So good and campy that I had to go ahead with the second one in the franchise. I certainly won’t be pushing any praise on that craptastic third Blade film, Blade Trinity, cause fuck that sucked. No I want to go into the often crapped on, but ultimately pleasing sequel to the breakout hit Blade with the sequel directed by Guillermo Del Toro. Yeah, he ended up making a wildly satisfying flick that gave us more of what made the original fun to watch, but neglected to give us anything in terms of plot, dialogue, or anything else that could have made this flick. But fuck all that, lets get to the Daywalker goodness of vampire hunting.
So Wesley Snipes got out of prison this past week, which means a Blade 4 or whatever is probably going to be in the works as we speak. Now I liked the first two Blade pics, not the last one with Ryan Reynolds and something about a super vampire or whatever, but the Blade series has always been this campy, fetish style horror, action flick that delivered on what it wanted and that is about all you can ask for. I am not looking for something deep or prophetic, just Blade going around town, killing vampires, playing techno music and always betting on black.
I am not going to lie, David Bowie is really the only reason to watch this movie. I mean I have been on a Bowie kick as of late with most of my trivia hosting comprising of Bowie songs in between rounds, watching the Prestige and even catching the 35mm print of The Man Who Fell To Earth at the Drafthouse. Also I am really hoping that I win the bidding for the Craig Drake screen print of David Bowie from The Hunger, I mean it’s a fucking gorgeous print. Take a look!
Damn that is sexy as hell. I really hope I can get a hold of this print. Anyways let’s jump into the lesbo vampire, David Bowie flick. Read more of this post
Folks, tonight is a special night. While I have talked about Army of Darkness before on a previous post, I felt it was worth the time to just post about this again, not at length though. No folks, I am posting this because this evening at the Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet in Kansas City, I will be hosting a special screening of Army of Darkness in 35mm. But that isn’t all, tonight it will be a MONDO EVENT, meaning that the lucky 116 people in attendance tonight will be getting a very exclusive Mondo poster of Army of Darkness, one that will surely be one of the most impressive releases this year for Mondo. I am so utterly excited to be helping with this event and I have seen the poster early. I will tell you all that is a thing of beauty and the people in attendance tonight are going to go nuts.
So what a perfect way to celebrate the new Evil Dead movie being released than a Mondo Event on Army of Darkness. I will update this once I am able to post about the poster in its entirety.
I guess I am going on a zombie kick, probably due to the fact that Walking Dead is coming to an end and then we get our Game of Thrones. After re-watching Doctor Butcher M.D. I was in need of some more splatter fest flicks and you know you can always rely on the stylings of Lucio Fulci. This man certainly knows what to give horror fans in terms of their black heart loving, gore fests that really only serve to come up with some of the most gruesome looking death scenes. This one certainly has all the hallmarks of being a cult classic for the deaths alone.
I am certain that visiting this M.D. is not going to be covered by my insurance. I think being use in an experiment to prolong my lifespan would be considered more cosmetic surgery than anything else, which is a shame cause Doctor Butcher does have some convincing evidence that would lead me to believe that one could live a hundred years longer than intended. Plus his bedside manner seems rough at first, but that is just apprehension from patients being used for illegal experiments, you’ll get over it once you go under the knife.
The only reason that this movie popped into my psyche was because of the recent red band trailer for remake of this very movie starring Elijah Wood. Yes, Frodo is taking his turn as the insane serial killer in a remake of this brutal movie. I have to admit, having gone back to rewatch Maniac from 1980, this was absolute sheer insanity. I thought maybe I was imagining some of the scenes I remember way back when, but yeah, full on shotgun to the face. That is just a small bit of the whole film and what to expect from Maniac.
The luck of the Irish strikes yet again for you all. I couldn’t resist diving back into the pot of gold that is the Leprechaun series cause to be honest, these are shitty horror movies that are comically fun to watch and rip apart. Sigh, I guess once you go to space, which this series did, then the last vestige of dangerous territory to explore is urban America. The hood is a dangerous place I guess, but frankly if the gangs can’t band together to defeat a leprechaun, then they deserve to be eviscerated.
This is just a perfectly terrible movie to work off that hangover from celebrating what we assume is Irish culture. You know, to each his own, but I prefer to eat Lucky Charms and watch this movie that offends two different cultures. It’s laughably bad, in that the rhymes are horrible, the limericks are surprisingly creative and bad, but lord the horror movie kills are just so uninspired. Then again, name me another movie in which a leprechaun will rhyme about smoking weed. NAME ME ONE!
Hope you all enjoyed St. Paddy’s day and also I am going to go watch Willow, cause that is the superior Warwick Davis movie.
The sixth movie in the seemingly endless Leprechaun series finds the title character revisiting the territory he menaced in the fifth outing. This time around, a group of inner-city friends go from rags to riches when they stumble upon some treasures. Little do they know that the booty belongs to the terrifying little green man and he wants it back. Decked out in bling-bling and smoking chronically, Leprechaun dispenses with the unsuspecting pals one by one. Warwick Davis once again reprises the title role, which he’s assumed throughout the series, and instead of Ice-T, who co-starred in Leprechaun in the Hood, another rapper, Sticky Fingaz of Onyx, is onboard for this blood bath. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
Happy St. Paddy’s Day everyone. Go watch some Leprechaun In The Hood to celebrate!
Warwick Davis….Willow was your peak movie I guess, although seeing you in the Leprechaun outfit smoking some of the dopest weed out there is pretty fucking hilarious.
A shit man, coming back for seconds. This time I am talking about Maniac Cop 2, which in my opinion, is the best of the series. Yeah this is a series of maniac cop movies, but who gives a shit. The concept of a psycho in a police uniform beating all kinds of ass is just too awesome pass up, especially when the action in the movie is by far and away better than the original. If you don’t believe, well let me just throw out this little note; remember the police station massacre in Terminator? Well this movie has probably the greatest police station action scene like ever. Even better than Assault on Prescient 13, which was a movie that took place inside a police station.
