Home Invasion

Release Date: 12/3/2013
Directed by: Doug Campbell
90 Minutes
Drama/made for TV movie

Doug Campbell's Home Invasion stars Haylie Duff who in my opinion is just straight up annoying,
but I gave the film a chance any way. Story goes as follows, a robbery at a well to do home
goes wrong and leaves Jade's boyfriend Will dead. She is hell bent on revenge and will stop at
nothing to get it.    


Nicole is right in the middle of an adoption process when all of this occurs so things start to
look not so good in the social workers eye's. First Nicole's Restaurant is closed down  when
many people come down with food poisoning, then someone decides to torch the place and
of course the cops think she did it herself.


Now Nicole is battered and broken with Jade posing as her friend all the while setting her up for fall after fall. I just feel that with a drama packed storyline there should be some suspense to get you
going but this had none- it's all obvious and in your face, just not exciting. You can't even blame it on it being a TV movie because I have honestly seen some good ones....

Deranged

Release date: 2012
Directed by: Neil Jones
Horror

Friends can be like a gift from God or a friggin curse from Hell! Gabby is a prissy little rich girl
who gathers her three friends up and heads out to a huge beautiful house to party her last moments
of being single. She nabbed a man with a huge bank account Michael. Well dinner brings some
revelations about her friends and Michael that thankfully Gabby doesn't hear about it...



A knock on the door brings a male stripper and an awful mishap leaves bleach blonde Gabby lying on the floor bloody. Now what the hell are they to do but start confessing all of their fuck ups towards her to each other. It's your typical girls stabs another in the back all the while still smiling that sickeningly sweet smirk in the others face.  

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy an accent and find some sexy even but the main character's was so heavy
at time's I honestly struggled to understand what she was saying. She was trying but it was like each
word she spoke was violently spit out. I think that was my major gripe about the film because no
one want's to have to try to decipher sounds to get at what someone is saying.  



It's hard to get into a movie that just doesn't deliver the goods- they lead you to believe that bigger
are coming, they just never show up. The plot was even somewhat lame trying to lead you into directions that don't even exist. You'll sit there thinking  "Well it was another case of the box cover art being more interesting then the film itself."

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REPO

Release Date:12/17/2013
Directed by: Benjamin Gourley
96 minutes
Action/Comedy

Poor shy introverted Leon was just dumped by his girlfriend/fiancee' Jacki and really needs to move on and get over it already. His best Bud, T.J. who is played by my teenage crush Mr. Jason Mewes, is determined to help him quickly along on that journey. It's really fun to watch him throw these little temper fits where you just can't help but laugh.


Leon an T.J. repo car's for a living and have the craziest methods of achieving their goals. The boys are best buds but yet so different -T.J. masterminds this plan to steal back all the cars they have ever repossessed and resell them. They'd make quick cash for sure...right? Throw in the crazy chick Timmy who is completely turned on by the whole car stealing thing and it's chaos.


Repo has a few corny moments that will give you a genuine laugh or two but the film was very generic. The kooky guy Maximo who was obviously supposed to be comical gave me the heebie jeebies and totally skeeved me the hell out-  I don't know maybe it was that nasty Speedo he sports thru out the whole flick?  

Productions from Youngstown, Ohio present remake of the film White Zombie

Trailer for remake of classic 1933 Bela Lugosi film White Zombie


Here is the first trailer for a reimagining of the 1932 classic, White Zombie 2014 coming soon! Staring: Scarlet Sheppard, Isaac Eastwood, Eric Vasbinder, Joey Madia, Tom Smith, Jeff Bedgood, Heather Hepburn, and introducing Andrew Parsons

With: Mike Walker, Amanda E. Baker, Amy Vasbinder, Sean Humburg, Butch Hoover, Rush Whitacre, Lynn Moss Lawrence, Jess Clay, Valorie Dunch, Andrew Clovis, and David B. Prather


Written by Susan Sheppard, Cinematography By Mike Petrucci, Directed by Arthur Leo Collins.


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Attack of the Herbals

Release Date
Directed by: David Ryan Keith
81 Minutes
Horror/ Comedy

Ok, all of you stoners out there don't get all worked up by the title and think it's about weed it's not...it's about an herbal tea that the turns people that drink it into zombies. Is it as corny as it sounds you ask, yup damn straight it is! Attack of the Herbals is just not going to be a crowd pleaser unless you like zombies that look like normal people or humor that just doesn't deliver.


A crate from Germany washes ashore in the little village of Lobster Cove filled with an addictive herbal tea that turns whoever drinks it into a zombie. Kind of a different concept but it just doesn't sit well as a film. Jackson has just returned home and is trying to get his old job back but it seems that everyone in town hates his guts and blames him for every single mishap.


I mean this guy is blamed for everything from failed businesses to just about anything else they can throw at him. Then there's Bennett who everyone brands a prick and be damned if he isn't one. Bennett just wants Jackson's grandparents to sell their Post office land to him so he build a huge money making Casino and bring in the idiot tourists. Unless they all each other....       
  









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The Return of Joe Rich

Release Date 8/13/2013
Directed by: Sam Auster
90 Minutes

The Return of Joe Rich from Director Sam Auster has to be one of the best flicks I have reviewed this year thus far! It's got a softy named Joe Neiderman who returns home to Chicago after his job and wife bails out on him. He decides he is ready to earn some real cash and has plans of asking his hard ass Uncle Dom for a job with him thru The Outfit- the mob with a new name.


Now Uncle Dom who is played by Armand Assante is by far my favorite character in the film- the man plays the sick, relentless cutthroat type of guy with ease. He is a crazy fuck who just made the story that much better. I don't know why but when I watch those Mob movies and they flip shit, it makes me laugh- like Sonny in The Godfather beating his sister's husband with the trashcan.
    

Now Joe decides since he is in, he should act and dress the part and watching him dance around with excitement while trying to learn a hard demeanor is comical as hell. So Uncle Dom caves and gives him a simple task to do for him and the results are hilarious and almost embarrassing. It ends up his friend has double the balls of him.


They drug uncle Dom and chain him up in the cooler room- which reminded me of Reservoir Dogs where the cop lost his ear- trying to break him down to agree to their plan. A unique part of the flick is that there is actual documentary footage of 10 real Chicago Mob Guys ages 73 to 89 that tell you some of the real experiences they had from their pasts. Great and fun film- pick it up!

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Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles

Release Date: April 23, 2013
Directed by: Gregory Orr
90 Minutes

Craig, Tracy and Derek head out to the Adirondack mountains for a camping trip to hang
out and have some much needed fun. Derek is leaving soon to go into the service and they
just want to enjoy their moments together. Tracy wanders aimlessly thru the woods looking
for a place to go to the bathroom and stumbles upon a this huge amazing house.


Now for some stupid reason she just thinks "hey let me go inside", most normal people wouldn't pull that shit. She heads back tells the others and they all crash in there while a nasty storm rages. They wake up to the owners busting their asses and soon the whole Invasion of the Body Snatchers theme kicks in and the clones come out.  

           

An exact replica of each of them comes along who are smarter, stronger, and plan on
burying the originals in the backyard. They could have their memories, experiences,
and knowledge but thankfully couldn't read their minds. Each set are plotting on how to
get rid of the other group.     


Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles is not a bad watch but it felt really drawn out at times
but I'll admit I am a person who loses interest or becomes bored easily. It's hard to keep up in
the film industry especially in todays world when just about everything already has been done.
However, if you wanna know who wins you'll have to watch it yourself- I'll never tell!     

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