Creature (2011)

Creature (2011)
Director: Fred Andrews
Writers: Tracy Morse, Fred Andrews
Country: USA Runtime: 95 min Soundtrack: Kevin Haskins
Cast: D'Arcy Allen, Daniel Bernhardt, Mehcad Brooks, Amanda Fuller, Sid Haig
In the back country of Louisiana, a group of friends unearth a terrible secret that unleashes a monster from the depths of the swamp.

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Actium Maximus (2005)

Actium Maximus (2005)
Director: Mark Hicks
Writer: Mark Hicks
Cast: Johnathan Daniel McCuin, Mark Hicks,Jennifer Hamil
The wretched colony world of Actium is crumbling under the ego of its dictator, Grand-Automaton Polpox. Rebel Laffrodites, a religious minority, are being exterminated in a government run campaign and to distract the citizenry Polpox has put on a grand carnival, an Actium Maximus where alien dinosaurs fight to the death in a gigantic Colosseum. Space Hunter Axezun is commissioned to scout the farthest reaches of the galaxy for new combatants. He and his crew find much more than bloodthirsty monsters on their quest however, they also discover a secret which could alter life in the galaxy forever.

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(Not Yet Rated)

Monsters (2010)

Monsters (2010)
Director: Gareth Edwards
Writer: Gareth Edwards
Cast: Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

Once you stop expecting a creature feature the film starts to draw you in and works as A road movie with a few subtle sci-fi elements. We follow a pair of stranded citizens and how they gradually fall in love as they make their way back to the US through a Quarantined/Infected zone in Mexico. Beautifully filmed soaking in a Mexico that is usually reserved for nature shows, I dare anyone could watch this without being blown away at the production quality the director, crew and cast have turned out for what is reported to be $15,000. Monsters wrongly will get its doubters those who expected it to be this years Cloverfield or District 9, the truth is 'it is what it is' and never tried to be.

(7½ out 10)

Frankenstein and Me (1996)

Frankenstein and Me (1996)
Director: Robert Tinnell
Writer: Richard Goudreau, David Sherman, Robert Tinnell
Cast: Jamieson Boulanger, Burt Reynolds, Ricky Mabe
Earl Williams is a dreamer teenager obsessed with monsters, who fantasizes his life as if he were living in the world of the monsters of the Universal Studios. Although being an excellent student, his intolerant and nasty school teacher Mrs. Perdue does not like him and punishes him for any minor fault. His supportive father Les Williams is also a dreamer, who has never been successful in life. When his father dies, his mother becomes lost with two boys, and tries to change the behavior of Earl. One day, the boy finds the "true Frankenstein" lost by a Carnival, and decides to bring the monster back to life.

Highly entertaining Canadian childrens fantasy about Earl & Larry Williams, two young boys who have just lost their father Les to an heart attack (he's played in flash backs by Burt Reynolds during his full on wig period). Eldest son Earl is affected most wraping himself even further into a fantasy dreamworld filled with famous monsters era horror icons. Luck lands in the 12 year olds lap one night, while leaving a local carnival he finds a crate they've lost containing a sideshow Frankenstein attraction. So he along with his brother and a handful of friends set about resurrecting it "Insane! was Einstein or err Boris Karloff insane..."

It lovingly captures a childs imaginary world and like the recent Son of Rambo film, it's equally recommended to children as it is to older film affectionados like myself. Earls bedroom is decorated with Universal horror action figures and Famous Monsters of Filmland magazines and posters, best of all his dreams and the tales he tells his younger brother are done as fantastic vintage horror film pastiches these include Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Brides Of Dracula, Night of the Living Dead and The Mummy. Director Robert Tinnell really proves he knows his genre, all though the makeup isn't technically as good as that of Monster Squad it makes it up with atmospheric detail. I loved this flick so much best moment was the NOTLD dream. Sadly other than landing lucky and unearthing a dusty old VHS or finding one of its brief cable TV screenings it hasn't seen the light of day for 15 years, this gem really deserves a modern format release.

(8½ out of 10)

Infected (2008)

Infected (2008)
Director: Adam Weissman
Writers: Joshua Hale Fialkov, Christian Ford
Cast: Gil Bellows, Maxim Roy, Judd Nelson, Isabella Rossellini
A pair of newspaper reporters receive help from an unlikely accomplice in their effort to stave off an alien invasion.

Featherweight sci-fi conspiracy yarn, about a hack UFO journalist trying to uncover the truth about an alien races attempts to poison mankind so the they can use humans as hosts to reproduce. The films pace and cheesy feel don't do the done to death plot line any favors. Acting is not so bad it's rare to see Isabella Rossellini turn up in cheesy genre movies, and it's always great to see Judd Nelson in the mix, here Judster does his best to act and look like Peter Jackson. Though I did like the alien maggots crawling through human bodies the FX are mostly substandard CGI especially the final full grown alien. Maybe fans of cheap science-fiction B-movies will have a hoot, if that's not you then go with something higher brow like a sci-fi original movie :P.

(5 out of 10)