You dont get any more 80s then Night of the Comet. Valley Girls vs Zombies and the song "Girls just wanna have fun!" used in a mall shootout. Fuck yes.
So this comets pass's over earth rather like the one that passed earth 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs went extinct and eveyone goes out to have a look bar two sisters Reggie and Sam. Both wake the next morning to find piles of dust where the people used to be and those that did not expire have become blood crazed zombies. So what do they do? Go to the mall and shop of course.
They take out a bunch of gun toting punk zombie stockboys (no really thats what they are) and hook up with hunky truck driver Hector played buy Robert Beltran ((Commander Chaktoy bitchs))
Then our heros come across and group who know about the comet and are up to no good.
Night of the comet is a fun cheese horror action movie with an okay cast and it knows it's not Ben Hur.
The music 80s, the action 80s and the idea is 80's. If your a fan of 80 horror this movies a must but be ready for spandex and leg warmers.
Right this movie is pretty fucking awesome even if it does go a bit silly at times. Right you want the pitch here it is. Robocop vs a rat. Peter Weller plays a well to do Yuppie who's dream home is invaded buy a rat from hell. This thing outsmarts him at every fucking turn from chewing the check left for the exterminator to killing the cat that Weller keeps to get rid of the fucker. This movie becomes Moby Dick half way through as Wellers character Bart Hughes becomes obsessed with the creature researching all he can about rats when he should be completing a major business deal for his company. The stand out scene is the Dinner where for some reason Bart starts spouting facts about rats making everyone at the dinner table cringe.
Weller is awesome in this movie and is so likeable you feel bad when the rat destroys him emotionally and makes him wreck his home in an effort to kill the beast. The camera work is awesome having the POV of the rat as it goes through the house.
This movie isnt a total nail biter but it does make you wonder who'll come out on top man or beast. If you can check this movie out on the lead up to Halloween its awesome.
Right if you ever herd of Dean Koontz you'll know he's like the K-Mart Stephan King. Not a bad writer but not up to par with the Maine man ((see what I did there)) We''ll a least Kings had more movies of his books made and if you watch Phantoms you can see why. Its a movie with great idea's and a decent cast but badly executed.
Basiclly two sister played buy scream queen Rose McGown and Joanna Going from Wyatt Earp return to their small home town to find all the locals have been killed buy an unseen evil. The local sheriff department arrive to investigate led buy no other then Ben "Batffleck" Affleck. The girls inform them that everyone seems to be dead or missing. The guys decide to hold up in a local hotel rather then getting the fuck outta the creepy ass town Afflecks men are picked off one buy one. Fuck Liev Schreiber has his face eaten the fuck off buy a giant moth.
Meanwhile the FBI hire a writer played buy Peter O'Toole to help them take out this unseem monster at the town. Army turns up Army dies. Affleck, O'Toole and the two sisters are left and have to take out the monster/Evil/Alien/ devil what ever you want it to be.
Phantoms has a good cast and while not at their A game dont phone home their roles either. Affleck was still starting out but he's not bad...its no Gone girl or Good Will Hunting but its decent. Peter O'Toole steals the show as the "expert" moments when people ask how powerful is this thing he replys with "Well it killed the dinosaurs so I say its one tough fucking customer!" Liev Schreibers characters is odd as this cackling nutball who you know is going to pop up in the end as a villain.
Is Phantoms a bad movie....well no...the cast is good, some of the effects are cool but it lacks any real scares and the plot goes a little too big for its boots considering this is a cookie cutter B-movie with a good cast.
But you know what don take my word for it.
So mix Jurassic Park with Alien and you to this so-so monster flick set in a New York Museum. The movie centers around a strange savage monster stalking the halls of a natural history museum killing staff members and visitors a like.Is it some prehistoric monsters from an age time forgot or some mutant which swam from the depths of the harbor intent on mayhem....well its none of these and the explanation is kinda dumb. I wont ruin it even if its a let down but when its revealed its ment to blow you away.....but it really dosent. The cast middling, Tom Sizemore's detective D' Agosta is the only real decent character in the flick giving while a cookcutter burnt out cop role but making the most of it. Penelope Ann Miller character is Dr Margo Green is just there to spout techno babble and half do a half ass Ripley Impression at the end. Anyone else in this movie is canon fodder but dont worry none an no where close to likable. Do I hate this move...no its a fun silly popcorn flick but while some movies try to take the Alien archetype this movie goes...look look this scenes just like in Aliens or Jurassic park or even fucking Halloween. Infact thats a game you can play with your mate while you watch this. The Relic rip off game...thats it. If your looking for a dumb horror for a lead up to halloween this does the job and its just worth it for watching the swat team scene...trust me you'll bust your hole laughing.
Okay so say Predator had a 2nd cousin from a redneck family who had to get the special bus to school every morning....you'd have Nightbeast. NIGHTBEAST! fucking NIGHT BEAST!
Made 5 years before predator Nightbeast tells the tale of a not so friendly E.T who's ship gets hit buy a meteor and crash lands in back woods U.S.A. and proceeds to lay waste to all who encounter it. Hunters DEAD. Police. DEAD, topless woman. DEAD....a car full of kids. DEAD. This yoke just kills and kills and kills at least Predators come he to hunt but this think just goes beserek. Be it using is disco light laser gun all just pull some poor blokes guts out it dosnt give a shit. And it never stops fucking screaming.....so fucking loud. Like its not like a xenomorph who would just go around and kill on sight. It Fly's a ship, wears fucking pants and can use a ray gun. It obviously has some from of logic to do these things so why is going around killing random people?
This movies a pile of shit...but a fun pile of shit. Have some mates over and keep the drinks going you'll have a fucking hoot of a time.
Also is it just me or does Nightbeast kinda look like the ape monster from Big trouble in little China.
They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery....well we'll find out in the lead up to Halloween in something I like to call Shlocktober on both the my Aliens and Savage Cinema blog I'll be reviewing some of the best and worst Alien and predator copy cat movies of all time. These include Night Beast The Deadly Spawn Galaxy of Terror The Borrower The Relic and a whole host of others.
While horror babes can take a lot of punishment while grindhouse girls can dish it out.
(1) Christina Lindberg
This Swedish cutie made a big splash in 1974 A Cruel Picture playing a girl put beyond the limits of human endurance who becomes the deadly One-eye. She later stared in Sex and Fury with fellow Grindhouse starlet Reiko Ike. This starlet showed she had the looks and brawn to make an impact to a influence on characters like Elle Driver in Kill Bill.
(2) Meiko Kaji
This grindhouse queen started her career playing the title character Lady Snowblood based on the manga of same name. This chick would give lone Wolf a run for his sword...as an Ice cold killer seeking revenge for the rape of her mother.This was the main inspiration for Rene Oishi from Kill Bill. Kaji also sang the theme song for the movie. She later stared in a women in prison series Female Prisoner 701 Scropion. Packing some deadly blades and a heavenly voice Miss Kaji earns her spot at number 2.
(3) Dyanne Thorne
This Grindhouse queen mainly played the villein in the movies she stared in the most notable is th Isla series where she played a savage camp commander/ dominatrix. With a steely glare and a wicked lust for sex and power she was a grindhouse hottie from hell. She made a slight comeback in the Rob Zombie short Werewolf Women of the S.S in the Grindhouse features and also made a appearance in House of the Devil.
Well I had kinda a change of heart about the savage Cinema blog seeing as people really fucking like it I decided to stick with and my Xeno blog.
So what mad cap movie am I going to review? Well with Guardians of the Galaxy coming out I decide to go back and check out James Gunn's wickedly funny splatstick horr/com Slither.
Gunn is a lover of horror cinema having cut his teeth working for Torma Entertainment and scripting the Dawn of the Dead but he only really got out on his own when he took the helm of his first directorial debut in 2006 with Slither.
Set in a sleepy rural community Wheelsey a meteortie carrying a dangerous parasite infects local dickhead Grant Grant (played with wicked glee buy Michael Rooker). It then transforms him into a savage alien being who in turn infects the local town hussy and breed vile slug like parasites which turn the town folk into zombies.
The only thing that stands between the small town and total invasion is police chief Bill Pardy ( Played buy the always excellent Nathan Fillion) What ensues is Gore, laughs and more fucking gore. I'm not shitting you this movie is fucked up and makes not excuse's for it. Gunn made a movie for himself and fans like him. This flick is a throw back to movies like The Fly,The Thing and Night of the Creeps.
And if your not getting sick from the gore then itll be from laughter. Gregg Henry's Mayor MacReady is the fucking bomb...some of the lines he comes out with....The lime disease debate he and Pardy get into is pants pissing funny and with other oddballs characters coming out with lines like "Looks like somthing that fell off my dick during the war!" you know this is a funny fucking flick.
While not up there with Evil Dead or Re-animator is still fucking close. So if your a horror fan and wanna to know what to expect from Gunn Guardians check this flick out.
Check it out if you liked/Avoid if you hated: Evil Dead2, The Thing and the Fly.
