31 Days of Horror Movie 27

Three Extremes
2004
Lionsgate DVD

This is a film that I had lots of friends recommend to me. But it never played any theater near me. Then I forgot about it for years. When Movie Gallery was closing it is one of the films I got extremely cheap.

The film is made up of 3 short films. Each made by an Asian director from a different country.

We start off with Dumplings by Fruit Chan. Fruit Chan is a Hong Kong director. This is the first and so far only film I have seen from him. A still extremely pretty older lady is worried that her aging is causing her husband to lose interest in her. So she goes to this woman, Who is played by the always gorgeous Bai Ling. Bai makes these special dumplings. That are suppose to prevent aging and make you look young. But there is a nasty secret ingredient. I have a pretty strong stomach. But when I found out what the secret was and saw Bai preparing the dumplings my stomach did a few flips.

Up next is Cut by South Korean director Park Chan Wook. Again this is the first film I have seen by Park Chan Wook. It is about a film director who comes home to find out an extra from his films is holding his wife hostage. She is stuck in a very elaborate trap. To me at least this is the worst of the shorts. It isn't horrible. But it isn't amazing either.

The final short is Box by Takashi Miike. This one is very surreal and hard to explain. From what I gather there was two young girls. Who did acrobatic performances. Their manager who might also be their father shows favoritism to one of them. The other gets jealous and burns down the tent they perform in. I had seen some Miike stuff before this. And this doesn't have the same feel as the rest of his films. But I do really enjoy it.

The DVD has some decent extra features.Miike does a commentary on his short. Plus we get an extra DVD which has a feature length version of Dumplings. I need to sit down and watch that one day.

Three Extremes gets a B+.

Asshat Podcast Episode 18

Asshat Podcast Episode 18



In this extra long Friday the 13th special Newt is joined by John,Collin,Merc and Nadia. Where they talk about all the Friday the 13th films. Plus the NES Friday the 13th game.

31 Days of Horror Movie 26

The Hunt for the BTK Killer
2005
Mill Creek DVD

Ever since I was about 10 I have been fascinated with serial killers. I had heard of the BTK killer but really knew nothing about him. Then when I moved back in 2007 I found a good book on him at the local library. So when I found this DVD really cheap I took a chance on it.

This is a made for TV movie. And from what I remember it seems to follow the actual case pretty closely. Robert Forester is great as the cop trying to crack the case. And Gregg Henry blows it all away as the BTK Killer. The BTK stands for Bind Torture and Kill. Which was Dennis Rader's style. He manages to kill 10 people from between 1974 and 1991.The only reason he was finally caught was because he was stupid and sent a floppy disk to the cops. This disk contained metadata embedded in a word file.

Normally I am not a fan of made for TV films. But this one is really well done. I didn't even know it was a made for TV film until I did a small amount of research for the post.

The DVD is barebones. No extras. But it looks decent and the sound is ok.

The Hunt for the BTK Killer gets a B.

31 Days of Horror Movie 25

Stephen King's Graveyard Shift
1990
Paramount DVD

This isn't one of the better films based on a Stephen King story. But still it is enjoyable. It isn't total crap like The Tommyknockers or Dreamcatcher. The short story it is based on is from the great collection Night Shift. Which is my favorite of King's short story collections.

A down on his luck guy gets a job working in a textile factory. He has to work the graveyard shift. The owner wants him and some other workers to go down into the sub levels and see what all they can find. Down there they find terror and death.

The film is well made. With Brad Dourif being the stand out. He plays a rat catcher. The DVD is pretty barebones. But at least looks and sounds good.

Graveyard Shift gets a C-.

Asshat Podcast Episode 17

John returns to discuss favorite wrestlers with Newt.Then the two long time friends talk about lots of the classic Universal Monster films. Plus Nadia is back with a new installment of "Dramatic Readings of Knowledge for The Fucker from Hell" And this time she picked a great one folks.

31 Days of Horror Movie 24

Tales from the Darkside the Movie
1990
Paramount DVD

I loved Tales from the Darkside. So when the film came out I wanted to see it. But for some reason I didn't. It wasn't until about 3 years ago I got a chance to see it. I found the DVD really cheap. So I grabbed it.

This is a horror anthology. The wrap around story has the always gorgeous Debbie Harry. She has kidnapped some young child. And is going to cook him for dinner. So to distract her the kid starts reading short stories out of a book.

The first story is titled Lot 249. Steve Buscemi is a grad student who gets framed by Julianne Moore and some frat asshole. So Buscemi loses his chance of graduating. He plots revenge. But reanimating a mummy. A young Christian Slater appears.

The second story is Cat from Hell. This is an adaptation of a Stephen King short story. A rich man hires a hitman to come kill this cat that is in his house. We get lots of dark comedy in this story.

The final story is Lover's Voe. James Remar sees a demonic looking creature kill someone. But the creature agrees to let Remar live if he never speaks of what he has seen. Remar ends up meeting Rae Dawn Chong and marrying her and having two kids. But he is always haunted by what he saw. Finally he breaks down and tells his wife what he saw. It turns out Rae is the monster and reverts to her monster form. Kills Remar  and the kids turn into monsters and fly off.

Then we get the ending of the wraparound story. The kid manages to trip Debbie. He gets out of the cage and shoves her into the stove.

The DVD has a fun commentary with George Romero. And that is pretty much the only extra.

Tales from the Darkside the movie gets a A-.

31 Days of Horror Movie 23

Night of the Demon
1980
Image Entertainment Horror Collection Extravaganza DVD

This is another film I heard about for decades. I never saw the VHS for rent. And never saw it airing on TV. Code Red released it to DVD. But I didn't manage to get a copy before it went out of print. So when I heard about this 6 film collection from Image Entertainment I had to get it. Got it last year as a X-mas gift.

A college professor and some of his students head out into the woods searching for Bigfoot. And really there isn't much plot to this film. It is just a bunch of gory kills. Most of which are great. Bigfoot uses a hand ax to kill some people. But the most infamous scene is when a biker pulls over to take a piss. He is whizzing on a bush. And Bigfoot happens to be in that bush. So Bigfoot reaches up and rips the biker's cock off. The biker stumbles off and bleeds to death.

This film has an pretty interesting history. Over in the United States it was almost forgotten a few years after it hit VHS. But over in the UK it was added to the video nasty list. So it became a huge cult classic.

Night of the Demon gets a C+.

31 Days of Horror Movie 22

A Nightmare on Elm Street remake
2010
Starz airing

I am not one of those horror fans that automatically hates every remake. I have actually enjoyed most of the modern remakes. This film broke that streak.

I had made the 3 hour drive to the coast. To visit family and friends. Plus I wanted to see this movie in a good theater. After leaving the theater I was pissed. The film was horrible. The only good thing was Jackie Earle Haley. And even then he wasn't that good. The acting was wooden. The FX work was mostly CGI and looked horrible. And the plot was very boring.

This is basically the same film as the original. But with a few small changes. In this one Freddy worked at some school. And you find out he sexually molested some kids. That is why the parents burned him alive. the only other change is for about half of the film you are lead to believe maybe he didn't do it. But it turns out he did.

Now I own every other Nightmare on Elm Street film. This one I have never bought. Maybe if I found the DVD for $5 I might pick it up. But $5 is still too much for this piece of shit.

A Nightmare on Elm Street Remake gets a F-.

31 Days of Horror Movie 21

Abraham Lincoln VS Zombies
2012
Bootleg DVD

This is the Asylum Mockbuster of the Lincoln Vampire Hunter film. Now I never saw that. But I did acquire a copy of this film.

Zombies have attack and Lincoln and some of his guards are all trapped in a Fort with a bunch of Confederate soldiers. We find out that as a kid Lincoln's Mom got bite and became a zombie. And this caused his father to commit suicide. Lincoln and his troops defeat the zombies. But he ends up getting infected. So he sends out a message to John Wilkes Booth. And has him come shoot and kill the president.

Sure this was cheesy. It is a Asylum film. But I was actually really entertained by it. The FX work is ok. Most of the acting is decent. And the plot is passable.

Abraham Lincoln vs Zombies gets a C-.

Asshat Podcast episode 16

Asshat Podcast Episode 16

Newt is joined by John and they talk about their favorite wrestlers. The 1978 horror classic Dawn of the Dead and the new season of Walking Dead. Plus Nadia does the second installment of "Dramatic readings of Knowledge from the Fucker from Hell".