit of juicy gore designed by Carlo Rambaldi and the lovely Agostina Belli without any clothing. This one is not available on DVD I’m afraid and the only way to see it is on VHS/VHS-rip but it is worth it. Continue reading »

Film Review: Italian Splatter Films Shake in the Demonic Presence of ‘Adam Chaplin’ (2011)

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Jan 112012

My first encounter with this movie was through this trailer which at a first glance (well, the first minute of it at least) looked kind of cheesy, that very particular cheese that so many low budget shot on video gore movies tend to be full of. You know, just a movie without ever reflecting on narrative etc, just pour on the gore. This can be good in itself but very straining on your patience. But then came a couple of really striking scenes and I knew I had to have this. I hopped on the filmmaker’s website and about five minutes after watching the trailer I had ordered it. It arrived yesterday (a bit smashed up due to the fucking post office but working just fine) and I popped it into the DVD player to hopefully get an entertaining experience. And by God it is!

Adam Chaplin might actually be one of the best comic book movies I have ever seen. It is not based on a comic but the story, the visuals and most importantly – the violence, are all as if torn Continue reading »

Film Review: There’s No Happy Honeymoon Awaiting These ‘Brides of Blood’ (1968)

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Jan 062012

Really, do I need to review this movie? Just look at those lovely pictures… they tell you everything you need to know. Blood, boobs and glorious rubber monsters. This is one of these movies that leave you with fluttering butterflies in your stomach.

A nice group arrives at an island in the Philippines to teach the natives the ways of civilization and look for any traces of nuclear testing. There’s the elderly professor, his horny wife that screws anything that moves (except for her husband) and the young guy who would like to screw everything that moves and inevitably will get into the pants of the chiefs wife. It seems the natives have a lottery going on for the village’s young females and the winner will be tied to a pole while an Continue reading »

BEST OF 2011: Joachim Andersson

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Dec 282011

Apollo 18 – Most people didn’t appreciate this little gem but I loved it! The reason? It felt like a slightly updated “Outer Limits” episode, hokey and wonderful. Continue reading »

Film Review: Shinya Tsukamoto Returns with Experimental Metal Actioner ‘Tetsuo – The Bullet Man’ (2009)

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Dec 162011

FINALLY! The Iron man is back! With a vengeance! And in… English? WTF? Then again, we always knew that if there was another Tetsuo movie there would be lots of WTFs. Twenty-two years after the original Tetsuo and nineteen after the sequel, Shinya Tsukamoto finally returns to the wonders of biomechanical psychopathics and more loving fusions of flesh and metal.

An American man living in Japan with his Japanese wife and their son is struck by grief when a mysterious man kills the young boy by running him over with a car. As this is a Shinya Tsukamoto movie this event triggers something in our hero, making him turn into a metal beast and he starts searching in his past to why Continue reading »

Film Review: Lieh Lo’s ‘Black Magic with Buddha’ (Nao mo – 1983) Combines Outlandish Gore & Stunning Amounts of CAT III Sleaze

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Nov 282011

I’ve learned something today. Evil Thai mummy brains aren’t something you should mess about with; it’s as simple as that. And if you do feel like keeping them for your own personal gain, make sure you feed them regularly. They tend to get rather mad if they are hungry. Like any other pet really. That’s something the protagonist of low budget Hong Kong sleaze Black Magic with Buddha learns when he goes to Thailand, takes home a brain with magic powers to use for his own personal gain. You see, our hero is somewhat of a looser. Only somewhat though, for a CAT III hero he is actually fairly likeable. He means well I suppose, he just doesn’t seem to think of the consequences of what he is doing, and the fact that it kills his sister and his wife’s family, well, he never seems to care that much about it. He comes off as Continue reading »

Film Review: ‘Humongous’ (1982) Lives Again Thru Scorpion Releasing’s “Katarina’s Nightmare Theater” Series

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Nov 182011

The Canadian Tax shelter films of the 70s and early 80s has given the world quite a few fun excursions into horror, movies like Rituals, Black Christmas and not to mention all the early Cronenbergs are still true classics in my book. It all fell apart in 1980 when it became obvious that a lot of movies were made just to make a quick buck through some loopholes but not before Paul Lynch gave us Humongous, a movie available on VHS in crappy, very dark transfers where you aren’t able to see jack shit. Until now.

When the movie starts we are at a party at a lake house sometime during the 50s and a woman is running from an unwanted suitor who strikes her Continue reading »

Film Review: Marchent’s ‘Cut Throats Nine’ (1972) Brutalizes The Spaghetti Western Genre

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Nov 152011

I can imagine the filmmakers having a meeting before the shoot, before a script is presented. They want to make a western, that has been decided, but the writer is seething with anger. He has probably just gotten through a nasty divorce and is angry. They want a movie without heroes. They want everyone that dies to die in the most brutal way possible and the mood should be uncomfortable and filthy.

Boy did they succeed.

A group of soldiers are on their way to a fort with a number of chained Continue reading »

Film Review: Chandon’s ‘Inbred’ (2011) Kicks Hillbilly Horror Up Ten Terrifying Notches

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Nov 042011

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Watching Alex Chandon’s new movie Inbred starts out as a very familiar experience. Let’s see if you’ve heard any of this before: Two social workers are taking a group of teens with different problems out on a trip north. North here means a rundown little town full of people with strange teeth and staying at an old house that hasn’t been lived in for decades. We all know where this will lead, and it does. It doesn’t take long before the locals and the city folk clash, resulting in injury and death. But this is where Inbred really takes off. Yes, we’ve seen it all before but rarely as fun as this. Instead of just pounding us with the latest ways of displaying that old “favorite”, torture porn, Chandon takes his cliché plot and infuses it with a lovely black and absurd sense of humor that reminds me a lot of the Belgian movie Calvaire with a dash of Monty Python, especially in the scenes where the locals Continue reading »

Film Review: Gildark’s ‘Cthulhu’ (2007) Ably Captures Lovecraft’s Alien World & The Alienation in Our Own

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Nov 022011

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Filming H.P Lovecraft has never been easy, adapting that particular brand of cosmic horror does not tend to come out well on screen and the only movies that has had some success are the ones that have taken liberties with the original story it is based on. Cthulhu is another one of those and does it quite well.

This is basically an adaption of The Shadow over Innsmouth, the same short story that gave us Stuart Gordon’s entertaining Dagon. In this case however, Dagon is the one that sticks the closest to the source material where Cthulhu tells an entirely different story set in a town that very well could be Innsmouth though not as dingy. The main character, Russ, receives a message that his mother has passed away and is forced to return to the place of his birth, a small coastal town Continue reading »

Film Review: Code Red DVD’s ‘Night of the Demon’ (1980) is a Nasty, Snarling, Gory Gem with Claws

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Nov 012011

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SEX = INSTANT DEATH! VIRGIN = SLOW DEATH!

When a movie has a scene where the main characters set camp for the night and start telling each other that this is the site where that biker vanished some years ago, upon which they cut to a scene where a biker stops by the side of the road and promptly gets his dick torn off by Bigfoot, there is no going back. You HAVE TO worship that movie. It is fucking genius.

Night of the demon is one of those semi unknown little gore flicks of the eighties that never got a decent DVD release. Well, until know. Code Red has finally released it but more on that later in the review. Sure, it doesn’t really qualify as Continue reading »