August Underground Mordum (magGot Cut)

Pure chaos. Unorganized, unstructured.... a cluster fuck. While the Toetag cut of Mordum is chaotic, the magGot cut takes it to the extreme. Couple that with my hazy memory and you have a disjointed, surreal mish-mash of craziness that can't really be described. It's nuts, but is it effective?

Nekromantik

 

Here it is! Nekromantik. The famous and infamous. Ill admit my copy, though well done, is a bootleg. Its got a nice cover, case, and the disk itself has the design on top, but the bottom has the distinct lavender hue of a DVD-R. But I paid ten dollars for my copy. So besides collecting purposes would it be worth the seventy dollars to get a legitimate copy?

The Cabin in the Woods

How do you write a review of The Cabin in the Woods without spoiling anything? I could be very vague and say something like, "A group of stereotypical teens: Jock, Slut, Nerd, Stoner, and Virgin, set out for a weekend getaway to a cabin deep in the woods. The horrors that await them are only the tip of something monumental!" Its a horror/comedy filled with great moments and when the shit finally hits the fan... it's epic! But really, that's all that can be said without spoiling the fun.

Hit "Read more" for spoilers and my thoughts.

New for Snuff 101!

I'm gonna be doing some video stuff! Reviews, rants, thoughts, all kinda thing! I'm going for single take, quick things, so they may be a little ranty, mumbly, and a tad unclear, but it will save time and maybe even break up some of the monotony. I will still be doing written reviews because in the end I would rather write, but for the next week or so I will be doing videos to help me get used to it all. Also, might not be going for the review a day thing. I think I was getting burnt on it and that's why we see these long periods without any updates. Maybe three a week? Every other day? Something. I'll get it figured out.

Incident at Loch Ness

Incident at Loch Ness. Mockumentary or documentary? Ok, its a mockumentary but it's so well done that it would easily pass for a documentary. It's about famed documentary director Werner Herzog. He is looking to make a new documentary on the Loch Ness Monster, not really about finding it, but about why it "exists". About it's legend, it's mystery, and it's importance to people and why we debate its existence so much. So it's a documentary about a man making a documentary. His struggles with his crew. His conniving, power hungry producer. And the local townsfolk.

Demons

I've heard of Demons before. I knew it was a movie that was supposed to have a decent amount of gore. But I never really took the time to read about Demons. When I decided to watch it today, I was pleasantly surprised. I went in expecting a sorta typical possession movie, or maybe a normal monster movie affair. What I got, however, was a high energy Italian Splatter flick! Get ready for some blood, gore, and demon puke cause here it comes!

Silent House (2012)

The original The Silent House was a 2010 Spanish horror movie about a girl and her father restoring a house. As time goes on a horrible secret begins to unfold and horror ensues. Its greatest achievement was the amazing feat of being shot in one solid shot. No cuts, fades, just a single shot. I've yet to see it, so I can't say if it was good or bad. So how does the American remake handle this technical feat? Is it just another "meh" American remake or does it strike it's own chord?

Shaun of the Dead

Part horror movie, part comedy, all good. While I think it gets a little overblown, Shaun of the Dead is a great movie and definitely one of the better zombie movies around. I love that it touches something that we have all thought about, "what would you do in a zombie outbreak?" Shaun goes over his fantasy, plans it out, and executes it.... sort of.

Hellraiser: Revelations

Hellraiser. I love Hellraiser. I have a Chatter tattoo and one of the Lament Configuration too. So I generally go into these movies with a high bar, but a bit through each one I always remember that they probably won't live up to the first two. So after reading up a bit on this new movie, I took that usually raised bar and pretty much threw it onto the floor. Did this last minute entry into one of my favorite mythos live up to the expectations I set for it?

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare

Dr. Maggie Burroughs works a youth correctional center helping troubled kids get their lives together and back on track. John Doe is the last surviving child of Springwood, Ohio, home of Elm Street. Home of Freddy Krueger. Freddy uses John Doe, letting him escape his clutches and run off to Maggies youth center. Freddy hopes to bring back some children to help him escape Springwood. More specifically, Freddy wants John to bring back HIS child. Does it work? Does Freddy escape and start his slaughter anew in a new town? Or is this truly the final nightmare? Well we all know it wasn't the last we saw of good old Freddy, but hey, the world could always use more Freddy.

Troll 2

Oh Troll 2.... why you trolling? You don't even have a troll. People are just jelly of your awesome acting, paper-mache goblins, and super hot popcorn scene. Its understandable. And all that delicious food! Now that's hospitality, and you can't piss on hospitality! It's so bad its good, so read on and check it out.

Orozco The Embalmer

Orozco is definitely not my usual forte. Its a Mondo style documentary about an embalmer in the worst part of Columbia. We see how the people here react to death, we see how Orozco works, and we see it all in a gritty no holds barred fashion. If you can't handle the sight of dead people, flesh being cut, guts and organs, and the sound of insides sloshing around in a mixture of blood and water in an open abdomen cavity, you should probably turn away. If you can handle all that, tread on my friend. This movie was definitely a test for me. I guess I passed. I don't know if that's good or bad.

After a two week hiatus...

It's been a while everyone. Sorry about the break in posts. I'll try to keep it from happening again. A few personal things happened and I found it very hard to be motivated to do much beyond moping around. But I'm back. Things are getting better and I have the drive to see this all through. Maybe I'll try to play catchup with the posts, still tossing that idea around, but for now we are (hopefully) back to our regularly scheduled horror, gore, violence, and mayhem. Sorry once again! Thanks for being awesome and sticking around!

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Why would you watch a very "meh" remake of such an awesome and classic movie? Six words: Jessica Beil's boobs and The Gunny. Why wouldn't you watch it? The all around bad acting, the portrayal of Leatherface with all his grunting and general lack of personality or any sort of terrifying presence? Maybe it would be the really dumb things that people say? I know I'm probably biased and this all sounds bad, but its not a horrible movie, it entertains and that's what movies are supposed to do.

Dead Alive

Oh yea! The goriest movie around! There is no question. Limbs everywhere, heads exploding, living guts that hunt for human flesh, body parts in blenders, and lawnmower massacre! Really, you can't beat it in pure blood content. The lawnmower scene alone, blood was being pumped through the damn thing at five gallons per second. Let me repeat, per second! And on top of the sheer gore, there is plenty of comedy and on top of that, cheese. Romance cheese to be exact! Please Peter Jackson, stop making epic fantasy movies and go back to making epic splatter movies! Sam Raimi went back, cant you?

Antichrist

If you ever wanted to see a woman slowly lose it, eventually drag her husband to hell, and do unspeakable things to her clitoris, then watch Antichrist. Also if you don't like to much dialog, want to see a fox eating its own guts, and get really confused about whats going on, whats real, whats not, and in typical art house fashion, leave the movie going "What???" Then Antichrist is for you. If none of this interests you, see it anyway 'cause Antichrist was pretty good.

The Exorcist III

"But the main thing is the torment of your friend Father Karras as he watches while I rip and cut and mutilate the innocent, his friends, and again, and again, on and on!" Thats why you don't exorcise little girls. Thats why you don't fuck with Captain Howdy. Things like being possessed by serial killers and that very same creature happen to you. And then you know what? You end up in a mental hospital, brains like jelly, for fifteen years, until finally the serial killer inside you has managed to pull your brain back together. Then you know what? He uses you to take control of catatonic old people and then uses THEM to kill people in horrible ways.

Gremlins 2

 

If I had to equate myself to a movie, I would say I am Gremlins 2. Its light hearted, full of pop culture references, funny as hell, and has a few serious pseudo-scary moments. I know its kind of a big stretch calling it a horror movie, but damn it its got mean, partying, bloodthirsty little monsters that cause chaos and riotous laughter. I love it! So let me just call it a horror movie, please?

Ju-on: The Grudge

One thing that Ju-on taught me about Japanese ghosts: they are not the pansy, thumping, whispering, stuff moving ghosts that us Americans know. Nope. They are murderous, vicious, evil, and devious. Rather than just frightening you out of your home by moving shit around, or killing you by scaring you into doing something stupid (falling down stair/elevator shaft, etc...), a Japanese ghost is more likely to crawl out of some unseen corner, making some horrendous bone chewing sound, right up to you in plain sight, grab you, and drag you into some dark abyss where you will probably be devoured by Oni, or slowly cut to pieces. At least that's what Ju-on taught me.

The Others

A big creepy house. A somewhat crazy mother. Photosensitive children. Three mysterious servants. And a bunch of bumps in the night. Graces odd rules about drapes being closed and only one door at a time being open are the least of every ones problems in the household. You see, Graces daughter Anne has been seeing people in their home, a little boy named Victor, his parents, and a creepy old woman with foggy eyes. There are ghosts in this house, its theirs, and they don't want to share it with anyone.

Pumpkinhead

 

"For each of mans evils, a special demon exists. You’re looking at vengeance. Cruel, devious, pure as venom. Vengeance." Pumpkinhead tells the tale of a man who loses what he loves most, his only son. Eds son dies in his arms when some city folk accidentally hit his son with a dirt bike and flee the scene, Ed Harley seeks revenge. He finds it in the local tales of an old woman with powers who lives deep in the forest. And in Pumpkinhead, the demon the woman incites to kill those that wronged Ed.

The Bunny Game

Oh Bunny... poor poor Bunny. She's our hopeless little prostitute who after a long hard day of coke, booze, and tricks has the horrible misfortune of being abducted by Hog. We watch as Johns beat her, rape her, steal her stuff. We see the regret and self loathing in her eyes at the life she has. She breaks down, gets back up, and does it all over again. This is it, this is all she has. Or it was until she found herself in the truck of Hog. Days of hell are ahead of her as Hog beats and tortures her. Will she survive the bunny game?

Phenomena

A pseudo supernatural giallo by the master himself, Dario Argento? Sign me up! For anyone else, a killer is on the loose in the Swiss country side. Jennifer is a young girl going to a private school out in the country. She also happens to have a psychic link with insects. As girls from her school begin being abducted and murdered, Jennifer has to piece together the things she saw while sleep walking and use her link with the insects to find the killer and get revenge.

Blood Mania

Blood Mania. With a name like that its gotta be crazy bloody and gory! Couple that with the IMDb description: "A sex-crazed nympho helps speed along her father's death so she can use the inheritance to help out her depraved boyfriend." and it sounds like a '70s grindhouse romp full of gore, boobs, blood, and sex! Is that the case? No.

Schramm

Have you ever wanted to witness the final moments of a serial killers life while tripping on acid? Ever want to see a man nail his uncircumcised penis to a table? Ever want to see the most frightening toothy vagina monster ever? If so, Schramm is for you! The bonus is that you don't have to go through the trouble of acquiring any drugs, they're built in! Add on top of that a little death and a sub plot about some rich old guys binding, torturing, and probably killing prostitutes in far more horrible ways than our killer Lothar and you've got a pretty good, pretty busy movie.

The Phantom of the Opera

See? You see this? Its not just blood, gore, vomit, death, and necrophilia around here! I prefer it that way, but hey, I have a little class. So today I am tackling The Phantom of the Opera (1925). Often considered the grandaddy of the Universal monster movies (Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummy, Creature...etc.), I couldn't wait to finally see this movie. My only fear, silent movie syndrome. See.... I always have trouble watching silent movies, generally ending up falling asleep after fighting off "the nods". This time though, I was successful!

Shiver

Running. Running, trying to reach the shade, trying to get back inside, Santi finds himself in the sunlight. His flesh begins to boil, he cries in agony. He drags his feet, his muscles no longer finding the strength to pull him along. Finally, he bursts into flames. Screaming and screaming! Flailing his limbs about. He wakes up in a sweat.

Porkchop

We heard you like camp. So we put some camp in your camp so you can camp while you camp. That's the level we are on here. Porkchop is a pretty decent little flick. Its got all the staples for a slasher. Blood, gore, iconic killer, boobies. All there. But it takes the camp a little to far. Its funny, its cheesy, but it relies way to much on this. It has a few genuine horror moments, but most of it is just jokes. But once again, its still pretty good, nice and entertaining.

Atrocious

Christian and July are young paranormal investigators. They take a couple of cameras around to cover local urban legends and try to find some evidence of the truth. They have done a few internet episodes covering various paranormal places in their area with decent results. Now, as the Holy Week approaches, Christian and July's family decides to go on vacation. They plan to visit the old family house, which as it just so happens, has its own paranormal legend surrounding it. The Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods.

Darkness Falls

A fairy tale of revenge. Matilda Dixon was lynched after the disappearance of two boys back in 1841. The people blamed her because after her husbands death, she grew close to the local children. Matilda would give the children gifts and gold when they lost a tooth.  When a fire left her disfigured, she hid herself away behind a mask, and due to the severe burns causing her sensitivity to light, the darkness. This caused the town to become weary of her, and when the two boys disappeared, blame her. They reacted quickly, arresting her, tearing her mask off, and hanging her. Not long after, the boys returned, completely unharmed. The town had made a mistake and they would pay.

Them

Home invasions! Always a scary thing. These movies are close quarters, claustrophobic, and intense. You never know whats going to happen next and you are always wondering why the hell these people are doing this. That's sorta the case with Them (Ils)

Shark Night

From one extreme to another! I figured the best way to follow up my slog through the brutal, violent, puke filled, indie extreme of STPC, would be to go to the opposite end of the spectrum. The over budgeted, super pretty, beautiful people filled, Hollywood popcorn feature. Its a movie not about intensity, but about fun. Shark Night!

I will admit, I have a soft spot for these cheesy, light hearted, Scifi feature style movies. Not nearly as serious as Jaws, but not a comedy. Shark Night maintains a great balance throughout the movie, always keeping it light, always playing shitty funny college music. Just keeping it fun.

Slow Torture Puke Chamber

Blood-vomit, gore, boobs, crucifix masturbation, guts, piss drinking, vomit drinking and baby fucking. There's more too, but you know what? I don't think I really need to say more. After ReGOREgitated Sacrifice, I figured that there was no way for them to actually out do the first (Slaughtered Vomit Dolls), and while they didn't really "out do" it, they matched it. I think the main reason they only matched it is because there really isn't the same level of violence as the first. They make up for it with a crazy final twenty minutes full of babies cut from the womb, fucked, dismembered, put in a blender, puked up, drank again. Mix into that watching a fat prostitute being brutalized and puked on, oh, and Angela pissing and puking. Ya, crazy shit.

Spike

A man walks through the woods with his dog. Picking up a scent, the dog drags the man deeper and deeper into the forest. After being dragged along for a bit, they come across a pile of lumber. The dog begins sniffing at it and digging into the pile. The master, curious, joins in. He keeps digging and digging and finally, SHOCK! He happens upon a woman's hand, bloody, cold, lifeless. He panics and runs away. As he drives home, phone in hand, he contemplates calling the police. Why the hesitation? Why is it so hard? He parks in front of his house a bit, thinking and wondering. Finally he folds up his phone and heads inside.

Paranormal Activity the Chronology

To cover all three movies at the same time would be too great an undertaking. What I'm gonna do with this one is judge how well they all blend together, the extra scenes, and sorta the overall story/continuity.

Revolt of the Zombies

Old voodoo zombie movies have a special place in my heart. They aren't particularly scary or anything, but the stone, blank nature of the "zombies" and the usual grace and power of the masters is always enthralling.

Revolt of the Zombies is sort of a sequel to the awesome White Zombie. It sadly doesn't have Bella Lugosi, but it does show his eyes every once in a while! The thing about it is that despite not having Bella, it does a good job creating a villain.

In the Mouth of Madness

Cheesy rock sound track? Check. Awesome special effects? Check. Cheesy special effects? Also check. Must be John Carpenter!

Evil Dead 2

Mmmm, Evil Dead 2. Who doesn't love Evil Dead 2? No one that's who! Its a laugh a minute, scare a minute, super awesome and ultra campy trip through a hellish night at the hands of the Deadites. Throw in Bruce Campbell and a lot of slapstick and you have the formula for one hell of a good time.

My Bloody Valentine

And now back to our regularly scheduled reviews.

You know what I love about slashers? Colorful casts, creative kills, and gore.... also boobies. And while My Bloody Valentine doesn't have the later, it has everything else in spades.

To Elske McCain (Jessicka Rabid)

First off, I would like to say I'm sorry you didn't like my review. I know it has to be hard to put your heart and soul and money into something only to have someone go out and say they hate it. I'm sorry you don't like my opinion, but I am sticking to it.

The thing is, I wanted to like Jessicka Rabid. I was extremely excited when I bought it. I first heard about it in a review from Severed Cinema and I thought it sounded awesome. The concept is great, the ideas are there. I thought it was gonna be up there with the likes of August Underground: Penance and Gutterballs. But when I finally got to watch it it just didn't meet those expectations. It's just not the movie for me.

Jessicka Rabid

To put it lightly, Jessicka Rabid is the most horrid, putrid, pile of waste I have ever had the misfortune of seeing. I would get more entertainment out of this DVD by using the broken shards to wipe myself after a long time on the toilet thanks to to many hot wings. There is literally nothing good about this movie. No good acting, no good cinematography, no effects at all, not even a "so-bad-its-good" sorta thing. Just. Plain. Shit.

Childs Play

"Hi, I'm Chucky, and I'm your friend till the end. Hidey-ho."

Stake Land

Holy fuck Stake Land! I loved this movie. Throw vampires and a post apocalyptic movie together, mix in the perfect amount of humanity, top it off with a dash of amazing and you have Stake Land!

Mutilation Mile

I don't know what exactly I just watched but I know one thing, you're dealing with Jimmy Crack Corn and he don't fuckin' care!

Friday the 13th Part 5

So I was planning on handling reviews for Friday the 13th movies by basically rating the kills. That was to be the norm. Sadly that really cannot be the case for this one. For one, its not even really Jason. A fat annoying retard gets hacked up by a very angry nutjob with an axe at a camp for mentally disturbed people, when the paramedics arrive and see what happens, one of them snaps. Seems the fatty was his kid that he abandoned when he was a baby. So.... you know, great motivation, kid that you disowned the second he was born gets murdered and you get revenge by killing everyone in the area cause you cared so much about your abandoned kid.

The Innkeepers

Going from the spastic, scatterbrained haunting of Grave Encounters to the very focused, snails paced haunting of The Innkeepers is pretty jarring but very welcome.

Grave Encounters

Have you ever watched Ghost Adventures? If so, you've seen Grave Encounters. The difference? Budget and special effects. While Ghost Adventures has no effects, Grave Encounters has plenty, some good, some bad, but they like to show them off.

Murder Set Pieces

I am now fully convinced that this movie is trying to go for a B-movie feel. It has to be. Rock music that doesn't fit, tits out of nowhere, really awesome synthesiser tension score, and wooden dialogue that sometimes doesn't even fit the scene. It has to be. It must. If not, it comes off that way so it give MSP a little charm.

Yellow Brick Road

A group heads to Friar, New Hampshire to find and walk the Yellow Brick Road trail, a trail that in 1940 the entire population of Friar walked down, never to be seen again. Some bodies were found, frozen or murdered, but the rest were gone without a trace. Our group sets out to find out what happened all those years ago.

Shot partially in a found footage/documentary style, we are introduced to each member of the group through a psych evaluation by the groups doctor. They meet before heading to Friar and each go over their job in the group, we have a photographer/writer and his wife, the doctor, the guide/survival expert, the brother and sister map charting pair, and the medic girl. After their meeting, they head out.

The Devil Inside

Ok, so I am going to try to keep this one fairly spoiler free. Short and sweet: I enjoyed this movie. The ending was abrupt and anticlimactic, unsatisfying, but everything up until that point was good.

When Isabella was five her mother killed three people during an exorcism. Her mother was tried, found not guilty by reason of insanity, and taken to a mental facility in Rome by the wishes of the Catholic Church.

Murder Collection Vol. 1

At times I sorta forget why I love Toe Tag so much... then I watch Murder Collection. Murder Collection is a movie in the fashion of Faces of Death and Traces of Death. Its a series of clips and shorts all tied together by our narrator and judge, Balan.

Its story is that in 1994 an internet show surface called Murder. It was clips of people dying collected by Balan. After an investigation, the police located where the broadcast was coming from and seized all the compiled footage, but did not find or discover who Balan was. These are supposed to be some clips that Balan had discovered.