12 mini-reviews from BIFFF 2011

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 by Vomitron -

12 mini reviews from BIFFF 2011   BIFFF 2011 poster cr 84x120 actionDirector: The 29th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival
Writer:
Vomitron
Publishing year:
2011

12 mini reviews from BIFFF 2011   BIFFF 2011 minilogo actionA brief BIFFF 2011 overview

Your devoted viewer attended 12 theatrical screenings during BIFFF 2011. A mixtures of genres and a variety of topics, with the occasional/obligatory vampires & zombies thrown in the mix. An overview starting with Andy Fetscher‘s second feature ‘Urban Explorer’ and ending with John Carpenter‘s newest ‘The Ward’. Find out & read all about the movies that lie in between, below…

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A Boy and his Dog

Saturday, March 7th, 2009 by Coventry -

A Boy and his Dog   dvd 85x120 comedyDirectorL.Q. Jones
WriterL.Q. Jones and Wayne Cruseturner based on a story by Harlan Ellison
Release Year1975

Dog Day After-Apocalypse

A Boy and his Dog   offscreen 2009 mini logo comedyIn a post-nuke setting, a young Don Johnson (!) and his talking dog (!!!) are roaming the wastelands, in search for food and women. Just when you thought you’ve seen it all in this dry & dusty genre, A Boy and his Dog come along…

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Apocalypse and the Beauty Queen

Monday, June 29th, 2009 by Perfesser Deviant -

Apocalypse and the Beauty Queen   apocbeaut poster 83x120 horrorDirector: Thomas Smugala
Writer: James Dean Schulte & Thomas Smugala
Release Year: 2005

When the going gets tough the tough get a beauty queen.

Society goes down the tubes and only former beauty queen Amber Bathory (Beverly Hynds) has the sheer force of will needed to keep things going in her small, frigid community. She makes great efforts to make a show of helping out the less fortunate, many of whom follow her because she’s attractive, but really, she’s a monster. You see, like her namesake Elizabeth Báthory, Amber has a nasty habit of bathing in the blood of her serving girls to keep her youth. Things start to go wrong when her servants, sick of her increasing delusional megalomania decide that it might be time to retire her….

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Neil Marshall on Doomsday

Friday, April 3rd, 2009 by Red Steele -

Neil Marshall on Doomsday   neil covercr interviewsWith genre movies like Dog Soldiers and The Descent, writer/director Neil Marshall had already built up a solid reputation amongst worldwide horror audiences. In 2008, Marshall was invited to the 26th Brussels Fantastic Film Festival to present his latest film, the post-apocalyptic Doomsday.

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Robot Monster

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 by Perfesser Deviant -

Robot Monster   robot monster poster 87x120 fantasyDirector: Phil Tucker
Writer: Wyott Ordung
Release Year: 1953

At what point on the graph do ‘must’ and ‘cannot’ meet?

Robot Monster   Cheezy Drive In mini logo fantasyLittle Johnny (Gregory Moffett) and his ‘family’ have to battle with one of the least convincing alien invaders of all time … the ROBOT MONSTER! The ROBOT MONSTER! invades the Earth and destroys almost all life with his CALCINATOR DEATH RAY! – which uses stock footage of fighting dinosaurs from One Million B.C. among others – leaving only Johnny and his family as well as some off-camera people who die later in another stock footage extravaganza. This collection of people are humanity’s last hope to avoid extinction, but really if that’s the best Earth has to look forward to they might as well just up and die…..

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The Last Man on Earth

Saturday, April 4th, 2009 by Sterf -

The Last Man on Earth   lastmanonearth 82x120 full length moviesDirector: Ubaldo Ragona & Sidney Salkow
Writer: Richard Matheson (novel “I Am Legend”) & William F. Leicester
Release Year: 1964

Alive among the lifeless… alone among the crawling creatures of evil that make the night hideous with their inhuman craving!

An adaptation of the novel I Am Legend about a man trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, defending his home against hordes of zombie-vampires every night. There are many adaptations of this book and this is considered by many the best (the people with taste), which is not that surprising since it has Vincent Price instead of Will freakin’ Smith or Charlton cold dead hands Heston. And because the mood of the movie set by the desperation and loneliness of Morgan ofcourse. Also notice the similarities with Night of the Living Dead, released 4 years later.

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The New Barbarians

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 by Vomitron -

The New Barbarians   new barbarians dvdcr1 83x120 actionDirector: Enzo G. Castellari
Writers: Tito Carpi, Enzo G. Castellari & Antonio Visone
Release Year: 1982
Italian title: I Nuovi Barbari

Fred Williamson and the Templars of Doom

The New Barbarians   offscreen 2009 mini logo actionItalian Post-Apocalyptic Mayhem… Oh, how those words sound like music to my ears.  Undisputed champions, as they are, in ripping off every possible succesful foreign genre known to mankind, Italians can truly claim the title of being the uncrowned kings of 80′s Post-Nuke sci-fi/action fodder. Once again the end of the world is nigh, and these warriors of the Italian wastelands perfectly illustrate just how insane things can get…

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The Omega Man

Friday, April 10th, 2009 by Perfesser Deviant -

The Omega Man   omegaman 78x120 actionDirector: Boris Sagal
Writer: John William Corrington & Joyce Hooper Corrington based on I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Release Year: 1971

Take your stinking hands off me, you damned dirty family!

Robert Neville (Charlton Heston) – the lone surviving human after a pandemic – fights madness in a deserted the Los Angeles. In addition to the scourge that is loneliness, he has to face the survivors who are horribly mutated by the disease. Ironically, the reason Neville survived unscathed, is because he was a scientist working to cure the plague when an accident forced him to try the experimental cure on himself….

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The Quiet Earth (Review)

Saturday, August 9th, 2008 by Vomitron -

The Quiet Earth (Review)   thequietearth 84x120 dramaDirector: Geoff Murphy
Writers: Bill Baer, Bruno Lawrence & Sam Pillsbury (based on a novel by Graig Harrison)
Release year: 1985

Condemned to live

Zac Hobson wakes up to what could have been a normal day. But it’s not. His life will never be the same as he finds out he’s the only person left on this earth. What happened and where have all the people gone?

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The World, The Flesh and the Devil

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 by Coventry -

The World, The Flesh and the Devil   world the flesh and the devil 78x120 dramaDirectorRanald MacDougall
WriterRanald MacDougall, based on a story by Ferdinand Reyher and a novel by M.P. Shiel
Release year1959

Three’s always a crowd!

The World, The Flesh and the Devil   offscreen 2009 mini logo1 dramaRalph Burton isn’t exactly having a good day. First, the mine he’s working in collapses. And when he finally manages to crawl his way out to freedom, he finds himself to be the last man on the face of this earth…

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