A good old movienight:

The Curse of the Fly - the only Fly-title I hadn't watched yet. For me it was the least interesting, as it actually never is about the fly or the mix-creature. The film starts with a woman escaping a mental institution, later she marries a descendant of the famous Dr Delambre. The Dealmbre family is still very much involved in teleporting stuff, but it doesn't always succeed without trouble. Therefore there are some mutated creatures which didn't survive the disintegration and reintegration process intact. Unfortunately, these creatures are the only horrorish aspect of this film, so I was a bit disappointed. I didn't expect a spectacular monsterfilm of course, but I also didn't expect a slow detective-like film without any monsters. Although the science part of the science-fiction is done pretty well, it didn't interest me too much. I don't think I'm ever gonna rewatch this.

Al Tropico del Cancro - pretty weird Italian mixture of genres from 1972. With 3 scriptwriters and 2 directors, one might get a confusing film, and since Italian cinema isn't really well known for it's clear-structured products, this adds to the usual chaos. This results in a film which is part giallo, part poliziottesco, part sleaze sex and part mondo film. The story is, not surprisingly, sometime s hard to follow, but it boils down to the following: a doctor has found a formula to cure cancer, but he doesn't want to become rich by sellng it. Several bad guys want it because it can be used as a powerful drug which doesn't only make you high, but also horny. These bad guys threaten the doctor and fight ach other, so there are a lot of dead people when the endcredits start to roll. In the meantime we have visited a voodoo ritual which was real according to the filmmakers, but well, since Mondo Cane was also "real" I tend to have my doubts about that. Several Italo regulars are to be seen, ie Gabriele Tinti, Anita Strindberg and Stelio Candelli. For fans of the genre this is a nice watch, if you're new to Italian cinema I'd start with a different film, however. Recommended for Italo fans.

Blubberella - Uwe Boll made a parody of his own movie Bloodrayne: The Third Reich. Cheap and clever trick, because he could re-use the set, the props and 90% of the cast. The main character is new though, as ths fat woman would have had no place in B:tTR. She also parodies herself, and her overweight situation time and again, which makes this all light-hearted, but also a bit repetitive. I had a hard time finding the jokes funny, but sometimes a good one broke the chain of lame jokes. Boll has balls too, as he breaks taboos with joking about the holocaust, which takes quite some courage, especially for a German. Anachronistic, illogical and exaggerated, this film speeds along to the end. Fortunately, it isn't that long, because it might have hurt my brain permanently. The concept of making a parody of your own movie is cool, but as a standalone film this is a failure imo.

Two more films from Toxie's Bloodbank box:

Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan - tried to download this one, but before it turned blue I bought the box. On the cover you see jaws with large teeth and two scantily clad babes. None of it is in the film. The film is about a hungan. which apparently is a Frankensteinish monster which needs to be put together by pieces of different corpses. Somehow it also has a huge claw, like a rooster's. When the hungan is put together by a mad scientist, his colleague objects and we get one of many examples of cheesy dialogue i this film: "This project is mad, and what's more: it's wrong," says the colleague and then he tries to kill the hungan, but fails miserably. Now the hungan starts to hunt down the teenagers in the area and it does so very clumsily, but since the teens are even dumber, it succeeds in killing several of them. Acting is atrocious, sound was a bit muffled and imagery is bland. Locatuins are sparse, we get to see the same stretches of forest again and again, and overall this film is not scary and only sometimes a bit unintentionally funny. Bad moviefans might give it a go.

Play Dead - this is a very illogical horrofilm. It features a Rottweiler, an aggressive dog species, but still this one needs satanic powers and rituals in order to kill. The kils are funny and inventive, especially for a dog, but they mostly happen off screen. The dog pushes a car over a guy, he puts lye in someone's drink and strangels a guy using his own chain around a tree. This is all done by his patroness, who wants to inherot a family fortune. Some of the cast actually can act, like for example the evil woman. Others however, act decently in one scene, just to follow it up with a lousy performance in the next, like Audrey. A detective tries to solve the kilings, but gets involved more than he anticipated. Although this all sounds very OK and entertaining, this film takes too long to show all this, so it gets boring. And that's quite a shame as oit had some potential. Image and sound were good in this one too. Shame, a missed chance imo. Only for bad moviefans.

Flight 7500 - aka 7500. On a plane, a passenger gets into trouble and after having some sort of a stroke, he dies. Now the crew has to deal with the body and the remaining passengers, and in the meantime strange things happen: it looks like something supernatural is set loose in the plane. Short film (only 75 minutes), and it is noticeable: it gives you the impression that the director was short on time near the end. In the opening scenes, you get introduced to many characters (maybe a little too many) on the plane, and they all react differently to the supernatural thingy. What follows is a weak attempt at imitating

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The Sixth Sense or The Others, films where you find out later that all people were actually already dead

and the ednign is a bit dumb: an over the top horror cliche which was totally unnecessary imo. Not a good film.

The Bay - advertised as eco-horror, I was wondering what this was gonna be like. Put together by editing home video footage, news flashes, vlogs and other images into a film of 80 minutes, this one is somewhat original in it's approach. The story is not so original, as we have a monster, pollution, a political reason not to tell anyone about the pollution and/or the monsters, but since the way it was made is pretty cool (not just the annoying found footage camerastyle with a lot of swaying and jumping up and down, but instead really good to watch video footage), it came acroos very nicely. The monsters are also pretty scary, as you can imagine that this might happen one day. The CDC communication was quite disturbing to see and the results of the contamination and the effects of the monsters on the victims looked really gross. Well done, I enjoyed this one. Filmmakers take note: this is how you serve a cliche story to die hard horrorfans! Recommended.

Tales of Terror - the 1962 trilogy with Vincent Price. Three Poe stories, of whuich the first one is quite straightforward: a daughter returns home to her father, who blamed her for being the cause of death of his wife, her mother. She only has a shot period of time to live so she wanted to talk to her father but he isn't in the mood, at all. Soon the daughter finds out that the corpse pof her mother never left the house... The second story is about a drunkard doiung a wine tasting contest with a famous wine taster. They draw, so he invites the winetaster home. There, his wife falls in love with the eccentric Italian winetaster, and when the drunkard finds out about the affair, he plans a revenge which is really horrible. He doesn't count with the black cat, though. The third story is about Waldemar who is about to die. He wants his wife Helen to remarry, with the younger doctor James, but there is also Mr Carmichael on the prowl, a man who has hypnosis sessions with Waldemar. When Waldemar's moment of death approaches, Carmichael hypnotises him, therefore keeping his spirit alive although the body is dead. Then Carmichael tries to steal Helen, but Waldemar has one more trick up his sleeve. Nice trilogy, I liked the second story best, the first one is the weakest. Acting is top notch, but with Price, Lorre and Rathbone in the cast you couldn't expect less imo. Recommended.

New Year's Day - Fear Itself episode nr 6. Helen (played by the lovely Briana Evigan) wakes up from a heavy night of partying on New year's Eve. Outside, the world is not the same anymore, as some kind of an outbreak has taken place during the night, turning infected people into some kind of zombies. Helen now tries to find a safe place at her friend's home. In the meantime we see what happened the night before by flashbacks. While watching I was wondering where it was going, the plot wasn't even that original

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in the end it turns out that Helen is a zombie herself

but I fell for it like a gullable kd watching this stuff for the first time. When

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she was shot, I was even like "WTF why the hell did he shoot her?" still not grasping the plot, I guess I was a bit tired

Annoying about this episode was that it was obvious where the commercial breaks had been: it should be prohibited to make it that obvious. Otherwise: nice episode and Evigan is a nice chick.

The Host - aka Gwoemul. Korean monsterfilm, the DVD cover sports quotes like "best monsterfilm since Alien", etc. That's a tad exaggerated. Although I had fun watching this, it was also a bit cheesy with all the emotional family stuff going on and it wanted to be funny at times which failed mostly. The monster was made of some nice cgi, which shows that it can be done, but I usually end up watching shit films with badly drawn cgi making me hate cgi altogether. Although the story was OK, it was too drawn out imo and the two hours this film runs are way too much. Monsters are cool, and so is this one, but what struck me was that the monster could live for so long on a riverbank in the center of a big city in Korea, without being attacked by the military or anything. I probably wouldn't watch this again.

Black Caesar - Fred Williamson stars in this blaxploitation as the criminal Tommy Gibbs who is on the rise but in the end also experiences his downfall. Pretty straightforward story, based on Little Caesar from the 30s. As a kid, he does his first jobs, and later on he becomes the crimeboss in Harlem. When his woman thinks he goes too far and only thinks of himself instead of "his people", she leaves him for his best friend. Now Tommy sets out to get his revenge and takes what's his, but other crimebosses are out to get him. Great music by James Brown, this is a nice blaxploitation, it has almost everything. If you're new to the genre you can easily pick this one for starters. Not the best I have seen, but certainly very enjoyable. Recommended.

Clown 2014
I expected a stupid slasher film, but was pleasantly surprised. It had a fresh story. At times it made me even laugh, though it certainly cannot be rated as 'comedy'. Too much... and unexpected gore for that.

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A father, a real estate agent, hired a clown for his son's birthday. When the clown cannot come, he has to play the clown's part. Conveniently he finds a clown costume in exactly the house, which he currently evaluates. He takes it and his son has a great birthday... Too bad, next day he notices that he cannot remove the costume. Hair, nose, costume grafted to his skin. Turns out, it is not really a costume, but the skin of a clown like demon. He begins to change... gets hungrier and hungrier... and kids look tastier and tastier.

Basket Case 3 - the first 5 minutes of this are the same as the last 5 minutes of part 2, so I skipped it. After that, the creatures are going to visit a certain doctor, who has fabricated one of the creatures into a part-robot-part-creature-thing. This gives hope for other creatures who can't walk, for example Belail. In te meantime, Eve, Belails'girlfriend, is giving birth to their children

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there are twelve of them

Duane escapes and ends up in a prison, where the daughter of the sheriff first seems very helpful, and then turns into a fiesty sex kitten with a whip. Weird scenes all over the place, plenty of violence and gore and except for the babies nothing really new. But of you liked parts 1 and 2, why not give this one a spin. I recommend this only to fans, because you should not start watching this before you have seen the other two parts.

I'll download this based solely on the fact the you actually liked it.

Blood, Boobs and Beast - documentary on Don Dohler, the director of The Alien Factor, Galaxy Invader, Fiend among others. It's a nice biography, it has interviews and scenes on set which form a nice way to see into the world of low budget filmmaking. I have a good idea of how Dohler's life went now, but I would have loved it if it wasn't so much focused on what he did after 2000. I understand there is no footage of shooting The Alien Factor in 1977, but still it would have been possible to spend more time on his earlier films. The interviews were informative, but teh interviws with the "fans" were ridiculous, it hurt my eyes to see those guys ridiculing themselves. Overall a nice watch, if you like B movies or Dohler, you should watch this.

Charlie Boy - Hammer House of Horror episode 8, and it was a very uninteresting one. A man dies and his family inherts parts of his possessions, and one part consists of African statues. One of those is a fetish from Central Africa, and it turns out that you can do voodoo with it. So when Graham, one of the family members getrs angry with several peple, he sticks knives into the statue, causing those people to die. Eventually, everyone around him gets struck by the magic powers of the statue, as it takes over control of who dies. Boring and predictable episode.

Skin and Bones – Fear Itself episode 8 (7 gave me trouble in the DVD player, have to watch that on PC one day). A man returns from being missing in the mountains but he looks starved. He feels sick and very hungry, and his wife, his brother and his two sons are trying to take care of him. Their native American employee however, knows more about it, as he has seen the Wendigo turn his uncle into a killing machine. Now the Wendigo is visiting this family, and beating it means also that a family secret will be revealed. Nice episode, I enjoyed it. Acting is great, although the kids could have done a bit better. Setting and gore are nice. Recommended.

Diciples 2014
I tried... I honestly tried. The story... a bunch of demons and humans had to band together to fight a greater evil sounded just great. Not even sure this really is the story. Got it from IMDB. The overall quality of this sorry effort is just abysmal. Pick anyone involved in this film and the description 'imbecile' is a compliment. Sound track... yuck. Actors... there are no actors in this film. If you put a gun at my head and I am forced to say something good about this one: At least it is no pseudo documentary cell phone camera production where the camera man suffers from parkinson's disease last stage. Not that his skills are much above that. 20 minutes and still nothing interesting happened -> down the drain.

So, you were warned: Only for lovers of such crap.

Supersonic Man - Mexican scifi film from the 70s. An extraterrestrial guy is sent to earth to save mankind from itself, but soon his mission becomes saving a professor, his daughter and preventing the bad guy to build a new weapon which could destroy the world. Supersonic Man can shapeshift like Superman, he even changes from having a moustache to having none! When he flies around in his red spandex suit and blue mask and ditto cape, a cheesy but catchy song plays in the background. Lots of fun to have for bad moviefans, like the scene in which Supersonic lifts an obviously fake steamroller, or when he shapeshifts just to get some champagne for his date. I laughed out loud regularly, not only because of the effects but also because of the senseless dialogue and the erratic storyline. Highly recommended for bad moviefans.

Community - Fear Itself episode 7. Somehow this one wouldn't play on my dvd player so I watched it on PC instead. Although the storyline is ok and the acting is appropriate, this episode disappointed me a bit. It wasn't long after the opening scene that I thought

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"Stepford Wives"

and although the plot is different, it is all too familiar if you have seen

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Stepford Wives

. Because there were no real surprises, I felt like I wasn't watching anything new. One of the worse episodes.

Something with Bite - Fear Itself episode 9. In this one, dr. Wilbur Orwell, the local vet, is very good at his work, but he neglects his familylife: he ignores his wife who wants a bit of spice in their sexlife and he forgets the spelling bee of his son. One night, he gets a special animal for treatment in his clinic. It's a very large beast and while he is checking it out, it bites him. At first everything seems normal, but slowly and steadily, Orwell changes: he is a lot more focused on his family now, his wife doesn;t believe what she is going through in bed and his son wonders what is wrong with his father. In the meantime, people get killed. The police is in search of a killer, and they are thinking about animal attacks. Wilbur must try to control his changed form and also search for te killer, so he doesn't get caught himself. Funny episode written by Max Landis, John's son (werewolves run in the family apparently), the gore is cool and although the wolves are not scary and a bit predictable, it was a very enjoyable episode. Recommended.

Gnome Alone 2014
Anyone surprised when I damn another 'film'? This one looked good for about two minutes.
But then it turned into some kind of high school practice project, but not certainly from the
school's film club. Boring Leprechaun ripoff. I stopped watching early. In the few minutes I
watched were are few tits, some gore, but the low production quality and the stereotypes killed
every bit of fun and almost immediately stifled my interest in this one.

Camera... almost as worse as found footage crap. Acting... best acting in the film was done
by a ceramic garden gnome. Did not move, did not talk.. was used as a murder weapon...
However, its acting skills were far superior to the flesh and blood accessories in this film.

What is this film about? Girl gets a magic brand, which binds an evil gnome to her. Gnome
kills people around her. She needs to stop him. *yawn*.
Currently 3.4 rating on IMDB.... I have seen and deleted worst stinkers, so I agree with this
rating.

Tusk – the new Kevin Smith film. Justin Long is Wallace Bryton, a guy who runs a show with Teddy (Haley Joel Osment with lots of gained pounds since the Sixth Sense) and does podcasts on funny stuff. Upon seeing an online video about a kid in Canada cutting off his own leg, he wants to do a podcast on him, so he plans on visiting the north of Canada. His girlfriend Ally, played by the lovely Genesis Rodriguez, wantds to come with him, but he declines. In Canada, he finds out that te kid is dead, so he needs a new story. Following a lead from a note in a bathroom, he ends up in a house with an old sailor who is fll of stories, but also full of something else… Ally and Teddy are gonna try and find him, with help of Guy Lapointe, the head of Securete de Quebec, played by Johnny Depp (I didn’t recognize him the first 10 minutes or so, really well done there!). Together they try to solve the puzzle, but what they encounter is beyond anything a normal human being can conceive. A wild, gross and over the top horrorstory about a guy who wanted success more than anything but ended up as a

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sewn together fake walrus

High standards in acting, effects and everything, this film is made well. I was wondering where the the borderline between horror and comedy was, however. This left me a bit too much puzzled so it was blocking a bit of my enjoyment. Still, I had a good time watching this. Tip: listen to Smith talking during the end credits, it gave me a laugh.

Deliver us from Evil – Eric Bana as a policeman in the Bronx trying to solve several weird cases of people going mad. What he doesn’t know, but what you as a viewer will know, is that in Iraq, a band of soldiers found a weird text in some sort of a crypt. The weird cases have a connection to that text and now Eric Bana has to solve it. At first he just thinks the people are crazy, but when he keeps on seeing and hearing parts of The Doors songs and he runs into a priest who is a specialist in the occult and exorcisms, he starts to see the cconnections. He must act fast when it turns out that not only the families of the crazy people, but also his own are at risk. Pretty long film (almost two hours), but it never bored me. The pace is quite fast, the puzzle is not solved too fast, the characters are interesting enough (although Bana himself acts a bit stiff, like he is a mannequin doll) and the hints of the The Doors songs are quite cool, there is even thought behind it. The film tries to be scary, and there are some moments which are totally meant to scare you, but since they are never followed up properly, the fear is short and shallow. Atmosphere is a bit threatening though, which is good for the enjoyment of the film. The ending is very much cliche, and I also never thought that

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the family was in any real danger

but I had fun watching this. Not a masterpiece, but an OK watch.

Raised by Wolves - pretty misleading title this one, as it is not about people raised by wolves, and there are no wolves in this film whatsoever, so what the title is on abo9ut is a bit of a mystery to me. There is some mentioning of a crewname Wolves, but that's it. The crew is a skatecrew from an Indian reservation, and they want to skate in an empty swimming pool which is out in the desert. The house next to the pool used to belong to a guy with a religious sect in the 1970s, who murdered people because they were demons in their eyes and in the end they killed off each other, leaving only one girl alive. At night, the crew goes to check out the house, and soon they find out that the house is everything but empty. Cam view camera is not my thing and in this one it goes pretty far, with long shots of the ground while running and very erratic movement. If you are epileptic or have motion sickness, stay away from this film. It doesn't add a lot of immersion either, because the story is too unbelievable. Of course demons come out of the dark and they possess the members of the crew one by one, the plot develops in a very predictable way. The gore is good and the other plus is that the women are quite pleasant to watch, like Alisa Torres. Everything else is below par imo.

Lust of the Dead - J-sploitation with rape as a central theme. The premise is funny and could become a great film, but un fortunately it doesn't really work well: a new virus turns men into zombie rapists and now women have to run or defend themselves. Groups of women decide to organise and form an army, and they even take over the state. Of course this epidemic is worldwide within minutes, and a bunch of Japanese girls decide to slaughter the rape zombies on their own. The classic J sexual fanatsies come along, like the schoolgirl and the nurse, and although that nurse has two exceptionally large talents, she can't save the film for me. It is too fragmentary, and for a plot there are too few things happening. Some scenes are funny though, like the one in which the army does target practice on the crotches of the zombies. There are two more parts, but I already get the feeling that this should have been one movie with only the best scenes of the three combined. Let's see, hopefully I'm wrong.

No, you are not.