Crimson Screens has his own bigfoot sighting with "Abominable". And a Cinema Wasteland wrap up...
Crimson Screens has his own bigfoot sighting with "Abominable". And a Cinema Wasteland wrap up.
Hey! Edward here! I'm back! Let me tell you, surgery is a whole lot of no fun. I know it is to fix things that were wrong, but man, I've been so worn down and tired in the last week. I finally escaped the hospital last Saturday and made it to the Cinema Wasteland convention, if only for a little while. I will talk about that later. I'm going to have some horror movie worthy scars when these wounds heal completely. Word!
First, the other night I saw "Abominable". It is a movie about a sasquatch that is terrorizing the backwoods area of a small town. He messes with a group of hunters, some girls on a retreat and a mad who is recovering from a terrible accident. The set up is pretty cool, as we see some quick glimpses of the sasquatch running through the woods or lurking in the shadows. I am a huge fan of bigfoot based movies and the first few scenes of this movie had my hopes really high, thinking maybe this was going to be a new classic. Lance Henriksen, plays one of the hunters, and he starred in a ton of straight to video bigfoot related movies in the past few years. Well, he is here again. Man, there is a scene where he finds a wounded girl, with her guts spilling out, and he looks at her and says, "I'm sorry, but that's gross!". Hahahaha, oh boy, I was laughing so hard. That way he says it is great. I don't know if it was meant to be funny or not, but it is. Eventually, the sasquatch makes his way through the cast, killing them off one by one, until the two survivors have to escape or die. It is all far from original, that's for sure, but it is fast paced and entertaining. There are even a couple mild scares.
Ok, this was orginally one of those made for tv sci-fi channel original movies, and a lot of those suck big balls, but this one is not bad. A lot of gore and some nudity was added in for the R rated release. In fact, the gore is pretty cool. A man has his throat biten out, another has his face bitten off, a girl is stepped on and smashed by the bigfoot and in the best scene, a completely nude girl is pulled through a real small window. Fantastic!
The creature deisgn is pretty cool, until we see the creatures face. He looks like a retard, for real. In the commentary, I was told, the director said they made him that way to make him somewhat of a sympathetic character, but I don't know. He just looked silly to me.
The cast is filled with genre notables, so the acting isn't too bad. There are a lot of plot holes and silliness. But overall this is a fun ninety minute time waster.
Ok, so I finally escaped the hospital last Saturday evening and I headed down to the Cinema Wasteland convention. To be honest, I didn't care for most of the guests this time around, since I have seen most of them before in one form or another. I did like seeing and talking to the guy from Cannibal Holocaust though. Cool guy. The dealers room was filled with the usualy stuff, epic amounts of horror DVD's and t shirts and anything else you could think of. VHS has been all but eliminated. I remember the days of tables and tables of VHS tapes. Well, those days are gone and they have been replaced by DVD's. I didn't want to spend a small fortune this year, but luckily, I didn't even see anything I really wanted. So I headed to the movie room. Betsy Palmer gave an introduction to Friday the 13th. Cool lady. Skipped out on the movie though, since I have seen it more than enough. Horror Convention Massacre was a movie filmed at last years convention, and it stars lots of people who go to these. It was funny and entertaining, lots of boobs and some shittily done gore. They had some lady with a skimpy outfit and big boobs peddliing copies of this to people, but I can't imagine buying this, as it was fun to watch once, I can't imagine owning it. Anyways, Texas Chainsaw Massacre Two was in another room. Cast introduction or something. Shitty movie. No thanks. Street Trash cast and movie in another room. Great movie. Then I watched something about a professional geek and he was there and he talked about a movie some guy made about him. The guy was actually kind of interesting. Yeah. Later on, Roy Frumkes showed am hour or two of short films, one of which was Swirlee, about a man with an ice cream cone for a head. By far the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. If anyone knows where I can buy this, please email me. Ok, lots more shit played, and then there was some premier of this slasher movie called The Remake. The first fifteen minutes or so of the movie were ok, but it quickly fell apart. Really badly too. But that is when it got fun because everyone watching it starting making fun of it. Some real mean shit too, but I haven't laughed that hard in a long long time. So, I say, watching The Remake was the best part of this years Cinema Wasteland for me. After that I took off because I was tired and sore and I wanted to go to bed and I didn't feel like sitting through four hours of Russ Meyer movies to see some premier of Redsin Tower, which by seeing who made it, I am sure it was full of some scandalous shit.
That is all for this update. Later on this weekend, Crimson Screens staffer Melissa will be doing another Cinema Wasteland update, since she was there all three days, as far as I know. Also, we will have a review of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Out!
Hey! Edward here! I'm back! Let me tell you, surgery is a whole lot of no fun. I know it is to fix things that were wrong, but man, I've been so worn down and tired in the last week. I finally escaped the hospital last Saturday and made it to the Cinema Wasteland convention, if only for a little while. I will talk about that later. I'm going to have some horror movie worthy scars when these wounds heal completely. Word!
First, the other night I saw "Abominable". It is a movie about a sasquatch that is terrorizing the backwoods area of a small town. He messes with a group of hunters, some girls on a retreat and a mad who is recovering from a terrible accident. The set up is pretty cool, as we see some quick glimpses of the sasquatch running through the woods or lurking in the shadows. I am a huge fan of bigfoot based movies and the first few scenes of this movie had my hopes really high, thinking maybe this was going to be a new classic. Lance Henriksen, plays one of the hunters, and he starred in a ton of straight to video bigfoot related movies in the past few years. Well, he is here again. Man, there is a scene where he finds a wounded girl, with her guts spilling out, and he looks at her and says, "I'm sorry, but that's gross!". Hahahaha, oh boy, I was laughing so hard. That way he says it is great. I don't know if it was meant to be funny or not, but it is. Eventually, the sasquatch makes his way through the cast, killing them off one by one, until the two survivors have to escape or die. It is all far from original, that's for sure, but it is fast paced and entertaining. There are even a couple mild scares.
Ok, this was orginally one of those made for tv sci-fi channel original movies, and a lot of those suck big balls, but this one is not bad. A lot of gore and some nudity was added in for the R rated release. In fact, the gore is pretty cool. A man has his throat biten out, another has his face bitten off, a girl is stepped on and smashed by the bigfoot and in the best scene, a completely nude girl is pulled through a real small window. Fantastic!
The creature deisgn is pretty cool, until we see the creatures face. He looks like a retard, for real. In the commentary, I was told, the director said they made him that way to make him somewhat of a sympathetic character, but I don't know. He just looked silly to me.
The cast is filled with genre notables, so the acting isn't too bad. There are a lot of plot holes and silliness. But overall this is a fun ninety minute time waster.
Ok, so I finally escaped the hospital last Saturday evening and I headed down to the Cinema Wasteland convention. To be honest, I didn't care for most of the guests this time around, since I have seen most of them before in one form or another. I did like seeing and talking to the guy from Cannibal Holocaust though. Cool guy. The dealers room was filled with the usualy stuff, epic amounts of horror DVD's and t shirts and anything else you could think of. VHS has been all but eliminated. I remember the days of tables and tables of VHS tapes. Well, those days are gone and they have been replaced by DVD's. I didn't want to spend a small fortune this year, but luckily, I didn't even see anything I really wanted. So I headed to the movie room. Betsy Palmer gave an introduction to Friday the 13th. Cool lady. Skipped out on the movie though, since I have seen it more than enough. Horror Convention Massacre was a movie filmed at last years convention, and it stars lots of people who go to these. It was funny and entertaining, lots of boobs and some shittily done gore. They had some lady with a skimpy outfit and big boobs peddliing copies of this to people, but I can't imagine buying this, as it was fun to watch once, I can't imagine owning it. Anyways, Texas Chainsaw Massacre Two was in another room. Cast introduction or something. Shitty movie. No thanks. Street Trash cast and movie in another room. Great movie. Then I watched something about a professional geek and he was there and he talked about a movie some guy made about him. The guy was actually kind of interesting. Yeah. Later on, Roy Frumkes showed am hour or two of short films, one of which was Swirlee, about a man with an ice cream cone for a head. By far the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. If anyone knows where I can buy this, please email me. Ok, lots more shit played, and then there was some premier of this slasher movie called The Remake. The first fifteen minutes or so of the movie were ok, but it quickly fell apart. Really badly too. But that is when it got fun because everyone watching it starting making fun of it. Some real mean shit too, but I haven't laughed that hard in a long long time. So, I say, watching The Remake was the best part of this years Cinema Wasteland for me. After that I took off because I was tired and sore and I wanted to go to bed and I didn't feel like sitting through four hours of Russ Meyer movies to see some premier of Redsin Tower, which by seeing who made it, I am sure it was full of some scandalous shit.
That is all for this update. Later on this weekend, Crimson Screens staffer Melissa will be doing another Cinema Wasteland update, since she was there all three days, as far as I know. Also, we will have a review of Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Out!
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