Following a pair of classic horror films in Re-Animator and The Beyond director Stuart Gordon has turned his eyes on a slightly less bloody project. Dolls sidetracks us into a child's flight of fancy before turning to a tongue in cheek horror of elegant construction in which dolls prove to be the undoing of those who have outgrown childish things.
Hailing from Baltimore, Maryland, unsigned metal act Anubis Unbound have released a pair of albums and seem poised to take their skills to the next level. With a name like Anubis Unbound you should expect something heavy, and they do deliver. Anubis is the Greek god associated with mummification and funeral rites, pretty gloomy stuff if you ask me, but I see how it fits with the band. The riffs wrap your head in while everyone else takes turns kicking it. Sooner or later you are going to need those funeral rites once the kicking subsides.
Netflix'ns is a series of review shorts of films discovered on Netflix, be it DVD or streaming. For better or worse, I sat through these films and have lived to tell the tale. These are not so much reviews as just comments on the film watched. This is also a work in progress.
The 1990's were strange times for metal. Supplanted by alternative and grunge, the metal legends of the 1980's found themselves either trying to adapt or soldiering on in the underground from which they born from long ago. Metallica cut their hair and introduced a bit of rock to their sound, Megadeth softened a touch and flirted with the mainstream, Anthrax, well, I'm not sure what they were up to, and Slayer was doing punk covers. Then there was Testament, despite lineup shake ups, they soldiered on and even got a bit heavier, flirting with a death style. This reissue of their 1995 concert in their hometown of San Francisco shows the band doing what they do best, delivering their brand of trailblazing material.
In 1988 the world was introduced to one of cinema's most enduring killer dolls. Always destined to be more recognizable than Full Moon Picture's Puppet Master toys or those in Demonic Toys, although I would like to see Chucky take on Blade and his gang, Chucky returns for his third go around in 4 years. Is it possible that the little fella still has some terror hiding up his sleeve or does he wear his welcome thin?
Get yourself a silly name and a goofy album cover and you can go far in the metal world. Well, maybe not, but you cannot deny that metal has had more than its fair share of entries in both of those categories. This collection of Swedish youngsters gets a little credit for landing in both categories. On one side you have the band's name, Tuck from Hell. I don't know about you, but I think that is a little silly and would likely play well on a double bill with Tim Lambesis' Austrian Death Machine. Then you have the cover, a drawing of an action hero looking fellow with a chainsaw on one arm and a flamethrower in the other. Funny, that could also go with Austrian Death Machine.