Recent Viewings, Part 2

[lester1/2jr]

The Video Dead (1987) - After fifty thousand years of seeing this around, I finally watched it. I think I might have thought it was a compilation of horror clips or something? As far as 80's horror comedies go, I'm more of a "Flesh Eating Mothers", "Little Corey Gorey" cheap/ over the top kind of guy, but I did enjoy this. The main character kid was funny in an off the cuff sort of way and there were some inspired and crazy moments, even if it was a ultimately just a little on the PG 13/ normal-coded side.

Someone delivers an evil TV to a random suburban home and soon zombies are all over the place. There's a cute rich girl love interest and secret zombie knowledge having hillbilly guy who all work together and don't contact any authorities or anything to try and stop the siege. One part I liked was when they cut one of the zombies in half and there are not only guts but mice and stuff in there.

I'll go 4.25/ 5 and would see it again, if not base a cult around it.

[indianasmith]

I've watched 3 movies this last week and haven't posted on any of them, so here goes:

DEATH OF A UNICORN (2025)  Jenna Ortega stars as the acne and angst-ridden daughter of a corporate lawyer who is traveling to the home of a dying CEO so he can take a post on the corporate board.  But then they run over a juvenile unicorn whose blood cures Jenna's chronic acne, and the story just gets weirder from there. . . this one was a wild ride with just the right mix of gore and humor!  4/5

Lee Cronen's THE MUMMY (2026) - This one was a great, gory bit of body horror.  A ten-year-old girl goes missing in Egypt, and eight years later her body is found - sealed inside a 3000-year-old sarcophagus, but somehow still alive. Alive but changed . . . and not in a good way. Physically and mentally, she's become a twisted, evil agent of malice, and her family, as they desperately try to bring back the child they loved, pay the price.  Very well done, some pretty extreme body horror, and a twisty story line make this one a movie worth seeing on the big screen!  5/5

BRING HER BACK (2925)  I had heard this one was excellent, and when I finally got around to watching it I was NOT disappointed. Two step-siblings are sent into foster care after their father suddenly dies.  They are sent to live with a kind foster mother named Laura, who is grieving the death of her own daughter and raising a son who suffers from selective mutism. Very quickly, it becomes clear that the little boy - Ollie - is not what he seems, and that Laura is keeping a mysterious secret in a locked shed in the back yard.  This one is a slow burn but it gets steadily creepier as it goes along, and the last half-hour is downright horrifying. SOLID horror film!  5/5