DVD review: Sexually Deranged (2010)

He has kidnapped, tortured and raped dozens of women. And he´s not going to stop. Savage, brutal and disturbing. Sexually Deranged is the story of a madman - a psychotic serial rapist and religous zealot - whose systematc abuse of his victims is both terrifying and terrifyingly possible. Victim and victimizer, the cycle of psychical and sexual abuse continues. Sexually Deranged is directed by Oliver Hunt. Abyssmally bad acting, really bad camera work and editing, weak soundtrack and so on... It´s total crap. The pacing is slow, really utterly painfully slow with boring prolonged scenes for instance we get to see a buttugly woman first doing yoga (is it yoga? I don´t know) and then taking a loooooong shower touching herself. After being captured by the sexually deranged man she´s forced to ride a exercise bike in her panties until she comes...  Yes, it´s that kind of movie but it´s so inept, so bad that you find yourself thinking "why o why am I watching this?" As you might expect there is lots of full frontal female nudity and explicit scenes of female masturbation in this film but the cast is made up of mainly unattractive women.
This review is based upon the DVD release from Independent Entertainment, it has not been rated.
Rating: 0 out of 7. OMG WTF did I just watch? Did I really pay money for this? Sexually Deranged is a piss poor excuse for a film and is extremely boring, Diary of a sex Offender (it was directed by the producer of Sexually Deranged) at least had something resembling a plot and some semi-interesting characters but this one is just plain bad. And if you are going to make a film that features lots of nudity, why not try to at least have a cast of attractive women??

/JL

DVD review: The Summer of Massacre (2011)

The Summer of Massacre is written by Schroeder and Joe Castro who also is director, producer, actor, handles makeup and visual effects. It´s a anthology slasher film which presents eight killers in five gorefest tales.
* Rampage: Ungodly brutal beatings turn Chris (Tim A. Colley), a young man, into a fiend that sets off a bloody, like never before seen, rampage.
* Lump: Beauty is truly only skin deep - Watch a young paraplegic, whose body is also wrecked with spinal bifida, fight for her life as her older, beautiful sister tries to murder her.
* Son of the Boogeyman: It´s been 36 years since Jesse´s (Jerry G. Angelo) loving mother was raped by his biological father. Now, after hiding and running their entire lives in fear of this murderous rapist - He found them!
* Burn: A group of Christian teenagers are stalked, maimed and burned by a local legend in a haunted forest.
* The wrap-around story is about three legendary serial killers that terrorize downtown Los Angeles by murdering countless innocent souls and the killer plan is to go out with a real bang.
The pacing is extremely fast, the camera work and editing actually isn´t that bad but the HEAVY use of CGI completely ruins it, the acting is bad and the soundtrack is annnoying.
The films main selling point is it´s outrageous body count and it´s gore. While I do admit that there are some unique (but mainly stupid) kills in it there is hardly any practical fx at all, 99.5 % of the blood and gore is computer generated, in the style of cartoonish animation which looks really horrible .
There is male full frontal nudity but no female nudity at all.
This review is based upon the region 1 DVD release from Vicious Circle Films.
Rating: 0½ out of 7. It was hard sitting through  The Summer of Massacre beacuse it´s so ugly, the film makers probably thought they would do something new and innovative but it looks like shit! I think that the short stories do have potential but the film is so badly made, badly acted and the  computer generated fx is just abysmally bad. The Summer of Massacre is a really awful movie!

/JL

Forthcoming DVD release: Supernatural Tales, an anthology of 16 horror short films coming to DVD!‏

Supernatural Tales, an anthology of 16 horror shorts coming to DVD!

Supernatural Tales is a new double DVD featuring 16 new horror short films from Denmark, all previously unreleased. All films were shown during the Movie Battle competition in connection with  CPH PIX 2012 which was held with the theme "supernatural horror".

Like its predecessor, "Wasteland Tales" from the previous Movie Battle in 2010 with a post apocalyptic theme, Supernatural Tales is a collection of no less than 16 short films clearly showing there is a surprising solid mass of film making talent for a small country like Denmark, urging to tell stories other than light comedies and social realistic drama.
This double DVD released by Another World Entertainment   features all these films and provides a solid 280 minutes of pure entertainment. Many of the films are in English language, and the ones in Danish language are all provided with English subtitles.

The release includes:
DISC 1:
Emma - Director: Philip Th. Pedersen
Ansigtet (The Face) - Director: Svend Ploug Johansen
Den Gyldne Regel (The Golden Rule) - Director: Jack Hansen
Iblis: Promethus - Director: The Sun King
Outpost - Director: Esben Halfdan Blaakilde
Succubus - Director: Martin Vrede Nielsen
The Man Who Died - Director: NC Sixhøj Sørensen & Rune Midtgaard Vistisen
Rex Inferno - Director: Kasper Juhl
Kissing the Bride - Director: Martin Andersen

DISC 2
318 - Director: Nicklas Thoft Jensen
Blodrus (Bloodlust) - Director: Mads Liljendahl
Mors dag (Mothers Day) - Director: Jonas Kvist Jensen
Den lille Engel (The Little Angel) – Director: Hector Mauricio Vega
No Good Deed - Director: Sohail A. Hassan
Succubus - Director: Kim Sønderholm
Translucent - Director: Casper Gätke

The Movie Battle competition is held during the Copenhagen Film Festival, CPH PIX, on April 18 and the films will be available on this fantastic 2DVD from May 6.

Pre-order at one of these two links - more to come:
http://www.laserdisken.dk/html/visvare.dna?vare=133286219030652950
http://www.moviezoo.dk/dvd-film/Movie-Battle-2-Supernatural-Tales_5709498014555

IMDb information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2288047/

/JL