Sole Survivor - the releasepost of this said "before Final Destination, there was Sole Survivor" and I can see why that was written. Clearly the makers of Final Destination have seen this movie before they started producing their own, but it is not a back to back copy. In this one, a (female) TV producer survives a planecrash, and after that she keeps seeing people she doesn't know and they are threatening her and after a while they even start killing people close to her. At first she thinks it is all a coincidence, but after a while she starts seeing a pattern. Now she has to comvince her friends an colleagues that what she sees is actuually true. Enjoyable film, although I noticed that I'm getting more used to modern films, because this one is quite slow paced. Atmosphere is nice. Recommended.

Showdown at Area 51 - two aliens are crashlanding on earth while fighting an airbattle. They continue fighting on the groubnd, where there is a lot of collateral damage (human deaths). When humans encounter one of the aliens, it explains why they are on earth (guess what, it has something to do with the destruction of the entire planet - surprise, surprise) and then the humans start helping the "good alien". Loads of cgi, and it goes from OK to bad, luckily the majority is OK. The sidestory to the main plot is cheesy: about an ex-secret service guy getting reunited with his former wife. Mediocre, TV movie level.

Bunnyman - guy in a bunny suit kills people. This is what this film is about. The chase scenes on the road reminded me a bit of Jeepers Creepers and the scenes in the house are a TCM rip-off once more. The effects are good, the chainsaw killings are bloody. Storywise this movie fails on several points, there are characters introduced and then never heard of again (what happened to that wounded guy in the car with the lady?), there are characters dead and then alive again, etc. Pretty straightforward, but never original.

Stripperland - this movie is a parody on Zombieland, but it also has references to Zombie Strippers, Doghouse and Dawn of the Dead. Again there is a cameo for Lloyd Kaufman, and also one for an almost unrecognisable Linnea Quigley. Effects are mixed between fake blood and cgi, and this is a nice example to show the benefits of fake blood over the crudeness of bad cgi. I had fun watching this, some of the zombies actually look sort of sexy (until you concentrate on their heads, lol), but the sotry stays too close to Zombieland's, so it also has a cheap sense over it. Mindless fun, good mindless fun even.

Fair Game - Australian movie about a woman who works at a wildlife sanctuary and meets a trio of guys who want to hunt kangaroos. When she finds out, she tries to stop them, but they are not so easily stopped. They intimidate her in a way which is steadily becoming more violent. She tries to defend herself, but without a phone out in the wild it is kind of difficult. In the end she sets up a plan to get rid of the guys permanently. This is not your typical revengefilm, because the woman isn't raped, but she is taunted up to the maximum. Good film, good rip too, recommended.

After Dusk They Come - aka The Forgotten Ones. A romantic boattrip wrecks and the passengers end up on an uninhabited island which isn't on the map. It looks a bit like Lost when they are trying to survive there and they find out that there are mysterious monsters in the woods. These turn out to look like some sort of primitive Predators and they hunt by ear. The rest of the movie is kind of the same as Predator, actually, except for the fact that the monsters are in a group here. Effects are OK, but this film lacks so profoundly in originality, it is almost painful.

The Exotic House of Wax - aka The Erotic House of Wax. This must be a TV film, it is the kind you can watch late at night on commercial channels. The storyline is simple: a girl inherits a house of wax. The wax figures are having steamy hot sex as soon as a mysterious figure puts an amulet on them. Of course the girl and her friends sometimes take part in it. The sexscenes are long drawn and sort of medium porn, as you can see penises, but no penetration. Plot is dedicated to show the most sex possible in 85 minutes.

The Frankenstein Experiment - aka The Frankenstein Syndrome. Science horror flick with B-moviestar Tiffany Shepis as a doctor who works on an experiment to revive tissue on dead victims. It is a modern day version of the Shelley story, but it doesn't come over too well. Sometimes it is a bit confusing, and this movie didn['t succeed in grabbing my attention for the entire time. Kind of lame, except for some scenes where patients get violent.

Area 51 - a Syfy flick for TV, so expectations dropped to minus 360 when their logo appeared in the lower right corner. Thus, I was pleasantly surprsied, as it wasn't utter shite. Don't get me wrong, it isn't a good film, but at least it was kind of entertaining and had a lot of action going on. The cgi is bearable and there is loads of fake blood, which is a plus. There is this "who is the alien disguised as a human" cliche running along, but since I actually like that particular cliche, I didn't mind. The ending is quite, well, I didn't ike it so much. Mindless fun, lots of shooting and chasing.

Zombie Undead - a dime a dozen zombiefilm, which sometimes tries to look like a cool indy film, but then fails. Nothing special happens in this film, there are zombies, some people aren't zombies and they wanna save themselves, they run and hide, one by one they get bitten. The end. If you need a timefiller with zombies, OK. Otherwise, skip.

The Drive-In Horrorshow - anthology in which the storyline which connects all other stories is about a drive-in where they show old horror flicks. This is quite unfunny, as it is run by monsters (yawn). All stories are films from their collection, which is a very easy, but not very stupid solution to the anthology problem. A shame they didn't show "Chainsaw Lovers" though.
There are five stories and the first one is so incredibly boring, that you are glad it is over after 15 minutes. A girl glues a guy to a bathtub to let him drown. The end. Really, that's it. Then the second story is equally simple and superificial. A boy lets huis family get killed by a monster in his closet. The end. Man, is there gonna be any depth in one of these stories? I guess not. But: the third story has a little bit more to it. It is about a doctor who contracts a disease which is quite unknown and is destroying his body. The slowly decaying doctor is actually a tad gripping. After that, we get a story of which you will know the end very soon as it is superpredictable, and the last one is a but like Zombie Undead (read above). So, all in all, one story which was somewhat good, but because it was hidden between 80 minutes of trash, it was a bit too hard to find, imo. One plus: the gore is nice.

More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead - nice documentary, about how the film came to be, and how they made it. Cool inside look of the process of making this zombiefilm. Funny interviews with cast and crew, only drawback is that they blow up the meaning of ROTLD on cinematic history a tad too much. Recommended!

Mask Maker - for a slasher, this was quite good imo. There were some horror old timers present, like Treat Williams and Michael Berryman. It has all ingredients required: a pretty good background story, good looking teens who have lots of sex in the haunted house, the killings start pretty soon and they continue throughout the film, they are very bloody, the killer has a sick hobby (hence the title of the film) and there are the senior locals who want to lift the curse of the killer. Acting is OK enough. Some cliches of course, but hey, wth. If this was made in 1980, it might be a classic today. Recommended.

Goblin - although this film showed some striking similarities to the previous one I watched, this one was crap. The background story is not so bad, but the demon looks stupid, and is made up of cheap ass cgi. It steals babies every Halloween in a small rural town. The family which moves in has some personal trouble, and they are supercliche and boring. Luckily more people died than I expected, but still this movie was a bad one. You can skip this one and never feel it.

Deadly Prey - wow, this film is full of incredible stuff! Some 75 miles SE of LA, there is this huuuuge trainigcamp for mercenaries. It is led by an ex-oficer from the army (he was kicked out), and the base has stuff like armored cars, self propelled guns and tanks available. OK, after you swallowed this, meet the storyline: the mercenaries train on live human beings who are supposed to run and hide in the forest. Unfortuantely, one day they pick Mike Stanton, an ex-soldier himself. He kills them all, except for a few guys who are killed by either his father-in-law or his friend. A treat for bad moviefans!

The Dead Matter - this film has zombies, vampires and an amulet with which you can control supernatural life. It is kind of low budget, and it shows in the cgi. Despite of this, there are Andrew Divoff and Tom Savini to spice things up. A girl seeks to make contact with her dead brother, but brings out a different person. Now the vampire who lost the amulet wants it back. Sometimes the storyline gets a bit messed up but overall it is a nice try. Enjoyable enough, if you look through the cliches.

The Rig - the poster of this one is spectacular, way more spectacular than the film itself. The monster isn't so superhuge, and actually it is monsters, as there are several of the little critters running around on the rig. During a storm, they come out and start killing people. There is a lot of blood, which makes it look cool enough, but the film never surpasses a certain level of superficiality. Mindless fun.

Phantom of the Paradise - I read that a lot of people love this film as a cult classic. Well, I must say that I was a tad disappointed. OK, I don't like musical, so that's a minus for starters, but all the rest couldn't really entertain me either. It is a pop version of Phantom of the Opera, with a composer going mad over his music, which got stolen by a producer and turned into pop music. Actually only one scene I really liked, and that was the killing of the somewhat gay singer who is performing the composer's music for the grand opening of The Paradise, the club owned by the producer who stile the music. All the rest was a bit lame imo.

The Anniversary At Shallow Creek - this film took a while to get going, and it felt long because the characters aren't really interesting. But, after the first are killed off (they are shot, a method of killing quite despised by me in a serial killer film), we get to watch some more interesting scenes, among which is the sequence in which the girl has to choose. She is tied up, and can see her boyfriend and brother both tied up too. She has to choose which one is gonan live. This scene was quite powerful. After that, there is only a wrap up of the story which you can see coming from miles away, and then it ends. One good scene, the rest was quite forgettable.

World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries - a mediocre zombiefilm with absolutely nothing special to mention. It is just what you expect: zombies and soldiers fighting them. The ending was quite OK.

Deadtime Stories 2 - three short stories, with a talking George Romero inbetween. First story looks like it stole it's plot from a different movie I once saw (about a group of people going into a cave and then forced to eat each other - the eaten guy then comes back and kills them all - can't remember the title atm), except that it ends differently. Worse too, imo. Second story is about a teacher who sleeps with one of his busty students, and when she gets pregnant, she kills herself. After that, she keeps coming to his classes. The looks of the student saved this one from total failure. The third story is called "Dust" and it is the best one, with some nice gore too. Classic anthology story, could have fit in Creepshow even. Recommendation only for the last story, so you can skip ahead 1 hour and 5 minutes. Oh, btw: I watched the TicTac rip and that was bad: jerky play and blocky graphics from time to time. I quickly checked another of their rips and it looks like they have standard jerky play. If you can choose, choose the non-TicTac rip.

Grey Skies - this film opens with a flash forward, like so many other films do too. However, this one doesn't make sense. It features people we never get to see in the actual film. If it is intended like I think it is, it is way too far fetched. On to the film: after a myriad of cliches, aliens land in the backyard of the house where all characters are at. Then they get abducted one by one, and oh, originality, they get brainwashed/droned by the aliens (Body Snatchers rip-off!!). I was surprised to see one of the characters being brainwashed in the end as well, because he didn't look like he was. Maybe he forgot how to act as a drone. The end is totally dumb. The character says one thing, but does the opposite. Since it is concerning her life, one would expect a different way of behaviour. Oh well, just skip to the next film.

Umbrage - confusing, this film. At first I thought it would be a vampire film set in the frontier times, but that is only partially the case. The rest of the film has a family of a man, a woman and their stepdaughter in a house in the middle of nowhere. From time to time, we get vague and confusng flashbacks to the western times, which didn't make sense to me. Maybe they were just meant to show where Lilith was coming from? If so, they took their time to explain, if not, they failed. There are some scenes which christians will definitely dislike, like the one where Adam has sex with Lilith. Kind of over the top. The ending felt kind of lame, like everything in this film was in vain. And wtf is up with 10 minutes of end credits?

The Task - a reality TV show going wrong, hmm, where did I hear that one before? Well, a group of teens gets dumped into a jail which is supposedly haunted. They have to complete different tasks (hence the gripping title ) in order to earn money. But... the haunting is real, instead of what the showmakers had planned. Then we also get a plottwist in the plottwist, and it is oh so not surprising! The ending was like the filmmakers didn't know how to put an end to this film so they just stopped filming. Not so good.

Wow, I watched a load of crap tonight.

Hands of Steel - aww, a cyborg getting soft. Supposed to kill some reverend, he refrains at the last second and now hides in a bar where the local arm wrestlers give him a hard time. Assassins and other bad guys are sent after him to finish him off, but he is always the strongest. A lot of action, chases, handfights, shootouots, etc. A nice role for John Saxon as the villain in suit. For the bad moviefans there are enough goofs to go on, like a river which changes colour right after the cyborg jumped off a bridge. Not a good movie, but enjoyable to those who enjoy the goofier things in life.

Quarantine 2: Terminal - I read beforehand that I shouldn't connect this film to REC, REC2 or Quarantine. Whereas I can't speak for Quarantine (I haven't seen it), I totally agree with not connecting the other two. This film, Q2:Terminal, has to be seen as a standalone product, in order to save the fans of REC. As a standalone, it isn't so bad, it is just never original. It is a mix of Flight of the Living Dead and the quarantine scene I know from REC2 (hundreds of policecars, ambulances and bright lights surrounding the building where the main characters are). I must say, the plottwist was quite nice, although I must say that people should study nature a bit more, then they wouldn't make these BIG mistakes about animals, you know. You can easily skip this one, but if you want a pretenseless zombieflick, you can go for it.

Retroactive (1997): A time travel movie with James Belushi. A police officer's car breaks down in the desert. She is picked up by Belushi (who is a criminal) in order to get to the next gas station and call for help. On the way bad things happen and she flees into the desert. There she finds a research facility and is sent back in time. Can she get things right or will it only get worse? The movie is pretty simple with very few actors. There aren't the usual time travel headache moments in this one. I liked it. Nothing really extraordinary though.

I watched the following movies at Halloween...

Night Of The Demons 2 (1994): I've already seen part 1 and 3. Since there is no real connection between these movies, that is no problem. The movie is again about some kids that visit an abandoned house. The owner of the house is a demon and kills them off one by one. Compared to the other two episodes this one has more comedy in it. You have the usual nerd, pretty chick, stupid bad ass, black guy ... characters in the movie. A nice watch for halloween. I'd say part 1 is the best of the three.

MacGyver (S5E06 - Halloween Knights): I looked up some Halloween episodes of some old series I've seen. In this episode MacGyver teams up with his arch enemy Murdoc to rescue Murdoc's sister. There are some nice Halloween elements in this one. Basically the whole episode takes place at a Halloween party. I didn't like that Murdoc was quite lame in this episode. MacGyver solved all the problems.

MacGyver (S6E06 - Lesson In Evil): I liked this episode way better than the previous one above. It is about a murderer that escapes from prison and gives MacGyver a lesson in evil. Meaning riddles that he has to solve in order to find him. What I really liked about this episode was the actor playing the bad guy. He was terrific. The episode itself had nothing really to do with Halloween though.

LOL, MacGyver Halloween episodes? Never heard of them

Don't have much time these days due to busy work related stuff, but manage to watch at least one film a day:

Elimination - when I read the synopsis, I knew this would be a rip-off for The Running Man. And even though I'd never thought I'd judge the latter as a good movie, after this I do, and you will, too. A group of teens does an auition for a TV show called The Spotlight, where they have to get across a maze, being chased by killers. There is even an Asian killer, just like in The Running Man. However, this isn't scifi and not even medium tech, so TRM beats this film on all fronts. The bitch character is overdone, the killings are meh, the blood is cgi (mortal sin nr 1!!) and the ending is so supercheesy, it throws away the last bit of redeeming ability for this flick. So: not a good film, although some killings are well thought out (but then realised by ugly cgi, ugggh).

Unrated: the movie - German crap. Real crap. While watching I was thinking of something positive that I should find in this film, in order not to go on a rant only. Well, here it is: it has Eileen Daily. But then again, she does a shitty job on her acting and she looks outdated. One more thign: the gore is good, but lasts too short imo abnd you have to wait for over an hour to get to see it. This film was meant as a comedy but fails big time. It is dumb and makes you feel ashamed. So, what is causing all this? Lame jokes about bodily fluids? Check. Superexaggerated homosexual and related jokes? Check. Dumb noises which are supposed to be funny like in a slapstick from the 20s? Check. On top of it all, most actors have heavy German accents, there are some lame and super obvious double roles (very convincing, to see Eileen Daily also play the dead mother, with a "wig" made of a scarf - oh wait, maybe that was a joke too - arrggh) and the story is about nothing. So skip this and you'll thank me later.

Bloodrayne: Third Reich - totally ridiculous film, where our damphyr is killing off nazis somewhere on the Eastern Front in WWII. Again it is a different actress and this one has a nice pushup bra (so you can get disappointed when she gets naked later on). Storyline is really ridiculous, the bottomline is that a nazi scientist wants to turn Hitler into a damphyr too so he can live forever. Yeah, right. Not sure if the blood was cgi, if it was, it was kind of nicely done. The ending is a letdown: you expect a hard and difficult fight, but it looks really easy. Only if you like nosensical bad movies.

Mutant Vampire Zombies From The Hood - somewhat funny film about some gangs and a few cops who run into a plague of undead creatures. Some of them are calling the creatures vampires, others are calling them zombies (hence the title). There are varying levels of intelligence among the creatures, and there is a nice joke about the differnt types of zombies you can see in different movies from the past. In the end the survivors get stuck in a house from which they can get away, but then the RevoTT encode ends, so I'm not sure if anything happens after the plane scene.

The Hagstone Demon - unscary, mostly in black and white filmed movie about a caretaker in ahouse which is planned to be demolished. Several inhabitants ask the caretaker a lot, they want him to do all sorts of stuff. While he is doing his fixing jobs, he finds out that there is a demon in the house. With some help he is gonna try and fix that problem too. I never really got into this movie, I thought it ws pretty boring.

L'anticristo - if you make a movie about a possessed girl two years after The Exorcist, how can people NOT think it is a rip-off? Well, apparently the Italian filmmakers of this one hoped we wouldn't. I do. The amount of similarities is simply too big. It is not a bad movie or anything, and if The Exorcist wouldn't exist, it would be quite good even. But now it is just a simple ride on the success of a different film.

Kingdom of Gladiators - wow, what a nice bad movie! If this was made in the 70s, it would be a cult classic by now (it is made by Italians, that helps a lot). Average fantasy story with some busty chicks, cliche characters of good and bad, an utterly dumb king, twins with one being black and one being white (no wonder they didn't know they were twins, duh) and of course a magic sword which solves all problems. Best stuff: some sort of goggles which give you some sort of red glare vision. Cool. Ugly: cgi blood, ugggh. Superbad, if you like that, go watch it.

Silent Night Zombie Night - quite OK zombieflick, no explanaton of where they come from, but hey, Dawn of the Dead didn't explain either. Some semi complex relationship stuff going on among the survivors, to spice the soap things up. Zombies are slow until they smell you, then they can run. The survivors find a nice counter for this, which is kind of cool. Bad: plottwist are too far fetched sometimes. Ending is OK for a movie like this.

An evening with good horrorfilms, it had been a while.

The Tenant - a pleasant surprise, this one. For a change, the suspense of disbelief doesn't have to be big or huge. One can imagine that this might happen, although chances are slim of course. The story "in the past" wasn't a 2 minute rifraf just to make sure dumb viewers can get the plot, it had substance, it was about something. There was even some character development just in that part of the film. The story is about an asylum where the doctor and his wife are expecting, but the wife wants him to stop his experiments. The assistant of the doctor wants to continue, so she does something horrible, of which the consequences are still in the asylum today. And today... a group of deaf girls and their teachers/leaders/whatever you all them and a hired guy who is an ex-con, end up in the asylum because their car broke down nearby. I don't know why but pregnant women in horrorfilms have a scare factor for me (A L'Interieur anyone?), and I didn't get really scared (I doubt if I still can), but I had this odd feeling which was pointing to some sort of fearlike sense. The acting is OK to good, I didn't see any goofs and although some of the plottwists are no real surprises (I guessed most of them right), they were done in a way it was still very enjoyable. I felt some euphoria inside when the film was over. That was quite some time ago when I had that. Recommended, if not highly.

Attack the Block - from the makers of Shaun of the Dead. I knew this before I started watching, so my expectations had risen. I wasn't disappointed. This movie is so cool, you want to see it again in a short while. I loved the "Pest" character. I'm glad I had subs though, the London block slang would have been hard to follow without. What happens is a robbery on the street by a gang and then something from the sky hits a car parked oin that same street. The gang checks it out and it is a monster. They kill it. Now "all it's brothers" are coming down to get some revenge. In the meantime, the gang runs into more trouble: the police, other criminals, etc. I had fun throughout the film, (almost) never a dull moment. Highly recommended.

Cut Throat Kommandos - simple and straightforward nazisploitation. A group of Americans raids a house with German officers, they kill them all except one. They also find a bunch of girls. Then they have sex. .....................(in this part all the sexscenes take place and you can use the fwd button freely without missing anything plotwise)............................................. The Americans leave the house and then they return. There is a plottwist! Oh no! The last german dies and then the plottwist gets solved. The end. Short film and yet they manage to cram it with sex, lots of tits and some weird stuff, like the winegirl. I'd skip this one.

Behind The Wall - developers want to reopen a lighthouse which has been vacant for the past 20 years to help regain economic strength for the town next to it. But, it was closed because of some gruesome murders, and now people start disappearing again. Some nice atmospheric scary stuff, but never really scary or anything. Nice plottwist at the end, didn't see that one coming. Quite OK this ghost movie, although some actors overdo their parts a bit. Mildly recommended.

The Dead Undead - the monsters in this film are ZV's: zombievampires. They use trampolines to jump over cars (while recording, I mean) and it looks dumb. A group of sopecial forces hunt the ZV's and they need like 100000 bullets to kill one. So, there is A LOT of shooting going on in this flick. There are some sepia flashbacks to Viking ages and Frontier times, they could have been shortened a bit imo. They serve a purpose, however, a cliche one, if I might add. Not really good, this film, although Summer looked hot.

The Zombie Farm - I'm glad I read an imdb review before I watched this, otherwise I would have been utterly disappointed. Why? Because this isn't a zombie movie, it is a vehicle to get some social-ethnic message across, and the vehicle just happens to be a horrormovie. So what you get is a lot of Latinos and Latinas talking to and chasing after each other, and there is the occasional scene with a (yes, one) zombie in it. The last twenty minutes are what you might expect when seeing the title, but by then you are so drawn out by this movie you wish it to end soon. Skip.

The Devil's Rain - enjoyable film about satanistic cult with Ernest Borgnine in the lead role as some sort of cult priest, calling on satan for everything and then some. The storyline is nice, the effects are nice too, actually this one was quite good. The minion's eyes effect was only successfull at a certain distance, when closed up you could easily see the textile being put in the mask. Apart from that, nice film. Recommended.

Philosophy of a Knife - I read about this beforehand, and where imdb always has fans and bashers, it is quite extreme in this case: I only saw reviews which gave 9/10 or 1/2 stars. I must say, I agree with the bashers. The worst part is that this movie is way too long, the FiCO rip I watched has three parts all running for 88 minutes. That is three normal films in my book, not one huge one. The pace is superslow, for exaple when a prisoner is taken to a remote place to do a freezing experiment, it takes them between 5 and 10 minutes just to get there. All that time you are watching the prisoner and his guards walking! When the director gets the chance, he will repeat shots. Also, there are way too many shots about nothing. You see snow, trees, a building. Then there is the historical stock footage. While unit 731, about which this movie is, was operating from 1937 on, the film starts the story in 1905, like you can never be too early in starting a story. So you get 20 years of history which is not about the subject of the film. Then there are these interviews with a Russian guy. You might think he has to add to the imagery, but no, his stories are not about the subject, at least not everytime. We get to see experiments played out by actors who don't speak, then the Russian guy tells a story about Chinese prostitution. Logic, much. Like a reviewr on imdb wrote, the most interesting part are the experiments, but they look superfake. They do indeed, and therefore this movie was not as shocking as I expected it to be. The only scene which was a bit shocking was the part where a cockroach is put into a woman's vagina. All in all, when you want to watch about unit 731, go watch the Men Behind the Sun quadrilogy. Although those aren't Oscar material either, at least they are movies with a consistent story. Skip this one for the love of everything you hold dear.

The Island of the Fishmen - I missed parts of this one because I was a tad sleepy, but most of it I followed well enough to write a review. Based on the story of Atlantis, there is a population of fishmen on a secluded island, gathering a treasure for a bad guy. A shipwrecked crew ends up on this island, and some of them are killed or kidnapped soon. The hero of the crew finds out about the bad guy and a doctor who is experimenting with the fishmen. His daughter chooses the side of the hero and together they fight the bad guy. Although this film is from 1979, it has a truly classic feeling over it, like it was made in the 50s/60s. Nice atmosphere, but not really spectacular.

Rocky Trails - this one is pretty short, but I really liked it. It is made as if it was shot in the 80s, and that is really well done: 80s music on cassette tapes, a girl in spandex doing exercises shown on a VHS tape, clothing, language, the guys' moustaches, everything is really 80s. What happens is not very original, but the way it is done makes it really cool. Nice plottwist, some gory killings. I read that this movie was made for 6000 dollars, well, hats off to the fimmakers! Recommended!

Africa dolce e selvaggia - documentary on African culture made by Italians. What you see is supposed to be real, I only had my doubts with the cobra shot, as it was filmed from different directions, but everything else seemed real to me. And it is quite harsh what you get to see, if this film was called Circumcision and Scarification, it would be a good title too. There are gross things, like the castration of a camel and the drinking of water from a camel's stomach. I looked away a few times, especially when there were girls to be circumcised. Don't eat while watching this! Truly shocking stuff, alternated by some beautiful shots of the landscape.

Screamers: The Hunting - an SOS signal is received from Sirius 6B, a planet where there used to be human civilisation. A rescue party is gonna search for survivors, but they have only 6 days before the planet will be hit by some sort of supernuke storm in order to kill all life present. They find other humans, and they find the screamers, metal machines programmed to kill people. The newer models look like humans more and more. This sets a precedent for the plottwist at the end and thus it was quite predictable what was gonna happen. Halfway I guessed the rest of the film and I was right. Some nice action, though, I did enjoy it.

Netherworld - a Full Moon which I don't udnerstand, that's uncommon. This film was a bit vague to me. There is a guy who inherits an estate and he wants to find out what happened to his late father. He learns of a brothel with mysterious women and the personnel in the estate keep a lot of birds around. Then there is something with the spirits of the dead being transferred into the birds, but it wasn't all that clear to me. There is one funny bit after the end credits, but the rest of this movie is quite forgettable.