“It’s supposed to be Don Knotts.”
“And what was your reason for choosing him as your subject?”
“I don’t know. I just like Don Knotts.”
“Interesting.” -Ghost World
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“It’s supposed to be Don Knotts.”
“And what was your reason for choosing him as your subject?”
“I don’t know. I just like Don Knotts.”
“Interesting.” -Ghost World
2 Headed Shark Attack might not be the greatest movie ever made, but then again…maybe it is! Granted, there has been much shark-infested awesomeness released in recent years. Shark Night 3D, Mega Shark vs Crocosaurus, The Reef, and Sharktopus should all have given you reason enough to stay out of the water. Unless, of course, you’ve got a full can of that shark repellent that Adam West was wielding in the original Batman movie. But now there’s a new shark in the water. Strike that! A mutated, 2-headed shark…and the water has just been freshly stocked with tanned coeds. Boasting a jiggly cast that’s spearheaded by Brooke Hogan and Carmen Electra, 2 Headed Shark Attack plunges into it’s double-jawed storyline feet first.
With a protagonist that takes out bikini-clad cast members two at a time, director Christopher Douglas-Olen Ray front loads this feature with an enormous cast of attractive college students who will end up as so much chum in the water. Charlie O’Connell leads his students from a sinking ship to a deserted atoll. But when the atoll starts flooding, he and the students must face off with the fearsome creature that boasts 1 body, 2 heads and 6,000 teeth. Screenwriter H. Perry Horton has delivered a well-written story that not only makes good on it’s promises of action and exploitation elements, but also gives us another exciting popcorn feature that we can return to time and time again on lazy, weekend, afternoons. Oh yeah, and there’s girls in biknis all the way through this sucker, as well as the obligatory, gratuitous nudity! Thumbs up…er, make that FINS up for 2 Headed Shark Attack. Look for it from The Asylum January 31st on dvd.
Just a little something I was goofing around with in my sketchbook this evening. It’s a comic based on an idea my buddy, Fred Bevill, gave me six or so years ago. It’s about a group of cigarette-smoking, adolescent, funsters called The Smokestack Kids, whose vices get them in and out of comical, cartoon mischief!
Well, the new office/studio is really starting to shape up. It still has a long way to go, but it’s certainly a far cry from the dank, water-filled basement it started out as. I’m just excited that I finally have a place to hang my Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers poster!
Mmm…fresh sketchbook drawings, just like mom never made.
Zombie Apocalypse, or 2012: Zombie Apocalypse as it’s titled on the dvd box, was everything I had hoped it would be; a nice, tight, gut-munching, little zombie film. In fact, I dare say it was one of the more enjoyable zombie movies that I’ve watched in quite some time. Similar in tone to The Walking Dead, Zombie Apocalypse is about a group of survivors who are traveling across a barren landscape infested by zombies. Early on, we learn of a zombie infection that has spread across the globe, taking out roughly 90% of the population. An impressive group of survivors led by Henry (a butt-kicking Ving Rhames), team up to battle the undead and make it to their final destination, Catalina, a safe zone. Not a lot of time is wasted between battling bloodthirsty zombies in the streets, in a sporting goods store, in a high school…Hell, even a port-a-potty is no safe refuge from these flesh-chewing geeks.
The acting was far better than I’ve come to expect from the typical Sy Fy channel movie and the writing was really impressive as well. Brooks Peck and Craig Engler created some smart, believable dialogue that kept me interested in these characters as well as introducing some fun new additions to the standard zombie lore. There are zombie animals in this film, including a particularly threatening and nastily decomposed jungle cat that the survivors meet up with in the third act. Also, it’s fun to see Ving Rhames dispatching zombies right and left with a sledgehammer as well a chainsaw at one point.
With it’s awesomely talented cast and fast-paced storyline, I’d easily recommend Zombie Apocalypse to zombie film lovers without hesitation. Check it out today from our psychotic and unstable friends over at The Asylum.