Archive for August, 2011
When you see the names Roger Corman and American International Pictures associated with a science fiction movie, you can be assured of a low budget, a high cheese factor and a really good time. Add to all this the fact that Corman brought on film student Frances Ford Coppola to spruce the movie up and direct a scene with two Martian animals fighting, you have yourself a nice hot slice of b-movie goodness in which the United States and the Soviets are struggling to be the first nation to colonize Mars.
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Tonight I bring you an ultra-low budget slasher from 2007. Six of the worlds most annoying, badly acted college students / stereotype character templates ever to slink their way direct to DVD are heading to spring break, but make the mistake of taking a shortcut across a huge expanse of desert . There car, of course, breaks down and as the sun goes down they start getting picked off by an unkown psycho.
It would be really easy to rip this movie apart. It is, honestly, pretty terrible, but if there was still a huge drive-in market today, this is the type of thing you’d see filling out the bottom of the bill.
The kills, when they finally start, are not too bad. We get slit throats, hatchets to the head, stabbings and a disemboweling. So, you can’t really complain there I guess. Of course there is also the “twist” ending that you can see comming from about 3 minutes in.
Leading up to the kills, however, you have to suffer throught these terrible actors playing terrible characters. You have the “normal girl”, the “level headed black guy”, the “jerk-ass macho prick”, the “slutty, clingly, dumb girl”, the “ulta-man-hating lesbian”and the “socially backward computer nerd”. I don’t know why all these newer low budget horror flicks always have their victims set up as a bunch of unlikable, constantly bickering assholes, but most of them do. Of course some big budget ones do that too. Friday the 13th 2009, I’m looking at you. We have like these people in order for us to care about them, but nobody remembers that these days I guess.
Anyway, this is, honestly, a pretty bad one, but it does have some good kills, especially for their $9000 budget and if you have a taste for straight to video junk, you should like it. By the way, I know these rips aren’t exactly HD, but this one might look a little worse. This is due to the source material. I got the disk for $1, so I guess I can’t complain.
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“The greatest love of all is hap……”. NO!, Not that “Bodyguard!. The movie at hand is an eye poking, arm ripping Sonny Chiba vehicle from the 70s. While not quite as bad-ass as his first couple of Street Fighter movies, this is still a nice watch for Chiba fans. Chiba hates drugs and offers to act as a bodyguard for anyone who testifies against the dealers. Of course, taking out five mobsters with his bare hands at the start of the movie gives his offer a bit more credence. A young woman takes him up on the offer and the ass-whipping begins.
Oh, by the way, check out the mangled Bible quote that opens the movie. You may remember it from Pulp Fiction.
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After listening to the guys over at the Splattercast spin-off show “Cold Case Cinema” covering this great movie a couple weeks ago I was reminded of how much I enjoyed it when I first saw it a couple years ago.
The movie is is billed as a historical drama, and it is, but is also very much a noire piece with lots of interesting characters and lots of plot twists and plenty of suspense. I really don’t want to go into it very much. The plot revolves around the intrigues and power plays surrounding the French revolution. If you want to know more about it before you watch it, head over to the Cold Case sight and check out their great coverage.
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