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A New Kind of Exploitation: Here Comes Fauxsploitation 2008-09-18 18:19:29 There's an awful lot of kinds of exploitation out there. You got your blaxploitation, your sexploitation, your nazisploitation, your drugsploitation, but sometimes someone comes along and does something entirely new that carves it's own category. Tonight's film is one of those ground breakers that proves that less is indeed still less. That all it takes is a couple of brash young film makers to Read more:Exploitation
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Conrad Brooks Double Feature! 2008-09-17 18:34:13 The role of of Patrolman Jamie in Plan 9 From Outer Space is probably not the most auspicious way to begin a career. It's your first time out of the gate, and you're already in "the worst movie ever made". Flash forward to 1988 and you get yourself a bit part in a real contender for "worst movie". Then onto 2003 and you play opposite Brinke Stevens in a movie where Tom Savini is Jesus Christ. Read more:Brooks
, Conrad
Ain't No One Crosses Willie Dynamite! 2008-09-16 21:48:47 Greetings, Moonies. I've been holding off on reviewing a blaxploitation picture until I could get my hands on one I really wanted to share, and I have I got one for you. I saw this film the first time a few years back and I was blown away. It holds it's own with other eponymously titled characters like Shaft, The Mack, Truck Turner, and The Hammer. Ain't No one CrossesWillie
DHe's Tight To Read more:Dynamite
Jason is Such a Berk 2008-09-15 22:18:22 I have stated once before in my review of Twisted Nerve how much love the Bug has for the British people. However, the Queen's subjects are out to prove me wrong yet again. When I picked up this video at my local shop, I thought it sounded like a great idea. I'm sure that some poor producer out there thought the same thing, but ideas have to be followed by execution. While there are a few executi Read more:Jason
Leatherface Shows His Tender Side 2008-09-15 00:47:41 It's often assumed that there's few things Leatherface cares about, his chainsaw, his family, and the zesty taste of real human meat flavored chili. Well, that's not true. I hate it when someone wanders around in a bloody smock and a mask made of human flesh and everyone assumes that murder and rampage are the only things on his mind. Monsters are very interesting people (just ask Bugs Bunny Read more:Tender
The Freudstien Monster 2008-09-13 22:17:35 "No one will ever know if the children are monsters or the monsters are children." -Henry JamesThis quote appears on the screen in the final moments of today's film. It would be an interesting quote from the author of Turn of the Screw if he had ever said it. It was made up by Lucio Fulci to be the summation of this movie. What it had to do with anything, I don't know, but I can tell you this Read more:Monster
Lance, Stan, and the Great Pumpkinhead 2008-09-12 23:03:15 Sometimes when I sit down to to research on a film it takes me a lot of digging and scraping about and hunting. I found most of what I was looking for right off, but the information that I was really wanting to search for is not to be found. So Ed Justin you will remain a mystery. One that will not only puzzle me, but tons of people far and wide over the internet. That's not the only mystery invol Read more:Great
, Lance
A Tale of H.P. Likecraft 2008-09-10 22:25:38 There's a lot of kinds of freaks in the world. Rick James extolled the virtues of the Super Freak. Todd Browning brought the world the majesty of his classic Freaks. Korn had a song about a "Freak on a Leash" (Which I always thought described Mad Maxine, the Lightning Bug's faithful dog. ). Stuart Gordon, of Re-Animator fame, had another idea for a freak in his 1995 movie. I'm sure there were
Who's The Fool Now? 2008-09-08 22:52:21 Greetings, everyone. The Lightning Bug transmitting another review from my secret lair on the moon, and have we got a good one for you. This flick is awesome. Some great gore. Hardcore graphic sex from some really hot chicks. A totally original plot that's never been heard of before. Even an ending that is so great you'll be pissing your pants.Do you believe me?Crap. Oh well, then I was about
Bela Lugosi in Living Color! 2008-09-07 23:06:41 Greetings, moonies. The Bug is back and I'm bringing Bela with me, in color no less. Sorry to get any one's hopes up if you thought that Bela might have appeared as Fire Marshal Bill or on Men on Film. Sadly those tapes are lost to the ages, but one color appearance of his survived to present day, Bela only starred in one color film, but actually appeared in two. The other film Viennese Nights (19 Read more:Color
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, Living Color
A Vampire Masquerade 2008-09-07 23:06:32 When I was a teenage bug, I used to play a bit of D&D once in a while. Then there came a day when a whole new game hit the shelves. I'm talking Vampire
:The Masquerade
. It made a whole new way of playing RPG's that depended less on dice than on playing paper, rock, scissors. Before too long I got my chance to play Vampire as a live action RPG with everyone running aound with thick eyeliner and
Zombies Gone Mild 2008-09-07 23:06:20 Good Evening faithful Moonies. I was just dwelling on all the things I could do in an hour. I could get some glasses made or photos developed. I could read like 4 comic books at least. I could watch a Law & Order again. I could take some time out to think about the merits of Death Race 2000 before I go see the new one tomorrow. I could buy a go cart or nine pogo sticks. I could get two Domino Read more:Zombies
Sometimes a Title Says it All 2008-09-07 23:06:08 In Hollywood, you have those legacy families. There's the Sheens, the Fondas, the two Afflecks (cause we all needed two Afflecks), and then there's the Arquettes. Rosanna I always liked in Desperately Seeking Susan, and Patricia who's turn as Alabama Whirley in True Romance will always make her one of my dream girls. Then there's David. Well, he was in Scream and he married Courtney Cox, but he r Read more:Sometimes
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The Real Terror At Baxter U is Watching It 2008-09-07 23:05:41 Terror
at Baxter
U (2003) starring Bill Vincent, Janet Lockwood, and Ryan Gaffke. Directed by Jeff Burton. Michigan State University which stands in for the fictional Baxter U in this film looks like a cold place. When I think about cold places and start to dwell on cryptozoology, the first thing that comes to mind is the chupacabra. Sure you might say that the wikipedia article on the chupacabra Read more:Watching
Director's Cut and Smash and Chainsaw and Rip Arms Off 2008-09-07 23:05:29 There's a misconception that low budget horror films can be excused for being crappy. The effects, the acting, and the camera work can all be chalked up to the lack of money going into a production. That may well be true, but what can't be argued is that great ideas and great scripts are free. Sometimes a low budget gem comes along that proves that for every second it's on screen. The Cutting Roo Read more:Chainsaw
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Viva Santo! 2008-09-07 23:05:15 Good Evening Moonies! The Lightning Bug is in the house again with another cult movie review. This time it's something near and dear to my heart. A masked man. As I myself have a variety of masks I like to wear, I know that masked men always have an honest face. They don't come much more honest than the fellow in tonight's flick so lets get ready to rumble sports fans cause here's Santo
! Sampson
It's Like Heavy Man, Ya Dig. 2008-09-07 23:04:50 Disclaimer: The Lightning Bug in no way advocates the use of illicit films for recreational use. All films prescribed by the Bug have been tested on willing moon subjects and approved for the general consumption. Also please stay away from the brown laser disks. That is all. Whew, glad that out of the way. Good evening moonies. Tonight's film features the heavy use of drugs. That's right the Bug Read more:Heavy
Creatures and Herb 2008-09-07 23:04:30 Baby, did you ever wonderwonder what I did before TV starring in a student film moviebefore Cincinnati , and WKRPThere's giant beasts and a satanic rangerCreepy caves and demon things in flightI'm pretty sure this is not a safe place to beI'd much rather be on Nick at Night on WKRP in Cincinnati.Ahh, yes, WKRP, one of my personal favorite shows, and what's equally great about it is that almost e
If You Make a Better Mousetrap, I Know Some Folks Who Could Use It 2008-09-07 23:04:21 Dr. Seuss once wrote a book called And To Think I Saw It On Mulberry Street about a boy named Marco who dreams up a huge fantasy about what he saw walking down the street to tell his father, but Marco decides to just tell the truth instead. Seuss wrote it to illustrate how adults can stifle a child's imagination, and how much better it would be if they didn't. Well, I'm pretty sure of all the t
Ring Around the Dead Birds 2008-09-07 23:04:09 There's one kind of horror that the old Lightning Bug has never been able to get down with, and that's the films that come out of the Asian market or their American remakes. I'm not a fan of The Ring or The Grudge, and even Jessica Alba couldn't get me to watch The Eye if she brought it to me herself on a silver platter while wearing a French maid costume. OK, that's probably not true. I would wat Read more:Birds
Say it Ain't So Uncle Joe 2008-10-03 18:54:07 When I was a wee Bug, I always felt that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was one freaky ass movie. I loved it, don't get me wrong, but the surreal boat ride sequence, with it's LSD visuals and Gene Wilder's menacing performance, would give me the heebie jeebies. Yet I knew everything would turn out just fine. After all, it was a kid's movie and nothing bad could happen to Charlie and l Read more:Uncle
There's More Than Just Pitts in this Berg 2008-10-01 19:09:27 I was checking around for information on tonight's film and one of the sites I checked was Tom Savini's. Strangely, I could find no mention of his involvement with the project, but perhaps not so strange after all. Our Lord and Savior Tom (for more info on why Tom is the son of god check the review of Zombiegeddon) has participated in a ton of films over the years, and admittedly there's bound t Read more:Pitts
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