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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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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So, this mixtape, B-Videos 101, Vol.1, starts off with this really creepy looking old guy. Not only is he babbling on about the end of the world, but he sports an amazing fake tan.
Oh, wait, it’s just the Heavens Gate crackpot.
After a stop-motion toy shop orgy with dildos and inflatable dolls we get some...
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Grindhouse is a 42nd Street style double feature comprising of Rodriguez’s Planet Terror (reviewed here) and Tarantino’s Death Proof (reviewed here). Before, after and between the two films are trailers for (non-existent) movies. Both movies, mainly Planet Terror, have added grain to give them that extra 70’s feel.
This review isn’t about Planet Terror or...
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Planet Terror is the first of a double feature known as Grindhouse. I’m going to review Planet Terror, as a single movie, same with its partner, Death Proof, then review them as a package (with the fake trailers and what-not) as Grindhouse.
The idea behind Grindhouse is to have two films, as a double feature...
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Midnightshowing.com Presents Alex’s Top 10 (+1) movies of 2009 (In no particular order except for the top 2!) from Alex S on Vimeo.
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OK, so, technically I’ve reviewed these films in the wrong order. First, I reviewed Phobia 2 (don’t forget to check out my review of it) and now I’m reviewing the first one, but fear not loyal readers, there’s no connection between the two anthologies.
In its native Thailand, the movie is known as ‘See prang’,...
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