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Pyromaniac (1995)
A cheap as desert sand Slasher Film
Karen Fontaine is cute in this weak 'psycho-in-the-desert' flick .
The heavy played y Warren Stevens, is no relation to that actor from FORBIDDEN PLANET . He is convincing though as a crazed killer, named Sam, a Freddy Krueger-type villain, minus the supernatural powers .
So basically it is a serial killer stalking dimwit teenagers !
There is an insect motif we all should come to expect in these films . In this film it is a giant butterfly- that is Sam's motif .
The whole flick is shot on Video Tape so you get either a Blair Witch effect of amateurism, or just a cheap grade-Z horror flick .
There is some cleavage in the unedited version . We get to see cute-as-a-button Karen Fontain's sweet bosom . And they are a sweet pair :-)
The Forsaken (2001)
John Carpenter's VAMPIRES meets NEAR DARK
This film by J.S. Cardone, who directed SHADOWZONE,(an Alien-ripoff fittingly) has all the B movie essentials: Beasts, Breasts, Blood !
The story is very closely a mesh of John Carpenter's VAMPIRES and NEAR DARK - both are in that subgenre of Modern Vampire-Westerns .
Most of the time this concept results in hokey crappola . Vamp-Westerns are not new ! Ever see BILLY THE KID VRS DRACULA(1968)? There is another 60's vamp-western, a B&W, real good, can't remember its' name though .
This movie rises far above that drive-in fodder .
A brand new concept for the origin of the vampires, that still retains the supernatural elements . But, if as they say, crucifixes and wooden stakes don't work, why do they need to kill the lead vampire on 'holy ground' at all ?
Beyond that, these vamps aren't PC , except in there rainbow coalition compliment . These vamps are not sensitive, they are vicious predators who rape and kill for the pleasure of it all . .
They even casually kill a really hot blonde they abducted :-(
One note: a continuity error; the blonde they abduct from the desert party has white short pants on in that scene, then when they bring her to the motel, she is wearing gray shorts .