The Massive One is back again to talk to you about Midnight Movie one more time, but this time it’s all about The Killer Cut. A couple new DVD extras was added to this edition. A new Audio Commentary Track by Director Jack Messitt. Where he talks in depth about the new footage and effects [...]
Let The Massive One start this off by saying, if the plot of your sequel is joining a gang of Vampire hunters to get revenge… I want no dealings with you because it’s getting old. Meanwhile! Just as the first film did, you have the comic to film image gallery, but! This time you now [...]
Audio Commentary with Producer Rob Tapert and Actors Josh Hartnett and Melissa George. 30 Images of Night – A photo gallery that host images from the 30 Days of Night comic and images from the film. So, you can see the similarities between the two. Featurettes – There are eight parts in this featurette ranging [...]
G’day. I am staying with the Aussies and next up is Dead End Drive-In directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (Leprechaun 3 and 4). I miss drive-ins. The few that are left, at least within driving distance for me, are neutered. They play first run movies or even worse they show classics for charities because they were [...]
The Massive One is back again to talk to you about Midnight Movie one more time, but this time it’s all about The Killer Cut.
A couple new DVD extras was added to this edition. A new Audio Commentary Track by Director Jack Messitt. Where he talks in depth about the new footage and effects that was added and this overall experience working on Midnight Movie. The other extra is a mini featurette called Destroying The Illusion. It’s a behind the scenes look at some of the key scenes, effects and locations in the film and it’s narrated by the Director himself, explaining what you are seeing and how some of the movie magic works. Also all the extras from the original cut are added in this edition too. So you won’t be missing out. And a few more Trailers were add as well.
A few thoughts, if you will. I really enjoyed the new commentary that was add. Overall, this cut of the film is a Massive buy and worth a double dip, if you will. Massive.
Let The Massive One start this off by saying, if the plot of your sequel is joining a gang of Vampire hunters to get revenge… I want no dealings with you because it’s getting old. Meanwhile! Just as the first film did, you have the comic to film image gallery, but! This time you now have narration over the images by Ben Ketai, getting a bit more in depth between the comic and film.
Now what kind of behind the scenes do we have here? The Gritty Realism of Dark Days – Is a brief making of documentary with the cast and crew talking about a few of their scenes and what they think about them, and the freedom the filmmakers had in making this sequel.
Audio Commentary with Co-Writer and Director Ben Ketai, and Producer J.R. Young.
A few thoughts, if you will. Just pass this movie up all together. The commentary is fine and the behind the scenes stuff is meh. Massive.
Audio Commentary with Producer Rob Tapert and Actors Josh Hartnett and Melissa George.
30 Images of Night – A photo gallery that host images from the 30 Days of Night comic and images from the film. So, you can see the similarities between the two.
Featurettes – There are eight parts in this featurette ranging from pre-production, casting, stunts, special effects etc. But the one thing that is missing is information on the comic book this film is based upon. In the pre-production (Part 1) the comic is mentioned but no one goes in depth to try to put the comic over. It went from, hey the comic is cool and to boom into the movie making aspect and behind the scenes. Which are good.
A few thoughts, if you will. One reason I bought this movie is to find out more about the comic, but I was wrong. As for the film, I liked it. Vampires in snow is Massive… Well, any horror movie that takes place in a Hoth world is Massive. Overall give it a rent or read the comic. Massive.
G’day. I am staying with the Aussies and next up is Dead End Drive-In directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith (Leprechaun 3 and 4).
I miss drive-ins. The few that are left, at least within driving distance for me, are neutered. They play first run movies or even worse they show classics for charities because they were bought by the town they are standing in when they went out of business. There is no where to go for what you originally went to the drive-in for… sleaze and to get laid. Oh well I guess we have to rely on the interwebs for that.
So the movie opens with a bunch of economic and sociopolitical catastrophes and then it dumps you into the near future (that looks like 1986… maybe it is an alternate reality… ya that’s it). The unemployment rate is sky high and life in general sucks. So Crabs and his girlfriend borrow Crab’s friend Frank’s 56 Chevy and go to the Star Drive-In to see the show. They announce they will take two unemployed tickets for the show and in they go.
While they are screwing in the car someone steals two of their wheels. By god it was the police! So who would you go to to complain about the police stealing your shit? The manager of the drive-in that’s who. The manager says he will take their report in the morning. Morning dawns and there are cars everywhere in the drive-in which is populated by young punk glam rock Aussies.
The drive-in is a concentration camp for the unemployed and otherwise unwanted. Well, it isn’t a work camp or anything, there is nothing for the punks to do but play games, spray paint graffiti everywhere, and do their hair. Anyway everyone but Crabs is happy to stay there where they are guaranteed three meals a day and movies every night.
I liked it. Lots of fun. It is definitely an 80′s movie and has that aesthetic so if that annoys you, piss off. There are a couple of statements snuck in there and morals maybe, but if you aren’t looking for them you can ignore them pretty easy. Does it all make sense? Hell no. Like how did the other customers get out? During the movie the drive-in is full and in the morning there are not that many vehicles. Stop watching so carefully! If you look they are actually playing old B movies on the drive-in screen behind the actors. Shhhhhhhh! Shut up and just drink your beer.
My recommendation, if 80′s is your thing? Buy it. If not, I would still watch it.
I will now mention the movie that brought all this Aussie goodness into my sphere of awareness, Not Quite Hollywood. If you haven’t seen it, please do so. It rocked my lame world and started me actually watching documentaries. Be careful it is a “gateway” film.
We will stick with the land down under and take on 2007′s Black Water. Black Water was one of two crocodiles attack films that were released in 2007, the other one being Rogue. Black Water was the low budget of the two with a budget of around $700,000 (IMDB). The film received several nominations for awards in Australia and won best cinematographer for John Biggins, and best director for David Nerlich and Andrew Trauchi at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival in 2007.
The film begins with a husband (Adam), wife Gracie), and the wife’s sister (Lee), leaving Mom’s house after spending time there for the Christmas holiday. While having a couple drinks at the pub Adam comes up with the idea of doing something a little different and going on a fishing tour. Everyone agrees that doing something different would be swell, and off they go. They hook up with a guide and head out into the mangroves. In wanders a crocodile (after the guide says all the crocs had moved on or were taken to farms) and tips their boat over and eats their guide (who also had a gun, probably would’ve been handy). Lee ends up on top of the overturned boat. Adam and Gracie end up in a tree and there is no dry land to be seen.
The scenery is amazing. It makes you feel cut off from civilization and isolated. What is more fascinating, is due to the budget this film wasn’t miles and miles away in the outback, but filmed in the suburbs of Sydney. Which just goes to prove that Australia is terrifying.
For the most part you do not see the crocodile. It travels and stalks unseen under the black water of the mangroves (this does have a Jaws kind of feel but I don’t consider that a bad thing). When you do see the crocodile, this movie uses CG, however they did not use an animated crocodile, but imposed images of a real crocodile taken at a zoo, into the movie. It was done brilliantly it looks great!
The small cast, the scenery, the editing of the images of the crocodile, it’s great the movie feels taut, isolated, and hopeless.
The night they spend in the mangrove is great. They have no lights so it is completely dark. The only lighting you get is from lightning flashes during a storm. Really great I really enjoyed it beautifully done.
My recommendation definately watch it/buy it.
Oh one more thing this movie has the tag line of “based on actual events”. I am sure this could be a mash up of several recorded attacks or something. I don’t care it was still damned good.
Lord Blood-Rah’s Nerve Wrackin’ Theatre is taking a vacation this week, so here is an episode from the past. Here from “The Witch’s Tale!” is the immortal classic Frankenstein!
If you’ve been listening to us for awhile you know we’re big fans of Tony Wash’s movies. His new film The Storm is currently fundraising and needs your help. Check out the widget below and find out how you can help make this film a reality.
As many of you might not know The Massive One is a wrestling fan, if you will and recently I got my hands on a copy of The Old School Wrestling Podcast – The First 50 Episodes. Starring the tag team of Dre and The Black Cat.
This two disc audio CD set is full of Dre and The Black Cat talking old school wrestling Pay Per Views, historic matches and major events in wrestling history from years gone bye. Such as ECW Barely Legal, Bash at the Beach ’96 and The End of the Monday Night Wars. But wait! There’s more, not only will you be getting the first 50 episodes but two bonus shows. A complete review of WrestleMania III and Dre and The Black Cat team up with The Awesome 80′s Podcast to review John Carpenter’s They Live starring Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Head on over to Flair Chop Illustrated and order your copy today. And make sure to catch The Old School Wrestling Podcast every week in your podcasting feeds. Massive!
We’re back with Mystery Movie May. First up is Bryan’s pick. What could it be? We also chat about Chicago Fear Fest, some movies we have seen since our last episode, and finally reveal the winner of our Uncle Randy’s Backflap contest. You’ve been warned that the entries could scar your soul.
Audio Commentary with Director Jack Messitt and Actors Mandell Maughan, Rebekah Brandes, Daniel Bonjour, and Greg Cirulnick.
Deleted Scenes and Outtakes – Both a setup the same as in you have a bit of commentary by Jack Messitt explaining why the scenes were cut and the backstory for the outtakes.
Creative Team – A six minute talking heads clip show with about five Producers, Director and Makeup Effect Artist explaining what they done in the film and then you’ll see a bit behind the scenes of what each person was talking about.
Cast – You are introduced to each actor and each person talks about their character with spliced in clips of said actor.
Storyboard and VFX – Two screens one holding the finished scene and the other with the storyboard art for said scene. Basically, you can see what ideas Director Jack Messitt had while drawing the boards. Part two of this featurette Is about the makeup, green screen and gag effects and how they got created.
That’s all for the behind the scenes featurettes, the only extras left are three different trailers. Aphrodisiac, Grind, and Gore for Midnight Movie.
A few thoughts, if you will. Midnight Movie would make a good double bill with Chillerama. Both movies takes place in a theater, you’ll get the old school drive-in experience with a modern twist. Overall, It’s a buy if you can find it cheap as The Massive One did at Family Dollar for the low, low price of $7 bones. Also I might have to double dip because there’s a Midnight Movie – The Killer Cut edition out and about.
Hey there, hi there, ho there, it’s me again how the hell are ya? I watched the 2010 film Primal. It’s an Ozploitation flick yay! The film opens with 12000 years ago an aboriginal man is painting a rock. Someone sneaks up on him and kills him.
Flash forward to the present with a group of youths in an SUV headed into the outback to see rock paintings that haven’t been seen in 120 years. Yes the group is made up of three boys and three girls.
Anja is going to be our final girl. There is a back story, that is only mentioned once, about her being locked in a basement for a week by her boyfriend and she has “shit taste in men”.
There is also a story about one of the kid’s uncles heading out to this location and killing his children. I don’t know I didn’t quite follow it. It wasn’t really important.
The children arrive and start exploring. They find a cave, and the paintings, and a billabong. There are nasty little bugs that eat everything including their te
nts and car tires. Even a demon attack rabbit with pointy teeth.
So of course the fun blond one goes swimming in the billabong and she gets covered in leeches. She then contracts a fever and her transformation begins.
She turns into a primal being who proceeds to stalk and kill the rest of the party. She also brings part of her kills back to the cave as a sacrifice.
Not wholly original, but fun. You get boobs, blood and sex. It felt like a throwback to 80′s horror. It follows all the horror rules. Good times, fun flick, watch it. Would I buy it…. probably not.
“Come on baby it’s only kinky the first time.”
I’ve seen it written and heard it many of times, that the commentary for this film makes up for how bad it is and believe it or not the commentary with Director Adam Marcus and Screenwriter Dean Lorey does in fact make up the lack of movie Massiveness that Jason Goes To Hell could of been.
Other than the commentary you have two cuts of the film an R rated and unrated cut. Also the standard New Line, Jump to a Death and Original Theatrical Trailer.
Overall: It’s not worth a buy, but give the commentary a once over.
A murderer finds himself trapped in a very different kind of prison in this week’s Lord Blood-Rah’s Nerve Wrackin’ Theatre! Here’s a tale of mythology and mayhem starring Peter Lorre from his series “Mystery in the Air!” entitled Mask of Medusa!
Tonight constant reader we travel back to 1972 for the Randal Hood directed “Die Sister, Die!” starring Jack Ging as Edward, Edith Atwater as Amanda and Antoinette Bower as Nurse Ester Harper.
Poor Amanda is not coping well with the death of her wealthy father. Edward, her brother, found her trying to commit suicide again. Amanda has tried to commit suicide twice in as many years. Edward and her doctor discussed hospitalization and or therapy. Amanda would not accept either of these options and so Edward sets off to find a live in nurse to look after his sister.
Edward goes were any one looking for a nurse would go, the bar! He asks the barmaid who was waiting on him if she would be interested in a nursing position. Little did the barmaid know that Edward knew her back story, where she married her 90 year old wealthy patient who died, and she inherited a fortune, only to have the family take it back. So Ester takes the job Edward offers with the understanding that Amanda has tried twice and will no doubt try suicide again, and her instructions are to simply let Amanda succeed.
The story goes from there. Is it really scary? No. Is it gory? No. Is there a twist ending? No, I think everyone will see what is coming. I enjoyed this film for the character dialog driven story it is. I liked the use of shadows and the over all look of the film. I enjoyed watching the actors. Edward is a smarmy asshole (he even manages to make threats while wearing a sweater on his shoulders), Amanda is a cold upper class bitch, Ester seems to be more of a pawn, and the character you are supposed to identify with. It was fun to watch them interact in a great old dark house. There are a couple of dream sequences that were kind of surreal and I dug ‘em.
The film isn’t groundbreaking, nor is it anything you have never seen before, but it is done well. Would I break this out and watch it on a regular basis? Probably not. I never got bored or wandered away from it. However, I like dialog driven films (and Columbo movies). If you are looking for action and gore, don’t bother with this. It will bore you to tears.
My rating watch/rent it.
I’ll warn you right now there is no one in this movie who looks like the woman in this poster. Nor will you see a scene like this. The poster is cool looking though.
Hey there kiddies. This time I watched Lucky (2011) directed by Gil Cates Jr. It stars Colin Hanks (yup that’s Tom’s kid) as Ben Keller, and Ari Gaynor as Lucy St. Martin. Jeffrey Tambor plays Det. Harold Waylon and Ann-Margret is Pauline Keller who is Ben’s Mom.
The whole movie starts out with a woman buying a lottery ticket from a creepy guy at a convenience store.
Lucy works as a receptionist at Ben’s job. Lucy grew up across the street from Ben. Ben has always had a thing for Lucy. Lucy has a thing for money. Lucy was sleeping with the boss, until he dumped her and fired her.
The next day Ben’s Mom finds a winning lottery ticket in Ben’s wash and Ben is a millionaire. Ben talks to something in the closet and tells it it must have won the lottery.
On the next work day everyone congratulates Ben, and Lucy finds out Ben has now got bucks, so they begin to date and in a whirlwind romance they get married.
On the Honeymoon they run out of money. You don’t get it all at once you know and Ben bought a house for Lucy and blah and blah. Lucy gets pissed Ben feaks out sees the maid as Lucy and the maid ends up dead… whoops. Lucy finds the body but doesn’t report it and tells Ben that what he did was hurtful and he can never hurt her again.
Colin Hanks does a good job at doing a Jimmy Stewart meets Norman Bates type of role. He is pretty dead pan until the conclusion when he gets a little manic.
Ari Gaynor is cute and reminded me of Goldie Hawn.
The movie is nothing special. It was done well enough. It is sold as a dark comedy and to tell ya the truth it didn’t work for me. Even in DARK comedies you should at least smirk every once in a while. The pacing is uneven as well and I kinda drifted out of it a couple of times as it was dragging along. The best part of the film is the end with the two love birds sharing a moment. That was kinda funny and uncomfortable and if the movie had more of that it 
would’ve worked better for me.
All in all I say pass.
He looks befuddled, bewildered, flummuxed, he must be married.
