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Mutant Chronicles

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

OK so I’m up way too late on a school night or work night or whatever.  Drinking a few beers and stumble across an OK looking movie called Mutant Chronicles thinking I can watch an hour of this and go to bed.

Wow!  Was I surprised to see this visually stunning film.

IMDB reports (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/plotsummary)

At the end of the Ice Age, The Machine came from the outer space with the purpose to change men into mutants. However, a hero defeated the device and a great seal was laid over The Machine. In 2707, the depleted world is ruled by four Corporations: Mishima, Bauhaus, Capitol and Imperial that are in constant war. During a battle between Capitol and Bauhaus, the great seal is broken and The Machine works again transforming soldiers and civilians in hordes of mutants. A small part of the population escapes to Mars, leaving millions of people behind. The man of faith and leader of an ancient brotherhood Brother Samuel is a believer of God and the Chronicles, a bible about the mutants. With the city under siege of the mutants, he visits the Corporations’ leader Constantine asking for an aircraft and twenty men for a suicide mission to destroy The Machine, planting a bomb and a detonator following the knowledge of the Chronicles. He recruits the tough Major ‘Mitch’ Hunter; the Bauhaus Lieutenant Maximillian von Steiner; the keeper of the Chronicles Severian that is under a vow of silence; the gorgeous and lethal Corporal Valerie Duval; Corporal Juba Kim Wu; Captain John McGuire; and Corporal Jesus ‘El Jesus’ de Barrera. Together they become the last hope of Earth against the evil mutants.

I give it an 8.5 out of 10 stars – very good visual movie!

Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof

Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Wow.  A 70’s style B movie with great actors and actresses.  I think I am in love with Rosario Dawson.  From IMDB synopsis Written by Mike Weiner:

Stuntman Mike is a former Hollywood stunt race car driver who targets and kills women with his “death-proof” stunt car. In Act I, Mike surfaces in Austin, Texas to target a group of women whom he knows; Jungle Julia an outgoing, dope-smoking, radio DJ/fashion model meeting her old school friends for a night on the town whom are sentimental model Arlene, and local bad-girl Shanna, as well as bar-nut hippie Pam who tries to make Mike notice her, unaware of his sociopath and misogynist tendencies. In Act II, Stuntman Mike surfaces in Tennessee where he randomly picks another another group of women to stalk all of whom work in the motion picture business; Abernathy is a make-up girl and stand-in wanting a change of pace in her life. Lee is a naive B-movie actress. Kim is a tough-minded stunt woman always wanting action. And Zoe is a fellow stunt woman from New Zealand visiting her friends. However, the second set of girls proves more though to get, and because of a combination of bad luck and Stuntman Mike’s carelessness, the girls decide to turn the tables on their tormentor for revenge of their own…

Great movie, lots of action and some great stunt scenes.  By far one of the most intense movies I have seen in awhile.  I hope that Tarantino and Rodriguez bring some more Grindhouse Features to the big screen!  Just awesome.  Together the films work really well – a throwback to double features at the drive in.  5 out of 5 stars!  If you like action and car chases this film is for you!

Check it out on IMDB for more info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1028528/plotsummary

Toby and Mark’s blog adventure

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Who are Toby and Mark Sapusek? Two brothers that work at the same web design company – www.visionaryweb.com and both have a passion and love for scary movies!

We decided to take on the task of writing reviews of every single scary movie we have ever seen and thought the world might like to take that journey with us -and share a little bit about their insights into horror films as well!

So join us – register today and let’s get cracking on looking at and reviewing some scary movies!

We’ll keep adding to this blog as we have time, but our goal is to write at least one new post per week.  We’ll see if that actually happens with our busy schedules.  I hope our viewers help us out as well.  We want to hear what you have to say about everything!