MZ's Movie Review Thread

[MinionZombie]

Killer Workout (David A. Prior, 1987) DVD Review: http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...-1987-dvd.html aka "Aerobicide". Ankle socks, cheesy pop music, and a killer whose weapon of choice is an over-sized industrial strength clothes pin...

[Neil]

a killer whose weapon of choice is an over-sized industrial strength clothes pin... w...t... f... ?

[MinionZombie]

w...t... f... ? Yep. Even weirder is that it's revealed to also be a ruddy keychain near the end of the movie!

[MinionZombie]

Creepozoids (David DeCoteau, 1987): http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...-1987-dvd.html David DeCoteau's low budget creature feature has aspirations walking in the footsteps of Aliens (James Cameron, 1986), but let's be honest, those are far out of reach. However, influenced at the time by the last dregs of Cold War nuclear paranoia, Creepozoids – with its bleak world view and gooey practical effects – provides a charming dose of VHS era sci-fi horror. The year is 1998 and World War III has turned planet Earth into a nuked-out husk where nomads and survivors populate the wastelands as the fighting rages on...

[MinionZombie]

The Void http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...ck-review.html Written and Directed by Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, who have worked in various capacities on some of the Astron-6 projects (such as Manborg and Father's Day), The Void wears its metaphysical body horror influences on its sleeve...

[MinionZombie]

Dr Alien (David DeCoteau, 1989) DVD Review http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...vd-review.html Following on from Creepozoids, Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-o-rama, and Nightmare Sisters, David DeCoteau rounded out the 1980s with this teen boy fantasy/comedy that was also known as 'I Was A Teenage Sex Mutant'. Zany from the get-go, it features deliberately on-the-nose humour, many-an-exposed-set-of-norks, substitute professors in lingerie, and an alien proboscis that sprouts from a college nerd's head to act as a powerful aphrodisiac! Emanuelle and The Last Cannibals (Joe D'Amato, 1977) DVD Review http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...oe-damato.html Joe D'Amato – otherwise known as Aristide Massaccesi – the director of such grotesque delights as Anthropophagous (1980), is unlikely to go down in the annals of cinema history as a master filmmaker with a deeply considered artistic vision. His work may skew towards slap dash schlock, but he got the job done and knew to never play coy: if his audiences wanted devoured innards and boobies flopping about everywhere then that's exactly what he was going to give them – and this is undoubtedly the case with Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals... The Bogey Man (Ulli Lommel, 1980) DVD Review http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...-1980-dvd.html Combining dark themes of childhood trauma with slasher movie tropes, The Bogey Man (or Boogey Man, if you prefer) – a former 'Video Nasty' in the UK – tries to do something original with the genre at a time when the formula was being set that others would blindly follow...

[MinionZombie]

Bride of Re-Animator (Brian Yuzna, 1989) Blu-Ray/DVD Review: http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...uzna-1989.html Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator (1985) has, quite rightly, gone down in the annals of cinema as a landmark in horror. Brian Yuzna's 1989 sequel, however, has somewhat lurked uncomfortably in the shadows of its progenitor – but it deserves a re-evaluation, and with this in mind, Bride of Re-Animator reveals itself to be consumed with the idea of unrequited love as it circles the boundaries of necrophilia through the complex entanglement of not merely a love triangle, but a love pentagon...

[MinionZombie]

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (Emilio P. Miraglia, 1972): http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...es-emilio.html Following on from The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (1971), writer/director Emilio P. Miraglia once again dived into the glamorous pool of the lurid European murder mystery with The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (otherwise known as The Lady In Red Kills Seven Times), a violent clash of morals set against a fractured backdrop where two worlds collide: that of a Gothic castle and that of a modernist fashion house. This is a film consumed with ideas of wealth and the inevitability of hereditary sin...

[MinionZombie]

"Anomalisa" and "Yoga Hosers": http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...nder-your.html

[EvilNed]

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (Emilio P. Miraglia, 1972): http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...es-emilio.html Great film. Prefer Evelyn tho. It's crazier. But favorite line from this film? "Lock your door and don't open it for anyone! There's nothing to worry about."

[MinionZombie]

Great film. Prefer Evelyn tho. It's crazier. But favorite line from this film? "Lock your door and don't open it for anyone! There's nothing to worry about."

[MinionZombie]

Evil Ed (Anders Jacobsson, 1995) Blu-Ray Review: http://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017/...-1995-blu.html Striking out of Sweden as the blood-soaked antithesis of Ingmar Bergman, Anders Jacobsson's Evil Ed – reportedly made with a budget equivalent to a mere two-and-a-half seconds worth of Jurassic Park – is a frantic and gleefully over-the-top horror comedy crammed to the gills with references to American splatter epics. In some ways it is the ultimate fan film crafted by obsessives of blood 'n' guts cinema, and yet – first appearing in the UK in the dying years of James Ferman's censorious grip on the British Board of Film Classification – when horror was still tantamount to smut – Evil Ed comes as a rebel yell against the Mary Whitehouse types of the world. Hands off our gore, it screams, take your scissors and shove 'em where the sun doesn't shine!

[MinionZombie]

The Purge: Election Year https://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017...ck-review.html

[MinionZombie]

The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (Emilio P. Miraglia, 1972): https://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017...-of-grave.html Riddled with nihilism, this forever-twisting tale of a sadomasochistic fetishist and his not-quite-so-dead wife is soaked-through with moral decay...

[EvilNed]

The Night Evelyn Came Out Of The Grave (Emilio P. Miraglia, 1972): https://deadshed.blogspot.co.uk/2017...-of-grave.html This is such a great film. I love how god damn crazy it is. It's all over the place.