tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82145255214240408662024-02-19T03:38:31.190-08:00William WheatonWilliam Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.comBlogger243125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-69496289483137076472012-12-12T13:52:00.002-08:002012-12-12T15:21:16.632-08:00More on The Bunny Game, Human Centipede 2 and the BBFC... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I’ve read this document I got off of the Facebook page of Adam Rehmeier who
directed The Bunny Game that is a study conducted for the BBFC (who’ve banned
and cut a slew of horror films in recent years, including The Bunny Game and
Human Centipede 2) on sexual violence and sadism in films done on a study group
in the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m way too lazy to bother
looking for the link, it’s on Adam Rehmeir’s FB page if you’re really
interested in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The general purpose of
the study is to justify censorship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
I so enjoyed reading it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The films
discussed in the study include Antichrist, Wolf Creek, Martyrs, the Killer Inside
Me, I Spit on Your Grave (the remake), A Serbian Film, Human Centipede 2, the Bunny
Game, and the Japanese film Grotesque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>All these films were either given 18 certificates, massive forced cuts
in scenes, or in the case of The Bunny Game and Grotesque, completely banned in
the UK altogether.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t seen Wolf Creek or the Killer
Inside Me, I will have to check those out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ve seen the original I Spit on Your Grave, but I did not have any intention
of seeing the remake, but since it made it into this stupid BBFC study, I will
now have to go and check it out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
didn’t like Grotesque that much when I saw it even though the BBFC had banned
it, but I may have to give it another shot, based on reading this report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All the films on this report in a sense are classics
by the mere fact that they made it on to this preposterous report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong- I loved reading this
report.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like a who’s who of
contemporary horror cinema.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could spend
hours and hours re-reading the plot synopsis again and again of many of my
favorite films.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know how serial
killers get excited re-living their own crimes and such?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s how I felt reading descriptions of
scenes from all those horror films.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was always kind of into horror films, but when I really got into horror films
was when I moved to Vegas because I found this place the Sci-Fi Center where I
work now that screened them for five dollars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s around the time that Martyrs and Human Centipede and those kinds
of films started coming out, so I have a real affection for some of these
films.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a little surprised that Dead
Snow did not make the list, that’s a good one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are those films vulgar,
repulsive, or sinful if you want to be religious about it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would probably say that they are if I really
thought about it for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That does
not in and of itself give reason for such films to be censored or banned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people who made those films did
accomplish what they sought out to accomplish in making those films which was
in essence to make intense and terrifying horror films.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve read Tom Six quoted as being upset about
the since lifted ban of Human Centipede 2 in the UK, but it would almost seem
the highest honor a film of the kind could receive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do feel to be honest a kind of impetus to move
on and do other things. I’ve gotten sick of being the Human Centipede review
guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I have learned from putting
out books that didn’t sell at all in my 20’s is that now I post based on what
gets the most hits and that’s ended up being for the most part horror movie
reviews and right wing internet radio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
did get a fair bit of attention from writing on some of these very same films
discussed in the study, in some cases overseas and from some fairly serious art
world and academic types in Germany and the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Based on that I suppose in that sense I was able to get a kind of
prestige and sense of reward out of it. So are these immoral films that I
regret having watched? Yes and no.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That
film Martyrs is really good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Antichrist
is a good film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Human Centipede 2 and A
Serbian Film, I could certainly see where people would find these films
objectionable but there is actually a certain artistry that is there. Members of this stupid
BBFC study groups suggested that the films may lead to a glorification of
sexual violence, particularly in young men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hate to inform the BBFC, but people commit rape and films do not
commit rape. The UK, of course, banned conservative radio show host Michael
Savage from entering the country, so their little fetish for censorship doesn’t
stop with horror films featuring rape and/or torture sequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also suppress political material on the
grounds of being “hate speech”, so it is really a very serious issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The state apparatus perpetuates its own
existence by such censorship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
true especially if it’s someone like Michael Savage who spends a lot of time
challenging the appropriate place of government. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the British government doesn’t have a leg
to stand on with any of this. The closest I’ve ever come to being offended by
Adam Rehmeier is when he posted that he didn’t like Prometheus, which is one of
my favorites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have always admired Adam
Rehmeier, Human Centipede 2 director Tom Six, and Michael Savage for being
banned in the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was able to tell Adam
Rehmeier this personally on FB, which he thanked me for. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have effectively spat in the face of
political correctness and for this they should be applauded. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve also always admired Ron Paul, Bob Barr
and Chuck Baldwin for being called out in the MIAC documents. Hey, I’m a
libertarian, I don’t like socialist censorship. I also watch hours and hours of
horror films and listen to hours and hours of right wing radio. You know I have
to, it’s the way I charm the ladies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are those two things, and being extremely closed minded about a
very slim number of either old gothic/industrial type bands or older metal
bands being the only bands worth listening to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I mean, how else do you attract women other than being able to listen to
hours and hours of right wing radio on end and being obsessed with the Bunny
Game and Human Centipede 2? </span>William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-7313364463469028722012-11-19T13:56:00.000-08:002012-11-19T13:56:23.008-08:00Asian Horror: The Uninvited/Coming Soon/Into the Mirror<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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are a bunch of Asian horror films about ghosts that are sometimes on the
lengthy side, don’t always make that much sense, and in some cases have
something or other to do with mental illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As that with this blog I have gone more and more with horror film
reviews being is that that’s all people read on here for the most part, I feel
it is worth discussing these films a little bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, it may be the case that reviews of
these kinds of films will not get hits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Even though these films are extremely violent and grim, they do not
involve snuff films (Snuff, A Serbian Film, etc.), or feature women being raped
and impregnated by a monster of some kind (Inseminoid, Humanoids from the Deep,
Xtro, The Beast Within, etc.), or were banned in any country (Human Centipede
2, The Bunny Game, or A Serbian Film, etc.) which means this review is likely
to yield a smaller on-line audience. The Korean film The
Uninvited is in the Asian Ghost film genre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked the
other people watching the film if it made any sense after the credits, and they
agreed that it did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After I watched
it I went back to a plot synopsis to see if I could make sense of the film of
if I had seriously missed something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
film still doesn’t really make much sense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Uninvited is that one with the guy who is about to get married seeing
the two little girls in the subway and it turns out that the girls were
poisoned by their mother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Protestantism
took off in a big way in South Korea which plays into the film-the main
character’s dad is a pastor at a Protestant church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a whole thing about a woman with narcolepsy
who can see the ghosts of the little girls that haunt the main character, and
this whole bit about her best friend throwing her baby out the window.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In describing this film I’m making it sound
as though this film makes a lot more sense than it in fact does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s very convoluted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s some weird fixation with infanticide
and people jumping out windows that carries through the film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s relatively non-linear, if you’re looking
for a real concrete a-then-b-then-c sort of structure it doesn’t have one, or
at least it doesn’t have one that works.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you’re a film student or something and you want to psychoanalyze a
bunch of weirdness about Korean women killing their children, then this is the
film for you.<span style="mso-tab-count: 5;"> </span>Coming
Soon is a Thai film. Spoiler Alert!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
plays with the notion somewhat related to the idea of a snuff film of a real
death being caught on camera and used in a film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film starts with actually a fairly
extreme sequence about a woman who removes the eyes of children she
kidnaps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Local villagers find her and
hang her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story line revolves around
the people working at the movie theater. The old woman in the movie comes out
of the movie to kill people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s an
interesting little plot twist about the movie within a movie being based on a
true story- but the ghost turn out not to be the real woman the film within a
film is based on, but rather a woman killed during the filming of the hanging
scene in the movie-within-a-movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately, the death caught on camera used in Coming Soon is an
accidental death that is kept in the film and not a deliberate murder on
camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The definition of a snuff flick
is a film made of a murder for purposes of commercial distribution of some
kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is unfortunate that the death
on camera that appears in Coming Soon because then the film would be a film
about snuff flicks, and reviews about films involving snuff flicks in the
plotline are a large source of hits, largely from people looking for real snuff
footage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being said, Coming Soon is
a pretty decent film. Here’s
a tangential bit: when I was watching the films Coming Soon at the Sci-Fi
center here in Vegas, a guy showed up with a t-shirt for the Norwegian black
metal band Dark Throne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s funny, if
there is one thing I regret doing blogging it’s doing a bunch of reviews of
obscure black metal bands no one really cares about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of the reason for that is that in recent
years there’s been that dumb little trend of art world and academic types
becoming obsessed with black metal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
think if you try to analyze and interpret black metal in an academic or a high
brow art type of context you don’t really understand it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s no reason to anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if many of those Norwegian black metal
bands were more or less certifiable, if you read interviews with them, their
intentions have always been more or less clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The whole black metal thing is what it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those black metal bands were all trying to
sound like Venom sort of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Venom is
pretty good. Into
the Mirror is another weird little Asian ghost movie, this time once again from
South Korea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speaking of academics, the
Lacan people would love Into the Mirror because they have their big fixation
with cinema and mirrors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a bit
about a mental patient in Into the Mirror as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Into the Mirror is about a mall security
guard conducting investigation into a series of murders that are actually
carried out by a ghost that lives behind mirrors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Into the Mirror is alright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-26351923812732811782012-10-30T14:22:00.001-07:002012-10-30T14:24:08.126-07:00Caroline Pierce+Allen Dusk/The Perfect House/Atom the Amazing Zombie Killer<link href="file:///C:%5Cwindows%5CTEMP%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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This post is composed of brief reviews
of a number of different films that showed at my work place the Sci-Fi Center
in Las Vegas recently, except for the film called Slaughter Disc where I just
got a promo DVD at a Sci-fi Center event.
In all cases, people involved with making the films were on hand to
answer questions and do promo for their projects. I have decided to include the reviews
together to give a sense of the general vitality of things going on specifically
at the Sci-Fi Center and also the general vitality of things taking place in
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Caroline
Pierce who is best known as an adult film star, although she has collaborated
with a guy named David Quitmeyer (who also just put out a novel about killer
bed bugs called Shady Palms recently under the name Allen Dusk) on some more
horror oriented films. I got two DVDs
free at the event, Slaughter Disc and Tales from the Carnal Morgue (an
anthology disc of three shorts), and a copy of Shady Palms. These films actually came out a number of
years ago, but they are new to me and would be to a lot of people. Slaughter Disc is yet another film that plays
with the whole snuff flick death on video kind of thing. It’s a little bit different from other
murder caught on film/video type films in that this one involves a supernatural
element, with people getting sucked into television screens, as in the 80’s
film Poltergeist. I suppose I should
warn audience that a good portion of the film is essentially pornography
sequences, and is arguably as much or even more so a porno film than a horror
film. Well, how is it? I must be honest I’m a horror film person
and not much of a porno person. This one
kind of addresses that kind of an impression of pornography though, because the
main character has a very clear addiction problem with pornography. The main
character is sort of odd, he chooses masturbating to pornography over spending
time with his real girlfriend, for which she dumps him at the beginning of the
movie. That’s the one thing that is very
interesting about the film- it’s a porno film about an individual destroyed by
pornography. I actually feel the
depiction of pornography addiction in this one is psychologically dead on. He
comes across this haunted DVD and Caroline Pierce plays an evil female
demon/ghost/whatever. The filmmakers did
not have a whole lot of money to work with, but the film is fairly gory. The soundtrack music is actually pretty good-
apparently it was done by Peter J. Gorritz the bassist for the goth band The
Last Dance. At the Sci-Fi center event we screened two films from Tales from
the Carnal Morgue, Mail Order Bride and Sustenance. Mail Order Bride a guy orders a robot woman
on-line, the robot woman is shown violent film footage which screws with her
programming and then she kills the guy of course, it’s comedic in tone. The other film on the DVD that was screened
at the Sci-Fi center was Sustenance. Sustenance is about a woman who enters
into a weight loss program where she is put in a kind of solitary confinement
and fed her own flesh. Fans of extreme
horror will most likely enjoy the third film on the Carnal Morgue disk. People who are fans of Caroline Peirce for
her work from adult films will likely prefer Slaughter Disc. I’m an extreme horror guy and not a porno
person, so I preferred Sustenance. I haven’t gotten around to reading Shady
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The Perfect House is a recent
horror film. We had one of the directors
Kris Hulbert and the producer Andrea M. Vahl and over and screened the
film. This is actually an excellent
film. I had initially identified the
film as an anthology style film, but I was corrected and told by one of the
director Kris Hulbert that sequels are planned in which the details of the
storylines in the film become clear. The
general gist of it is that you have a couple looking at a house for sale, and
they are surprised that the price is as low as it is, but this because a series
of highly violent events have taken place in the house stretching back from the
200’s to the late 60’s which are shown in flashback. One of them involves a dude killing his neighbor’s
entire family in front of him for not returning his weed whacker. There’s
another one about a family with a disturbed mother. Another one involves a guy
who keeps a woman prisoner in small cage in his basement and brings down other
people he kills because he enjoys having the prisoner watch. It is the only film I’m aware of in which a
victim with multiple stab wounds is thrown in salty bathwater, which is one of
a few prolonged torture sequences in the film.
As you can tell, this film is obviously released by Disney. Family fun
for children of all ages! Atom
the Amazing Zombie Killer is a comedy more than anything else. A bunch of guys from Denver, Colorado made
the film and dropped by the Sci-Fi Center.
The main character Atom is leader of a bowling team, who through a head
injury suffers from hallucinations that he is surrounded by zombies, and starts
hacking them up, but it’s actually just real people. There are a number of other plot elements
that have to do with the rival bowling team and their leader who steals Atom’s
girl. The theme music was done by the
Las Angeles punk band the Radioactive Chicken Heads. The violence in the film is strictly
cartoonish slapstick, and there is a fair bit of gross-out bathroom humor. It’s pretty funny. Good times.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ve written on here about some controversial films.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Serbian Film, the Bunny Game and Human Centipede don’t come anywhere near the level of controversy of Innocence of Muslims.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The U.S state department said this got the U.S. Ambassador to Libya assassinated without having any kind of theatrical release.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The producer of the film’s identity is unknown and the actors involved with the film are in the media saying that they were mislead as to the film’s content.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is probably a very good thing for them to say as soon as possible for their personal safety.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Innocence of Muslims is a weird, anti-Muslim propaganda film in which the Prophet Mohammad engages in pedophilia and homosexuality, brutal murder, and fabrication of the Quran for the sake of defrauding his followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael Savage was banned from entering the UK for making statements about Islam far more moderate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People like Salmon Rushdie and the makers of South Park received death threats for much less provocative statements about the Prophet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It may seem a mote point, but based on the trailer, the film also probably doubles as one of the worst films of all time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The costumes look like they were taken from some kids’ Christmas pageant at some church somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They shot on blue screen and edited in the desert badly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have likely seen better acting in pornography.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thought that this is art worth dying for is sort of hilarious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The filmmakers appear to be mostly successful at coming up with an excellent way to get your head blown off- for whatever cinematic value that has.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Update: without getting into it all, it has since turned out that this video was made by a guy named Nakoula Nakoula who was in trouble for white collar crime. The video had nothing to do with the murders at the U.S. embassy in Libya, it also turned out.</span></div>
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These two films, Marebito and Infection, were shown together (with subtitles) as a double feature at the William Powell’s Sci-Fi Center in Las Vegas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to be cautious about what films I take the time to review on here because my schedule is becoming increasingly full and I only have time to review films that will attract public interest, if I can, which is by no means the kind of films that interest me much, but these films seem to be the kind that a review could attract some attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those Japanese are sure to come up with some sadistic horror films given the opportunity- the Guinea Pig videos back in the 80’s actually had people thinking they were real snuff films,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grotesque back in 2009 was banned in the UK outright.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you want to talk about body horror, more recent Japanese horror cinema goes there in a big way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of these ultra-sick and disturbing Japanese films are going to work better than others, obviously.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I strongly preferred Infection over Marebito.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong, Marebito is actually pretty good, but Infection is amazing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marebito I would be willing to sit down and watch again just to get a clearer sense of what is going on in the film, if such a thing is possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think you can necessarily sit down and map out the plot of Marebito and have it all logistically make sense really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main completely crazy and it is strongly suggested that what is going in the film is actually going on in his head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The general gist of it is that the main character discovers an underground tunnel system beneath Tokyo in which he finds a woman that has never had human contact and lives entirely off of blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First he feeds her his own blood (which he says he enjoys and appears to get off on sexually) but then begins killing people to feed her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This plot synopsis is a vast oversimplification but I hate writing out a plot synopsis for films in a review and, again, this film I would be willing to watch over because a lot of it didn’t appear to make sense to me much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is suggested at one point that one woman he kills is actually his wife and the strange woman that only drinks blood he finds underground is actually his daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obviously, this a wholesome family film that should be shown to children in elementary schools, especially around the holiday season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Infection is hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It actually scared me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This hospital in Japan is running out of money, not clear if there is some sort of economic depression going on, but that is sort of the implication. This hospital is running under budget and with inadequate staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an ambulance headed to the hospital with a mysterious illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one becomes another one in which it is not clear how much is actually going on in the character’s minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an incident in which by making a mistake, one of the patients, a burn victim, dies, and the doctors and nurses involved discuss the ways to conceal the error.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meanwhile, the ambulance has dropped off the mysterious patient which has a contagious infection which first effects the brain and then causes the internal organs to dissolve into green slime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is suggested that the disease is actually a disease that takes place in the mind, and has something to do with the death of the burn patient.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answers are not given conclusively in the end, without spoiling too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8214525521424040866" name="_GoBack"></a>A woman in the audience actually screamed during the screening of Infection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s pretty sweet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It makes sense for me to review this film now just because the DVD came out a few weeks ago and I just happened to see it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not going to lie and say this is an amazing film- it is not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a documentary about the lead singer of the 70’s doom metal band Pentagram Bobby Liebling who spent years smoking crack in his parents basement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He- I don’t know- Pentagram is a really good band but I am not crazy about this Liebling guy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s really not especially insightful or interesting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s a weirdo, and not really in a positive way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He gets sober by the end of the film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film is similar in tone to the documentary about Arthur Kane of the New York Dolls except Arthur Kane had vanished from music and become a very serious Mormon, which is a lot more sympathetic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bobby is pretty annoying, he vanished from music to smoke crack in his parent's basement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But who is really annoying is his wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He marries one of his young fans in the film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is an ugly crackhead who lives with his mom. First of all, she becomes romantically involved with a particularly ugly crackhead because he was in some band in the 70’s, which reminds me a lot of the woman who said she wouldn’t date me because I wasn’t a skinhead in high school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly, if you watch the film, the strong argument could be made that she was more of a hindrance to Bobby’s recovery than a help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The documentary doesn’t even play that much Pentagram in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nothing spells class quite like the Faces of Death movies from the 80’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The original I know was at least banned in a number of different countries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These “documentaries” have no plots and contain mostly fake footage of grizzly deaths of both humans and animals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re ridiculous- people were fooled by them, amazingly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s funny; Charlie Sheen took the second of the Guinea Pig videos seriously enough to contact the F.B.I about it, thinking he was looking at real extreme Asian torture and snuff flick footage, even though the video was very much a fake snuff flick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faces of Death 3 is a hilarious fake at points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does include what looks like real footage of a rabbit slaughterhouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The third one is the one where they show a secret political execution in El Salvador without explaining why their cameras would be allowed into a secret political execution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3 is also the one where the skydiver crashes into water full of alligators that eat him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are talking serious gritty realism here!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film as with it’s to preceding films is narrated by actor Michael Carr as Doctor Frances b. Gross (get it? He B. Gross!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, the fourth films has a different narrator, but I have yet to be quite bored enough to watch Faces of Death 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, the 5<sup>th</sup> Faces of Death film is all footage from the previous four films.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I find these films to be hilarious though devoid of any substance whatsoever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously, I cracked up when the guy skydives into the water filled with alligators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re a man looking to really charm the ladies, I’ll tell you what you do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early on in conversation, as early on as you can bring it up, mention being a huge fan of the Faces of Death films, in particular Faces of Death 3. Well, who can blame the ladies?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Doctor Frances B. Gross looks so sexy in his glasses, goatee, and timely late 70’s to mid-80’s suits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You strat wearing that same suit, glasses, goatee and start narrating about the guy who skydived into the water filled with alligators, the tail is going to come crawling, I promise!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-79078821525576939662012-07-29T17:27:00.001-07:002012-07-29T17:27:59.219-07:00Messiah of Evil (Full Film with Text Introduction)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The problem again and again with doing this site, as I’ve complained about at length on here lately, is that it tends to be only reviews of the more extreme kinds of horror films- Human Centipede 2, The Bunny Game, A Serbian Film, Men Behind the Sun- films that deal with torture, snuff films, rape- that get <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>many hits. As such I am forced to write on those to keep the audience expanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did in all honesty enjoy many of those films, but it is frustrating that that must become the focus in order to keep the readership numbers high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A film like Messiah of Evil is a good example of why I find this all very stifling. Even when it comes to horror cinema as the central topic, an extreme horror film like The Bunny Game of Human Centipede 2 does not represent by any stretch of the imagination the full scope of engaging horror films.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kind of like this film Messiah of Evil from the 70’s that I saw last night at the Sci-Fi center in Vegas. No, this film only has flesh eating zombies, it does not involve prolonged sexual torture, rape and impregnation of human woman by aliens or monsters, or snuff films in anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was never banned in any country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Messiah of Evil is like a zombie movie made by people on seven hits of acid or something.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d never heard of it but apparently a lot of people view it as a kind of a lost classic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A good example of one such individual is Brad Jones “the Cinema Snob” (whose snuff-flick themed movie Cheap I reviewed on here).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brad Jones has the whole shtick that he never likes anything, but he loves Messiah of Evil.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The general plot synopsis is a woman who has lost contact with her father, a painter- (and the paintings of his shown in the film are all tripped out, of course) goes to a small town in Northern California, where she meets up with some weird traveling bohemian types.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her father’s notes suggest that something very bad is happening in this town, and then, you guessed it- flesh eating zombies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a kind of Antichrist figure that appears, as the title would suggest, but he’s a weird old west Antichrist, an Anti-Joseph Smith almost- it involves the Donner Party.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film also includes some very nice early electronic soundtrack work akin to the soundtrack work of Can or Goblin from the same time period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This film is more the sort of thing that I myself am into, weird zombie films from the 70’s and the like- but unfortunately on-line audiences seem focused on digging up images of sexual violation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is truly a shame in my book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-22093994077913997592012-07-28T00:21:00.000-07:002012-07-28T00:21:20.234-07:00The M Lady Tapes<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Many of the people who have reached my site have used the search words “M Lady Tapes”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will make some brief notes here about what they are and some information about them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not a subject I find that interesting myself, so I won’t go into that much detail about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Serial killers Leonard Lake and his accomplice Charles Ng in California tortured, raped and murdered a number of women up at their cabin where they lived.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the sexual abuse and torture was captured on video.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have seen some clips from these tapes which appear in the documentary Snuff: A Documentary About Killing on Camera which I reviewed on here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, this M Lady Tape footage is in some form available on-line but I have never had enough curiosity about it to try and get a hold of the footage. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This footage doesn’t constitute snuff footage because there’s no evidence they made the tapes for purpose of profit, a vital element in the definition of snuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Luka Magnotta video which surfaced more recently is not authentic snuff footage for much the same reason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, these M Lady Tapes are real unfortunately, and supposedly you can get a hold of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t imagine why you <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would want to, but apparently they’re around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ve had to discontinue music reviews because of a general lack of public interest, but this is a little bit of musical trivia that I think merits mention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two bands have different songs entitled “Night of the Seagulls” that are inspired by the same Spanish zombie film from the 70’s of the same name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is by the band Templars (sometimes called The Templars), a skinhead (not the Nazi kind) “oi” punk band from the New York area in the 90’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other is by the British doom metal band Cathedral. The band Templars I’ve known about for a little over ten years. Every so often I meet someone who is a Templars fan not often.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sort of feel that of all the “punk” bands I’ve ever heard, they stand out as being the best.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been listening to them a lot lately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are a real underrated treasure I think.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really like “Night of the Seagulls” by Templars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The funny thing is that the really almost just as good and also underrated is the Cathedral song “Night of the Seagulls” is also really great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to reference doom metal on this blog frequently, but by and large I’ve gotten sort of sick of metal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cathedral is good, I’ve always sort of overlooked them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have these very specific, almost OCD like compulsions about what music I listen to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have very narrow tastes that a lot of people find quite strange.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of those is listening to some very odd music made as soundtracks for European horror/b-films from the 70’s such as the Vampyre Lesbos soundtrack and of course the work the Italian “progressive rock” band Goblin did for Dario Argento and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve taken a tiny break from being obsessed with music from such films and listening to music inspired and about a European horror film from the 70’s in the form of both “Night of The Seagulls” by Templars and “Night of the Seagulls” by Cathedral.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">How is the film?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The film I would say is decent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a real taste for campy horror cinema like this. It’s actually the last of the Blind Dead film series by Amando de Ossorio. Ossorio has a little bit of a perverted side.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s a little bit of a sleaze director.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, people who are into extreme Asian torture videos, movies in which women are raped and impregnated by monsters, Spongebob Squarepants Porn, and trying to locate real snuff footage will find this film tame most likely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s too bad. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is, however, a good bit of breast exposure in this film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Previous movies of the Blind Dead series I saw I found to have pacing problems, Night of the Seagulls less so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The general plotline is that a doctor and his wife show up in this coastal village where the natives sacrifice young women to these undead knights without eyes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the other Blind Dead movies it is made clear that these are supposed to be Knights Templar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I kind of like it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s an okay film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The funny thing is, I know exactly who is to blame for this whole thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a dirty hippy named Ed Saunders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the singer in a 60’s band called The Fugs, but this is not his work with the Fugs which I’m talking about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ed Saunders wrote a book on the Manson Family killings called The Family that was full of factual errors for which his publisher was sued successfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there is one enduring contribution to our culture that is still at work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is far as I’ve ever heard or read of, The Family is the first place in which the unconfirmed rumor of the “snuff flick” originated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blogging about the subject and the numerous films that have incorporated the myth as a plot device has become a dull chore for me but it is a necessary evil because of the huge number of hits such reviews get.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve gone through a lot of these silly movies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Emanuelle in America is the one that’s kind of a European soft core film, A Serbian Film is the really extreme one, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cheap is the one where the guy had good idea but no money, The Last House on Dead End Street is the one that is impossible to find, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then now, I’m down two these last two that I’ve run across which are better described as thrillers than horror movies from back in the 90’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One is the Spanish film Thesis or Tesis the other is a film called Mute Witness which is a US film shot in Russia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These films are both good but not great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found them both for about ten bucks combined, so no great loss or win on that one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both have film geek types as characters and are semi self-referential, i.e. sort of films about film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thesis is about a film student who uncovers a snuff film operation on campus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t feel like giving a full plot synopsis because I’m lazy and sick of these films.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you’re looking for hardcore degenerate kind of material or real snuff films, I’m sure Thesis will bore you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like the Saved by the Bell of the snuff film mythology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is some attempt to comment or observe about society and medias fixation with violence in it, but it is sort of just thrown out there in a very superficial manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I prefer Mute Witness which is about a mute woman working on a low budget horror film in Moscow who witnesses some Russian mob stuff involving snuff flicks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not because Mute Witness is a brilliant film, but rather because the actress that plays the mute woman looked pretty sexy getting into a bath in the film. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I lied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This blog post does not contain hardcore snuff flick action or extreme torture video action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Posts get more hits when I give them titles like that though, which is why I did it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are two other videos that are probably just as disturbing as a real snuff flick if you actually thought about them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the one the actor Robert Blake flips out while he’s being interviewed about being tried for killing his wife.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The other one two politicians from Jordan are arguing on TV and one pulls out a gun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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Snuff flicks are an urban legend from the 70’s with very little concrete evidence to support their existence. However, I have successfully used this legend to become famous, because thousands of people are looking for them. The clearest explanation is simply that there are a lot of people who get off on watching something die. One might think that snuff flicks exist somewhere, simply because the human race is too sick for them not to. The thing is it would be easier and probably cheaper to make a fake snuff flick. Certainly, huge snuff flick rings do not exist which is part of the urban legend as we’ve never seen a snuff flick trial ever, for example. So the snuff flick thing is also as much about the gullibility of mankind as anything else. I have at least one more review of some films that have used snuff films as a plot device slatted ahead.William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-27388544447910814152012-07-01T19:11:00.000-07:002012-07-07T23:29:40.803-07:00Extreme Death Caught on Camera Video Action for Hardcore Snuff Film Fans! Guest Staring Tom Cruise!<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/E1iwLmgunKk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Yes, the endless snuff film thing: not only do I get sick of writing about them but people never stop looking them up on-line for reasons I don’t fully understand, but now I’m even tired of repeating that I’m bored of writing about the subject and don’t get the fascination. For those looking for snuff films, I can say that there are more than enough videos of people dying caught on camera to look at. This one is from a courtroom in Arizona where a man named Michael Marin was found guilty of arson of his own home because he couldn’t afford the mortgage anymore. He appears to have consumed a poison in court upon hearing the verdict. It is not footage of murder set up on camera for the deliberate purpose of sales, but hey, if you want to watch someone die, I have provided this video right here, which was shown on mainstream news in many places and is widely available on-line. I think it was probably only the tenth most interesting thing in the news this week, but here it is for you.
I think the whole thing with Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes getting divorced is even a lot more interesting, personally. I wrote a short story about the topic years ago. Rupert Murdoch over at Fox tweeted this morning that he thought this story was going to reveal a lot more and that Scientologist are “creepy, maybe evil” and one of the publications he owns, Murdoch owns, the New York Post ran a story today suggesting that the marriage was essentially arranged and staged. To be honest I don’t know how much will come out about Scientology and all that. In my mind there is still at this point the distinct possibility that Katie Holmes divorced Tom Cruise purely because he wasn’t an especially good husband, and not over his being gay as he is rumored to be or weirdness involving the church. Rupert Murdoch’s been in the news business a good long while though, so when he smells a little smoke there may be a little bit of fire. Of course, much larger audiences will be drawn to this post for use of the words “extreme”, “snuff film”, and “hardcore” in the title.William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-13746093786418106912012-06-27T12:14:00.000-07:002012-07-01T13:09:34.146-07:00Racist Elmo VideoHere it is, footage of the Central Park Elmo impersonator ranting about the Jews, using the f-word, and getting arrested ultimnately. As sort of a side note, Elmo here makes refference to a body of anti-semetic writings by Henry Ford. It comes up every once and a while that Henry Ford was an anti-semite, not often. I suppose this does not belong tightly within the topic of horror cinema, but is certainly a kind of shock video. I really had no idea Elmo had it in him.
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Jessie whatever her name is from Goodnight Gunfight found it on-line and re-posted it. This was pretty much exactly the purpose for which the blog was posted. After it was reposted it got a fair few hits, I was excited to see. The thing is though that that was nearly a year ago that I wrote that thing, and now it is clear two principle things. Mostly the only blogs that get any hits are 1.) Expressions of my right wing political views on blog talk radio, banking off my grandfather’s name. 2) horror films reviews or topics related to horror films. It’s not simply horror reviews, but horror reviews that tend to involve a lot of sick and deranged kind of stuff. People are always looking around for snuff flicks which don’t really exist, and so writing about. So the strategy of making fun of New York artsy types to create a stir was one I largely abandoned by the time Jessie whatever her name is from Goodnight Gunfight found the post, all though I was glad to have been able to have gotten couple hits on that. It should be stressed that is some terrible, terrible music. I think that almost all bands are pretty much wretched and not worth getting excited about to be totally honest. Goodnight Gunfight they weren’t even nice, really. Around the same time I interviewed them I walked into a fetish club and got surrounded by a group of women in their early twenties, one of who said “ You’re our bitch now.” At which pointed I was tied up and spanked and clawed etc, by the group of young women. So it was easier to get play at that point by doing fetish club type stuff. That was more chicks than were even in Goodnight Gunfight. So I’ll still stand by my general opinion that Goodnight Gunfight had no reason to exist and less reason to be worth interviewing. The blog bitching about them got more attention than the interview would have.William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-51458469672744742502012-06-10T22:05:00.001-07:002012-06-10T22:05:49.494-07:00Impregnated with a Tentacle Monster: Prometheus ReviewI apologize for the title of the post. In order to get larger numbers of hits I have made named it as such so this post could be mistaken for Japanese tentacle hentai porn, which gets all kinds of websearches. This post is actually mostly a review of the film Prometheus. You have to meet your audience half way. Prometheus does have part in which a woman is impregnated with a tentacle monster, so this blog talks a little bit about that they want, a little bit about what i want to talk about. Ridley Scott has been gloating a little bit about how brilliant his new Alien prequel is (there was some question about whether Prometheus was an Alien prequel-it very much is). The general premise I think is perhaps more clever and engaging then the film itself is. Basically, these humans find these ancient cave drawings and ancient pictograms displaying gigantic beings pointing at a star- they think it’s an invitation from the aliens called “the Engineers” to come visit them. They go to the planet in the star map and their understanding of the pictograms is all wrong and what they stumble into is a planet which is a military outpost and they walk into a biological weapon storehouse. The aliens are the same alien in the chair at the beginning of alien. The implication, which actually makes the original Alien make more sense, is that the xenomorphs from the Aliens films was one of their weapons. That would explain why the alien was able to gestate in a human host, it was designed as a weapon to specifically do that. Some variation of the Xenomorph species makes a cameo at the very end popping out of the Engineers’ chest. The Elizabeth Shaw character, one of the scientist is impregnated with a tentacle creature that is some variation on the “facehugger” from the Alien films. I don’t feel like writing out an entire plot synopsis of it because that is boring and plot synopsis of Prometheus are widely available on-line elsewhere. I was very excited that this film was coming out and it is a satisfying and watchable film. I don’t think Ridley Scott is being nearly as philosophically interesting as he thinks he’s being by basing a film around the idea that aliens created the human race, which is an idea that come up here and there in UFO books and such. They left a number of things unresolved certainly with the intention of doing a franchise that would be a kind of Alien spin off franchise with Elizabeth Shaw as the new Ripley character. I got a kick out of the nasty irony of the general premise though. I sided with the Engineers for being a ruthless, militaristic race.
It’s pretty good, I like it. Not as good as I thought it would be, but pretty good.William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-25027740146717373252012-06-04T20:52:00.004-07:002012-06-04T21:39:00.019-07:00Extreme Snuff and Cartoon Porn Action!: Luka Magnotta’s 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick and Josh Powell’s Spongebob Squarepants Porn CollectionToday saw the arrest of Luka Magnotta, one gay porn star from Montreal in Berlin. Magnotta is accused of killing a Chinese student, dismembering the body, having sex with the body, and video tapping it, and mailing a dismembered foot to the headquarters of the Canadian Conservative Party. I blogged on the case a few days ago, which attracted attention mostly from people looking for the video, which is entitled “1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick”. It is till unclear whether or not Magnotta's video meets the definition of "snuff film" because it is unclear if he wanted to sell the video. The blog post about Magnotta is still surpassed in popularity by my blog posts on the subject of Josh Powell, who set his two sons and himself on fire in relation to a custody battle he was likely to lose because hundreds of images of cartoon characters such as Spongebob Squarepants engaging in sexual and sometimes incestuous acts where found in his possession. The case of Powell and the case of Magnotta are parallel in certain ways. In the case of Powell, my blog gets thousands of hits from people looking for the Spongebob Squarepants porn just as the hundreds of hits that my blog on Luka Magnotta got have been mostly from people looking for “1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick”. The notion that there is no relationship between violent crime and pornography is clearly false. In these cases we see extreme pornography of one kind or another as fetishes of the perpetrators. In the case of Magnotta pornography was also, of course, his occupation. It looks like Josh Powell had previously gotten away with killing his wife Susan Powell, so Josh Powell had a certain degree of competency as a criminal. Magnotta was caught within days and was an especially sloppy and incompetent criminal. In both cases we are talking about minds in states of extreme decay, but Magnotta was particularly non-functional. The psyche of an individual like Magnotta is not sophisticated. Josh Powel died by suicide (he burned alive) and Magnotta will surely go to prison for years, so neither story ends well for the perpetrator. I get very bored of writing about this kind of fecal matter, but audiences do not get bored of looking it up. It is of some slightly tangential relationship to the primary subject of this blog, which has become horror films due to public interest.
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/orIuv0u9az4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-29286121684902899312012-06-02T00:26:00.001-07:002012-06-04T18:36:08.857-07:00Real Snuff Flick Surfaces???? 1 Lunatic 1 Ice PickFor reasons well beyond my understanding, one of the topics of greatest interest on this blog has
been whether or not snuff films actually exist and a lot of that seems to be from people in search of them. I think a video as close as anything you’re ever going to see surfaced this week under the title I Lunatic 1 Ice Pick and it comes from Montreal . It was apparently made by this gay porn star Luka Magnotta, who supposedly mailed the foot of his victim to the headquarters of Canada’s Conservative Party. Magnotta is a wanted man. The victim was identified as a Chinese student named Jun Lin. I don’t feel it is appropriate to include a link here, but it is largely circulated on-line. Part of the definition of a “snuff film” is that the murder must be videotaped for the sake of profit, and it is not clear that Luka Magnotta had profit in mind, but if he did, then this is an authentic snuff film, apparently. Otherwise it is close to matching the definition of a snuff film, but is not quite a snuff film, but if the intention was ever to sell the video, then yes, I Ice Pick 1 Lunatic is a snuff film. The video involves real cannibalism and necrophilia, so if not true to the letter of the definition of snuff, it would appear to be very close to the spirit of the definition of snuff. Magnotta apparently had a previous video of himself killing and having sex with the corpses of kittens which is also floating around. As the Magnotta case develops I think it should be more apparent whether or not 1 Lunatic 1 Ice Pick constitutes real snuff or something very close. I think it’s kind of a mote point myself. It's all just sort of sick and gross to me, I don't see the appeal or understand the mindset behind it. I've addressed the subject repeatdly on here as it came up as a tangent writing on the topic of horror films, and this tangent attracts a lot of public interest.
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Updtae 6/4: Magnotta was arrested in Berlin today. This is important to stress: Magnotta was not a smooth criminal or a criminal genius as he perhaps imagined himself. The myth of an extensive "snuff flick" black market is unlikely for the very reason that this case indicates. It would be a very easy crime to catch someone at. If snuff films do indeed exist it is probably a very small circulation. It reamins to be seen that I Lunatic 1 Ice Pick constitutes an authentic snuff film in so far as it is unclear if Magnotta intended to sell the video.William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-17482213869654791892012-05-30T20:38:00.000-07:002012-05-30T20:47:33.074-07:00Discount Bath Salts Available Wholesale On-Line! Will Turn You Into Flesh Eating Zombie!!!!!For a limited time only! Psychoactive bath salts! Vanilia Sky, Purple Haze, Ivory Tide, Plant Food, etc- now available wholeslae on-line for your consumption: 50% off while supplies last
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These are two samples from 80's horror movie soundtracks, perhaps my two favorites, Tangerine Dream's soundtrack to the film Near Dark (about cowboy vampires) and Goblin's soundtrack to Argento's Phenomena (also known as Creepers). People say that guy Phil Spector had a good ear for production or the wall of sound. I think there's a bunch of music by European artists that appeared for cinematic purposes such as Goblin's work or some of Tangerine Dream's work that would make Spector cry if you played it for him in prison, to be totally honest. Actually, this post has nothing to do with extreme horror only regular horror, but I made the title that way so that the post might actually get a good number of hits. The more sincere I am about my interests, the less anyone cares.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5zHq2MBtXS8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-91298240451666517192012-05-20T15:53:00.001-07:002012-06-17T05:32:25.979-07:00Torture Videos! Snuff Films! Serial Killers! Psychotronic Grindhouse MADNESS with Scream Bloody Murder!It has come to be that on this blog, the topic and real topic that gets hits consistently is an on-going investigation or meditation on the topic of extreme horror and to some extent the related topic of extreme pornography of various kinds that exist, and, as I have frequently written, this is largely true because people find my site looking for pornography. This is not necessarily even within the rubric of horror films the topic that interests me the most. I tire of writing about it, but audiences do not tire of looking such subjects up.
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This is from a grindhouse film from 1973 that isn't even good for a grindhouse film. The name of the film is Scream Bloody Murder. It's about a young man with a hook for a hand who is deeply uncomfortable with sex who keeps a prostitute captive. The film completely ignores basic logic and plausibility, is super low-budget, and as such is highly entreating, especially to watch with a group of people. That's actually much more so the spirit with which I watch horror films generally.
There's the final interview with Ted Bundy done by Evangelical James Dobson from Focus on the Family where Ted Bundy argued the influence that pornography, in particular violent pornography, had on his psyche. If I continue discussing the general issues addressed in that interview through different horror films or something like the Powell family case, it will continue to have an audience. It will be reiteration but there will always be an audience for it. It's the same general stuff. You have sexual taboos about the violation of another, for example taboos against rape. I dig up some horror film that involves rape as subject matter, a woman is raped and impregnated by an alien in the film for example, and write on the film. The discussion by it's very nature must be a reiteration of the kind of themes found in the final interview with Ted Bundy, ultimately. Someone finds it looking for footage of a woman being raped by an alien. Based on the numbers that come in, I determine that this is a popular kind of blog to write, so I work on some variation on the theme. If I try something different, the number of hits are smaller, and so the cycle keeps going. My heart is elsewhere. My mind is elsewhere. But it repeats because that is what gets the most attention. I can try to make jokes of, to poke fun at Josh Powell's collection of Spongebob Squarepants porn, for example. Or for instance, here I might quote Charles Manson's response to Ted Bundy- "I've been watching pornography my entire life and it hasn't effected me"-
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As groovy and psychedelic as Charles Manson is though, however, I think Scream Bloody Murder from roughly the same era might be almost equally groovy. That's some serious Psychotronic Grindhouse ACTION!
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<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ObbsyKKHYic" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>William Wheatonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01890531856211242408noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8214525521424040866.post-82318165587629683022012-05-17T17:38:00.002-07:002012-05-17T17:38:42.742-07:00Extreme Torture! Murder Caught on Video! It's August Underground!This is a review of the shot on video film August Underground by Fred Vogel. This film comes up and again in discussion of extreme horror I see on-line. I am not a particularly big fan of the film. I find it kind of boring, to be honest. There is this kind of predicament that I'm in where blogs on extreme horror cinema are in general by far the most viewed (at least on this text based blog, my political internet radio show gets thousands of hits) the problem being that I think I'm running out of quality films within the genre to deal with. I had said in my review of S&Man that I wouldn't review August Underground. I didn't really want to for awhile but this blog probably will get hits because a review of this film could easily be mistaken for pornography of some kind, which is a trick I frequently use just to get more hits. It's a pretty bad film though, in my opinion. No insult to Fred Vogel, I'm sure he's a fun guy to sit and watch some zombie flicks with, this film is ultra low budget, sort of slow, and generally kind of pointless in my opinion. It's a dull faux-torture-snuff video made with no money, it's nothing much more than that, and that has some audience. There are segues, but I'm not really interested at all in seeing them for any reason. Man, Fred Vogel must have really had budget constraints because he couldn't find particularly good looking women desperate to get their foot in the door to be actresses. I don't know if he eve sunk quite as low as Bill Zebub, but August Underground is pretty wretched fecal matter. This is a very stupid movie.
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