Peter Jackson‘s second film. It concerns the cast and crew of the childrens’ show Meet the Feebles, all puppets, who are trying to rehearse for their upcoming bid for syndication. We have Heidi the Hippo (Mark Hadlow), a binge-eating has-been, Wynyard the frog (Brian Sergent), a heroin addict with PTSD from his tour in Vietnam,Continue reading “Peter Jackson’s ‘Meet the Feebles’: Not Technically a Horror Movie, but it’s Pretty Damn Frightening”
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‘Dead Alive’ AKA ‘Braindead’ is a Disgustingly Good Time
New Zealand, 1954. The Sumatran Rat Monkey has just been acquired by a zoo; too bad it’s infected with a nasty disease that makes people rabid. Largely affected by this is kindly Lionel (Timothy Balme), whose mum Vera (Elizabeth Moody) is bitten and becomes (for lack of a better word) a zombie. She bites otherContinue reading “‘Dead Alive’ AKA ‘Braindead’ is a Disgustingly Good Time”