Let Sleeping Corpses Lie = Badass Entertainment

I Love me some Zombieness, but in recent years I feel that the horror of a Zombie holocaust has lost some of it's "edge". Now I have loved some of the more recent Zombie movies that have come out (Shaun, Both 28's, Land and yes, Even Diary) they have never made me feel the dread and horror that old school Romero and Fulci could provide. Well, tonight, I have found that movie. A little movie made in 1974 and directed by Jorge Grau. Creepy landscape-check. Ghouls-check. Gut munching- oh yeah but not as much as you would expect from a '70's European flick.

"Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" is a slow burn. George leaves his shop in London for a few quite days in the scotish countryside. When he goes to fill up his motorcycle with gas we meet Edna, who so kindly backs into his bike. With repairs needed , George decides that the only fair way is that Edna drives him to his destination. He comes off like a true pompous asshole. And what procedes is something that is somewhat unheard of in any recent zombie movie...character development. I didn't like George at all.

Eventually Edna persuades George to take her to her sister's house with the promise that George can take the car and she'll send someone later to pick it up. Really, let the stranger take the car. This is one of many funny, possibly intentional, possibly not moments that really make the movie. I found it to be some devilishly black humor but that is for you to decide.

Oh wait, I'm talking Zombies here, right? So the government is testing a new device to kill bugs on a farm, some sort of gamma ray device where the bugs go crazy and cannabalize themselves. There is only one problem...

I don't want to give away too much of this wonderful film. It owes a lot to Uncle Geogre's "Night" but it is it's own film. The "Zombie rules" are very different, and even though I'm a Romero purist, I accepted them. No the zombies don't have super human speed, but they do have a certain intelligence that makes this a very welcome entry to the genre. The gore is not extreme but when it happens it is quite extreme.

Going into this I thought that it would be a good example of European '70's exploitation horror, what it is is a very well made piece of cinema by a very confident director and a very damn creepy movie. In fact the first movie I've seen in years when I have felt a great sense of dread throughout.

Grace review next, I swear, but since I have no readers, who's going to complain?

Until next time...

Dawn Of The Dead

So it's been over a year, but I'm back, at least for some time. Who know's however. As my brilliant title suggests, I just rewatched The mighty Uncle George A. Romero classic, "Dawn Of The Dead". However this was the Dario Argento version that was released in Europe and spawned Lucio Fulci's brilliant "sequel" Zombi 2. Well what can I say...and I'm a little embarressed that I am about to.

As much as I love the original, the one thing that always bugged me was the muzak. And I know, it was meant for camp value and adds to the dark humor, but it always seemed to be a weird juxtaposition of dismemberment and canabalism with pie fights. Argento, of course, hired The Goblin to create a score and it seems to fit much better with the absolute horror and bleakness that is being shown on the screen. If you are lucky enough to own the deluxe edition I would suggest that you take a day and watch all three versions and compare for yourself. Each film has it's own joy's and everyone, and I mean everyone, owe's it to themselves to experience one of horror's truly brilliant film's for themselves.

Coming up with a review of "Grace" so stay tuned....

There Will be No Pink Floyd Reunion Tour

It is with great sadness, that today, Pink Floyd keyboardist, Richard Wright, died from cancer today at 65. The Floyd was one of the greatest, and at least for me, one of the most ninfluential bands ever. There work in the late sixties and early seventies were especially amazing, creating such works as Echoes, Careful With that Axe, Eugene and of course Dark Side Of The Moon. On that album no one should watch The Wizard Of Oz and drink Whiskey.

So Mr. Wright, thank you for the great musical legacy, enjoy your gig in the sky.

A Seven Samurai Remake???

All I can say is are you fucking kidding me. Please understand, I know that it has been made into a fine western(Magnificent Seven, of which I am somehow related to Eli Wallach) and not so fine a western with Bruce Willis. But do we really need a white man remaking one of the greatest movies ever made? A movie set in feudel Japan, by whitey??


For fuck sakes Hollywood, I understand that money speaks but are you so burnt out that there are NO NEW IDEAS??? A little movie called Hatchet came out last year, no CGI, and original. It is an homage to the great 80's slasher films but it took it to a new level in terms of gore, violence and body count. (Spoiler Ahead) THEY KILLED EVERYONE. What a welcome ending, I actually stood up and applauded when that happened. It was fun, it was original and it was unexpected. Of course Hatchet got a very limited release and can only be found on DVD now but it is a joyous occasion.

But I digress... please you fat fuckers in hollywood, use your minds again, be original, take some chances, you might not look so good all the time but you'll eventually look like white gold. Remember, The Big Lebowski bombed at the box office.


And a quick hail to the New York Football Giants! 1-0, not pretty but effective

It's not in Hindi!!

Sorry to my one fan, it's been quite a while but all of my post have only been typing up in Hindi. Not really a language I read or speak. But my 31 years have finally paid off and I have fixed the problem. Now, if I could only get healthy...

Well here you go...

A few things about me, I am not a writer. I am a chef. I am angry for no reason, but my friends can attest that I can fly off tha handle over the smallest thing. This is attempt to correct all that.

I assume that this blog will focus mostly on horror but it will also hit on anything that interests me, Cooking, Metal, what have you...And here you go...

A little about the so called "torture porn" genre. I just finished watching Hostel. Now I can understand the "porn" part, there is an incredible amount of nudity by some very good looking eastern Europeans. So that was greatly appreciated. The last 20 minutes are very violent but porn and torture? Not so much. I assumed that there would be close ups of aputations, teeth getting pulled out, fingers being cut off(ok that happened). The term pornography to me means total exploitation, something where nothing is sacred. Hostel had none of that. Granted that some Japanese girl had her eye drilled out and hanging(not shown) and the "hero" cut it off(shown and the best part of the movie), but how can this country freak out so much over this. We are currently involved in two wars, only one of which is justified and that gets little to nothing in terms of press coverage. Compared to Italian horror from the 70's this is Spongebob, a very well made movie but very weak on the gore. Movies like "Suspiria", "Zombie" "Cannibal Holocaust" and even "Dawn Of The Dead" have been released here that have been far more gory. So what the fuck is this torture porn shit coming from? Goddamn conservatives is where.

When i was a kid I caught "Friday the 13th" on cable in 3rd grade. Same with the "Exorcist" which I proudly told my family I would be watching that night. Did it scare me? Fuck yes, didn't sleep for days. Was I upset,hell no. I saw the holy grail of horror, "Night of the Living Dead" in 8th grade, I kept on waking up at night for a week seeing the first zombie in the movie after he killed johnny getting up to eat me, you know what I thought, holy fuck this movie rules to have scared me so much. We need to not be so scared of cinema and get scared of reality... war, poverty, and genocide.

So there you have it, get ready for more anger and please comment if you would like. This is America, unlike most, I won't be offended.