Check out the TICK TOCK TRICK trailer!!!

Here is a really cool trailer for an extremely gothic horror movie TICK TOCK TRICK.  The trailer paints a highly moody dark atmospheric ghost story.  The whole thing looks pretty amazing.  Decide for yourself, folks.  Click on the links below and be sure to follow them on the facebook if you are interested and as always spread the word.  We need to make sure the good horror movies are getting the attention they deserve.  TICK TOCK TRICK looks like one of those movies.  Be sure you go to their website.  You won't be disappointed.  Very spooky.

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Jason

GHOUL: THE MOVIE belongs on LIFETIME not CHILLER.

Judging by the commercial and DVD cover of GHOUL from CHILLER FILMS I was expecting a fun type horror movie about three boys running around having adventures like THE GOONIES building a club house near a cemetery and having to deal with the title monster that lurks nearby.  Instead what I got was a movie about child abuse and child molestation.  I am dead serious, folks.  This movie has almost nothing to do with horror.  It plays out more like a really bad worse than usual Lifetime Original Movie and you know how much we all love watching those.

GHOUL is a misguided mess.  It advertises itself as a horror movie but when you sit down and watch the bland thing you will realize that this movie is spending a vast majority of its time dealing with the three main characters personal dramas.  The main kid's grandfather just died, his best friend is being touched inappropriately by his own mom and his other best friend is constantly being beat by his father.  That is pretty much the whole movie.  Every now and again a scene will pop up dealing with a creature that kidnaps girls and seems to be helped by one of the boys fathers but those scenes are few and far between and seem out of place with the rest of the film.  When you think that the movie couldn't get any more uncomfortable we are force to sit through a story about some guy whose wife went crazy and drowned her two infant boys and then committed suicide.  Eventually you do get to see the "ghoul" finally attack someone which leads you to immediately realize that there ain't no monster at all.  It isn't hard to recognize that it is a guy in a gillie suit posing as a monster.

That's right!  There is no monster.  The movie does it's best to make you think that there is a monster even going so far as to cram in a scene with a priest explaining to the main kid that some broken symbol on a busted up tombstone is suppose to keep the "ghoul" away but we already know that there ain't no ghoul so the scene has no point.  There are a couple of scenes or moments that don't seem to add up to anything important.  The main kid's grandfather leaves him a present in his club house and when the kid finds it he decides he is going to open it later.  What kid on the face of this earth would wait to open a present when he could open it now!  Then when he does open it he is delighted that it is a knife and then we never see it again.  Maybe the kid used it at the end and I just missed it but I don't think so.

By the end there is almost no resolution to these kids' problems.  The so called monster dies and then the movie just ends.  If the movie was suppose to be more about these kids' personal problems shouldn't the movie go on until a reasonable solution is reached for all of them?  GHOUL is suppose to be about children losing their innocence and their imaginations to the monsters of reality.  If the movie focused more on the kids investigating the creature and learning at the end that it was just a man in a gillie suit then this could have been a not too bad film.  Instead GHOUL pushes the drama to unpleasant in your face levels that ruins any fun or enjoyment the basic material could have provided.  Watch MONSTER SQUAD instead.

Jason

Part 2 of my interview on THE GOLDEN AGE OF EVERYTHING!!!

Here is the second part of my interview on THE GOLDEN AGE OF EVERYTHING.  The photo above is me in the webseries DRIFTER 2: LONESOME HIGHWAY which is currently in post-production.  I can't wait for you guys to see it.

Click here for Part 2 of my interview on THE GOLDEN AGE OF EVERYTHING!!!

Jason

RagN'Bone's WHITE ZOMBIE trailer!

The cool guys at RagN'Bone Productions asked if I would pass on the word that the trailer for their next film WHITE ZOMBIE is up and ready to be viewed on THE YOUTUBE.  Below is the links to their website and their Youtube page which features the new trailer.  They are taking the gutsy approach and remaking the classic film WHITE ZOMBIE that starred Bela Lugosi.  The trailer shows their ambitious and extremely unique take on the material.  I gotta say that the last image in the trailer left a gruesome image in my brain in a good way.  I am beyond intrigued.  This should be a good one.

CLICK HERE FOR NEW WHITE ZOMBIE TRAILER!!!

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Jason

I was interviewed on THE GOLDEN AGE OF EVERYTHING! Part 1.

Me with prop axes from YOU'RE NEXT!

I was interviewed for my friend's podcast THE GOLDEN AGE OF EVERYTHING!  We talk about movies and film and web series projects that I am apart of.  It is a really great show that is doing more than just being a review show.  It is about how music, art and movies affect us and how we are all connect through these mediums.  It is more about our personal stories than just what we think about media.  Check out the links below and please share with your friends and "LIKE" the facebook page.  You guys are the best.

It is a two part interview.  Part 1 is out now with part 2 coming out next week.

CLICK HERE TO HERE THE INTERVIEW AT THE GOLDEN AGE OF EVERYTHING!

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GORILLA INTERRUPTED is a different kind of good.

Let me just start off by stating that I am a huge fan the guys over at RedletterMedia.com.  I love their review shows HALF IN THE BAG, BEST OF THE WORST and the extremely insightful/hilarious PLINKETT REVIEWS.  The shows' creators Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, and Rich Evans are three talented and funny individuals that bring something a little different to the Internet with their web series.  They have a bunch of short films on their website and occasionally put out a movie now and then.  I highly recommend FEEDING FRENZY.  They have been gracious enough to release their first movie they made back in the day called GORILLA INTERRUPTED.

GORILLA INTERRUPTED is about Ray Grabowski, a man who is turned into a gorilla by aliens.  With the help of his kind-of-sort-of friends Dex, Sid and Jar Jar Binks the four yahoos stop an alien invasion and fight the Devil for some reason.  It has "shot in the backyard with dad's camera" production values but the film has this strange crude energy that you don't get too often in comedies.   I was reminded of the show THE YOUNG ONES which I was excited to hear them mention on the commentary track. The story is strange and the humor is absurd but there are genuine moments of greatness that hint at the greater things that came afterward.

The real reason why you should get this movie is for the making of documentary and the commentary track with Mike, Jay and Rich.  Both give funny insights into the guys of Redlettermedia and where they came from, how they got together and what struggles and obstacles they encountered when making this movie.  Friendships were tested, stuff was broken and in the end they came out with a film that left them tired and disappointed.  Yet, without GORILLA INTERRUPTED there wouldn't be RedletterMedia.  I am glad that they do show some love for their film by going back and redoing some of the special effects to make them more palatable to the eyes.

I had fun watching all that GORILLA INTERRUPTED had to offer.  Yes, it is not for everyone.  But if you are into making movies then buying this movie will not only encourage you to proceed with media production (In more ways than one!) but you will be helping a smart group of guys continue to make the Internet a funny place to visit.

Jason

THE WOLVERINE is CLAWLESS!

I have been reading a lot of praise lately for the new Wolverine movie referring to it as the Wolverine movie we have always wanted.  I got to tell ya, folks.  I completely disagree.  Many will argue that X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE was terrible while overlooking the many more faults the new WOLVERINE has.  Dare I say that ORIGINS is a better film than the new.  Maybe that is going a little too far.  Nah, screw it.  ORIGINS is a better film overall.  While ORIGINS did screw up a lot of Wolverine's back story it did at least have a story you could follow with a strong villain and characters like Wolverine and Sabertooth that had some chemistry together.  Liev Schreiber was fantastic.  THE WOLVERINE has none of that.    Be aware of possible spoilers ahead.


THE WOLVERINE begins in World War 2 with our title character being held captive in a Japanese P.O.W. camp.  Yashida, a Japanese officer is releasing all the prisoners knowing that an atomic bomb is about to be dropped on them.  Wolverine saves the officer from the bomb blast and all the radiation somehow.  Decades later the now old Yashida is dying and seeks Wolverine to give him a gift.  That gift, it turns out, is the ability to take away Wolverine's X-Factor and give it to someone else.  After rejecting that offer because its stupid, Wolverine gets tangled up in the family drama and ends up saving Mariko, the granddaughter of Yashida from a bunch of bad guys and ninjas and stuff.  Oh, and they manage to stop Wolverine from using his healing abilities so now he is vulnerable to bullets, sharp pointy objects and harsh language.

The film does everything in its power to shoot itself in the foot.  Over and over again weird little moments happen making me question if anyone paid attention to the script whatsoever.  At the beginning this bear that Wolverine kind of sort of befriends has killed a bunch of stereotypical redneck hunters because they used a poison arrow that caused the bear to go crazed.  One of the hunters escaped and Wolverine tracks him down in a bar the same night.  The hunter lost all his friends and went immediately to a bar instead of the police station.  That doesn't make much since.  Later THE WOLVERINE descends into an empty and passionless love story.  We are shown four too many times that Wolverine is madly in love with the very dead Jean Grey who appears to him in dreams.  He opens up and expresses his emotions to this dream girl.  However with the very much alive Mariko he merely has the sex with her to show his interest.  Its weird and never develops into anything believable.  When Yashida dies there is a funeral for him.  Wolverine shows up and notices some guy hiding on a nearby roof.  Nothing suspicious about that!  Wolverine ignores him!  But when Wolverine notices a monk participating in the funeral has a tattoo on his arm he jumps into action and starts killing everybody.  What if the monk was some reformed junkie or criminal?  Wouldn't that be the first thing you would think of?  Not kidnapping!  It doesn't make sense that the suspicious guy hiding out on the roof that clearly doesn't want to be seen doesn't kick on Wolverine's Spidey Senses while some monk with a tattoo does.

The villains are generic and never pose a real threat to Wolverine.  Ultimately the last bad guy Wolverine has to take down is some old guy in a robot suit.  That suit by the way contains the power to absorb Wolverine's powers.  That is kind of stupid.  Wouldn't just a little bit of Wolverine's DNA or whatever be enough?  There is this one woman who is a scientist and a venomous mutant called the Viper.  I think that was her name.  Who cares I guess.  She is a little more interesting but really the story doesn't give her much to work with.  We could care less about their motivations.  They just are not that interesting of characters.

The two characters that work the most together are Wolverine and Yukio.  A real movie of their new friendship would have been great and something new and different.  Instead once Wolverine is back in Japan she almost completely disappears into the background.

THE WOLVERINE overall feels unfocused and unsure of what the audience wants.  We want a badass Wolverine running around killing bad guys with his claws with a smart story that knows how to use him in the most prolific way.  Instead we have a muddle mess of a story with unclear motivations for almost all the characters.  The fight scenes are incredibly unimpressive with so many shots too close to leave much of a visual impact.  Wolverine himself looks like he is just punching people instead of running them through with his trademark claws.  The biggest let down of all is at the end when Wolverine confronts an army of ninjas and he says something to the effect that they are going to need more.  He couldn't be more wrong.  They kick the crap out of him.  At first he kills a few of them but then for no reason other than bad writing he tries to run right by all of them.  They simply shoot him in the back with a bunch of arrows and down he goes leaving us with the impression that his bark is bigger than his bite.  Lame.

By the end of THE WOLVERINE I was left a little cold by the film.  It is not one of the worst but it is undeserving of all the praise that seems to be coming from the Nerdosphere out there.  I think they are just in denial at this time.  In generations to come I believe that THE WOLVERINE will be mostly forgotten lost in the jumble of the better X-MEN films and forth coming AVENGERS movies.  Just face the facts ('facts' meaning my unenlightened opinion of myself and not the dictionary definition of), Nerds.  THE WOLVERINE at best is ORIGINS equal not better.  I do like at the end that they take away Wolverine's adamantium claws.  His bone claws come back but I would have loved to have heard the gasps of a theater full of nerds when Wolverine's metal claws were cut from his body.  Oh, the humanity!  I feel like that scene is like some kind of metaphor for the whole movie.  There is not a whole lot of positive to stick your claws into.

Jason