This 1957 follow up to The Aztez Mummy is yet again not a example of great cinema but the like Rock N Roll Wrestling Women Vs The Aztec Mummy it gets entertainment points for how bizarre it all is.
This low budget Mexican crap-fest blends classic horror, Monster Movies with Mexican wrestling Lucha Libre madness. It's silly and short but still manages to get a bit tired in some of the talky scenes. While The Curse Of The Aztec Mummy clocks in at a short 65 minutes it feels more like a full length feature due to the slow pace of the movie.
The evliv Dr. Krupp is back and wants to get his hands on the ancient jewels in the mummy's tomb. Krupp concocts a plan to abduct a scientists wife and hold her for ransom in exchange for a translation of ancient hieroglyphics that behold the secret hiding place of the jewels. However Curse Of The Aztec Mummy shifts gears and gets a bit more fun when a masked super hero shows up to kick the evil doctors ass. At first glance one might think that is El Santo up there. Wait why does Santo have a anarchy symbol on his belt. Ohhhh wait, that isn't El Santo at all. This silver masked Mexican wrestler is El Angel. Of course we all know El Angel. Wait... who the fuck is El Angel?
Anyway since the Aztec Mummy doesn't show up until the lats ten minutes of the movie El Angel is really our main source of entertainment here. Don't worry we do get to see this masked hero jumping around in his horribly fitting leotard, kicking the ass of every thug in the movie. However Angel seems to lose just about every fight. He gets captured over and over again and one can't help but wish Santo was doing the action scenes here. Before the film is over El Angel has his mask removed and we learn his true identity. Everyone in the movie acts surprised but I kinda just thought to myself, who cares? When the Aztec Mummy finally shows up in all his rotted glory he seems to have a certain preference to who he attacks. It all comes to a rather abrupt ending and left me wondering why they felt the need to make more of these stupid Aztec Mummy movies.
This one is only for lovers of really bad monster movies and lucha libre antics. It's silly, poorly acted, poorly lit and generally slow but on the other hand it is a sort of strang comic book film and gets points in the bizarre and unintentional humor departments.
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Class Of Nuke 'Em High (1986)
Remember when Troma Studios was still cool. Aside from The Toxic Avenger, this one is probably Troma's second biggest hit. Clearly influenced by the cult classic, Class Of 1984 which would come out four years earlier then Nuke 'Em High. This is one of the best from the Troma team.
Directed by Troma president Lloyd Kaufman (Terror Firmer) and Richard Haines who's directorial debut was Splatter University, Class Of Nuke 'Em High is a strange concoction of genre films that fills the screen with fast paced anarchy, adrenaline and pure entertainment. Nuke 'Em High manages to mix the classic Juvenile Delinquent films with monster movies. While the film never takes itself serious. Nuke 'Em comes off somewhere between a spoof / comedy type movie and a geek-boy homage to many films before it. Yet it still has enough originality and style to stand alone as a highly entertaining movie with tons of replay value.
Here's the stupid plot. Tromaville High School is located next to a nuclear power plant run by Troma fatty Pat Ryan who most would remember best as the fat corrupt mayor in The Toxic Avenger who gets disemboweled. Yet again Pat Ryan plays the bad guy and he doesn't care to much that Tromaville High is becoming a radioactive nightmare. "I don't give a wet fart" He says when he learns that the radiation levels are becoming dangerous. Its not long before the honor society at the school become a violent gang of drug pushing maniacs. They call themselves The Cretins. This group of wild punks are so over the top, they make the cast of Grotesque look serious. Its not long before The Cretins start selling radioactive marijuana to the clean-cut students and things start to get really strange. The atomic weed is causing the students to mutate and in one of the most memorable scenes a teenagers erection grows to be about eight feet tall and he also grows giant latex breasts. His girfriend becomes pregnant and vomits up a little monster similar to chest bursting creature in Alien. She flushes the monstrous fetus down the toilet, where it will end up in a vat of toxic waste and grow to become a menacing slimy killing machine.
Its not long before the whole gang of Cretins get expelled from school and they plot what might be the worlds first school shooting. The punks walk into the radioactive school and blow away the teachers with assault rifles. They drive motorcycles thru the school halls, spray paint the walls and destroy the whole building. It all comes to a conclusion when The Cretins meet the giant green monster in a battle to the death. Class Of Nuke 'Em High comes complete with decapitation, extreme genital stomping, mutilated faces, giant monsters, small monsters, radioactive human melt-downs and one of my favorite party scenes in any movie.
If you like movies where high school punks take over the school (Over The Edge) and run amok or you dig giant monster movies, then this one is perfect. Its got the typical Troma tongue in cheek social comentary, comedy, action, sex and violence. Its fun!
Directed by Troma president Lloyd Kaufman (Terror Firmer) and Richard Haines who's directorial debut was Splatter University, Class Of Nuke 'Em High is a strange concoction of genre films that fills the screen with fast paced anarchy, adrenaline and pure entertainment. Nuke 'Em High manages to mix the classic Juvenile Delinquent films with monster movies. While the film never takes itself serious. Nuke 'Em comes off somewhere between a spoof / comedy type movie and a geek-boy homage to many films before it. Yet it still has enough originality and style to stand alone as a highly entertaining movie with tons of replay value.
Here's the stupid plot. Tromaville High School is located next to a nuclear power plant run by Troma fatty Pat Ryan who most would remember best as the fat corrupt mayor in The Toxic Avenger who gets disemboweled. Yet again Pat Ryan plays the bad guy and he doesn't care to much that Tromaville High is becoming a radioactive nightmare. "I don't give a wet fart" He says when he learns that the radiation levels are becoming dangerous. Its not long before the honor society at the school become a violent gang of drug pushing maniacs. They call themselves The Cretins. This group of wild punks are so over the top, they make the cast of Grotesque look serious. Its not long before The Cretins start selling radioactive marijuana to the clean-cut students and things start to get really strange. The atomic weed is causing the students to mutate and in one of the most memorable scenes a teenagers erection grows to be about eight feet tall and he also grows giant latex breasts. His girfriend becomes pregnant and vomits up a little monster similar to chest bursting creature in Alien. She flushes the monstrous fetus down the toilet, where it will end up in a vat of toxic waste and grow to become a menacing slimy killing machine.
Its not long before the whole gang of Cretins get expelled from school and they plot what might be the worlds first school shooting. The punks walk into the radioactive school and blow away the teachers with assault rifles. They drive motorcycles thru the school halls, spray paint the walls and destroy the whole building. It all comes to a conclusion when The Cretins meet the giant green monster in a battle to the death. Class Of Nuke 'Em High comes complete with decapitation, extreme genital stomping, mutilated faces, giant monsters, small monsters, radioactive human melt-downs and one of my favorite party scenes in any movie.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
The Suckling (1990)
This one plays like a cross between a Troma movie, a Frank Henenlotter film with a touch of John Waters. The Suckling also went under the title Sewage Baby which is arguably the better title.
A pregnant woman and her boyfriend go to see Big Mama, who runs a local brothel with a secret abortion operation upstairs. Right off the bat you know this is gonna be a classy one. Big Mama rids the pregnant one of her problem and flushes the fetus down the toilet. We watch the fetus go down the drain and land in sewers. When raw sewage pours into the drainage system the fetus begins to mutate and becomes a monster with a thirst for human blood. Its not long before the killer baby is coming up out of the toilets and pulling the heads off of the houses prostitutes in gory detail.
The degenerates within the house become trapped inside when the house is coated with a strange placenta like substance. I guess you can say in a way the house almost becomes a womb and the hookers, pimps, madams and perverts are all stuck inside with the rapidly growing, mutant, monster-baby. One can't help but wonder if there is supposed to be some anti-abortion message going on here but the total depravity and sheer bad taste of the film would suggest otherwise. If there is some kind of moralistic metaphor going on in this one it was certainly executed horribly. On the other hand if you are a fan of exploitation films or just trash films in general this one is a pretty entertaining watch.
Being a fan of The Suckling I am the first to admit that there is a lot of problems with the film. First off its supposed to be set in Brooklyn. Being a New Yorker myself I can say that this thing was certainly not shot in Brooklyn. The whore house is in the suburbs somewhere and it takes place in a giant mansion. If the Suckling was shot in New York at all I would guess it was upstate somewhere. Anyway aside from this, the acting is pretty horrendous with the exception of one blond hooker who offers a believable performance from time to time. The rest of the cast is extremely wooden and have a sort of shot on video feel to them. However The Suckling was not actually shot on video. They did have the decency to use film. A low grade, bottom of the barrel film yes... Perhaps super 8 but at least its film.
For me the films worst aspect is how annoying the characters get at times. The entire cast in The Suckling is constantly bickering and arguing amongst themselves. At times its funny and reminds me of a John Waters film but other times it gets quite irritating. I suppose in a way this works because it makes you despise just about every character in the film and when the get killed off it makes you so much happier. Everyone in this movie is on some kind of a power trip. Its almost as if they took Mr. Cooper from Night Of The Living Dead and molded every single character after him.
On a more positive note, just about everybody dies. The monster in this movie is awesome. It looks like a cross between Pumpkinhead and the monster in Entrails Of A Beautiful Woman. The Suckling doesn't lack in the gore department either. We have decapitations, slit throats, gunshot wounds to the head, electrocution and a great moment where the Sewage Baby retreats back into its mothers womb. Some of the other highlights include a rape scene gone wrong, in which the monster interferes and a hilariously raunchy scene where a prostitute preforms some dildo-fu on a obnoxious client.
As a hole The Suckling is a entertaining piece of filth and its very surprising that this thing came out in 1990. It certainly is better then most of the other stuff coming out of America at this time and its well worth a watch for fans of this kind of smut.
A pregnant woman and her boyfriend go to see Big Mama, who runs a local brothel with a secret abortion operation upstairs. Right off the bat you know this is gonna be a classy one. Big Mama rids the pregnant one of her problem and flushes the fetus down the toilet. We watch the fetus go down the drain and land in sewers. When raw sewage pours into the drainage system the fetus begins to mutate and becomes a monster with a thirst for human blood. Its not long before the killer baby is coming up out of the toilets and pulling the heads off of the houses prostitutes in gory detail.
The degenerates within the house become trapped inside when the house is coated with a strange placenta like substance. I guess you can say in a way the house almost becomes a womb and the hookers, pimps, madams and perverts are all stuck inside with the rapidly growing, mutant, monster-baby. One can't help but wonder if there is supposed to be some anti-abortion message going on here but the total depravity and sheer bad taste of the film would suggest otherwise. If there is some kind of moralistic metaphor going on in this one it was certainly executed horribly. On the other hand if you are a fan of exploitation films or just trash films in general this one is a pretty entertaining watch.
Being a fan of The Suckling I am the first to admit that there is a lot of problems with the film. First off its supposed to be set in Brooklyn. Being a New Yorker myself I can say that this thing was certainly not shot in Brooklyn. The whore house is in the suburbs somewhere and it takes place in a giant mansion. If the Suckling was shot in New York at all I would guess it was upstate somewhere. Anyway aside from this, the acting is pretty horrendous with the exception of one blond hooker who offers a believable performance from time to time. The rest of the cast is extremely wooden and have a sort of shot on video feel to them. However The Suckling was not actually shot on video. They did have the decency to use film. A low grade, bottom of the barrel film yes... Perhaps super 8 but at least its film.
For me the films worst aspect is how annoying the characters get at times. The entire cast in The Suckling is constantly bickering and arguing amongst themselves. At times its funny and reminds me of a John Waters film but other times it gets quite irritating. I suppose in a way this works because it makes you despise just about every character in the film and when the get killed off it makes you so much happier. Everyone in this movie is on some kind of a power trip. Its almost as if they took Mr. Cooper from Night Of The Living Dead and molded every single character after him.
On a more positive note, just about everybody dies. The monster in this movie is awesome. It looks like a cross between Pumpkinhead and the monster in Entrails Of A Beautiful Woman. The Suckling doesn't lack in the gore department either. We have decapitations, slit throats, gunshot wounds to the head, electrocution and a great moment where the Sewage Baby retreats back into its mothers womb. Some of the other highlights include a rape scene gone wrong, in which the monster interferes and a hilariously raunchy scene where a prostitute preforms some dildo-fu on a obnoxious client.
As a hole The Suckling is a entertaining piece of filth and its very surprising that this thing came out in 1990. It certainly is better then most of the other stuff coming out of America at this time and its well worth a watch for fans of this kind of smut.
Monday, May 11, 2015
Video Nasties : The Definitive Guide (2010)
Pretty great documentary here on the Video Nasties, UK ban list. However the DVD is even better then the actual movie. The Sevrin 3 disc set comes complete with of course the 73 minute documentary but then two extra discs of trailers for every movie on the Video Nasties list. Not only do we get the trailer but a short spoken review on each of the films. Needless to say it takes quite a long time to get through all of the material on this set.
Video Nasties : The Definitive Guide is hosted by a British hottie named Emily Booth who has a couple of credits to her name, none of which I ever really want to see. Pretty much all of it looks like modern digitalized shit. Anyway aside from the sexy brunette Emily Booth we have lots of informative British folk shedding lite on what it was like to be an unfortunate victim of the UK censors. The documentary sports interviews with the fascist scum who helped ban the nasty horror gems as well as the genre fans who defend the films. Shit-Bag Mary Whitehouse and her moronic Christian drones appear in old stock footage shedding their bullshit views on the video tapes. Its pretty funny to watch these human rectum's speak now-a-days. They just look like fools.
There really isn't anything that this movie leaves out. They take a subject that isn't all that vast in the first place and cover just about ever square inch of it. For this reason I find it strange that they made a sequel to this movie. I can't fathom what they possibly left out of the first film. Either way I will eventually get around to watching the sequel, if for nothing else, the trailers! Personally having a life long obsession with trashy trailers I put this 3 disc set in the ranks of trailer compilations like Mad Rons Prevues From Hell and Grindhouse Horrors this thing sports close to 80 trailers. Woo-Fucking-Hoo!
I would recommend the Definitive Guide to anyone who is interested in collecting the Video Nasties tapes or just interested in the subject and more so anyone who really digs horror and exploitation trailers. There are so many good ones on here. There were even a few British trailers that I have never seen before including one or two rare English television spots. Check this one out and lose your moral fiber for good. That is of course if you horror-loving, sickos have an morality left to lose. To avoid fainting. Keep repeating, It's only a movie... Only a movie...
Video Nasties : The Definitive Guide is hosted by a British hottie named Emily Booth who has a couple of credits to her name, none of which I ever really want to see. Pretty much all of it looks like modern digitalized shit. Anyway aside from the sexy brunette Emily Booth we have lots of informative British folk shedding lite on what it was like to be an unfortunate victim of the UK censors. The documentary sports interviews with the fascist scum who helped ban the nasty horror gems as well as the genre fans who defend the films. Shit-Bag Mary Whitehouse and her moronic Christian drones appear in old stock footage shedding their bullshit views on the video tapes. Its pretty funny to watch these human rectum's speak now-a-days. They just look like fools.
There really isn't anything that this movie leaves out. They take a subject that isn't all that vast in the first place and cover just about ever square inch of it. For this reason I find it strange that they made a sequel to this movie. I can't fathom what they possibly left out of the first film. Either way I will eventually get around to watching the sequel, if for nothing else, the trailers! Personally having a life long obsession with trashy trailers I put this 3 disc set in the ranks of trailer compilations like Mad Rons Prevues From Hell and Grindhouse Horrors this thing sports close to 80 trailers. Woo-Fucking-Hoo!
I would recommend the Definitive Guide to anyone who is interested in collecting the Video Nasties tapes or just interested in the subject and more so anyone who really digs horror and exploitation trailers. There are so many good ones on here. There were even a few British trailers that I have never seen before including one or two rare English television spots. Check this one out and lose your moral fiber for good. That is of course if you horror-loving, sickos have an morality left to lose. To avoid fainting. Keep repeating, It's only a movie... Only a movie...
Criminally Insane (1975)
This one also went under the great exploitation title of Crazy Fat Ethel which is probably a bit more memorable then Criminally Insane but the truth is both names work for this sickie from the 70's. No matter what you chose to call this one, you are not likely to forget it anytime soon. Criminally Insane is a all time favorite of mine!
Criminally Insane is great on so many levels. All the greatest elements of a demented 1970's movie can be found here. It's extremely gritty, it's both intentionally and unintentionally hilarious, it's vile and extreme. For these reasons this one has a ton of replay value and works perfectly as a party movie to entertain a group of friends or just a pleasant rewatch while on your own. Priscilla Alden plays Crazy Fat Ethel, a psychopathic tub of lard who was just released from the psych-ward. Now back home with "granny" Ethel swears that the doctors were trying to kill her by starvation while she was away. Of course this is all just in her damaged brain and most likely Ethel was being fed three square meals but none the less, Ethel is never going to hungry again.
Granny tries repeatedly to get through to Ethel about watching her weight and food in take. When granny tells Ethel that her heart is at risk Ethel has this to say "My heart is just fine as long as my stomach isn't empty". In a brash decision granny decides to put locks on the food cabinets and ration out Ethel's food appropriately but this sends Ethel into a psychotic fit and before to can say "feed me Seymour", Ethel stabs her dear old granny to death with a big ole kitchen knife. Now Crazy Fat Ethel has the entire house to herself and we are treated to scenes of the obese slob scarfing shit-loads of food down her gob. We watch Ethel fry up a full pound of bacon with about a dozen eggs, eat the worlds largest bowl of ice cream, down full boxes of cookies and some how she never feels quite full. When you mix the scenes of over the top violence with the gratuitous eating it leaves a funny but nasty taste in your mouth. Sex and food is one thing but food and meat-cleaver gore is another.
In some ways Criminally Insane reminds me a bit of Don't Go In The House, which would hit the big screen four years later. While the two movies are very different, even with the obvious gender change in our psycho's, its something about the mind of a compulsive loony who gains a demented sense of freedom when they have the house to themselves. With nobody to stop Ethel, it is inevitable that the bodies will continue to pile up and eventually she will self destruct. In this way Don't Go In The House and Criminally Insane have similarities but then again maybe I'm looking a bit to deep into this. I'm sure some ass-hat would say that Home Alone has the same outcome. Anyway the bodies do pile up and its not long before Ethel's place stinks like a cross between John Wayne Gacy's crawlspace and a slaughter house.
While I have never heard anybody refer to Criminally Insane as a sexy movie it does seem that it tried for some sex appeal when Ethel's sister Rosalie shows up. If this in fact the case the film makers failed miserably here. Rosalie is a battered prostitute who spends most of her time doing cocaine, drinking beer, bringing home johns and of course being beaten by her pretty-boy boyfriend, whom wears makeup. However on the other hand makeup can not save Rosalie. She is quite offensive to look at. Something about her face makes me wanna smash my television, so when she falls victim to Crazy Fat Ethel it is always a nice little treat. In one of the films strangest moments Rosalie asks her makeup wearing boyfriend why he beat the shit of her. He delivers this amazingly misogynistic line "Rosalie I'm gonna tell you the truth. You need a good beating once and a while. All Women do but especially you". Of course these words of beauty turns Rosalie into putty and she is back in her abusive boyfriends arms before we know it.
Eventually Ethel's killing spree gets out of hand and people start catching on to her. There was a sequel to this in 1987 which I have not been lucky enough to see yet and another two movies staring Priscilla Alden where she plays a psychotic nurse. Unfortunately I haven't seen the Death Nurse movies either but they are on the list of things to do. However I believe they were shot on video and I highly doubt they hold the same entertainment value of Criminally Insane.
Criminally Insane is great on so many levels. All the greatest elements of a demented 1970's movie can be found here. It's extremely gritty, it's both intentionally and unintentionally hilarious, it's vile and extreme. For these reasons this one has a ton of replay value and works perfectly as a party movie to entertain a group of friends or just a pleasant rewatch while on your own. Priscilla Alden plays Crazy Fat Ethel, a psychopathic tub of lard who was just released from the psych-ward. Now back home with "granny" Ethel swears that the doctors were trying to kill her by starvation while she was away. Of course this is all just in her damaged brain and most likely Ethel was being fed three square meals but none the less, Ethel is never going to hungry again.
Granny tries repeatedly to get through to Ethel about watching her weight and food in take. When granny tells Ethel that her heart is at risk Ethel has this to say "My heart is just fine as long as my stomach isn't empty". In a brash decision granny decides to put locks on the food cabinets and ration out Ethel's food appropriately but this sends Ethel into a psychotic fit and before to can say "feed me Seymour", Ethel stabs her dear old granny to death with a big ole kitchen knife. Now Crazy Fat Ethel has the entire house to herself and we are treated to scenes of the obese slob scarfing shit-loads of food down her gob. We watch Ethel fry up a full pound of bacon with about a dozen eggs, eat the worlds largest bowl of ice cream, down full boxes of cookies and some how she never feels quite full. When you mix the scenes of over the top violence with the gratuitous eating it leaves a funny but nasty taste in your mouth. Sex and food is one thing but food and meat-cleaver gore is another.
In some ways Criminally Insane reminds me a bit of Don't Go In The House, which would hit the big screen four years later. While the two movies are very different, even with the obvious gender change in our psycho's, its something about the mind of a compulsive loony who gains a demented sense of freedom when they have the house to themselves. With nobody to stop Ethel, it is inevitable that the bodies will continue to pile up and eventually she will self destruct. In this way Don't Go In The House and Criminally Insane have similarities but then again maybe I'm looking a bit to deep into this. I'm sure some ass-hat would say that Home Alone has the same outcome. Anyway the bodies do pile up and its not long before Ethel's place stinks like a cross between John Wayne Gacy's crawlspace and a slaughter house.
While I have never heard anybody refer to Criminally Insane as a sexy movie it does seem that it tried for some sex appeal when Ethel's sister Rosalie shows up. If this in fact the case the film makers failed miserably here. Rosalie is a battered prostitute who spends most of her time doing cocaine, drinking beer, bringing home johns and of course being beaten by her pretty-boy boyfriend, whom wears makeup. However on the other hand makeup can not save Rosalie. She is quite offensive to look at. Something about her face makes me wanna smash my television, so when she falls victim to Crazy Fat Ethel it is always a nice little treat. In one of the films strangest moments Rosalie asks her makeup wearing boyfriend why he beat the shit of her. He delivers this amazingly misogynistic line "Rosalie I'm gonna tell you the truth. You need a good beating once and a while. All Women do but especially you". Of course these words of beauty turns Rosalie into putty and she is back in her abusive boyfriends arms before we know it.
Eventually Ethel's killing spree gets out of hand and people start catching on to her. There was a sequel to this in 1987 which I have not been lucky enough to see yet and another two movies staring Priscilla Alden where she plays a psychotic nurse. Unfortunately I haven't seen the Death Nurse movies either but they are on the list of things to do. However I believe they were shot on video and I highly doubt they hold the same entertainment value of Criminally Insane.
Friday, May 8, 2015
Bride Of Chucky (1998)
Bride Of Chucky has always been my favorite in the somewhat shitty Child's Play series. It may be lacking in the violence department but where Bride falls short in that area it makes up for it with comedy in pure bad taste. This one goes way over the top when it comes to good raunchy humor.
Jennifer Tilly plays Tiffany, the ex-girlfriend of the late Charles Lee Ray. She has spent ten years tracking down the remains of the doll. With the help of some sewing needles and a staple gun, its not long before Tiffany has Chucky looking like Frankenstein's monster. With the help of her "voodoo for dummies" book, Tiffany manages to yet again resurrect the soul of Charles Lee Ray into the infamous Good Guy doll. Once Chucky is brought back to life he wastes no time and kills off Tiffany's cheesy, goth, boyfriend. This pussy makes Marilyn Manson look like a hetero sexual. Chucky rips the 90's-bastards lip rings out and smothers him with a pillow while he watches the hot Jennifer Tilly shake her thang.
Tiffany and Chucky start butting heads when Tiffany learns that her serial killer boyfriend never had any plans of marrying her. In one of my favorite scene Jennifer Tilly takes a bubble bath and watches Bride Of Frankenstein. Too bad for her she never sees the ending of the movie because Chucky throws the television into the tub and fries the sexy blond alive. Next Tiffany is resurrected into a doll of her own and the two dolls go on a killing spree while trying to get to the grave of Charles Lee Ray. During the course of the movie we watch the murderous dolls send nails flying into a police officers face, blow another cop to bits in a car explosion scene, knife a man to death and kill a newly wed couple on a water bed with shards of glass. However since this one was done in the late 90's and came out seven years after Child's Play 3 there isn't very much gore to gawk at.
What really makes this one so funny is seeing how the two dolls interact with each other and even other people. In what is probably the most memorable scene we watch Chucky get it on for the first time ever. They even used that as the tagline, "Chucky gets lucky...". Chucky gives it to Tiffany doggy style and delivers the great lines "I don't know about you but I'm beginning to feel like Pinocchio over here" and Tiffany has this to say "I wonder if all the plumbing works". Now that is just great. This of course all ends really badly and the couple fights over who is worse in bed, just like real married couples. It all comes together with a twisted ending in which Tiffany shits out a bloody baby getting us ready for the next sequel, Seed Of Chucky, which is just awful.
Bride Of Chucky is without a doubt the best in the series. If you are only going to watch one, it might as well be this one.
Jennifer Tilly plays Tiffany, the ex-girlfriend of the late Charles Lee Ray. She has spent ten years tracking down the remains of the doll. With the help of some sewing needles and a staple gun, its not long before Tiffany has Chucky looking like Frankenstein's monster. With the help of her "voodoo for dummies" book, Tiffany manages to yet again resurrect the soul of Charles Lee Ray into the infamous Good Guy doll. Once Chucky is brought back to life he wastes no time and kills off Tiffany's cheesy, goth, boyfriend. This pussy makes Marilyn Manson look like a hetero sexual. Chucky rips the 90's-bastards lip rings out and smothers him with a pillow while he watches the hot Jennifer Tilly shake her thang.
Tiffany and Chucky start butting heads when Tiffany learns that her serial killer boyfriend never had any plans of marrying her. In one of my favorite scene Jennifer Tilly takes a bubble bath and watches Bride Of Frankenstein. Too bad for her she never sees the ending of the movie because Chucky throws the television into the tub and fries the sexy blond alive. Next Tiffany is resurrected into a doll of her own and the two dolls go on a killing spree while trying to get to the grave of Charles Lee Ray. During the course of the movie we watch the murderous dolls send nails flying into a police officers face, blow another cop to bits in a car explosion scene, knife a man to death and kill a newly wed couple on a water bed with shards of glass. However since this one was done in the late 90's and came out seven years after Child's Play 3 there isn't very much gore to gawk at.
What really makes this one so funny is seeing how the two dolls interact with each other and even other people. In what is probably the most memorable scene we watch Chucky get it on for the first time ever. They even used that as the tagline, "Chucky gets lucky...". Chucky gives it to Tiffany doggy style and delivers the great lines "I don't know about you but I'm beginning to feel like Pinocchio over here" and Tiffany has this to say "I wonder if all the plumbing works". Now that is just great. This of course all ends really badly and the couple fights over who is worse in bed, just like real married couples. It all comes together with a twisted ending in which Tiffany shits out a bloody baby getting us ready for the next sequel, Seed Of Chucky, which is just awful.
Bride Of Chucky is without a doubt the best in the series. If you are only going to watch one, it might as well be this one.
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Hell Of The Living Dead (1980)
If Bruno Mattei is known for any one thing, it is probably for being the biggest thief in cinema other then Quentin Tarantino. Never is this so blatant then in Hell Of The Living Dead. Bruno Mattei out right steals scenes, music and dialogue from George A. Romero's Dawn Of The Dead but ya know what? We love it!
Originally titled Virus and then Hell Of The Living Dead and Night Of The Zombies, not to be mistaken for the Joel M. Reed movie of the same title. Right from the films opening this thing screams Dawn Of The Dead but it was obvious that Mattei had alternate scripts. Hell Of The Living Dead jumps around like fleas on a rat and speaking of rats we do have a zombie-rat scene in which a scientist is gnawed to death by the killer rodent. Of course only four years later Mattei would release his most famous movie Rats : Night Of Terror. Anyway this zombie flick really is all over the place. We go from inner city viral outbreak to the jungle and back to the city and into rural suburbs and back to the amazon. It just seems very confused but some how it all works out. The jungle scenes seem more like a Italian cannibal film and blatantly rips off moments from Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust.
Despite the fact that Hell Of The Living Dead is basically cinema plagiarism, it manages to stay so damn entertaining. Maybe Bruno Mattei really knew what he was doing. Just take all the best elements from movies that are big hits. When Hell Of The Living Dead comes up in conversation usually somebody always says "oh yeah, thats the movie with the music from Dawn Of The Dead". Mattei shamelessly directly lifts Goblin's musical score for Dawn and why did he do this? Because he liked the music of course! It really is that simple with Mattei and while some may hate him for that and call him a hack, I rather enjoy his films and know I'm in for a cluster-fuck of ripoff entertainment when I go into one.
While there is not any one thing that makes this movie so good, I do believe that the over the top violence, bad dialogue and sometimes nonsensical weird scenes really give this movie plenty of replay value. In one of the strangest moments a cat claws its way out of a dead womans stomach. Now I don't try to over analyze silly zombie flicks or anything but exactly how does a large cat get inside a dead womans stomach? There is just no logical answer for that but Bruno Mattei has no problem leaving it in his movie. Hell Of The Living Dead also sports what might be the most gratuitous nudity ever. It is almost comical when our lead actress first bares her boobs for us. Oh then there is the oddly reminiscent scene from Lucio Fulci's zombie film of the same year Gates Of Hell. When a woman begins to bleed from her eyes. Throw in some head explosions and a child zombie who eats his own father and you end up with a pretty fun movie. Hell Of The Living Dead is in my top five of Bruno Mattei films, right next to S.S. Girls, Womens Camp 119 and of course the great Women's Prison Massacre.
Originally titled Virus and then Hell Of The Living Dead and Night Of The Zombies, not to be mistaken for the Joel M. Reed movie of the same title. Right from the films opening this thing screams Dawn Of The Dead but it was obvious that Mattei had alternate scripts. Hell Of The Living Dead jumps around like fleas on a rat and speaking of rats we do have a zombie-rat scene in which a scientist is gnawed to death by the killer rodent. Of course only four years later Mattei would release his most famous movie Rats : Night Of Terror. Anyway this zombie flick really is all over the place. We go from inner city viral outbreak to the jungle and back to the city and into rural suburbs and back to the amazon. It just seems very confused but some how it all works out. The jungle scenes seem more like a Italian cannibal film and blatantly rips off moments from Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust.
Despite the fact that Hell Of The Living Dead is basically cinema plagiarism, it manages to stay so damn entertaining. Maybe Bruno Mattei really knew what he was doing. Just take all the best elements from movies that are big hits. When Hell Of The Living Dead comes up in conversation usually somebody always says "oh yeah, thats the movie with the music from Dawn Of The Dead". Mattei shamelessly directly lifts Goblin's musical score for Dawn and why did he do this? Because he liked the music of course! It really is that simple with Mattei and while some may hate him for that and call him a hack, I rather enjoy his films and know I'm in for a cluster-fuck of ripoff entertainment when I go into one.
While there is not any one thing that makes this movie so good, I do believe that the over the top violence, bad dialogue and sometimes nonsensical weird scenes really give this movie plenty of replay value. In one of the strangest moments a cat claws its way out of a dead womans stomach. Now I don't try to over analyze silly zombie flicks or anything but exactly how does a large cat get inside a dead womans stomach? There is just no logical answer for that but Bruno Mattei has no problem leaving it in his movie. Hell Of The Living Dead also sports what might be the most gratuitous nudity ever. It is almost comical when our lead actress first bares her boobs for us. Oh then there is the oddly reminiscent scene from Lucio Fulci's zombie film of the same year Gates Of Hell. When a woman begins to bleed from her eyes. Throw in some head explosions and a child zombie who eats his own father and you end up with a pretty fun movie. Hell Of The Living Dead is in my top five of Bruno Mattei films, right next to S.S. Girls, Womens Camp 119 and of course the great Women's Prison Massacre.
Childs Play 3 (1991)
Here's another Childs Play movie written by brain child Don Mancini. I will give this writer credit for sticking with his love for the little, red-headed, murderous, doll but the thing that probably hurts this series so bad is the fact that each film had a different director. It becomes apparent that aside from Don Mancini everyone else probably took this thing on strictly as a business deal.
While I wouldn't consider the Child's Play series to be the worst franchise of all time, it also isn't all that good either. Personally thinking the first film was a little on the lame side and preferring Child's Play 2 it would have been nice if the third film was even better. This however is not the case. Child's Play part 3 is pretty crappy with minimal gore and very uneventful kills. The film relies more on jokes and silly tongue in cheek moments that come off more embarrassing then actually funny. Sure Chucky is known for his silly one-liners but it is usually followed with a bloody death sequence. "Don't fuck with Chuck" is probably the most memorable of all the cheesy lines in this one and I think this movie is the first time we ever see Chucky flip the middle finger.
In case you forgot Chucky explodes in the end of the last film but its okay because the Good Guy franchise will yet again salvage the pieces and rebuild the psychotic doll. Once Chucky is back up on his own two feet he wastes no time getting back in to the swing of things. First he kills the greedy owner of Good Guy Dolls with a golf club to the achy-breaky skull. Then the film takes an odd turn and brings Chucky to a military school where he will be reunited with little Andy Barclay who is now eight years older. I guess Chucky only likes young boys because he decides that Andy is no longer the body that he wants to possess and in stead moves on to a young black boy named Tyler. In what just might be the best moment in the movie Chucky tells Andy Barclay that he is going to possess the body of Tyler with these lines "Just think, Chucky's gonna be a bro".
during the 90 minute running time we will witness Chucky slash a mans throat with a straight razor, put live rounds in the rifles during a training event in which a few kids will get shot, he blows a nerd to bits with a hand grenade, crushes a man in a garbage truck and in a very lame scene gives a man a heart attack. The violence is totally dulled down in this one and the only moment in the film with any kind of cool special effects is the climax when we witness Chucky being mangled.
Even as a kid I didn't really like this movie. If I never see this one again, I will be just fine. Child's Play 3 is amongst the worst in an over rated series.
While I wouldn't consider the Child's Play series to be the worst franchise of all time, it also isn't all that good either. Personally thinking the first film was a little on the lame side and preferring Child's Play 2 it would have been nice if the third film was even better. This however is not the case. Child's Play part 3 is pretty crappy with minimal gore and very uneventful kills. The film relies more on jokes and silly tongue in cheek moments that come off more embarrassing then actually funny. Sure Chucky is known for his silly one-liners but it is usually followed with a bloody death sequence. "Don't fuck with Chuck" is probably the most memorable of all the cheesy lines in this one and I think this movie is the first time we ever see Chucky flip the middle finger.
In case you forgot Chucky explodes in the end of the last film but its okay because the Good Guy franchise will yet again salvage the pieces and rebuild the psychotic doll. Once Chucky is back up on his own two feet he wastes no time getting back in to the swing of things. First he kills the greedy owner of Good Guy Dolls with a golf club to the achy-breaky skull. Then the film takes an odd turn and brings Chucky to a military school where he will be reunited with little Andy Barclay who is now eight years older. I guess Chucky only likes young boys because he decides that Andy is no longer the body that he wants to possess and in stead moves on to a young black boy named Tyler. In what just might be the best moment in the movie Chucky tells Andy Barclay that he is going to possess the body of Tyler with these lines "Just think, Chucky's gonna be a bro".
during the 90 minute running time we will witness Chucky slash a mans throat with a straight razor, put live rounds in the rifles during a training event in which a few kids will get shot, he blows a nerd to bits with a hand grenade, crushes a man in a garbage truck and in a very lame scene gives a man a heart attack. The violence is totally dulled down in this one and the only moment in the film with any kind of cool special effects is the climax when we witness Chucky being mangled.
Even as a kid I didn't really like this movie. If I never see this one again, I will be just fine. Child's Play 3 is amongst the worst in an over rated series.
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Hellhole (1985)
Why is this movie so god damn fun? Hellhole has very little going for it as far as production value, acting or even plot. This one has something else. It pulls you in with sheer bad taste and holds you all the way through. I really like this movie!
Busty, Judy Landers plays Susan, a dumb blond who witnesses her mother being killed by a leather clad weirdo with a scarf and mustache. The killers name is as ridiculous as his attire. He goes by the name of Silk. Silk is a sight for sore eyes. He is so over the top in wardrobe that he comes off looking less like a punker and more like a gay biker. Oh Silk, you are my hero. After killing Susan's mother, Silk takes after the titular blond and throws her off of the second story of a construction sight. Believing her to be dead Silk takes off only to learn that Susan survived with amnesia and was placed in a loony bin for psychiatric examination. From here the film becomes more of a Women In Prison movie and less of a typical thriller.
Silk disguises himself as a hospital orderly and stalks Susan, waiting for the perfect moment to get her alone. However Susan has much more to worry about and Silk just might be the least of her problems. The great cult icon Mary Woronov (Death Race 2000) plays Dr. Fletcher, a sadistic bitch who uses the patients as guinea pigs for her new drugs. The only problem is that the drugs tend to either kill the subject immediately or put them into a sort of zombie like state. Once the subjects become brain-dead drones they are brought to Hellhole! Hellhole is a second building outside the hospital where Dr. Fletcher practices her sick and twisted medical work. She also has a bunch of guards running around in what looks like NYPD uniforms. One of the goons is played by the biggest chin in cinema, Robert (Maniac Cop) Z'Dar. As always Robert Z'Dar's character is menacing and he seems to really have been enjoying this role.
Hellhole is jam packed with titties and bush. We are treated to the typical women in prison shower scenes, cat fights and plenty of lesbian sex. The one and only disappointing factor here is that we never get to see Judy Landers in the nude. What a ripoff that is. She even has a shower scene and we don't even get a glimpse at those massive melons. Where we lack in the bare breasted Judy Landers department the film does make up for it with every other actress. Plenty-o-boobs on display here. In one of my favorite sex scenes a blond bimbo sneaks into Silk's room where he is transformed back into homo-punk. Silk takes some dirty pictures of the blond loony while she calls him daddy over and over again. The thing I find so funny about this is that when Silk leaves the doctors ward and enters his living quarters, does he immediately snap on his studded bracelets? Just a silly thought.
Then there is the very random mud-bath scene in which Silk takes on a threesome in a tub full of mud. Don't worry, the girls still call him daddy. We also have some murder and mayhem. Axes come in handy, shards of broken glass are used, switchblades, billy clubs and giant syringes all act as instruments of death in Hellhole.
This one is a whole lot of fun and recommended for fans of women in prison movies, loony bin movies, or just fans of trash cinema in general. Its funny, its raunchy and it would never be made today. For these reasons alone it is worth a watch.
Busty, Judy Landers plays Susan, a dumb blond who witnesses her mother being killed by a leather clad weirdo with a scarf and mustache. The killers name is as ridiculous as his attire. He goes by the name of Silk. Silk is a sight for sore eyes. He is so over the top in wardrobe that he comes off looking less like a punker and more like a gay biker. Oh Silk, you are my hero. After killing Susan's mother, Silk takes after the titular blond and throws her off of the second story of a construction sight. Believing her to be dead Silk takes off only to learn that Susan survived with amnesia and was placed in a loony bin for psychiatric examination. From here the film becomes more of a Women In Prison movie and less of a typical thriller.
Silk disguises himself as a hospital orderly and stalks Susan, waiting for the perfect moment to get her alone. However Susan has much more to worry about and Silk just might be the least of her problems. The great cult icon Mary Woronov (Death Race 2000) plays Dr. Fletcher, a sadistic bitch who uses the patients as guinea pigs for her new drugs. The only problem is that the drugs tend to either kill the subject immediately or put them into a sort of zombie like state. Once the subjects become brain-dead drones they are brought to Hellhole! Hellhole is a second building outside the hospital where Dr. Fletcher practices her sick and twisted medical work. She also has a bunch of guards running around in what looks like NYPD uniforms. One of the goons is played by the biggest chin in cinema, Robert (Maniac Cop) Z'Dar. As always Robert Z'Dar's character is menacing and he seems to really have been enjoying this role.
Hellhole is jam packed with titties and bush. We are treated to the typical women in prison shower scenes, cat fights and plenty of lesbian sex. The one and only disappointing factor here is that we never get to see Judy Landers in the nude. What a ripoff that is. She even has a shower scene and we don't even get a glimpse at those massive melons. Where we lack in the bare breasted Judy Landers department the film does make up for it with every other actress. Plenty-o-boobs on display here. In one of my favorite sex scenes a blond bimbo sneaks into Silk's room where he is transformed back into homo-punk. Silk takes some dirty pictures of the blond loony while she calls him daddy over and over again. The thing I find so funny about this is that when Silk leaves the doctors ward and enters his living quarters, does he immediately snap on his studded bracelets? Just a silly thought.
Then there is the very random mud-bath scene in which Silk takes on a threesome in a tub full of mud. Don't worry, the girls still call him daddy. We also have some murder and mayhem. Axes come in handy, shards of broken glass are used, switchblades, billy clubs and giant syringes all act as instruments of death in Hellhole.
This one is a whole lot of fun and recommended for fans of women in prison movies, loony bin movies, or just fans of trash cinema in general. Its funny, its raunchy and it would never be made today. For these reasons alone it is worth a watch.
Childs Play 2 (1990)
If you are in the mood for a silly Slasher type movie where you don't have to use your brain, this one can actually be kinda fun. Childs Play 2 takes off where the first film ended. Little Andy Barclay has been sent to an orphanage while his mother is being psycho analyzed in some loony bin but we never even see her in this movie, so fuck her. Of course the authorities don't believe either one of them that they were being stalked by a possessed, serial killer doll and its not long before Chucky pops back up in the picture. It just so happens that all the news around Andy and his mother has made for very bad publicity for Good Guy Dolls incorporated. The company has managed to acquire the so called possessed doll and is putting it through testing to see if the doll was in anyway defective. Well for some reason the company chooses to completely refurbish the ugly red headed killer toy and before you can say "I hate kids" Chucky is back in the swing of things and killing off humans.
Chucky manages to track down his old pal Andy, who is now living with a foster family. Jenny Agutter who I remember best as nurse Alex in American Werewolf In London plays Andy's new foster mother. Chucky makes sure he gives the new family hell before eventually killing everybody off. The best kill scene is when Andy's school teacher has a bicycle pump stabbed deep into her chest and then is beat to death with a yard stick. Other then that most of the kill scenes are typically silly which one could expect from a movie about a talking killer doll that came out in 1990.
However the films best moment is the climax. It is a gory cat and mouse scene in the Good Guy Doll factory. The whole end of the movie is done in good splattery fun. Eyeballs are pushed in, arms are ripped off and we also get a really cool head explosion. Even if the whole first half of the film is mediocre to lame the ending makes it all better. Childs Play 2 also offers up a plastic bag suffocation scene, a twisted neck breaking scene, a stabbing and an electrocution. As far as this series goes, I stick with Bride Of Chucky and this one. The rest of them are all pretty lame.
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