Review:Wicked Season (2024)

eview: Wicked Season (2024)

By William Pattison

This times I got a slasher thriller with a scarecrow killer…fun time…

Three detectives follow the trail of a copycat serial killer to an abandoned insane asylum, only to find they've been lured there by something far more sinister.

I should have known when I found out that this film was from Uncorked that it was going to be a stinker.

This film started out interesting story about a scarecrow masked killer and an Abandoned asylum but it quickly degenerated into a demonic mess. Our near killer disappears and we are stuck with a bunch of demon possessions and a confusing plot that has you scratching your head. I was not happy at all with this film. It was a waste of my time and I say avoid like the plague if you are smart…

Revew: Transmutations, Aka I dnderworld (1985)

Review: Transmutations, aka Underworld (1985)

By William Pattison

This time I got Clive Narker’s first attempt as a screnwriter to release a feature film for distrobution…

Underworld (1985)

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When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds traces that lead to Dr. Savary, who has produced a strange white powder that's coveted by a race of deformed human beings who live in the underworld in the sewers below the city.

This film predates Barker’s novel about an underground community of freaks and monster and has been long considered a precursor to Barker’s novel Cabal that was the source for his film Nightbreed.

U fortunately Barker has for years disowned this film as well as RAwhead Rex because the production company made changes to both films that Barker didn’t approve of.

Personally I really love this film. I love the style and a just love feel and even the music.

The actress playing Nicole has a very unique and attractive look to me. So unique that I naturally did a portrait of her that I ended up selling for $1000 at a charity auction.

The quest for Roy Bain, the main character to find Nicole, who is the love of his life, who also has the strange power of allowing people to experience their deepest desires is the heart of the film though Nicole is barely given ten minutes of screen time. The rest is  Roy Bain going from the world of the sex trade into a strange world of illegal experimentation, drugs, and human mutation.

This film also has a hard edged English Goth and Punk feel sprinkled into it. As well the music by the Welsh band  Freur ebich really stuck with me, especially the end theme, Remember me.

All and all this film is a unique experíence that for me even with its flaws outshines even Nightbreed to me. I don’t know if you will get the same impression, but it is more than with your time if you are interested in Seeing Barker’s work pre-Hellraiser…

Review: The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

Review: The Midnight Meat Train

By William Pattison

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This time I got a film adaptation of a well known  Clive Barker story…

The Midnight Meat Train (2008)

 

Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she analyzes Leon's work and asks him to improve the quality of his photos. During the night, the upset Leon decides to wander on the streets taking pictures with his camera, and he follows three punks down to the subway station; when the gang attacks a young woman, Leon defends her and the guys move on. On the next morning, Leon discovers that the woman is missing. He goes to the police station, but Detective Lynn Hadley does not give much attention to him and discredits his statement. Leon becomes obsessed to find what happened with the stranger and he watches the subway station. When he sees the elegant butcher Mahogany in the train, Leon believes he might be a murderer and stalks him everywhere, in the beginning of his journey to the darmess…

This film is pure splatterpunk gold. It is brutal, psychologival, tense, and loaded with plot and characterisation. This is not a film beginning horror fans, this is for the fans that like their horror bloody,extra gory, and just plain violent. This is Barker’s work at it’s  most nasty and this director captures it perfectly.

If you are a Barker fan this is the adaptation for you.

Review: Gallery of Horror (1977)

Review: Gallery of Horror(1967)

By William Pattison

 

John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock" (sic), The Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts, and are warned by the town doctor, Finchley, of the history of witches in the community, and the old clock which they brought up from the attic. Then an old man named Tristram Halbin comes for a visit. The second story, "King of the Vampires" deals with a slight-figured killer, called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard, which sends Brenner to investigate. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he OD's on his experimental drug, who returns to avenge his death at the hands of his widow and her lover-now husband. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein, and two of his students who try to restore a cadaver to life. "Count Alucard" (called "Alucard" by Carradine and "Dracula: on the end credits, is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker, as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up. It, too, has a surprise ending unrelated to Stoker.

This film is a complete mess that even having John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr couldn’t  save.

The stories are badly written and acted l. The only good parts, and they aren’t that good is John Carradine’s monologues before each story.

The final story is an off narrative adaptation of Dracula:Guest with bad dialogue and a surprise ending that comes out of right field.

As a lover of classic anthologies I was horribly disappointed.There is not even a gallery on the damn film. This film is actually worse than the film I thought got the prize for bad anthology film, The Monster Club, this is far worse. All hail the worst classic anthology film, and it is a complete STINKER!!! You want an anthology with an actual gallery in it watch Night Gallery, it’s  worlds better.

Review; The Haunting of Blithlow zHouse 2018

Review: The Haunting of The Whitlow House

By William Pattison

This time who got a tale of a haunted house…

Two passionate entrepreneurs sink all their resources into a "haunted" house with the hope of turning it into a profitable horror attraction. The young couple soon realizes that the horrific stories surrounding the house's sinister history are not only true, but deadly.

Ok, let’s just pull the bandage off and let the pain begin. I suggest you watch Hell House LLC and toss this badly made ripoff in the toilet because it is complete and utter DOGSHIT.Don’t waste your time, t’s my job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review:Don't Look Away 2023

Eview: Don’t Look Away

By William Pattison

This time we got a freaky supernatural film that is shot in hyper reality and features a killer maniquin…Yeah, now it’s a party!!!

Don't Look Away (2023)

 

After a gang of criminals unintentionally unleashes a supernatural force onto the world, a young woman named Frankie is convinced she's being stalked by a killer mannequin. Frankie soon realizes that her friends are in jeopardy too. She must find the man who holds the key to stopping the killings, but Frankie knows that once you see the mannequin, there may be no end in sight, except for your own.

 Have to say that this is one of the freakier films I’ve  seen in years. This film is shot in a kind of hyper reality. The photography, the pacing, the color scheme, even the movements of the background actors even the use of tinkling bells in the music track enhance this style choice by the director. The only anomaly in this mind screwing process in the main character, Molly. The actress that plays her does an amazingly subtle performance. For long periods she doesn’t even speck yet through expression and movements conveys emotíons.

The paranormal force that appears as a freaky maniquin is creepy in its lack of motion yet it still manages to take out Molly’s assocoates one by one.

This film is one massive head trip that will blow your mind.

I don’t need to say more than this film is AWESOMETACULAR!!!

Review: Ouija A New Beginning

Review: Ouija A New Beginning

By William Pattison

 

This time I got this installment in the Ouija franchise.

Ouija: A New Beginning (2025)

 

Molly Price is a woman on the run, but when her oldest daughter finds a Ouija board and attempts to communicate with her deceased father, she invites the spirit of an ancient witch into her soul and puts the entire family at risk.

For those of you who are those rare Ellissa Dowling fans, this film is your paradise. Not only do you have the nastiest actress in horror (gag!!!), but also she has been cloned…Yes, we got two Ellissaettes to enjoy(triple gag and a puke…). Ellissa has found her perfect part in this film, failed mother and amazingly she is aActually watchable in this role.

Now Ellissaette one makes friends with a young Goth witch and gets a Ouija board. This is when the film becomes interesting..well somewhat. There are no scares in this film. I’m  amazed they found young Elissa kid look a likes with the same lack of acting skills. Yet, this film actually isn’t as bad as Ouija; The Ultimate Evil… but this isn’t good either. This is in fact the ultimate Elissa Dowling film and that is nasty and scary in the wrong way.

So, Ouija A New Beginning is DOG SHIT. Avoid like the plague. My eyes are still hurting…