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Charles Band, you crafty little devil, you did it again! I’m a lifelong fan of Full Moon features. If you don’t know what Full Moon is I would have to say that I’m surprised you sought out a review for The Dead Want Women , but here you are. 
Full Moon Features is a motion picture production and distribution company headed by Charles Band. They produce low budget horror, sci fi, and fantasy films like Puppet Master, Demonic Toys and, more recently, Gingerdead Man and Evil Bong. The Dead Want Women is their most recent release and it is quite a tasty piece of b-movie cinema.
The film begins in the late 1920’s. A big name silent movie actress named Rose is having a fancy party to celebrate her newest film. Hey, is that Evil Bong’s Robin Syndey I see at that party? A debauched orgy takes place in one of her secret rooms including a few of her friends and colleagues…a Fatty Arbuckle type named Tubby, a Lon Chaney type and Eric Roberts who is supposed to be some kind of a cowboy actor. The orgy is unfortunately cut short by the news that her latest picture is a bomb. She also discovers that her contract is being cut because the ‘talkies’ are the wave of the future and she has got a not-so-nice voice. Well, she loses it and kills her friends and herself. Decades later, the infamous performer’s mansion is acquired by a couple of young, female, realtors who soon discover that it’s haunted.
Danni and Reese arrive at the Pettigrew mansion to clean it before the buyer, which they’ve never met, arrives. They spend the afternoon scrubbing and when no buyer shows up, they decide to do a little drinking! That’s when things start to get good and spooky. The dead have returned and guess what? That’s right…they want women! Things pick up in the third act like a well written Tales from the Crypt episode. This is a very nicely-paced horror romp that deserves a look or two. Do yourself a favor and check it out today from the fine freaks over at Full Moon.
While I’ve been keeping busy with a lot of different freelance projects lately, I’m still committed to the idea of getting this kid’s book finished that I started a while back. After all, folks need to be warned about all of the insidious monsters that have insinuated themselves into our daily lives here in Minnesota. I just finished a rough cover for it this weekend. Check it out!
I hope that you’re adequately prepared for some cinematic insanity because that’s about the only way I could begin to describe the dynamic movie I just watched this weekend. Nazis at the Center of the Earth is an extremely ambitious film that easily delivers the exploitation elements promised by it’s title (and then some) while crafting a well-told, complex, science fiction tale in the process. It also managed to surprise me like no other film has this year, surpassing my expectations. Honestly, at the half-way mark I thought I’d pretty much figured this movie out. I smugly thought I knew exactly what the film was and had no qualms with it whatsoever. It was good, b-movie fun and it was kicking my ass. But then, something so bizarre takes place that I would never have foreseen it! The visual effects are surreal and fantastic, much in the vein of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. The twists come fast and furious and can turn on a dime. Likewise, the director, Joseph J. Lawson, does a skillful job switching up the tone of the film in the most unexpected ways. Gritty and gory one minute, hilarious and campy the next. Just ask this guy!
What we have here is the tale of a group of researchers in Antarctica that get abducted by nazi stormtroopers. They’re dragged deep underground only to find that there is an entire world in the hollow, center of the earth, occupied by decomposing nazis. These nutty, decaying nazis need the help of the doctors to keep them alive while they plot the revival of the Third Reich. Jake Busey and Dominique Swain are great, as is Christopher Karl Johnson as Doctor Mengele, who turns out to be a hell of a shot with a pistol. Then there’s some bio-robotics that turn the movie on it’s ear and set the viewers brain flipping like a pancake for the remaining duration of the film. You honestly are not going to believe your eyes. Nazis at the Center of the Earth is really one of the best b-movies to come along in a long time. Certainly one of the most original. Do yourself a favor and check it out from The Asylum.
A whirlwind of stuff is going on right now. They are currently showcasing some of my artwork at Duffys for a month or two. They recently encased a couple of built in frames for displaying some of the locals art at Duffy’s. Joe Baily did it from November to January and MacKenzie Kouba’s work was up the last couple of months. I have four art pieces on display there now if you would like to check them out, 16 12th Street South, Fargo, ND. Here’s two of them…what are the other two pieces? Hmmm? You may just have to go see for yourself. Heh heh.
It’s official! Alternative Cinema announced on their podcast this month, the July 2012 release of the comic book inspired by their popular “sexy spoof”, Play-Mate of the Apes. The comic’s release coincides with the 2012 Showtime broadcast of Play-Mate of the Apes and SpiderBabe as well as the cable premiere of BatBabe: The Dark Nightie. This marks the studio’s first foray into comic books and I’m excited to be the cartoonist responsible. Buy it this summer. Aw, Hell! Buy two of ‘em!
