A map, an alternative me and a ghost Shawn needing tending to.
Here's the review. Enjoy, kiddies!!!
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Guardians of the Galaxy
Welcome back readers. I realize that
most of my writings have been either Horror or Sci-fi titles so I
thought we could hunker down to a more popular franchise brought to
us by Marvel Studios.
What do a hybrid, a
genetically/cybernetically altered raccoon, a talking tree, the
galaxy's deadliest assassin and a raged filled literal minded man
have in common? Well not a whole lot.
This is Guardians of the Galaxy.
This Googles Map app sucks, Groot. |
Our film opens with the beginnings of a
young Peter Quill who loses his mother to cancer, is abducted by
aliens and his mother's family never sees or hears of him again.
Good call on the taking care of the boy after mom dies. Top notch.
More than 20 years have passed and the
boy is an accomplished thief, con artist, trickster and roguishly
handsome Star Lord (Chris Pratt of Parks and Recreation,
Jurassic World, The Lego Movie, Lego Jurassic World, Lego Dimensions,
The Magnificent Seven, Passengers and The Kid), a half human,
half something else man who loves his 80s pop culture minutia that
baffles the rest of the galaxy.
Contracted to steal a stone of unknown
content or power from a remote,dead world. Quill decides to cut out
his boss/father figure Yondu (Michael Rooker of Days of
Thunder, JFK, Cliffhanger, Mallrats, The Replacement Killers, The
Walking Dead and Call of the Dead) out of the deal, make
enough scratch to flee from the Ravagers (Intergalactic crime
syndicate) and be on his own.
Presenting my large, pulsating ball. |
Decidedly pissed, Yondu puts a contract
out on Quill and a talking tree and raccoon proceed to planet Xandar
to capture Quill alive. Yeah a talking tree known as Groot (Vin
Diesel of The Fast and the Furious, Pitch Black, Knockaround Guys,
XXX, The Chronicles of Riddick, Fast & Furious and Avengers:
Infinity War) and a raccoon with disconcertingly human like
hands and unfeasibly large guns known as Rocket (Bradley Cooper
of Failure to Launch, Alias, The Midnight Meat Train, The Hangover,
The A-Team, Limitless and Avengers: Infinity War).
A
group of religious zealots of the Kree empire want the stone too. Led
by a fanatic lunatic known as Ronan the Accuser (Lee
Pace of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: The Desolation
of Smaug, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, The Program and
Driven)
loathes his own people striking a treaty with Xandar and will see the
whole planet wiped out. Xandar not the Kree home world, Hala. Yes I
am that big of a Marvel Comics geek fanboy. What of it??!!
Ronan's
underlings were supposed to retrieve this all mighty Maguffin for one
of Marvel's nastier villains, Thanos (played by Josh Brolin but not a
huge part at this time so move on) and he even aided Ronan by
offering his "adopted" daughters, the deadly assassin
Gamora (Zoe Saldana of Avatar, Star Trek, The
Losers, Star Trek Into Darkness, Out of the Furnance and Avengers:
Infinity War)
and cybernetically enhanced Nebula (Karen Gillan
of Doctor Who, Occulus, In a Valley of Violence, The Circle and
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle),
devious and crafty killer in her own right.
Gamora
volunteers to acquire the stone and ends up running into Quill, Groot
and Rocket.
Less
than 12 hours in for their collective charges, the four offer to help
one another to escape the Kiln, a Supermax prison full of the dregs
of the universe. One such inmate last his wife and daughter to
Ronan's crazed killing spree, Drax the Destroyer (Dave
Bautista of WWE Smackdown, WWE Raw, The Man with the Iron Fists, L.A.
Slasher, Heist, Marauders and Enter the Warriors Gate)
a
literal minded warrior with strength levels of the Hulk and about the
moral code of Wolverine.
The
five of them escape from prison, nick their gear and head out into
the big black for fortune and glory. No time for love, Doctor Jones.
Ronan,
the Ravagers and most of the Nova Corps of Xandar are breathing down
their necks while the choice must be made. A bunch of loners unite
against a common enemy or get blasted into bits across the cold
vacuum of space.
Okay
first off, I absolutely love this flick. Aside from real fans of the
comic book franchise, these characters are positively unknown to the
average movie goers. Plus it is delivered is such a fashion, that
you can instinctively have emotions for or against the characters.
Clever writing, action, Sci-fi and still that comic book formula that
fleshes out comic books to the silver screen is so wonderfully done
here.
The
casting really works and honestly, MCU's Star Lord has a superior
backstory than his original comic book counterpart. Tragic yet
brought him to adulthood (more or less) far better than his long
winded, duller story arc of the comics.
Snaring
the likes of Glenn
Close, Benico Del Toro and Dijmon Hounsou
for bit roles still brings life into these personas. Well crafted
for all ages to watch, similar how George Lucas pulled off Star Wars:
A New Hope, this film lends itself to easily a follow up movie in
2017.
And
yes you should watch its sequel.
Deadliest of eye candy. |
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Pumpkinhead
Howdy gang! I hope you enjoyed that
ridiculous video review of Billy the Kid vs Dracula.
That took far, far too long to finish
but it is done! Okay funny note, as many articles I added on here
from epinions.com, I somehow skipped a decently creepy film. Today's
movie hails from MGM and United Artists making a
chiller film with an amazing practical effects creature from Stan
Winston's Studios plus he helped with the story and directed our
movie. This is Pumpkinhead.
Now massage my corns, Lance. |
We start off with an odd prologue in
1957 seeing a farmer with his wife and son, Ed refusing shelter to a
doomed soul. The man screams, begs, swears and howls in terror as
something from the night kills him.
Flash forward to a present day era, Ed
(Lance Henriksen of The Terminator, Aliens, Millenium,Alien 3,
Dead Man, The Quick and the Dead, NCIS and The Blacklist) is
all grown up with a son of his own is now a general goods store man.
Amazingly enough no old guys out widdling wood for pipes or toy
soldiers.
With a gaggle of promiscuous and
rambunctious teenagers (Because don't almost all these movies
start that way?) are out and about dirt biking riding,
partying and getting ready for the big orgy, one of them accidentally
ran over a small boy that happens to be Ed's son. Joel, (John
D'Aquino of SeaQuest DSV, Matlock, Melrose Place, Murder, She Wrote,
Seinfeld, Sliders and Crossing Jordan) drunken dirt biker ass
decides to be worried...about his record and starts freaking out as
the rest of the group came back to the cabin they were staying at for
the weekend. Joel knocks one of his buddies out, rips the phone cord
out of the wall (this is that old timey land line phones many
of you younger readers may not know about) locking him and a
girl in the closet so they can't alert the cops. Apparently he is
on probation for a similar incident. So how many kids has Joel ran
over?
Man, I hate those kid shaped road cones!! |
Believing the cops are useless, the
loss of his son with the fact his wife died giving birth to their boy
has overwhelmed Ed with grief, that he knows what he must do. Yup
not call the cops or grab a twelve gauge pump hunting the guy down
revenge style. Nosiree, he must journey to visit a crazed witch deep
in the woods who will bind Ed's soul to this revenge golem known only
as Pumpkinhead. Could be a demon too. They were never really clear.
The creature is loosen on the world in search of righteous cruelty.
This demonic entity starts roaming the
woods as Joel starts to reflect on his asshat ways and proceeds to
head out to turn himself into the cops when his girlfriend Maggie
(Kerry Remsen of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge,
Appointment with Fear, Tribes and Round Numbers) hears her
name being whispered and goes out to investigate because...well
Horror movie obviously. Steve tries to save her but is immediately
gacked by this spindly tall monstrosity and drags Maggie away with
him.
The dreaded and feared demon, Snappy. He bites. |
Unfortunately given it was his and his
late son's blood to resurrect Pumpkinhead, Ed must bear witness to
the horrors the creature is inflicting on the kids. Regardless of
his need for revenge he cannot stand the sight of these murders.
He begs the old witch to release the
creature and put him back so he can do no more harm but the witch
laughs saying it's too late and once it is done, Ed's final price
will have to be met.
Can Ed lift the curse? Are our hapless
and helpless teens done for? How often does this creature make the
rounds in these here parts?
This film marks Stan Winston's
directorial debut. Many critics were blown away by Winston Studios
monster but felt the plot was lacking. Dave Kehr of the
Chicago Tribune went on the record saying, "As a
technician, Winston clearly knows how to make a monster, but as a
director he was yet to learn how to bring one to life."
Personally the family vengeance angle,
coupled with grieving father driven to near madness was a compelling
idea but the story itself was a bit slow. I mean you have love,
loss a need for revenge and even some redemption and okay so it moves
a bit slow but that also allows for when the creature will strike
next. My only complaint was the creature itself revealed too early.
Do a pee wee or extension arm slash and gutting effect first, then
crank up a wind machine, a bit of lightning to unveil the beastie at
the beginning of the third act.
Lance is what truly keeps this film
interesting. Watching him going through this barrage of emotions is
impressive and brought his "A"game to it.
This is a surprisingly original atmospheric horror film that gets the most mixed reviews.
At the end of the day, I enjoyed it. I
do own a copy of it so that should be proof right there. Impressive
effects, performances are done well and overall not too shabby.
Pumpkinhead ensures better gun safety regs in the woods. |
Rotten Reelz Reviews Video Review #3: Billy the Kid vs Dracula
The wait is over. The completion has happened. I'm finally done with the damn thing!
Billy the Kid vs Dracula video review is available right here
Enjoy! Or you know, don't. Hey it's a bizarre flick plus my own stuff added to it.
Billy the Kid vs Dracula video review is available right here
Enjoy! Or you know, don't. Hey it's a bizarre flick plus my own stuff added to it.
I have no pants and took two little blue pills. Muahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! |
Friday, March 16, 2018
Friday, March 9, 2018
Sneak Peek Preview: Axemas
Ah me, the demanding life of a film
reviewer. Hey folk, welcome back to the blog. So thanks to Dustin
Ferguson and the Nemesis 5 review, a colleague and friend of Dustin's
asked if I could give his film a viewing while he is already working
on the sequel. Now how can I ignore that level of hard work, am I
right? Today's film belongs to director/writer/producer/actor John
Ward (Chapman's Storage: Fake Commercial, Axemas, Frames of
Fear 2, and pre-production of Meathook Massacre 4 and post-production
of Axmas 2: Blood Slay). His film is clearly part of a segmented five-part film highlighting five separate directors. This
is Axemas.
I'm no doctor but you might want that sucking chest wound looked at. |
Our opening title cards is followed by
a mild xylophone playing as we look at a storage unit being broken
into by a bad boy on the naughty list. Our thief (Tommy
Sihavong of Axemas and Frames of Fear 2) didn't hear sleigh
bells ringing and tingling but hears something metal being drug
across the concrete. Naughty or nice, our thief is ready to defend
himself and his ill-gotten gains when "Santa" pitches him
in the storage unit, closes the door and we hear the thief's screams
and that same ripsaw going to work. Yeah that may have even grossed
out Rick and Billy of Silent Night, Deadly Night 1 and 2.
The irony of this comment I wrote, is there are two off-camera characters are
named Rick and Billy.
A simple fade to black (don't
start quoting the song), brings us to a kid on the phone
bored out of his skull, calling buddies over to party the night away.
When you think about it, clean up will be a breeze, cans will go to
recycling and hopefully they aren't using other people furniture to
make out and screw. Oh man, they are totally going to use that
furniture, aren't they?
A planned get together will lock the
place down at 11 and apparently no major security with exception of
cameras on the outside of the building. Hopefully at least a
security guard and a dog?
David (Dillon Wieshuhn of
Daywalker: Blade Origins, Axemas, Drug Z and Amygdala Warrior)
has the keys to the castle...well the storage place and invites his
friends and girlfriend over for some Christmas cheer, in the form of
booze and partying.
"Santa" and his magic murder
bag, dripping of blood from now we can assume chopped up thief parts
are probably making their way to disposal of the body.
Psst, let's go rattle the walls. Hmm? Ya feel me? |
The storage center overall looks to be
almost two, maybe three blocks in length so our young couples are
looking forward to a bit of fun, drink and some of each other later.
Guys, honestly rent a couple of hotel rooms. Maybe get a cabin for
the weekend. They're pretty reasonable rates if you book months in
advance.
As the kids explore the massive maze
that is the center, somewhere in this huge complex is a blood
spattered Santa (John E. Seymore of Water in the Bay, Tangled
8, Blessid, The Weed Detective, Drug Z and Frames of Fear 2
)creepily singing to himself, enjoying some cookies in his chair when
he hears a few giggles from the girls and guys. Not wanting his
festivities to come to an end, Santa decides to look on these boys
and girls. And THANK YOU for not revealing Santa's face prematurely!
Seriously I cannot thank John Ward
enough to make the proper decision to keep our killer's face
concealed. Maybe he enjoyed the original Black Christmas.
God knows you can't sit through the remake.
Our couples along with David and Sarah
(Ashley Campbell of Atelophobia, Guard Dog, Designated,
Unwritten, Atelophobia: Chapter 2 and Alien Domicile ) are
Chuck (Nathan Scott of The Weed Detective, Drug Z and Frames of
Fear 2) and Liz (Lindsey Cruz of Atelophobia, Rust,
Rust 2, The Radiant One, Atelophobia: Chapter 2 and Drug Z)
and Lee (Mikey Anthony O' Brien of Drug Z, Frames of Fear 2 and
Alice) and Linnea (Kamiko Kawada of Shadows, Not a Care
in the World, Into Paradise and Frames of Fear 2)
The party starts winding down and Chuck
and Liz go off to find their own locker to get busy. Don't blame
them. Probably had to see white folk dance. Trust me, I'm white and
it bugs the crap out of me to see that gyrating mess.
One by One, Santa's coming for you all.
He's checking his list and scratching off those bad kids.
Can they flee to save themselves? Does
one of these units belong to a paranoid NRA gun nut?
Ah mistaken for firewood. It happens. |
Okay on technical lighting choices and
the fact I have rented a storage unit before, they cannot actually
have the lights off in sections. With that comment out of the way,
the less lighting actually makes the film look creepy. With more
shadows to work with, sounds being amplified by the doors and walls
of corrugated steel, would confuse the hell out of anyone without a
proper sense of direction or carrying a compass.
The subtle touches with the music
played VST (Virtual Studio Technology. Yeah I am becoming an
audiophile.) giving synthesizer and sound effects at the ready
for editing is a Indie budgeted director's dream come true. Good
mood setting, easy story to bring more into it, decent gore effects
and props, I think we got a budding director that simply needs a bit
more funding behind him and he'll spatter the walls with some real
nasty effects. Ward has suspense building, decent tension build up
and proper music stingers.
Cranking out at 25 minutes, the tone
was set, characters are in place and giving decent performances.
This is part of an anthology set (A collection of short stories)
showcasing multiple talents and different directorial styles.
I honestly think with a bit more of a
longer script and maybe two or three more cast members, you could
make a gore fest but I like the more subtle encounters. This isn't
that typical overblown Hollywood Hack'em up with far too many jump
scares, one dimensional characters and far over the top gore effects.
Now yes, you can argue well they didn't
have the length of time as a standard gallon of gore of at least 75
to 90 minutes of bad CGI penetration shots or CGI blood gags.
Ward could buy that software for
editing but I prefer the cut scenes with the aftermath established.
It provides a better visual and the death grimaces on your actors
will always look nastier.
Had some influence from the first
Silent Night, Deadly Night and Halloween 2 to it. Nothing wrong with
that at all.
An old recipe of horror elements, teens
doing dumb things and the enraged psycho made this a fun viewing.
Personally, I hope to see more of what John Ward and his crew have to
offer.
Don't think even the Ice Cream Bunny will work with Santa now. |
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Coppola Original: Dementia 13
Welcome back to the blog, folks. Hope
you enjoyed the Sneak Peek Review on Nemesis 5.
Looks
like more than a few did. And by a few I mean over a thousand views
there!!! but now it is time for the flick of the day.
So a bit of digging as this was Coppola's first legitimate film, he
had done a few sexploitation films prior to today's film.
Now this is not to put him in the same
category as Jean Rollin or God help him, Jesus Franco
but I just thought it was a funny notion that the man that brought us
the Godfather did a couple of nudie flicks, The Bellboy and the
Playgirls and Tonight for Sure. Yes plenty of T & A
black and white so have at it. Today's film is a horror/thriller
that could be considered a jump start into crazed axe murderer
story lines and a precursor to Halloween and Black
Christmas. This is Dementia 13.
Aww... he's holding her head while she pukes. |
One night out in the moonlight for a
row in the lake, John Haloran (Peter Read of Dementia 13,
Freakshow, Johnny Shortwave, Talons of the Eagle and Rin Tin Tin: K9
Cop) is explaining to his captivating wife Louise (Luana
Anders of The Pit and the Pendulum, Dementia 13, Easy Rider, Shampoo,
The Missouri Breaks and Goin' South) that his mom is a bit
kooky.
You see the will to the inheritance is
a bit off. If John dies before his mother, Louise isn't seeing dime
one. And with that bit of cryptic, the dude drops dead of a heart
attack. Tragic irony or poetic justice? You be the judge. Louise
quick on her feet, dumps John's body overboard and claims he is on a
business trip. She goes so far is to type up a letter as she is off
to the country to ingratiate herself to her mother-in-law in the
will.
Not sure how long your dead husband can
be out of town so at best she's got about a week, two max. No sooner
Louise arrives at this castle (yeah,
loaded), she witnesses Lady Haloran and son Billy (Bart
Patton of Thriller, Tales of Wells Fargo, Checkmate, Zotz!,Petticoat
Junction and The Farmer's Daughter) and Richard (William
Campbell of Garrison's Gorillas, Star Trek, Bonanza, It Takes a
Thief, Bracken's World, Ironside, The Rookies and Star Trek: Deep
Space Nine) engaging in some sort of ritual.
This isn't a romantic boat ride, John. |
So Momma Haloran (Eithne Dunne of
Omnibus, Playhouse 90, She Didn't Say No!, Shake Hands with the
Devil and The Mutations) is how should we say, a bit
different. A little off tilt, perhaps? Ah, the hell with it.
She's crackers. She insists on the anniversary of her young
daughter, Kathleen's death to visit the very pond she drown in as a
child and tries to communicate with her.
Attempting to cash in on Lady Haloran's
superstition as well as her fragile mental state, Louise hatches a
scheme to con Lady Haloran that Kathleen is attempting to communicate
beyond the grave. She sneaks out in the night with an armful of the
dead child's toys playing them around the mass estate's pond as if
they floated up under spooky circumstances. Louise is a bitch in
case you missed that.
As this scheme is looking good, Louise
accidentally swims next to Kathleen's somehow preserved body. I mean
the kid looks pristine. Not sure if that is meant to be scarier or
no one wanted to spring for a fake child sized skeleton.
Panicked, Louise surfaces and makes it
to shore, only to be attacked with an ax by an unknown assailant who
drags her body away in true Jason Vorhees style. Now that was
creepy.
So...you are always that sudden or was that an off night? |
Concerned for Lady Haloran's
well-being, family doctor Caleb (Patrick Magee of Zulu, Lady
Ice, The Last Days of Man on Earth, Luther, Simona, King Lear,
Galileo and Barry Lyndon) is convinced that Louise's sudden
disappearance is a mystery to be solved. He proceeds to hound the
family in this Poirot fashion to almost an crazed manner.
Meanwhile a poacher snuck on the estate
for some easy prey, becomes that of which he sought by the hand of
the killer, or rather his ax.
Dr. Caleb convinced that one of the
brothers is committing these murders even offers hypnosis as a means
to see if on a subconscious level if one of them is the killer.
Is the Haloran family all bread
baskets? Should someone alert the constables? How bad must John's
body rotted in the lake?
So what we have here is a
thriller/slasher film pre-dates any techno-colored or colored film
from the 70s and 80s. With moody atmosphere, a good pace, this
gorgeous estate as our background and a score providing the right
tone to give off a Gothic horror. From a technical aspect, this
whole film was shot in 9 days and from its tight editing, you would
swear at least a month's work was in the can and not under two weeks.
Filmed in 35mm Spherical, sound in mono
the angles of some of these shots, especially the night shots were
very similar to Coppola's later Dracula film in style and
presentation. Its normal runtime for the flick in 75 minutes but
also there is an 80 minute version with a prologue.
Produced by the nose for talent and the
master of frugal, Roger Corman also has a hand in adding
additional scenes to ratchet up the tension. That in mind, Coppola
and Corman argued over whether or not the film could be released in
its current state and called in exploitation director Jack Hill
(The Big Bird Cage, Black Momma White Momma, Coffy and Foxy
Brown) to film those additional sequences.
With an estimated budget of $42,000,
Coppola writes a screenplay considered by many harsher critics than I
as a Psycho rip-off but I feel it has its own style with Gothic
horror, brutal murders and keeps the audience guessing what is coming
for you next.
Worst Sunday brunch ever. |
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Sneak Peek Preview: Nemesis 5: The New Model
Well ladies and germs I have a treat
for you today as I just got the sneak peek at the latest Dustin
Ferguson movie. No, stop saying who. Dustin (Doll Killer,
Die Sister, Die!, Gloved Murderess, Cheerleader Camp: To the Death
and Invitation to Die) gets to finally stretch his limbs into
the genre of Sci-Fi as he told me in our phone interview last year,
it has been something he had been dreaming of and finally given the
reins to do just that. This is Nemesis 5: The New Model.
He clearly admires a girl of that caliber. Gun humor. |
Continuing the very series director
Albert Pyun (Cyborg,
Deceit, Brain Smasher...A Love Story, Spitfire, Heatseeker, Raven
Hawk, Mean Guns, Postmortem)
built but never quite finished to many fans dismay, Ferguson is on
the case. We open with a tasteful text crawl in space, filling in the
blanks for some of the fans of the series as it has been a bit since
we tapped into the cyber saga.
Cut
to a harsh desert teeming with life under what sounds like Rob
Robinson's
composition on synthesizer (Meathook Massacre II,
Tales From the Grave and Nemesis 5: The New Model)
and bringing scope and depth already so I was completely stoked for
this.
Reprising
her famous Alex role is Sue
Price of Nemesis II: Nebula, Nemesis III: Prey Harder and Nemesis 4:
Death Angel
is back again fighting for humanity. A dilapidated building stages a
firefight between her and a fully converted cyborg as a young girl
watches on in curiosity, not horror.
The year is 2089, Alex
strolling through the wastelands defeating cyborgs in gunfights and
hand-to-hand combat. L.A.P.D.and the Red Army Hammerheads went to
war, claiming to be humanity's savor and neither able to stop the
apocalypse.
Yes, the writer is checking out Sue Price's legs. What of it? |
Time
and wounds have taken their toll on her as she has fought the cyborgs
for so long that even this DNA mutant warrior of past and future must
prepare for the next adventure and pass the torch to a new
generation.
With
her biotech engineering and cybernetic upgrades Alex learned to be a
ruthless killing machine but in return lost much of her potential
humanity. Alex raises the abandoned little girl and trains her to be
vicious, intelligent, cunning yet focused on her goals. The only way
for the end to not come is to send Ari
(Schuylar Craig of Blood Claws, Camp Blood 4,
Blood Model and The Amityville Legacy) back
to 2077 in order to stop the actions of the L.A.P.D.and the Red Army
Hammerheads before it is too late. Unlike Alex, Ari is 100% human
with no augmentations to assist her.
Good
to see some regulars of the Ferguson stable getting some meat and
potatoes roles.
Jennii Caroline
(Escape to Black Tree Forest, Black Forest III, Doll
Killer, Die Sister, Die!, Gloved Murderess, Camp Blood 4 and Meathook
Massacre II) appears as a
Red Army Hammerhead controller using the cyborgs to capture data for
spin stories. Edwin Garica
(Meathook Massacre II, PHOBIA, Stuck and Stacked)
as a resistance fighter, Mark Popejoy (Die
Sister, Die!, Gloved Murderess, Poet, Flat Waters Terror Volume 1 and
Amityville Legacy) as Doom,
transportation entrepreneur and Daniel Stier
(Tales for the Campfire, Night of the Clown, Meathook
Massacre II and Nemesis 5: The New Model)
also a resistance fighter.
Those Black Friday sales are out of control! |
Feeling
as though the human and cyborg resistance fighters could actually
succeed at their mission, it is believed that a Nebula enforcer
combat model needs to chase Ari and her crew down and turn them in to
meat sauce.
Some
nice throwbacks and nods to the second film, we have the giggling
blond assassin units again, strifing the place with laser bolts
rather than the Desert Eagles of 1980 played by Breana
Mitchell (Cheerleader
Camp:To Death, Die Sister, Die!, Invitation to Die, Meathook
Massacre, Blood Claws, Camp Blood 5 and Amityville Legacy)
and Lia Havlena (Wrong Side of the Tracks and Nemesis 5:
The New Model).
What
really grips your attention is the amazing vocals of actress/vocalist
Daiane Azura (Prison
of Psychotic Damed: Terminal Remix, Paranoia and Nemesis 5: The New
Model) of
Pandora Black.
A mixture of techno, pop and astounding v/o stylings, this blend of
unique tracks and singing keeps up with the pace of the film.
Cinematography
is unbearably awesome, some great zooms via drone cam, good hand held
and the filters bring some real life into the regions, great cut
scenes for editing pushes a compelling story.
Let's
talk about our star, Schuylar
Craig as
clearly she has had some strength training, martial arts and even
some stunt work. She got put through the paces and good for her,
getting something this intense as a major project.
Hey
wait a minute, what about our main villains? Barbie and the
Hammerhead leader Mel?
Hey
that's the lovely Dawna
Lee Heising
(Blade Runner, Kung Fu: The Movie, Forbidden
Warrior, Waiting for Dracula, Legend of the Red Reaper, Samurai Cop
2: Deadly Vengeance and Meathook Massacre II)
and hard working character actor Mel
Novak (Game
of Death, Cat in the Cage, An Eye for an Eye, Future War, Vampire
Assassin, Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance, Check Point and Holy
Terror)!
Clocking
in at a 71 minutes, this bigger budgeted Ferguson film rocks.
Post-production laser effects, excellent filtering, an amazing
musical score and everyone busting ass bringing their all to this
movie. A cyberpunk post-apocalypse that brings older fans back to
the series and newer fans to dive right in. A good blend of old and new.
Nice
to see Dustin tackling a genre he has been a fan of for so long.
Wind mill of death kick! |
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