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Season 2 Archive
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The Fear 2
Posted on November 11, 2005 | No CommentsThe movie, if you can call it that (I suppose you can since there is movement), is similar in structure to the first entry. The main character Mike brings his friends to his grandparents' house for a Halloween where they dress up as their innermost fears. Mike's fear is that he's inherited a homicidal legacy from his father. Everyone else's fear seems to be as believable as any complication in any Disney channel afterschool show. -
Silver Bullet
Posted on October 16, 2005 | No CommentsWhat can we say about this one? Corey Haim and Gary Busey star in a movie that may have been really really bad, instead of just really bad, had they not signed on. If you like Busey and enjoy his energy, this is a must-see. And if you dislike Corey Haim and his lack of energy, this is a must-see. There's also a werewolf in the film too, just for those with questions. -
The Hillside Strangler
Posted on September 18, 2005 | No CommentsI need to make something clear I guess though, since this portion of the site deals exclusively in cheesy horror movies. THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER is not cheesy. It's gritty, disturbing at times, and actually powered by some overlooked performances by Nicholas Turturro, Lin Shaye, and the Outsider, Mr.Pony-Boy "Sideout" Curtis himself: -
Sleepaway Camp
Posted on August 4, 2005 | No CommentsThere's two type of people who will watch this movie: those who saw it back in the day and reminisce about the days of tight jeans and male short-shorts, and the other type who have heard it's good and have never seen it. The writers of this site were the latter. The film does work on a disturbing level and at the same time has enough cheese to put Laughing Cow out of business. You know those movies that put images in your head that you wish were never allowed access. That would be Sleepaway Camp. -
Scarecrow
Posted on July 30, 2005 | No CommentsThis is one of those slasher movies that makes a choice early on to be campy and not be serious. It doesn't really work, but if you have a few college-educated friends, or drunks ones, or both, and you can talk them into watching this movie with you, you might find yourself enjoying its quirks. At times. -
Tromeo & Juliet
Posted on May 18, 2005 | No CommentsTROMA gives us another reason to like the cheese-ball horror movie: there is no meaning, rhyme or reason, elegance or sophistication to the art, but there manages to be redeeming entertainment value. "Tromeo & Juliet" is a Tromaized version of Willy Shake's famous play. Narrated by Lemmy of Motorhead and done in a style that could only belong to Lloyd Kaufman, there are creature-cocks, lesbian scenes with Juliet, and weapons featuring Hitler's head. Sound crazy? It is. But if you've seen it, you know exactly what I mean. -
C.H.U.D.
Posted on April 21, 2005 | No CommentsCannibals from the sewers have begun to claim victims nightly. The police are asleep. John Heard and Daniel Stern are on the case. Just who you'd pick for the job, huh? Well, this movie has its glory days a little too late, unfortunately enough. The first half of the movie is constipated with long speeches, some of which are held in a board room in city hall. Hey, if we wanted to watch that shit we'd turn on a local channel. Nevertheless, when the CHUDS come out in full force, this movie becomes really fun, and funny. -
Redneck Zombies
Posted on April 5, 2005 | No CommentsThis movie, what we like to lovingly call "The Shit Harvest," has a place in the pantheon of bad bad movies. There are some movies that were once good and are now bad, there are some movies that really try and are still bad, and there are some movies that are so bad that they end up being a form of entertainment. REDNECK ZOMBIES is none of the above. It is an experiment in how to waste someone's time and mental energy. If it weren't for two moderately funny scenes, I wouldn't haven't even rated this one. Here's a hint: many scenes include zombies rubbing guts into their faces, as though their skin were absorbant. Fun. -
The Fear
Posted on March 21, 2005 | No CommentsMorty, the killer wooden man who never really kills anyone. That's what you can expect from the THE FEAR, a psychological horror movie that has you begging for a conclusion after the first twenty minutes. The three collaborators at the Stinkyard: Roachito, Giggles and Shortstick found themselves in an existential loop while watching this Turdo Grande. It could have been better with the wooden man premise, but the film instead wants torture us with monotony and lobotomize us with mediocrity. -
Red Water
Posted on March 14, 2005 | No CommentsRED WATER wants to be a shark movie with an edge, but all it really does is display how Lou Diamond Phillip's got the big Hollywood shaft after LA BAMBA. Kristy Swanson lends her breasts to entice the short-attention span (me want more shark) viewers, and Coolio lends his gansta-ness to the crime aspect of the plot-- in other words, the movie's producers needed a popular rapper's face to sell the movie to black people. The only redeeming elements to the film seem to be the shark and Lou Diamond. Neither are compromising in their art, whether it's screaming bad lines in a vein-bursting tirade, or chewing up a swimmer with a big bottom.
