Tired of watching thrillers re-hashing the same old story? Well here’s a movie with a story so ludicrous that it alone was the reason why I bothered to watch in the first place. Get this: A girl is trapped inside her boarded up home with her severely autistic brother while a hurricane rages outside. But their chances would fare much better out there because inside the home they are being stalked…by a psychotic circus tiger! I shit you not. So now not only does the girl have to find a way out of the house without being eaten, she can’t even touch her little brother or kink up his schedule without him revealing their location when he goes all Frank and Beans while hitting himself in the head. It’s original, it’s absurd, it leaves me wishing i had whatever they where smoking when they came up with the story for BURNING BRIGHT. But please don’t let the absurd sounding plot keep you from checking this film out as surprisingly, it works beautifully.…
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Fort Smith, Arkansas – Not much on this one yet, but Cody and Kenny (also a Wal-Mart employee), both 20, played a prank at a Fort Smith Wal-Mart that may end up not being worth the laughs they got. They removed a promotional DVD and loaded a pornographic DVD into a player that was shown on over six screens in the store. It played for several minutes before management turned it off after being notified by a customer. Ha Ha Ha, right? Yeah, I thought it was kinda lame myself. Anyway, their prank has them learning some legal lessons about Arkansas and obscenity laws after they were identified from surveillance footage shown on a local Crime Stopper’s broadcast. They were arrested and are now facing felony charges of displaying an obscene film. I looked up Arkansas law in regards to displaying an obscene film and it looks like they are both facing fines up to $2,000 and a possible 1 to 5 years in prison. People, seriously, it pays to check the possible legal ramifications of a prank if caught, even lame ones like this.…
Continue ReadingCrime Screen: Who Can Kill A Child? – The Best Of The Killer Kid Bunch
June 19, 2009 at 7:00 pm by Morbid
Here, Now – Who Can Kill A Child? is a woefully, and criminally overlooked horror movie made in 1976 filmed in various locations around the beautiful, Southern coast of Spain. It’s a terrific horror film that was ahead of it’s time and, over the years, fans were treated to a variety of shitty VHS and DVD releases – the US version being one that was hacked all to hell. But with the recent Dark Sky DVD release of the film, I decided it was time to point horror fans to an obscure film in the killer kid genre that is worth checking out.
Tom (Lewis Fiander) and Evelyn (Prunella Ransome) are an English couple vacationing in Spain. Evelyn is 6-months pregnant with their third child and Tom, a professor of Biology, has brought her to the coastal town of Benivas to rest while he rents a boat to get to their true destination; The island of Almanzora. A four hour trip by boat, the island is not normally flooded with tourists like the noisy Benivas.…
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Fortress is an Australian made-for-tv movie that is probably most remembered when it made the rounds on HBO in the mid to late ’80s. Directed by Arch Nicholson and based off a novel of the same name written by Gabrielle Lord, which in turn was loosely based off the Faraday School Kidnapping. It details the adventure had by a small group of school kids from Sunny Flat, a small town in New South Wales, when they, along with their teacher (Rachel Ward), are kidnapped from their one-room schoolhouse by a group of men wearing masks and carrying guns. The motive of the armed men is ransom, but eventually the class of kids ranging from kindergarten to 10th grade, comes to the realization that in order to survive this ordeal, it will take ingenuity, bravery and the ability to work together as a team.…
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The Monster Squad (Two-Disc 20th Anniversary Edition)
Directors: Fred Dekker
Actors: Ernie Brown, Adam Carl, Leo Cimino, Sonia Curtis, Michael Faustino
Genres: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
DVD Release Date: July 24, 2007
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Number of discs: 2
Rating: PG-13
Studio: Lionsgate
Run Time: 92 minutes
ASIN: B000Q6GUKM
Amazon.com Plot Synopsis:
Count Dracula adjourns to Earth, accompanied by Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolfman, the Mummy, and the Gillman. The uglies are in search of a powerful amulet that will grant them power to rule the world. Our heroes – the Monster Squad are the only ones daring to stand in their way.
Another movie that has had fans screaming for a decent DVD release for ages is finally happening in the form of a Two-Disc Anniversary Edition. Not much to say about this film aside from it being a fun film from the director of Night of the Creeps and the writing of Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang). The film has a good amount of action and great creature effects from FX master, Stan Winston.…
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Flash Gordon (Saviour Of The Universe Edition) (1980)
Directors: Mike Hodges
Actors: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol, Ornella Muti
Genres: Fantasy, Action, Adventure
DVD Release Date: August 7, 2007
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Number of discs: 1
Rating: PG
Studio: Universal Studios
Run Time: 112 minutes
ASIN: B000PMGS8G
Amazon.com Plot Synopsis:
Dar, is the son of a king, who is hunted by a priest after his birth and grows up in another family. When he becomes a grown man his new father is murdered by savages and he discovers that he has the ability to communicate with the animals. After that, Dar begins his quest for revenge in this Conan-like movie.
On the eve of the long-awaited Flash Gordon DVD re-release, I Figured I would make a thread about it and see who all here are fans of this film. Personally, I love the hell out of it and I cannot wait to finally show it to my son. I have had access to bootlegs and even the Region 2 version, but decided to wait and see if it would get a second release.…
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