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Ebola Rex - Movie Review

Details: Published: 26 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Who had diseased dinosaurs on their plate for 2020? I certainly didn’t, but writer/director Dustin Ferguson (5G Zombies, Angry Asian Murder Hornets) did and, with his demented flair for the horror comedy hybrid, the fast-working filmmaker pulls off yet another entertaining B-grade monster flick ...

The Ape (1940) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Watch polio get pulverized by a primate! When a circus burns down, a mustached Boris Karloff, as Dr. Bernard Adrian, finds himself battling a loose ape in his laboratory. What? What? What. You heard me. It’s one of the wildest scenes - and maybe the best scene ...

Housesitter . . . The Night They Saved Siegfried's Brain (1987, 2020) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 23 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Housesitter . . . The Night They Saved Siegfried’s Brain has an interesting history and it makes for a great lead. Originally filmed in Kalamazoo in 1987, this horror/comedy sat unfinished for over 30 years because no one wanted to deal with it. Now, thanks to Skywalker Sound and Paramount ...

My Best Worst Adventure - Movie Review

Details: Published: 22 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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My Best Worst Adventure will hook you right from its warm and comical beginning. It’s hard to stop yourself from smiling as you witness an ultra urban-looking young teenager sitting on a raggedy bus as her joyless expression falls while being “groomed” by a fellow passenger. Her face ...

Incision - Movie Review

Details: Published: 21 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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How strong is your stomach? That’s the question you need to ask yourself before starting on this twisted tale of body horror. Incision has arrived! Obsession seems at the heart of plastic surgery. Either we are obsessed with making ourselves look better or obsessed with a flaw that ...

Notorious: Criterion Collection (1946) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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You can’t say that Hitchcock didn’t warn audiences of Hitler. He made several films with Hitler’s world view overhanging the shadows in each frame. But, after a decade in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock took that warning to a new level and gave audiences the ultimate romance between a ...

Don't Look Back - Movie Review

Details: Published: 19 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Don’t Look Back is a warning to us all. Standing back and doing nothing except pulling out our phones and recording violent events might get us recognized on social media, but it will also haunt our dreams. At least, in this film’s opening moments, that messaging seems ...

SASQUATCH AMONG WILDMEN - Movie Trailer

Details: Published: 19 October 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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From filmmaker Darcy Weir, and featuring frighteningly true encounters with Bigfoot, Sasquatch Among Wildmen coming this November from Uncork’d Entertainment. ...

The Beast Beneath - Movie Review

Details: Published: 18 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Who says you can’t film a movie during a pandemic where social distancing and face masks are required?! One of my favorite scenes in Dustin Ferguson’s The Beast Beneath happens early on. In it, a woman (Geovonna Casanova) has just heard screams along a hiking trail and ...

The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl (2005) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 October 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Planet Drool, here we come . . . again! This is what happens when you go in expecting worse. You are constantly surprised. Max (Cayden Boyd) has had an incredible summer. He’s made new friends and is super stoked to tell all his friends at school about them. The problem is their ...