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Horror Movies I've Watched Recently and feel like Reviewing:
Invasion of the Saucermen- Not a bad sci-fi b-movie from 1957, but the poster is a bit misleading, I was expecting to see saucers attacking a city, I wouldn't have cared if it were just models with stock footage of people running away, that would've made the movie more fun just to see how it would've turned out, but does that mean it's a terrible movie? No, it's a decent alien invasion movie that feels more like a slasher, except there's no excessive gore or anything, but there's at least one dead body, an alien having a bloody battle with a cow.
The characters are enjoyable to watch, the story is super simple as you'll ever get, aliens land in a rural area and terrorize people and kill them with their syringe fingers they use to stab their victims and...are you ready for this? Kill their victims with alcohol poisioning...as silly as that seems it's enjoyable to watch. I had fun watching this movie and I think you will too. Pick this up if you can find it.
http://www.driveinhorrorshow.com/
Drive-In Horrorshow- I picked this up at Fright Night Film Fest this year, due to lack of making time to see it with all the other movies I wanted to see at the time, I found it at the filmmaker's table, after a long time (since I'm finishing up Backyard Vampire) I sat down and watched it. The movie was a lot of fun, it's basically a movie that explains the kind of movies I want to make than to break my back over making big-budgeted blockbusters.
We go to an abandoned drive-in theatre (my gawd do I miss those drive-ins..) where we're given a creepy host, with zombie minions who're running the theatre and ghostly skeletons comingg to watch gory slasher and monster movies. The horror host and the side-characters are a great joy to watch from start to finish (these are basically intermission characters before getting to the rest of the movies)...and how are these 5 tales of horror?
I'll say this much, if you're looking for fresh ideas in horror movies, this one prides itself as a big love letter to movies like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt, that was the only nit-pick I have with these short films that they borrow too heavily from already done ideas, I can name off a few movies these shorts were inspired from: I Spit on your Grave (in college), Creepshow's The Crate (except the creature of unknown origin lives in a neglected boy's closet and it has a nifty ending), Eli Roth's Cabin Fever, (The fourth movie is about two boys who think their father is a serial slasher who eats people's flesh he steals from them, the ending gives you that feeling you're watching a silly ending to a cartoon..but the gore is enjoyable), and the last short is like a short version of Wrong Turn...
Does that make this a bad movie? Absolutely NOT! If anything these short movies in one are a joy to watch for the great gore effects that are done wonderfully, and the performances for the characters in each of these movies (except the first short) are enjoyable to watch too.
I hope they make a sequel!
Pick this one up if you're a gorehound and love movies that tip their hats to old classics to give them something a little fresh.
http://www.warlockhomevideo.com/
Warlock Home Videos' Happy Hellidays- Another movie I bought from Fright Night Film Fest, how about that? Warlock films are those type of movies a bunch of friends make together and post on youtube soon after, the super crappy quality tries to give Troma a run for its...uh...not sure how to finish that sentence....it's one of those films that are suppose to be bad for funny reasons...something you'd watch on adult swim.
In that regard...what have I gotten myself into? The first thing I noticed, while we're given the intro by the Warlock himself, the rest of the movie has the music, sound effects...but no audio fromm the characters....not sure if I got a bad copy or that my HD DVD player couldn't handle it's crappiness.
The movie starts off with some baby getting thrown at a front door and taken in by one of the college girls on campus...years later the baby is grown up into a plump little boy with dorky glasses who's picked on by the other college kids that hang out at the same dorm as his mom...what do these silly antics lead this little guy to do? Dress up like Santa Claus and going on a killing spree! The death scenes are craptastically crappy, one of which has the kid singing a person to death...that's new, I'll give it that...the gore looks cheap as hell...in the end it was a laughably bad horror movie, I'm glad it was more of a silent movie after the introduction, the dialogue might've been super annoying.
This is a movie you should only watch if you have a group of friends that drink lots of beer and laugh at anything.
(For the record, I bought another movie from them called Kill O'Lantern I think, and at the film fest I watched their newest movie called Sexsquatch, which I thought was a funny--yet-annoyingg but gory movie that was fun to watch with a room full of people...so Wizard probably isn't that bad at making movies....hmmm...)
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