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Wow were we late on posting these results, lol. Better late than never, here are the results for the 12th Annual Rondo Hatton Awards.
For the uninitiated the "Rondo's" are a fan based awards show that real people vote in all of the Horror categories from magazine covers (ie Rue Morgue,Fangoria,etc) to DVD Horror Collections, modelling, Horror Hosts (Svenghoulie,Elvira,etc) to the actual Horror Movies.
As well the Rondo's fill the gap that various mainstream awards just are too afraid to handle, because they are cowardly sniveling rats! lol.
A quick highlight of the winners in various horror categories for 2013
BEST MAGAZINE
RUE MORGUE By Jason Edmiston
Runners-up: FANGORIA, HORRORHOUND
Honorable mention: VIDEO WATCHDOG
Runners-up: FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY; BIG ASS SPIDER
Honorable mentions: BAD MILO; DR. MABUSE; WILLOW CREEK
THE GIANT SPIDER; WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
BEST FILM OF 2013 THE CONJURING
Runners-up: PACIFIC RIM, GRAVITY
Honorable mention: THE HOBBIT: DESOLATION OF SMAUG;
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS; EVIL DEAD
BEST TV PRESENTATION
THE WALKING DEAD: ‘Too Far Gone’
Runners-up: DOCTOR WHO; AMERICAN HORROR STORY: COVEN
Honorable mention: SIMPSONS TREEHOUSE OF TERROR; SUPERNATURAL
Just finished watching it and had a few things I wanted to get out before I sleep on the rest of it.
First impressions....The Shining meets Lair of the White Worm. It had the feel of a lot of the creepy 1970's horror films which had cults and devil worship with the promise of the devil coming back in human form ( Blood on Satan's Claw, Rosemary's Baby, Hungry Wives,The Pyx,Carrie,Audrey Rose,etc. The surreal and what the fuck of The Wicker Man). Funny how life would be influenced by art, that would play out later in the big whipped up fears of devil cults and heavy metal music of the 1980's (PMRC-Tipper Gore, now her husband tries to scare us about Carbon). The fears of right wing evangelical America .The following song features in the film and is pretty fucking creepy.
A very different movie from Rob Zombie's "Devil's Rejects", which seemed to be just a shocker for the sake of it. I was expecting that watching this but was pleased to see it was not just a bunch of shock and gore for the hell of it. Actually it was pretty artsy and had a bit more depth to it than many of his previous films. I hope it's the start of Rob Zombie coming into his own as a more serious director.
Post sleep- after thoughts
Had some more time to dwell on it after a strange dream about musical scoring and sheet music, lol.
There was quite a bit this film had to offer and some great background,etc but it kind of felt disjointed which I wonder if that was almost deliberate. I figured that maybe getting the low down from the man himself might help. So here's Rob Zombie in an interview about Lords of Salem.
This film was certainly a departure from his previous shock films and was more of a thinking kind of movie with horror as the vehicle for it. Over all it was an enjoyable movie and think that Rob Zombie has branched out trying out a new approach. The criticsbashed it into the ground but to hell with em, this ain't no happy ending feel good film. Also might as well enjoy it as Rob Z claims that this is his last horror movie for at least 10 years. Now something comes to mind like "you take the boy out of the blah blah but not the blah blah out of the bogy. Stay tuned, I give him 3 years tops.
-Evil von Scarry
This creature feature will be a return to animitronics and actual fx make up art. Lance Henriksen is helping back this up as well as some other heavy hitters via Kickstarter (they already reached their goal, but hey more money is always better). Sultan Saeed Al Darmaki of Dark Dunes Productions (teaming up with Studio ADI) has also come on board after the Kickstarter campaign to team up and get this movie out there. After seeing the video I gotta say I can't freakin wait for this one. Give us back our animitronics and real f/x, someone else can have CGI!
The Story (from the site)
"A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to
study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering
Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old
Soviet space wreckage, things get downright deadly. It seems that the
Russians experimented with tardigrades, tiny resilient animals able to withstand the extremes of space radiation. The creatures survived, but not without mutation.
Now the crew is exposed to aggressively mutating organisms. And after
being locked in ice for 3 decades, the creatures aren't about to give
up the warmth of human companionship. "
I going to go out on a limb and say that Frankenstein's Army woke up allot of people in the industry and fandom to realize what we were all missing in the CGI movie world.
Not unlike the difference musically between analog sound and digital. Sure digital (like CGI) is convenient but it's just missing that certain quality. And luckily I'm not the only one who shares this belief.
"In 1985 he met Creature Legend Stan Winston and worked on Invaders From
Mars, Aliens, Predator, Leviathan, and Monster Squad, among others. In
1988, along with Tom Woodruff, Jr. Alec formed Amalgamated Dynamics,
Inc. Their first feature film was Tremors, followed by Alien 3 (Oscar
nomination), Death Becomes Her (Oscar win), Mortal Kombat, Jumanji,
Starship Troopers (Oscar nomination) , The Santa Clause franchise, the
Spider-Man franchise, the Alien vs. Predator franchise, Wolverine:
Origins, X-Men: First Class, The Thing (2011)."- from Kickstarter profile.
Again we can't wait for this one and are looking forward to seeing what this crew will bring back to creature features!!! -Evil von Scarry. Thanks for tuning in.
Evil von Scarry signing in here. Saw this movie finally at long last!
As a follow up article of Kount Kreepy's announcement of the film (pre-release) here's my review of the film. I would recommend that folks check out KK's article as it gives a good backgrounder and some other things from "Worst Case Scenario" (by Richard Raaphorst ) the proto-Frankenstein's Army.
1/
Its a great movie, go see it. Especially if your one of those (like use)
that have been waiting essentially since "Worst Case Scenario" for this
movie.
2/ This is essentially a creature feature, and a good one at that. Lots of gore , great creature fx/make up and prop work. No need for CGI here!
3/ not exactly Academy Award acting, but good enough as really it's a fun movie and not a drama.
4/ never mind the critics, they take themselves too seriously and film too seriously. Really. Its about reanimated monsters for Pete's sake!
5/ Richard Raaphorst as his directorial debut did a great job!
SPOILERS******************** Last warning**********SPOILERS **********SPOILERS**************************
I'll try not to spoil the whole thing, but be warned.
It
was a great creature feature. The Germans are using one of the descendants
of Dr. Frankenstein who happens to have a mad penchant for reanimation
of corpses (and sometimes not so dead) and creating killer undead cyborg
monstrosities.
A Russian reconnaissance patrol is out near the end of World War 2
and stumbles across the man made hell of Dr.Frankenstein's Army in a
near abandoned industrial town somewhere in East Europe. Taken from a
"found footage" aspect it does still flip into cinematic so won't drive
away those who hate the found footage genre.
I wasn't sure what to expect and wasn't disappointed. However. The setting was a bit haunted house
and felt, kind of a "look and see what we can do". With the glut of WW2
soldiers vs. zombies we've seen the last few years I think the FA team
did what they could to be different and stand on their own which they accomplished. FA did seem a bit rushed and if they had a bigger budget and more film they could have done an epic film instead of just a good film.
Felt a bit like House of 1000 Corpses meets Dawn of the Dead and insert found footage film here. As I've said before it does stand on it's own and has earned it's place in the horror film lexicon. I hope it does spawn a sequel and maybe with a bigger budget this time. Some critics knocked it down but to hell with them, this was a fun movie!-EvS
With Kount Kreepy on vacation at some nice island somewhere I guess it's up to me to keep with hearth fire burning on this here blog.
Hansel and Gretel With Hunters is brought to us from the same guy who did Dead Snow ,Thomas Wirkola, (and upcoming Dead Snow:War of the Dead) as the writer and director.
This movie kicks ass, has great gore and effects, some good laughs and generally rocks!
The film starts off with the Hansel (Jeremy Renner)and Gretel (Gemma Arterton)
we all know from fairy tales but gets a bit Tarantino after that. Fast
forward 15 years later with Hansel and Gretal hunting down witches until
they get hired by a town to find out what's happened to the town's
children that have gone missing and eventually unravel a plot involving a
Grand Evil Witch (Famke Jennsen )and her coven seeking..... see the movie I won't spoil it.
There's quite a big nod to the "Steampunk" genre here as well through some really cool gadgets and gizmo's in the witch hunters arsenal and it works with the atmosphere of the movie. There is also a sequel in the works and I for one am looking forward to it! Rotten Tomatoes hated it so fuck them. Chances are if you read this blog on a regular basis then you know this will be a fun movie. If your looking for deep meanings and superb acting and some lah dee dah crap this aint your movie. If your looking for some action/adventure and kicking some supernatural ass, this will satisfy! -Evil von Scarry
One of those "underground" films (directed by Paul Bunnel) that looked like an Ed Wood homage and turned out to
be just as horrible. That being said if your a David Lynch fan and like that sort of over the top method style acting (like Brando in the Wild One or Liz Taylor back in the 50's) then this film might be for you. I for one HATE musicals (unless you put TOMMY or PINK FLOYD's THE WALL in that genre) so it was a major stretch for me to sit through the whole film. I did it cuz Kount Kreepy had me watch it. So figured better watch the whole damned thing before I attempt a review.
However my love of the weird and the 1950's cheesy sci-fi movies kept me going through what was a sci-fi comedy musical and was just quirky enough to stand on it's own. I'm pretty sure it will eventually become a cult classic, probably once it has some showings in Japan and then comes back to North America again. Looking into the film it cost about 2 Million to make and made about 117 bucks in ticket sales, LMAO.It was also named the worst film of 2012. Hell I'd see it on that accreditation alone!
The gist is a gang of bad ass rebel greaser types on a planet that is all about law and order finally get
exiled to what I'm guessing is the late 1950's early 60's earth. Tie in a dead rock n roller that gets resurrected using alien technology and some musical numbers with plenty of nods to various film and cult genres. Some of the rockabilly/psycho-billy crowd will also get a kick from the period pieces in the film.
quote-"Shot on black-and-white Kodak film
stock, Paul Bunnel’s 1950s throwback dials up the weirdness of the
already surreal genre of sci-fi B movies with showstopping musical
numbers, over-the-top dialogue, and hilariously hokey special effects.
Banished to Earth for intergalactic
juvenile delinquency, Johnny X and his gang of Ghastly Ones set off in
search of a piece of alien technology that could change the fate of the
universe forever—the so-called “resurrection suit.” Soon, the
extraterrestrial nogoodniks are embroiled in a wacky scheme involving a
femme fatale named Bliss, a shifty concert promoter with schemes of his
own, and a recently deceased musician who won’t let a little
decomposition stop him from rocking." -end quote
If your a film buff or just a lover of cheesy films then it'll be worth your while to see this film. I can't really say anything bad about it but it's not on my list of fav's either. Then again I hated Rocky Horror Picture Show but absolutely loved Blue Velvet. This film has a similar feel of elements of both those films but does stand on it's own. It was also the last film appearance of Kevin McCarthy before his passing ( starred in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -1956).
I've left some links below to various media linked with the film. -Evil von Scarry facebook website
Strand Releasing (selling DVD's)
I kind of waited out for this movie. My initial impression (without seeing it yet mind you) is that it would be another feel good film for the masses. "Good guy kills terrorists and we can all go home feeling better about the increasing security state" type of film. Well fuck was I wrong (not for the first time, lol) about this one.
A bit of a long movie its not so much action adventure (although it does have enough) but more of a drama. Kind of two parallel stories that intertwine. One story being of a British born Muslim man (played by Abhin Galeya) who gets indoctrinated into the radicalized world of Islam. The other is a story of an Intelligence operative ( played by Sean Bean ) who's lost his wife to a suicide bomber attack and will kill any and all extremists his handlers tell him are a threat.
There's quite a few plot twists and the movie does show a bit more than most action films looking at things in a black and white perspective. You get the feeling throughout the film that both of the main characters are "being played" by their respective sides. Also there are elements in the film reminiscent of the real life Operation Gladio operations. The critics didn't like it but fuck them, any film that makes us a bit uncomfortable with our myth-conceptions is a good one in my books.
