MARK OF THE BEAST (2012)
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  Year Released: 2012 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: minutes |
Transplanting the tale from India to rural America, Gorman and Seymour update “Mark” only slightly. Instead of leprous villagers worshipping a jungle shrine to Hanuman the Hindu Monkey-God, the film has them worshipping in a very lovely forest instead…
Posted on February 24, 2012 by Mike Watt
WITCH’S BREW
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
I could complain about some of the gore effects or the few instances when victims’ reactions don’t quite match the agony they’re subjected to, but those complaints go with the independent territory…
Posted on November 3, 2011 by Mike Watt
THE STUNT MAN (1980)
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  Year Released: 1980 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 132 minutes |
Subtle, neurotic and multi-layered, every scene in” The Stunt Man” is about multiple things at once. Paranoia, obviously, but also the stress of filmmaking and simply living…
Posted on August 18, 2011 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: THOSE WERE THE DAYS OF THE DEAD
The venue is trying to kill us. We’d ask for the air to be turned up inside our room, they’d go into hyperthermia and ask for the air to be turned down. Was this Indianapolis or Hell?
Posted on August 4, 2011 by Mike Watt
CAESAR AND OTTO’S SUMMER CAMP MASSACRE
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  Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 89 minutes |
Like a motor-mouthed Jackie Cooper, Caesar snaps, japes, and soliloquies throughout, with some of his funnier rants delivered at top speed becoming a single, very long word…
Posted on July 26, 2011 by Mike Watt
SINNERS & SAINTS
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Year Released: 2011 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
Ho-hum, right? Another hyper-active cop movie. Except that “Sinners & Saints” isn’t the product of Hollywood but rather is an outstanding action-thriller from independent writer/director William Kaufman…
Posted on July 9, 2011 by Mike Watt
RANDOM ACTS OF MIKE WATT: HAPPY, HAPPY HORROR REALM
Hopefully Horror Realm will go on as long as its shuffling mascot flesh-eating corpses, which is to say, of course, forever…
Posted on March 10, 2011 by Mike Watt
TEENAPE VS THE NAZI MONSTER APOCALYPSE
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Year Released: ??? MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 70 minutes |
For anyone unfamiliar with the oeuvre of filmmaker Chris Seaver or the Low Budget Pictures universe, this probably isn’t the best introduction. Come to think of it, considering that it’s in developmental limbo at Troma Entertainment and may never be released at all, it’s probably the worst choice for an introduction…
Posted on February 17, 2011 by Mike Watt
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: REANIMATED
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 101 minutes |
Even the most die-hard purist will recognize the love and talent that went into every aspect of this production. This isn’t a remake of anything. This is a Frankenstein’s beautiful monster of a movie, courtesy of more than 150 mad doctors…
Posted on October 22, 2010 by Mike Watt
ALL ABOUT EVIL
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
“All About Evil” is an unabashed homage to groovy ghoulishness. With a starting point of Corman’s “Bucket of Blood”, “All About Evil” adds in liberal dashes of H.G. Lewis exploitation, Ted V. Mikels and just a pinch of John Waters camp…
Posted on August 7, 2010 by Mike Watt
BOOK OF LORE / GRAVE MISTAKES DOUBLE FEATURE
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes / 85 minutes |
All in all, someone seeking out “so bad it’s good” entertainment would be advised to look elsewhere, because both movies are genuinely good…
Posted on April 24, 2010 by Mike Watt
THE GOOD SISTERS
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Year Released: 2010 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 85 minutes |
“The Good Sisters” is the mature and thoughtful third feature from JimmyO and April Burril, hot on the heels of their successful cult film, “Chainsaw Sally.”There were many different routes JimmyO could have taken with this story and the easiest way out would have been sheer exploitation…
Posted on April 3, 2010 by Mike Watt
MIND FLESH
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Year Released: 2009 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes minutes |
If it weren’t for the hallucinations, London cabbie Chris would consider his life boring…
Posted on March 30, 2010 by Mike Watt
LONDON BETTY
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 80 minutes |
“Billy’s friends were assholes, but so was he. And you stick by your friends…”
Posted on September 16, 2008 by Mike Watt
THE DUELING ACCOUNTANT
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Year Released: 2008 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
An immensely enjoyable absurdist comedy, “The Dueling Accountant” tells the story of corporate business, ancient feuds, the hypocrisy of family and how your life never ends up the way you planned…
Posted on September 14, 2008 by Mike Watt