Hellmaster aka Soulstealer, is a 1992 horror film about a crazy college professor (John Saxon) who uses his students as guinea pigs turning them into crazed killers, according to Wikipedia. I had to watch this on a site called TubiTV because it wasn’t available for free anywhere else. LINK
Its exactly what it says on the box, its messed up, has some humour (intentional or not), some gore, a standard but confused slasher-fest with a few cool moments. It loses itself often. Hard to say if the writers even new or achieved what they were going for.
Terrified is a 2018 horror film from Argentina. A group of people experience poltergeist-like activity in their homes, weird things happen, a child comes back from the grave, paranormal investigators arrive, more weird things happen, a bizarre creature appears, and there’s an unresolved ending. Interesting rather enjoyable film. My subs were not the best, but it didn’t matter too much.
2.5 stars. Was enjoyable despite a language barrier.
★★★
#3 – Visions of Suffering (2006)
Visions of Suffering is a low budget Russian film from 2006. Its a lot of odd visuals, filters, effects, CGI, camera shaking and weird sound effects. Its also 2 hours long. I wasn’t sure what was going on, but according to Letterboxd:
A surreal world you may never wake from. Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
https://letterboxd.com/film/visions-of-suffering/
1.5 stars. It’s definitely weird, but it’s just too long and incoherent. The director/screenplay writer has some other films I will be checking out – if i can find them – because even with its problems it still was visually cool and definitely bizarre.
Going to try and watch 1 horror movie each day in October. Will I achieve this? Probably not. Will also do a very short review and star rating.
#1 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
The Final Chapter! Part 4! of 12 movies! I know I have seen 1 and 2, pretty sure I haven’t seen 3, or 4, until now. Four is…well, not much happens at all. Very slow until the last 25mins or so. There’s no big scares, there’s some horror but not much, and it doesn’t add anything we don’t already know to the mythology. Stars Corey Feldman, and Tom Savini returns for make up but he never gets a chance to shine (except for the Jason “death” scene).
2 stars. Nothing really happens, but its watchable enough.
Propagandhi – The Only Good Fascist Is a Very Dead Fascist
Swastikas and Klan-robes. Sexist, racist, homophobes. Aryan-Nations and Hammerskins: you can wear my nuts on your nazi chins! God, I love a man in uniform! (But, uh, before we get too intimate here, big fella): what exactly are the great historical accomplishments of “your” race that make you proud to be white? Capitalism? Slavery? Genocide? Sitcoms? Guns? War? Pollution? Addiction? NAFTA? Thigh-Master? This is your fucking white-history, my “friend”. So why don’t we start making a history worth being proud of and stat fighting the real fucking enemy: the white male capitalist supemacist. Swastikas and Klan-robes. Sexist, racist, homophobes. This one’s for the “Master Race”: my brown-power ass in your white-power face! Kill them all and let a Norse God sort ’em out!
Built like a dream out of the past. Crushing generations with a foggy mass of seething anger and unhealed wounds. I can’t make this right but don’t be confused.
I am a rifle. I am this blockade. I’m banners and violence and car-bombs and riots. I am a rifle. I am this blockade. I am the fire of a thousand murdered sons.
Don’t look to me to give the future back. Don’t look to me to rework the past. I’m only here to bring things to a head. You can cover your ears, it doesn’t change who I am.
I am a rifle. I am this blockade. I’m banners and violence and car-bombs and riots. I am a rifle. I am this blockade. I am the fire of a thousand murdered sons.
I haunt the Chilcotin. I stalk Palestine. I fueled Rwanda’s worst. I held Lasagna’s hand. I’m one hundred shades of hunger.
I am a rifle. I am this blockade. I am the fire of a thousand murdered sons. I am resistance. I am your problem. I’m not leaving and I am your fault.
Brauerei Früh am Dom – Früh Kölsch, 4.8% 500ml can. Probably one of the best? In my eyes, yes. Its very damn good. Clear awesome light amber to dark straw colour, great head, lots of spidery lacing. Its dry but light, crisp and fast, then a bit of malt and nice light bitter finish. Nice carbonation. Basic but thats what you want. A great beer.
Brewery Omer Vander Ghinste – VanderGhinste Roodbruin, 5.5% 250ml bottle. A Belgian Roodbruin, a red-brown Flanders Sour ale made from blending what I gather is an oud-bruin type base beer that is blended with a Lambic and then aged in oak barrels for 18 months.
The colour is a brown – dark copper, its quite clear with a hint of reddishness. Very light head, just a ring with very mild lacing. Lots of carbonation going on in there. The smell is excellent, a real sour character as opposed to modern kettle sours, oakey barrel notes and a slight malty carmel sweetness. The taste is fantastic, an extremely well balanced caramel malt flavour, a nice sweetness, then a firm but not lingering sourness, before the oakey dryness on the end. Very interesting sweetness that sits well and is enhanced by while enhancing the nice sourness. Extremely drinkable. Really nice, and quite different as well.
