BOOM-SHA-LOCK-LOCK-BOOM!! What’s good? It’s me, Zombie Zane coming at ya live and direct from the glass furnace otherwise known as the seven six one oh seven. Well, here we are, together again. This is the last post of the week and this is also the last post of our old school horror movie tribute. Was that a run on sentence? Ahh, fuck it. Who cares. In any case, I’m gonna close this bitch down with one more movie review. Why not. So have any of you seen or heard of a little movie called, ‘KING OF THE ZOMBIES?’ No? Well, shit the bed! How about I educate you on it? I mean what else have you got going on? Ok, enough foreplay, let’s get to the good stuff, yes?
‘King of the Zombies’ is a 19 and 41 comedy/horror film produced by Monogram Pictures. Now this film was supposed to star Bela Lugosi as Dr. Victor Sangre, but he was not available for the role. Peter Lorre was then contacted, but a deal could not be done so this other dude, Henry Victor got the part just prior to filming. Anyway, this film runs just about 67mins, and it was released in May of 1941. It also spawned a sequel, ‘Revenge of the Zombies.’ Which came out two years later in 1943. One other tidbit for ya, ‘King of the Zombies’ was also nominated for an Academy Award for best music in a dramatic picture. Fuckin’ cool! Who knew? Well, I did. Seeing how I am the one writing this. Anyway, how about we get to the plot?
THE PLOT: An American government agent, his butler, and a pilot, crash somewhere in the Caribbeans. They were out looking for a missing admiral when their plane went boom. Anyway, they are taken in by a German doctor (who was supposed to be played by Lugosi) So the three guests find out that the island is crawling with zombies. As well as the doctor’s house. Now the good doctor is the boss of the zombies. He like controls them by using some kind of fuck-fuck trick on their minds. Now our three heroes figure out that the doctor is using the zombies to aid the war effort (This took place in WW II obviously) And no way are they gonna let that happen. So they try and thwart the doctors plans. Do they succeed? Do they become zombies? What happens!! You’ll just have to watch it. Hey! Don’t piss and moan. It’s only a little over an hour. You can do it!
Ok, now let me tell ya what I thought of this little gem of a film. Overall, I dug it. The butler dude was funny as fuck! I think he was played by Mantan Moreland. He had some fuckin’ classic lines! I’ll try to find some clips of him on Youtube and if I can I’ll post it at the end of this. But as I was saying, I dug this movie. I mean it had it’s flaws...I thought the zombies were a bit on the retarded side, and the ending (it’s always the christing ending) was kinda idk...flat. Maybe to abrupt or something? But in any case, I liked it, I didn’t really notice the music being that good for an Academy Award nominee, but whatever. All in all I give ‘King of the Zombies’ a middle of the road 2.5 out of 5. I docked it some points ‘cause of the odd ending and the retarded zombies. So lookit, grab a six pack, order you up a pizza and give this motherfucker a watch. Not a bad way to spend a hotter than shit summer night.
Ok, this concludes our old school horror tribute. Hope you learned some shit, hope you saw some of these films we reviewed. And most of all, I hope you had a good time reading. Before I go, I just wanna say thanks to y’all for coming over here and reading our shit. I really appreciate your time.
One more thing, be sure and check out Sasha’s stuff. She does all her blogging in the nude ya know. Sorry, Sasha, I had to put that in there. Ok, so until next time, take care, stay a-scared and I am out! ROCK OUT WITH YA COCK OUT!! YA KNOW YA SEE ME...
MAN, SHIT!! I couldn't find any of the butler shit, so what I'm doing is I'm gonna post the whole movie. All 67 minutes of it. So there ya go. I just gave you access to a free film. The beer and the pizza is up to you...ENJOY!
Hey hey hey!! Sasha Slaughter here with you for the final day of old school horror!!! It's raining in this bitch!!! I hope I don't lose power!! Yipes! Anyway, it is the last day of old school horror month, I hope Zane and I made it entertaining and informational for you. And if you didn't like it, well friends there is only one thing you can do...SUCK IT! Ha!! Now pay attention while I review Nosferatu for your reading pleasure.
Nosferatu came out in 1929 and was directed by F.W. Murnau. It's a silent foreign horror film (German to be exact) and it was based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Basically the plot of this little foreign film has real estate agent Hutter conducting business with the dark Count Orlok. Hutters' boss Knock sends him to Transylvania because Orlok is interested in buying property in Wisborg, where Hutter and his wife Ellen are from. Knock tells Hutter to offer Orlok the old abdoned home across from his own, so Hutter sets out to Transylvania to talk to Orlok and see if he is interested.
While on his journey to Transylvania Hutters tells several people of his intent to go to Orlok's castle, they are frightened and tell him he cannot go until morning because the wolf is roaming the forest. The following day Hutter continues his trip to see Orlok. The men who take him by carriage stop in the middle in the journey and tell him they won't go any further because the other side of the pass they have to cross is creepy. As Hutter is walking, a strange man in a carriage comes and picks him up and takes him to Count Orlok's castle. Orlok welcomes him into the castle but while he is eating dinner he cuts himself and Orlok attempts to suck the blood from his finger. Hutter is frightened and repulsed by him.
The following morning upon waking up he sees two puncture wounds on his neck but thinks that they are perhaps mosquito bites. While reading the papers to purchase the house Orlok sees a picture of Hutter's wife Ellen and is mesmerized and then says that she has a beautiful neck. Later that night Hutter goes to explore the grounds and finds Orlok in a coffin and freaks out. Shortly after that Hutter sees Orlok take his coffin and leave by horse and carriage. Hutter ties bed sheets together to escape (Why didn't he just use the front door??) and tries to get to his wife Ellen is Wisborg. He falls out the window and two farmers find him and take him to a hospital.
Orlok manages to get his coffin aboard a ship and ends up in Wisborg. Along the way all of the men on the ship are killed by Orlok. In Wisborg there is a report that there is a widespread epidemic or plague happening in Transylvania. Victims appear to have two scars or puntcure wounds on their neck and then they get sick. The townspeople are fearing for their lives so they are asked to stay inside and lock their doors and windows. Orlok makes it to Wisborg with coffin in hand and finds the house across from Hutter and Ellen. Finally after a long journey Hutter makes it home safely shortly after Orlok's arrival. Ellen begins to act strangely and sees the wicked Count Orlok in the window of the house across from her. She reads in a book that the only way to stop a vampire is to give her blood willingly. She feigns an illness and tells Hutter to get a doctor. After he leaves Orlok arrives at their home and drinks Ellen's blood until sunrise and then....
Ahh ha! How about you watch Nosferatu and find out what happens?? Or not. Personally I thought it was a total snooze fest. I KNOW! It's a damn classic and it's been called the "scariest Dracula adaptation ever" blah blah blah. Fuck that noise. I was bored as hell!! I was literally counting down the minutes until it was over. Don't hate. Overall I'd rate this bad (and I emphasize bad) boy a 2 out of a possible 5. I'm more of a new school person and that whole silent film thing is not my shot of vodka at all!! The people in the movie were creepy and wickedly hairy...I mean their sideburns and eyebrows were....scary!! The acting (If you can call it that) was a bit ridiculous and the music was insanely annoying (You best believe I muted that after 5 minutes).
But I will say, I was going to give this movie a 1.5 but the fact that Count Orlok was so hideous and grotesque kinda bumped up my score. The make up was insane! And his little gnarled twisted fingers...ughh! He was the best part of that movie (Well that and the actual end was the best part...you know, when it was over.) Anyway, thats what I thought about Nosferatu. I didn't hate it but I didn't love it. It was my first silent film ever and Zane is definitley teaching me a thing or two about horror. With that being said, don't forget to check out Zanes stuff, he's a bit of an exhibitionist of sorts, he loves showing you what he's got, huh Zane?? =) And as always do come back next week for all new stuff here at Dead End Horror.
JUMP BACK FUNKY CATS!! AWWWW SHIT! Zombie Zane here once again coming to ya live and direct from the seven six one oh seven. Hope all is well in your corner(s) of da world. Hope everyone has a nice cool place to kick back and Cadillac in. It’s too hot to be fucking about outside, no? Anyway, this month is coming to an end and so is our old school horror tribute. But it’s been a freaky-fun-fucked up ride, hasn’t it? I mean I’ve really enjoyed watching some of this films. And I hope that you’ve had fun reading/watching them as well. If you haven’t then fuck off outta here and read someone else. Did that sound harsh? I’m sorry. Well...kinda I am. Anyway, let’s get to today’s post shall we? I got a great old school horror movie to tell you about today. Have you ever seen ‘THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH?’ Ever wanted to have a threesome with the lovely and busty Sasha Slaughter and myself? Ok, disregard that last question. But it is relevant to the film I’m about to review. Well kinda. So how about we cut the foreplay and get into the review.
‘THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH’ is a made in the USA sci-fi film directed by Roger Corman. Now if you’ve been reading my shit, you’ll know that Roger Corman also directed ‘Little Shop of Horrors.’ And if you haven’t been reading my shit, then now you know now. Moving right along. This film was released in September of 1960 and it runs just over 70mins. It can be found in those ‘bargain box’ horror sets as well as a few other places. I got my copy in the Anniversary Edition of 50 Horror Classics put out by Mill Creek. I highly recommend those ‘bargain box’ sets. It’s a great way to boost up your horror movie collection.
So now you know some of the particulars of this movie, here’s the plot: It’s about three friends(two dudes and a woman) who are vacationing in Puerto Rico. After some breakfast and some drinks, they decide they should do some scuba diving. No harm in that, right? But after they surface, they discover some freaky deaky shit...They are the only ones left alive on the whole island. And quite possibly the whole world. Now being faced with this possibility, the two men turn on one another in an attempt to be with the only woman left on the planet. Typical man bullshit I know. But if I were stuck with another dude and there was only one woman left on the Earth, I’d mad squabble too. I wouldn’t want to be the only one jerking off...Would you? The nights would be mighty lonely. Another option instead of fighting would of course be to just have threesomes...But then again, that could cause jealousy and all kinds of other shit. Then what about this...The woman decides she wants to be a lesbo and the two men are left doing a circle jerk kinda thing...Not good either. Basically this is one fucked up situation that I hope I’m never apart of. One panty hamster, two twigs and four berries...those number just don’t add up in anyone’s favor. Unless you’re the woman in which case you get your pick of the two dudes.
Ok, I know I rambled there, but I did manage to get the plot. At least I hope I did. So as far as what I thought of the film...Overall I liked it. The ending was just kinda so-so for me. It kinda ended abrupt and I felt that the message it was trying to convey wasn’t really clear. I mean I got the idea but it could’ve been better. Now don’t get me wrong, it is a fucked up plot. What a situation! So it gets some cool points for that but as I said, due to the kinds shitty ending it loses some as well. Final score for ‘THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH’ is a 2 out of 5. Not horrible, but it could’ve been better.
Well, there it is. That’s all I got for your ass’ today. Make sure and check out Sasha’s stuff as well. She loves showing off her stuff. And she loves knowing that you are looking at it. Ain’t that right Sasha? So, until next time, take care, stay a-scared, and I am out.! Rock out with your cock out!!
HERE'S THE TRAILER JUST IN CASE YOU WANNA YOU WANNA LOOK-SEE
Oh yo ho hello there!!! Sasha Slaughter here with you for the last week of old school horror (sad face). Yes it's true, old school horror month is almost over!! But never fear, Zane and I will be sure to make this last week worth your while!! =) I'll be reviewing The Bride of Frankenstein. So since you're here, how about you stick around?? The Bride of Frankenstein came out in 1935 and was directed by James Whale. It stars Boris Karloff as the Monster and and Colin Clive as Dr. Henry Frankenstein.
After Dr. Henry Frankenstein vows to to stop doing his dark experiments he gets blackmailed into creating another monster but this time, in female form. She will serve as the bride of his other ghoulish creation the monster. Dr. Pretorius forces Henry to help him with his experiment by kidnapping Henry's wife Elizabeth and telling him that she will return safely as long as he helps him with his new female monster....
The movie starts with Lord Byron, Mary, and her husband Shelley watching a storm outside and talking about the book that Mary wrote. She tells them to come to her because she feels like telling them the story that she penned... A mill is burning as the townspeople gather around to watch. They see the monster throw Dr. Frankenstein from the top of the mill and then disappear. The mill burns and the townspeople believe that the monster is dead and they go home. One of the townspeople stayed behind to make sure the monster was dead because the monster killed his daughter. The mans wife tells him to come with her and that the monster is dead. He goes into the burned mill and falls in. The monster sees him and drowns him in the water and gets out and throws the mans wife in.
They take Henry's body back to his home to tell his fiance Elizabeth that he is dead. They place his body on the table while she mourns his death. She begins to walk towards the stairs when Minnie (She is hilarious...her acting is so funny) tells Elizabeth that Henry isn't dead. He wakes up and calls for Elizabeth and they take him upstairs into bed. He tells his fiance that he wants to know the secret of life and that he is the one that created the monster out of dead bodies. Just then Dr. Pretorius arrives at Henry's home to speak to Henry. He tells him he and Henry need to work together and make a new creation. Henry refuses and then the Dr. reminds him that he is at fault for all of the deaths around the town because it was the monster that Henry created that was killing people.
Dr. Pretorius asks Henry to go to his home and see what he created. Henry agrees to go and when he arrives the Dr. brings out a case full of tall glass cylinders. The Dr. reveals what is in the cylinders and they are little tiny people that he had created. He tells Henry that he created these people from seed. He asks Henry to join him and leave his home to be his partner so they can create a female. But Henry tells him no.
The monster is wandering through the woods when he sees a woman, she begins screaming and men from the village hear the screams and they see the monster and shoot him but he runs off. The villagers catch up to him and tie him up and take him into town where he is chained up in the dungeon. Shortly after he is chained he breaks free and terrorizes the town before wandering into the woods. He hears someone playing the violin. He goes into the mans home and the man tells him that he is blind and asks if the monster will be his friend.
The following day the man is teaching the monster how to speak when two men ask if the man can tell them how to get out of the woods. The man tells them to come in and rest but the men realize that the monster is in the mans home. They try to shoot the monster but he stops them. They take the blind man out of his house when it catches on fire. The monster escapes and hides in the graveyard. The monster hears people approaching and hides when Dr. Pretorius comes into the graveyard with two men. He has the two men open a coffin and they steal the bones from it. The two men leave and Dr. Pretorius stays behind when the monster comes up behind him. He tells the Dr. that he wants a friend and the doctor tells him that they are going to make him a woman friend.
Dr. Pretorius visits Henry and asks him to come with him so they can create an experiment together. Henry refuses and the Dr. brings the monster in and the monster tells Henry to do the experiment. Henry asks the Dr. to please make the monster leave so they can talk. The monster leaves the house and sees Henry's wife Elizbeth. He goes into the room she is in and kidnaps her. Dr. Pretorius tells Henry that Elizabeth will be safe as long as he agrees to do what the monster demands. Henry agrees to help the Dr. with the experiment.
They are trying to create the experiment and they need a strong, healthy heart. They send a man out to get one for them. He sees a young woman and kills her and takes her heart. They test it and find that it's strong enough to use in the woman they are creating. The monster appears and tells Henry to hurry and keep working and that when the experiment is done he will get his wife back. A storm begins and the Dr. tells the two men working for him to get the kites ready so they can use the lightning from the storm to get electricity to shock the woman. After this happens, the woman comes to life. Dr. Pretorius calls her the bride of Frankenstein. The monster comes and tries to talk to her but she screams everytime he goes near her. The monster says that she hates him. Elizabeth escapes and goes to find Henry. The monster tells Henry and Elizabeth to leave. He tells Dr. Pretorius to stay because they all belong dead and....
Well now, how about you give The Bride of Frankenstein a watch if you really wanna know what happens at the end. Now, onto what I thought. I actually liked this movie. It was a little slow in the beginning and some of the acting was just over the top. I thought the character Minnie was hilarious. Her acting made me laugh a few times. I think overall I'd give it a 2.75. There was no blood, no gore, no death scenes and no butt or anything, but I don't think this movie needed any of that to be good. It is a true classic and I was impressed. And I'll admit, it kinda made me sad when they showed the monster crying!! Ughh! And by the way, Boris Karloff is one badass monster. Seriously, he was just amazing!! This was a great movie for sure. And since you're here, be sure to check out Zombie Zanes review of Little Shop of Horrors. And yeah you know, check back next week for new stuff here at Dead End Horror.
BOOM-SHA-LOCK-LOCK-BOOM! Damn hell it’s still hot here in the seven six one oh seven. It’s so fuckin’ hot that I saw a dog chasing a cat yesterday and they was walkin!! In any case, it’s me, your good buddy Zombie Zane here once again to share with you some more horror movie reviews. This is the last week of our old school horror tribute so I thought I’d close it out with three, count them three old school horror film reviews. Sound good? I thought so. And if in any way you’re tired of these old school horror films, piss off outta here and come back next week when we go back to more of a current type of deal. So until then, kick back and let me tell you about one of the movies I watched this week. Ever heard of ‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS?’ No? Well allow me to educate...
‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’ is a 1960 comedy/horror film directed by Roger Corman. Now this film was actually produced under the title ‘The Passionate People Eater.’ Why they changed the name to ‘Shop of Horrors’ I don’t know. But, I do know that they shot the movie in just days and it only cost a mere $30,000 to make. (Two days! Fucking A!)
This film also has a cult following and was previously released as the B movie on a double feature with ‘Black Sunday.’ And it was eventually released with the film (on another double feature) ‘THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH.’ Which I will be reviewing later on in the week. This film was also remade in 1986 as more of a musical. It’s good though. In fact, I saw the remake when I was a kid and loved the hell out of it. It was fucking great. You should look in to it.
Now that I gave you a bit of background, let’s delve into the plot, yes? "LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS" breaks down like this: A dorky guy by the name of Seymour works in a shit-hole florist shop and is in love with his co-worker. Now this Seymour is an amateur botanist who discovers a rare plant and hopes to use this plant to make a name for himself and win over Audrey. (His co-worker) Now this ain’t your ordinary rare plant. No sir! This motherfucking plant can talk! Talk I say! And the best part...It can only survive on a steady diet of human flesh and blood. So poor Seymour is forced to start killing people in order to keep the plant alive. (Cue the dramatic music now) One more side note here. Jack Nicholson is actually in this film for a cameo. So you can add some cool points for that.
So ya got the plot, ya got the background, now let me tell you what I thought of this film. Cause my opinion is the ONE that matters, right? I liked it. I liked the unique characters, I liked the comedy element, the dialogue was funny as fuck, and the acting wasn’t half bad believe it or not. All in all it was a great way to spend 73mins. I give this bad boy a solid 3 out of 5. Pretty high for an old B movie. My favorite character had to be the owner of the flower shop. He was fucking hi-larious!! Dude made me laugh out loud a few times. SO there ya go. ‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’ gets a 3 out of 5.
Well, that’s all I got for your ass today. Be sure and check out Sasha’s stuff as well. She’s always glad to show it to ya. Until next time, take care, stay a-scared and I am out!
PS!!! THE CRAZY JACK NICHOLSON AT THE DENTIST...LOOK HOW YOUNG!
Hey there!! Sasha Slaughter here to bring you a little Masters of Horror review...yeah yeah, it has nothing to do with old school horror, but it's horror nonetheless. So kick back and stay a while and while you're here, check out my review of the Masters of Horror episode 6: Homecoming. It was directed by Joe Dante (The same man that brought us Pirhana and Gremlins) and was based on the short story "Death and Sufferage" by Dale Bailey.
In this heavily politicized chiller David Merch, a political figure and presidential speech writer, makes the mistake of wishing that all of the soldiers who died during the war could come back to express their gratitude for serving their country. Little did David know, that wish was about to come true. While on a talk show David talked to a woman whos son was killed in the war and he told her he wished the deceased soldiers could come back and two days later, they did just that.
Two days after the on-air wish strange things started to happen. Dead soldiers at a military base began to rise from their coffins and attack other men on the base. Soon there were hundreds of zombie soldiers roaming the streets wanting their voices to be heard. David gets a phone call from one of his co workers named Kurt and tells him that they have a situation. David arrives at a makeshift lab to discover one of the zombie soldiers on a table. Kurt tells David they the zombie soldiers cannot be killed and shoots the one on the table several times. The following day they found out exactly why the soldiers came back..they wanted to vote in the presidential election.
David gets a call from Kurt and he tells him to turn on the tv and he when he does he sees one of the zombie soldiers speaking and saying that they want to vote for anyone that will end the war. David begins to feel guilt and tells his co workers that it's his fault that the soldiers came back and that it was because of his wish that they did. Kurt decided kidnap the woman who spoke to David on the talk show and he went and got her dead son from the military base. He made the woman talk to her son on the phone and have her convince her son to read their statement on air. After he agreed he spazzed and killed Kurt before being hauled away.
David goes on the talk show again and gets questioned about his brother serving and dying in Vietnam. The host told him that his brothers name wasn't on the wall and David sits there, stunned. The host then tells him that his brother was dishonorably discharged and was sent home. David's mom admits to him that his brother did come home but he wasn't the same person anymore. Just then David had a flashback of himself accidently shooting his brother because he thought he was playing a game. He begins to feel guilty for the zombie soldiers so he convinced everyone to let the soldiers vote. The soldiers voted and shortly after they did, they died because they got the chance for their voices to be heard.
The election was going on and David's side was falling behind so Kathy, one of his co workers, rigged the election so that the dead soldiers votes weren't counted and their side ended up winning. After the win they were celebrating when his friend Jane told David that she got his job because Kathy told her that he quit. Just then Jane got a call from Kathy saying she was getting on a helicopter and leaving because the zombie soldiers were coming back to life and bringing reinforcements from other wars with them. She advised Jane to leave too. So Jane and David were driving down the road when they saw one of the zombie soldiers. Jane saw it first and swerved to hit it. As they hit the soldier they wrecked the car. They got out to get help when Jane saw an Army vehicle coming down the road. It was only after the soldiers started piling out that she realized what was happening. She got guns from her trunk and instructed David to shoot. He told Kathy that he was sorry and that he never should have opened his mouth and then proceeded to shoot her in the back of the head. He turned the gun on himself...
Well now, if you are that curious as to what happened how about you give Homecoming a watch?? Now then, onto what I thought. I'll be honest, I was convinced that I wasn't going to like it as soon as I read what it was about. I'm not one for politics and don't get me wrong, I'm not unpatriotic or anything, but I really thought I wasn't gonna like this at all. I was wrong. I kind of agree with the politics in this movie, which is strange seeing as how I really don't care about any of it. Basically they were saying that the war is unecessary and I totally agree. Overall I'd give Homecoming a solid 3 out 5. The special effects make up was awesome. The zombie soldiers looked great and the wounds and everything looked so real. There wasn't a whole lot of blood, but thats ok. No sex or nekkidness, just some whipping, hot candle wax and nipple clamps...don't ask...just watch. And as always be sure to check out Zombie Zanes stuff and you know the drill, check back next week for all new stuff here at Dead End Horror.
BTW....Here's a lil something for you to watch before you go. THE ZOMBIE NATION DANCE!!
