MZ's Movie Review Thread

[MinionZombie]

The Zero Boys (Nico Mastorakis, 1986) Blu-Ray Review: http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2021/05...akis-1986.html You know how it is with so many slasher movies – pretty people making dumb decisions and splitting away from the group only to end up with a butcher knife through their face. But what if those genetically gifted college kids weren't so dumb? What if they did their utmost to stick together? What if they were armed with semi-automatics and TNT?...

[MinionZombie]

Dial Help (Ruggero Deodato, 1988) Review: http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2021/06...88-review.html Directed by Ruggero Deodato, the rogue journeyman filmmaker behind the notorious video nasty Cannibal Holocaust, this is, put simply, a movie about killer telephones jealously menacing a fashion model – why would you need a longer introduction than that?...

[Neil]

Dial Help (Ruggero Deodato, 1988) Review: http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2021/06...88-review.html O M G ! The picture quality in this is impressive!

[MinionZombie]

Hired To Kill (Nico Mastorakis, 1990): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2021/07...kis-peter.html A shady American agency has grown tired of the tinpot dictator they helped elevate to power in the nation of Cypra, so they want their best man – a muscle-bound killing machine – to go undercover and help the revolutionaries spring their leader from a fortress prison. The mercenary's cover? This brute with the bulging biceps will be posing as fashion designer Cecil Thornton – a most believable ruse, to be sure!...

[MinionZombie]

Willy's Wonderland (Kevin Lewis, 2021): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2021/08...ewis-2021.html Nicolas Cage goes into a full-blown 'Cage Rage' against a gang of animatronic mascots in a children's party restaurant. It's like every stressed-out parent's fantasy at a Chuck E. Cheese birthday party – to rip the head off one of those bug-eyed monstrosities during one of their maddening pre-recorded melodies...!

[MinionZombie]

Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (Sonny Laguna & Tommy Wiklund, 2018): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2021/09...ich-sonny.html The original 1989 film Puppet Master, produced by low budget genre cinema icon Charles Band, birthed a franchise that encompasses fourteen films (including spin-offs and reboots) and a raft of other media (comics, games, toys etc). However, trying to follow the story of the series is like walking on shifting sands. The original film is, chronologically speaking, the seventh story, while Puppet Master II is the ninth, and Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge is the second … baffled enough yet? How about a remake that fundamentally changes the overarching character of Andre Toulon, kills off most of the supporting cast mere moments after you've just met them, and features far too many sloppy wet kisses?...

[MinionZombie]

Hell Squad (Kenneth Hartford, 1986): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2021/10...ford-1986.html Dig this. The son of an American Ambassador in the Middle East has been kidnapped and the government wants nothing to do with it. He has a problem, and there's no-one else who can help, so he hires The A-Team … no wait, he doesn't. Indeed, his assistant figures it'd be a waste of time employing mercenaries so, using his connections in Las Vegas, he hires a gaggle of showgirls to stage the daring rescue. Yup!

[Neil]

Hell Squad (Kenneth Hartford, 1986): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2021/10...ford-1986.html Oh My Dear God!

[MinionZombie]

Oh My Dear God! Awesome, right?!

[JDP]

That was the last movie that Marvin Miller was in. He must have been extremely desperate for work to accept being in this hilariously bad z-grade flick.

[shootemindehead]

Oh My Dear God! Pffft....a big load of woke crap.

[MinionZombie]

Pffft....a big load of woke crap.

[MinionZombie]

Dude Bro Party Massacre III (Tom Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet, Jon Salmon, 2015): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2021/11...e-iii-tom.html If a Dude Bro could Bro Dudes, how many Bros would a Dude Bro Dude? This is the mighty question laid forth by 5secondfilms' Kickstarter-funded comedy slasher flick, in which the Delta Bi fraternity must once again face off against the crazed killer Motherface – all while shotgunning every beer in sight and dialling the homoeroticism up to a burly boy level 69...!

[Neil]

Do you think there's a risk that too many films like that could cause permanent damage? *joking

[MinionZombie]

Do you think there's a risk that too many films like that could cause permanent damage? *joking Getting bloated from an overdose of awesome sauce? I'm willing to risk it!