Review:The Fantastic Fear of Everything

Ok, well I got a little movie review for you. This caught me by surprise because it was actually just the next film Freevee put on. I hadn't even known this prize existed. The film is titled The Fanatic Fear of Everything. The film stars Simon Pegg as a man who literally fears the outside world. He knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that a serial killer is out to get him. Besides Simon Pegg the film also features Clare Higgins or Hellraiser and Hellraiser II:  Hellbound fame.

This film has a brilliant production design, which shows the world through the main characters eyes and psyche. The only annoying thing is the sound design. Dialogue is low volume while incidental music is extremely loud and jarring. I gather this is on purpose but it gets annoying after a while.

But, on top of everything is Simon Pegg's brilliant performance as the eccentrically paranoid crime author whose research into Victorian serial killers has made him a wreck. He looks like a red haired Serious Black with his crazy tuff of red hair and matching beard. Pegg royally shows his brilliance as a physical comedian. This is truly one of his best roles in this unappreciated film.

If you want to see a truly mind blowing dark comedy this film is a treat.

Apparitions: Better than Most Exorcism Dreck...

For those fans who love church and exorcism horror, Freevee has an excellent British TV series about a priest/exorcist. The series is called Apparitions. It only has six episodes but they are incredibly written and acted.

Apparitions tells the story of Father Jacob  and his battles with demons and the possessed. These stories are told intelligently, so don't expect a Buffy the Vampire Slayer monster of the week. These stories are incredibly psychological. This is a series I will highly recommend if you are looking for something superior to The Pope's Exorcist...

False Advertising

Amazon keeps putting out the most hypothetical commercials about how much they care about honest reviewing of products on their site. Give me a fucking break! Since 2015 Amazon has been leaving cyber stalker reviews on my Symphony of Death books while deleting any positive reviews on them based on complaints by known cyber stalkers. They also leave hater views that totally misrepresenting the plots and content of my books. They will allow these 'people" to say my work is nothing but gay porn, which is far from the truth. Also, they will make me out as an incompetent writer. Let me make myself clear... I am an author that has published 12 books and I'm working on the 13th. Four of those books were published by Berkeley Books, which is a mainline publisher. I am not incompetent.

The truth is that all the Internet know that Amazon reviews is a joke and completely unfair. And in the case of a lot of my books libelous.

I've put in complaints multiple times only to be given the run around and actually have them hang up on me or cut off communication. In fact Amazon gives more support to the cyber stalkers than their own client, me. This is not honest reviewing. Their review is false advertising and a joke...Clean your house Amazon.

Review: Festival of the Living Dead

 

Review: Festival of the Living Dead

By William Pattison

Ok, I just finished watching the Soska Sisters latest film, Festival of the Dead. I might post a more detailed review later on my blogs, but I thought I’d share my initial thoughts on this Tubi TV original film.

First off I thought the film was very watchable. It was by far more watchable than their two hour S&M film that they filmed on their IPhones. This film actually had professional audio. Congratulations girls! You actually had a professional film crew with you that made this film look better than a first year film student. Shit, they even had drone shots!!!

The story is about a girl who treats her longtime friends and her little brother like shit because she has decided she wants to fit in and be a shallow self-involved asshole like her new friends and her Chad boyfriend and his rich buddy.

She ends up leaving her little brother with her unappreciated best friend and her unappreciated best friend’s wheelchair bound boyfriend to go to a rock festival in the forest with her new social masters. Amusingly when they are going to park at the event they end up getting into an accident when they hit what they don’t know is a zombie. The main character and the Chads go off to get medical help and leave the two femaie socials behind because they are hurt, how truly social of them. So they find the first aid station and find it all messed up. They run into a girl who is having a bad trip on mushrooms. Rich Chad steals her mushrooms and amusingly gives them to Main girl and her Chad.

Then they hear music and amazingly forget the social girls and go to the main stage to party. At the main stage Main girl starts hallucinating and see the Soska Sisters dancing, because she is a Soska fan. Her living room, which was shown earlier had a bunch of Soska film posters all over its walls. Anyway, the imaginary Jen and Sylvia blow smoke in her face. Then she starts to see zombies in among the crowd, and guess what? The zombies are real and start attacking people.

Anyway, they have to escape the zombies and Main girl’s abused friends and little brother show up to add to the potential body count.

So, I found the main character rather confusing because she acts all strong argumentative and knowledgeable about guns and fighting with her unappreciated friends and her brother yet she cows down initially with the Chads and the social girls. This makes her very much an annoying Mary Jane character. She does go through a story arch and realizes the error of her turning her back on her friends and being so abusive to her brother, but this is at the expense of people’s lives.

I find it rather amusing that it is the Soskas that are writing a morality tale about the evils of choosing a petty, shallow, self-absorbed life over what matters when Jen and Sylvia have burned bridges and stabbed anyone who supported them in the past in order to gain false power in horror through The Horror Socials. In fact it seems a bit hypercritical in my opinion, and I’m one of the people who had been a “friend” of Jen and Sylvia and learned the hard way how little the two of them really respect friendship and those who have helped them.

Anyway this film is a watchable zombie film that doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It has a few Easter eggs to Romero’s Dead films, so fans of those films and the Return of the Living Dead films won’t be completely disappointed.

So there you go. There is my honest opinion. Now the Soska fans can mouth off and say I’m wrong and this is a masterpiece of zombie cinema. Ugh, I taste bile…

Top Ten Edible Food Delivery System

Ok, people, it is list time again and I got a tough one...

Name your top 10 Edible Food vessels (delivery system of food to your mouth).

(note: individual bread types)

Here is my list:

Waffles

Ciabatta bread

Egg

Crepe

Hot dog buns

Hamburger buns

Tortillas

Dumpling skin

Intestine (as in sausages)

Crescent roll

What is your list?

Review: Godzilla Minus One

 Review: Godzilla Minus One

By William Pattison

I just finished watching Godzilla Minus 1, thanks to a friend sending me a screener he got.
I have to say that in my opinion this film is the best Godzilla film ever produced, and yes I'm including the original. This was a solid film with a serious, well written storyline. The story was not simply about a monster destroying Japanese cities. It was the story of a Japanese pilot who survived WW2 and came home feeling that he shouldn't have survived because he failed to do his duty on two occasion. He comes home to find that his girlfriend now has a little girl that survived the bombings of Japan. He doesn't accept this ready-made family because he can't free himself of the ghosts of the past. Now add in Godzilla and this guy getting caught in the middle.
This film has some great monster FX and brilliant camera work. And, amazingly enough it was made on a fraction of the budget of either Shin Godzilla or any of the most recent Monsterverse films.
I hope when this film comes out on DVD/Blueray that it has an English dub because I want to enjoy this film without having to strain my eyes reading subtitles. This is a film I nwill feel honored to add to my collection. 5 stars Awesomtacular!!!!!

Review: SAW X

Last night I watched the new installment in the SAW series, SAW X.

John Kramer is back and in good form in this prequel that takes place between SAW and SAW 2. In this story John goes to Mexico for an unauthorized surgery and drug treatment that he found out about from a supposed cancer survivor. Unfortunately for John it turns out to be a scam being done by a bigger monster than John himself. So in picture perfect Jigsaw style John decided that these con artists need to be taught a lesson and prove themselves as worth of life.  The main lesson of this film is don't fuck with John Kramer or suffer the repercussions.

I really loved this film and loved seeing John and Amanda back in action. 

The games in the story were definitely appropriate. The only issue for me was two of the games dealt with weighing body matter. I think should have made each game totally different. But that can be easily fluffed off because both games were great.

Also, I think they could have done some de-aging on Amanda because she was showing her age. As for John I thought even though Tobin Bell was showing his age too it worked with the fact that the character was suffering from terminal cancer, this many people in that condition look prematurely aged.

Also, and I love this, I think that putting this story on its own yet actually between two of the installments was a brilliant and gutsy idea. The filmmaker managed to have freedom to do the story he wanted without messing with the continuity.

In conclusion I have to say SAW X is a gory, fun, installment of this beloved series that fans of the series should treasure.