Dahlia and Sadie are a pair of Youtubers calling themselves The Adventure Girls. What do they do? They go to various abandoned locations and film themselves roaming around. Knowing how much their buddy loves Christmas, they grab their friend Alexi and take her on their next trip with them up into the mountains to the […]
Read moreI was never in a band growing up, but if I had been, I probably wouldn’t have found a weird monster to drive me around in a van. But if I had, I definitely would have written a song about it. Uncle Peckerhead is the tale of one such band, joyfully named Duh, that does […]
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Jack and Gil, two tabloid reporters, are sent to Transylvania by their boss to write a follow-up story about Frankenstein, based solely on a cheesy video that was sent to the boss’s office. Jack, who fancies himself as a sophisticated reporter, thinks the whole thing is a huge wasted effort and spends most of his […]
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Sucker Punch tells the very trippy tale of Baby Doll, a young girl who’s just had a shit-ton of wrenches thrown into the machine that is her life. The film starts with a sequence of events depicting Baby Dolls background in some (alternate?) version of the 1950s. We learn that her mother has just died, […]
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Puppet Master 5 began its task of trying to win me back over by opening with a scene that I suspect occurs to all horror movie survivors after the credits roll. By that I mean, having the police arrest the main character on suspicion of murder for all of the deaths that occurred in the previous film.
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Incredibly young (is he even out of High School?), Rick, is researching artificial intelligence at his lab in the Bodega Bay Inn as part of a study called the Omega Project. Though Rick has already discovered Blade, he is oblivious to Blade being alive or the puppets significance to his research. It isn’t until Rick friends Suzie, Laura and Cameron show up, and they all discover the old trunk belonging to Andre Toulon, that Rick figures out how Blade seems to magically appear in various places around the hotel.
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In this installment, the titular puppets and their master take a break from the dull Bodega Bay Inn in favor of 1941 WWII era Berlin. Here, we find the Nazi’s, led by Dr. Hess, hard at work on experiments aimed at reanimating their dead soldiers so the corpses can be used as human shields. So […]
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Puppet Master II takes place not long after the first. On a dark and stormy night, the puppets descend on Shady Oaks Cemetery. After the fiasco with their last master from the first movie, the puppets seek the guidance of their original mentor, Andre Toulon (who died in 1941 now, instead of 1939). The puppets […]
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In 1939, the titular Puppet Master, Andre Toulon, is hiding out in the high-end Bogada Bay Inn. Using some sort of ancient Egyptian secret, Toulon has somehow managed to bring the marionettes he creates to life. Two of his creations inform him that some sort of German assassins are coming for him. But Toulon is unconcerned and seems resigned to his fate.
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You know, I think I’ve seen this before. It certainly seems familiar, but I couldn’t give you a time frame of when I actually viewed it. If I did it was probably on Sci-Fi before SyFy came along and started to suck. Phantasm III picks up immediately after the end of the last installment. Reggie […]
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