Month: Sep 2023

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Evil Dead Rise: You’ll have a “grate” time with this absolute gorefest

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I love the Evil Dead franchise, from the very first one to the 2013 remake, I love it… when I heard they made a new one earlier this year I just had to check it out, and boy… it is disgusting.

From the very first scene it’s pretty damn clear what road this film is going to take, there are so many great kills in just this scene alone, including with a drone and they’re all… so graphic, I mean I had to practically watch this opening scene through my fingers, like I said there is a limit for me when it comes too gore.

The next part is pretty much family drama, two sisters and three kids living in a rundown apartment complex in LA, one of the kids finds the infamous necronomicon bound and wrapped in skin after a earthquake strikes the complex they live in, one of the sisters becomes possessed by the deadites and terrorises everyone.

Now… and this is a big now, let’s take the 2013 remake, remember the gore and how gross it was, right well this Evil Dead takes that gore and ramps it up too eleven, pulling zero punches, it doesn’t hold back.

We see eyes bitten out, one poor bastard chokes on it after it’s spat directly in to his mouth, poor innocent children flung and smashed in to a wall and a guys throat slit so bad you can actually see his Adams Apple fall out, like I said it doesn’t hold back.

You’ll notice I’ve misspelt great in the title, no that’s not a spelling error don’t worry, it’s a reference to one particular scene that had every one talking, some poor woman gets a cheese grater dragged up her leg, let’s just say I’m not ever looking at a cheese grater the same way.

I do love however the reference to one of my favourite horror films which was The Shining, the scene where the blood gushes out of the lift, that was a terrific touch (I had the biggest grin on my face)

I am going to admit however I did watch half of this film through my fingers, as I have said before it takes the gore from the 2013 remake and ramps it up to eleven.

The kills are graphic and horrifying as we’ve seen in most Evil Dead films but enough about the gore, let’s talk about the Deadites.

They are bloody scary in this flick, they don’t possess and attack you no, they mock you, they insult you they are brilliant, some of the insults I had tears in my eyes at a few of them, mainly this one and I quote “open the door like you open your legs you stinking groupie slut” it was so off the cuff, so unexpected that I couldn’t hold my laugh in, I was crying with laughter it was that good.

Evil Dead Rise is brilliant, albeit a little too gory for my taste but being an evil dead film I can’t fault it, it’s a great entry in the franchise, it’s every thing an evil dead film has… gore, demons and more.

Although the decision making some of these characters make are… questionable to say the least, either way it’s a great horror flick, and I will give it a… 7/10 it’s scary, it’s gory… it’s Evil Dead you can’t fault it can you.

But as always… catch ya later

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The Bay, Underrated Eco-Body Horror Delivers On Chills As Well As Gore

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Spooky season is nearly here! Can you believe how quick this year has gone, September already god it’s flown by, anyway with that being said spooky season brings not just Halloween but horror movies yay! And we’re starting off in underrated territory oooh, we’re kicking off with a film I like to call “Jaws meets Cabin Fever” it’s a film titled The Bay.

Released way back in 2012 I vaguely remember hearing about this film, it didn’t get decent marketing over here in the UK, all I saw was a bunch of trailers that really didn’t give a lot away, I really didn’t know what is was about, so I didn’t really care for it to be honest with you.

After a few years it started coming up on my recommendations, I saw someone talk about it and eventually I bit the bullet, ripped off that band-aid and watched it.

So the film is set in a fictional Chesapeake Bay town where the local corrupt mayor is hosting a luncheon with the townspeople, they complain that the local chicken farm is illegally dumping chicken excrement in to the water.

Two oceanographers find that the bay is forty percent lifeless, after running some tests they find that a parasite has been eating the marine life alive thus prompting an investigation, the mayor declines any thing is wrong and the annual Fourth of July celebrations commence.

Now this is where things go bad, we see various townspeople become violently ill… men, women and children become sick with lesions and blisters on their skin.

This is where the gore comes in, it’s disgusting, it’s gross it’s everything that Cabin Fever was, in fact it takes Cabin Fever and turns it up side down… let me explain.

Cabin Fever was quick, the virus ate away at you at such a rapid pace, The Bay slows it down with such a painful pace, you see bit by bit what these people endure and it’s… disgusting, the lesions and blisters are the first symptom, then you start going insane and then the parasites eat your tongue and emerge from your body.

It’s grim and it certainly is not pleasant viewing, what makes this film scary is the fact that this parasites actually exists… albeit it can’t attack humans as portrayed in the film, and it doesn’t eat the tongue of the fishes… although how they actually do it is still grim, they suck away at the blood until the tongue atrophies away, like I said it’s still grim, they really have zero interest in us humans

The isopods near enough wipe away the town, the CDC eventually work out what is causing the infections, but unfortunately it’s too little too late as the townspeople have succumbed to the infection, the mayor dies in a car accident because the medical staff have died and no one could come to rescue him, in what is the biggest dose of karma I have seen in a film.

The Bay is disgusting, it’s gross it’s… brilliant, and I didn’t know this until the end credits it’s directed by none other than Barry Levinson, you know… Rain Man, Good Morning Vietnam and Wag The Dog… yeah that guy, in what is now his first and only horror film and boy what a film this is.

It’s everything a horror movie fan wants, jump scares, found footage, the whole film is like watching a documentary you get on discovery or nat geo, it works on so many levels and I think it’s why I loved this film so much is because everything worked.

There was no confusing subplot all you had was three main storylines, the townspeople, the doctors and nurses and a young couple with a newborn baby.

Okay well maybe this film does have subplots but they don’t confuse you in anyway shape or form, like I said… it works.

It’s one of my favourite found footage films now, it’s also my favourite sub genre of film, if there’s a found footage movie out I’m right there watching it.

It’s definitely worth a watch if your in to all the body horror stuff, although you do need a strong stomach to really get through this movie.

There is a few disturbing scenes, one is where you can literally hear the screams of people dying, and possibly the most disturbing part of the film is where two cops venture into a house and come across a family that have been robbed of their tongues by the isopods, it’s a digitally enhanced audio clip and it makes for disturbing viewing, especially as you can’t see what is going on, it’s left up too your imagination.

As I’ve said it’s worth a watch that is a given, it gets a 9/10 from me, it’s disgusting, it’s everything horror fans want and crave and then some.

As always… catch ya later 🙂

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Cobweb And Last Voyage Of The Demeter Double Feature!

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I am doing something I haven’t done before on this blog… review two movies in one! Two different films same genre… horror!

We’re going to start off with a film called Cobweb which is set in the present day (that will make sense trust me) the film follows a family that consists of the mum Carol (played by Lizzy Caplan) the dad Mark (played by Anthony Starr) and their eight year old son Peter (played by Woody Norman)

Peter one night starts hearing a mysterious knocking sound in his bedroom walls and tries too investigate what it could be.

Now… the premise itself is great, it starts so well but rapidly goes downhill from around the halfway mark, I won’t spoil anything but the end feels like a massive letdown, in a sense that you’ve been guessing and guessing as too who could be doing the mysterious knocking.

It’s certainly scary that’s a given, there are a few jump scares that were rather unsuspecting, but… and this is a big but, it’s a good but… the acting.

The two adult leads are brilliant, Anthony Starr who plays Homelander on Amazons The Boys is great in this, as is Lizzy Caplan who plays Peter’s Mum, Woody Norman is slowly becoming one of the best child actors out there as he is fantastic in this, he steals every scene he is in, a terrific actor indeed.

There is a few gory moments and I want too talk about one of the scenes in particular, Peter is getting bullied by a kid in his class named Brian (I’d love to know what his parents were thinking when naming him because who in todays world calls their baby Brian) controversial opinion I know.

Brian is played by Luke Busey, trust me don’t get attached to his character he don’t last long.

Anyway it’s set during Halloween and Peter puts out a pumpkin he has carved, Brian and his classmates come over and destroy it, long story short he ends up breaking his leg somehow and vows to get revenge on Peter,

He turns up at his house late at night with his cousins and completely wrecks Peters Home.

The demon in the walls makes an appearance and… well let’s just say she butchers them to death in gruesome fashion.

It’s grim and it’s gross, I don’t normally enjoy watching children die in films, the worst culprit was the movie Clown which I have reviewed in the past and you can check that out here

Clown, A Disgusting, Disturbing And Down Right Gory Ass Horror Flick

Cobweb gets a 6/10… it’s scary there’s no doubt about that but it’s a massive letdown come the end credits, the acting in this however is great!

Last Voyage Of The Demeter

Now… this has been on my radar since the trailer dropped last month, Dracula is one of the most famous and iconic movie characters in film history, we’ve so many portrayals of the vampire, so many film adaptations of him, most famously by Bela Lugosi back in the thirties.

This film however takes Dracula and transports him on a ship called the Demeter, it’s based on the chapter The Captains Log from of course Dracula written by Bram Stoker.

Oh boy oh boy, if I could describe this film it would have to be if Alien was set on a ship, it’s claustrophobic… it’s spooky… it’s… utterly terrifying, Dracula is played by Javier Botet, who when you look at his filmography has played various horror movie villains, he played the leper in 2017s It, the crooked man in The Conjuring 2 and of course the terrifying Tristana Medeiros in the Spanish film REC.

The film also stars Liam Cunningham as the captain of the Demeter, Corey Hawkins as a doctor called Clemens who tries desperately to become a crew member aboard the Demeter.

The jump scares come thick and fast, the tension is so damn high, it’s definitely a scary film there’s no doubt about that, the deaths are… well, their pretty much what you expect from a vampire horror, all except for one poor bugger who gets his face smashed in repeatedly by Dracula.

Now obviously some crew members do get bitten and we see them as the sun rises burn too death, that’s pretty grim as well, although the effects do look a bit cheesy that’s about the only downside this movie has other than that it’s great.

The acting is pretty much what you’d expect, nothing to write home about but it’s decent, there’s no standout performance in my opinion they all do a good job so there’s that.

The other issue I did have with this film was not only the special effects but the lighting too, now I don’t dabble too much with lighting in films but if you make a horror that’s mostly set during the night you need great lighting.

I did find myself struggling to see a few things here and there I don’t know maybe my eyes need testing again or something, let me know if you found it dark or was it just me.

I’ll give this film an 8/10 it was scary it was intense, it had everything really, just the special effects were a bit of a letdown, and the lighting as well, again as I said if you set a horror film at night then you need some decent lighting, don’t go down the AVP: Requiem route (we all remember how dark that one was)

I will maybe do this again, sort of a double feature kind of, I’m always watching new movies whenever I get the time too, anyway on that note as always… catch ya later 🙂

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