October Horror Movie Marathon

[Nordicdusk]

Film No.8

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After the murder of a member of the DELTA BI THETA fraternity by a serial killer known as Motherface his twin brother joins the fraternity to uncover the mystery of his " accidental " death.

This film is full of bad acting hit and miss jokes tons of blood and stupid characters. Shot to look like a vhs this is supposed to be the last found vhs after the films were destroyed. As stupid as this film is its a really fun watch and i would recommend lots of alcohol sadly i didnt have any but films like this are made for those drunken nights. There are a number of commercials inserted in between scenes some of these last a couple of seconds and others are a bit longer the ones the work the best with the humour are the short ones whereas some of the longest ones are feel like they were trying too hard and didnt work.

Couple of quick facts

Fact No. 1 Despite the title there are no parts 1 & 2 we get a summary of the first two parts at the start of part 3

Fact No. 2 The film stars Greg Sestero who many will know as Mark from The Room. Funny thing is his acting in such a low budget film like this is still better than what he offered in The Room.

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OH HI MARK

As fun as it was for me its not for everyone just look at it as a couple of steps below Troma and you know what you are getting yourself in for.

6/10

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Anarchy Parlor (2015)

Whilst traveling in Lithuania a group of friends are duped into visiting a local back street tattoo parlor by an inked girl (Finnish tattoo artist Sara Fabel) where things go from bad to worse.

You never know what you'll get from direct to dvd horror films. From poverty row hand held affairs to well produced films with a decent budget. Anarchy Parlor thankfully falls into the latter category.

Shot entirely on location in Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, which looks a stunning city from all the aerial views seen in this film, Anarchy Parlor could be construed as Hostel lite. The story feels slightly derivative to begin with, echoing the 'it's Eastern Europe so you're all going to die' racist style elements of Eli Roth's film. I ask you why do westerners visit these places if they all die? Have the authorities or INTERPOL not noticed yet? However as the plot slowly unfolds there's more going on than first imagined, it just takes it's time getting past the cliches to bring it all together.

The students are at times as dumb as they come, seemingly in Europe just to take drugs, go to raves and get laid with the local talent. Their decision making at times is ludicrous, however i get the feeling the film makers knew this, i mean how else are you going to get your self brutally murdered on holiday unless you make stupid choices like antagonizing the locals and wandering off down dark alleys with tattooed harlots?

The acting isn't bad although the lead girl (Tiffany DeMarco) does resort to crying the same "You're sick!" line as she watches her friend go under the knife. Other than that she's quite good in a role where her characters actions appear to get a bit of the old Stockholm Syndrome. The film belongs to Robert LaSardo though. An actor whose name you probably won't know but you'll be familiar with his face. A character actor who generally plays a tattooed heavy, prisoner or drug dealer and you may have seen in CSI Miami, Nip/Tuck and Death Race among his 119 acting roles. Coming across as a pleasant fella and the kind of man who puts you at ease as you go for your first tattoo, seriously, i couldn't believe it either, LaSardo's performance is excellent, and especially creepy as you think he's going to get up to lots of horrific acts. And he does!

Whilst not a torture porn film like Hostel, Anarchy Parlor is very gory. The camera loves the slice of a knife in close up detail, and it's a film that would never have appeared in video shops in the early 80's, or indeed 90's, uncut anyway.

Going under the title Killer Ink on UK dvd, Anarchy Parlor is a film i rather enjoyed.

[Inspector Abberline]

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Funhouse.(1981)
From its Halloween/Psycho inspired opening, where the bratty little brother tries to freak out his older sister in the shower, to the deformed sideshow freak and the inbred carnival folk, Funhouse is a perverse little take on the usual kids have sex and die slasher films, in fact Funhouse is pretty bloodless and just relies on a twisted atmosphere and a weird bunch of characters, It particularly relies on that feeling of them and us, society has with many types of people, ether it be traveller's or fair ground people, typified by the fact that when ever the fair is in town there are stories of young girls gone missing, which our heroine gets a stern warning from her father about going to the fun fare. Its all based on predudice,which we all have, Hooper tries to alleviate those prejudice's by having the young boy Joey found by one of the carnival folk and returned safely to his drunk mother and in different father. And although the four main teen's are put through the ringer, (mostly there own fault for hiding there overnight and one of the gang stealing some money) Its Joey who seems to be in just as much shock, especially since his sister had early warned him she would get even with him. Monsters need love to? And the poor deformed son of the Conrad Straker, raiding his fathers loot to have sex with Madame Zena the fortune teller, only to suffer from premature ejaculation, whats a monster to do? kill crazy rampage I should imagine. That's what I do when it happens to me.

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Curse Of Chucky (2013)
Well it was a nice surprise to see a so called re-boot of a franchise actually stick closely to its original material, but still add something fresh to the serious and have a nice wrap around ending that connected it to a previous film in the serious. Chucky seemed to have a slight make over, but nothing to outrageous and in fact his slightly new look made him look even creepier than before. Of course the plus point was making sure that Brad Dourif was still the voice of Chucky, and even managing to crowbar in the character of Charles Lee Ray even if it did feel like some kind of after thought. But when it comes down to it what we all want is Chucky wise cracking while slaughtering all and sundry. Curse does not have a particularly high body count, but there is a couple of nasty moments where Chuck stabs Barb in the eyeball and also her husband Ian gets his jaw smashed apart with an axe. The films setting is mostly inside a psycho inspired gothic house, which gives plenty of opportunity for a bit of a cat mouse chase between Chucky and the invalid heroine. While I really enjoyed the previous two outings, Seed and Bride this is Chucky firmly back in the slasher mode,but it was also nice seeing the lovely Meg Tilly back in a cameo appearance as well.

Alice: Chucky, I’m scared!
Chucky: [laughs] You f**king should be!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

Funhouse.(1981)


Curse Of Chucky (2013)

I really liked Curse of Chucky but have yet to revisit just in case the magic wasn't there and it became the same old same old.

Funhouse as you know i thought was garbage, however your review does make me want to give it another go. Maybe in November when the horror pickings are rationed after the October Horrorfest and the upcoming Decemberdike gorging of new to me horror.

[Inspector Abberline]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

I really liked Curse of Chucky but have yet to revisit just in case the magic wasn't there and it became the same old same old.

Funhouse as you know i thought was garbage, however your review does make me want to give it another go. Maybe in November when the horror pickings are rationed after the October Horrorfest and the upcoming Decemberdike gorging of new to me horror.

Umm garbage is quite a strong word....oh yeah your the fella who does not like 2001 either.

[trebor8273]

The nightmare before christmas. 9.4/10



The prophecy 3. 6/10

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Inspector Abberline

Umm garbage is quite a strong word....oh yeah your the fella who does not like 2001 either.

Hmm. I bet no one has ever linked Funhouse and 2001 into the same sentence before. Hooper and Kubrick - one and the same hack!

[trebor8273]

Horror express. 9.7/10




Prophecy. 7/10

[platostotal]

A lighter touch for Sundays ABUKtober...

[Nordicdusk]

Film No 9

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Angela is back once again this bitch is getting worse than Jason at this stage

In a new summer camp Angela this time enlists as a teenager using the false identity of a girl she murdered in broad daylight in the middle of New York in a garbage truck that a blind person could see but no one else noticed on a busy street full of people. The twist this time around is that its not normal teens at the camp but a sort of social experiment to see how spoilt rich kids get alone with underprivileged poor kids.

Just like Sleepaway Camp II there is a high body count but constant cutaway from the kills and gore really lets things down and is a real shame because these are fun films. As is the case with II here the killing starts right from the start and does not let up until the very last second before the end credits. Oh and the boobage count is also pretty decent

6/10