Friday, October 25, 2024

Review: Taroy


By William Pattison 
For Horror Bob's Blog 

I just finished watching the 2024 horror film Tarot.
This film tells the story of a group of friends who find a cursed hand painted Tarot deck while staying at an old house. Suddenly after they leave members of their group start dying in ways that oddly resemble their Tarot readings. Now these people have to stop the evil force they've released before they all become victims of the fates predicted by the Tarot.
I was not impressed by this film. This was a very by the numbers curse plot. The characters were very interesting and they were no standouts, including the main girl. 
This film suffers from using jump scares as its primary scares. Also all the scare scenes are shot way too dark so you hear the jumps scares more than actually see them. Shit, there was a long kill sequence and the screen was completely black.
Tarot was an interesting idea, but didn't even come close to its potential. It failed to connect with the audience and cheated them in the area of scares. It is an example óf how not to make a horror film.
In conclusion I cannot recommend this film.
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Thursday, October 24, 2024

Review: Spirit Halloween The Movie


Review: Spirit Halloween The Movie
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob's Blog

Well, I watched the Spirit Halloween movíe. I can honestly say I was horribly disappointed by it. I was expecting sort of a Five Nights at Freddy"s or Willy's Wonderland and what I got is low grade 70s after school special quality Halloween film. This film was clunky and had a weak plot, characters, and scares...meaning no scares at all. My seven year old self would have laughed my ass off before falling asleep from pure boredom. An episode of Goosebumps or Are You Afraid of the Dark would be an epic blockbuster in comparison to this snorefest. I rate this film as DOG SHIT...Avoid like the plague...

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Review: Hellboy: The Crooked Man


Review: Hellboy: The Crooked Man 
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob's Blog 

.I just finished watching Hellboy: The Crooked Man and I have to say I enjoyed it. It was a solid adaptation on The Crooked Man comic storyline. The guy playing Hellboy did a good job. The FX and production was low budget, but that was actually to its advantage. It made the filmmaker get into the character, plot, and atmosphere over the FX which were mostly practical. I didn't actually notice the bad CGI on Hellboy's tail that so many reviewers complained about, not the tacky spider FX. Sorry people, I'm not a spoiled Gen Z that was raised on modern video games and high budget CGI movies. I was cultured in the 70s and 80s where filmmakers had to use practical FX and have something called talent and imagination. Hellboy: The Crooked Man is made the way I consider a good film should be made.. Oh, and sorry activists no WOKE bullshit, thus I'd dance a jig if I could.
I highly recommend this film if you like your comic book films with good characterization and plot with no politics to muck up the works...
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Sunday, September 1, 2024

Review Darlin'


Review Darlin' 
By William Pattison 
For Horror Bob's Blog 

I just finished watching Jack Ketcham's final project, Darlin', which was directed by Pollyanna Mcklish. This film takes the Pigmellian idea and adds a nasty bit of Catholic dogma and corruption and twists it into a symphony of splatter punk worthy of a master of the subgenre.
Pollyanna Mcklish returns as The Woman. Now she is scouring the countryside in search of her little sister, Darlin', who has been captured and put in a Catholic school run by a corrupt priest.
Now The Woman find her sister before the father uses her and kills her.
This is an excellent final chapter in Ketcham's saga.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Review: The Fantastic Fear of Everything


Review: The Fantastic Fear of Everything 
By William Pattison
For Horror Bob's Blog

Ok, well I got a little movie review for you. This caught me by surprise because it was actually just the next film Freevee put on. I hadn't even known this prize existed. The film is titled The Fanatic Fear of Everything. The film stars Simon Pegg as a man who literally fears the outside world. He knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that a serial killer is out to get him. Besides Simon Pegg the film also features Clare Higgins or Hellraiser and Hellraiser II:  Hellbound fame.
This film has a brilliant production design, which shows the world through the main characters eyes and psyche. The only annoying thing is the sound design. Dialogue is low volume while incidental music is extremely loud and jarring. I gather this is on purpose but it gets annoying after a while.
But, on top of everything is Simon Pegg's brilliant performance as the eccentrically paranoid crime author whose research into Victorian serial killers has made him a wreck. He looks like a red haired Serious Black with his crazy tuff of red hair and matching beard. Pegg royally shows his brilliance as a physical comedian. This is truly one of his best roles in this unappreciated film.
If you want to see a truly mind blowing dark comedy this film is a treat.
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Sunday, April 14, 2024

Review: Festival of the Living Dead



Review:Festival of the Living Dead

by William Pattison

For Horror Bob's Blog


Ok, I just finished watching the Soska Sisters latest film, Festival of the Dead. I might post a more detailed review later on my blogs, but I thought I’d share my initial thoughts on this Tubi TV original film.

First off I thought the film was very watchable. It was by far more watchable than their two hour S&M film that they filmed on their IPhones. This film actually had professional audio. Congratulations girls! You actually had a professional film crew with you that made this film look better than a first year film student. Shit, they even had drone shots!!!

The story is about a girl who treats her longtime friends and her little brother like shit because she has decided she wants to fit in and be a shallow self-involved asshole like her new friends and her Chad boyfriend and his rich buddy.

She ends up leaving her little brother with her unappreciated best friend and her unappreciated best friend’s wheelchair bound boyfriend to go to a rock festival in the forest with her new social masters. Amusingly when they are going to park at the event they end up getting into an accident when they hit what they don’t know is a zombie. The main character and the Chads go off to get medical help and leave the two femaie socials behind because they are hurt, how truly social of them. So they find the first aid station and find it all messed up. They run into a girl who is having a bad trip on mushrooms. Rich Chad steals her mushrooms and amusingly gives them to Main girl and her Chad.

Then they hear music and amazingly forget the social girls and go to the main stage to party. At the main stage Main girl starts hallucinating and see the Soska Sisters dancing, because she is a Soska fan. Her living room, which was shown earlier had a bunch of Soska film posters all over its walls. Anyway, the imaginary Jen and Sylvia blow smoke in her face. Then she starts to see zombies in among the crowd, and guess what? The zombies are real and start attacking people.

Anyway, they have to escape the zombies and Main girl’s abused friends and little brother show up to add to the potential body count.

So, I found the main character rather confusing because she acts all strong argumentative and knowledgeable about guns and fighting with her unappreciated friends and her brother yet she cows down initially with the Chads and the social girls. This makes her very much an annoying Mary Jane character. She does go through a story arch and realizes the error of her turning her back on her friends and being so abusive to her brother, but this is at the expense of people’s lives.

I find it rather amusing that it is the Soskas that are writing a morality tale about the evils of choosing a petty, shallow, self-absorbed life over what matters when Jen and Sylvia have burned bridges and stabbed anyone who supported them in the past in order to gain false power in horror through The Horror Socials. In fact it seems a bit hypercritical in my opinion, and I’m one of the people who had been a “friend” of Jen and Sylvia and learned the hard way how little the two of them really respect friendship and those who have helped them.

Anyway this film is a watchable zombie film that doesn’t reinvent the wheel. It has a few Easter eggs to Romero’s Dead films, so fans of those films and the Return of the Living Dead films won’t be completely disappointed.

So there you go. There is my honest opinion. Now the Soska fans can mouth off and say I’m wrong and this is a masterpiece of zombie cinema. Ugh, I taste bile…


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Friday, March 29, 2024

Review: Ghostbusters Frozen Empire


Review: Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
by William Pattison
For Horror Bob's Blog

I'll make this short, but not so sweet. Ok,I watched Ghostbusters Frozen Empire and I have to say I loved it. The story was great. The way this film included the original Ghostbusters cast was great. How they handled the Spengler family was great. How they presented The Fame Master was great. The freeze demon was great. I have no clue why so many of my podcasting peers are trashing this film. Give me a fucking break people. You guys keep saying the plot was muddled by too many subplots. Give me a break. All the subplot worked well together. A film can have four or five subplot and still make sense. The problem is not with the film it is with certain people on the internet and how internet culture has dumbed down you assholes. That is the problem.

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