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Suburban Gothic (2014)
Delightfully fun horror/comedy!
I had the privilege to view this film at the Bruce Campbell's Horror Fest at the Chicago Wizard Con last night and was thoroughly impressed. I was expecting a low budget, poorly acted schlock fest like most independent horror comedies but Suburban Gothic was delightfully charming and fun.
It's low budget doesn't affect the great atmosphere of a creepy yet quirky guy trying to survive his own personal suburban hell. Between the sharp, witty dialogue , the creepy, charming characters, and atmospheric tone it feels like I imagine what James Gunn and Tim Burton would have created if they had to do a collaboration for film school together.
The writing was spot on and never before had I seen such great directing and acting in an independent horror comedy since Sam Raimi's early work. Richard Bates Jr. Is a brilliant up and coming writer/director and I anxiously await his future projects. One thing that was refreshing was the fact it didn't rely on gore or nudity to catch interest and If not for the adult dialogue it would be rather family friendly for a horror film.
The best way to sum up this film is that it's just plain fun!
Feast II: Sloppy Seconds (2008)
Worst Movie Ever
Now I have to admit I like a lot of movies that would be considered low-budget or B-rate horror movies such as Evil Dead, Texas Chansaiw Massacre, Return of the Living Dead etc, but most of those movies were so well done by talented but at the time unknown filmmakers that they are now considered classics. The first Feast was okay but a little over the top. Feast II on the other hand is the worst pile of crap I have ever had the misfortune of watching.
I love horror and gory zombie films but watching this just shows that the person that made this atrocity is a sick and sad waste of human being who obviously made it for no one but his own twisted sexual perversion. I mean come on, I even love over the top gore but the crap that they did in this film is ridiculous. They put in as much vomiting and bodily fluids as they could in the span of this movie and for what? I showed this movie to my buddy who loves the most gore filled, sick, and twisted horror movies and afterwards he only had one thing to say, "Now that is just f***ing distasteful!" Unless you want to see a movie that is so painful to watch it should be used as torture in third world countries, STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE!!!