dog soldiers is such a killer flick
“86 Voltz: The Dead Girl”
Written by Michael Avon Oeming and Brian J.L. Glass
Art and cover by Michael Avon Oeming
2005
A very good although ignored graphic novel that would have made for a good on-going series. It tells the story of a girl reanimated by only 86 Volts of electricity. Thus her name: 86 Volts. She awakens from death with no memories and no voice. She realizes that she is endowed with the ability to generate and manipulate vast amounts of electricity. She will need them, and help from a mysterious spirit guide, to defeat an evil supernatural menace.
The character is literally a blank slate and must find her way through the world of the living. Her origin and powers make her sort of a combination of Frank from Mike Allred’s “Madman” and the Superman villain Livewire (who like her Batman counterpart Harley Quinn crossed over from the animated TV show to the comics and the regular DC comics continuity.).
I hope that Image comics and the creative team revisit this idea and this character. It would make a great companion comic to the likes of “Hellboy”, “Madman” and “The Astounding Wolf-Man” with its mix of super hero tropes and gothic horror elements.
I just watched “The Dead 2” Sunday and it blew me away! It is as good as the original “The Dead” if not better!
The like Romero’s zombie films, this film does not carry over characters from the previous film. Although you get a little glimpse when the previous films hero Brian Murphy is picked up on radio by this film’s hero when he is trying to use his CB.
The setting has been changed from Africa (specifically Burkina Faso and Ghana) to India. Nicholas Burton (played excellently by Joseph Millson) is an American electrical engineer working on a wind far in central India when the zombie plague that is ravaging Africa spreads to the subcontinent. He is desperately trying to reach his pregnant girlfriend Ishani in Mumbai with the aid of an orphan boy named Javed. Like Romero’s zombie films, the living dead are just one of their problems as the must also contend with desperate survivors and the Indian Army’s desperate attempts to control the zombie plague; including executing potential carriers.
This film has a lot of the same elements as the first. An American engineer trying to get to his family, people of different races and cultures coming together in the face of adversity and the importance of the family.
Its just as gory and violent as the previous film with lots of gruesome gore effects and scenes of gut wrenching violence.
The cinematography and direction are spot on. It is beautifully filmed and well paced. It has a lot of good scares and action sequences that never let up on the tension. And you never really think about how big India really is until you see two figures on a motorcycle crossing one of its deserts.
I highly recommend this film and the first film, and I hope they make more. (Maybe next the will go to China or Russia or South America)
If you have not seen the first film then get both and make a double feature of it. Some critics have even gone as far to say that the first film was the best zombie film since Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” or “Dawn of the Dead”.
Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!
Episode 51: Dementia 13!
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola! Produced by Roger Corman!
When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the family fortune if if her husband is alive. The Halorans are a strange family, still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter Kathleen who drowned in a pond when she was just a child. They hold an annual ceremony of remembrance every year on the anniversary of her death. This year however, someone is wielding an ax intent on murder.
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Episode 50: The Bat!
Starring Vincent Price!
A rich mystery writer rents out a mansion that is the hunting ground for a mysterious murder called “The Bat”! He stalks and kills his victims using gloves with razor-sharp claws and with pet bats infected with rabies!
Its up to the writer and her doctor (played by Price) to find who this killer really is!
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
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Episode 49: Carnival of Souls!
An eerie film that influenced such filmmakers as George A. Romero and David Lynch!
After her car falls off the side of a bridge during a drag race, Mary emerges from the river seemingly unharmed and with no memory of how she survived. After she recovers she seems to be stalked by a white faced specter, and she is drawn to an old run down carnival. Mary is slowly drawn into a nightmare world between the living and the dead. Did she really survive the crash?
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
“The Fear” from 1995 and its 1999 sequel “The Fear 2: Halloween Night” (aka “The Fear: Resurrection”).
A psychology student named Richard has reoccurring nightmares of hooded figures in Black Pete masks burying a woman, and an approaching wooden figure.
For his thesis in facing ones fears, he takes a group of friend’s to his family’s cabin where they meet his uncle, who runs a nearby Christmas themed amusement park, and Morty, a wooden mannikin that was built for Richard’s father by a local Indian shaman. Morty was used in the father’s shop but is now used as part of the fear therapy, because each of the subjects can tell Morty their worst fears and he won’t judge them. But what they don’t know is that Morty is no inanimate wooden figure… And he won’t judge them for their fears… he’ll use their fears against them!
Features a cameo appearance by Wes Craven and a soundtrack with Esham, Insane Clown Posse and The Gravediggazs.
Original drive-in trailer for “The Vampire’s Coffin” and “The Robot Vs The Aztec Mummy”.
In HYPNO-SCOPE!
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Episode 31: Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks! (aka Terror! Il castello delle donne maledette)
One of the more bizarre takes on the Frankenstein mythos. This time Count Frankenstein (that’s right, he is a count instead of a baron in this) creates a monster from the usual sources, but the extra special ingredient is a Neanderthal man for the body!
Assisting the good doctor in this little venture are a hunchback with a masochistic wife and a necrophiliac dwarf!
Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage
