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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Fido (2006)

Happy New Year everyone. Here's the 1st post of 2008 and what a lot I've got to write about.

Firstly I've been watching a tonne of films over the Christmas holiday period, some great and some not so great!

I'll start off with one of the good ones.

Fido is a film about a boy and his zombie. Imagine a Lassie film, with a zombie adopting the role of Lassie and the concept behind the last few scenes of Shaun of the Dead, thats basically it. If it wasn't for the zombie element it would be quite a heart warming family film, it still kinda is... until the zombies start killing and eating people!

The film is set in the 50's after the great 'Zombie War', a time when the earth was plagued by a deadly zombie virus bringing back to life all of the dead. The zombies have since been domesticated thanks to a special flesh-inhibiting electrified collar and now work for the living as slaves (i.e; the end of Shaun of the Dead).

Fido is a zombie, a luxury must have household assistant to the Robinson family. He soon becomes a replacement father figure in the life of the young Timmy Robinson, his own father not interested at all in him, afraid of getting too close just in case he may one day have to kill him (if he or anyone else turns into a zombie).


What pleased me the most about this film is the almost unrecognizable Billy Connolly playing the lead role 'Fido'. He literally has no lines in the movie other than the occasional moan but expresses so much in his facial expressions (or lack of) and zombie shuffling, a brilliant and interesting role for the comedian.

John Rambo / Rambo 4 (2008)

Here's the second trailer. Looks like a worthy contender for 2008's 'Best Use of Jam' award!

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!).

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.

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.

Nice!