OK well on the surface this Japanese medical horror film seemed kind of interesting to me and as I work in the medical field I am a bit skeptical of most horror films which incorporate medical "stuff" because 99 percent of the time its so laughable it ruins it for me. This movie is a bizarre mix of supernatural and ghost oriented stuff, medical malpractice, and gore. So people start turning green and dissolving and injuring themselves, weird stuff is afoot. Genuinely creepy atmosphere in an old decrepit hospital, crazy patients, creepy kids. Yep. But the movie becomes less coherent as it goes on which is usually the opposite of movies trying to make a metaphysical or philosophical statement, which I kind of think this movie was trying to make (??). A frustrating experience for sure.

OUTPOST

I had been waiting for a while to watch OUTPOST, a supposed Nazi Zombie movie, a genre which tends to be hit and miss. Judging by the trailers and posters I thought this one looked quite a bit different and a little more stylish than the rest! I had no idea how right I was. This movie can hardly really be called a zombie movie at all, I think it would be more along the lines of supernatural, and the fiends are more of a ghostly origin than anything else. They don't eat people, just stab and beat them, and they cannot be killed even with a headshot, so we are on a different set of rules here! The cinematography is awesome, very grim and moody, and is full of some genuine chills. The basic premise is some mercenaries are hired to secure a bunker in eastern Europe which is in the middle of a warzone. They soon discover it is an SS bunker where bizarre physics experiments took place which resulted in some kind of Unified Field disturbance (physics students explain this please!). Upshot: murderous nazi ghosts. They discover a man still "alive" in the bunker who won't talk and is incredibly creepy. This movie definitely delivers in atmosphere and chills. This is a low budget movie of course but there is no schlock here, very classy, slick, with good acting and sets. One of the best new horror movies of it's type I have seen in a long time!
Apparently also out there is HORRORS OF WAR which is a Nazi oriented zombie film, which I will have to check out. But I gotta say its going to take a lot to top OUTPOST.

Here goes nothing

I guess I have joined the rank of the elite group known as bloggers. Actually in all honesty I started this more because A. I wanted to have a website and B. I have a hostile relationship with technology and find it daunting to actually create a website on my own. This format seems pretty cool and I am nothing if not simplistic in my demands in terms of layout, so hey. Some folks may tread on this by way of my columns in MRR or Profane Existence, or by my involvement in Mangelslakt zine. This will be similar in some ways to those things but will also cover a lot of other stuff, including my label info and whatever other shit I am enthusiastic enough to write about! Take it eazy!