The Blood Factory with a Taste of Devito

Hey everyone!

I am a big Danny Devito fan and I found out tonight that he has a website that has a bunch of gory horror short films on it that he made himself. He really digs gruesome shocking material. I watched a few and they are pretty freaking good. There is adult material with nudity so just beware of that. Hope you enjoy this. One warning to my Manitou is there is a scene with dick violence in one of them. It's not too terribly extreme, but nonetheless it is what it is...as my Manitou would say.

Go to this link The Blood Factory and enjoy having some bloody gruesome fun yum yum!

 

Signed,

Filthy Regan

Paranoid Schizo-Pin-ia

As some of you who read this may already know – when I was a young girl I had a fear of dolls in the dark. I say in the dark because during the day they had no affect on me, but at night with the moonlight from my second story window glowing in, those little faces took and entirely different and menacing look. They would seem to evolve before my very eyes into little deformed demon babies as I peeped out from underneath my covers.

My Manitou had mentioned a movie called Pin (1988) in a previous blog. When I read about the movie it sounded very interesting since it was about a manikin that possibly at times may have been in the dark, and that had potential to be creepy in my book.

Well let me tell you that after watching this it definitely was creepy. But not for the reason entirely of the manikin whose name happens to be Pin. It is more for the psychological aspect of it.

I don’t want to give a lot of the movie away because I think this is a must see for anyone who enjoys a thriller of the psychotic kind. The main character Leon played by a young David Hewlett does one of the most superb acting jobs of lunacy that I’ve seen. And his sister Ursula played by Cynthia Preston does quite well as the sister who has unconditional love for her brother no matter how much of a nut he is.

Pin is a medical anatomically correct dummy with transparent skin,

and is kept in a doctor’s (played superbly by Terry O'Quinn) office.

The dummy speaks to the doctor and his children. But of course this only occurs whenever the father is there (via ventriloquism). He teaches the children valuable lessons about life, love and sex. He even teaches the nurse a thing or two about it when she has the opportunity to be alone in the office…or ummm she teaches herself depending on how you look at it…yikes!

As the children grow older Leon is becoming very close to the dummy and starts having conversations on his own, while Ursula always knew the dummy had no ability to think or talk she went on into teenage hood in the normal fashion while her brother took an entirely different avenue.

The parent’s die in a car wreck and the young adults are left to live on their own. Leon has become quite the lunatic and Pin has been moved into the house and things get quite creepy with Ursula trying to maintain the peace inside, and her normal life outside while trying to hide what’s going on, because despite Leon being completely off his rocker, she still loves him.

Leon transcends into full-blown paranoid schizophrenic while we get to be entertained by it. And like I said earlier, David Hewlett plays this part of falling deeply into insanity absolutely perfect.

And so, if you dig movies that don’t have a lot of gore for your eyes, but are disturbing to your brain, then this movie would be worth your while indeed.

Signed,

Filthy Regan

 

Originally Posted on September 1, 2010

To Manitou, 666 and Beyond!

Hey people it’s Regan here. Manitou recently did a 50th blog tribute to his Filthiness yours truly featuring some movies he would like to see me in. And he’s right - I would be damn great in those movies! So that got my pea soup brain sparking, and I was thinking about all kinds of movies that would be great starring my Indian King of Slime, Space and Pus, Manitou. I mean damn look at how freakin' handsome he is!

So here are just a few I came up with.

• The Future Pus-eidon Adventure

The year is 3010. The human race has discovered that pus which is completely all natural and doesn’t harm the environment, can be useful in many different ways such as removing candle wax, revitalizing leather, keeping windows frost free and also makes an excellent grease cutter and roach repellent; along with 1000’s of other uses. The pus is made in lakes using bacteria formations

and then it is siphoned down to a deep underground manufacturing plant.

There’s an explosion at the plant and 1000’s of gallons of pus are spilled from tanks into the manufacturing cave killing many, and trapping others.

Manitou plays a fearless pus plant worker that risks his own life to save a set of 10 plant associates by making their way to the top through the thick pus. One of many nail-biting scenes involves Manitou swimming like a rocket smoothly through the pus, while the line of 10 people all hold on in a line like a centipede.

• Every Which Way With an Indian

Clint Eastwood is a truck driver for a sex toy supply company. He lives in a small shack behind his best friend and his mother and a female orangutan.

One evening while driving to the local warehouse to make a delivery with his pet orangutan, he sees a very short man with a bubble butt and long scraggly black hair. He pulls over and the man climbs in. The man describes himself as the Manitou. He introduces his orangutan to Manitou and explains how he has been looking for a mate for her as her addiction to the sex toys has become overbearing.

A great friendship begins and they travel the country together. There is a disturbing sex scene where the orangutan defiles Manitou while he is in his deep Indian coma like slumber. The orangutan becomes pregnant from this union.

The climactic ending involves the orangutan giving birth to a very strange looking fair skinned creature with bulging eyes and they decide to call it an orangitou.

The sequel will involve this orangitou creature going through a difficult adolescence.

• Spider Manitou

Manitou would make a much better Peter Parker. I mean just imagine his sexy little tight body with that nice bubble butt in that spidee suit!

Orphaned as a child after being spit forth from a neck cyst. A radioactive spider bites him on his nipple while he is nude and performing a skinning ritual of a stick.

The next morning he wakes up while still in the nude and notices his right nipple has grown into the size of a large lumpy deformed grape. But he feels so powerful and discovers he can scale walls

and can shoot a sticky substance from this overgrown nipple that will stick to things and he can then hang from. He has also developed a precognitive sense of people who do not like midgets.

Assuming the name Spider Manitou he decides to use his powers to fight all of the midget haters in the world by capturing them and making them hang out with his loving beautiful family.

The story is really quite heartwarming.

So here’s to the continuous blend of meat pies and peas with NO corn or spinach, and on to blog number 666 and beyond! I am having the time of my life and this pea-cake is looking forward to lots more lovey dovey horror, filth and gore until  my peas are old and decrepit!

Signed,

Filthy Reagn

Originally Posted on September 6, 2010 

READ MULTIPLEX FANDANGO BY WESTON OCHSE

Here is an author I have been seeing around here and there and with this fine story collection I have finally been given the pleasure of checking him out for myself.

To say that I enjoyed reading this anthology would be an understatement. I truthfully do not think that I have enjoyed the discovery of a new writer as much as Weston Ochse since the first time I read Clive Barker all those years ago. In fact, Weston Ochse and this collection remind me very much of Clive Barker. You know why? Because Weston Ochse is nothing like Clive Barker in any way,shape or form. The reason for that is because he is unlike any other writer I have ever read.

This collection is so groundbreaking and unique that I am almost at a complete loss for words here how to do it justice in a review. The only thing that I can really say is that if you think you have read it all, think again. If you have never read Weston Ochse you are in for a treat. He crosses boundaries and melds genres in ways that many others could only dream of doing. It's like he takes the most exciting elements of many different genres and writers and mashes it all together in one great big masterful stew.

There are so many writers out there who merely do what others do, only it's obviously a matter of opinion who does it better. I have never read anything like this guy before. His command of the language is just brilliant squared so many times that I found myself re-reading individual passages several times and clapping like a seal because I just couldn't believe what I just read. One of the few writers that can consistently do that to me is.... yep, you guessed it, Clive Barker. Barker does this as a result of his poetic sense. Ochse is all prose and yet the way his words interact with each other it's almost poetic without actually being so.

My very favorite thing about a writer is that surprise factor. Meaning you never know what you are going to get with someone. I think that it's pretty safe to say that anybody who can come up with stories such as "Tarzan doesn't live here anymore", "Catfish Gods", and "A day in the life of a dust bunny" simply must have that ability in spades.

Reviews are only opinions. This is my opinion. Weston Ochse is unique and exciting. He is not really horror but he is very dark. There are certain elements in his stories that are very horrific indeed. This is most evident when it comes to describing the more unpleasant aspects of his tale. A wound, whether internal or external has never been given such depth or width and the reader will find that his characters and the situations he puts them in will often times find themselves bleeding right off the page.

I love finding new people to read. Even more I love it when I find something that is all its own beast. Weston Ochse is such a writer. He's a literary beast all of his own sub-species. I can not wait to read more of his work. If you haven't read him yet, you should be doing just that.

Multiplex Fandango is released by the always fabulous Dark Regions Press. They put out some really fine looking books by many of the best names in dark fiction. This one is still available in a few different versions. For further info check out the Dark Regions website here-


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You can also buy some of Weston's other books on Amazon or any other book sellers. If you are into e-books he has plenty of them too also available at Amazon and on Smashwords-



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READ ANSWERS OF SILENCE BY GEOFF COOPER

Rather than claim my allegiance to any particular genre It would be better worded to say that what I love reading most are authors who have their own vibe going on. You know the kind I mean. The ones whose names alone never let you in on what you're gonna get and yet the results are always going to be high quality. I also happen to love a great anthology and this could very well be one of the best I have ever read. In doing reviews for anthologies I believe that picking best stories is a pointless exercise because everybody has their own opinion and favorites.

As for me, here, I couldn't read this book fast enough and I thought every single story in it was rock solid and entertaining on their own merits. Where most anthologies seem to have at least one story that sucks I can honestly say this is the exception to that rule.

Coop,as he refers to himself in signature,embodies many different stylings here in this collection. There are variations on the horror genre, ranging from creepy to absurd. There are even some fantasy elements here. I don't usually go for that sort of thing at all but this guy is a literary master and I think that even if he managed to hit his head and write a girly novel I would still read it. I will also point out that if you like gross and fucked up shit this guy should be at the top of your TBR pile. I like it when writers get down in the grime but let's face it, a lot of people just pile on the gore for gores sake and often times I feel cheated rather than nauseated. When you enter Coop's world you will see it and hear it, but most of all, you will feel it and even smell it at times.

This guy is the real deal. The fact that the world is overrun with 50,000 shades of shit everywhere you look and he has only released a handful of novellas and stories in all the years he has been writing is a damn shame. If you are not reading those novellas and stories yourself, well.... the world is an imperfect place, my idiotic un-friend.

Pretty much everything Coop has done is gonna require some searching on your part. It's all well worth the effort though because if you are looking to have your mind blown you will not be disappointed. I would say that you can thank me later. But you should be thanking him. Maybe if enough of us thank him he'll put out more stuff.

Sister, sister, oh so fair...

.....why is there blood all over your hair?

When I was growing up I watched many horror movies with my mom. She liked anything that was freaky or gory or about crazy people. Now a movie about crazy people may not be considered by some to be a horror movie, but to me it definitely is horrific. The movie Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) is one of those that fall into a horror category in my eyes. It is actually in the Classic Thriller genre so whatever it may be, just know that no one should live his or her life without seeing this movie, in my opinion. They just don’t make movies like this anymore…this is a true example of that theory.

This movie is based on the downward spiral that can happen when jealousy, alcohol and general insanity takes control. It is about two sisters one named Jane/Baby Jane (Bette Davis) who is a successful child entertainer

and her sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) who as they both progress in years grows into a more beautiful and successful actress

with Jane being unattractive and washed up and addicted to alcohol.

The movie begins showing them in childhood and displaying how much of a spoiled brat Jane is but still a popular entertainer with a trendy doll that was made into her likeness and is a real crowd pleaser.  Ewwww!

There is a car ‘incident’ with the two sisters, and Blanche is crippled and helpless. I will not give away the details of what happened, as this is the main basis of the film and the events that transpire from it, and remains a mystery until the end.

The ladies are living in a large house together in their older years, and Jane is Blanche's main caregiver. Blanche is confined pretty much to a wheelchair in her room on the second floor.

With Blanche having a more successful acting career than Jane as they grew up, Jane drowns herself in gin and stuff and spirals into complete insanity as we all get to watch.

She cannot accept that Blanche had become more successful than her and she continues to become more bitter with each passing day.

As Jane continues down the path to malevolent insanity she starts doing gruesome and spiteful things to Blanche and it continues to get worse. She is responsible for the care of Blanches bird, and also responsible for preparing all of her meals…UGH this just looks too real...hmmm?

there are also rats in the cellar as she claims to Blanche in one scene. You can pretty much guess what may happen at the next meal served after that. The torture of Blanche continues to worsen and is gut wrenching.

Jane is falling back into her childhood and looks absolutely ghastly in her replicas of her girlie dresses she has made and her grisly makeup as she Pirouettes around.

Bette Davis plays this unpleasant part as one of the best I’ve seen by anyone in a movie…I mean triple wow. The physiological nature of it is really over the top, but she really makes you believe it.

And the Housekeeper played by Maidie Norman was absolutely brilliant.

An insecure English musician played by Victor Buono that Baby Jane befriends and attempts a business venture for her big comeback, plays an important part in the film and also does the job really well.

The last scene takes place on a beach and is really remarkable. 

This movie is definitely horrifying in my eyes. The fact that Baby Jane has complete control over Blanche

and her cries for help are completely in vain throughout the movie makes one pretty uneasy.

Blanche: "You wouldn't be able to do these awful things to me if I wasn't in this chair."
Jane: "But ya ARE Blanche, ya ARE in that chair!"

 Please young or old, if you haven’t seen this movie….do it…asap! 

Signed,

Filthy Regan 

Original Post July 26, 2010 

TO SUCK OR NOT TOO SUCK

One would certainly be inclined to think that it should be about time for vampire films to become extinct. I mean, Twilight pretty much sank any cult appeal that legions of bloodsuckers could ever hope to obtain and even wish to hold on to for their eternal lifespan.

 Regardless of these wanna-be emo goth pussy mentrual pancake eaters reducing the sex appeal and bloodthirsty butchery of those affectionately called Nosferatu to food court hopping hot topic shoppers, there does seem to be some lifesblood left pumping through the veins of this genre. There is an American made revamping (yes, all pun intended) of the brilliant Swedish film, Let the Right One in, out at theaters now that is called Let me in. There is as well a third installment of the Lost Boys staking its claim to a dvd release this month. On the more obscure tip is Suck.

Obviously with a title like that it would be wishful thinking for anyone attempting a film review to hope that the film does indeed suck for sake of a good joke. but as movies and jokes go... Suck does not suck actually. The film doesn't exactly do anything groundbreaking as vampire movies go. But it's a whole lot of fun and if you are looking to be entertained this rock and roll musical horror comedy should do just that. It is best one should go into this knowing that as vampire films go the heaviest accent here is on the comedy though.

The story centers around the exploits of a rock band called the winners, who long to be famous. In fact, other than gigging constantly and failing often, it can be noted that longing is about all this band ever seems to do. That is all about to change as their bass player, Jennifer, soon becomes a vampire and that special charisma courtesy of her vamp skills begins to start packing audiences in at clubs everywhere as the band tours throughout Canada and into the United States.

 Jennifer was bitten by a legendary bloodsucker that goes by the name of Queeny, himself a fellow musician.

As there are quite a few musical performances from the winners band, along with even some interludes from Queeny, the film is somewhat of a musical, although the interludes are sparse. Still, it might throw non-musical fans for a loop when characters start to sing in place of talking.

Band leader, Joey, is played by Rob Stefaniuk, who also wrote and directed the film. Joey is willing to try anything to finally achieve his dreams of rock and roll success, even if that anything should mean allowing a vampire into the band. Besides, since said vamp has joined the band their gigs have never been more crowded and their web site continues to garner millions of hits.

 Still, Joey does fancy himself the band leader and he issues forth several conditions upon which Jennifer should oblige if she wishes to stay in the band. The first of which is not feed on any other members of the band and turn them into vampires. Of course this rule is broken right away, although not for lack of trying on Jennifers part. In fact, all the guys in the band are dying to become undying..... and so, undying they do.... and before you know it.... the band is on their way to superstardom.
 

Being deeply rooted in music, along the way for the ride are several music artist cameos that are quite entertaining in their own right and certainly make the film all the more fun for it.

Henry Rollins sports a wig far more frightening than any of the films bloodsuckers as an obnoxious dj.

Alice Cooper is typically creepy as a vampire bartender. His daughter, Calico, even plays a barmaid.

Iggy Pop also turns in a role as a studio head.

But the absolute stealers of the show here are Moby and Alex Lifeson. Moby plays a metal singer named Beef Bellows, who fronts a band called the Secretaries of Steak. His brief screentime is certainly a highlight of the film.

The Rush guitarist plays a nerdy border guard in a hilarious scene.

 You also get Malcolm Mcdowell as a vampire hunter named Eddie Van Helsing. How cool is that?

Mcdowells Van Helsing follows the band on their tour stops in his efforts to battle vampirekind. He carries a flashlight everywhere because he is afraid of the dark. There is even a scene where Mcdowells character flashbacks and the film makers incorporate footage of a young Mcdowell from his 1973 film O Lucky Man. How cool is that?

Suck is fast paced. It's downright silly at times and often quite hilarious. My major complaint was the ending. The rest of the film motors along just fine and then it's almost as if they were unsure of how to end things, so it just seems to die at the very end. Seems the film makers could have taken a queue from their vampires and rocked things into undying mode. Still, as vamire movies go, this is totally one movie that doesn't suck. All despite its name telling you that it does.

***Original post date 10/12/2010***