The World's End

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost return for a follow up to Shaun of the Dead, and the gore filled police buddy comedy Hot Fuzz in The World's End.

Annoying man child Gary King (Pegg) returns to his old teenage stomping grounds with 4 childhood chronies including a reluctant Andy Knightley (Frost) to conquer the elusive golden mile pub crawl. 12 pubs, 12 pints and whatever memories survive in between. Unfortunately for the group the new rule has no patience for the old ways and progressively get meaner the closer the friends get to the finish.

World's End is a simple premise mixed in overly strange visuals. Fans of the rest of the trilogy will find lots to enjoy in World's End and anyone who follows Pegg's career will see lots of familiar faces along the way! I would have liked the film to be a little more graphic and have a little more an edge, but I still enjoyed World's End immensely. Simon Pegg is as likable as ever and you really feel for him as he tries to reconnect with his past.  Aliens, lots of beer, action, lots more beer, brit humour, and yes even more beer! This thing is Sci Fi beer porn, almost makes me want to go on a pub crawl. One that actually goes to pubs and not douchy clubs (does that exist?) It's probably the worst of the trilogy, but it's slight and I still would consider this trilogy perfect!

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Drive Thru

Horror gets Super Sized when Horny The Clown, the demonic mascot of "Hella-Burger," starts slashing Orange County teenagers with his meat cleaver from Hell! sounds pretty awesome if you ask me! who the fuck doesnt like clowns who kill people? and Hamburgers? I know i sure do!

Drive Thru is a Horror Comedy that starts off with a bunch off Wiggers going through a Hella Burger Drive Thru and gets to the action quickly without wasting much time, The acting may be bad but the way the movie was shot and edited kept you watching while the jokes came on a regular basis and were pretty funny, and the Kills were awesome! and the special FX were great!

Overall this is a great movie, I'm surprised this movie came out in 2007, where the fuck have I been the past 6 years! I can't believe it took that long for me to discover this hidden gem, but love when i discover them its like Xmas in August or whatever month i find it in! You should also find and enjoy this wonderful tale of Horny The Clown

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Escape From Jesus Island

Somewhere on a remote island religion embraces science in order to create a clone of the original Jesus Christ. The experiment is an astounding success, but as Michael Crichton taught us in the good book (Jurassic Park) when you fuck with mother nature shits gonna go south quick; such is the story of writer Shawn French's gruesome Sci fi horror comic Escape From Jesus Island! Instead of dinosaurs throw in demonic entities, metaphysical beings, and enraged mutants straight from the deepest bowels of Hell itself.

Now while I have you picturing the badass visuals this idea creates imagine just for a second while flipping through this beautifully drawn gore rag you can't help but recognise the face of a demon or mutant charging into battle, maybe because that's the face you see in the mirror everyday! That's right, writer Shawn French and artist Mortimer Glum the respective God's creating this world have this exact perk ready for you when you throw your hard earned dough in the virtual collection plate that is EFJI kickstarter campaign. Tons of awesome perks await you after donation including many cast spots set aside to cement your legacy in horror history as members of the demonic army and I'm not talking about pawns either, these characters are royalty, these characters are mainstay villains of the series! These are pages you can share with your children and grand children and gloat to your friends about. A little less skrill? Not to worry go get yourself killed in gruesome detail! Because who doesn't want a picture of their own bloody torn up corpse?

The best part of this campaign might be that they've achieved their first goal, there is no risk in supporting this cause, you are guaranteed to see your investment rewards very soon!

With enough donations the world continues to grow, with enough success in and outside the campaign the sky is the limit to where you might see your face (action figures, playing cards, posters, T -Shirts, etc.)! So I invite you friends to get in on the most exciting and affordable Kickstarter I've ever laid eyes on, join me 1 face of Pariah, the beast with seven heads, become part of horror/comic book history! For more information on everything Jesus Island including the perk packages visit,
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1254797765/escape-from-jesus-island-comic-book-series

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Starship Troopers 3: Marauder

Starship Troopers 3: Marauder explores enough new ground to deem it worth your time for revisiting the ‘Bug War’. Casper Van Dien returns to the series reprising his role as Johnny Rico. After getting promoted to a Commanding Officer position on the battlefield in the first film Johnny is now known throughout the universe as a celebrated war hero. The film begins with Rico, as he and his team are being ambushed by a swarm of bugs (some new, some old) after the power in the facility he is commanding malfunctions causing the electrified wall to fail. Escaping with some casualties Rico finds himself tangled in a political scheme, only to be released to go rescue a downed drop ship on a new bug infested planet.

The movie’s main focus is on this stranded unit, as they annoy their commander with constant prayers, hymns, and discussions about God. ST3 is a cheesy treat that wisely uses it’s time with us to navigate the vast unexplored ’Bug Universe’. Some effects in the film look better than the original, while others (The Marauders) look pretty awful, but overall even they are fun bits of CGEYE candy (See what I did there?). ST3 is a Sci Fi/Horror film with enough, gore, comedy, fan nods, and even a bit of Lovecraftian influence to keep anyone who likes those genres entertained throughout it’s run time. I have seen ST1 many times in the past and consider it a solid 4.5/5 movie, ST3 might not quite hit that mark but it managed to be a sequel, that for fans successfully delivers a completely new experience while hanging onto things that made the first so unique, all within a good bad movie!

……..Would You Like To Know More?_

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The Colony

Finally getting to check out The Colony, a movie I've been dying to check out since I first saw the Trailer! I've always loved these "end of the world, must survive" type of Movies.

The first movie to be shot at the decommissioned NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) base in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, and hopefully not the last, such a great looking set which would be perfect for many movies. In The Colony, Earths survivors are forced underground by the next ice age, in a struggling outpost the survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.

Not only did I love this movie, I wish it was just a little bit longer to dive deeper into the story of how the ice age came along, even though thats not important one bit to tell the story of the movie, just that I thought it was a pretty cool concept and would have loved to see the world turn to ice. Shot on a low-ish budget of 16 Million it looks great the pace is set at a no time for boring parts pace, even though i would have loved those boring parts to kinda tie in some parts of the movie, where it has this "and with the magic of television feel"  lol.

But overall check this movie out!! you should not be disappointed.

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Future World: City of Mass Destruction

A short while ago I wrote about a piece of rancid shit known as Cam Girl that comes in the seven movie set Grindhouse Galore. Well now I moved onto the second movie Future World: City of Mass Destruction. Given the five dollar price tag on the seven movie set I assumed I got a bargain considering this cool looking movie was 25 dollars on the shelf by itself. Thankfully City is much better than Cam Girl, unfortunately not by much. In Cam Girl nothing really happened, in City everything happens. This movie is all over the place and nowhere at once. I give the filmmakers props for making a feature on zero budget, they've created an entire world of neat characters and creatures using the obvious bare essentials and the thing had potential from the start. Unfortunately the story is too big and overwhelming to care about any one thing (an hour and a half in and I still have no idea what's going on) and this beast clocks in at a little over TWO gruelling hours. The visuals at times are impressive, while other times simple shortcuts bring the whole production down, a good example for anyone interested in making films is this; if someone is wearing a mask, especially one that is to be passed off as actual skin always black out the eyes and anywhere else there might be a hole or its going to look stupid!

It's not all bad there's talent hiding amongst the diarreha for sure and had they focused on the group's strengths I'm sure they could have really made themselves famous here, but instead Future World is a complete mess with very little to hold any interest. It's poorly written, badly structured, and takes itself way too seriously.

Future World is that movie that you make with your friends so you can watch together and laugh at every performance, unfortunately we don't know these people, and as such we're not in on the joke. Viewing this probably should have stayed limited to the makers basement. Two down, Five to go.  Next up House of Sin, I still have hope that there's something worth watching at least once in this set.

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Only God Forgives

Only God Forgives stars Ryan Gosling, that in itself should describe the film for you; Gosling plays a mysterious bad ass who has little to say other than bad ass one liners, the film is shot with the newest in Gosling-Vision technology taking slow pans of the actor so the ladies will have something to eye fuck, and yes it can be both disturbing and bloody!

Watching the trailer it's easy for one to get lost in the notion that this is some kind of companion piece to the 2011 film of absolute fucking perfection, Drive, but I'm afraid this assumption builds too much expectation for OGF. Gosling this time takes the role of Julian the black sheep in a family of the most horrid people you could ever encounter. After his brother kills a prostitute, her father kills him, and Julian is expected by his mother to take revenge for his dirty paedophile/murderer brother. Once Julian puts the pieces together; Julian is a forgiving man, his crazy bitch mother though? Ummm not so much. What follows is a slow, plodding, linguistically graphic, often confusing, and visually disturbed cat and mouse game between the dirty cops and Julian's Norma Batesy drug Queen mother.

Although as stated above Only God Forgives is slow and confusing, it is also musically and visually striking, piercing every chord of the senses. Scenes of torture are continually surrounded by beauty, the decor on walls often drops you into a seedy labyrinthine underworld both claustrophobic and hypnotic, and the music sounds at times like an 8 bit dream/nightmare.

I really enjoyed the torture and violence, I loved the writing, was weirded out by the continual live 'kind of karoke' musical interludes, and overall thought it was a very cool film to look at. There is lots to love here, but it is the slowest of burns and too confusing at times for it's own good. I'm on the fence with this one, reflecting on the movie it's got a lot to offer I just wish the violence was turned up a little further and the pacing was quite a bit tighter. Judge for yourself, it's not Drive calibre, but it shouldn't have been booed out of Cannes film fest either.

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