Made by japanese film maker Takahide Hori, Junkhead is a 30 minute stop motion short film that took approximately four years to create. It was screened last November at Shibuya Uplink and later released online. The film takes place in a post-apocalyptic, steam punk-esque world where humans are no longer "alive". In this future, mankind is forced to live underground to the overwhelming contamination that is found on ground level. However, there lives an ancient virus underground that begins to decimate the human population. Humans begin to use gene recombination to make themselves immune to this virus as well as the conditions found above ground. Essentially, these humans became immortal, and were capable of exchanging bodies, or living as heads. With this immortality, also came the inability to reproduce, so in order to combat this, humans developed clones from past genetic material who were also incapable of reproducing. Over the years, clones and humans began to fight, so the clones were sent to live underground while the humans were left to live above ground. One day, the humans notice on their security cameras that a few clones were able to reproduce, so an investigation is launched underground to find if reproduction was indeed possible.
Yes, I know this story sounds confusing (It was even more confusing for me to type), but hear me out on this. I have told you guys to watch a bunch of lame movies and tv shows in the past, but if there is one thing you all should watch from my recommendations is this movie. Its extremely impressive considering that it is all done in stop motion, and the attention to detail is amazing. At times I forgot that I was actually watching dolls being moved through a man made environment. It's creepy, funny, atmospheric and super trippy. I may hold a bias on this, since stop-motions and claymations are my favorite, but watching even 15 minutes of this you realize that it is nothing like you've ever seen before. Even the language spoken in the film was created by the creator of this short. He had an IndieGoGo page where he was asking for help to create part 2 of the film, but its not up anymore. Im not too sure what happened to it. In any case, you can check out his website at this page, and watch the film at the bottom of the post.
You gotta love the stuff that you find late at night when you're browsing Netflix. Much like Re-Animator, I had no clue what this movie was about when I first saw it. All I knew was that it had an awesome poster, and any movie with an awesome poster is worth watching, even if it sucks.
This is another B-List, campy 80's horror that is straight up disturbing. The effects used in this movie were the same effects that I used to love/hate when I was a kid. They creeped me out so much that I would always cover my eyes when someone died on screen. Life sized prosthetics and puppets were used in place of the actors and it just made everything worse. Check out this scene...
Oh yeah, so about the movie... Some guy finds a white substance coming out of the ground and decides to taste it (I know, doesn't eat stuff they find on the ground right?). Finds out that it tastes good, and starts to sell it to the public under the name of "The Stuff". The Stuff looks like yogurt and people are falling in love with it. So much, that competing ice cream companies send out a guy named David Rutherford, to investigate what The Stuff is, and to find a way to destroy it. In another story, a kid named Jason starts to notice that The Stuff is moving and is having negative effects on his family. He teams up with David to try and take down the evil corporation that is selling The Stuff.
That is pretty much it really. A simple plot, with simple characters and a fairly simple villain. Don't get me wrong I am not saying this movie sucked. On the contrary I thought it was pretty hilarious, and like I stated previously, those deaths were brutal. Those kinds of effects really turn my stomach, and I can really appreciate a film maker who is able to incorporate those into his films. This one is still on Netflix so if youre down to laugh a bit and kill an hour, watch this movie.
This post isn't going to be about a movie, but rather a television show from AdultSwim called King Star King. I watched the pilot for this show last year, around December and I fell in love with it. It was complete sensory overload, and I had to watch it more than twice just to catch all of the random crap that was going on in the background as well as throughout the main story. The story (For the pilot episode at least) revolves around the character of King Star King and his buddies Pooza, a psychotic duck wizard and Gurbels, this orange thing with a face in its crotch. KSK falls in love with Princess Snow White, who then gets kidnapped by Spring Bunny, so KSK has to do everything in his power to save her. After saving her, and winning her heart, KSK has been demoted to working as a cook in a waffle house that is owned by a guy named Hank Waffles. Thats just the pilot episode, the other six episodes involve KSK and his crew getting into weird, sexual, violent and drug fueled antics all throughout the universe. That is seriously all KSK does, drink and do drugs. The whole episode feels like a bad acid trip and its awesome. If you like the first season of Super Jail, you'll like this show. All six seasons are up to watch for free on AdultSwim.com
If I remember correctly, the very first "Mad Scientist" horror movie I ever watched was the 1986 remake of The Fly. I think I was maybe seven at the time, so I was watching it through static on an analog television... in spanish. I wasn't very much scared, but I was extremely intrigued at how disgusting everything was. My favorite part was when Jeff Goldblum was throwing up on his food to break it down, then slurp it back up. I may hate the 80's, but I do love the use of practical special effects in horror movies (The Thing being one of my favorites), and thrash metal. Can't forget about thrash metal.
I had no clue as to what this movie was about, all I had to go by was the awesome poster, and H.P. Lovecrafts name at the top. Re-Animator, is a horror/comedy from 1985 that tells the story of a young medical student named Herbert West, who is accused of killing his old proffesor while he was studying in switzerland. West had developed a way to bring the dead back to life, and it is implied that he killed his professor to use him as a test subject.
After the incident, West moves to Miskatonik University in New England to continue his studies along side Dan Cain who his attempting to complete his medical schooling. He moves into Cain's apartment and continues his experiments in secret. However, when the cat goes missing, Cain's girlfriend Megan finds him dead in West's refrigerator. That night, West shows off his research to Cain and brings the dead cat back to life, only instead of being a normal pet he is extremely violent and aggressive. West convinces Cain to sneak him into the morgue so that he can test his serum on humans, only to have it backfire when one of the patients goes on a rampage and kills Megans father, who also happens to be the dean of the university.
If you plan on watching this, DON"T go into this expecting something serious and thought provoking because you will probably end up hating it. Take it for what it is, a campy 80s horror movie much like Evil Dead or The Stuff. Most of the events that take place could have been avoided from the start, and you'll find yourself saying "Really?" very frequently, but like I said, don't take it seriously. It's funny, gross, and it's full of really neat special effects. Check out this death scene... (SKIP TO 8:35IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SPOIL THE ENTIRE SCENE)
I can't really hate anything about this movie, because choosing something to hate would be too easy. Also, it was really fun to watch so I can't complain about that. The cheesy dialogue was expected, the over-the-top gore and hilarious cat fighting scenes were there, so what else is missing? Oh yeah, all the corpses that come back to life are naked. It's even more hilarious when you see the main characters wrestling and rolling around on the floor with the zombies.
