The Thing (2011)

The Thing (2011)
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen
Cast: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Jonathan Lloyd Walker
Paleontologist Kate Lloyd has traveled to Antarctica for the expedition of her lifetime. Joining a Norwegian scientific team that has stumbled across an extraterrestrial ship buried in the ice, she discovers an organism that seems to have died in the crash eons ago. But it is about to wake up. When a simple experiment frees the alien from its frozen prison, Kate must join the crew's pilot, Carter, to keep it from killing them off one at a time. And in this vast, intense land, a parasite that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish.
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Cultdb Totals
[Rated _ out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount _]
[Gorequota _/10]
Themes Included: _________
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Death Stop Holocaust (2009)

Death Stop Holocaust (2009)
Director: Justin Russell
Cast: Lisa Krenisky, Jenna Fournier, E. Ray Goodwin
Two young women, Elizabeth and Taylor, travel to their father´s summer home on a remote island for a vacation getaway. As they travel deeper into the island, a nightmare begins to unfold. An unmarked white van will not leave them be, as they begin to sink deeper into terror. It becomes clear to the women they are not welcome as a group of masked killers begin to torment, torture, and hack them to bits. What secrets does this island hold and what lengths will they go to preserve them?
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Two women decide to take a trip to one of their dad's remote summer homes, only things get out of control when a creepy mask wearing guy tries to run them off the road. The two women soon find out the rural island doesn't take strongly to strangers coming, and they turn a blind eye on a local gang of three masked maniacs. Fortunatly one of the girls manages to contact her dad who lives 15 miles away, but can he make it in time to save her life.

Made in a very glossy grindhouse manner, it trys to rehash the 70's slasher, even to point of trying to market it as being banned in 47 country's. It's trouble is because it takes a 'play it out for the action' and not 'for its story' approach, Death Stop Holocaust feels lacking and hollow. There's zero character depth for either the victims, the dad or any of towns folk and killers. Still worth seeing, it runs under an hour and half and holds its tension pretty well.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 4]
[Gorequota 5/10]
Themes Included: IslandTruck StopMasked Maniacs
Road RageCreepy HospitalSuicideDiner

The Bleeding House (2011)

The Bleeding House (2011)
aka: The Bleeding
Director: Philip Gelatt
Cast: Alexandra Chando, Patrick Breen, Charlie Hewson
A stranger with mysterious intentions comes to stay the night at a secluded country home, but what he finds inside is a family torn apart by a violent past and a secret more deadly than he expected.
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Slow paced horror concerning the Smith family, Marilyn and Matt and their teens Gloria and Quentin. Due to an accident years earlier they live reclusive lives alongside a Midwestern backroad. Only a stranger Nick knocks on their door asking for shelter for the night, due to his car breaking down. The Smiths begrudging accept, which leads to a night of terror and a shocking family secret surfacing.

The Bleeding House as an interesting background story but is harmed by slow pacing and too many dull moments with no action. Bar a few scenes it feels more like a made for Television mystery than a modern horror film. The actings solid though with Patrick Breen great as the Southern preaching weirdo and Alexandra Chando doing well as the agnst ridden animal killing teen daughter. Definetly not the worst or best film I've seen in 2011, but a fair first attempt by Writer/Director Philip Gelatt.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 7]
[Gorequota 6/10]
Themes Included: Southern HospitalityBottled BloodPet Killer
Mysterious StrangerFamily Secret

Slime City Massacre (2010)

Slime City Massacre (2010)
Director: Greg Lamberson
Cast: Jennifer Bihl, Kealan Patrick Burke, Debbie Rochon
In the wake of a "dirty bomb" attack, a New York City neighborhood known as "Slime City" has been evacuated, except for the homeless ("displaced refugees"). Four squatters searching for food in the ruins of the Zachary Devon Soup Kitchen discover a supply of Zachary Devon's Home Brewed Elixir and Himalayan Yogurt. When they drink the elixir and eat the yogurt, they are transformed into hideous slime creatures driven to murder - an intermediate step as they are possessed by the spirits of Zachary Devon and the members of his Coven of Flesh, who committed suicide years earlier. When a greedy developer sets his sites on Slime City, he hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the homeless population.
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Review Coming Soon...
Cultdb Totals
[Rated _ out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount _]
[Gorequota _/10]
Themes Included: _________
_______________

Megan Is Missing (2011)

Megan Is Missing (2011)
Director: Michael Goi
Cast: Amber Perkins, Rachel Quinn, Dean Waite
Megan Stewart, 14, and her best friend Amy Herman, 13, though opposites in personality, are best friends. Megan carries the front of being the most popular girl in school, but this masks a lifestyle of hard partying, drugs, alcohol and indiscriminate sex. Amy, unpopular and socially awkward, clings to her relationship with Megan as a lifeline to social acceptance. Together, these two young girls forge a deep friendship based on their mutual needs. The two girls regularly communicate by web chat cameras or cell phone, and even meet boys online. As Megan seeks friends who are different from her usual posse of hanger-ons, she is introduced by a friend online to a 17 year-old boy named Josh in a chat room. Megan and Josh bond quickly, leaving Amy feeling a bit left out. One day, Megan goes to meet Josh in person, and she is never seen again. Amy launches into a concentrated effort to find her friend...
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Cultdb Totals
[Rated _ out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount _]
[Gorequota _/10]
Themes Included: _________
_______________

X-Men: First Class (2011)

X-Men: First Class (2011)
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
In 1962, the United States government enlists the help of Mutants with superhuman abilities to stop a malicious dictator who is determined to start world war III.
STORYLINE : Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.
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Entertaining fourth entry in the x-men franchise, this time an origin story of Prof X and Magneto. Not sure why it flew through the cinema's so quickly as its as good as the previous three entry's and heaps better than the tragic first Wolverine origin tale. James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence and Kevin Bacon were all great, I was particularly impressed with Michael Fassbender as Magneto. Not gonna bother going to in depth as there's 1000s of reviews already online, I liked it my only niggle was the Ron Weasley looking kid who could fly with sonic waves, the effects they used looked terrible.
Cultdb Totals
[Rated 7 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount N/A]
[Gorequota N/A]
Themes Included: Comic Book HeroesMass Missile AttackNazi Death Camp

Horror Business (2005)

Horror Business (2005)
Director: Christopher P. Garetano
Cast: Ray Adell, Jennifer Atkins, Ron Atkins
Moviemaking is no way to spend a life.
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Cheap and cheerful documentary about low budget horror films and the people who create them. Being a fan its actually nice to see that the folks behind the scenes are more interesting than most their output. Directors like Ron Atkins who made the equally shit yet funny Scizophreniac films, he might not have earned big money but hes clearly had fun and managed to pick up a beautiful wife. The bigger names included like Joe Bob Briggs, HG Lewis and Lloyd Kaufman are all brief interviews caught on spec while they're at book signings or conventions that don't really add much. Still its worth a view if your a low budget horror nut like me.
Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount N/A]
[Gorequota N/A]
Themes Included: Brief NudityOn Set FootageHorror Conventions

Satan Hates You (2010)

Satan Hates You (2010)
Director: James Felix McKenney
Cast: Don Wood, Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm
Inspired by films from the golden age of religious cinema such as A Thief in the Night (1972) and Stalked (1969), Satan Hates You is a graphic horror film that tells the stories of two individuals and their personal struggles with Lucifer himself. We follow Marc, a homicidal maniac who tends to get hit on by lots of gay men. Sadly for those gay men, Marc is driven by demons buried deep within his soul. We also follow Wendy, Marc's polar opposite, who lives life fast and hard without a second's thought to the consequences. Their separate paths will eventually cross, but will it be on the road to salvation or the highway to hell? Director James Felix McKenney takes us on a wild and explosive journey to Hell and brings some of the most notable legends of the horror genre along for the ride.
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Cultdb Totals
[Rated _ out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount _]
[Gorequota _/10]
Themes Included: _________
_______________

Cold Fish (2010)

Cold Fish (2010)
aka: Tsumetai nettaigyo
Director: Shion Sono
Cast: Makoto Ashikawa, Denden, Mitsuru Fukikoshi
When Syamoto's teenage daughter is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Syamoto's troublesome daughter work at their fish store. Syamoto soon discovers the horrific truth of the seemingly perfect couple.
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Based loosely on a real life murder case known as the 'Saitama serial murders of dog lovers' that happened back in 1993, which involved a dog breeder and his wife being charged with four known murders, with others unproven but rumored to have happened. Cold Fish changes the details placing the man as a tropical fish salesman, who befriends another shop owner, slowly enticing him into his sadistic world. I'd heard various comments before viewing and was under the impression it was going to be this years Visitor Q, there is a few brief glimpses of that film within Cold Fish but overall it leaves the viewer with a totally different expierence, its more in the same unglamourous tradition of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer but with an added mix of family life and social commentary. The films tone is exceptionally bleak with each of its characters as negative and desperatly unhappy as the next, you wouldn't want to trade your life for any of them. The acting is for most part exceptional espiecally by its two central leads 'Denden as mood swinging sadistic maniac Murata' and 'Makoto Ashikawa as the anxiety ridden stooge Syamoto' whose too weak a personality to stand up for himself and stop being led into such a dark world. Without a question one of the better movies to come out of Japan this year, its only draw back being it feels at times that its being drawn out to fill its two hour plus duration, could have easily been cropped by 20-30 minutes without losing plot or action.
Cultdb Totals
[Rated 7½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 6]
[Gorequota 7/10]
Themes Included: Severed HeadTropical FishSerial Killer
RapeDysfunctional Family LifeGangstersAstronomy

Horny House of Horror (2010)

Horny House of Horror (2010)
aka: Fasshon heru, Fashion Hell
Director: Jun Tsugita
Cast: Hara Saori, Asami, Suzuki Mint
Pals Toshida and Uno insist on going to a brothel with their betrothed friend Nakazu, who has never paid for sex before. Each guy is matched with a nubile prostitute, unaware of the locale's deranged mission to sexually torture customers. Vagina dentata is the yarn's main means of attack, but samurai swords and phallic food games provide plenty of ketchup...
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Friends Uno and Toshida pursued their married friend Nakatsu to visit a sex parlour, with the simple aim that all three of them will get some sex. Only the place they pick 'Shogan Massage Palour' as a secret, that being its prostitutes kill their clients for the sole enjoyment of their boss, who watches in via hidden camera's. Thankfully Nakatsu having picked out an hooker named Nagisa doesn't have the heart to continue, so she takes pity on him and agrees to help him try to and rescue his friends.

Been a real steady supply of these Japanese action gore flicks recently featuring either cosplay costumed or naked girls. Horny House of Horror is one of the more entertaining entrys, largly down to the fact its story is so simple, resembling a cross between a typical Jap gore actioner and HG Lewis Gore Gore Girls. Its crammed with gory warped moments from fridges full of jarred penises to nipple's and cocks being chopped off with samuari swords. The highlight is the use twice of 'metal jaws' once covering over a vagina before intercourse the second has a set of teeth. Though some would see it as too crude and infantile I enjoyed it, the downside is the run-time was again just slightly over the hour mark, it makes me wonder if the whole populas of Japan doesn't have some kind of attention problem. To make it more attractive to customers, the distributors should really package 2 films per release.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10]
[Deathcount 5]
[Gorequota 7/10]
Themes Included: Penis Chomping Penis ChoppingFace Farting
ProstitutesNipple SlicingGut RippingAcid In A Face

Gothic and Lolita Psycho (2010)

Gothic and Lolita Psycho (2010)
Director: Gô Ohara
Cast: Rina Akiyama, Ruito Aoyagi, Asami
Yuki a girl who lives at home in peace until one day a unit of assassins breaks in and slaughters her mother. In order to reveal the truth behind the seemingly senseless murder, Yuki transforms herself into a demon of vengeance by donning gothic lolita clothing, wielding a parasol as a deadly weapon, and executing the guilty in the name of God.
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Cultdb Totals
[Rated _ out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount _]
[Gorequota _/10]
Themes Included: _________
_______________

Die-ner (Get It?) (2010)

Die-ner (Get It?) (2010)
Director: Patrick Horvath
Cast: Joshua Grote, Parker Quinn, Liesel Kopp
Ken is a wandering and unassuming serial killer who enters a forsaken and empty diner during the graveyard shift. After a long conversation with the diner's lone waitress Rose, Ken kills her and promptly delivers the same fate to the diner's cook Fred. As Ken cleans up the bloody mess and deposits Rose and Fred in the walk-in freezer, company arrives. A young, unhappy married couple Rob and Kathy stop by the diner only to be followed by the arrival of Sheriff Duke Purdett. Ken now finds himself in the middle of a rousing game of cat and mouse which he manages well until the unthinkable happens. Back from the dead, Rose and Fred emerge from the freezer and start walking around! Once an unflappable serial killer, Ken now holds the young couple and wounded sheriff captive, trying frantically to escape the zombie predators.
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A lone wandering young killer walks into a truckstop diner during its graveyard shift and kills the waitress and cook. Before he can dispose of the bodies the diner gets two new customers, a couple who are on the brink of separating. So the killer pretends he's running the place, which seems to work until a local sheriff whose familiar with the food joint turns up asking where everybody is, its then that they notice the once dead cook and waitress have risen from the dead and acting peculiar.

Running in at little over an hour this seems more in keeping with an episode of Amazing Stories than a typical modern horror movie. The characters are quirky enough and well enough acted but its just too tame a zombie romp that's squarely played for comic value (than say for action or chills) which for me at least, it failed to achieve as it wasn't actually funny. Not the worst zomcom out there, but there's many many more worth checking out before this.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 4½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 4]
[Gorequota 4/10]
Themes Included: Truckstop DinerZombie ChefZombie Waitress

The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)

The Zombie Diaries 2 (2011)
aka: World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2
Directors: Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gates
Cast: Philip Brodie, Alix Wilton Regan, Rob Oldfield
Three months have passed since a viral outbreak wiped out 99.9% of the world's population, turning its victims into flesh-eating living dead. In the UK, a surviving band of soldiers and civilians have taken refuge at a rural military barracks. Life in this new world is tough and brutal, but hope appears when a high level communication is received from a military base on the coast, telling of sanctuary elsewhere in Europe... But just as salvation appears to be in reach, the base suffers an overwhelming defeat at the hands of the living dead! The surviving handful of troops and civilians must now make their way to the coast to uncover the truth behind the message. Their perilous journey takes them across a now treacherous, death-ravaged landscape, where the living dead are vast in number and wandering bandits impose their own malicious sense of law and order. What follows is a journey into hell and a desperate battle against all odds for the very survival of the human race.
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Picking up around the same period as the first Zombies Diaries, this time just following one group of survivors a small set of terrortial army recruits. Even though they're armed they still face the same hazards as any survivor which is primery the undead masses, but also with dwindling food, clean water and medical supplys they also need to fight off a gang of backwards rural survivors.

With having watched both parts 1 and 2 back to back, I came into this one fearing the worse, but I'm glad to say I was proven wrong. Its still no '28 Days/Weeks Later' but its a massive improvement over the first film, clearly due to its improved budget, which in turn as been spent on real actors, helps also that they actually spent a little time on the plot and dialogue. Also unlike its predecessor Zombie Diaries 2 has even got a decent ammount of undead (they don't actually call them zombies within the film itself). Downside again for me at least was how serious it takes itself, a little bit of humour once in while wouldn't have gone a miss, the rape scene seemed tacked on more than being essential to the plot, but who knows by the 3rd outing they could have a breakthrough like Dog Soldiers on their hands.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 6 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount NA]
[Gorequota 6/10]
Themes Included: ZombiesRapeArmy
Medical Team

The Zombie Diaries (2006)

The Zombie Diaries (2006)
Directors: Michael Bartlett, Kevin Gates
Cast: Russell Jones, Craig Stovin, Jonnie Hurn
Brace yourself... This time it's for real.
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The film compiles various video diaries, following groups of survivors in the aftermath of a bird flu like virus that has hit the UK. Causing the dead rise and kill. The undead arn't the only problem as some of the survivors are going mad, doing as they please and taking what they want by any means necessary.

I'm watching this direct to video low budget English zombie yarn pretty late, having passed on the chance of viewing it years earlier due to lack of interest, I'm only seeing it now due to recently receiving a sequel. Interesting idea having you follow multiple camera weilding groups, its just a shame the locations they use are all the same bland farmyards and their surounding areas. Instead of say more populated up built places like the supermarket in Dawn Of The Dead. Zombie Diaries just hasn't the same style or substance as the similiar found footage themed zombie film [rec] or Romero's Diary Of The Dead, that said I've seen far worse zombie movies in my life (its a busy sub-genre), it was just too dull for my tastes, so would have to say Zombie Diaries is only suitable for the more undemanding zombie fans.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 3 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount NA]
[Gorequota 5/10]
Themes Included: Found FootageZombiesArmy

Closed For The Season (2010)

Closed For The Season (2010)
Director: Jay Woelfel
Cast: Aimee Brooks, Damian Maffei, Joe Unger
Trapped in a forgotten amusement park, a young woman finds herself terrorized by the living memories of the park. She must break free from the park’s grasp before she becomes its next victim.
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The story concerns a micro budget film production crew who've lived near an old rundown fairground for years, knowing full well how people are suckers for such things they have the genius idea of making a goosebumps style tale but passing it off as an adult horror movie. Only due to lack of talent or an original thought manage to waste almost 2 hours of film fans time (mine included).

Well sorry about that but needed to be done, the true story is actually a great deal less interesting. Its about a young woman Kirsty being stuck in a trapped in a long closed fairground, with her mind in a constant loop of dreams and past memory's. Turns out Kirsty had lost a teddy bear at the fair when she was a kid, while she searched she met two boys that would end up in accidents that brought about their early deaths.

Some horror films test if your man enough to see it all, this one just tests your endurance to boredom. Its a turgid waste of film that if it wasn't for a few crude lines of mild sexual dialogue and a scene a clown gets a stake in his eye, would have been perfect Halloween viewing for a your 5 year old. I would have award it a Turkey score of 2, but the acting is not so bad from the three leads, especially the ghost clown. Skip it.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 3 out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount 2]
[Gorequota 1/10]
Themes Included: ClownThe CreatureCGI Roller Coaster
CGI BloodSpooky Old FairgroundIt Was Just A DreamIt Was Just Another Dream

Wreckage (2010)

Wreckage (2010)
Director: John Mallory Asher
Cast: Aaron Paul, Justin Allen, Mike Erwin
Jared, kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff’s office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers mysteriously disappear one by one, the killer grows hungry and the thriller continues to unravel.
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Cultdb Totals
[Rated _ out of 10 Good]
[Deathcount _]
[Gorequota _/10]
Themes Included: _________
_______________

Cellofan (1998)

Cellofan (1998)
aka: Cellophane, Cellofan - med døden til følge
Director: Eva Isaksen
Cast: Andrine Sæther, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Svein Erik Brodal, Trond Brænne
A dying old man tells his daughter, a young and aggressive journalist, to find a box in his house. He makes her promise not to open it, and immediately burn it. However, she cannot resist her curiosity and finds documents, letters and clippings inside the box that reveal that her father was the suspect in a murder case 25 years ago. She decides to find out the truth.
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While sat in an hospital room at the bedside of her dying father, Marianne a journalist is asked by him for one last favor. He asks her to destroy boxes he has back at his apartment but not to open them. Marianne thanks to a little coaxing from a newly made friend opens one of the boxes and reads one of the letters it contains, she learns that her father whom was a priest had been accused of murder 25 years earlier in a small rural village of Skogmark. So its left to Marianne to either try put the letters out of mind and forget what shes seen or travel to village and try to uncover the truth and if her father was involved in a pregnant woman's death.

This co Norwegian/Swedish production from late nineties feels like it could have been made ten years earlier. During the early stages it reminded me somewhat of recent film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo but its interesting premise is all but wasted due to its painfully pedestrian pace and almost total lack of action, which is a shame as the rural feel and general odd tone (including an hotel room peeping tom and local butcher who seems to enjoy his work a little too much) could have made this mystery into something so much more rewarding. Oh and for anyone whose wondering why its named Cellofan, its taken from a scene the dying priest is smothered and almost killed by the cellophane wrapping from a bunch of flowers.

Cultdb Totals
[Rated 5½ out of 10]
[Deathcount 4]
[Gorequota 1/10]
Themes Included: JournalistPriestRural Church
Car CrashCow Road BlockStuttererPicture Moving Eyes