Dreamin’ Demon Twisted Movie Guide – September 2009

It’s no secret to those who know me that I love fall. Even today as I left for work, there was a slight chill in the air and a faint smell of woodsmoke. These subtle first signs of my favorite season made me do something I am anatomically incapable of doing on a regular basis – I smiled a little. It’s ok, more importantly I’M ok – no need to worry, my scowl beat it into submission rather quickly. But along with this season comes my favorite holiday, Halloween (which we will talk about on a later date) and the Fall Movie lineup. So I have compiled a list for myself – that some of you twisted fucks can use as well – detailing what movies a Dreamin’ Demon member should try to catch for the month of September. [Read more...]

Review: Heavenly Creatures – Crime That Shocked A Nation!

I had many films to choose from to kick off this new column, but in the end I decided to jump-start Crime Screen with one of my all-time favorite true crime films, Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures. After making his mark on the horror community with two splatter classics, Bad Taste and Dead Alive, and before he directed The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson chose a real-life murder case as his first mainstream film.  The movie is based on the 1954 New Zealand murder of Honora Rieper, committed by her teenage daughter, Pauline Parker, and her best friend, Juliet Hulme. The two girls lured the woman to a remote trail where they bludgeoned her to death with a brick. The motive behind the crime was an act of desperation to keep the girls from being separated. Juliet was being sent to South Africa, and the girls thought that by killing Pauline’s mother, Pauline would then be allowed to with Juliet and they would remain together. Things did not go as planned.

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Review: C.H.U.D. – A Sewer Creature Classic!

The city of New York is experiencing a rash of disappearances. These started within the homeless population, in particular, the homeless that dwell in the underground network of tunnels, subway lines and sewers that lie beneath the city. This is noticed by ex-con and soup kitchen worker, A.J. Shepherd (Daniel Stern), who notices that fewer and fewer of his regulars are coming up for air. A.J. reports this to deaf ears and cannot get anyone to take notice…but hell, these people are ignored when around, forgotten when they are not. But when reports start coming in of people being attacked and dragged into the sewers by monsters, the authorities can no longer ignore the problem. [Read more...]