Cinema Head Cheese: The Podcast! #68 - Steve on Steve Action

Kevin and Dave get right to it with Kevin's review of Maximum Conviction, an action vehicle starring Steven Seagal and Steve Austin. They discuss the combining of action stars from different eras and all things Steve in movies.

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Movie Review: The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (Blu-ray)

The sub-genre of “snuff films” in movies have been explored and even exhausted in many ways by filmmakers since Paul Schrader’s fantastic Hardcore. In 1997, there was even a book on the existence of snuff with Yaron Svoray’s book God’s of Death. It  took on this subject with compelling but seemingly fictional stories from the author who claimed to see a person killed on camera upon a visit to an Eastern bloc country.

A Serbian Film has gotten a ton of attention over the past three years as it not only explores the “snuff film” but takes the sub-genre to some sickening points.  Another film taking on the subject matter from director Mladen Djordjevic called The Life and Death of the Porno Gang recently came out of Yugoslavia. Synapse Films has been no stranger to tackling more obscure international fare which they often do a great job at. If you’ve only seen the movie at a film festival you’ll be happy to know that The Life and Death of the Porno Gang has made its U.S debut on Blu-ray and DVD.  Could it actually be better than A Serbian Film?

Cinematic Hell: Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1966)

Director: Ray Dennis Steckler
Stars: Carolyn Brandt, Vin Saxon, Titus Moede, George Caldwell, Mike Kannon and James Bowie

When you kick off your directorial career at 24 shooting an Arch Hall Jr musical, Wild Guitar, you're definitely on the road to cult stardom. When you name your first solo film The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?, you've arrived, but while that's still Ray Dennis Steckler's most famous picture, it's not his most memorable work. For me, it has to take a back seat to Rat Pfink a Boo Boo, a film so amazing that it's going to be impossible to do it justice here. Put simply, you have to see this film to understand it, because it occupies a space comfortably outside the realm of expectation. It's one of those rare movies that remain unique in the history of cinema, however long it's been since they were made, because nobody would dare to attempt to copy them and wouldn't know how anyway. It takes a special mind to make something like this. The only thing comparable is The Monster of Camp Sunshine.

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Movie Review: The Toolbox Murders (1978, Blu-Ray)

Let's get right down to it. We cannot confuse The Toolbox Murders with a straight slasher film. It has some of the same elements of course (random nudity, unique death scenes, masked killer, etc.) but the thought behind the motivation of said masked killer was WAY ahead of it's time! In the late 1970s, the FBI were creating the Behavioral Sciences Unit (most notably, John Douglas and Robert Ressler did the groundwork). Criminal profiling, basically an amalgam science, was starting to gain use in predicting, and then thwarting, criminal behavior by creating a psychological profile of the assailant. They could have saved a lot of money, and time, by simply hiring Dennis Donnelly, director of The Toolbox Murders and his writers. The broken psyche of our Toolbox Murderer could have been a profiling template.

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Movie Review: Zombie Babies (2012)

I think I've found a film that would go beautifully as a double-bill with Ryan Nicholson's Hanger. This little bad boy’s called Zombie Babies. Abortion/ comedy epics are really at a minimum for the sickos that dig them so what a pleasant surprise to see Eamon Hardiman's highly offensive and surprisingly occasionally funny flick about aborted babies who come back to life to kill and feast on a group of dopes at an abortion clinic / hotel/casino. Yes, that's the plot. Ohh... the shit we get here for review... wow!

Movie Review: Come and Get Me (2012, Bloody Earth Films)

Directed by Chris Sun
Starring Christian Radford, Shaun Trainer and Alexis Fernandez
Run Time: 90 minutes
Rated: Unrated

Four female friends take a trip to the city for a girls-night-out and after drinking more then their share of shots and lacking a ride home, one of them decides to go through her phone looking for someone to give them a ride. She comes across the number of a boy she used to make fun of when they were in school together and puts up a front, pretending to like him in order to get what she wants. Unfortunately for her though, this young man is now the youngest member of a three man serial-killer team which takes delight in abducting, torturing and killing women who rebuff their sexual advances. Once they hook up for their ride it isn't long before one of the intoxicated girls starts mouthing off and that's when things go south for the quartet of snooty bitches. Deep in the Australian hinterlands and miles from help, the girls must fight for their lives in a night that will be filled with death and terror.

Movie Review: The Cheerleaders (1973)

Directed by Paul Glickler

Reviewed by Greg Goodsell

Poor Jeannie (nude model Stephanie Fondue – I small an assumed name) is all of 15 years old and is still a virgin in her jerkwater California town. She decides to join her cheerleading team at her high school in order to become more popular, and once accepted, most go through an initiation where she must shower in the boy’s locker room. Once there, the football team comes rolling in and group gropes her! Are we laughing yet? Her mom’s a prude, her dad’s a perv and all of her cheerleader friends are skanks! There are drug deals, an overweight, leering pedophile janitor (“There’s malaria in the area.” One of the cheerleaders opines) and one cheerleader’s attempted rape is played for laughs! Will Jeannie get her cherry popped and will a big climactic orgy save the big football game? Well, what do you think?

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Movie Review: Cole Younger and the Black Train (2012)

I've never been a big fan of Westerns. It takes a really good one to grab my attention. On the same note, a really bad one will also get my attention. Unfortunately, that's what happened with Cole Younger and the Black Train. I love Michael Madsen. I could watch that guy whittle. Honestly, I would rather see that than this. In spite of Madsen's inclusion in the movie, Cole was an abysmal mess.

In a movie that borrows from history, we see the Cole Younger / Jesse James gang as they take on the town lawmen and a few vigilante volunteers. Oddly, the background story revolves around a man named Emmit, who pulls in on a black ghost train. Emmit is a grim reaper, for lack of a better term. Younger saw him as a kid when his sister died, and he's been haunted ever since.

Movie Review: Legendary Amazons (2011, Blu-ray)

Directed by Frank Chan
Starring Cecilia Cheung, Xiaoqing Liu and Richie Ren
Run Time: 108 minutes

Based on the 1972 martial arts classic The 14 Amazons, renowned actor and producer Jackie Chan and director Frankie Chan’s remake, Legendary Amazons, debuts on Blu-ray, DVD and digital October 16th from Well Go USA Entertainment. Cecilia Cheung (Shaolin Soccer), Cheng Pei- Pei (Chrouching Tiger Hidden Dragon) and Liu Ziaoqing (Plastic Flowers) star as widowed wives who must lead a band of fellow widows into battle when the last of a long line of Song generals are killed. Richie Ren also stars as Yang Zongbao, the last of the Song generals to fall in battle.

Evil Dead XXX parody "Evil Head" coming October 24th from Burning Angel

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Interview: Wild Eye Releasing's Keith Crocker

1. A lot has changed since the last time we pleasantly chatted, Wild Eye Releasing is getting a lot of press these days and even mainstream press. You and Rob seem to have grown leaps and bounds lately, are you guys surprised?

A. No, we aren’t surprised at all. We are a specialty label, we bring hand selected titles to the viewer based upon popularity of the subject matter. We carefully consider every title we release, we don’t base it on genre (be it horror or sex), we base it on the subject matter and the execution of the cinematic process. These days documentaries are doing us great, perfect examples being The Death of Andy Kaufman and Unauthorized – The Story of Rock & Roll Comics.

Cinema Head Cheese: The Podcast! #67 - Adult Survivors of Cinema Head Cheese

Kevin, Dave and Jeff decide to talk about what they like and don't like on television this week, but first, Dave shares his experience with the Hulk Hogan sex tape.

Kevin explains why Weeds is overrated, Jeff admits to liking Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Dave delights in Toy Hunter. After that, things take a turn for the disturbing.

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Movie Review: Zoom In: Sex Apartments (1980)

Directed by Naosuke Kurosawa

Starring Yuko Araragi, Yoko Azusa and Beniko Iida

After a quickie with her husband before seeing him off for a bicycling race, Saeko (Yuko Araragi), is hit with a rock by a masked man with black gloves and brutally raped while on her way to visit her lover. Her life is spared but five years later shocking murders begin to befall the residents of the Kibougahara Apartment building.  The masked psycho is busy at work, torturing, raping and setting his victims genitals on fire.  It doesn't take Saeko long before she realizes her lover is the culprit, and she is caught in a world between fear and arousal.....a world filled with sex, lies and gruesome murders.

Movie Review: Heartbeat (2010)

Movie Review by Greg Goodsell

Directed by Yoon Jae-geun

Yeon-Hee (Kim Yunjin) is the wealthy, widowed director of an English Language Institute. Her sickly eight-year-old daughter Ye-Eun (Park Ha-young) is the apple of her eye, and is willing to do almost anything to procure her a suitable organ for a heart transplant. Meeting with the sleazy head of a black market organ racketeer, Yeon-Hee discovers that the organ will be coming from a living illegal immigrant who needs the cash for his family. She declines, saying she is not that desperate … yet. In the meantime, Lee Hee-Do (Park Hae-il) a failed young entrepreneur gets a large sum of money from his estranged mother (Kim Min-Kyung), who tells him that she is moving to America and to never contact her again.

Movie Review: Porkchop 2 - Rise of the Rind (2012)

Directed by Eamon Hardiman
Starring Sam Qualiana, Angela Pritchett and Rob Cobb
Run Time: 71 minutes

When young Simon Robertson moves with his family to a new town, he thinks the biggest peril will be the local high school bullies. Unfortunately, Simon’s new friend Meg informs him that the town has a much darker secret: a body count stretching into the hundreds- courtesy of Porkchop, a deranged serial killer in a pig mask. And even worse, Simon discovers the house his family has moved into belongs to the angry oinker. When the madman resurfaces, Simon, Meg and the rest of the high school kids are in for one hell of a night, as their party gets crashed and one by one they are taken out, with a post-hole digger, bong, tiki torch, chainsaw and basically anything this guy can get his hands on.

Movie Review: Jay and Silent Bob Get Old - Tea Bagging in the UK (2012)

Kevin Smith fans are already aware of his network of podcasts, but if you don't listen to Jay and Silent Bob Get Old, you don't know that it's more than an average show. After Jason Mewes, a recovering heroine addict, had a relapse with Vicodin, his wife asked Kevin Smith for help, and Mewes was sent to rehab. When he got out, he needed to be held accountable. Mewes tried podcasting before with Mewescast, but that didn't last. Smith had an idea. He would give Mewes an audience to share his life stories, and during every show, he'd have to share how many days he's been sober with the live audience. It worked, and it made for an interesting podcast.

Blu-ray Review: Hellraiser Series: Miramax Multi-Feature (2011)

Echo Bridge Entertainment

4 Movie set
Run Time: 369 minutes
Rated: R

This Blu-ray release contains the fourth, fifth, sixth and eighth film in the Hellraiser series. Why they left out the seventh movie and added the eighth is really beyond me but thats what they did.

Now in all honesty, any hard-core Hellraiser fan will tell you, these films are the straight-to-dvd bastard children of a once mighty horror franchise, (yes, Bloodline did get a theatrical release but it was quite evident by this time that the series had pretty much hit rock-bottom). I really think including Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth instead of the eighth film would have made this something that might get fans excited, but thats just me and my wishful thinking. Now lets take a quick look at each...

Cinema Head Cheese: The Podcast! #66 - There Can Only Be Two

Kevin and Jeff start off with a conversation about the new Angry Birds spinoff game Bad Piggies and other apps that they like to call "toilet games."

They also get into a slew of reviews including Colin Quinn's Broadway show Long Story Short, the British thriller Kill List, a Puppet Master 2 and 3 blu-ray release and the reality hit Storage Wars.

Kevin also ponders what the hell the makers of Highlander 2 were thinking about when they crapped that thing out.

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Movie Review: Puppet Master II & Puppet Master III (Blu-ray)

Full Moon Features has been a bit slow to the punch in releasing their classic catalog titles on Blu-ray with only Puppet Master I and Subspecies getting releases. Testing the waters is possibly the reason like some genre companies. Well, the time has come and we will finally be seeing Full Moon classics hitting High-Definition on a regular basis. Here’s a look at Puppet Master II and Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge on Blu-ray.

If you’re not already initiated with the Puppet Master story, it involves the plight of Andre Toulon (William Hickey) and his very loyal but deadly puppets. In the first film, Andre decides to put a bullet in his brain while confined in his hotel room by the sea - after discovering he's being stalked by some gentleman in trench coats. This doesn't go very well with his puppets. It makes them pretty angry actually. Now anyone entering the hotel - including a band of quirky psychics - has Andre Toulon's blood on their hands, in the eyes of the puppets.

Movie Review: Death Rattle : L.S.D. (2012)

Death Rattle LSD is one of the latest films from extreme exploitation filmmaker Ron Atkins (Schizophreniac, Cuckoo Clocks of Hell) and, in all reality, it is his most autobiographical one. Now, not in the sense that he caused co-star Lawrence Bucher (Mutiliation Mile) to nutbag psycho, get hopped up on the titular recreational drug, and kidnap, rape and kill some folks… although I wouldn’t put it past him. When I say autobiographical I mean an exploration of filmmaking, Atkins particular brand of filmmaking, and its affect not only on the viewer but on the performers themselves. Although I doubt Atkins wants to be considered mainstream, this is his entry in the meta-horror field of films. Death Rattle LSD is self aware.

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