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Natural City

NATURAL CITY review
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"While Korea and Japan have both established themselves as leading horror contenders in the last two decades, the science fiction realm of cinema sometimes gets lost. Face it, it’s risky, especially if you have a low budget. Effects, the sets, and acting can all suffer, while if you have a big budget and blow it in the story department, which is more common than not, your movie is either forgotten or written off rather poorly. That’s why it is nice to see a science fiction film come along that works with a large budget while paying attention to all the details. With subtle human nuances, symbolic folklore and a very believable story portrayed convincingly by its cast, NATURAL CITY delivers what can safely be stated as South Korea’s answer to the genre. Mixing a very emotional storyline that is reminiscent of BLADE RUNNER with MATRIX-like action, Byung-Cheon Min’s epic tale comes across as derivative yet refreshing. R, played extremely well by Ji-tae Yu (OLDBO ... " [More]

The Day After Tomorrow

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW review
By digitalconquest in digitalconquest Blog
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"We all like our guilty pleasures. Go ahead admit it, nothing to be ashamed of. I’ll start. I like disaster films, usually no matter how bad or nonsensical they might be. I also have lots of problems with Roland Emmerich’s INDEPENDENCE DAY, but must admit sometimes I just like to putting my brain down next to me on the couch, sitting back, and watching cities being destroyed and aliens blowing the shit out of everything. So, suffice to say, yeah, I’m a hypocrite. I scream obscenities about the director for his lack of creative depth or originality, but at the same time, I can be an eight your old boy watching Sci-Fi Theater on a boring Sunday afternoon all over again. The same can be said for Emmerich’s last effort (or lack thereof) with THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Sure, it’s implausible, even extremely hokey and exploitative when it comes to trying to pull at the heartstrings, but did anyone rush out to see this for its high dramatic moments? Or did they j ... " [More]

Cannibal Ferox

Cannibal Ferox review
By digitalconquest in digitalconquest Blog
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"CANNIBAL FEROX along with CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST have stood the test of time as THE essential Cannibal films of all time. Many fans of the genre have spent much of their time arguing which is the better of the two with Deodato’s foray usually winning the vote (I still prefer FEROX), but this review will not venture into this debate or the infamous animal cruelty subject as well. The film was meant to shock at an exploitative level and to thrill the audience as an adventure film. “Banned in 31 Countries”, cries out the ad campaign and for once, a film lives up to its reputation. Well, I don’t think any movie has the guts to necessitate a barring from several countries, but if you had to pick a certain subject matter, cannibalism would probably be in the top five. Living with years of bootlegs, Sazuma has put together a very nicely packaged DVD that while it doesn’t have a lot in the extras department, is a pristine print flush with lively color, detailed pi ... " [More]

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By digitalconquest in Weekly Theme
"THE STING LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS THE USUAL SUSPECTS THE BLUE-EYED BANDIT BLOODY PAYROLL THE EYE OF THE SPIDER A MAN TO RESPECT " [More]

Re:Weekly Theme for August 25: ...
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"Man Oh Man, where to start! Favorite recent Monster Mayhem: THE MIST and CLOVERFIELD. Favorite cheesy Monster Mayhem: THE GIANT CLAW Favorite Childhood Monster Mayhem: Any Godzilla movie and THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT. Favorite rare Monster Mayhem: TOXIC ZOMBIES and PANIC. Favorite Monster Mayhem series: KAIJU (GODZILLA, GAMERA, etc) and Paul Naschy's Wolfman films followed by the Hammer Studio's Frankenstein films. ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES CONTAINING MONSTER MAYHEM - Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND and Ridley Scott's ALIEN. So many more! " [More]

Re:Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
By digitalconquest in Zombie Obsession
"A great film and a personal favorite in my zombie movie collection! " [More]

The Northville Cemetery Massacre

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"One of the bloodiest and most entertaining over the top biker flicks from the 70’s gets a great 30th Anniversary Edition release thanks to the folks at VCI. The story is familiar as a bad cop rapes a young townie and blames it on the bikers. Being this is a small bible thumping type of town; soon we have rednecks and bikers fighting it out via knives, guns, explosives and other deadly weapons. Blood flies and spurts with every wound and it is non-stop action up until the bitter end. Our bad seed cop gets the victim’s father and a local mercenary hit man involved, but the bikers also have their own arsenal (in the means of a Patton-like nut who could supply Libya with enough arms for an all out revolution). Listen for Nick Nolte’s voice (he was dubbed over for the role of Chris, the lead originally played by David Hyry). Despite some cheesy lines, non-actors and a horribly fake helicopter explosion, this is still one of the most enjoyable and a personal favorite of ... " [More]

Dead and Deader

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"A Special Forces raid/rescue in Cambodia goes deadly wrong and leaves Lt. Bobby Quinn’s squad brutally killed. When the bodies hit stateside, Quinn wakes up during his own autopsy! He discovers that the rest of his squad has done the same, only they’ve gone completely over the edge into zombie territory feasting on the living. Teaming up with the only one who believes him, an annoying military cook, he must use his keen sense of flesh smell to help stop his comrades before the zombie virus spreads or he can no longer fight his own hunger. This is a one note premise that relies on horror film in jokes and homage’s to older and better movies. Definitely a film for fans of the genre from the get go, you’ll either have fun watching it or despise it. I found myself in the latter camp. How many Thriller video in-jokes do we need at this point? The obvious low budget doesn’t help either (strange because smaller budgets in zombie movie history usually helped). ... " [More]

Ashura

ASHURA - mini Cultcuts review
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"Demons disguised as people walk the streets enjoying the splendors of life and several humans as snacks. A band of Demon Warriors are in charge of slaying them, but when one of the best warriors, Izumo, accidentally kills what seems to be an innocent girl, the group disbands and retires. Years later, signs and revelations point to the rebirth of Ashura, Queen of the Demons, and no matter what Izumo wants, he’s forced out of retirement. Teaming up with a mysterious renegade female thief (well, not mysterious to the viewer anyway), they must put the clues together and fight the good fight. The action is swift, the cinematography and sets are extremely colorful and beautiful to look at, but the entire production feels and plays out like a video game meets the Asian version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The CGI is too cartoony with green neon blood dissipating in midair (less offensive for the kiddies I guess) and some of the plot twists are definite head scratchers feeling as if ... " [More]

Dawn of the Living Dead

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"After a two and a half year stint in a mental institution, Renee moves with her new fiancé (Estevez) to the desert only to be confronted by nightmares that might be real. It seems a family of Mayans were killed in the house a few years back, but because the proper burial rights weren’t given, they are now zombies. Hungry and pissed off, they make lunch out of a couple of criminals and their hostages and then set their sights on Renee, Estevez and Michael, a local worker who has his own plans with Renee. A nice twist on the zombie genre that uses All Souls Day with Mayan traditions, but it doesn’t always work. Some good gore sequences, with the highlight being a nice head decap as the zombie family proceeds to rip off Joe Estevez’s head! Actually shot on film rather than the usual video, Heavener’s film will make several zombie fans happy, but it takes a good 50 minutes to get to the good stuff. Nice but cheap make up. A bigger budget, some restraint a ... " [More]

Beauty Queen Butcher

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By digitalconquest in digitalconquest Blog
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"Picture Brian DePalma’s Carrie being shot on video by some amateur with the reject cast of Saved By The Bell, and that about best describes Beauty Queen Butcher. Overweight and clumsy Phyliss Loden is tricked into the local high school beauty pageant as a joke. She doesn’t understand why, but her only friend outside of her cat talks her into going through with it. When the beauty pageant coordinator (a guy in drag no less) gets wind of it, she talks the other contestants into tormenting her to get her to quit. When they kill her cat and comes in last place, she goes psycho and starts knocking off one beauty at a time working her way up the beauty queen ladder. Will she make it to the top? I wanted her to so the movie would be over. An okay slasher premise with horrible acting and production values, this almost bloodless film doesn’t have much to recommend it to genre fans. Obviously meant to be humorous, the jokes are there, but the laughs are not. Whether or not ... " [More]

Unholy

UNHOLY - mini Cultcuts review
By digitalconquest in digitalconquest Blog
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"It seems our government has been in cahoots with a German Nazi scientist who uses families in the suburbs and experiments on them. Specifically he tests the scientific methods behind necromancy by kidnapping people in their sleep. When Adrienne Barbeau’s daughter blows her own head off, Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Nicholas Brendon shows up as her son to find out why she would commit suicide. They find her taped diaries about the Necromancer and soon neighbors and townfolk around them start acting very odd. People start killing each other or themselves and then it all goes to hell. It’s an interesting premise, but unfortunately the whole thing plays off very convoluted and ends up just a mess. Barbeau and Brendon give it their all and they both do well, but the script and other characters just don’t gel to any satisfying conclusion. The twists are corny and the gore is old school bad looking CGI. Without a script, I can’t really recommend UNHOLY at all. ... " [More]