3 from Hell is Rob Zombie’s newest film in the series documenting the Firefly/Driftwood/Spaulding family, following 2003’s House of a 1000 Corpses and 2005’s The Devil’s Rejects. The end of the latter shows the remaining family members riding sorely unmatched into a shootout with the police, so I’m guessing the 14-year lapse had at least partly to do withContinue reading “‘3 from Hell’ is Well-Made, but Still Crushingly Disappointing”
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‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’: Dark, Witty, Campy–with Awesome Songs!
It’s the not-too-distant future, and an epidemic of organ failures gives rise to Geneco, an organ financing conglomerate that helps people “cheat death for now.” Surgery becomes a fashion statement, and organ repossession is legal. Since everyone is now in debt, the Repo Man (Anthony Head) makes a brisk business. But he also has aContinue reading “‘Repo! The Genetic Opera’: Dark, Witty, Campy–with Awesome Songs!”
‘Night of the Living Dead’ 1990: Do it for Barbara! And Tony Todd!
Remake of George A. Romero’s 1968 film, this time in color with a contemporary twist or two. Makeup man Tom Savini takes the director’s seat, with Romero writing the screenplay. It keeps the same basic plot and characters: a band of humans with higher than average survival skills board themselves up in a farmhouse (unfortunatelyContinue reading “‘Night of the Living Dead’ 1990: Do it for Barbara! And Tony Todd!”