31 Days of Horror Day 12 Evil Sister

TITLE-Evil Sister
SOURCE-Tubi TV streaming service

I had forgotten about this late 90s horror/softcore porn mixture. Back in the early 2000s I got one of those Brentwood 4 horror films for cheap packs. Evil Sister was the only film on the set I managed to finish. Then earlier today was flipping through the horror films on Tubi TV and saw Evil Sister. I remembered it not being that great but put it on anyway.

After spending 15 years in a mental hospital a lady is released into the care of her sister and her brother in law. But the lady is part of a Satanic cult. And for some reason is trying to harm her sister. Towards the end of the film the lady manages to get the sister to stab the husband to death.

That is basically the plot. As I mentioned previously this is a horror/softcore porn combo. So there is lots of scenes with the redhead sister,the one that was released from the hospital,naked or having sex. Hell there is a sacrifice scene that is thrown into the film just as a reason to show more nudity.

There is so much about this film that is odd in  hindsight. Like how there is a sequel but it appears that no one from this film came back for it.Or how the one sister,the blonde,went from acting in low budget films to working behind the scenes on all those arguing bitches reality shows that are clogging up every cable channel. Yep stuff like Little Women of Atlanta or Bad Girls Club. The Evil Sister appears to have done nothing besides this film. Or should I say has nothing but this film listed on her IMDB. I swear I have seen the Evil Sister before in hardcore porn.

Pretty much Evil Sister is one of the last films in the now pretty extinct genre of horror/softcore porn. Back before access to hardcore porn was so easy. And teens could talk a parent into letting them rent something like Evil Sister or WitchCraft 11 Sisters in Blood.

Evil Sister gets a F+.

31 Days of Horror Day 11 Disney Z-O-M-B-I-E-S

TITLE-Disney Z-O-M-B-I-E-S
SOURCE-Disney DVD

Nope that is not a fake or photoshopped DVD cover.  A year or so ago Disney channel greenlit a Zombie themed high school set musical film! What is odd is I never see much talk about this. Just the oddity of Disney making something like this feels like perfect clickbait for some subpar horror site.

I learned of the film when a major Disney nut I know bought it. Then forced me to watch it.....

Set in a world where Zombies are real,but it's cool they wear a device that makes them not crave brains. In this world the zombies live in one part of town and got crappy schools etc. But they are intergrating the zombies into the Human schools.

The guy on the cover is a football playing zombie. The only one on the team. He is the son of famous actress Cathryn Manheim. And is fairly well known for a steller run on Dancing with the Stars last year. The cheerleader on the right is best known for playing the teenage daughter on American Housewife. She is hiding a secret. Her hair is actually this odd white color. So she wears a wig to hide this.

Of course being a Disney film the two leads fall in love. The Zombie football guy figures out a way to override his zombie control device and uses this to lead the football team into a majorly winning season.

Well it is a musical. And the songs are horrid. With the worst being the movie theme. That is 4 minutes of the same 3 lines being repeated over and over and over and over and over again. If you are brave look it up on Youtube. That song will be stuck in your brain for weeks.

Sure this film wasn't made for or aimed at me. But the best kids/teen media will include stuff to keep the adults watching interested. And it was so hard to keep my attention focused on this movie.

Disney Z-O-M-B-I-E-S gets a D+.

31 Days of Horror Day 10 Scooby Doo Curse of the Lake Monster

TITLE-Scooby Doo Curse of the Lake Monster
SOURCE-Boomerang streaming app

So far there has been 4 live action Scooby Doo films. Most people know about the first two. Since they played in theaters and had a fairly all star cast. Lesser known are the 3rd and 4th films. These were made for tv and premiered on Cartoon Network. And oddly the 3rd and 4th films are prequels.


I saw and didn't like the first 2 Scooby Doo films. There is various reasons why I didn't like them. A big part of it was Sara Michelle Geller was horrible as Daphne. And Freddy Prinze Jr was horrid as Freddy. Even though Linda Cardellini is great as Velma ,it isn't enough to make up for how bad 2 of the leads are.

It was September 2009 I am on the coast spending some time with my extended family. This was before broadband internet was available where I lived. So while at my aunt's I used her internet to download all the podcasts and stuff I wanted. Back in her computer room she had a tv that had just basic cable. I was trying to find something to watch and saw listed what I thought was one of the many animated Scooby movies. Turns out it was the 3rd live action film. Which told the story of how the Scooby Doo gang met.  This 3rd film was actually really good.

Skip ahead to early 2019 I had just signed up for the VRV streaming service. I got it cause it included Boomerang and Shudder,plus about 8 other channels. While going through the Boomerang app I started adding a bunch of the animated Scooby Doo films to my watchlist. This is when I discovered there is a 4th live action Scooby movie. And it has the same cast as the third film. Seeing this I added Scooby Doo Curse of the Lake Monster to my list of films I wanted to review in October.

School has just ended for the summer and Daphne has the Scooby Gang jobs at her uncle's country club. Their first night at the new job a frog monster appears and attacks people. So of course the Scooby gang wants to figure out who is the frog monster.

Also through out the movie Shaggy develops a major crush on Velma. Shaggy asks Velma out on a date. After lighting a match and Velma reacting badly Shaggy starts to realize something is up with Velma. Seems Velma got possessed by the spirit of a witch.

Of course the gang solves the mystery of who the frog monster is. Velma gets freed from the witch's control. And the film ends with Shaggy and Velma dating.

All the main cast is pretty good at their parts. Hayley Kiyoko is the stand out as Velma. Managing to capture the essence of Velma that we all know from the classic 60s and 70s episodes of the Scooby Doo cartoons.

Sadly it looks like this 4th film didn't do to well. Cause it came out in 2010 and there hasn't been another live action film since then. Which sucks. Cause the two made for TV films are way better than the tripe that came out in a theater.

Scooby Doo Curse of the Lake Monster gets a B-.

31 Days of Horror Day 09 Reanimator Academy

TITLE-Reanimator Academy
SOURCE-Kings of Horror Youtube channel


The VHS cover above is the same one I saw in my late teens at Pharmor Video. Back then  Pharmor had a great deal. You could get 6 vhs for 3 days for 3 bucks. I had already watched all the known horror movies Pharmor had. Saw the cover for Reanimator Academy and figured fuck it I will rent this.For some reason when I rented the movie I didn't get a chance to watch it. I can't remember why. I returned the movies and not long after that Pharmor closed.

Skip ahead to earlier this year. I was starting to gather stuff to watch for 31 days of horror. And as I have the past 3 years I went and checked the Kings of Horror Youtube channel to see if they had anything I wanted to see. Saw Reanimator Academy and ripped it. Tossed it on a flash drive. Then earlier today plugged that flash drive into my old trusty Blu Ray player and started up a film I had been wanting to watch since 1992...

This film is putrid.  It is barely over an hour. And still feels so padded out. Going in I was expecting some gore,maybe some 90s style nudity and maybe a undiscovered classic.....

I got none of the three. The gore is almost non-existent. There was no nudity that I remember. And I see why this film is never talked about. It is bad. Bad acting,bad FX work and bad dialogue.

A nerdy member of a frat has created a formula that revives the dead. Two mobsters,who look and talk like gangsters in the old Looney Tunes shorts,have to revive their boss's hooker. And we get a revived skull that cracks lots of bad jokes.

I don't mind low budget horror. But only if you can tell whoever made the film was trying their best and are fans of the horror genre. This film feels like the people behind the scenes didn't even  try. And the plot feels more like a crime drama than a horror film.

Anyways if you really want  to see this pile of donkey shit...here it is in full on Youtube.

Reanimator Academy gets a F+.

31 Days of Horror Day 08 Brain Damage

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31 Days of Horror Day 07 Puppet Master The Littlest Reich

TITLE-Puppet Master The Littlest Reich
SOURCE-Shudder streaming service

This came out in 2018 and is the 12 official film in the Puppet Master franchise. Yea Puppet Master vs Demonic Toys doesn't count as an official film. I had heard this was a damn good film but never saw the dvd for sale. Then months ago got Shudder,which is AMC's horror streaming service,and saw Shudder had the movie.

Thomas Lennon is a comic book artist that works in a comic shop. Him,his girlfriend and his boss from the comic shop goto a convention near the hotel from the first Puppet Master film. The convention is based around Andre Toulan.

Most of the people that come to the convention bring with them puppets. Lots of which were stolen from Toulan. And fairly quickly the puppets come to life and start killing people.

And wow this is the bloodiest film in the franchise. Get to see Torch burn a Jewish couple alive. And see the flesh slowly liquefying. Then get to see Blade cut a guy's achilles tendon and wow is it bloody.

A neat thing is Barbara Crampton is in the film. As an Ex-cop. Which comes in handy cause the last 30 minutes of the film has all the cast trapped in a hotel with only a few guns.

This entry in the series really feels like the original. But with a bigger budget. The puppet effects look really good. The gore is well done. And the cast is a nice mixture of people you know and unknowns.

The best part is so many new puppets get introduced. Like the Lil Hitler puppet that possesses a guy. Or this puppet that is half puppet half flying drone.

Anyways if you enjoy the Puppet Master films and want something closer to the good entires this is worth tracking down.

Puppet Master the Littlest Reich gets a B+.

31 Days of Horror Day 06 Bunks

Title-Bunks
Source-Netflix Streaming

I have always loved movies about summer camps. Ernest Goes to Camp,the 4 Meatballs films even stuff like Sleepaway Camp 3..so when I was looking around on Netflix and saw there was  a summer camp meets zombies movie I added it to my list.

Made up in Canada,with I think some funding from The Disney Channel,this made for TV horror/comedy it tame enough to show to pretty much anyone. And just entertaining enough to keep you from getting bored.

Two brothers are being sent to a "Boot" Camp since they set fire to their home with a rocket...that they bought by stealing their mom's credit card. Just so happens that the pick up spot for the military camp is also the pick up spot for Camp Bushwack. By using some Zach Morris level jedi mind tricks the brothers switch places with two counselors from Bushwack.

Cause of various shenanigans the brothers end up in an old abandoned cabin. Where years ago a kid disappeared. They find a book of scary stories. Stories that they tell around the camp fire that night. And the various stories start to come true.

Now sure this doesn't have gore or much violence. And it isn't scary. But it is a nice blending of horror tropes with made for kids summer camp comedies. One drawback to the film is the two leads are kinda one note. You could replace them with say Ernest,it works he already went to camp,and the film would still work. Hell it might even be better.

With the new Disney streaming service who knows if this made for Disney CHannel,but not owned by Disney,film will stay on Netflix. But if it is still up it is worth watching. It's barely 1 hour 21 minutes and fairly entertaining.Plus how often do you get to see a zombie movie aimed at kids? Bunks gets a C+.

31 Days of Horror Day 5 Henry Portrait of a Serial Kiler

Title-Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer
Source-Joe Bob Briggs' Last Drive In on Shudder

This was the second feature of the 6th week of the first season of Joe Bob's Shudder show,airing after Wolf COP! Now I have seen Henry many times. First seeing it at a con back in 90.

Henry was made on the cheap in 1986. But for various reasons didn't get any kind of wide release until late 1990. Part of this was cause the producer wasn't happy with the film. The producer wanted a gore film and was given a very arthouse feeling dark drama. Another factor was once the film got submitted to the MPAA the MPAA gave Henry a X rating. Telling the director that cause of the overall tone of the film no matter what he cut it would get a X. Back then,as it is now,a film rated X had trouble getting distributed. Finally MPI released the film uncut on VHS.

Based,in part,on Henry Lee Lucas,this film is set over a few weeks tops. Henry,played by Michael Rooker, is in Chicago living with a buddy from prison named Otis,played by the late Tom Towles. Henry works as a insect exterminator. And has been killing people. Not long after the film starts Otis's sister moved into the tiny dingy apartment Otis and Henry share. She is trying to get away from a abusive husband.

Henry introduces Otis to killing. And explains how he keeps from being caught. Henry uses a different method of killing each time and never stays in one area for long. Otis quickly becomes in love with killing.

There is so many brutal scenes in the film. Like when Henry and Otis goto a local fence to get a new tv. Since they only have 50 bucks they would be stuck with a tiny b/w tv. The fence insults them and they kill him by stabbing him with a soldering iron then slamming a plugged in tv over his head. Afterwards they leave with a new color tv,a VCR and a camcorder.

The next scene is the most infamous. In it we are watching on the new tv camcorder footage of Henry and Otis invading a home and killing the family. Now the entire film was done on 16mm so it is grainy. And the camcorder footage is even grainier. Which gives this scene a eerie feel. After seeing this home invasion we see that Otis is rewinding the tape to watch it again.

On this episode of Joe Bob he has on the director of the film. Who talks about all kinds of behind the scenes info. I figured I would just watch the bits with the director,since I have seen the movie many many times. But got so into to movie ended up watching all of it.

Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer gets a A+.

31 Days of Horror EXTRA 01

Anyone who reads this blog knows I love horror hosts. And the best of the modern horror hosts is Joe Bob Briggs.

When cable finally made its way out to the rural hellhole I grew up in I paid 10 bucks a month for The Movie Channel,just so I could watch Joe Bob's weekly show.  Sure Monstervision is better known. But on Monstervision the films were edited for TV and packed full of commercials . His TMC show was uncut and sooo good. On a old VHS I still have all 5 nights of Joe Bob's Emanuelle week. Every night at 10pm he showed one of the many Emanuelle films.

A bit over a year ago word got out that Shudder,a AMC owned horror streaming service, was bringing Joe Bob back.  In what was suppose to be a 1 time thing. Joe Bob showed 4 films and the audience was so large it crashed Shudders servers. Last year around Xmas Shudder had another Joe Bob marathon.  This time he showed Phantasm 1,3,4 and 5. This did even better than the first marathon. So Shudder started up a weekly Joe Bob show.

Known as The Last Drive In. Every Friday at 8pm central Joe Bob does a double feature. Before the film Joe gives us some history of the film he is about to show.  And like the TMC  show the films are uncut without commercials. Usually 4 or 5 times during the film it cuts back to Joe Bob. Where he gives us more info on the film . And sometimes he will interview someone from the film.

The picture at the top is from when Joe Bob was showing the 80s slasher cult classic Sleepaway Camp. He has Felissa Rose,who played Angela in the film,on and interviews her.

Now I have seen Sleepaway Camp many times. And the print used in this airing isn't the slightly cut print that Anchor Bay used. And it isn't that weird hybrid cut print that IFC aired often in 2008 through 2013,you remember back when IFC was a good channel and wasn't just another channel showing Fucking Law and Order 23 hours a day. Nope Joe Bob showed a fully uncut print of Sleepaway Camp. During part of the interview with Me Rose the both let it slip that New Line Cinema is working on a new Sleepaway Camp Film. Hope it actually comes out.

Since mid April if I am home on Friday night I watch an episode of The Last Drive In.

31 Days of Horror Day 4 You're So Cool Brewster the story of Fright Night

TITLE-You're So Cool Brewster the story of Fright Night
SOURCE-Shudder Streaming Service

I heard about this documentary a few years ago. Wanted to see it,but never saw it for sale anywhere. Got Shudder earlier this year and saw the documentary was on there. I have watched it 3 times now.

Fright Night was a Mid 80s vampire movie.  William Ragsdale is a horror obsessed teen. And suspects his new neighbor is a vampire.

This documentary manages to get pretty much every person who is still alive and had a major part in the film. And there is a lot of info I had never heard before.

The documentary only really covers the original film. I would have liked more info on the sequel. And am still trying to forget that the horrid remake exists.

I do wish they had done a bit more on the Fright Night comic.  A few years back I got a complete run of it. And was surprised at how good it is.

If you have Shudder or any other way of watching this documentary do it. It is a bit over 2 hours long. But flies by. You're So Cool Brewster gets a B.