Monster Movie Madness

Welcome to Monster Movie Madness, where we take a look at flicks and films dealing with threats and things that aren’t exactly human. Hell, most of ’em aren’t human at all—and those are the really fun ones! I chose four films to watch this month, each of which came out on video (and to Vudu) in the USA on the same day: October 1, 2019. I've looked at a flick with star power, then the first Pakistani zombie film, and  then  did my first crowdfunded movie movie review, all from October 1 of this year. How can I possibly round out my Halloween reviewing experience? Why, a horror movie based on a video game, of course! When I played the original  Doom ―a cutting-edge first-person-shooter back in 1993―I had no idea someday I'd be watching (never mind reviewing) a film based on the successful game series:  Doom: Annihilation  (2019). Written and directed by: Tony Giglio. Warning: this review may contain spoilers. We begin in a top secret United Aerospac...

Welcome to Monster Movie Madness, where we take a look at flicks and films dealing with threats and things that aren’t exactly human. Hell, most of ’em aren’t human at all—and those are the really fun ones! So far in my Released in the States October 1 series, I've looked at a film that had stars backing it, and the first zombie movie to come out of Pakistan. For the third installment, I decided to go with what may be my first crowd-sourced-movie movie review: Indiegogo-funded The Young Cannibals  (2019). Besides, a cannibal film coming from a production company called Bad Taste Pictures? Shut up and take my money! Written and directed by: Kris Carr and Sam Fowler Warning: this review may contain spoilers. The action opens with three men sitting shivering in the snow. They're battered, beaten up, and have obviously survived something . Two are eating, voraciously, almost savagely; it's meat on the bone, and it's raw, and it's kind of gross. They offer ...

Welcome to Monster Movie Madness, where we take a look at flicks and films dealing with threats and things that aren’t exactly human. Hell, most of ’em aren’t human at all—and those are the really fun ones! Continuing my Halloweeny peek at four films released straight to video on October 1 of this year (less than two weeks prior to this writing), I decided to watch Altered Skin (2019). I'm being straight up here: last week I started this little venture with Devil's Revenge (2019) because it starred (sort of) William Shatner (the Shat !); this weekend I appeared at both Rock & Shock and the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival, so I chose Altered Skin because, at 80 minutes, it was the shortest on my list. Besides, the end of the Vudu description reads: The first film of its type to be shot on location in Karachi, Altered Skin brings a fresh cultural take to the zombie epidemic. A horror movie with a fresh cultural take on zombies? Take my money! Written and di...

Welcome to Monster Movie Madness, where we take a look at flicks and films dealing with threats and things that aren’t exactly human. Hell, most of ’em aren’t human at all—and those are the really fun ones! Scrolling through Vudu the other day, hoping some recent addition to their horror catalog might catch my eye, I noticed a couple of new releases in there. Very new releases. It was October 5, and they’d both come out on October 1, of this year . Four days previously. Hmm . . . I scrolled through the list again, looking only at release dates, and found four films in there, all of which came out on October 1, 2019, straight to video-on-demand. Hmm . . . I thought again. Four s-t-v horror flicks releasing on October 1 . . . four weekends in October . . . Hmm . . . So this month, I’m checking out one of these films each weekend and throwing up a review. Straight to video tends to carry a negative stigma, but there might be a gem or two on the list, right? Right? Rig...