31 days of Horror part 4: Citizens on Patrol

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If you want to see more of Art the Clown, you might want to check out his first appearance in the much, much less gruesome anthology flick, ALL HALLOW'S EVE (2013), also directed by Damien Leone.

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Day 26: I Know What You Did Last Summer

Dire. There are glimmers of something interesting in here (presumably left-over from the novel) but structuring this as a generic slasher film is absolutely disastrous. It needed to be either a smart character-driven suspense film or a particularly nasty gorefest. As it stands the plot is nonsensical, the writing is atrocious, and the violence is almost bloodless.

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Day 26: Sleepwalkers

I bet that morphing effect and the rubber suit looked shit even at the time, but they lend a certain charm to an otherwise anodyne Stephen King script.

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Title-Frontier(S)
Source-Lionsgate Unrated DVD

Back in 2006 the After Dark Horrorfest started. Which was 8 new horror films. They would each play one night at a theater.And it looked like every year around Halloween we would get 8 new horror films in a theater. But the After Dark Horrorfest was badly done. Very few theaters bothered showing the movies. AFAIK you could say pay 50 bucks and get a ticket that let you into every film in the fest. Nope you had to buy a ticket each night. So most people seemed to have seen these "8 Films to Die For" on home video. Frontier(S) was part of the second batch off After Dark Horrorfest films. And cause of it getting a NC-17 from the MPAA it didn't play many theaters.


After an really right wing candidate is elected as the president of France a group of Arab young adults decide to use the riots in Paris as cover while they try to escape. But they need money. So during the riots they pull off a robbery. During the robbery one of the guys is shot. 2 members of the group take him to a hospital,while the other two members take the money and head out of town. At the hospital the guy who got shot tells the other two to run. They contact their friends that have already left and are told to come to an inn way out in the countryside.


Not long after the call the two that are at the inn get brutalized by the owners of the inn. Seems the inn is ran by some secret Nazis. And they use the inn and it's isolated location as a way to kill people they find inferior. The two make it from the hospital to the inn and then all hell breaks loose.


Frontier(S) feels a bit like the French version of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Isolated location. A group of young adults being stuck out in the middle of nowhere.Hell we even get a dinner scene that is very similar to the one in TCM. And way way way more on screen blood and gore than the original TCM had.


The FX work is fucking great. There is a few scenes that turned my stomach,which doesn't happen often. Out of all the "new wave" of French extreme horror coming out in the mid 2000s this is the best I have seen. I am betting close to 10 minutes would have to be cut out to get this an R rating. The acting is pretty good. The entire film is in French and the DVD I have only has French audio. So you gotta read the English subtitles.

Frontier(S) gets a B+.

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Day 27: Mill of the Stone Women

A fun slice of gothic gruesomeness. Solidly constructed and very enjoyable.

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01. The Night Stalker (1972)
02. The Devil's Wedding Night (1973)
03. Zombie (1979)
04. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)
05. Scream and Scream Again (1970)
06. The Black Sleep (1956)
07. Nightmare City (1980)
08. Animal (2014)
09. The Incubus (1982)
10. The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)
11. Twins of Evil (1971)
12. Night of the Demons (1988)
13. Count Dracula's Great Love (1973)
14. Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972)
15. Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
16. The Night Strangler (1973)
17. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
18. The Whip and the Body (1963)
19. House of Usher (1960)
20. House of Dracula (1945)
21. House of the Dead (2003)

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Day 27: Horrible High Heels

Sleazy yet dull at the same time. Definitely one from the throw enough shit and see what sticks school of Cat. III film making.

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CURE - This was a gripping police procedural/serial killer thriller about a drifter who uses hypnotism to get people to kill. I got a bit lost during the climax and I'm not sure I know exactly what happened to the detective's mentally ill wife, but it's a stylish and very interesting film.

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Day 28: Grave of the Vampire

I don't think I'd call John Hayes a good director, but he is an endlessly fascinating one. Despite the disjointed plotting and awkward dramatic staging, there's an odd melancholy quality to this film that I don't recall seeing in other vampire stories. The closest thing I can think of is the work of Jean Rollin, but he has a very different style and focus. What really makes it work is Michael Pataki, who manages to give a strange and menacing performance without overplaying his hand. It's not my favourite of Hayes' horror films (that would be Baby Rosemary) but I'll definitely need to revisit it at some point.

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Day 28: Zombi 2

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Day 27
Title-The Night Walker
Source-Svengoolie airing on MeTV

I thought I had seen all the William Castle horror movies. So back in the summer when I saw Svengoolie was airing The Night Walker I set the DVR.And now after watching it I see why I hadn't heard of this film before.

The Night Walker is one of the very last b/w features made for Universal. And is one of the few William Castle horror films that doesn't have a gimmick. Seems now a days it is most remembered cause it is the last movie Barbara Stanwick made.

Barbara is married to a horrible man. Who is also blind. They live in this huge home. That is filled with cuckoo clocks. And he spends most of his time in his lab doing various experiments.


Then there is an explosion and the husband dies. So Barbara moves into the backroom apartment of the beauty shop she owns. And that is when the dreams start.

The film is constantly have dream sequences but you aren't suppose to know they are dreams until it is revealed. But sadly it is pretty easy to tell when it is a dream.

Really there isn't much to the film. It is slow and dull. With almost no scares. Kinda glad I caught this on Svengoolie. Cause his jokes before and after the commercials are way better than the film is.

The Night Walker gets a D-.

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THE DEVIL'S CANDY - Solid flick about a family of three that move into a house where a couple had died tragically. They soon have to deal with the dead couple's son (played by Pruitt Taylor Vince) who keeps showing up at the house and could possibly be possessed by demons. Lots of awesome metal on the soundtrack and the violence is shocking, despite mostly being offscreen. I liked this one a lot.

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Day 28

Title-Zombie Strippers
Source-DVD

Set in the near future Zombie Strippers is set in a world where the USA is at war with numerous countries. Lacking troops a scientist creates a way to bring dead soldiers back.

One of these zombie soldiers get loose and a team of zombie hunters are sent to find it. One of the hunters gets bit. Becomes a zombie and wanders into a strip club.

He bites the feature dancer, who is played by Jenna Jameson. And she becomes mega popular as a zombie stripper. And starts turning all the other strippers into zombies.

The FX work is decent. The script isn't bad. What hurts this film is the horrible acting. With only Robert England ,as the club owner,being any good. Gotta mention the best scene in the film. Jenna and another Zombie stripper are fighting. And Jenna takes a billiard ball ,shoves it into her vagina and launches it across the room.

Zombie Strippers gets a D+.

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Day 29: Hobgoblins

I wanted to witness VS's most loathed title for myself.

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Day 29: Mark of the Devil Part II

Shit sandwich.