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DVD Review: Mad Foxes (1981)

Mad Foxes begins with Easy Rocker from Krokus blaring from the speakers…we may be off to something special here fiends… As far as what follows that sonic assault, it goes a lil’ something like this: Middle aged Hal is driving his (freshly turned) 18 year-old girlfriend out on a date in order to wine and dine her so she will let him be the one to ‘break the seal’ if you know what I mean (and if that bit of crass purple prose wasn’t clear enough for ya, the lady sits underneath a giant tacky painting of an oozing chocolate covered cherry), when he absolutely murders a Nazi biker, as one does. Of course that biker had equally as Nazi pals (at least indoors…their armbands have no swastikas in exterior shots, but they appear as if by magic inside) who arrive and beat the hell out of Hal and rape his girlfriend. Hal then naturally enlists a squad of martial

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DanXIII
May 9, 2018
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‘Train To Busan’ Rumored To Be Adapted Into A Video Game

The South Korean zombie film Train to Busan, which took moviegoers on a thrilling ride in 2016, may take fans love for the film to new terrifying heights as its being reported that the film will be adapted into a video game. Train to Busan, or as I call it, “World War Z done right.”, follows a fund manager and his daughter as they’re caught up in a zombie outbreak in Korea, their only refuge is the train they and others are riding on but soon the virus breaks out on the train. It’s being said that a division of the film’s distributor, Next Entertainment World, has signed Singaporean visual effects company Vividthree Productions to adapt the film into a video game. It’s unknown at this time what platform the game will be on and when or if the game will go into production. Time will tell but one thing is for certain, fans will be waiting at the station

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Capt McNeely
May 7, 2018
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A Young Woman Finds Terror In The Trailer For Euro-Horror ‘The Antithesis’

A young woman finds terror during her stay in an isolated house in the countryside in the new trailer for The Antithesis, starring Crisula Stafida (Tulpa) and Marina Loi (zombi 3). “An isolated house in the countryside is beset by strange phenomena caused by bizarre temperature surges. Taking the advice of an architect, a young female geologist agrees to spend the night in the mysterious house in an attempt to identify the strange happenings. Once there, she finds herself trapped in a parallel reality…inside a vortex of horror and delirium. This stylish slice of Euro-horror was inspired by the Giallo films of Dario Argento and Mario Bava and features a pulse-pounding musical score by Claudio Simonetti of Goblin (Suspiria, Deep Red, Dawn of the Dead).” The film, directed by Francesco Mirabelli, won the “Mario Bava” award in the latest edition of the FantaFestival in Rome and will soon be released in the US from Bayview Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 7, 2018
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This June Bring Home The Haunting South Korean Horror Film ‘The Mimic’

Following writer-director Huh Jung’s directorial debut hit Hide and Seek, which is currently getting an American remake, comes Jung’s horror-thriller The Mimic. Inspired the South Korean mythological tale of the “Tiger of Mt. Jang,” where a legendary ghost that mimics humans, a woman takes in a lost girl she finds near the mysterious Mt. Jang and mystifying things begin to happen to her frightened family. The Mimic stars Yum Jung-Ah (Tell Me Something), Park Hyuk-Kwon (A Taxi Driver), Shin Rin-Ah (Ode To My Father), Heo Jin (The Wailing), Kil Hae-Yeon (Missing) and Lee Yool (Hello Murderer). In the film, “A classic Korean ghost story gets a horrifying new spin, as the mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods and soon begins to wonder if she is even human.” The Mimic arrives on Digital and Blu-ray™ June 12, 2018, from Well Go USA Entertainment.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 5, 2018
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Movie Review: Goran (2016)

Pity poor Goran (Franjo Dijak); all he wants to do is drink (a lot), drive his cab in the tiny isolated snow bound Croatian village he calls home, and hang out in a cabin with his BFF (Goran Bogdan) gettin’ his soak on…but unfortunately, his non-stop nag of a blind wife, Lina (Natasa Janjic) makes that increasingly difficult. Things carry on as usual until Lina announces she is pregnant, which goes over like a fart in a submarine for our hero, as he believes the child may not actually be his, but rather his sauna sittin’ pal mentioned previous. Well push comes to shove (literally) with disastrous results, and after a chemically enhanced Birthday party things get completely out of hand (read: incredibly violent and oh so very, very wrong)! Goran plays out like a relationship/family drama for nearly forty out of it’s eighty two minutes of run time (with credits), but then things go so incredibly south so incredibly

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DanXIII
May 4, 2018
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New Trailer Takes Us On A ‘Road To Hell’

Today we have the trailer for Roberto D’Antona’s Road To Hell (aka Fino all’Inferno). Presented at the Cartoomics 2018 in Milan, a convention featuring comics and films, the film will arrive in Italian theaters this August. In the film, “A group of robbers fleeing to a new life, crossing their path with a woman, with her son and with the tragic curse they bring with them. a criminal boss and a mysterious organization of unscrupulous men, to help them, an ex-policeman with hasty methods and a jealous girlfriend.The escape will soon turn into a mad rush to hell to save the life of the child and the fate of the world.” I take the inspiration from the films of my childhood – explains the director and protagonist Roberto D’Antona – especially from Big Trouble in Little China. Adventurous stories of heroes and anti-heroes that, searching a redemption, were capable of the most titanic undertaking. These are the stories that have

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 3, 2018
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‘Terrified’ Is Making Waves At Film Festivals

Making its way around film festival circuits is an Argentinean film that’s making a big impact, Aterrados (Terrified). The movie overall, is a mix of a cop drama and horror. Aterrados (Terrified) is about a cop who’s heading towards retirement and he’s also known for having a big interest in paranormal investigating and because of his interest, he’s called in to investigate a series of strange deaths. The deaths are occurring in houses doors down from one another. The cop meets a well known paranormal investigator who’s handling a missing person case in the same area. The pair, along with other paranormal investigators, team up as they soon learn that the cases are all linked.

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Capt McNeely
May 2, 2018
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Spanish Horror ‘Forward’ Finds A May Release Date

Terror Films has announced the release date and revealed the trailer for their Spanish language film, Forward. Written and directed by Henry Bedwell (Darker Than Night), the film stars Harold Torres and Axel Ricco, “…as two assassins hired to avenge their boss. The job leads them to what appears to be an abandoned hotel. However, they soon find themselves in an unexpected maze of madness, where realities intertwine and nightmares come to life. Faced with an evil demon named Larissa – played by Latin America television star Lisette Morelos – the duo realizes that the gates of hell prove to be closer to our plane of existence than either of them could have expected.” Forward has been the recipient of multiple film festival awards, including Best Feature Fiction at the 12 Month Film Festival, winner of Best Fantasy Film at the Feratum Film Festival and the Laurel of Achievement at Cinema Grand Prix and was an Official Selection at Sustefest,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 30, 2018
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Sinister Shorts: Girls Night 2, Blind Ben Says, and Jingle!

Hey creeps, let’s focus our eerie eyeballs on a few new sinister shorts comin’ our way! Girls Night 2 Writer/Director David Teixeira returns with the sequel to his original short (this is all assumption…I have no idea if there actually is a Girls Night Part Uno, and I’m far too busy microwaving pizza rolls to check Google)! Anyway, the long and the short of Girls Night 2 is as follows: Jess (Marina de Sousa) hangs out with her pal Pierre (Vincent Conty) spending a night screening films and having terrible nightmares about being accosted by a sinister slasher from her past. Before long the paradigm is flipped and the maniac appears in the really real world bringing with it secrets and murder! Having not seen the first part of the story, Girls Night 2 is easy enough to follow with it’s standard stalk n’ slay scenario. Where the short shines is in it’s fever dream, giallo-esque qualities, where strange dreams

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Apr 6, 2018
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Accident is a Beautiful, if Lightweight Thriller

Two women on their way to a music festival hitch a ride with two dudes in a stolen car. Things get slightly rapey and the car goes a shootin’ down into a ravine, where our “heroes” become trapped in the overturned vehicle. Horribly wounded the gang tries to survive the night with little chance of rescue…but can they survive each other and the evil that greed can inspire? While the story line, as evidenced by my lil’ synopsis up there may be a bit lightweight (I actually would call it compact, streamlined, and uncomplicated), Accident more than makes up for it in visual panache. Director Dan Tondowski and Cinematographer Maxime Cointe have created a masterpiece (in the ‘looking good’ department that is) of long, unbroken shots and serpentine camera moves (both natural and digitally enhanced) that are rather astonishing at times, and they also manage to effectively dial it back once the protagonists become trapped within the confines of the

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DanXIII
Apr 2, 2018

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DVD Review: Mad Foxes (1981)

Mad Foxes begins with Easy Rocker from Krokus blaring from the speakers…we may be off to something special here fiends… As far as what follows that sonic assault, it goes a lil’ something like this: Middle aged Hal is driving his (freshly turned) 18 year-old girlfriend out on a date in order to wine and dine her so she will let him be the one to ‘break the seal’ if you know what I mean (and if that bit of crass purple prose wasn’t clear enough for ya, the lady sits underneath a giant tacky painting of an oozing chocolate covered cherry), when he absolutely murders a Nazi biker, as one does. Of course that biker had equally as Nazi pals (at least indoors…their armbands have no swastikas in exterior shots, but they appear as if by magic inside) who arrive and beat the hell out of Hal and rape his girlfriend. Hal then naturally enlists a squad of martial

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 9, 2018
Horror Fuel

‘Train To Busan’ Rumored To Be Adapted Into A Video Game

The South Korean zombie film Train to Busan, which took moviegoers on a thrilling ride in 2016, may take fans love for the film to new terrifying heights as its being reported that the film will be adapted into a video game. Train to Busan, or as I call it, “World War Z done right.”, follows a fund manager and his daughter as they’re caught up in a zombie outbreak in Korea, their only refuge is the train they and others are riding on but soon the virus breaks out on the train. It’s being said that a division of the film’s distributor, Next Entertainment World, has signed Singaporean visual effects company Vividthree Productions to adapt the film into a video game. It’s unknown at this time what platform the game will be on and when or if the game will go into production. Time will tell but one thing is for certain, fans will be waiting at the station

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
May 7, 2018
Horror Fuel

A Young Woman Finds Terror In The Trailer For Euro-Horror ‘The Antithesis’

A young woman finds terror during her stay in an isolated house in the countryside in the new trailer for The Antithesis, starring Crisula Stafida (Tulpa) and Marina Loi (zombi 3). “An isolated house in the countryside is beset by strange phenomena caused by bizarre temperature surges. Taking the advice of an architect, a young female geologist agrees to spend the night in the mysterious house in an attempt to identify the strange happenings. Once there, she finds herself trapped in a parallel reality…inside a vortex of horror and delirium. This stylish slice of Euro-horror was inspired by the Giallo films of Dario Argento and Mario Bava and features a pulse-pounding musical score by Claudio Simonetti of Goblin (Suspiria, Deep Red, Dawn of the Dead).” The film, directed by Francesco Mirabelli, won the “Mario Bava” award in the latest edition of the FantaFestival in Rome and will soon be released in the US from Bayview Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 7, 2018
Horror Fuel

This June Bring Home The Haunting South Korean Horror Film ‘The Mimic’

Following writer-director Huh Jung’s directorial debut hit Hide and Seek, which is currently getting an American remake, comes Jung’s horror-thriller The Mimic. Inspired the South Korean mythological tale of the “Tiger of Mt. Jang,” where a legendary ghost that mimics humans, a woman takes in a lost girl she finds near the mysterious Mt. Jang and mystifying things begin to happen to her frightened family. The Mimic stars Yum Jung-Ah (Tell Me Something), Park Hyuk-Kwon (A Taxi Driver), Shin Rin-Ah (Ode To My Father), Heo Jin (The Wailing), Kil Hae-Yeon (Missing) and Lee Yool (Hello Murderer). In the film, “A classic Korean ghost story gets a horrifying new spin, as the mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods and soon begins to wonder if she is even human.” The Mimic arrives on Digital and Blu-ray™ June 12, 2018, from Well Go USA Entertainment.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 5, 2018
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Goran (2016)

Pity poor Goran (Franjo Dijak); all he wants to do is drink (a lot), drive his cab in the tiny isolated snow bound Croatian village he calls home, and hang out in a cabin with his BFF (Goran Bogdan) gettin’ his soak on…but unfortunately, his non-stop nag of a blind wife, Lina (Natasa Janjic) makes that increasingly difficult. Things carry on as usual until Lina announces she is pregnant, which goes over like a fart in a submarine for our hero, as he believes the child may not actually be his, but rather his sauna sittin’ pal mentioned previous. Well push comes to shove (literally) with disastrous results, and after a chemically enhanced Birthday party things get completely out of hand (read: incredibly violent and oh so very, very wrong)! Goran plays out like a relationship/family drama for nearly forty out of it’s eighty two minutes of run time (with credits), but then things go so incredibly south so incredibly

Continue reading →
DanXIII
May 4, 2018
Horror Fuel

New Trailer Takes Us On A ‘Road To Hell’

Today we have the trailer for Roberto D’Antona’s Road To Hell (aka Fino all’Inferno). Presented at the Cartoomics 2018 in Milan, a convention featuring comics and films, the film will arrive in Italian theaters this August. In the film, “A group of robbers fleeing to a new life, crossing their path with a woman, with her son and with the tragic curse they bring with them. a criminal boss and a mysterious organization of unscrupulous men, to help them, an ex-policeman with hasty methods and a jealous girlfriend.The escape will soon turn into a mad rush to hell to save the life of the child and the fate of the world.” I take the inspiration from the films of my childhood – explains the director and protagonist Roberto D’Antona – especially from Big Trouble in Little China. Adventurous stories of heroes and anti-heroes that, searching a redemption, were capable of the most titanic undertaking. These are the stories that have

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 3, 2018
Horror Fuel

‘Terrified’ Is Making Waves At Film Festivals

Making its way around film festival circuits is an Argentinean film that’s making a big impact, Aterrados (Terrified). The movie overall, is a mix of a cop drama and horror. Aterrados (Terrified) is about a cop who’s heading towards retirement and he’s also known for having a big interest in paranormal investigating and because of his interest, he’s called in to investigate a series of strange deaths. The deaths are occurring in houses doors down from one another. The cop meets a well known paranormal investigator who’s handling a missing person case in the same area. The pair, along with other paranormal investigators, team up as they soon learn that the cases are all linked.

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
May 2, 2018
Horror Fuel

Spanish Horror ‘Forward’ Finds A May Release Date

Terror Films has announced the release date and revealed the trailer for their Spanish language film, Forward. Written and directed by Henry Bedwell (Darker Than Night), the film stars Harold Torres and Axel Ricco, “…as two assassins hired to avenge their boss. The job leads them to what appears to be an abandoned hotel. However, they soon find themselves in an unexpected maze of madness, where realities intertwine and nightmares come to life. Faced with an evil demon named Larissa – played by Latin America television star Lisette Morelos – the duo realizes that the gates of hell prove to be closer to our plane of existence than either of them could have expected.” Forward has been the recipient of multiple film festival awards, including Best Feature Fiction at the 12 Month Film Festival, winner of Best Fantasy Film at the Feratum Film Festival and the Laurel of Achievement at Cinema Grand Prix and was an Official Selection at Sustefest,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Apr 30, 2018
Horror Fuel

Sinister Shorts: Girls Night 2, Blind Ben Says, and Jingle!

Hey creeps, let’s focus our eerie eyeballs on a few new sinister shorts comin’ our way! Girls Night 2 Writer/Director David Teixeira returns with the sequel to his original short (this is all assumption…I have no idea if there actually is a Girls Night Part Uno, and I’m far too busy microwaving pizza rolls to check Google)! Anyway, the long and the short of Girls Night 2 is as follows: Jess (Marina de Sousa) hangs out with her pal Pierre (Vincent Conty) spending a night screening films and having terrible nightmares about being accosted by a sinister slasher from her past. Before long the paradigm is flipped and the maniac appears in the really real world bringing with it secrets and murder! Having not seen the first part of the story, Girls Night 2 is easy enough to follow with it’s standard stalk n’ slay scenario. Where the short shines is in it’s fever dream, giallo-esque qualities, where strange dreams

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Apr 6, 2018
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Accident is a Beautiful, if Lightweight Thriller

Two women on their way to a music festival hitch a ride with two dudes in a stolen car. Things get slightly rapey and the car goes a shootin’ down into a ravine, where our “heroes” become trapped in the overturned vehicle. Horribly wounded the gang tries to survive the night with little chance of rescue…but can they survive each other and the evil that greed can inspire? While the story line, as evidenced by my lil’ synopsis up there may be a bit lightweight (I actually would call it compact, streamlined, and uncomplicated), Accident more than makes up for it in visual panache. Director Dan Tondowski and Cinematographer Maxime Cointe have created a masterpiece (in the ‘looking good’ department that is) of long, unbroken shots and serpentine camera moves (both natural and digitally enhanced) that are rather astonishing at times, and they also manage to effectively dial it back once the protagonists become trapped within the confines of the

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Apr 2, 2018
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