THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (2008)"The film is extraordinarily gory, with blood flowing hot and heavy and without restraint. And yet, it doesn't seem out of place. The gore is always handled appropriately, depending on the wound it's issuing from. It's not overly-stylized or "cartoony" gore, I guess I'm saying, beyond the arty slow-motion splattering blood shots. Plus, one of my favorite "eyeball knocked out of a head" scenes since THE EVIL DEAD II!"
THE CRAWLING EYE (1958)"The aliens themselves are imaginatively designed and genuinely kind of frightening. There's a sort of Lovecraftian nature to them, that sense of biology not as we know it. There's nothing even vaguely anthropomorphic about these invaders, nothing we can relate to in any way about them."
MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1932)"With Karl Freund's background in German Expressionism (a subject I so love to prose about), MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE is wonderfully atmospheric, with 1840s Paris taking on the same sort of gloomy oppressiveness that Bremen held in NOSFERATU: EIN SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (which Freund did not work on, though he collaborated with F.W. Murnau on other projects). Lugosi's make-up, then, hearkens back to the old silent films and even back to vaudeville stage shows with their harsh lime lights."
SUPER MARIO BROS. (1993) Review by Dan
"It's a surprise that Koopa ever got anything evil done considering his point-guys were two bumbling morons who knew less of tactics than a novice in a nunnery (Major Generals, they are not). This would be like if Hitler's inner circle consisted of Larry and Curly from the Three Stooges, because Moe was a threat to his power and had to be terminated."
CREATURE FROM THE HILLBILLY LAGOON (2005)"Shot on video by a small group of people who acted as well as did all the behind-the-scenes work, it draws less from THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON than it does from it's snarling, sadistic descendant from the 1980s, HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP. Whereas the Gill-man in 1954 was content to merely carry Julia Adams around and we could pretend he was taking her to the malt shop and a sock-hop, the Humanoids raped their way through pretty much the entire female cast."
GLEN OR GLENDA Review by Dan
"We are introduced to Bela Lugosi, credited as "Scientist", but playing no less than God Himself. Having established that God is in fact a strung out Hungarian legend of stage and screen, he creates some life in his bubbling chemistry set, which is an integral part to his windowless, shadowy study with a pronounced skeleton infestation."
