Man , there is a shitload of zombie movies coming out and there are about 4 , maybe 5 ,
Nazi zombie movies out now. Seems like DEAD SNOW was the first most recent one and started the trend and I thought WAR OF THE DEAD was pretty good. On the cover it says , "Like an episode of Band Of Brothers with zombies." , and on the back of the dvd box it reads , "Mixes slices of The Dirty Dozen with Day Of The Dead." Well , which DAY OF THE DEAD? The Romero one or the re-make? But it's like they're just cross naming movies to make WAR OF THE DEAD sound like it's some fantastic war/zombie movie. Here , I got one , " It's Saving Private Ryan meets Night Of The Living Dead. The original Night Of The Living Dead!" So it made me think WAR OF THE DEAD was gonna suck really bad but I thought it was pretty exciting. The movie looks good too ,it looks like it could have come out in theaters and WAR OF THE DEAD fall more on the side of action than horror and the makers of this film did it pretty good. The zombies are fast movers and they do eat human flesh but it's not gory , not really , but that did not bother me ; I got into the movie and it was a fun ride. But it doesn't try to be cheezy , funny ; it's not a B-movie , it tries to be a serious movie and I think it succeeds for the most part and I would watch it again and I might buy it if I could find it for $8.00 or less. And it has a cool dvd cover that the movie lives up to. _arty
Here are some of my top 10 favorite actors! In no particular order!
David O'Hara The Departed , Fitzy
Tom Hardy , Bane from DKR
Jeremy Renner
Josh Brolin
Javier Bardem
Christian Bale
Leo Dicaprio
Guy Pierce
Karl Urban , JUDGE DREDD , best movie of 2012!!
And the dancin' machine Sam Rockwell!!
What are some of yours?
Osama Bin Ladin is a zombie! I saw this movie on the shelf at Ballbuster and had to get it. But with so many zombie flix pouring onto the horror scene like black blood from the eyesockets , mouth , and nostrils of a undead evil priest , I guess it was inevitable they would make a movie like this. Troma really missed the bus on this one didn't they? But it's not the grade B schlockfest I thought it could have been but for what it is it's still decent. They kill a fuckload of zombies and even though pretty much all of the zombie headhits , bodyhits , and full zombie explosions are done with cgi they didn't bother me that much cos' they looked pretty good for the most part. But you only see Bin Ladin in the very beginning and the very end and at the end he looks pretty freaky , scary , gross , and I could tell they used a animatronic puppet for his final scene.
So on one hand OSOMBIE is a competent action/zombie flick , and it does have some good humorous moments but it doesn't go for the throat with the Osama as a zombie thing or make fun of terrorists like you think it would. But if you like these movies you kind of have to see it just to say you saw it and confirm your own thoughts on it. I wish it woulda been like EVIL DEAD 2 , ZOMBIE 3 , or as offensive as STREET TRASH! What do you want out of a movie called OSOMBIE? *arty
Grabbed this one after werk , hungry & tired and wanted to knock out another zombie movie on my neverending gorequest. And APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD delivered the goods on the blood n' gore and even a little night time foggy atmosphere! It does lay on the corpses shambling through the night time mist as thick as I would have liked but that's what I wanted to see and I got some of that.
The voices of some of the actors are dubbed and it reminded me of HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD and ZOMBI 3 a lil' it with that and that just made it better! And it has Ken Foree. When I first saw him in DAWN OF THE DEAD he was so strong , and a tough badass and now with him coming out in Rob Zombie movies he's kind of become a asshole but in APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD he plays it as a straight law n' order type goodguy and gets a little of his dignity back as a hero And there's a girl that looks like Katja Kassin , Eurpoean porn princess! Plus a shitload of good gore made APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD very enjoyable and my only problem is that it was a little longer than I think it needed to be but worth seeing and even owning if ya could find it cheap. *Arty
Now this one got me writin'! In my gorequest I been rentin' movies like a madman and gettin' all kindsa SHIT! So I grabbed this SICK BOY movie because I red a good review on it and I watch these movies with a open mind and a good attitude because I wanna have a good time and cos' I have not gotten laid in almost 3 years and I can't get drunk since I'm on probation so I read comix and work on my zine and watch gore flix and SICK BOY was a BIG letdown! A real drag man! It's one of those horror movies that works (or is supposed to work) on a slow burn build up but SICK BOY did not achieve that with me. It's about a gal who is babysittin' a boy who has some unknown disease (guess what kind of disease it is) so she stays downstairs while the SICK BOY stays upstairs in his room all the time. The babysitter is not likeable , especially when she starts argueing with her dopey boyfriend and ESPECIALLY when she starts rapping and dancing to herself , lookin' in the mirror! That part sucked so bad!
But the ending is good! These freakazoid ghoulish fux look fuckin' scary! I wish these zombies woulda been in a creepy , dark , foggy , atmospheric movie insteada this harsh light/daytime WB twenty something bitchfest contest. Upsetting that such cool lookin' zombies had to be in this. So watch the trailer or the last 15 minutes or watch the whole movie but just know that the first hour and ten minutes SUCK! -arty
So many zombie movies on the shelves at Ballbusters and this cover looks like art for a video game. It doesn't describe anything about the movie but it's not really lying about it either. Fortunately DEAD SEASON is a decent entry into the direct to video zombie genre. It is typical zombie fare , copying DAWN OF THE DEAD , 28 DAYS LATER , and THE WALKING DEAD but they pull off a decent movie with good enough acting and a fair amount of gore , so DEAD SEASON slips under the wire for being a watchable zombie flick. It does go for the serious approach trying to be stark and bleak and by now I am ready for some schlocky grade-B fun in the vein of EVIL DEAD 2 , NIGHT OF THE CREEPS , and ZOMBI 3. I need to see a zombie head fly across the screen , I need that! -Arty
Really bad movie title but THE DAY was pretty darn good! I mean , yeah , it pales in comparison to BOOK OF ELI (a good film) , and THE ROAD (a great film) but THE DAY was a good action flick set in a dystopian world with a truckload of kills ; some of them pretty brutal , and lots of cgi blood. There was practical efx blood too , but the cgi blood did not bother me as much as it usually does. even some good acting from Dom Monaghan from L.O.T.R and the guy who played Iceman in the X-MEN movies , and especially from Ashley Bell , the gal from THE LAST EXORCISM. I did not know it was her at first but she kicks ass in this movie and made me believe that she knows how to shoot guns like Annie Oakley , throw knives as good as Beatrix Kiddo , and throwdown some fisticuffs like Manny Paciaou. Okay , maybe not like Manny but you know what I'm sayin'.
And on top of that the movie had a bleak de-saturated gray tone to it that gave it some atmosphere and showed that the director was trying to give the film some identity and artistic merit which is great. If you wanna see a decent action movie then THE DAY could be that movie. *arty
You kind of remember Ripley as a female Rambo ; I did , but she really doesn't turn into a badass until the end.
I finally got a HD flatscreen and I was marveling at how badass ALIENS looks in HD and it was a new viewing experience for a old favorite and while I was watching it I finally found a real appreciation for Weavers performance as Ellen Ripley. She's amazing and the first 30 minutes or so the movie is all her and she should have won that oscar back in 88 , or 87 , whatever yr it was! Before when I would watch ALIENS I would watch it for the aliens. They are so terrifying , fascinating , and cool! I wanted to know where they came from and what their life cycle is , where did the queen come from? THEN , I would watch it for the Space Marines. They were so badass too. They would destroy Stormtroopers, or Cylons , Klingons , and those red assholes from THE LAST STARFIGHTER! Blow all them away with those pulse rifles! Now I watch because of Ellen! How would you act if you were the sole survivor of a hostile alien life form that wiped out all your co-workers? Whose to say really but Weaver hit it close to home and made it believable. She's so sympathetic and wounded but tries to keep herself together. But those nightmares plague her and even when she's smoking a cigarette she's giving off so much emotion. There really would be no way she would go back to the alien world but again she makes it believable that Ripley might to confront her fears. I like when she's trying to explain to the Marines what they are going up against and it's like just her remembering what the facehuggers do is preventing her and she almost can't do it. Or when they find that lady stuck to the wall and the chestburster comes out , Elen grabs her chest and makes it so much more real!
So now watching ALIENS the parts with Ripley are my favorite even the parts before they leave to go back to lv-426. Another favorite scene is when she knocks the food tray out of Bishops hand when she finds out hes a robot! I love the look Bishop gives her , because he's a robot and doesn't know how to react to real emotion.
Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton were great too and there is so much more to go on about ALIENS , like James Remar was going to be in it and even filmed some stuff but I could go on and on but I would like to know your thoughts on ALIENS and your fave scenes so I hope you leave a comment. Thanx for reading! 8arty
I like the new SILENT NIGHT better than the original. I always thought the original was badly acted and just a cash in on the holiday horror theme. And I don't think it was that suspenseful or even that gory or bloody. For me the 2012 SILENT NIGHT was alot more fun and finally it was the gorefest I was looking for. It went straight to dvd but it looks like it should have been in the theater. Pro all the way and a good cast too! Malcolm McDowell , Donal Logue , Jaimie King , and the yummy Ellen Wong! Ellen Wong was Knives from SCOTT PILGRIM! She is one cute piece of ass and was the deciding factor in me picking this flick! But can't forgot that other piece of fine ass Jaimie King! Did you see her in SIN CITY!? Or the SPIRIT? Those or the only 2 movies I've seen Jaimie in and they make her look like a goddamned goddess in those 2 movies and now I've seen what she looks like as a normal human being!
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Anyway , in the first few minutes of SILENT NIGHT evil Santa stunguns a little girl and them skewers her with a fireplace poker! That set the tone of the movie for me and I enjoyed it. It even had a decent sleaze factor and some boobs , and bad behavior , which Santa has to punish and he does it in gory ways , Hell , he even uses a flamethrower!
So far SILENT NIGHT is the best movie I've rented from blockbuster because it satisfied my need for gore and I was tired when I watched it after a 12 hour work day and it perked me up and entertained me so I can wholeheartedly tell you to check it out or catch it the tube if it's on or even buy it if you can find it for less than ten bux! *arty
Man , the dvd cover for this one is so cool! Looks like from the same artist as HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN , and it is a zombie movie and it has those scratchy lines on the screen like PLANET TERROR and I'm pretty sure it's dubbed , and it sucks! Kind of. Not totally but A CADAVER CHRISTMAS fell short and was not the gorefeast I was looking for. It does have a good wannabe oldschool horror movie vibe to it and there were some really cool parts but there really isn't that much gore in it and the gore that it does have was really stupid. I can suspend my disbelief and forgive alot of stuff but stabbing someone with a christmas tree? C'mon! Even a zombie would not be soft enough to be skewered by a christmas tree! And there is other stuff like that in here. BUt the part wear the girl turns into a zombie and her eyes change color real fast was cool and when they smash the TV on her head , that was cool too! There is another part where a group of zombies are rushing down a dark hallway and that actually looked kind of creepy and having the nerdy janitor as the hero was a nod to Ash of Evil Dead......but no good gore! ANother thing was that even though A CADAVER CHRISTMAS was only 85 minutes , it seemed like a solid 2 hours. There is alot of talking in this that just goes on and on and on and on and on......FUCK!
But for the look and feel of it and how much they tried I can recommend it to you if you are a super horror fan like me , and I will look forward to the next feature the director of A CADAVER CHRISTMAS makes. *arty
