Review: Fire In The Sky

We take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to present you with some sci-fi/horror.

First i'd like to start by saying this is the best abduction movie I have ever seen. Admittedly, I have not seen a whole bunch, but this also isn't my first time around - and I really liked what this movie presented. I'd also like to say that "Based on a true story" pretty much up's the scare factor by 5 almost immediately for this reviewer.

Quick story summary: Travis Walton and 4 co-workers go into the mountains to work on a job. While on their way back, they see a beam of light in the trees where they are driving. Travis decides he is going to go out for a closer look and gets blasted by the beam of light and his co-workers assume the worst and leave him for dead. When they return to find him, he is gone. The search goes on and his co-workers are held for murder charges. After several days and the co-workers all passing lie detector tests, Travis comes back and matches the story with his co-workers. He was never proven wrong.

Now a note on that last line. After some research there are some people who think this is an absolute and well constructed hoax, I however do not fall in that camp which gives the movie and the book it's based on a lot more of a "creepy" factor. This coming from a guy who does not traditionally believe in alien abduction.

The acting in this film is above average. Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) does a good job playing Travis' best friend and convey's a believable amount of emotion when he is trying to describe the unbelievable. Craig Sheffer and D.B Sweeney, the other two notables do the same to give this story a way to suspend disbelief.

So, onto the horror aspect of this film.

The abduction sequence is awesome in the most terrifying way.

                                                                       Behold!

The scene itself is unfortunately very short, and is by far the only "scary" sequence in the film. What the scene lacks in length though, it makes up for with a sheer visceral presentation. The editing is quick and disorienting. Not in a way that would make you sick though, just in a way that convey's the frantic nature and the intensity of the situation.

This film was recommended before I had watched it, and It held up it's end of the bargain. I have no hesitation recommending this film, especially if you are a fan of the alien abduction genre. One complaint might be the ending, it definitely could have used some work as it ends in a weird place.

Here is the trailer:

4.5 spaceships out of a possible 5.

Watch This: The Sleepover

Just a quick post today to bring this short film to the attention of what is hopefully more people.

The Sleepover

This is a very clever short film that puts the slasher film into the real world.

Take a look and spread the dread.

I Will Only Fear the Atomic Holocaust If It Is Not Telecast by Danny Doom: Part Two

 Fail Safe (1964)  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djqlAT-7be4

Two versions of this movie exist. The link above is for the remake, which I haven't ever been able to watch. Do yourself a favour and find the one with Walter Matthau and Henry Fonda from 1964. It begins at a dinner party, a well dressed consultant speculating on 60 versus 100 million dead theorizes nuclear war survivors being a group of prison convicts versus file clerks.Who will win? All in good fun he says, but for him, merely a lie be told to the unaware. Later on the drive home he takes a woman to the brink of orgasm by describing her armageddon fantasy to her. The loss of this scene in the remake means it just doesn't work for me, extra points if you can guess why it was cut. Each scene in the movie exists to forward an idea, each one builds on the other. People and  their perspectives of how they deal with what turns out to be a very bad day. The movie works slowly, but builds itself by generating real emotion to what is happening and who it is happening to. The central theme of this movie is the danger of the terrible accident sparking the nuclear war, but around this core the tapestry of issues woven by the story are complex and emotional, and truly about the people within it. 

This movie offers a great deal of deliberation and philosophy, its slow moving. Yet that's the essential beauty of the whole story, the exposition is meant to make these people more than just soldiers or statesmen. Rather they are real people faced with the moment of agonizing and horrible choices which they have talked about for so long, only to be reduced by the moment to silence, or brief moments of connection with strangers who mere hours before were simply enemies. However if I have anything to say about this movie, it is that its ending is a happy one. By this I mean you'll be happy that it's over so you can go outside, read a book, see a friend, play music or watch the way water boils. Anything to remind yourself that it's just a movie.

When The Wind Blows   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdtpvoOXn2o

I have tried several times to start how to review this movie. Each time I put it on for ten or fifteen minutes at a time and watch. Then I have to stop writing, or watching and do something else. This movie is so painful and depressing, but it is by far the best movie about nuclear war. You can think of James and Hilda Bloggs as mere simpletons. But you begin to play with the reflections, and all of the sudden you realize these are not hopeless people, but a representation of all of us, or of people you know and loved. I always see them as a mixture of my grandparents. You realize for people trapped in the insanity of nuclear horror only sympathy or pain can be felt. That this is not a noble ending, but a brutal one, or an agonizing one.

 Ultimately, these kind and simple people should not have to ever live in a world where something so mind defying and utterly violent as nuclear weapons exists. If Fail Safe was the statesman's struggle to define a world of nuclear war, and the terrors it brings this is the attempt from the rest of us. The theme of both movies is a quiet almost prayerful plea, an admission that we are not ready to handle or control these forces. That they may spiral out of control all too quickly, and leave us in a strange gulf where we no longer know how to live.

I couldn't end this review without one final thought. HP Lovecraft in his genius envisioned a terrifying power called Azathoth, a nuclear chaos demon god which spawned all the other horrors of his pantheon. The demon god which devours all at the end within the maw of madness. Devouring to the sound of horrible piping flutes. Flutes which drive those who hear them mad. As much as we know the horror which full scale nuclear war would unleash, the millions dead, the planet destroyed. Another part of us has a strange lust for it. The way it would feel, the power we'd have if we were the ones choosing to decide when the world would die. After all the joy of power in possessing an ultimate weapon is in its use.  We as human beings are not beyond this. I've linked one of the better articles on nuclear war below however my own reaction to one paragraph is what interests and scares me personally.

I had seen some of the smaller bombs myself, H-bombs with an explosive yield of 1.1 megatons each—equivalent to 1.1 million tons of high explosive, each bomb half the total explosive power of all the bombs of World War II combined. I saw them slung under single-pilot F-100 fighter-bombers on alert at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa, ready to take off on 10 minutes’ notice. On one occasion I had laid my hand on one of these, not yet loaded on a plane. On a cool day, the smooth metallic surface of the bomb was warm from the radiation within: a bodylike warmth.

My only thought to this is:  I want to touch a nuclear weapon too!

http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2009/09/11_ellsberg_hundred_holocausts.php

-Danny Doom

I Will Only Fear the Atomic Holocaust If It Is Not Telecast by Danny Doom: Part One

When I was young my parents and I were travelling in North Dakota near the air force base at Minot. My father was slowing down as each B-52 bomber roared overhead on takeoff. Craning his head for a view of the gigantic war machine as it flew off towards its failsafe point, or armageddon. As we drove my mother was more interested in what was in the farmer's fields. Missile silos, they are pretty much spaced as evenly as houses there. Her demeanour was that of a pacifist inspecting a division of soldiers, flaming swords in hand, singing Christian old time revival songs: "Bringing in the sheaves! Bringing in the sheaves! We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves!" 

 Later on in life I learned the Hopi have a lovely name for nuclear weapons, the Gourd of Ashes. Poignant and poetic, describing so much of their ability in so little words. Much later in life I was writing this article, this very sentence actually I asked my Dad about that day near Minot and asked him what he would have done if as we drove past those white silos they opened and launched their beautiful arcing missiles until all we could hear was the roar of the rockets as they carried the death of millions encased within them. My Dad was laughing as he answered, perhaps because he was seriously answering. "I would have pulled over, got out of the van and made love to your mother." I was suitably horrified but realized, that considering we'd probably die minutes later, it would seem infinitely preferable to living at that point. My father, earning the distinction as one of the only beings which have made me wish for nuclear annihilation.

A part of me is absolutely fascinated by it, after all. Not about my parents having sex, but nuclear war. For a civilization based on the supposed pillars of reason and rationality, the act of killing one's own species is an act one has to be completely rational, or completely mad to contemplate. So if your like me and enjoy putting on the atomic thinking cap, come enjoy the four best nuclear war films. After all if you can't drop the bomb, you might as well watch others do it.

The Power of Decision  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXqS9-8kzwc

When the United States Air Force decides to give you a vision of nuclear war from the 1950's as a nuclear war lover, you quickly press play and ignore all other needs. From the cool and collected narrator we learn that no one wins in a nuclear war, but that success is possible. What this film lacks in production values and plotline, it makes up for in general eerie quality of honesty and optimism that these men take with them into the holocaust. There's a faith in the technology and systems of destruction which shines through, no one panics, no one questions. A study in horror which is horrifying because there seems to be an absence of the reaction to the horrific. It would be easy to make fun of this film, but to do so misses the point of the ideas it presents, and the ideals it serves. A wiser soul then me once wrote "A war story is never about war" which means its about the people telling it, what they have to say and what they see. Keep that in mind when you see this movie. There's where the real horror is.

Note the relaxed way the casualties from civilian targets are announced, how the cost in lives is eclipsed by what really matters, the loss of aircraft and pilots. We may not understand what happens after the war begins, but we know these are the kind of men who will lead us into that war. This is the essential quality of humans which allows us to be the fountain of horrors, our ability to become that person who will calmly destroy a city, disconnected from the effect, doing our duty and following orders.

 The War Game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrGg8PfkbZw

If The Power Of Decision had an ugly twin that it never wanted you to see, this movie is it. This film provides a different set of facts and figures to be calculated, and aims at the gut with the whole effort of its blow. If you had to give one movie to a person to have them understand the full flowering of horror that nuclear war represents for a society and its structures of order you`d have to seriously consider The War Game as the ultimate movie. Throughout the movie, when facing the sheer weight of facts and figures it provides, is an understated point, given in a typically British way that any nuclear exchange would irreparably devastate the lives of millions and end the world as we once knew it forever. It makes this point without seeking to preach it, or hand it to you on a platter. It merely opens the door to the abyss and through the assistance of dramatized moments, lets your mind explore the truth of what these weapons can do. 

However, that being said, you will at times in this movie begin to, depending on your temperment, laugh uncontrollably or gasp in abject horror as the dramatic scenes are often cut by some of the most poignant counterpoint commentary courtesy of a black screen with white text that will ever be paired with such images. Remember, according to the Vatican nuclear bombs which are clean and of a good family the faithful must learn to live with, but you don`t need to love the bomb. Sounds like the most sensible advice I`ve heard, what if you really love the bomb though? Does the Church approve of a man or woman marrying a nuclear bomb? Ask your pastor these important questions.

-Danny Doom

The Devil Inside

4.5/5

There are many movies about exorcism and very many of them will appear very similar. Generally I'd say movies that take on this type of theme, are driving themselves heavily on the shock value and using it to pull their viewers in. William Brent Bell's "The Devil Inside" is a prime example of that, but it also delves deep into religion and science and does a great job of expressing realism.

The Devil Inside is a fictional documentary inspired by true events based on exorcism. It centers around Isabella Rossi who's mother was committed to a sanitarium in Rome after she was convicted of killing three members of clergy, while they were trying to exorcise her back in 1989. After 20 years Isabella travels to Rome to reunite with her mother, as well as create a documentary behind the study of exorcism. After spending some time in Rome she meets two young priests David and Ben, who are attending a school where priests are trained in the theory behind exorcism and mental illness. After allowing her to sit in on one of their sessions with a possessed young teenager, Isabella enlists the aid of both David and Ben to attempt to exorcise her mother and cure her of her demonic essence.

I highly recommend this movie to both horror enthusiasts and those who also like to delve into the satanic side as well. That being said apparently the Vatican did not endorse this movie(go figure) so if you're really religious then this movie might shock and appall you. Though if you've seen "The Exorcist" and didn't have a cow then you'll manage. What I really like about this movie though, is that it keeps you on edge throughout the whole film. With Most documentaries you'd expect there to be some slow parts, where it sort of brings you back to earth. This movie though rarely does that and given how intense it gets at times, you might like that little bit of a breather. Fans of the "Paranormal Activity" series will know what I mean and I think would like this movie. 

The other interesting thing is that while this movie is heavily religious based(I'm not religious at all) it doesn't really bore you, or put you off it. If you're like myself, you definitely need to suspend your beliefs, for many people that could be by a lot, but once again its a movie, not reality so if you're that critical then don't watch this. It's only 83 minutes which I'd say is a good length because it keeps you going long enough to enjoy it, but not so long that it starts to get to be too much. The effects in this film and the way it was shot were done really well.... The scenes in which they show the exorcisms are done superbly, they look very real and if you find the sounds of popping bones makes you shudder then this will make you go "ouch". This film's budget was estimated just over the million mark, but my guess would be most of that cost would have been geared towards the travelling and filming in Europe, because there's not really any huge movie magic going on and it looks pretty realistic.

My only complaint throughout this movie is that the audio is sometimes a bit on the low side. There were times where I really had to crank my speakers because the talking would get a bit quiet. That being said though it doesn't really take away from the movie and I know that when you do film a movie like this, there are bound to be some parts that may sound a little less audible then others.

I streamed this movie off Netflix so you can go check it out there, or if you are in a small town that maybe still has video stores, I'd strongly recommend giving this a rent. Either way check it out!

Here's a chilling trailer of the movie:

   

The Entity Review

2/5

The Entity is a film by Sidney J. Furie, fictionalizing true events of a paranormal activity. The movie stars Barbara Hershey(Once Upon a Time, Black Swan) who portrays Carla Moran, a single mother who's plagued by a horny sex ghost, who's hellbent on nailing her into oblivion......I'm not even joking.

The best way I could describe this movie would be "horrific ghost porn". Without rhyme or reason this malevolent force starts attacking Carla and forcing itself upon her, at first it seems to want to kill her and then we are shown this entity has other plans.

Within the first 10 minutes of this movie, you get an idea of where its going. One of the things right from the get go I liked about this movie was the music. It's dark and haunting and sets a really good mood. From the introduction to the encounters with the "Entity" the tone is addressed well.

While watching this movie the way the film was shot, reminded me a lot of John Carpenter's "Halloween". There are a lot of scenes with shifty cam shots and scenes where the camera is outside the scene panning in on the characters. It makes it appear as if the "Entity" itself is watching Carla. It's a very unique style of filming for its time and helps to build suspense. Speaking of unique for its time, some of the effects used in this movie are also quite impressive.

Without spoiling too much detail, there is an erotic scene in which Hershey is in bed and she is being pleased by the demonic force and you can actually see where she's being touched, without being touched.... Yeah that's right.

Now unfortunately there was a lot I didn't like about this movie. Right from the first encounter with the force, I was in a state of confusion which lasted throughout most of the movie. Where did this thing come from? Why is it only coming after her? What is the tie in with both of them? It's never really explained, at least not in a way that I think a casual viewer would really understand. To be fair, you have to suspend belief a fair bit as is and something like this can't really be explained, but it doesn't really help carry the plot. I mean yeah Barbara Hershey is really attractive in this film and this ghost must have seen her walking down the street with her kids and was like " boooooooo she's a hot momma! I'm gonna use my sex ghost powers on her and make her my bitch!"

I mean who knows, your guess is as good as mine. Another thing that disappointed me was, as much as the music and filming style helped build suspense and make the mood eerie, when it came to the attacks themselves, I found myself laughing a couple times because they weren't all that suspenseful and at times looked kind of silly. In particular, the very first time the entity comes after Carla in the first few minutes of the movie. Also there's a scene in the bathroom that also didn't scare me or put me on edge, as much as it did kinda make me go " wow she's really getting it ". I felt myself wanting to hit the fast forward button a few times, to see if I could get to any scenes that opened my eyes, but I found I wasn't really into the story. As her encounters progressively get worse, she attempts to seek help from a psychiatrist and then later on parapsychologists and I found by that point I really started to lose interest. The Psychiatrist Dr Sniderman was a good character. He tries to make Carla rationalize her encounters as delusions and suggests that if she can realize it as such then she will stop having them. 

On the other side, the parapsychologists are working against him and trying to prove this entity is as real as it seems. If there is any hidden meaning this film is trying to promote, it would be science vs the paranormal. However in this movie I found this is where it started to get boring and at times got more confusing.

If you're a fan of movies like "Poltergeist" and "Halloween" You might be interested in this movie. I know people who have seen it and liked it a fair bit, so you may not have the same outlook as I have. However my personal opinion is that if you don't see this movie, you're not missing much and to be honest I think "Poltergeist" is way better in showcasing the paranormal then what this one did, but at the same time........ Horrific Ghost Porn...

Here's the trailer, you make the decision

The Exorcist III

The Exorcist 3
1990 110 mins
4/5

I think the first statement i'm going to make here is the most important in this whole review. If you haven't seen this movie, you should watch it.

I'm pretty much familiar with two camps. Those who say anything past the exorcist is terrible, and those who seem to think that the 3rd entry into the series is an under appreciated gem. I would fall in to the latter camp. While this movie can in no way hold a candle to the original, this film does enough things correct to at least merit a watch.

To keep the plot point brief, this story focuses on 2 characters from the 1st movie; Kinderman and Father Dyer. It examines their relationship after the events of the first movie and shows how they deal with a seemingly supernatural killer on the loose.

One thing that works really well for this movie is that it does not try to be the first one all over again, I think had they tried that angle, this movie would have fell flat on it's face. The other thing that this film does really well is set a good atmosphere. It's a very dark film and I feel the way the scenes were shot were very well done. This is made all the more impressive considering this movie was directed by William Peter Blatty, the man who wrote the book and who only had one other feature under his belt 10 years prior.

To demonstrate how well this is shot, i'm going to re-show an oft-referenced scene:

You can try to prepare for it, but the way the music is placed and how the scene is framed and drawn out, really gives it a classic, jump scare feeling, one of which more modern films tend not to get right.

The acting here is in general quite well done, Brad Dourif is by far the stand out actor, as he gives a monologue that could be nightmare inducing for the right people.

A couple of downsides remain. This movie, as with the book, does not need to make reference to the Exorcist movie. If it weren't for the last portion, not a single exorcism would take place, and even then that was tacked on to the end for, I suppose, continuity purposes. I don't feel like the film suffers a great deal because of it, but it's certainly not necessary.

My other criticism would be that aside from a few small things, the film isn't actually *scary* per se. It's more like an intriguing murder mystery with a lot of religious symbolism thrown in, which I still really enjoyed and found refreshing.

This is an easy film to recommend. I'm only disappointed that I went so long without seeing it, as I think it's a well made film by someone who wouldn't be considered a well known director.

2 Heads are better then one?

2 TIMES THE TERROR!  2 TIMES THE BIMBOS! 2 TIMES THE STUPID!


Oh dear...... Here we go! This movie is soooooo baaaa... Oh wait, ok let me explain the movie first!
It Starts off with a group of college students who venture on an expedition out at sea, to study the world of marine life and the splendors it holds. While out in the middle of the "ocean" (you'll see why I put quotations later) a big dead shark gets trapped under their boat and breaches the hull, causing them to lose power and become stranded out in the middle of nowhere. A group of the students are forced to take the lifeboats and venture to a small little island where they search for supplies and assistance, while a small team stays on board to attempt to make repairs. As you might have guessed, whatever killed the shark that got stuck under their boat has now come upon a smorgasbord of people to chomp on and now the group must survive this menace! Headed up by an "all-star" cast, this movie features Brooke Hogan, Carmen Electra and Charlie O'Connell, who is brother to the equally irritating Jerry O'Connell.

Listed below are the notes I took while watching the movie, at first I was going to write an elaborate review with likes and dislikes and what not, but I honestly believe these notes will say it all. Keep in mind there are spoilers in here so if you don't want to be spoiled(I don't think you can spoil an already dumb movie) then don't read the notes. Again there are ** SPOILERS**

-Bad acting

-Jerry O'Connell's brother looks exactly like him and he's just as irritating.

- Horrible dialogue

- There is one scene where these 2 girls scream simultaneously and I just about lost my shit laughing so hard. 8 and a half minutes in.

- This would be a porn if it wasn't a "horror" movie

-Ok so first these characters are fucking stupid and then they start getting scientific.....Riiiiiiight, smart morons?

-There is a guy who is the I'm guessing Spanish version of Quint from Jaws.

-Carmen Electra is horny and she wants to fuck this other chick, also while everyone is looking at this big dead shark, she is just smiling and showing off her boobs. I'm only 10 mins in....

- Whoever did the film editing for this sucks, they go back and forth between the propellers under the boat and the people on it and it looks like the propellers are coming after them.

-Oh by the way the sharks roar like lions.

-This movie has your typical nerd character, he's one of those genius types you probably should listen to, but instead he just gets ignored.

- So for some reason the island these guys get stranded on is sinking.

- You can tell the shark attack scenes are mostly CGI'd or filmed against a green screen, after every attack the scene goes dark and then shifts to somewhere else. You can tell where they stop recording.

-I will say the women in this movie are smoking hot and they all have nice boobs, even old bag electra is pretty good looking in this. What? I have to say something positive about this movie!

-The one liners are sooooooo bad! I can tell these guys must have had a really fun time filming this though. It's really bad but obviously that's what they are going for....Wait....What?! They were going for serious and intense?! Who the fuck are these idiots!?

- You can tell they didn't film in the same body of water. one shot shows it as choppy seas and the one where the boat is actually in the water, it's like glass. One is salt water and the other is freshwater.

- Oh shit this black guy just got pwned!

- Ok there is this one scene where the remaining survivors are planning what they are going to do and the whole thing is just shot so bad. Everyone waits their turn to say something, its like they are speaking on queue.

-2 headed shark..... Double the terror!...  Double the bimbos!....Double the stupid!

-Somehow the shark can create tsunami's?

-Charlie O'Connell and Carmen Electra are killed in an epic Michael Bay like way.

-Brooke Hogan who turns out to be the unsung hero, is terrified of water, yet her fear never seems to get in the way of when she has to go in.

-"knock, knock....Who's there?......TWO HEADED SHARK!!!!!"

-Ok so this shark has the power summon tsunami's and obliterate boats, but it can't bust through a riggidy old shed to get the remaining survivors?!

-MICHAELBAYSPLOSIONS!!!!!

-The End!

So after reading those notes you can make the decision to see it or not. It's a dumb B movie and if you're a fan of dumb B movies, you'll probably get a kick out of it, if not then maybe you won't, either way its not the end of the world if you don't see this movie, but it could be the end of 87 mins of your life! muahahahaha

So what do I rate this movie? 2 heads out of 5!

Here's the trailer!:

For more info on 2 Headed Shark Attack click here:http://www.theasylum.cc/product.php?id=194

A tale of two trailers

And now presenting something that is a first for this blog... Something that is NOT  review!

Recently, as much of the internet is aware the red band trailer for Evil Dead recently was unveiled. Now while getting a red band is certainly a good sign, I couldn't help but watch the trailer very skeptically.

But first the trailer in question:

Looks pretty cool to me! What concerns me the most about this trailer though is how excited and jacked up everyone is getting about it. I remember when the first of the remake's started happening and yes, the trailers looked pretty good most of the time, but when the films actually hit, they were dud's. As a big Evil Dead fan, my hope is that most people will approach this with muted enthusiasm... This film has the potential to be good, but since it's opening in the time of the "modern" horror film, It could also be destined for failure. I'm also very interested to see how Bruce Campbell's involvement with the picture affects things. This by no means looks like another "My name is Bruce", but everything this man has touched in the past... oh 10 years has all been a steaming pile (And again, this is coming from a BIG Bruce fan.) I just don't have the fan boy in me anymore to justify the film atrocities the man has been involved with.

I want this film to be good, I just think it really has to overcome some problems that the genre faces as a whole at this current juncture.

Now to completely flip flop on everyone, I had the pleasure of seeing a completely different trailer for a different movie today. The "Reboot" of MANIAC!

Alternate trailer found here: http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3202012/international-maniac-trailer-scalps-ties-and-slashes-nsfw/

Now this one i'm not so worried about. What makes me think this one might succeed is that is a remake of one of the more under appreciated and less talked about films from the slasher genre. I also think the casting of Elijah Wood is an interesting and unorthodox choice. His casting is either going to propel the film to a new level of remake success, or it could backfire and simply make too unbelievable (This is Frodo after all). 

My sincerest desire is for both of these films to be excellent and that it kicks off a new standard for remakes. History tells us that this cannot be the case, but at this time, as a fan of the genre and both of the original films in question - I guess there is nothing wrong with a little hope. 

Excision Review

Excision
2012 81 minutes
4.5/5

Plot


A surgery-obsessed teen struggles with her outcast status while plotting to lose her virginity and save her sister from the ravaging effects of cystic fibrosis in this genre-bending shocker from writer/director Richard bates, Jr. Pauline (Annalynne McCord) is a pretty young girl whose penchant for picking scabs has escalated into a fanatical obsession with the flesh. Recognizing this, Pauline's stern mother insists that the young girl visit the church therapist for counseling. Incensed at the prospect of being judged by a religious hypocrite, Pauline only delves deeper into her visceral fantasies while concocting an ingenious plan to impress her mother. Meanwhile, as Pauline begins devising ways to combat her younger sister's cystic fibrosis, her adolescent hormones kick into overdrive. Traci Lords and John Waters co-star.

Review

I really enjoyed this movie a lot. I made the mistake of reading reviews beforehand, and the only thing I could say is that I didn't like any of the reviews that I read, they all made the movie sound pretty bad. I watched it anyways and I am glad that I did. 

AnnaLynne McCord was well cast as Pauline who is a sociopath but doesn't realize it.Traci Lords is a controlling bitch of a mother and also plays her part quite well. I really liked the way the movie is shot as well, the movie has a lot of dream sequences and they are all filmed in a very otherworldly manner. If I had to compare this film or find a way to describe it, I think I would say that it's a mash up of The Holy Mountain and The Chumscrubber. 

I think this movie is a pretty good example of what can be done with an extremely low budget. One complaint would be the low use of some great actors (John Waters, Ray Wise, Malcolm McDowell) but this might be attributed to that low budget. 

This is really not a film that everyone would enjoy, it will and probably should only be watched by a certain portion of the film going public. It contains *very* graphic scenes and deals with some taboo subjects. The picture below can give you an idea of what we're dealing with

                                                             (Don't say I didn't warn you)

If you like gore and subversive comedy, I think this is the film for you, just... Be prepared.

IMDB Page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1984153/

Youtube Trailer: