TRENT HAAGA: MILD MANNERED KING OF SICKNESS

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! It wasn’t that long ago that Trent Haaga was a film geek with his own website who was so into horror movies that he sent a VHS tape to Lloyd Kaufman at Troma Entertainment on which he begged to be killed in a horror movie. These days, Haaga seems to be in the running for the title of “Scream King…”



Posted on October 31, 2004 by

SATAN’S LITTLE HELPER

2.5 Stars
Year Released: 2004
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 99 minutes

CINEMUERTE 2004 REVIEW! “Satan’s Little Helper” is a darkly humorous, but never campy take on media violence. Despite relying on a few too many genre clichés, Lieberman is careful to stay away from pedantic satire and manages to craft an entertaining and original modern horror yarn…


Posted on October 31, 2004 by

MALEFIC/RAISING HELL – B-MOVIE THEATER DOUBLE FEATURE (DVD)

MALEFIC/RAISING HELL – B-MOVIE THEATER DOUBLE FEATURE (DVD)
3.5 Stars
Year Released: 2003
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 127 minutes

Both films are worth any horror fans’ time. The DVD boasts a slew of trailers, stills and featurettes…


Posted on October 31, 2004 by

HELLINGER / HOLY TERROR – B-MOVIE THEATER DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE (DVD)

HELLINGER / HOLY TERROR – B-MOVIE THEATER DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE (DVD)
3.5 Stars
Year Released: 2003
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 0 minutes

A possessed nun dies during an exorcism and she’s doomed to haunt the house of her demise…


Posted on October 31, 2004 by

SKUNK APE!?

4 Stars
Year Released: 2003
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 30 minutes

Memorable characters, a goofy ape suit, bad music, masturbation and a McGruff the Crime Dog type moral cop, this hilarious short keeps getting funnier with repeated viewings…


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COME GET SOME!

3 Stars
Year Released: 2003
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 98 minutes

Beware: “Come Get Some!” is an unapologetic splatter fest with a rollicking Southern-punk-trash bent…


Posted on October 31, 2004 by

DRACULA (DVD)

4.5 Stars
Year Released: 1931
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 75 minutes

There’s no way Bram Stoker could have imagined his trashy novel giving birth to an icon. (He had other things to worry about, as he died of V.D. before Hollywood had a chance to adapt the book…)


Posted on October 31, 2004 by

MARK PIRRO’S GIGANTIC ASS

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Mark Pirro’s latest offering, “Rectuma,” sees a human ass form a mind of its own, detaching itself from its host, and growing to a monstrous size to wage war on Los Angeles with a gaseous wrath. Nope, after 20 years Mark Pirro hasn’t gone soft on us…



Posted on October 30, 2004 by

SALEM’S LOT (DVD)

3 Stars
Year Released: 2004
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 127 minutes

David Soul fans picket the office – in its entirety. Next to the original, it’s a ripper…


Posted on October 30, 2004 by

THE UNINVITED

3.5 Stars
Year Released: 2003
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 123 minutes

CINEMUERTE 2004 REVIEW! While lacking the innate sense of dread of other contemporary Asian ghost stories, “The Uninvited” still contains its share of horrific moments, particularly when it comes to children…


Posted on October 30, 2004 by

LADY TERMINATOR

4 Stars
Year Released: 1988
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 82 minutes

CINEMUERTE 2004 REVIEW! Produced in Indonesia where there seems to be a whole industry built on ripping off American action movies in even more outlandishly violent fashion, “Lady Terminator” still manages to stand out for sheer strangeness…


Posted on October 30, 2004 by

OZONE (DVD)

3.5 Stars
Year Released: 2003
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 92 minutes

There’s a mysterious new drug on the market – one that changes you on a very basic level. Beyond addiction, the users mutate, becoming something far, far less than human…


Posted on October 30, 2004 by

NIGHTMARE SISTERS (DVD)

NIGHTMARE SISTERS (DVD)
3 Stars
Year Released: 1987
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 83 minutes

The three ladies are crammed into a tub way too small to contain them, yet they seem like they’re having the time of their lives…


Posted on October 30, 2004 by

HELL HOUSE (DVD)

4.5 Stars
Year Released: 2001
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 83 minutes

In the opening moments of the documentary “Hell House” a female narrator states that the house in question is the “home of dramatized rapes, incurable disease, suicide and abortion…


Posted on October 30, 2004 by

END OF THE FAMILY LINE

IN THEATERS! Over the 14 years since I first saw the trailer for “Charlie’s Family” I would have occasional thoughts about it. I wonder how Jim’s getting on with his film. It actually became something I couldn’t let go of myself, for no clear reason…



Posted on October 29, 2004 by

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