Bitter Feast
Bitter Feast caught my interest via its trailer, mostly because it stars indie actor Joshua Leonard and sensitive ponytail man from Singles (aka: James LeGros).
Due to a scathingly bad review by JT Franks (Leonard) on his blog, Gastropunks (ha.hahaha), Chef Peter Grey is booted from his restaurant and loses his TV show. It’s hinted that Grey has a lot of other mental issues - like being militantly sustainable, uh, if that’s an issue, I guess - but the gist is, he kidnaps the blogger and forces him to endure weeks of food-related torture, as well as a lot of merciless beatings.
More horror-vertising! A nice (fake) promo spot for Purell. Kinda of Dexter’esque - if Dexter were a bit more GQ.
I like.
Man oh man. I finally caught Splinter the other day due to my friend Carl’s recommendation and HOLYCRAP WAS IT AWESOME.
It’s about a couple who gets kidnapped by an ex-con - only to end up trapped inside a gas station by the craziest parasite ever put on film. I mean, this thing is BRUTAL. Spiky, and brutal. I can’t really say anything else without ruining what happens, but this thing has some of the best special F/X and bloody gore I’ve ever seen. Just a really fantastic little horror film.
Definitely recommended! Check it out.
Murder by Numbers: Freddy’s Kill Count
Every once in awhile I become obsessed with the number of kills and the ways in which people are dispatched, and I think about actually documenting it for future reference in a nerdy stats kind of way – and thus, I begin with the original seven A Nightmare on Elm Street Films.
(I left Freddy Vs. Jason out because I was wrestling with whether the kills he used Jason to facilitate count as his, or Jason’s…)
Spoilers obviously ahead:
Case 39: good, bad, meh
I’d been holding out watching Case 39 mostly due to the fact that Bradley Cooper stars in it, and it turns out my instinct to avoid it because of him was right in this case, because omfg he is HORRIBLE in this movie. I mean, look at that photo! That’s him being terrified! Seriously. What.
That said, this movie wasn’t a total wash - because the supporting cast totally killed it, and the premise was pretty interesting. I just wish they hadn’t ruined it all with the stupidest ending ever.
To recap (with spoilers):
If you’d like to actually listen to me talk about movies instead of just reading what I write about them, the lovely people at Scarecrow Video had me on their podcast as a guest — in which I cover some Italian Horror, Eli Roth’s films, and movie soundtracks.
You can find it here.
{photo from Dario Argento’s Deep Red}
I didn’t think Wes Craven could make a movie worse than Cursed, but I was sadly mistaken.
My Soul To Take is horrible, horrible, horrible. It’s like he took a bunch of horror movie moments and mashed them all together, but in the most boring way possible, with some of the worst actors ever cast. Not one decent scare or original thought in the entire movie, including the origin of the serial killer, or his “legend” that lives on…and don’t even get me started about that tacked-on ending.
Sorry, Wes. I can’t recommend this thing to anybody. I’m even surprised I made it all the way to the end.
