Meh. Double post.

It showed, they had great chemistry.

Shriek Show Brings Us HD 'Zombie Holocaust'

The cult 1980s horror film Zombie Holocaust will shamble to Blu-ray next month, reports High-Def Digest.

In an early announcement to retailers, Shriek Show has listed Zombie Holocaust for Blu-ray on April 19.

In an effort to expose a flesh-eating cult in New York City, a team of scientists sets out on an expedition to the primitive island of Keto. They are soon trapped in the wilderness, surrounded by a tribe of murderous cannibals and an army of deadly zombies!

Specs and supplements haven't been revealed yet, but the release will be a Blu-ray/DVD combo.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/23881

3 movies that look interesting


1-Battle Royale
2000, Kinji Fukasaku

Based in a time when Japan’s unemployment rate is at a record high, the government devises a plan to take action in the form of killing off rebellious high-school students in hopes the survivors will be appreciative of their lives and contribute to society. Every year a class is chosen at random and, whilst in the comfort of their school bus, the students are drugged and kidnapped, only to awake in their worst nightmare on an island in the middle of nowhere. Each is given a weapon and fitted with an electronic collar, which will explode in three days unless all but one person is dead. This “winner” will then be allowed to return to society and carry on a “normal” life. Lucky them.

2-Hard Candy
2005, David Slade

Beautifully written, directed and acted, “Hard Candy” seems so realistic it can be difficult to watch at times. When 30-something Geoff meets 14 year-old Haley online in a chat room, he can’t believe his luck. She appears to be putty in his hands and when she agrees to meet in person and go back to his house, he thinks he can’t go wrong. Haley is not like the other girls; she is sweet, smart, sexy. So smart in fact, that when they arrive at Geoff’s house she refuses to let him mix her drink. If only Geoff was so smart. He wakes up tied to a chair, trapped in his own house with a sociopath who is convinced he is a pedophile who murdered a young girl in the area. The psychological and physical traumas she inflicts on Geoff are disturbing, to say the least, especially when you, as an audience, are unsure whether or not he deserves it.

3-Seed
2007, Uwe Boll

This movie is absolutely shocking from beginning to end. And when I say beginning: I was literally screaming for the T.V. to be turned off in the opening credits. The movie opens with footage of dogs that have been skinned alive and are still writhing in agony (which I eagerly fast-forwarded through).

Seed takes pleasure, as most psycho-murderers do, in watching things die. But with a difference: he doesn’t lay a finger on them. He puts a living being in a room with a video camera and watches them over a period of weeks as they deteriorate, starve, die and decompose. He begins with a cockroach, then a dog, then a baby and finally a woman. The police find him and sentence him to the electric chair, where he is electrocuted. However, he survives and, after being buried alive, is furious and goes on a killing rampage. For those who like the sound of the fire extinguisher scene in “Irreversible”; there is a similar hammer scene in this film, which may take your fancy.

Side dish:

1. “Seed” won Best Special Effects at the 2007 New York City Horror Film Festival, which is pretty good considering it apparently took under a month to film and was funded with Boll’s own money.
2. The opening “skinned dogs” scene is real footage, provided by PETA: whom Boll donated 2.5% of the films profits to (however with acting this bad, I doubt that was a significant sum).


all 3 trailers can be seen here (plus a few others)

http://listverse.com/2011/01/14/top-10-disturbing-films-you-can-hire/

Hard Candy is one of the most intense psychological thrillers you'll ever get to watch. The subject matter and the characters are so strong and controversial, you will find yourself unsure of your initial feelings or conclusions, since you'll find that the fine line between hero and villain actually gets blurry at some point. I don't think anyone who watches this movie will forget it for a lengthy period of time.

Just finished watching:

Junior aka Hot Water aka A Cut Above (1985)



In a nutshell, this movie proved to be quite a pleasant surprise. It didn't leave me applauding for it in the end, but it also did not make me feel any urge to gauge my eyes out from watching it.

I had my doubts when I first read the negative reviews about this film. Even the brief description did nothing to lift my interest either, but I still gave it a go since I like forming my own opinions on a subject.

The movie started out with two women who just got out of prison and wanted to start a new life. They ended up in a small town where they had a run-in from the local sheriff who happens to immediately form a severe dislike for the two. Despite the prejudice they encountered along the way, they rented a dilapidated marina and made it their home. Not long after, though, they started to get harassed by rednecks. One in particular was a huge man named Junior who tried to pass for a creepy psycho retard, but never quite reaches it.

There is very little blood and gore seen in the movie, but what they lacked in that department, they made up for breast exposure and bikini scenes. The acting at times bordered on silly, but there was something about the movie that wouldn't let you turn it off in spite of it. I guess one could say that this movie is so bad, it's good.

Near the end of it, when you begin to think that the movie is getting to be monotonous, it surprises you with a bit of a twist. Nothing monumental, but clever nevertheless. The ending actually turned around my opinion of the entire movie. Admittedly, even if I would agree with anyone that this would never make a list as one of the industry's iconic films, I could say with conviction that it is worth watching.

Battle Royale is excellent. The sequel was a huge disappointment.

I assumed it was this Junior, I had asked you which one but you never answered me There's another horror flick from the 80's also called Junior, but I think it's super rare.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283427/combined

Starmaker Video, it and Video Treasures were two of the cheapo VHS companies that popped up back in the 80's. Sure you could pick up their tapes for cheapo prices, but the quality was less, and very few of the tapes that I have from either company still play.

That really is rare. I couldn't find a single torrent.

Just finished watching:

The Birds (1963)

Melanie Daniels is the modern rich socialite, part of the jet-set who always gets what she wants. When lawyer Mitch Brenner sees her in a pet shop, he plays something of a practical joke on her, and she decides to return the favor. She drives about an hour north of San Francisco to Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends the weekends with his mother Lydia and younger sister Cathy. Soon after her arrival, however, the birds in the area begin to act strangely. A seagull attacks Melanie as she is crossing the bay in a small boat, and then, Lydia finds her neighbor dead, obviously the victim of a bird attack. Soon, birds in the hundreds and thousands are attacking anyone they find out of doors. There is no explanation as to why this might be happening, and as the birds continue their vicious attacks, survival becomes the priority.

Love the review, Red, keep them coming.

The Psychopath 1975



Just watched this mid-70's oddity. Mr. Rabbey, a disturbed host of a children's TV show decides to take justice into his own hands by killing the abusive parents of small children.

The late Tom Basham gives a very creepy performance as Mr. Rabbey...sort of an adult child, even carries a security blanket. There's a creepy moment when he's stalking one of the abusive mothers in her home and he's peeking around the corner with one of his puppets.



The ending I definitely wasn't expecting. IF by chance Hollywood remade this film, there's no way they would keep that ending.

Co-produced by Jackson Bostwick who is best known for playing Captain Marvel in the 70's live-action series Shazam!.

FRIDAY THE 13TH (2009 Remake)

Pot growers the world over might wanna employ Jason Vorhees to protect there crops. Sure, he might wanna kill you, but reach out to Jason and he will keep those sex obsessed, pot stealing obsessed, partying teens away from your money maker. Especially if you are growing pot near the proximity of Camp Crystal Lake. I mean, this is Jason's home. And nobody tresspasses, lest they be whacked, or done in by whatever creative fashion Jason comes up with. And, while I am thinking about it, how did this guy become so creative at killing? Guessing Mommy talks to him in his sleep, giving him ideas.

Anyways, I actually did like this remake. Aside from having the best line about boobs I have ever seen in a film (The delivery, and the timing of the line are just perfect), this movie isn't bad for what it is. Jason actually doesn't just walk slowly. He runs.....pretty damn fast too. He is more vicious, and deliberate in what he does. One problem with the film is that.....Jason shoots a bow and arrow. Like...he has dead aim with the thing. WTF???? What? Is he taking archery lessons during the off season? Oh, and he has also developed an alarm system, made up of wires on the ground that, when triggered, set off his alarm system in his place....underground. And yes, somehow he knows which spot has been triggered. Don't ask me how he knows this. All I remember seeing was he had the wires running down to where his main lair is, and on this wire is a string of cans that shake like hell when the wires are tripped. He just somehow knows where to go.


If your a fan of the original series, you will more than likely enjoy this. It stays true to the formula that made the slasher films of the 80's so much damn fun to watch. I know there will be a part 2 to this. I only hope in that one, we actually get to see Jason getting baked, and then going to kill some damn kids trying to steal his (or his employers) weed. That'd be cool.

Recently watched:

The House



I have been particularly fond of Asian horror movies, because most of those I've seen were based on old cultural Folklore or legends, which in my opinion are always one of the best fodders for a good film. Another common ingredient they usually contain are ghosts or spirits that are out for justice. However, in the film Baan phii sing, or The House, it was said to be "supposedly" based on true crime stories, which is another favored movie subject as it can sometimes shed new light on an otherwise closed perspective.



The movie centers on the life of a female journalist who eagerly accepted an assignment of making a documentary report about some murder cases that was very big news during its time, but has already been forgotten through the years, namely: The Nuanchawee Murder. In September 18, 1959 Nuanchawee Patchara, a nurse was strangled and drowned by a group of men. Her body was found in the Choa Praya River. Around the time of murder, she was having an affair with a married doctor, Utid Kajorndate who became a suspect. He finally confessed that he hired a group of men to kill his secret lover after she had threatened to tell his wife about their affair.

The Jarmjuree Murder. In September 28, 1999 Chalerm Songkramkrad, a medical student, murdered his girlfriend, Jarmjuree Ploysawangsri in a cold-blood manner, and then tried to discard the body by amputating the limbs and slicing his dead girlfriend into tiny pieces, after she tried to break up with him. He later confessed to the police that he did it out of jealousy.



The Dr Pusuratt Murder. In February 20, 2001 a female doctor, Pusuratt Bhungaysornpan was reported missing. The police later found pieces of human tissues which matched the DNA of hers in the central drainage at the famous hotel in Bangkok. Doctor Watson Bhungaysornpan, her husband immediately became a murder suspect with the motive, that he had wanted a divorce and start a new life with his new lover.

During the course of her investigation, she finds one common ground among the accused: They all lived, at one time during their lives, in an old house. When she went there to investigate, weird things suddenly start to happen to her and her husband as well.



While watching the first part of the movie, I was taken in by the creepiness of the house and the way the ghost seemed to appear. But it was a bit short-lived because the story unraveled in a way that I thought was dragging and unnecessary. The acting of the main character was a bit over-the-top and her fainting scenes were somehow, well, pathetic. The story had a lot of potential, but it seemed it was not realized in this movie. The film revolved on a plot that had too many implausibilities and left the viewer with more questions rather than the expected answers. Also, it failed to tie all the cases involved in a coherent continuity.

Still, I wouldn't write this off as a total failure. I have enjoyed it on some parts, and there were enough buckets of blood to rival even the slasher movies of the 80's.

I want to see this. The house looks creepy, the shot looks retro, it makes me think of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I like.

The thing I liked about the movie is that they didn't follow the evil Samara character bandwagon.

I guess that fad is finally going the way of the dinosaurus.

I think he learned from the same guy who taught Michael Myers how to drive a car.

I liked the remake, much better film than Jason Takes Manhattan, JAson Goes To Hell, and Jason X.

Interview: Hollywood is Dead's Matt Busch

Matt Busch is well known in the art world for his beautiful Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and The Lord of the Rings paintings. He's also known in the rock world for his paintings of Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Motley Crue, and Poison. But a couple of years ago Busch started a series of paintings that caught the attention of both zombie fans and movie poster fans alike. He created the "Hollywood Is Dead" series which featured zombie parodies of some of the world's most recognizable movie posters. The posters which show everything from simplified Back to the Future characters to E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial have received national attention.

STYD caught up with Matt Busch to find out more about his zombieriffic parodies:

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/interviewsnews.php?id=18303

Gallery here:
http://www.hollywood-is-dead.com/

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