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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast #215: Our Favorite Horror Films of the 2010s

September 5, 2019

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The MFF podcast is back, and this week we’re discussing our favorite horror films of the 2010s. We brought in award-winning director Zachary Beckler, who wrote/directed the excellent film Interior, to help us come up with a list that is really legit. In this episode, you will hear us talk about Green Room, Climax, It Follows, Hereditary and Bone Tomahawk. We are 96.5% that will will 100% agree with this list. Enjoy!

Listen to hear where Green Room placed on our list.

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John’s Horror Corner: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), a worthy remake bringing new levels of meanness to the franchise.

September 4, 2019

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MY CALL: This film is just plain cruel and mean, bloody and shocking. But it does an exquisite job of all that. So if that’s your jam, you’ll love this remake which I consider a most worthy rekindling of the franchise. MORE MOVIES LIKE The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake: Well obviously you should have already seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986). After that, you could try The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) and perhaps Texas Chainsaw 3-D (2013; I wasn’t at all thrilled with it as a Texas Chainsaw movie, but I generally loved it as a popcorn horror flick).

REMAKE/REIMAGINING SIDEBAR: For more horror remakes, I strongly favor the following: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), An American Werewolf in London (1981), The Thing (1982; yes, this was a remake), The Fly (1986), The Mummy (1999; adventure genre), The Ring (2002), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Friday the 13th (2009), Let Me In (2010), Evil Dead (2013), Carrie (2013), The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014), It (2017) and Suspiria (2018). Those to avoid include The Thing (2011; a prequel/remake), Poltergeist (2015), Cabin Fever (2016), A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), Night of the Demons (2009), Body Snatchers (1993; the second remake), The Invasion (2007; the third remake), War of the Worlds (2005) and The Mummy (2017; total adventure-style reboot-imagining). I’m on the fence about An American Werewolf in Paris (1997), Halloween (2007), It’s Alive (2009), My Bloody Valentine (2009), Fright Night (2011) and Pet Sematary (2019), which range from bad to so-so remakes (in my opinion) but still are entertaining movies on their own.

After a nostalgically familiar opening narration (John Larroquette; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) briefly recounting the horrors that would transpire, we meet road-trippers Erin (Jessica Biel; The Tall Man, Blade: Trinity, The Sinner), Morgan (Jonathan Tucker; The Ruins, Hostage), Pepper (Erica Leerhsen; Wrong Turn 2, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2), Andy (Mike Vogel; Cloverfield, The Boy) and Kemper (Eric Balfour; Skyline, Backcountry) driving across Texas. Much as in the 1974 original, they pick up a troubled person on the side of the road… and this disturbed young woman sets the brutally uneasy standard for this remake when she swallows a bullet and erupts bloody chunks from the back of her head! She may not have been as psychologically disturbing as 1974’s hitchhiker, but she has set a powerful precedent for this movie.

To report the harrowing suicide and turn over the young woman’s dead body from their car, our road-trippers meet the quirky Sheriff Hoyt (R. Lee Ermey; The Rift, The Frighteners, Up from the Depths, The Watch). Hoyt is a maelstrom of backroad yokel awkwardness, crude misogyny, and blunt malevolent brutality. I winced as I watched him handle the girl’s dead body (with Glad Wrap!!!) and got nervous for the protagonists almost every time he spoke. Hoyt will readily elicit uncomfortable giggles in this role that actually reminds me of John Jarratt’s Mick Taylor (Wolf Creek; a likewise just-plain-mean movie), particularly when he shatters a liquor bottle across a guy’s teeth (poor Jonathan Tucker).

Following in writer/director Tobe Hooper’s (Lifeforce, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist, The Funhouse) footsteps must be daunting. But director Marcus Nispel (Pathfinder, Friday the 13th, Conan the Barbarian) has quickly proven his worth in terms of pleasing gorehounds. For me, a significant upgrade this remake enjoys over its source material is the old Hewitt house, which is notably more creepy, rundown, remote and time-forgotten than when Marylin Burns approached in the original in the same iconic butt-cam shot as Jessica Biel, who assumes the role of Marylin Burns here.

Appearing as disturbing as ever (across TCM films old and new), we meet Leatherface (Andrew Bryniarski; Mother’s Day) with the same abrupt brutality as seen in 1974 as he drags a victim off to be literally butchered. He’s the same hulking menace you’d know from the other movies, but he lacks the overt sexual repression and depravity exhibited so strongly in the other films.

Recounting the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) and transmuting all the slapstick nonsense of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) through a contemporary torture-porn-ish filter, this remake is just plain mean. Our protagonists end up covered in blood! We’ll find flesh-torn chainsaw dismemberment, hanging meat hook impalement, a cruel chainsaw to the crotch, and other such vicious maladies.

This film delights in being gross—like, chunks of gore gross. Leatherface’s workshop is a menagerie of excised human body parts; some preserved, others just laying about to wither in the humid basement… the thought of what it’d smell like horrifies me. Car graveyards, piled up human teeth and collections of severed fingers, an extended demented apparently inbred family (including David Dorfman; The Ring 1-2), and macabre imagery of human butchering will also remind you of such “mean-spirited” film fare as Wrong Turn (2003) and The Hills Have Eyes (2006).

In the end, this film is just plain cruel and mean and bloody. But it does an exquisite job of all that. So if that’s your jam, you’ll love this remake which I consider a most worthy rekindling of the franchise.

Bad Movie Tuesday: 100 Feet (2008), Famke Janssen is haunted by her abusive husband who beats her from beyond the grave.

September 3, 2019

MY CALL: This movie would be 100% not recommended were it not for one awesome scene. Enjoy the brutal GIFs and decide if this is for you based on that alone. MORE MOVIES LIKE 100 Feet: Probably What Lies Beneath (2000) is closest in theme. But I’d sooner suggest something like Paranormal Activity (2007) or The Entity (1982).

Like the beginning of a direct-to-DVD crime drama (and every bit as uncompelling), we meet Detective Shanks (Bobby Cannavale; Snakes on a Plane) begrudgingly dropping off his deceased partner’s murderer, Marnie Watson (Famke Janssen; House on Haunted Hill, The Faculty, Deep Rising, Lord of Illusions, Hide and Seek, Hemlock Grove, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters), to serve her sentence under house arrest. Firmly claiming to have killed her abusive husband in self-defense, Shanks’ blood boils at the very sight of her and he wants more answers than she’s providing about his death.

Shortly after beginning her house arrest, Marnie has “an encounter.” Whereas one may initially shake it off as guilt-induced or stress from living in the house where she killed her husband, signs clearly indicate something paranormal. Unfortunately for us viewers, those signs are brought to the screen in the form of cursory special effects—more the caliber you’d expect from an old episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark (1990-2000) or a re-enactment from some Ghost Hunters show. And while the acting is fine, the execution of these meant-to-be dreadful happenings simply doesn’t work.

There’s little in the horror genre as “unspooky” as the sound of a ghost’s footsteps with nothing to complement the fear or cultivate dread. When her kitchen “attacks” her, it’s not scary. Perhaps unexpected—maybe “random” would be a better term. But certainly not very effective as a horror device. And seeing the blurry low budget ghostly form of a wifebeater continuing to batter his wife from beyond the grave isn’t so much unnerving as it is crass… at least, in its basic presentation in this movie. Unblur the ghost and it’s just a guy beating his wife.

Writer/director Eric Red (Body Parts, Bad Moon) seemed to really try with this film, but his vision seems to most fall apart when the ghost is in our vision.

When a priest showed up to the house, I thought “this is it! This will be the scene that makes it all worth it!” But it wasn’t. Another empty, squandered scene. But then a ghost sighting during a sex scene… well… that was the one scene (if any) that made this movie worthwhile. Just plain BRUTAL and GORY, complete with twisted limbs and cracked teeth and a mangled dislocated mandible. Where did this come from after 70 lame minutes of nothing?!?!

For all the criticism I’m dealing out, this was not quite as annoying as you’d think. The familiarity of the cast and capable acting make this more watchable than you’d expect, even if still far from acceptable. It’s definitely not completely unwatchable if you’re just looking for a popcorn flick. But I’d still never recommend this (let alone spending money on this) unless you, like me, were just curious to see Famke in this horror movie you had never heard of until someone’s passing mention of it—which is exactly what happened to me on Facebook last month. OR… the GIFs made your day and you decided you needed to see that scene.

John’s Horror Corner: Terrifier (2016), the brutally mean-spirited evil clown movie that will haunt your gory nightmares with this memorable villain.

September 2, 2019

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MY CALL: Top choice for fans of brutal, goretastic and mean-spirited horror. The performance of the villain was darkly inspired, creating a truly memorable villain. I was truly impressed beyond the virtues of the special effects team and am looking forward to the sequel! MORE MOVIES LIKE Terrifier: For more evil clown movies, try Stephen King’s It (1990, 2017), Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988), Stitches (2012), Scary or Die (2012) and Clown (2014). For more brutally mean-spirited movies try The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, Wolf Creek (2005), The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Hatchet (2006), or even The Strangers (2008, 2018) or The Purge (2013) movies.

Dawn (Catherine Corcoran; Amityville: Vanishing Point, Return to Class of Nuke ‘em High Volume 1), Tara (Jenna Kanell; The Bye Bye Man) and Victoria (Samantha Scaffidi; Terrifier 2, Demon Hole) find themselves stranded on Halloween night and then hunted down by a twisted clown. The premise is very basic, but don’t let that deter you.

Two things are extremely evident in the first five minutes of this film. 1) The budget is not impressive (but they do a lot with it). 2) A lot of gory brutal heart was poured into this film by writer/director Damien Leone (All Hallow’s Eve, Terrifier 2). After a disturbingly faceless survivor of a massacre is interviewed on TV, she brutally mutilates her interviewer with eye-gouging viciousness that reminds me of the face-rip scene in The Editor (2014). The severed head, chopped fingers and stab to the face that follow compound the inspired gore!

Despite the clearly low budget, I never really cared at all. When we first see Art the clown (David Howard Thornton; Terrifier 2, Stream), he’s disturbing. He never speaks, but his face is so expressive even through all that make-up! Every shot of this character is effectively off-putting and it’s a strong suit of the film. The combination of the performance and make-up leave a rattlingly disturbing presence and create a memorable villain.

Reminding me of the sheer brutality of Bone Tomahawk (2015), Art hangs a naked woman upside down and proceeds to saw her in half from the crotch down through her intestine-spilling abdomen and finally through her head! We see a lot!

Loads of macerated latex flesh, throat slicing, face-smashing, stabbing messes of fleshy flaps, and buckets of blood… it’s like if Troma made a serious film. Grotesque—even when there’s nudity it’s presented with a desensualized meanness. And watch out for the very predictable yet still very satisfying sequel ending!

As a fan of brutal, goretastic and mean-spirited horror movies, I thought this was really entertaining. The performance of the villain was darkly inspired and the direction was visceral. I was truly impressed beyond the virtues of the special effects team and am looking forward to the sequel!

The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast #214: Young Guns, Ginger Beer and 1980’s Westerns

August 30, 2019

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Great cast.

The MFF podcast is back, and this week we’re talking about the 1988 western Young Guns. Directed by Christopher Cain, the movie was a massive hit that featured Kiefer Sutherland, Emilio Estevez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen and Dermont Mulroney killing a bunch of old-west dirtbags. In this podcast, you will hear us talk about ginger beer, fisticuffs and Charlie Sheen’s accent. If you are a fan of Young Guns, you will love this episode.

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The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast #213: Ravenous, Cult Classics and Cotton Candy Monsters

August 24, 2019

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Robert Carlyle is very good in Ravenous.

The MFF podcast is back, and this week we’re talking about the underappreciated cannibal film Ravenous. We’ve been wanting to talk about Ravenous for a very long time, and we’re lucky enough to have David Cross, the host of the Award Wieners Movie Review Podcast, join us for a very fun episode. In the episode you will hear us talk about insane musical scores, delicious stew and eating cotton candy monsters. If you are a fan of Ravenous, you will love this episode.

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Check Out Our New MFF Data Podcast Series!

August 21, 2019
Reign of Fire + McConaughey = great data

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I love dumb data. That’s why I’ve spent the last few years researching, writing and promoting a whole bunch of articles that analyze movies like It Follows, Predators, Halloween and Waterworld. I originally started writing and researching these articles because they made me laugh, I never thought that Cracked, Wired, The A.V. Club, Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central, Indiewire and Entertainment Weekly would take notice. They did, and it was awesome, so I decided to start a new podcast series that compliments the random data.

Some notes on the Cabin in the Woods data article.

In honor of the MFF data articles, I decided to start a new podcast series that dedicates 15 minutes to each article. The first episode is all about the creature in It Follows. I was able to breakdown how far it traveled, and it’s been my biggest article to date. Hopefully, you enjoy these episodes, and if you like them, please share with everyone you know (literally everyone). Thanks!

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John’s Horror Corner: Hell House LLC (2015), a documentary-style found footage horror about a Halloween haunted house-gone-wrong.

August 21, 2019

MY CALL: Passable (even if forgettable) mindless popcorn fodder. Kinda’ fun, but insultingly bad in terms of intelligent horror film fare. MORE MOVIES LIKE Hell House LLC: For more mockumentary-esque or documentary-gone-wrong horror I’d strongly recommend Lake Mungo (2008), The Last Exorcism (2010), Grave Encounters (2011), Grave Encounters 2 (2012), The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), Demonic (2015), Ghost Stories (2017) and Butterfly Kisses (2018).

Years following a tragic accident at the Abaddon Hotel’s Halloween haunted house attraction (Hell House) results in the death numerous patrons and staff, filmmakers (including Alice Bahlke; Hell House LLC II) embark on a documentary investigation to uncover what really happened. Their investigation is based on found footage from the Hell House staff’s…

Hell House is run by a five-man crew with a history of finding remote, rundown properties and turning them into scary funhouse profits. Paul (Gore Abrams; Hell House LLC III), Sara (Ryan Jennifer Jones; Hell House LLC III), Tony (Jared Hacker; Hell House LLC III), Mack (Adam Schneider; Dark Skies, Hell House LLC II) and Alex (Danny Bellini; The Drifter, Hell House LLC II-III) plan their Halloween haunted house… this time in an already haunted house.

Writer/director Stephen Cognetti (Hell House LLC II-III) presents this film as a documentary in style, complete with interviewee/witness testimonials, YouTube videos and news clips. For this reason, the film is a bit less found footage-ish and closer to Lake Mungo (2008) or Butterfly Kisses (2018) than pure found footage films. Although much of this movie does feel like found footage with occasional docu-content sprinkled here and there; as if found footage bookended with docu-ness.

The acting is, at times, barely passable (especially during rigidly acted news clip scenes) and the writing isn’t great either. But honestly, this hardly seems to matter since the overall execution and cultivation of atmosphere is working for me (in the first 10-20 minutes). As I watched the rather engaging opening scenes, clips, testimonials, etc., I found myself wanting to know what happened to those people at the haunted house attraction. I wasn’t at the edge of my seat with tension, but I was clearly interested. That’s pretty impressive for the first 8-10 minutes of any horror movie. But as the film progresses, I find myself sadly less and less impressed. The survivors of the haunted house tragedy have either killed themselves or refuse to talk—an annoying cliché that fails to contribute additional mystery and somewhat squanders the briefly cohesive mood.

[Now almost hallway through the film…] I’m sorry, but I need to break into some SPOILERS to express how this film is beginning to so deeply disappointing me. In execution, the scares are effective and creepy—and for a random popcorn date night, this may prove entertaining even if forgettable. But in concept, they are utterly stupid. The notion that haunting ghosts would constantly “turn the heads” of rigid mannequins or “possess” evil clown mannequins (in the manner presented here) and then do nothing with such manifestations is simply aggravating. If you want to do evil dolls, then do evil dolls. Is this a good way to get cheap scares on a budget? Sure, I suppose. But there are plenty of other creative ways to do this—e.g., Paranormal Activity (2007). I feel like this is insulting the intelligence of thoughtful horror fans. But is it entertaining in the moment? I guess so, sure. It’s just that right after the moment passes, I’m annoyed. This movie pulls a lot of nonsense; inexplicable nonsense. If you’re going to animate clownnequins, then make them dangerous!

The final “scare” scenes were upsettingly stupid and, at this point, I’ve lost all possible respect for this film. The writing is so incredibly shallow. It even ends with the #1 found footage faux pas: its ending suggests that no one would have ever found the footage in the first place and, oh right, moreover no one would have edited together all the footage and clips and testimonials, etc., into an actual film. Dumb.

Dumb… but again, in execution, I have no problem seeing how “fun” this jumpy creepy film could be for others—especially, again, for popcorn/date night fodder. It’s hard to describe. I was unimpressed, I was mindlessly entertained, and I was angered. All that said, I kind of want to see part II. Go figure.

Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019), where Super Mario Bros. (1993) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) meet a kooky Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and Xena: Warrior Princess in this over-the-top Sci-Fi space-Nazi sequel

August 20, 2019

MY CALL: It doesn’t measure up to Iron Sky (2012), but what movie ever could? This sequel strikes me as distinctly inferior, yet still definitely worth the time of any fan of part 1! MORE MOVIES with NAZI VILLAINS: After first seeing Iron Sky (2012), one may move on to Dead Snow (2009), Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead (2014), Overlord (2018), Hellboy (2004), Inglorious Bastards (2009), Green Room (2015), Yoga Hosers (2016), Manborg (2011), Zombie Lake (1981), Oasis of the Zombies (1982), The Keep (1983), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Frankenstein’s Army (2013), Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge (1991), Puppet Master: The Legacy (2003), Puppet Master: Axis of Evil  (2010), Puppet Master X: Axis Rising (2012) and Puppet Master: Axis Termination (2017).

Disclaimer: Screener access was provided by a PR group. However, I was not paid or compensated to write this nor were there any conditions to my receiving viewing access other than my solicited review.

IMDB Summary: “Less than 30 years after a nuclear war ravaged the Earth, what’s left of humanity lives in a crumbling base on the Dark Side of the Moon, but they can’t survive here much longer. The Moonbase’s leader finds a glimmer of hope: an ancient map pointing into the Hollow Earth. Now a Russian pilot and her best friend venture to the center of the ruined planet to face the army of dinosaurs guarding humankind’s last hope for salvation: the Holy Grail.”

During the awesomely scored opening credits, we pick up right where Iron Sky (2012) left off: with the Earth at war with space Nazis and the new discovery that our Palin-esque President (among others) is some sort of reptilian humanoid in disguise. Immediately I’m gleefully reminded of the nonsensically hilarious Super Mario Bros. (1993)! In some not-so-eloquent backstory, we learn that our Nazis originated from reptilian shape-shifting aliens that crash-landed on Earth, domesticated dinosaurs, created mankind, and manipulated humans through historic influencers and political leaders. Whereas this sequel seems notably lower in overall quality than its predecessor, its ambitious mania continue to entertain with sheer lunacy. There’s a lot going on here…

The imagery, sets, wardrobe and shots intermix classic imagery harkening Star Wars (1977), Equilibrium (2002) and The Matrix (1999). You’ll be reminded of Jedi Knights and the Millennium Falcon, mentally conditioned religions, the city of Zion, and even some Engineer-ish creationism from Prometheus (2012). Providing cultish neo-spiritual enlightenment is cyber-evangelist (Tom Green). And like a cape and cowled Sith Lord, our favorite Moon Fuhrer (Udo Kier; Mother of Tears, Halloween, Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich) returns to infiltrate his former lair.

Returning to combat these moon Nazi aliens are American astronaut James Washington (Christopher Kirby; Daybreakers, Predestination, The Matrix: Reloaded/Revolutions), Nazi schoolteacher-turned ant-Nazi revolutionary Renate (Julia Dietze), and her daughter Obi (Lara Rossi; Robin Hood).

The action and creature effects carry a very Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001) vibe, but with a significant technological upgrade. And scenes with more creatures and/or people in make-up will have some filler-extras with notably more basic creature costumes. But I find it all forgivable. This film knows exactly what it is, it embraces its silliness, and it aims as high as it can (even over-reaching a bit) with its budget. In fact, this sequel feels notably sillier and less straight-faced than its 2012 predecessor. But whereas 2012 had cityscapes and then CGI moonscapes, this sequel also has the center of the Earth—which offers a diversity of set design, costuming styles, and creatures to encounter in this new world. So while this sequel is bigger, it has so much in it that it occasionally feels far less manicured—or, if we’re being honest, more gnarly.

For much of its running time it bears more the tone and often silly dialogue of a SyFy channel mini-series—or, as mentioned before, something like Xena or Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995-1999). But it’s also more energized, zany and fun—though not necessarily as “good” as scenes are littered with CGI dinosaurs and Babylon 5-ish (1994-1998) races.

Its high point is when we see alien ReptiliHitler riding a T-rex into the Nazi moonbase! Now this is the kind of ridiculous fun I signed up for with this movie! And what a relief that the CGI quality of this scene was much better than that allotted for all the center of the Earth denizens and guard dog-ish dinosaurs.

Ultimately, this was every bit as fun as Iron Sky (2012)—although a hokier and more distracted silly sort of film. But whichever you like more of the two, its strong suit is that it is a completely different kind of movie in tone, story and execution. All too often sequels are more of the same. Absolutely not the case with The Coming Race.

This may sound like a big B-movie, but it’s more like a B+ movie… and supercharged. Director Timo Vuorensola has developed a zany idea into something so much more than its silly premise. Keep an eye out for part 3!

The Movies, Films and Flix Podcast #212: The Phantom, Slamming Evil and Random 1990’s Superhero Movies

August 18, 2019

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Treat Williams is the best part of The Phantom.

The MFF podcast is back, and this week we’re talking about the 1996 cult classic The Phantom. Based on a popular comic strip, the Simon Wincer directed movie tells the story of a purple-clad superhero (Billy Zane) battling a very enthusiastic Treat Williams. We love this movie because it is insanely earnest, loaded with fisticuffs and features the always excellent Catherine Zeta-Jones. In this podcast, you will hear us talk about deadly skeletons, slamming evil and cheeky villains. If you are a fan of The Phantom, you will love this episode.

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