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Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009)
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (2009)
Review by: Corin Wentworth
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: When the cute new vampire at school falls for a mortal boy, his current girlfriend and a mad kabuki scientist both want her out of the picture — and not even death can stop them!
REVIEW: I decided to check this movie out based on the title alone. Vampires? Frankenstein monsters? And they’re both high school girls, you say? Fighting over a boy?
Sounds like fun!
Knowing that this was a Japanese film, I expected lots of colorful, cartoon violence — something this movie delivers in buckets from the very first frame. Right away, we meet the titular vampire girl, Monami, who cheerfully delights in ripping skulls and spines from her prey Mortal-Kombat-style while grinning and delivering cool lines of dialogue. After a blood-soaked opening scene of hilariously over-the-top, goofy carnage, I was totally on board and ready for more. However, as we flashed backward in time to Valentine’s Day at Tokyo High School, my enjoyment of this film came to a screeching halt.
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)
Review by: Erin Page & Corin Wentworth
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein dreams of a creating super-race from not one but two perfect creatures — a female monster and a male counterpart. He needs only to complete his male monster before the breeding experiments can begin. But first, Frankenstein must find the PERFECT head for his sinister superlover.
REVIEW: In every group of cult/horror fans, there’s always one twisted loner who watches a gruesome, erotic bloodfest and still craves more. Couldn’t it be just a little MORE fucked up? If this sounds familiar and you’ve found yourself suffering time and time again through the same old supposedly shocking, demented films wishing that they’d just take that EXTRA hard left turn and really crank shit up a notch, then do we ever have the movie for you! Andy Warhol’s Flesh for Frankenstein just might be the cure for the common cult.
At last! Just what you’ve always wanted!
Posted in Adult/Erotic, Gay/Lesbian, Mad Scientists
Tagged 1970s, By: Corin, By: Erin, By: Erin & Corin
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House on Haunted Hill (1999)
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Review by: Corin Wentworth
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: A millionaire offers a group of people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
REVIEW: Okay, deep breath. Where to begin describing this godawful ordeal? Our story starts in the dank, scum-ridden basement of a mental institution for the criminally insane, where a man in filthy doctor’s scrubs gleefully hacks into the belly of a struggling patient, assisted by a handful of stone-faced nurses. Slime drips from exposed water pipes, howling patients shuffle through the halls and pound on grimy walls and windows. The man on the operating table screams and wrestles against his soiled bindings. Bare bulbs flicker in rusted fixtures. The camera shoots at wild angles, bright blue and green filters saturating everything in whack-a-doodle CRAZY VISION… It’s so absolutely cliché in every way, you can’t help but wonder if it’s supposed to be a joke. It’s certainly not scary at all, because you’ve seen all of this a million times over in every Sci-Fi Channel Original and schlocky low-budget horror movie since the early 90′s. So… am I supposed to be laughing? Is this a spoof? Is it actually trying to be scary? All we know for sure is that it’s either trying way too hard or not nearly hard enough. It’s simultaneously confusing and powerfully boring from the word go.
And right away, this sets the tone for the entire movie.