MZ's Movie Review Thread

[Neil]

Ghoulies 4 next?

[MinionZombie]

Ghoulies 4 next? Haven't got around to seeing that one yet. It looks kinda shit, to be honest, so I'm in no real rush to see it. Ghoulies 3 was awesome, though.

[Neil]

Ghoulies 4 looks great!

[MinionZombie]

Ghoulies 4 looks great!   I'm still swooning over Hope Marie Carlton in Ghoulies 3.

[MinionZombie]

Virgin High (Richard Gabai, 1991): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2022/10...91-review.html The Academy of the Blessed Virgin is an educational home for troublesome girls in-need of some ruthlessly religious guidance to steer them clear of the ailments of modern society that's driving them down a dangerous path. You won't find any loud talking or lambada dancing going on at the so-called 'Virgin High', but this bastion of biblical purity is about to get a sullied reputation...

[MinionZombie]

Dinosaur Island (Fred Olen Ray & Jim Wynorski, 1994): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2022/11...n-ray-jim.html Funded by 'King of the B-Movies' Roger Corman, the intention behind Dinosaur Island was to cash-in on the likely success of the then soon-to-be-released Jurassic Park, with a thrifty-minded recycling of the T-Rex from the 1993's Carnosaur. Shot over twelve days on a budget of $190,000, with filming mostly taking place on cult movie icon David Carradine's ranch, the film was described by co-director Fred Olen Ray as “the kind of movie that if you were a fourteen year old kid, it would be your favourite movie”. Gathering a whole host of VHS-era Scream Queens and glamour models in animal hide bikinis (accurate to the prehistoric period, most surely) to scamper around betwixt natural spring hot tubs and none-more-fake-looking dino-beasties, Ray's description could quite possibly be the most spot-on statement of 1994...

[Neil]

[MinionZombie]

Witch Academy (Fred Olen Ray, 1991): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2022/12...91-review.html A gaggle of sorority sisters who just so happen to be witches, the Satanic temptation of a goofy nerd, and costume design exclusively from a lingerie catalogue is pretty much the jist of this straight-to-video Scream Queen comedy horror flick – oh, and some Hollywood royalty even turns up to join the fun!...

[MinionZombie]

Scare Package II: Rad Chad's Revenge: http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2023/02...s-revenge.html Following on from franchise creators Aaron B. Koontz and Cameron Burns' 2019 Shudder-exclusive comedy horror portmanteau flick Scare Package, it's time to strap-in for movie references galore, big splattery guffaws, and some twisted ideas turned on their severed head...

[MinionZombie]

Kids vs Aliens (Jason Eisener, 2023): https://deadshed.blogspot.com/2023/0...23-review.html It's been a long time since the director of Hobo With A Shotgun unleashed his foul-mouthed, gore-splattered, ramped-up roar of a debut movie onto audiences, but finally the renegade filmmaker from Nova Scotia has dished up a new feature-length helping from his multi-coloured mind of madness... It's kinda like if Lucio Fulci made a Saturday morning kids' show.

[MinionZombie]

Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-rama 2: http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2023/07...wl-o-rama.html Belated sequels are always a tricky sell. Can you ever truly recapture the magic of the original movie(s), the texture and tone of the way they were shot, the time in which they were made, even the attitudes of the period? Do you risk trampling on the memory of what came before – just look at what happened with Indiana Jones, which (at the time of writing) is looking to be on-course for a disastrous reception to it's fifth entry (a belated-sequel of a belated-sequel). So, what about a raunchy horror-comedy from the heyday of the VHS rental era – what will a thirty-four year gap between films mean to the tale of a nefarious Imp trapped inside a bowling trophy?...

[MinionZombie]

Murdercise (Angelica De Alba & Paul Ragsdale, 2023): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2023/09...alba-paul.html Like a throwback to the heyday of the 1980s Scream Queens, Murdercise poses the question – how far should one go to become the cover girl for a cheap and tacky workout video? Is a little bit of killing a step too far, or a fast track to success in Reagan's day-glo lycra-clad America?...

[MinionZombie]

V/H/S/85 (Various, 2023): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2023/10...23-review.html

[MinionZombie]

Ski School (Damian Lee, 1990): http://deadshed.blogspot.com/2023/11...90-review.html Atop Whistler mountain it's the annual Spring Pageant Week and control of the ski slopes is up for grabs with the loser to be banished. With square-jawed preppy jocks on one side and the all-American party dudes on the other, it's Animal House in the snow...!

[Neil]

LOL! Reminds be of the first bit of this for some reason