Unintentionally Hilarious Work Safety Video

I've seen enough boring work safety videos in my time but this is absolutely brilliant.

The guy at 3:20 is just one finger away from having a permanent rock horn (a.k.a. Metallica Rules!). Awesome!

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Planet Terror (2007)

I won't pussyfoot around, Planet Terror is an absolutely awesome film and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes cheesy horror films, gore, guns, hot girls and did I mention it... gore!

Its infinitely better than Quentin Tarantino's boring and drawn out Death Proof (which to those who don't know was the other half of 'Grindhouse' - a feature film that contained two films bundled with four fake trailers, originally screened in its entirety in America).

Directed by Robert Rodriguez, this is probably one of the most entertaining films I've seen this year. I was laughing through most of the film, laughing at the ridiculous plot, the over exaggerated death scenes and characters such as the one played by Naveen Andrews (Sayid from Lost) who collects testicles and carries them around in a jar/carrier bag!

The female lead, Rose McGowan just looks stunning as Cherry Darling, the ex Go-Go dancer with ambitions of grandeur. As you can tell from the poster, Cherry looses her leg and has a machine gun in its place (introduced later in the film). This is simply fantastic and will be remembered in the future as a unique and iconic character.


The special effects are brilliant, well all the visuals are. Similar to Death Proof, this film has the same grainy/scratched look to it although it seems to work better here. The blood effects are some of the juciest I've seen, splattering everywhere. I'd like to think they used some old special effect styles instead of using just CGI, especially with FX veteran Tom Savini in the cast (he plays one of the cops).

This version of the film comes attached with one of the original, and probably best of the fake trailers - 'Machete' from the original Grindhouse (although Machete is now being made into a full length movie, can't wait to see that!).

Aliens Vs. Preadtor: Requiem (2007)

Aliens V. Predator: Requiem (a.k.a AvPr) looks pretty good from the trailer although I seem to remember the first AvP having a similar appeal until watching the film and realizing it was made by an over exited five year old, high on e-numbers (otherwise known as Paul W.S. Anderson!). This film however is directed by a couple of brothers (Colin & Gregg Strause) who were behind some of the great visual effects seen in 300 so I'll give it a chance.

Plane Dead (2007)

'Plane Dead' (a.k.a. Flight of the Living Dead) looks even dumber than the Samuel L. Jackson film, 'Snakes on a Plane' (although for arguments sake, "Snakes" was pretty enjoyable).

I'm sure I'll probably end up watching it!

Grindhouse - The Fake Trailers

As mentioned in my Death Proof review, here are the specially made trailers that featured in between the main presentations in the Grindhouse movie. The image is a bit stretched unfortunately (probably taken using a video phone) but you'll get the idea!



Machete; Directed by Robert Rodriguez, starring Danny Trejo (this may be coming out as a full feature!).
Werewolf Women of the SS; Directed by Rob Zombie, starring Nicholas Cage.
Don't; Directed by Edgar Wright, starring Simon Pegg.
Thanksgiving; Directed by Eli Roth, starring Michael Biehn.

I totally love these! Hopefully a Grindhouse special edition DVD will be released somewhere, sometime with both movies and all these great trailers included.

Disturbia (2007)

Disturbia is basically a modern update of the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film 'Rear Window'.

Its an enjoyable movie and the update really works well for the iPod/YouTube generation. Rather than having the lead house bound due to an illness/disability the main character is under house arrest with a monitoring device strapped to his leg, alerting the police if he strays more than 100ft from his house.

The lead is played by Shia LaBeouf, this guy seems to be getting some amazing roles at the moment - Transformers and the new Idiana Jones film (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) to mention a few. He's also got to star with some stunning women, Megan Fox & Sarah Roemer, not that I'm jealous or anything (lucky bastard!).

Anyway, its a great suspense/thriller which works really well and I recommend it. Find the trailer below.

Resident Evil 5

Its practically a film. Looks absolutely awesome!

Phantasm II (1988)

Just a quick post to say, watch this film - its great!

For anyone not familiar with the original movie, there's an evil tall man that runs the crematorium. He takes all the dead bodies, reanimates them and at the same time reduces them to the size of midgets (which look identical to Star Wars Jawa's!). He then uses the midgets as his slaves who work in another dimension, doing what I'm not quite sure. Oh yeah, the crematorium is guarded by these weird floating orbs with strange killing attachments.

The second film follows the only two survivors of the first movie. Its a revenge fest filled with a tonne of action, some dueling chainsaws, gore, extra gore and a bit more gore.

Anyone with a good eye for detail will notice the reference to Evil Dead's, Sam Raimi (his ashes are sealed in a bag during the cremation scene).

Just watch it if you like Evil Dead and other similar movies.

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Santo & Blue Demon Vs. Dracula & the Wolfman (1973)

I have absolutely no idea how I found this film, probably a night of drunken Amazon surfing - I've bought many strange things doing that!

Anyway, 'Santo & Blue Demon Vs. Dracula & the Wolfman' (what a title!) is pretty much a regular monster flick (similar to a Hammer horror movie) except the heroes are a couple of Mexican wrestlers who, when not wrestling, act as detectives (wearing the mysterious wrestling masks at all time).

The most bizarre thing I found about this was at intervals during the film there would be several rounds of wrestling. These scenes rarely have any relevance to the overall story but are fun nether the less (the commentary is hilarious).

This film is part of a series of similar themed movies which usually feature the title of, 'Santo Vs. *enter monster name here*'. Santo is one of Mexico's most well known characters, often compared in popularity to James Bond (007).

Here's a clip from the movie, Santo wears the silver mask by the way.

The Devils Backbone (2001)

The Devils Backbone is a ghost story set during the Spanish Civil War.

Directed by Guillermo Del Toro this has some similarities to his recent and most successful film Pan's Labyrinth in the way it mixes fantasy with war torn Spain. Its a bit of a strange mix but works really well overall especially when its all spoken in Guillermo's native tongue.

The film's based at an orphanage where the ghost of a murdered child haunts the corridors and attaches itself to the newest orphan, Carlos. Carlos follows the ghost and eventually discovers how he was murdered after questioning the other children.

Meanwhile the janitor, a mid twenty-something who has lived at the orphanage since a child has ideas about stealing the orphanage's hidden gold supply for his own benefit.

Both stories come together for the explosive finale and some pretty gruesome stabbing scenes.



I really enjoyed the special effects in this film because they are so subtle. The ghost boy is really simplistic at first appearance but when you get to see his face close up you'll notice some great water effects. It wasn't until I saw one of the 'making of' features on the disc (only available on this region 1 special edition by the way!) that some of the scenes I thought were real were actually made using some really awesome animatronic puppetry.

I would recommend this to anyone that enjoyed Pan's Labyrinth. Guillermo is a really interesting director and one to definitely watch out for in the future.