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Bitch Ass starts with an introduction by Tony Todd. He mentions all the ikons in the horror franchises and it’s especially funny when he comes to Candyman. It is his own character after all. He describes what we’re about to see as the first black serial killer movie or something like that. Now, I don’t really care what color of the skin the killer or the victim has, as long as the kills are entertaining...
Powerzone is, if I understand it correctly, Chez Jane’s second album. It looks pretty hard if you dare to judge by the cover but It’s softer than it looks. There is certainly power both in the vocals and the guitar playing though. To me, the songs are good but not great, and I think that’s my curse and really not Chez’s fault. But power can mean different things. You know the Power Ballad formula. You...
Don’t Kill the Dark is Cobra Cult’s second album. They’re fronted by a female singer/guitarist, but I have a hard time hearing the gender of the singer. Now, that I know it, I can hear it, but before I thought it was just a typical Power Metal Vocalist. They usually sing in high pitches. Not that it matters a bit though. I think she does a great job. She fits the music well. It’s pretty...
Automaton is the sixth studio album by Swedish rockers Crashdiet. I have heard them before but only the occasional album. Generation Wild from 2010 I think. Lots of things has happened since then. Or maybe not so much, but that have at lest swapped vocalist since then. I like what I hear, it’s just as I want this kind of Glam Metal to sound. There are catchy melodies and some arrogant attitude (with tongue-in-cheek). It...
Monolith is a special movie. What’s special about it, among other things, is that there’s only one actor onscreen. Everything else is just voice-acting over the phone. There are other films like it of course. Films where we only see one actor or when the set is quite limited to one place. On the top of my head, I think of Buried where Ryan Reynold is buried alive and needs to find a way to...
If you liked Terrifier, you’re gonna like Terrifier 2 as well. Hands down, this is a brutal slasher. It has lots of gore and a whole lot of humor in it too. It’s kind of like Funny Games. Not that it comes up to those standards of social commentary. No, but the way the acting is carried out. Michael Haneke said about Funny Games that the perpetrators are playing in a comedy, whilst the victims...
The main plot in Guardians of Time is about four cousins together at a mansion. There, they discover a hidden door which in turn leads to another hidden door and soon they are in an enchanted forest. Sound familiar? It should if you even grew up in a cave. This seems to be as much theft of the Chronicles of Narnia as it could be. Rest assured, that is not the only story, or movie...
I guess there are numerous albums by numerous bands that are named Saints and Sinners. It’s kind of a classic name for an album, a band, a book, or even a movie. In other words, low imagination when it comes to the title of the album. The music is hardrock and nothing else. At least the way I define hardrock, but the difference between rock, hardrock, hard rock, AOR, and so on seems to become...
Neither Putrescence nor The Wrath to Conquer All was something I never heard about before. I guess you should call it Death Metal but it’s not that fast or heavy. To me, it’s more like they tried a little too much to sound “dangerous”. It’s not bad by any means but the vocal kills the joy of listening to it for me. It’s way too shouty and almost Black Metal-ish. Sometimes crossing the lines to...
I should have realized that Aamongandr was a black metal album when I saw those upside-down crosses in the unreadable logo. But I didn’t. I just thought that Satanic Warmaster was a cool band name and that the werewolf image was nice artwork—enough to get me interested. And, donät misunderstand me; I don’t have anything against black metal. It just takes a little more for me to enjoy it. It’s usually the vocals that ruin...
I learned something watching Orcus, or rather after I watched it and started to do some research for this review. To be completely honest with you, I had absolutely no idea what Orcus meant. And it’s funny really, I was making a youtube video the other day where I kinda complained about all movies using the name Hercules from roman mythology even though the name in greek mythology actually is Heracles. And they use greek...
It was bound to happen, wasn’t it? It’s evident that Octogames more or less has stolen the premise from the very successful South Korean series Squidgame. There are too many things going on for it to be a coincidence. First of all, an octopus isn’t that far away from Squid. I know it’s not strictly the same species but they both have arms or tentacles, right? Second, the film centers around children’s games with a...
