Scifi

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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I’m not going to review it as I’ve only just downloaded it myself, but I thought I’d pass along the link to download this album, legitimately, for free! http://www.earache.com/gamabomb/ TRACKLISTING: Slam Anthem New Eliminators of Atlantis B.C. Three Witches Last Ninjas Unite Escape From Scarecrow Mountain Mussolini Mosh We Respect You Apocalypse 1997 Return To Blood Castle Polterghost Skeletron Mummy Invasion Head over to Earache Records and enter any...
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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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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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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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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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Dear oh dear oh dear… Orgroff the Mad Mutilator (aka: Mad Mutilator) is a French film from 1983, although it looks more like 1973 if anything else. The story is off the archetypical hut-in-the-forest dwelling psycho who murders passersby who stop for a leek by the road side. Gory murders? Check. Hot chicks? (benefit of the doubt...
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