B-D reviewers Ryan Daley, Tex Massacre, Room 237 and Don Krouskop are all back with new reviews for you guys to check out while you're bored at work. I think you guys will find something here that either A: You never heard of and should see, or B: Have heard of and now will know whether or not to check it out. Read on for six new looks at older films that are all available on DVD. Also inside is our first ever review of Jonathan King's Black Sheep, which the Weinstein's picked up for US distribution at the AFM this past week!
Black Sheep review by Vapor Rub: "The goal is to have you sit back, relax and have one hell of a good time. Mission accomplished. The theaters screamed, cheered, claps, laughed and gasped at all the right moments- Jonathan King just might become our new Peter Jackson..."
Ghost of Mae Nak review by Tex Massacre: "Duffield’s approach to the film suffers from a decidedly western gracelessness and while this might make the film more readily accessible to American audiences it also hinders the emotion behind the storytelling – turning the death scenes into Hollywood styled slaughters and neglecting the often equally shocking but wholly more subdued tones of true J-horror."
Dead Man's Shoes review by Room 237: "There is an emotional core to the movie that catches your attention and slowly sucks you in. By the end I was quite immersed in the story, and was surprised at how many feelings ran through my head. It gets my highest possible recommendation – make sure this one is on your list of must-see movies."
Mortuary review by Room 237: "OK, well. I feel bad that I wasted about two hours of my time watching this film, and feel even worse to be wasting your time, dear reader - who have actually gotten this far in my review."
Grizzly review by Don Krouskop: "Even thirty years and hundreds of JAWS carbon copies later, GRIZZLY has too few original ideas and too few good points of its own to escape the shadow of the film it was mimicking and stand on its own two hairy feet."
Raw Meat review by Ryan Daley: "Surprisingly gruesome for an early 70’s studio release, Raw Meat is still only a moodily-shot melodrama that blatantly refuses to capitalize on the potential of its own morbid plot... Although not an absolute failure, Raw Meat is just too inconsistent in tone to be considered a successful addition to the genre."
in response to Tex Massacre's review of GHOST OF MAE NAK...
He says that KWAIDAN (1965)is "arguable [sic] the first J-Horror film"... hate to nitpick here, but actually there's no argument whatsoever, KWAIDAN is most certainly not the first J-Horror film. ONIBABA was released the year before and Nobuo Nakagawa had been directing horror films since the mid-50s. Both ONIBABA and Nakagawa's JIGOKU (1960) had elements and precursory themes of what we now call J-Horror. Can't speak for Nakagawa's earlier work because I haven't seen it.
Anyway, hate to be a nuisance, but there it is.
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