As soon as I see Takashi Miike on something I know that it’ll be a wild ride, and to expect something that will encompass the weird and bizarre, have horror and gore, yet also be thought provoking and funny. Something no other director can do, especially not in Hollywood!
Tantei Monogatari (aka: Detective Story) starts...
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George Romero will, forever, be remembered as the Godfather of zombie movies but he has done other non-zombie stuff, and The Crazies is one of them.
The plot is quite simple:
A biological weapon gone awry is only the start of problems in the little town of Evan’s City, Pennsylvania. Bouts of insanity in the populace...
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![[REC] 2 (2009)](http://midnightshowing.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/rec-2-210x300.jpg)
If you haven’t read my review of (aka: REC 1, or Quarantine in the case of the US ‘remake’) then do so. It’s a cracking film.
2 picks up the very second ended, I shant spoil the end of either film in this review, but 2 begins with a SWAT team...
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Sigh, another remake of a golden oldie classic. But wait, this one is actually pretty good!
First, let’s start with the obligatory plot line. As you can imagine, it’s nothing brain wracking:
Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman, is lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father, Talbot sets out...
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Daybreakers is the latest movie to hit theaters that is looking to stake a claim in the vampire media frenzy that has taken over both the big and small screens. From Twilight (I need an acid bath every time I so much as type that name) to True Blood, the bloodsucking freaks have been...
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It’s big, it’s bad, and it’s BACK! ZXQL3000 and Cinema Sewer return to give us a second helping of video madness.
If you’ve been living under a rock, on Mars, for the past while and never heard of Retard-o-Tron then you should head over to here, and read my review of the first Retard-o-Tron mixtape,...
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With a poster that awesome, I just HAD to watch Frogs!
Now, I wish I hadn’t.
The basic premise of Frogs is as thus: Rich playboy is out in his new speedboat and runs down a freelance photographer who’s out taking photos of the local wildlife. The guy, and his hot girlfriend, take the poor victim...
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Babylon Fields existed only as a pilot episode which has never been officially released. But thanks to people recording and capturing such things we can watch a VHS-style rip of it.
The basic idea behind Babylon Fields is zombies, but not your bog standard brain munching, slow moving, arms extended, falling over things, zombies. By...
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Although I began my serious horror junkie ways recently in 2007, my love affair with the Hong Kong horror flick began when a large group of friends and I got blindsided by the piss-your-pants-funny Mr Vampire on a baked potatoes movie night in 1996. As I was pretty much solely into kung fu movies...
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Having had a successful run with The A-Team, its creators were pretty much Gods and could do as they pleased. And please they did, for in 1987 the pilot of Werewolf was shown.
Werewolf ran for only 29 episodes (commonly known as Series 1) and was then cancelled, series two -- sadly -- never materialised.
Ted...
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