Review: Brute 1976 (2025)

Review: Brute 1976 (2025)

By William Pattison

For Horror Bob’s Blog

 

This time we got a supposed love letter to films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre…

In 1976 a group of people in the desert for a photo shoot stumble upon an abandoned town called Savage. But they are not alone. A family of masked psychopaths have claimed Savage as their own and are hell bent on living up to its name.

This film is an amusing, semi comedic, homage to the 70s beginning of slasher films.

This film is clearly meant as a love letter to the 70s and such films as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes. Unfortunately, the filmmakers messed themselves up by making the character have a very 2000s knowledge of slasher films and throw in some non-70s views on homosexuality. Seriously, no one in the 70s is going to casually use the term slasher or talk about final girls. All these flubs kind of takes you out of the 70s and blatantly reminds you that this is a modern film with a 70s veneer on it, which ruins it. Well, it did for me.

I honestly think that with the slightest bit of editing this film could be a really outstanding homage, but in it’s present state it’s  a no go.

Some fans might enjoy this film, but I’m  not giving it my recommendation for the reasons I gave above.

If you want to check it out it is on Tubi TV.

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Review:Predator Badlands (2025)

Predator: Badlands (2025)

By William Pattison

For Horror Bob’s Blog

 

This time I got the latest film in the Predator Franchise.

A young Predator outcast from his clan finds an unlikely ally on his journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

I have to admit I had limited expectations with this film. I knew Disney would make this film a lot less brutal than the other films in the series and make it a typical coming of age adventure with a Predator as the main character. I wasn’t disappointed. It was exactly that. But it was a smidge better than that, and I mean a smidge. We start out with our main character who is a young Predator who has failed his training and is set to be beheaded by his father when his brother intervenes and is killed in his stead the brother, before dying throws his younger brother into a ship and sends him to a killer planet to prove himself by killing and bring back the ultimate killer species on this planet.

One good this this filmmaker does is create a nasty environment for this film. Pretty much everything on this planet is out to kill you, even the very grass is like razor blades.

Also the filmmaker managed to put in lots of blood, but it is all white, green, blue, and black, no red blood allowed because there is not one human in sight…

I thought the actor playing the young Predator did an acceptable job. He was not the Predator we’ve come to know in the earlier movies, the ultimate hunter. This guy has a lot of faults and needs the help of a simulant from the company from the Alien Franchise.

The simulant , who is played by Ell Fanning plays the part of information source, and comedy, happy, sidekick. Also, Fanning plays her “sister” simulant who is essentially the film’s villain.

All in all I was entertained by this film but this film doesn’t feel like a Predator film. It feels like a film full of buddy action, lots of cool visuals, and plenty of fighting, but the things that make a good Predator film is missing, so with that said I cannot in good conscience recommend it. I enjoyed what I saw but what I saw wasn’t even close to what it was supposed to be and what is really annoying is this film was done by the director of Prey, which was a really well done Predator film.

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Review: Site 13 (2023)

Review: Site 13 (2023)

By William Pattison

For Horror Bob’s Blog

This time I got another Lovecraftian horror film…

SITE 13 is a Cosmic Horror film. When Dr. Nathan Marsh awakens from a catatonic state in a mental institution, he must relive his last expedition by watching tapes from the site visit, only to discover he's unleashed an unstoppable horror.

His film amazingly managed to capture the creepy feeling of Lovecraft’s writings on a shoestring budget, which seems to be the best way to do movies either based or inspired by Lovecraft. I loved the long exposition scenes, which are the hallmarks of good Lovecraftian films. I also enjoyed the cheap CGI Old One, which added that low budget charm to this piece.

In conclusion I have to say that though this film is far from AWESOMETACULAR it is a good film that you don’t  need alcohol or drugs to enjoy, so be happy with that. You can see this film on Tubi TV…

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Fun and Games (2023)

Review: All Fun and Games (2023)

By William Pattison

For Horror Bob’s Blog

 

This time I got a film about I knife that conjures a demon…

A group of Salem teens discover a cursed knife that unleashes a demon that forces them to play gruesome, deadly versions of childhood games where there can be no winners, only survivors.

This is a well done medium length horror film, about one hour and sixteen minutes long. I the dysfunctional family that gets stuck playing the games. None of them are actually innocent, even the thirteen year old. I love that the “demon” in the games is actually a ghost of a young boy with was wrongly accused of witchcraft during Pilgrim times. I thought the mythology established was well represented. The story totally kept my interest and was edited well so there was no lag in the film, like there is in a lot of modern horror films.

I highly recommend this film, it’s  AWESOMETACULAR!!!

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Review: The Black-Eyed Children (2025)

Review: The Black-Eyed Children (2025)

By William Pattison

For Horror Bob’s Blog…

 

This time I got a found footage film featuring the infamous Black-Eyed Children…

A young woman takes a job at an autumn camp in the woods, only to arrive to find that all the children have mysteriously disappeared. But as night falls, much to her dismay, some of them return.

This was a really creepy shoestring budget found footage film. I loved the location they chose for this film, it was very atmospheric. Besides that it is pretty much a small cast film with the most work being done by the female lead. In a lot of the other reviews on this film people made a big deal about the lady’s accent. I had no issues with it. I could understand her perfectly. As for the rest of the cast, decided Bill Oberst Jr who did an amazing job given he did it all via a webcam. Bill does a long and elliquent monologue halfway through the film. Good stuff Bill!

 As for the title characters, due to the budget they could only affort three black eyed children (all girls) when the story said there were seventeen missing kids. Still those kids were creepy as shit. I wish they had done the paranormal version of black eyed kids rather than the UFO version. It would have worked far better with the incredibly creepy location.

All in all it was very entertaining. I’ll recommend it if you are really into found footage.

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Review: The Quantum Devil (2023)

Review: The Quantum Devil (2023)

By William Pattison

For Horror Bob’s Blog

 

Ok, this time we got yet another attempt to do an original film using the Lovecraft mythos…

The Quantum Devil is a fitting title for what we get to watch here, as four exceptional graduates of quantum science are invited by a controversial host, to earn a record pay of $ 500000,- each, for helping him successfully finish an experiment to travel into another dimension. Arrival at the mansion of their host already makes them realize something is odd, may be afoot. Then, their host is called away, leaving the four guests legitimated to start the experiment without him. The call being a ruse, as the host, Cervovich Senior, actually decides to use a different machine, allowing him to supervise the four candidates without them being aware of it. The team successfully creates a quantum drift, but weird coincidences make that seem a flawed success, as some sense of menace remains persistently. Finally, the team realizes that they are in trouble, as one by one they get murdered, until only one candidate still is left alive. Deluded, that he can ignore the diabolical aka homicidal antagonists and just flee back to 'reality', he is blocked from that option by the host proving to have quite some power to alter that quantum pocket dimension they are stuck in. In a final showdown, the host wins by cheating, returning to the real world to supervise similar experiments that did not go that well. The former four candidates are left behind, as if ghosts (trapped in that quantum dimension).

This is an interesting but horribly flawed film. To be precise, this is a mess. The supposed failed scientists don’t  act like scientists. They are clearly actors struggling to say all the technical jargon. Also none of these people even look like scientists. All the women dress like whores. The guys look more like cheap college students. Then there is the boss who is wearing a red robe and has the retarded man servant. I really wasn’t  impressed. The filmmaker tries to connect this garbage into the Lovecraft mythos, which he thinks will turn this turd to gold, and royally fails. The FX is cheap and the story is complete and utter crap. Excuse me, Robert Englund as Cythulu? I don’t  think so. You want a good similar film? Check out Frankenstein Syndrome, that is an excellent film. This is DOGSHIT!!!

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Review: Hellbenders 3D (2012)

Hellbenders 3D (2012)

By William Pattison

For Horror Bob’s Blog

 

The Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints, a team of blasphemous ministers who live in a constant state of debauchery, work to drag the worst of demons back to Hell.

As a real fan of anti-heroes, especially the paranormal type, given that I’m the author of the Devlin Darck Demon Fíghter tales, I was really loving this film. Sinning priests who are sent to possessions to go nuclear and drag demons to Hell is a brilliant concept. It reminds me of the Clive Barker story Saint Sinner. Love this stuff! It gets so tongue in cheek which is so much fun, as long as you don’t  have a royal stick up your backside when it comes to religion. Catholics and Mormon, when it comes down to it can be enormous sources of humor. It is why Book of Mormon is such a stellar hit on Broadway. This is a nasty, gory, and irreverent film in the extreme and I have to say it is AWESOMETACULAR!!!

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